So what you are saying is that you are quite clearly blind, as well as incapable of using a scroll bar? Because what I see is about a page and a half of entries for MoP. Followed later on by, oh, 15 or so pages worth of entries for TBC, and 20 or so pages worth of entries for Vanilla.
But I guess 1.5 is close enough to 15 or 20 that it doesn't really matter, right?
Oh, of course. Mysterious Panda people hidden for centuries on mystical island fighting evil insects and practicing martial arts is out of place, but Purple Goat people in giant flying crystal spaceships who woship sentient chandeliers fits the WoW theme perfectly.......Secondly, people don't take MoP seriously because the theme feels completely out of whack with the previous expansions.
go slop your weakass arguements somewhere else please.
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Please, for the love of god, tell me you did not actually type that with a straight face. WoW is about as close to high fantasy as your average Forgotten Realms / Dragonlance novel. You likely wouldnt know High Fantasy if it fell flaming out of the sky and roasted you with dragonfire.
Pulp fantasy. You know, the fantasy version of those terrible romance novels you find in Corner Stores and Gas Stations. It runs in the same pack as Dragon Lance, Forgotten Realms and other fantasy that was mindblowingly awesome when we were in Highschool, but then later discovered had about as much depth as a puddle of lukewarm piss when we actually started reading REAL fantasy novels, and not books someone created using their last DnD campaign liner notes.
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what's even worse then bad lines is the stupid, in-your-face pop culture references. cata 1-60 is the biggest offender here (CSI Westfall still makes me wanna cry). yes, wow never took itself seriously but they went overboard with some of this shit.
Vanilla, TBC and WotLK were all about immersion, tough and exciting adventure. MoP will be associated with farms and pandas.
I see no point in telling me to start end game. Leveling would still be boring in Pandaria and I've already done some endgame. You could have as well presented dialogues if you were to point out that I didn't post. IN MY OPINION I just didn't like the general theme of the expansion hence me quitting in 5.1. I did come back in 5.3 and so on but I didnt find myself enjoying the game anymore (and timeless isle isn't that great either) so you are right! I did quit the game and I'm waiting to see what will they do in WoD.
And look at the way "cows" were portrayed and look at how pandarens were. Blizzard made cows, elves and maybe gnomes fit into the game and besides all of that, they didn't make a whole expansion about cows or gnomes or elves specifically.
...and if you ask me, South Park jumped the shark by going overly into pop culture parody. For the first few seasons they had a lot of original ideas and humour stemming from the interaction of hilariously written characters but everyone runs out of ideas eventually and pop culture parody is the easiest way to keep things going when you're out of original ideas.
I feel like WoW jumped the shark with silliness and pop culture references somewhere in Cataclysm and in MoP it's further emphasized by how much the whole Asian theme with pandas feels like a cheap Jackie Chan movie parody. You can only have so many wise martial arts gurus in one story before it becomes cheap. In WotLK I laughed when Harrison Jones escorted me to safety because that one quest was a funny reversal of the previous 50 quests that I did, in Cataclysm they took the thing way too far by making most of the zone about Harrison Jones jokes and it stopped being funny.
Aww OP has grown up, put on his big boy pants and has realised WoW includes satire.
Sarcasm aside (you dookin deserve it), you have rightfully missed something in previous expansions. The satire. The pop culture references. But what you yearn for --of which you forgot to allude in your tirade --which lets assume is story and script with more gravitas, grit or seriousness, is *not* really the cornerstone of World of Warcraft. The lore however *is* a cornerstone, however the execution and script (of which) has always erred towards the broader audience rather than its Lovecraftian [sic] origins.
There are a few quests, places, art, books within WoW that offer darker tones and wordier script for us to to sink our fangs into, but essentially we need to 'remember' to enjoy the game for what it has always been -especially as we get older and the more we play -that is, a jolly through the expansive lore above and beyond Warcraft.
But I suggest that's it is simply you that had grown up, over the course of WoW, and that you've become more aware of the acute satire therein. It is at this point that you need to seek refuse in the deeper lore, look beyond the game to the books, fan fiction, short stories, role play books (some are hard to find now!) to satisfy your needs. There is passion behind the game, hopefully you will learn to find it.
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Dunno why but for me cata>mop. Maybe the pandas yes, had some trouble with them. Now i have strange nightmares.
Dont say cata lost more subs than mop as this one is not over yet
Because, and this might come as a shock to you, we actually enjoy it for what it is? Strange concept eh?
And when did we tear it appart? What you seem to be missing, over and over again, is that we like the game how it is. A bit silly, a bit serious, a bit of blood, a bit of funny poop quests. Redicuolus shoulderpads and crazy big, impossible to functionally use weapons.
We just dont labour under some bizzare illusion that WoW is something that it is not.
I am beginning to think that you are being dense just for the sake of being dense.
Well that's exactly my point. Why even go there if obviously you CAN'T capitulate on the story due to you know gameplay issues?
Yes in wotlk horde and alliance hated each other. Remember lootship boss in icc? Even when facing a common enemy we would find the time to nuke each other.
You sound pretty sure of this. I don't recall a "valley of four winds" or "stormstout brewery" in wotlk, tbc or vanilla.
Neither do I recall hozen-like creature taking such an important part in any of the expansions in the past (they welcome you in mop), or grummies, or vermin.
We had sporelings in zangarmash but their story was far from cute. We had wolvar and what was the others name? In wotlk but at least wolvar had a pretty grim background especially in dragonblight (remember the daily quest where you have to save their pups?).
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Well my friend the devil is in the detail. Please read that list accurately and you'll find the very core of the issue.
I am reading them and either I am missing something or he is still right about there being more pop culture references. You never added any condition to what you said as the type of pop culture references, how in your face some are etc. So he is right still. You might as come out and say it cause that list is huge. I went through MoP without problems which goes to show how much they died down the references, but . If you want to talk about humor, that is kind of a different issue which is more subjective.
What storyline in Vanilla and BC? There wasn't one
"Oh illidan is craaaaaaaaaaazy! He must be stopped!"
"Umm...Why Malfurion?"
"Umm...well...did you help fight the summoned dragon at the AQ40 opening chain? No..well I said he was a bit bad there and needed to be stopped..other than that..I've got nothing."
Vanillas story
Horde
Alliance
NINJA FIGHTAN!