Can we get away from the Disneyfication of WoW

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I was a Diablo player before wow. A friend bought me vanilla back in the day and I left it unopened for 6months. It looked a touch cartoony for my liking and I was well into fighting Diablo and Baal.

So after I played enough hell runs and got my edge lord fix I tried WoW. Well the rest is history. Everything I wanted from Diablo wow was offering, just the visuals

Now I know this game has its business model and it’s set in stone but SOMEWHERE in the game can we start getting some Christopher Nolan Batman’s trilogy treatment and go super dark and thriller.

A quick example would be a zone that has reduced vision range, character surrounded by dense fog with shadowy figures running around your character making screech/banshee noises etc. just go full horror theme on a zone. Please! There is too much fluffy happy nature going on. Life is about balance so where’s the dark theme stuff at

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I have a feeling we’re never going to get another Thaddius or Shackled Urzul (spelling?)*

*I mean that level of “darkness.”

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There are dracthyr incubating in specimen tanks in the new area. Some of them twitch.

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I know that you want what you want, but you will not find what you’re looking for in WoW.

The trend is toward youth. Us old timers are just young at heart.

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Also anyone forgetting that Disney made the movies of Bambi… Hunchback of Notre Dame?

The way Clayton dies in Tarzan?? Look at the shadow in the background of that scene!

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If you do the new dracthyr quests on the Reach, you get to see Deathwing’s special cave where he took dracthyr to beat the weakness out of them, and piled up the bones of his failures.

gestures vaguely at all of Maldraxxus

Also, we’re going to Deathwing’s personal laboratory* next patch so I imagine all of the BWL-style Mad Science gothic horror you could want will be there.

*Pronounced la-bor-a-tor-y, of course.

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Was Hunchback dark? I couldn’t stand it so I watched it once when it came out then never agin so I don’t remember.

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Yes it was VERY dark.

https://exploringyourmind.com/hunchback-of-notre-dame-disneys-darkest-story/

Incase you’re interested in the read.

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But did they ever say Maldraxxus was as dark as Thaddius’s story or are you just saying that because it was a “gooey” zone?

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I am, thank you.

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Yw ya that way you don’t have to slog through watching it cause… well even though the story plot is dark it’s still what… a 2 hour long movie? I think? It was pretty lengthy.

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They tried that with the maw, most people emphatically hated it.

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Nah I enjoy Disneyflight far more that all gray dull stuff like Shadowlands and good news everyone, D4 is in full swing so that maybe more to your thing.

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I hated the maw cause I couldn’t fly there and there are npcs everywhere that would slow / knock you off your mount.

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Well… there was a questline where you were captured, buried alive in a pile of bodies, freed a bunch of maimed Kyrians, and ended up fighting a construct made out of their dead allies sewn together, so uh…

Yes, they did.

Actually, I would say it’s considerably darker. They said Thaddius was stitched together from innocents but they didn’t show you what was left of them afterwards!

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I was wondering when someone would use the term “woke” in the thread.

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They didn’t hate the Maw because it was “dark and gritty”

They hated the maw because it was boring and tedious.

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Then I stand corrected.

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And annoying NPCs everywhere too.

So many NPCs with slows / dismounts and other misc things. I just want to traverse a zone in peace.

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Totally separate point, I really enjoyed the Arathi Basin Freeze. The limited visibility was rather fun and you couldn’t target beyond your vision. They need more of that.

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