No, i was pretty damn sure Blizzard was going ot make the expansion into an old god one like MoP did with Y'sharrj by the end, the problem i have is that unlike MoP there is no connective tissue between Sylvanas burning Teldrassil and the Alliance retaliating, and N'zoth being released. Beyond the vaguest of rationalizations that Sylvanas wanted N'zoth to kill even more people.
In MoP the expansion started with Garrosh nuking Theramore and both him and the Alliance sending agents to Pandaria, we then learned that war in this country can lead to the ressurection of the old god Y'sharrj, so when we got to the old god part it felt like a natural extension of the faction war storyline.
In WoD we still fought orcs throughout, and the final raid takes place in the converted stronghold of the Iron Horde after they drank the demon blood. The main theme changed, but there was still a narrative link between the two events.
Legion had demons throughout.
In BfA we start with Sylvanas burning Teldrassil, Alliance retaliates and open war begins. There are hints of old gods quite a few places, but not that much more than there were naga in Legion. Everything seems to point ot Sylvanas as the final antagonist, that she is going to do something drastic to cap off the expansion.
Then she leaves and N'zoth rises. No real reason why the faction war released him, there is no good reason why Sylvanas couldnt have helped Azshara release N'zoth even if the Alliance and Horde were not fighting, would possibly even put less of a target on her, allowing her to make sure N'zoth is even more destructive before killing him.
And that is why BfA is the only expansion so far to not even attempt having the same plot at the end. Because there is never a scene or quest or anything that should make us even remotely beleive that defeating N'zoth will somehow definetively end the plot kickstarted with Teldrassil.
The world revamp dream will never die!
Because the plot that started with Teldrassil continues into Shadowlands. The whole point of Teldrassil was to start a war that would cost the maximum amount of lives on the planet, so the Maw would be fed enough for the Jailer to become the ultimate big bad... in the next expansion.
We already knew that the Old Gods losing with their scheme was going to get us to a point where there would be something even worse. We heard that back in Cata from Murozond. And we heard it again in BfA from N'zoth... and Sylvanas, if you played the loyalist part.
Part of the reason BFA sucked was that half of it was devoted to being the prequel for a more interesting expansion.
That still doesnt give explain how or why N'zoth ties into the faction war. We could ahve fought pretty much anything else related to Sylvanas and it would make more sense.
We could ahve fought Sylvanas herself, even if we didnt defeat her and she escaped to the Shadowlands it would be an ending to BfA.
We could fight a death entity like the Jailer, it would tie into how Sylvanas is usign the war to create death.
We could have fought a risen Saurfang for the final boss and it would be a great capstone to an expansion that began with him being disillusioned by the Horde because of Sylvanas.
But instead we fight N'zoth. No good reason given except he is there. You could replace him with almost anything.
Ragnaros has been ressurected because Sylvanas wants him to kill more people.
Azshara fights us again because Sylvanas wants us to be killed by her.
AU Yrel invades while we were busy fighting eachother-
A random squid god suddenly rises from the ocean and is prompty squashed the second he shows up.
By all means, continue the narrative thread of Teldrassil burning into Shadowlands, i do look forward ot seeing where they take it. But for hte love of god, please do not think that doing so gives you an excuse to drop plot points in the middle of an expansion and replace it with something else.
Imagine if other expansions did this.
WotLK final patch is fighting Deathwing, because the Arthas storyline is going ot be continued in another expansion.
Legion ends with Nazjatar and Azshara because she was heavily foreshadowed in quests, dungeons and raids, and they want to save Argus for another expansion.
TBC ends with sudden Arthas appearance, Kil'jaeden is simply too important to end on, and with Teron Gorefiend DKs have been heavily teased anyways.
The story would be nonsensical, because you have removed the actual ending to the sotyr and replaced it with something thematically dissonant.
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Well that is one part, the other is that it is a Frankenstein that seemed to cut off its own ending and replace it with one from a different expansion.
