Anyone else already grown tired of the Asian theme?

[DechCJC]

Meh, it's been over a month. Most things get stale much quicker than this :3

[LuminousAether]

I don't mind it, they did a pretty good job overall so far from what I've seen, though I don't feel it's as good as Northrend was (or TBC for that matter, from an environmental point of view). It feels more cohesive than Cata, but that's no surprise.

The occasional nods to Skyrim here and there made me chuckle as well.

TBC was the worst by far. Least cohesive, worst zone designs, etc.

[Apellosine]

Warcraft started before warhammer by long ways. The warcraft story has been going on for 20 years now of course there is going to be some similarities with other franchises and cultures etc

You might want to revise that, Warhammer was first published in 1983, a fair few years before Warcraft was.

[Puffman]

I don't mind the Asian themes.

I do wish the other races were a bit better represented throughout the zones, but I can understand why they aren't

[Deleted]

Why are people so over the top defensive about the theme? Is it that hard to accept that some people just don't like the oriental theme? It is a concern for me sometimes, If I was a new player entering now that MoP is out, I don't think I would even buy the game because of it, I just straight up don't like the theme, end of story. Thats not to say that I'm telling you all not to like it either, thats just the way I roll and I fully understand why a ton of people love the theme too.

I do feel a little disapointed that they chose this direction for the expansion, but thats just my personal thoughts, its not just my game so I'm not entitled to complain. I think, like you, I will wait for the next expansion and not play this one so much as I have others.

[Grenzstein]

Warcraft started before warhammer by long ways. The warcraft story has been going on for 20 years now of course there is going to be some similarities with other franchises and cultures etc

Er..


"To many players, the story or background of Warhammer is just as important as games and miniatures. Alongside the Dungeons & Dragons Greyhawk setting, Warhammer is among the oldest of commercial fantasy worlds, a direct descendant of both that game and Tolkien's Middle-earth, though the 1st edition cited Robert E Howard (Conan the Barbarian) alongside Michael Moorcock and Tolkien as influencing fantasy table-top games. What is recognizable as the Warhammer World began with the first edition of the game, but it evolved as its own setting with the release of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay in 1986 and the 3rd edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battle in 1987."


Warcraft:

"First release: Warcraft: Orcs & Humans - November 1994"

Warcraft was released almost 10 years after Warhammer.
Besides, it's clear that Blizzard was REALLY inspired by Games Workshop's Warhammer.

[Deleted]

Warcraft started before warhammer by long ways. The warcraft story has been going on for 20 years now of course there is going to be some similarities with other franchises and cultures etc

Dude. There's a special link for just this comment. Don't take it as an attack though ^^

http://images.mmosite.com/news/2008/...2014716048.jpg

[LuminousAether]

Why are people so over the top defensive about the theme? Is it that hard to accept that some people just don't like the oriental theme? It is a concern for me sometimes, If I was a new player entering now that MoP is out, I don't think I would even buy the game because of it, I just straight up don't like the theme, end of story. Thats not to say that I'm telling you all not to like it either, thats just the way I roll and I fully understand why a ton of people love the theme too.

I do feel a little disapointed that they chose this direction for the expansion, but thats just my personal thoughts, its not just my game so I'm not entitled to complain. I think, like you, I will wait for the next expansion and not play this one so much as I have others.

Because what you just said reads as nonsense to me. It's the most bafflingly obtuse complaint I could imagine and anyone that voices anything like that is someone I cannot respect.

[inboundpaper]

Yes, but that could be because I work at an Asian fast food place, I can't escape it.

[Xe4ro]

Yes...it's a problem, I go to the old zones for a change of scenery, in the past I could just switch between new zones..in MoP all new zones are filled with the same oriental crap I'd wanna see if I went to china, not my medieval fantasy world.

Yeah so i Heard The Burning Crusade / Outland was 'medieval fantasy'. Hmmmm.

[Raivosoturi]

Not yet, but I do know I'll be pretty damn tired of that main menu theme at the end of the expansion.

[Griffter]

It does feel a bit weird to have an entire expansion with such a strictly Chinese theme, but everything is so beautiful that it doesn't really bother me. Maybe I'll be tired of looking at it a year from now, but I'm still enjoying the look of Pandaria right now.

[Deleted]

Warcraft started before warhammer by long ways. The warcraft story has been going on for 20 years now of course there is going to be some similarities with other franchises and cultures etc

Have you heard J.R.R. Tolkien was inspired by Warcraft, when he wrote Lord of the rings?

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In all seriousness, do some damn research before you post bullcrap facts.

[TheWerebison]

Nooooo. No more than I got tired of any other "theme". Did you play WotLK and go, "Man, is anyone else sick of all this snow and undead everywhere? And the Norse mythology, I'm so tired of seeing it."

Seriously, people are FAR too hung up on this China thing. Christ.

[Deleted]

loving every single bit of MoP so far definitely including the scenery, makes a change from Orgrimmar anyway

[Aceshigh]

I hate the lack of dark, goth, forsaken and crusader themes in this expo.

Have you guys even played the game yet? If so, how the hell did you miss all the dark themes so far and how did you miss at all the hints of even darker shit to come? I'm baffled.

[Azgraal]

That's like saying you were tired of the "cold" vibe of Northrend. The theme of this expansion is Asian flavoured art. Sure there will be sub-themes, like the troll future invasion (don't quote me on this, im just theorising) as Northrend had Sholazar Basin and Outland had Nagrand.

But yeah.. we'll have the asian theme for the entire duration.

[Lolkaysea]

I am absolutely not tired of the pandaria theme, but I am really sick and tired of the dusty old tolkien fantasy trop-y bullshit that's in EVERY. SINGLE. GAME.

[Jerot]

I really couldn't get the idea that the whole expansion was just an excuse for the art director to flex his chinaboner out of my head. I'm not saying the game usually has award-winning writing, but i personally felt it was especially bad this time around. They shoe-horned in so much corny/stereotypical ying-yang ching-chong "harmony blah blah peace to the land blah blah one with everything" nonsense it left me rolling my eyes every 5 minutes. I've already completely forgotten virtually everything that happened between level 85-90 because frankly I found it painful. (Both the writing, and the flow of jumping back and fourth between quests and hubs)

That isn't to say I didn't enjoy the experience overall (75% of the enjoyment being post-90) and I'm still playing now, so they did something right.

[Mirishka]

Inspirations are one thing, the point I'm getting at is that Pandaria is essentially China in WoW, not WoW inspired by China.

You are utterly, mind-numbingly clueless if you think Pandaria is 'China in WoW'... I've been there. My backyard is more like Pandaria than China is.