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  1. #61
    Quote Originally Posted by Haven View Post
    The game is called World of Warcraft, not Thrall's Adventures, it's supposed to be about the history of the world, not of one invincible almighty slave-turned-warchief of the Horde, master of the elements, leader of Earthen Ring, savior of the world and Aspects' chosen. Warcraft existed before Thrall, and can easily exist after him. WC2 era was better in terms of story, Lothar and Orgrim were much more believable and badass than hitler Garrosh, saint Thrall and anime Wrynn.

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    Wait... then why would we raid Orgrimmar? We should celebrate, not raid...
    Well said.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Haven View Post
    The game is called World of Warcraft, not Thrall's Adventures, it's supposed to be about the history of the world, not of one invincible almighty slave-turned-warchief of the Horde, master of the elements, leader of Earthen Ring, savior of the world and Aspects' chosen. Warcraft existed before Thrall, and can easily exist after him. WC2 era was better in terms of story, Lothar and Orgrim were much more believable and badass than hitler Garrosh, saint Thrall and anime Wrynn.

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    Wait... then why would we raid Orgrimmar? We should celebrate, not raid...
    wow what a surprise, your waxing lyrical about how much you hate Thrall without any constructive reasoning once again.

    The problem with people like you is if they so much as now mention Thrall in anything, you moan about it, even when he should be integral to the events happening in the story. You know what, he was a central hero in WC3, but we didn't hear the insipid whining from people like you about the characters in the story then.

    It has nothing to do with character development. All this is, is whats coming from players with a bug up there back end about a lore character being a central role in the story. Now they can't even give him development because of the pissy whiners in the game.
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  3. #63
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trassk View Post
    People want Thrall to die, even when this is his horde we're anot now fighting for, him who brought the horde together, and now him who's prepared to put his life on the line for the sake of his horde.

    Really, you people need a morality check.
    It's not about morality, at least not for me, I love thrall and I hate garrosh, I'm not necessarily saying I want Thrall to die, but if he did (depending on how it was done) I'd praise blizzard for writing something that made me feel emotion, I'd feel sad to see him go and anger towards those who killed him. I don't think we should be in a position where all the good characters are totally safe from harm because well, they are good, I don't think that's what you are saying but regardless, sometimes good characters dying can be good storytelling.

    It does depend rather heavily however on how it is handled.

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    So what your saying is, the lore is so shit these days the only way your feel anything is to kill off a main character?

    How long would that last? A day or so, and then what? MORE shit lore to follow.

    If they kill Thrall, it will be for the cheapness of the shock value, and if thats all they can do to thrill you, thats all your get.
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  5. #65
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trassk View Post
    So what your saying is, the lore is so shit these days the only way your feel anything is to kill of a main character?

    How long would that last? A day or so, and then what? MORE shit lore to follow.

    If they kill Thrall, it will be for a cheapness of the shock value, and if thats all they can do to thrill you, thats all your get.
    That's not what I said at all. I said it's not always a bad thing when a good character dies.

  6. #66
    Quote Originally Posted by Vellerix View Post
    It's not about morality, at least not for me, I love thrall and I hate garrosh, I'm not necessarily saying I want Thrall to die, but if he did (depending on how it was done) I'd praise blizzard for writing something that made me feel emotion, I'd feel sad to see him go and anger towards those who killed him. I don't think we should be in a position where all the good characters are totally safe from harm because well, they are good, I don't think that's what you are saying but regardless, sometimes good characters dying can be good storytelling.

    It does depend rather heavily however on how it is handled.
    Yeah, you see, Thrall dying would be, for me, the prime example of bad writing here. Why? Because Thrall said like 5 seconds ago "I'm going on a suicide mission to Orgrimmar, wish me luck, and Vol'Jin, make hentai fanfiction with my wife". Killing him now is the boring ass, logical thing to do. Very interesting story - a character went into a see and <dum DUM dum> he was wet.

    There can be many more shocking/interesting scenarios. Like Thrall going there and actually joining Garrosh in the campaign against Vol'Jin. You didn't see this coming, did you!

