Well… you can never leave now.
One of us.
One of us.
One of us.
One of us.
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I was one of you, until the past few expansions. My investment in the story… let’s just say that it went unrewarded.
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I was one of the occasional readers rather than a poster, mostly because so many topics created on related concepts are made in bad faith, exclusively to rile people up rather than actually discuss.
I do have to admit that I was surprised Blizzard moved the thread to an out-of-the-way unrelated corner of the forums. They did restore it twice already. This does erase a good chunk of my faith that they’re putting their words into action when it comes to diversity and the like.
Legion was pretty good. BFA and Shadowlands… ehh.
And I guess by your guild name you are an Old Horde proud kind of guy?
See the age on this guild? The original thought to make our guild make sense in-universe was to be those of the Dragonmaw Clan who made it over to Kalimdor with Thrall’s subscribing to his ideology. Maybe assisting with the wyverns and the like. Just trying to put their skills to good use, as ill-gotten as they were. This was before TBC let us know what happened to Zuluhed, before Golden expanded to lore to make them a pre-Dark Portal clan, and well before we got the Twilight Highlands addition.
I think the moment the story went off the rails for me was when they made Garrosh just another “corrupted” loot pinata. It trivialized his character arc and made the player’s “decision” to oppose him a lot less complex.
Actually, maybe even back that up a bit - it was when Deathwing was revealed as a fire-breathing plot device rather than a character unto himself. He was supposed to be the franchise’s premiere manipulator, but they reduced him to… whatever that was. But I suppose we now also see what happens when modern Blizzard trying to write a “behind the curtain” villain, and perhaps it was a stroke of mercy that Deathwing did not share that fate.
It sort of felt like Cataclysm was more about Thrall than anything else to me, often.
I honestly wonder if they had used Deathwing as a master manipulator how it would of been, as that was well before the modern era’s writing team. Metzen would of had a much larger hand in things… so I imagine it be more like Onyxia than Zovaal.
Honestly, I can’t think of anyone outside of Khadgar that made it out of WarCraft II without getting hit with a villain bat to be used as fodder or a plot device, rather than an actual character. Even Turalyon and Alleria seem to be headed in this direction.
Kind of says something about the level of importance Blizzard places on its Story, and discussions of it.
The Story Forum is where the threads from GD that give Forum Mods nightmares are sent to die a slow death.
I noticed this thread in GD earlier, but didn’t read it. Just kinda funny to see how the Mods work.
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We already had this with arakkoa and ethereal, no?
We could have if they were ever made playable!
This isn’t the first thread from GD to be sent here, to be honest. I think the ‘Make Anduin Gay’ threads (yes more than one) were moved here as well, way back when. I suppose it’s a way to keep the discussion going while placing it in the next best place (since it does pertain to some measure of lore stuff). This forum has issues but by and large we’re less fragile and melodramatic than the GD forum… which is kind of scary.
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Another thread tossed into the dumpster of the forum.
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From what I gather Acknowledging that non-CIS people exist is equivalent to “Shoving it in their faces.”
Whether that’s even an issue with a totally artificial lifeform that might not even reproduce is questionable at best.
In TNG, both Data and Troi tell Data’s child that they must choose a gender and that that choice would be fixed. In retrospect that was one of the most regressive scenes in Star Trek as given the nature of that being, gender should be as flexible as a barbershop visit in Stormwind.
That is generally the way it works. I just tell people who make those kind of comments (the “Don’t shove your sexuality on me” stuff) to explain how to rewrite the story taking out every single relationship in the game since they don’t want that sexuality stuff shoved at them.
Usually results in silence.
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At least those ones sort of make sense, because it’s calling for a narrative development. The whole premise of this thread is voided if this coding is narratively lampshaded.
I saw the title.
Thought to myself - “I have no idea what this means, but I know it cannot end well.”
Clicked on the post. Started reading and saw 1/594 on the right hand side in 3 days.
I can already say, this probably did not go well.
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Still went better than you might predict, though.
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I hope so. This place can surprise me sometimes.
But sometimes … yikes.
drools disgustingly
exactly why do games have to reflect society? Its a release from everyday bs.
These sorts of extreme analysis is cringe.
Don’t really know how this fits the story or lore…maybe fan fiction?
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