Oh easy, both suffering from loses and thinking about death, trying to find comfort from loved ones, get it and saying goodbye and explaining that Death is just the next journey. If you can’t even connect that, I kinda feel sorry for you.
Also how we need to pick ourselves back up and continue.
See… the thing is… Gandalf after talking about the white shore didn’t give in to despair but readied for battle.
Unlike dalaran… your example is nonsense and now not only do I think you lack basic understanding on character writing. I don’t think you understood lord of the rings…
LoTR was not a game. It was not called “WARcraft”. It was an epic tale told by a master storyteller. Had a beginning, middle and an end.
Warcraft is an episodic narrative. Much more like a soap opera, or a comic book. You can’t make the comparison, because they are apples and oranges.
And so did they. Hence they are rebuilding. They first needed to collect themselves.
Unlike dalaran… your example is nonsense and now not only do I think you lack basic understanding on character writing. I don’t think you understood lord of the rings…
Ah, media literacy is truly dead I see.
Fantasy genre compared to fantasy genre using a scene that showed characters talking about their emotions. Yes, totally not the same. But this is WARcraft. My man, I got more manly tears from a CoD game and death scenes with emotions with them crashing out. War doesn’t matter, saving private ryan had a lot of emotional scenes of men just crying.
No… they are not. They didn’t do anything the whole tier and wont be in the second.
They legit did more the first time dalaran was a crater.
Have you not seen the mages exploring the whole island or what? Majority of the kirin tor are gone, the left remaining were fighting against the void. We’ve seen some talking to the Earthen and building up a base. I feel like I am taking crazy pills or you guys literally just did not do side quests.
You are not calling the two tents and a mail box a base are you…
I miss wod khadgar
The problem is not the genre. It is that you expect different things from different types of narrative. In LoTR you need some downtime, some soul searching, because you care about what happens to people. There are consequences for people’s decision.
In this episodic game we don’t have that same level of investment, since the characters are so shallow. The writers need to not spend so much time trying to get us to care about the fall of Dalaran, because I can go there now, on any character, whenever I please.
In a soap, or comic book, you paint with broad strokes. Because it is supposed to be fun, action oriented. Not all this naval gazing emotional angst. Instead of LoTR it is more comparable to the Conan short stories, or Fritz Leiber’s Fafard and the Gray Mouser.
Agreed! That would be a cool perspective
Literally not talking about the new base that just happen. I am talking about the isle of Dorn. That is base camp for the survivors or did you forget that as well?
In a soap, or comic book, you paint with broad strokes. Because it is supposed to be fun, action oriented. Not all this naval gazing emotional angst. Instead of LoTR it is more comparable to the Conan short stories, or Fritz Leiber’s Fafard and the Gray Mouser.
Where have you been for the last 20 years? Because this isn’t the first time we’ve seen in wow people crying or sharing feelings. That is why I feel this is so crazy. The writing hasn’t changed that much over time. It is still the same shlop.
The tents…?
Ive legit no idea what your talking about and likely would find it a trival nitpick if explained.
Basically sums up your understanding of the WoW story and human emotions in general
I…have zero clues what you’re on about so I’m just going to ignore you now.
I’m just going to stop, I feel like I’m talking to an unfeeling robot or something.
Works with me. Since your argument is the dalaran mages talked to vendors so they must be doing something…
Yes, because they aren’t out there fighting a war against the void.
I guess we are agreed in a rather passive aggressive way. They are not out there fighting.
Sure, I agree with the shlop. I just thing the TYPE of shlop has changed. At one time it was melodramatic, over-the-top action shlop. With TONES of plot holes and people behaving like idiots to fill them in.
Now, it is more emotional, naval gazing shlop. With people mulling things over.
All I want is a reason to blow up the bad guys. They murdered some children, and now they must PAY! I don’t want an in depth psychological journey on how they became a child killer.