The original and first Assassins Creed 1 in the Physical Magazine publication, EGM, Electronic Gaming Monthly, had ignited the P2W, Pay To Win reviews, where then editor in chief, Dan Hsu, had gotten Himself into trouble for just making a very open and honest review about a game based upon it’s merits
When I get a big splash banner opening up Battle.net with big giant letters such as: “exciting…”, “unrelenting”, and, “the standard”, while exciting… can equally mean dull, repetitive, and null in void, its verbatim estuary ocean opposite counterpart, the standard is equally true, due to other video games such as Microsoft Xbox’s Redfall, where We pay $70 for a bad quality game, be it the graphics, the controls, or even recent World of Warcraft expansion packs that have no plot, story, and lore, that neglect to interconnect any Renown Covenant chapters
The “standard” has become, stuff just happens for no reason at all, or with Dragonflight’s: “we’re all going to the Emerald Dream, and a Firey Dragon named Fyrakk is the End Boss”
We saw this in the dialogue with Dragonflight’s raid boss: “You killed Eranog, but to Me, He was like a Son!”
Hello? What did the Community miss with the Mindless and Brainless dialogue
We saw this in the Shadowlands where there’s purportedly, 7+ Renown Chapters with a Blue Forest Covenant and off to Highmountain Taurens because no reason at all, and collect the same blue skin moose mounts
IGN.com had given the most recent Call of Duty single player campaign a 4.0 out of 10 and Microsoft Activision Blizzard can say, just by it Yourself, play it, and everyone’s opinions are different, and yet Call of Duty is the exact same that it’s always been
Rogue Squadron II for the Nintendo Gamecube is Prime Epitome, where the Rebel Alliance player gets a Hanger, and as more and more medals are unlocked with further achievement progression, more Ships are unlocked and acquired, giving that “feeling of”, becoming Grand Admiral
Call of Duty “could” get a Hangar for unlocking Aircraft, a Shipyard for unlocking Battleships and Submarines, and Laboratories’ for Biological and Chemical Warfare, including Nuclear Warheads, including full on cosmetics for One and All
Call of Duty by Itself, is always the same to derivative that It’s ever and always been, a new soldier avatar, unlock the best sniper rifle and shotgun if thats your thing, and then prone behind the computer monitor all day, where the player has to slither into the Krusty Krab and ask: “what’s the theme here, where’s the atmosphere?!”
Battlefield 2142 went daring and different with mounting onto Titan Ships, defending it as such, dropping down into corridors and planting C-4 explosives everywhere, and while upon the ground, take out a Hum-Vee with Your support maxed out sub machine gun, being badass and completely unstoppable
This belongs in the WoW forums because I’m seeing a similar trend, that out of touch email from the game developer about the latest title, hey did you know, you can preorder this now, and with WoW: The War Within, social media and internet news articles are plastered with being of the opinion of, with the recent as of late
A 3 day early access, but only if You pay the company $90, and for that price, it’s pretty standard for an epic edition to WoW, and just how much can one conquer in the game in 3 days?
Patch 10.2 did the exact same thing, where, We’re all in this together, and yet, very discreetly hidden, with Dream Warden Renown rep to try to grind out the dailies for Renown 15 Dragonflight Pathfinder Flight, low and behold, One and All can buy a Contract with the Dream Wardens off the Auction House for 7,000+ gold, and just do the World Quests for an even quicker and faster catchup mechanic
This is what should equally be out there on the internet news articles and social media, like, why isn’t anyone complaining about this, if 3 days of early access is equally a financial investment, just to get flying early
The low review on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III stems from its negative reviewed single player campaign, when compared outright to Blizzcon 2023, where those in attendance, for the $800 overpriced ticket - critique versus positive criticism - were treated unfairly and inadequately , having to wait in lines forever, arguably due to a popular event, and yet, for the $800 price tag, were just given a backpack, instead of Goodie Bags full of merchandise and easter eggs
Blizzcon felt very rushed in preparation, as if It were prepared by a third party company, all previous customer service and security were fired, and with just 24 hours to go out of 6 months, preparation only needed 24 hours
It goes all the way up the corporate food chain hierarchy, where Phil Spencer, now CEO of Microsoft Activision Blizzard, can take center stage for bragging rights, I did it, I won, this company is going places, where the thought is there, and when it comes to production and execution of, it just looks terrible on paper
An Overwatch 2 deep dive into one hero that was clearly ripped from Maui voiced by Jack Black in Walt Disney’s Moana, a Diablo 4 expansion pack that could be coming, nobody knows when or what the class is, just wait another year to find out, rather than announce it at next year’s Blizzcon 2024, and WoW: Cataclysm Classic, of which was expected, and the meme as to whether WoW: Season of Discovery was and is, WoW: Classic+
Phil Spencer was to Chris Metzen: “I can’t wait to show You guys where WoW is headed, omfg, this is so badass!”
