tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post8610247570045390604..comments2024-01-04T06:27:01.723-06:00Comments on Troll Racials are Overpowered: No RPG for Old MenKlepsacovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-34771290096449852052012-09-25T15:49:59.805-05:002012-09-25T15:49:59.805-05:00I hate to disappoint, but you're unlikely to s...I hate to disappoint, but you're unlikely to see my thoughts on MoP for a while, if ever. I don't have the time or motivation to justify $15 a month, let alone the $40 or so for the expansion. Maybe in the future, since I don't like to say never, but I don't anticipate spending money on the current WoW.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-16536949725843457832012-09-25T13:39:04.572-05:002012-09-25T13:39:04.572-05:00I'm toiling my way through the first zone, and...I'm toiling my way through the first zone, and I gotta say, it's like Nagrand x10. Everything is gorgeous, the atmosphere, the music, the lore, it all fits.<br /><br />The pandaren don't want us here. More than ever, it shows just how bad the Alliance/Horde war really is - they're rolling over everyone in their way, whether they mean to or not. I love this aspect of the game - it feels like Blizzard is really starting over 'fresh'. They've given us a whole new continent with a whole new neutral faction. We're not saving the world, we're playing getting-to-know-you with the locals, we're building up our own personal reputation, and we're fighting the true enemy - the Alliance/Horde, right-up, face-to-face, none of this 'but-deathwing-is-a-bigger-threat' or 'tirion-wants-to-have-a-tournament' nonsense.<br /><br />It's low, it's dirty, it's nasty, it's a proper war - and we see just how badly it's affecting completely innocent people. While instilling you with factional pride, it also makes you queasy to be part of it.<br /><br />Blizzard have done a great job of bringing it back to grassroots. I think my favorite part of the first area so far is after you do the breadcrumbs to get to Dawn Blossom (the main Pandaren village, right in the middle). Basically, you can pick up quests for most (all?) of the smaller areas/outposts/whatever at once and it's completely up to you what order you do them in, if at all. You can go south and stop a mogu attack, you can go east to an orchard to get a wedding going, you can go visit a monastery, free some lost souls - whatever.<br /><br />And on the way there, you can look at the beautiful landscape and listen to the excellent soundtrack. I'm sure you'll love it - and I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts about it in a blog soon!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-81355016540024611902012-09-25T08:15:00.182-05:002012-09-25T08:15:00.182-05:00I didn't even think he'd died. I thought ...I didn't even think he'd died. I thought maybe it was just an ugly scene and his wife was assuming too much. The blindsiding seemed like one last confirmation that the shotgun guy was invincible and invisible.<br /><br />Not looking forward to it.<br /><br />Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-68773731538047377242012-09-24T22:49:23.989-05:002012-09-24T22:49:23.989-05:00Yeah, I loved No Country for Old Men too.
[SPOILE...Yeah, I loved No Country for Old Men too.<br /><br />[SPOILERS]<br /><br />The best part for me was the sudden realization that the guy we'd been rooting for was dead, and had died off-screen. We never got to see any heroic last stand or one-liner - he was a 'hero', and got snuffed out like an NPC.<br /><br />Also, after the bad guy leaves his house after talking to his wife, and he's just driving along and gets totally blindsided - I think that really hit home the whole 'bad things happen to everybody for no real reason, no matter who they are or what decisions they make'. That pretty much everything is in the hands of fate.<br /><br />[/SPOILERS]!<br /><br />Looking forward to MoP?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com