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cyro:
--- Quote from: Josefbugman on 15 Dec 2010, 09:29 ---I think I may have been spoiled, I've been playing a lot of either Bioware or completly plotless games atm, so I am not used to the fact that everything has now become a pop cultural shout out.
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It's kinda like having fine cuisine or a good sandwich. The sublime story telling of <insert Bioware game here> is wonderful in moderatation, but usually you just want a nice sandwich for lunch.
At least that's how I feel about it.
Josefbugman:
Y'see I either prefer Good story (can be freely defined, I realise I am no arbiter of what is good and bad) or no story at all. I love LOVE games like Dynasty Warriors, where the only story is "Hit people till they die, make hammy speeches" because you are essentially striding around a battlefield like a living god, wrecking the hell out of people. I like games like Crusader Kings, which are plotless and require you to make up story's.
Heck I am even fine with the sheer amount of storyline shout outs that went into WC3. The problem is that I no longer think Blizzard knows or cares about making the story anything other than "kill things because we say so" and the grind is just not fun for me. The fact that there is a constant grind, that there is nowhere to feel especially awesome, or to have fun without needing to listen to the shrill of "Nerf [insert class here]" or "STFU".
TLDR: basically I just found WoW to be fundamentally unfullfilling and a boring, useless time and money sink that actually doesn't make me want to return the longer I look at it.
Odal:
Yeah, vanilla didn't have nearly as many pop culture references in WoW does now. Ever since TBC, I think they went a little overboard with that aspect.
I don't complain about it too much though, as my hopes of anything good storyline-wise has been destroyed just because of WoW, let alone the expansions. Somehow I can't feel epic about a storyline when the LK gets killed by people named Lleeroy, Trowmoardawts, Xxlegolisxx, Mancatbearcow, Pimpy, Dimpy, and Limpy, etc.
Josefbugman:
Thats why I am looking forward to the new "old republic" mmo. If only because its actually got a plot for your character.
Alex C:
The warcraft plotline was always bog standard fantasy shit. It's now just shitty with Joust themed quests.
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