Watching Garrosh fight the Shado Pan in the 5.4 cutscene patch makes just wonder what the hell you're missing.
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The Warhammer 40k universe is hyperbole incarnate. It's not that it's unserious or not true to its principles, just that it would be impossible to make a parody of it. In order to make a parody of a work you have to make it more extreme, exaggerate aspects of it in the interest of creating humor. Create a caricature. Warhammer 40k has hit the absolute ceiling of extremity in every regard. Any attempt to exaggerate it would result in a work that looks identical to it.
Some people find this funny. That's just the way it is.
The theme for MoP was (mostly) original and fresh imo. Sure it had its ideas and concepts taken from Asian influences, and some people probably aren't used to seeing these things but I personally don't mind that - I want something different for once. I'm sure a lot of others wanted something a bit more unique also.
The game kind of needed something new, and its previous expansion, cataclysm, was somewhat of a letdown (with the exception of FL and the release trailer perhaps). For me, I've always regarded TBC as one of my most favorite expansions to date but MoP comes close and I'm glad Blizzard worked so hard in making this expansion deliver.
To the people who keep spewing the bullshit about Warcraft 3 "not taking itself" seriously:
Warcraft 3 had HUMOR elements, but they didn't break immersion of the game MOST of the time. Things like the hidden Hydralisk were drastic examples where it did, but it was one small thing in tens of missions.
And for fuck's sake, yes, we all know that when you click units multiple times they say really funny things, but it's only when you DECIDE to click them multiple times, they don't say that all the time.
I quite enjoyed MoP (Pretty much done with it now) The scenery of Jade Forest when I first arrived was amazing and well done.
It's not my fav or least fav expansion. But it is definitely time for a new expansion. I did SoO about 5 times so far and that seemed like 3 times too many. Not a very fun instance for me at least.
As for jokes as others have said, you'd be hard pressed to find a zone in WoW that didn't have some joke quest storyline. I think it adds a bit of brevity to the constant doom and gloom.
If you want to talk about Warhammer 40K do it some other forum. Thanks.
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none of Warcraft from WC3 and onward existed back in WC2. WC3 is a complete and utter retcon of the original RTS games. Which is why I initially skipped wc3 and didn't give WoW a chance until summer 2006.
To retcon the evil horde into morally ambiguous victims of circumstance was a necessary evil to pave the way for WoW though. I can admit that now.
How do you know what "horde" am I referring to?
I lived off Warcraft 2 for ages. More than the first it's the one that go me hooked up on many things and the reason why I started playing wow later on.
Why are you saying there was no "horde" in Warcraft 2?
I mean I'm just curios that's all.
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Nobody ever said there was no Horde in WC2. There most certainly was a Horde in WC2. And there is a Horde in WoW. The thing you're not getting is that they're not the same organization. The WC2 Horde was beaten and completely dismantled. The Horde as it exists today was formed from scratch after that, with a new leadership, a new command structure, new goals and new members. It started being called "the Horde" while the WC2 Horde started being called "the Old Horde" to demonstrate the distinction.
MoP is good. Compared to the trainwreck that was Cataclysm (that SHOULD have been the good expac tbh), and the single button, unbalanced spam fests of vanilla, it's not bad.
I think a lot of the complaints just come from the theme, not the actual content or improvements or anything. BC dealt with the burning legion and was very sci fi based, Wrath was all about the scourge and Arthas and was pretty lore heavy, Cata was very unfinished, short, and disjointed, and MoP was pretty much a clean side story expansion about conflicts between the alliance and horde.
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