  7. #67
    Quote Originally Posted by Trassk View Post

    So, your either going to have to accept Garrosh is a bad guy and he lives to carry on doing bad guy stuff, or he dies a noble death.
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  8. #68
    Quote Originally Posted by Trassk View Post
    People want Thrall to die, even when this is his horde we're anot now fighting for, him who brought the horde together, and now him who's prepared to put his life on the line for the sake of his horde.

    Really, you people need a morality check.
    You need to take this beaten-to-death morality argument somewhere where it matters, and not over fictional characters. You remind me of the idiots who blame school shootings on Doom.

    On topic, I believe Fezzina has a pretty nice overview of what happens before the siege.

  9. #69
    Quote Originally Posted by Trassk View Post
    I don't know whats wrong with you people in actually wanting to see heroes die. Its like you have no moral virtue and just get off on it.
    Heroes? What heroes are you talking about? Real heroes are ten/twenty five nonamed people who kill end bosses in raids, while those so-called heroes are building statues to themselves in the middle of world's end.
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  10. #70
    What if they pull a Fable 3 and Garrosh is all like "yeah there's this super big bad coming and i did everything i did to build up an army to fight them off".

    Quote Originally Posted by Trassk View Post
    So what your saying is, the lore is so shit these days the only way your feel anything is to kill off a main character?

    How long would that last? A day or so, and then what? MORE shit lore to follow.

    If they kill Thrall, it will be for the cheapness of the shock value, and if thats all they can do to thrill you, thats all your get.
    You're mistaking lore for storytelling.

    The lore of Warcraft is, for the most part, perfectly fine; there are a couple holes, but other than that, fine. Killing Thrall wouldn't affect the lore in one way or another; people die. People don't kick up a stink about Uther or anyone else having died on a lore basis; they kick up a stink about how they died on a storytelling basis.
    The (main) stories that are being told are, for the most part, pretty rubbish, MoP included; they've been sloppy at best since TBC (and I'm mainly excluding vanilla because it didn't even have a single main plot thread). Killing Thrall wouldn't affect the quality of the stories being written, you're right, but it could serve as a good dramatic device to help make this one better. I'd rather 1 decent-ish story, 3 shit ones and a dead Thrall over 4 shit ones and a living Thrall (assuming that killing Thrall would fix the holes in MoP, which it won't).

    Quote Originally Posted by Synthaxx View Post
    stuff about demons
    I'm kinda skeptical about Garrosh being Kil'jaeden mostly because Garrosh is pretty damn rubbish at turning the Horde into a weapon to bludgeon the Alliance with. The Alliance only really turned the tables during the Second War because Gul'dan left the field to go get himself killed in the Tomb of Sargeras. Kil'jaeden would not want to put the current crisis on his resume.

    Blizzard said that Garrosh is acting of his own accord; he isn't corrupted, possessed, etc by anything. However, that doesn't mean his advisors aren't; I mean, Malkorok's name starts with Mal. Who else's name starts with Mal? THAT'S RIGHT, MAL'GANIS
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  11. #71
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    Quote Originally Posted by Okacz View Post
    Yeah, you see, Thrall dying would be, for me, the prime example of bad writing here. Why? Because Thrall said like 5 seconds ago "I'm going on a suicide mission to Orgrimmar, wish me luck, and Vol'Jin, make hentai fanfiction with my wife". Killing him now is the boring ass, logical thing to do. Very interesting story - a character went into a see and <dum DUM dum> he was wet.

    There can be many more shocking/interesting scenarios. Like Thrall going there and actually joining Garrosh in the campaign against Vol'Jin. You didn't see this coming, did you!
    I suppose it's subjective, like I said in my above posts, I'm not asking for Thrall to die, it's not what I want, even if some people read it as that, I'm simply saying I wouldn't think it to be a bad eventuality if it came to pass. It's so hard to argue what makes a good story because everybody has their own preferences as to what makes a good story and nobody should be looking down on one another because of their story preferences.

