Originally Posted by
Yig
I'm not twisting your words, I just don't think you recognize that every race in this game was made to be a goofy spoof of the concept they were inspired by. Samwise was no more or less silly about making a panda samurai than he was with drawing a beefcake orc in a loin cloth who said funny phrases like "Zug-Zug" from an obscure old cave man B movie starring an ex Beatle named Ringo Star. They are all silly jokes and pop culture spoofs on fantasy tropes to one degree or another.
You have tunnel vision, or you're just blind to how goofy Warcraft is in the first place. They were used as an April Fool's joke after they had already existed for years as something Samwise just drew for the fuck of it based on his nick name in 1999. They are no more goofy or a joke than Usagi Yojimbo is.
Get over it? lol. You're the one who has to get over it, you lost, not me.
The Pandaren, despite what people like you claimed could be or would be done, were realized as a fully fleshed out race in this game, just as I always said they would be, and they were given a legitimate status with real lore with serious tones to it, unlike what people like you said could be done for the last 8 years.
So again, you get over it. You can refuse to accept that the Shado Pan are anything but goofy, and you might like to pretend that is just Blizzard trying too hard to make them seem not goofy, but you have to have tunnel vision to ignore how goofy every other race in this game is design wise.
There are two WOW worlds, the serious edgy version you see in the cinematics and in the paintings of Wei Wang and Glen Rayne, and then there is the silly and goofy world of WOW that has been there since Warcraft 1. Warcraft probably never would have been taken seriously as a game by it's own right if it wasn't for them distinguishing themselves so much from Warhammer by giving Warcraft such silly voice acting and visual designs that look like Warhammer in a Disney Movie.
Pandaren are no more or less goofy than dwarves and their bravado and drinking and eating, or gnomes and their explosives and squeaky voices, or elves with their massive floppy ears, or orcs with their B movie cave man dialog or their fur underpants and wolves who fart foul smelling gas etc.
You either have tunnel vision, or you're just blind to this fact.