Blizzcon 2023 rolls around, WoW: Midnight and WoW: The Last Titan are allegedly unveiled, ok wow, Blizzard is doing 3 expansion packs at once, and yet, what are they? Is Midnight a Cataclysm 2.0 The Sundering zone world zone overall all over again, with the originals of the Night Elves and High Elves as Allied Races? Who Knows, but like a Diablo 4 expansion pack, it’s allegedly coming
Classic versus Retail aside, Retail is it’s alleged future, and for $800 for a Blizzcon ticket, the hyped up front row seat new cinematic where Blizzard Entertainment is World Renown for, is just a dialogue box option between Thrall and Anduin, who the latter, cries like Good Will Hunting when Robin Williams says: “it’s not Your fault”
Everyone felt like Sean William Scott, watching the web cam in American Pie 1 when He says: “wtf is this?!”
Patch 10.2, the Emerald Dream in WoW: Dragonflight, is really the only thing that stands out as being graphically vibrant, witty, and falling flower petal interactions, that give off strong Ferngully and Avatar vibes, where it’s giving out Classic Chris Metzen vibes of creativity, imagination, and process of thought, where Internal Development will do a Shadowlands 2.0 and ruin it, because, Helm of Wills
WoW: The War Within
I’m a Titan, Your a Titan, and We’ve all overdosed on poisonous plants in the Forest and We all have terrible stomach pain and bad gas, where the last 10 expansion packs of WoW were a Dream, We wake up in modern Blizzard Entertainment doing whatever they want to WoW plot, story, and lore creed, and maybe, just maybe, there’s magically Chromie Time shape shifting zones in between ancient and the modern
@Chris Metzen
Tell the WoW Design Team that Dwarves as an Allied Race were already introduced as Dark Irons, and Blizzard could just do sub race customization options such as Wildhammer Dwarves and Highelves
Dragon Riding Races aside, when WoW: Dragonflight was announced: “become a Dragon Rider”, wasn’t new, as Dragon mounts are the new reskinned norm
If anything, make Steve Danuser a mob boss in a zone, have Him drop the Helm of Wills, that when worn, the WoW Character shouts random emotes and obscenities like Randy Marsh in South Park, frozen to death when nobody invests into His Blockbuster because of Netflix, just so that everyone can look and sound silly
“Plot, Story, Lore!”, and a wooden picket fence sign that says: “WoW Classic left”, and walks into the Goldshire Inn to sleep
WoW’ing the Customer involves investing into the Playerbase, and not feeding them Dwarf Clans, or Warlords of Draenor 2.0
The general thought is there, Patch 10.2 with Amirdrassil, that daymn son, that’s a big tree, and then the horde will burn it down again for no reason at all
The general thought is there with Shadowlands’ Korthia and Zerith Mortis, that just when We’re on the verge of finding out more from this alleged ancient race, interacting and unlocking the knowledge of reading ancient runes, it becomes the most scuffed up version of Dragonflight Furbolg bear language that leads nowhere
Without any plot, story, and lore, including witty creativity, it’s just pulling a Call of Duty single player campaign out of a magician’s hat, and asking $70+ for it, to the inclusive production execution, of being CEO of a video game corporation, and doing the Redfall thing, where: “exciting… unrelenting”, isn’t the standard