  12. #72
    I think it would be kinda cool if they could open up a whole other faction with garrosh running off. Don't think it would happen though and I don't think we would see any key people dieing off.

  13. #73
    Quote Originally Posted by l33t View Post
    Heroes? What heroes are you talking about?
    Probably the greatest hero in the 8+ years of WoW was Bolvar Fordragon. He gave his life so that the whole of the world could live free of the scourge.

    Thrall, if he were to die by Garrosh's hand at the beginning of 5.4 would have earned an end worthy of his deeds. He would finally die a hero, seeking for peace, not a Mary Jane who ruined Cataclysm.

  14. #74
    Quote Originally Posted by Elim Garak View Post
    Gotta love wow's community...


    This is a thread about LORE. I'm tired of WoW's stupid lore. I want something new and different. This is something that will never happen in WoW.
    So I want it to end. So we all can move on to something new. Something less Thrallish, Alliancish, Draconish, Titanish.

    And yet I still play. Because honestly no one have done raids better than WoW as of now. And I like raiding.

    Is your mind blown already?
    It seems rather nonsensical and rude to interrupt a discussion about lore if you don't like lore.

    A:"Hey man"
    B:"Hey, what did you think of that baseball game last week?"
    A:"Oh it was great, that pitch during the fourth in-"
    C:"Hey guys, I hate baseball and I don't think it should exist as a sport. You know what's really fun? Basketball."

    See?

    Thrall is the biggest icon of Warcraft since WC3 (I mean Blizz has his statue in frot of their company building for fsake), so that would be kinnda bad move.
    Even more would be that if it did happen, it would just repeat the history with Duratan and Draka.
    I would argue that Arthas and Illidan were easily as iconic, probably more iconic, and certainly more popular. And frankly, Thrall should have been killed off a long time ago. I'd greatly enjoy it if Garrosh didn't die, he is an interesting character, and unique as a racial leader who is fine with waging war to make his own people powerful. I'll never understand why people expect tons of peace, and cooperation between factions. The game takes place in a Medieval/Fuedal era, war was fought all the time to make your own country/people more wealthy and secure. Sylvanas is the only other leader like that, but even she appears to only be interested in reclaiming the Lordaeron area.

    I see Garrosh's death this soon as a waste. I'd be quite happy to see him escape with some loyalists and begin rebuilding the Blackrock or even Fel Orc factions.

  15. #75
    Quote Originally Posted by Sigmar View Post
    Warcraft never had good lore. EVER. From day one it's been a lowbrow mass appeal fantasy setting for people too stupid to realize what good storytelling is.

    You're probably a Michael Bay fan too I bet.
    Warcraft III's story-telling while pretty childish, still had mature themes and was, to say the least, interesting and something that really got people into the Warcraft universe. WoW on the other hand has been ripping all that apart piece by piece since it's iteration.
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  16. #76
    What if Thrall goes to Org to try and talk to big daddy G and ends up getting corrupted/tranformed by Garrosh using the artifact from dark heart of pandaria

    and then he becomes a raid boss, at 5% or whatever % they wanted he begs you to kill him.

  17. #77
    Since Pride will be the last head (Sha) we kill, the heroic-only encounter could be a fight against some visage of Y'Shaarj. I always liked the old gods the most and I would not mind if they brought back this dead one somehow

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    Quote Originally Posted by rowaasr13 View Post
    Can I PLEASE have villain that is just driven by his own desire just ONCE in a while, please?
    Kael, Illadin, Vashj, Kil'jaden, Kel thuzad
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    I think that's a rather terrible way to end the expansion, to be honest. It's against Garrosh's character to side with demons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreknar20 View Post
    Kael, Illadin, Vashj, Kil'jaden, Kel thuzad
    I think Illidan and Vash'j are the only legit ones of those. Well, maybe Kil'jeaden too. Don't really know who's idea it was to invade Azeroth, his or his masters. And Kel'thuzad? His own desires? And not Lich Kings? Kael was propably heavily influenced by Burning Legion. I wonder if he even had a free will anymore.

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