So apart from the Bastion expanded art and the Lich Queen, has there been anything else of interest today or can I stop dredging the hundred pages I slept through?
Note that zone concept art pieces can look very abstract and surreal. Like I still have the TBC collector's edition artbook when my brother bought that back in the day. The artwork for Netherstorm for example makes it seem like it would be impossible to ever play in that zone.
FFXIV - Maduin (Dynamis DC)
Oh yeah, all the sand stuff makes me think they're going to connect the currently origin-less Vulpera to the Shadowlands.
The problem wasn't that they were abstract, though. The problem is the first doesn't align with the one we have and the second was questionable.
Riftlands being the file name for the second but the first having a way less direct and more ambiguous file name despite there being speculation of it being called "Bastion" was flawless bait.
May I ask why? What about the concept of rifts opening all over a landscape teraforming it with powers from the otherside is bad? Looks like in that picture that Rift is opened into a water plane, you can even see a fish, and its causing a small waterfall down the cliff. That's really cool.
I think he's upset at the gameplay concept of rift-hopping. It can get confusing or tedious to navigate an area like that and vertical inconvenience is one of the most frustrating things in WoW.
Aesthetically, ain't nothing wrong with some rifts. Though frankly I wouldn't mind a zone that plays with Portal mechanics (about 12 years late) if they did it right.
The way it's described sounds way too much like LFG: The Expansion, or trying to cop the gameplay of Destiny. Where it's just a bunch of 30 minute mini-zones stitched together awkwardly via this "riftlands."
If that's what they end up going for for the entire continent I will take my business to an MMO that still cares about zones.
- - - Updated - - -
Ehhhhhhhh I will say the fact they are purple and look voidey spooks me, really don't want another Old God expansion, but yeah it's more gameplay.
FFXIV - Maduin (Dynamis DC)