I mean honestly, couldnt people see 8.3 being the final patch of a world revamp expansion where we fight against the Black empire at every turn, slowly building up to the climactic finale of N'zoth going ot titan facilities and us having to stop him? Instead of N'zoth suddenly showing up and being defeated instantly.
The world revamp dream will never die!
You know why we fought N'Zoth.
It's because Azeroth is free.
It became clear that it wasn’t realistic to try to get the audience back to being more hardcore, as it had been in the past. -- Tom Chilton
Honorary member of the Baine Fanclub, the only member really.
Why is there such a controversy around this? If a character does something that you would consider evil in real life, then they are evil, plain and simple. They are fictitious, you can still enjoy them, but trying to defend them and say they aren't evil and being "oh well it's just a character it's fiction and morals don't matter" is some big time BS.
The two are obviously separate, but saying we can't separate the two is a copout on the argument of the character in question, when we clearly can.
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nor am I trying to be. You seem more on edge than I am.
Thats not what he is saying by edgy he means being somewhat indifferent to acts that are fucked up in the real world and shouldn't be defended even in fictional settings. Moral relativism is just stupid.
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Warrior-Magi
its like making a big setup, years, to Batman finally defeat the Joker and in the end we get an entirely new villain in the final battle, and joker just get imprisoned in Arkhan by someone else, Argus come literally from nowhere and have no height or importance at all, it was a lame villain no one care about and was completely overshadow
Gul'dan was never the main the enemy, and Archimond at least was well established beforeGul'dan did that for Archimonde, and then Sargeras did it with Argus. Just because we are not directly fighting against whomever, we are still fighting them by proxy, which makes it valid.
Argus was rly not a valid boss
Fair point, but redeeming Illidan was for the better story imo, redeeming Sylvanas is far more steep and would have... well, what pay off? If anything it would just piss off both factions at this point, at least with Illidan he had a good story in WC3 (Like Sylvanas) then got ruined in BC, and saved in Legion, but with Sylvanas it's like, gradual descent in character development since Cataclysm.
What I'd truly want is for them to retcon her back to wrath Sylvanas then i'd accept a redemption story, but man they will have to bend over backwards breaking lore saying it wasn't really her at Teldrassil etc.
It's easier to just kill her and put her out of her misery, maybe she can become the new Jailer so she doesn't die but isn't redeemed either.
Except he was an important enemy in Warlords Khadgar tried to go after him a lot and considering his main universe counterpart had a big legacy, Blizzard made Alt Gul'dan relevant for a reason. Argus is the home capital of the Burning Legion, the fact it got turned into a world soul and thus a boss of some sort really isn't bad. It just wasn't expected. Something being unexpected doesn't equate bad.Gul'dan was never the main the enemy, and Archimond at least was well established before
Argus was rly not a valid boss
So in short, you can't play almost any game... you a re killing people in wow for example. Constantly.
*Facedesk* For fucks sake.... you are hopeless.
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Warrior-Magi
Forget Old God themes in general for those zones; Stormsong Valley was directly related to/caused by Azshara and N'zoth worship. When the dagger surfaced and the raid took place in Stormsong, that was a progression of that leveling story and it directly tied Sylvanas to Azshara/N'zoth as she made that deal to trap us all in Nazjatar so Azshara could murder us in return for the dagger. Sylvanas's faction war story was then entwined with Azshara and N'zoth, as he was only released because Sylvanas tricked us into falling into Azshara's hands, and the result of that was us putting aside the faction war to fight the "real enemy". All focus then ended up on N'zoth.
Alliance went to Kul Tiras because of the faction war, and the entire Ashvane/Sylvanas/Azshara alliance that resulted in N'zoth being free never would have happened if not for the faction war causing Kul Tiras to be involved in the dispute. N'zoth being the final boss is an easy thread to follow and people were calling it from the moment Stormsong was being datamined.