If you ask me Garrosh was pretty much a text book example of someone who was slowly being destroyed by his own paranoia. By the end of it he didn’t even trust his own people. Or that’s what I got out of what little I’ve seen of him.
The last time they tried to be edgy and dark, they burned Teldrassil. Now I have to spend the next eight months doing elf stuff in a magic forest.
…That’s not edgy, that’s Illidan. Although now that I think about it one of his canned lined in WC3 was, “I feel edgy.”
WoW’s writing had (still doesn’t) no editor of any kind for the story content so when the quest designers had two different versions of Garrosh in the game, one just kinda stayed as an easter egg. Unfortunately the one Blizzard actually wanted was a cartoon character, instead of an imposing Ogrim Doomhammer tier villain.
Too much of Dragonflight is just dumb.
The entire plot can be described as, “Nothing happened, which lead to something else not happening, and now we’re on this island that may as well have not existed and by the way there’s scalies everywhere because someone at Blizzard wanted their fursona in the game, vulpera weren’t cutting it, and those humanoid snake things from BfA weren’t either.”
I mean, I don’t think Blizzard could deliver on it but I think most people want a return to WC2 / WC3 era writing where very little was actually said. In Dragonflight you meet cartoon rabbit people and then a cartoonishly evil dragon shows up and incinerates them. But not really.
I just want to see the world burn.
I’ve always looked at that narrative as Sylvanas playing Saurfang. She always wanted alliance to attack UC, if we are to believe all the wild lore in shadowlands. She wanted massive casualties. Flood the shadowlands with anima.
She trusted Saurfang to take the bait. What she never stated - or the audience never realized - was that Saurfang also trusted her. Trusted her to stick with the plan she sold him on in Orgmimmar before they marched through Ashenvale
It’s what they tend to do about everything else in the game, so yes, of course they would.
As long as they give me a pearl necklace toy to clutch ill survive
I grew up with star wars quite literally (born the same year the first movie released).
I never really understood the outrage movement. Episode 7 was worth watching once, maybe, but largely I’m content that the first three movies are the only ones that will ever matter to me. The rest I might watch the space battles on YouTube.
Once I realized that even the first three movies were only good in spite of George Lucas and not because of him, and that the universe is far too simplistic to be iterated indefinitely, it all started to make sense.
Star Wars is one of those things that only gets worse when the creators try to explain it. I don’t think it ever would have done so well initially if it didn’t leave so much to the imagination.
And that’s where I’ll leave it, with my childhood imagination. I’ve watched the good ones too many times anyway.
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I didn’t get it either.
Star Wars 4 though 6 will always been my all time favorite series but I don’t understand the rage it generated from people. I think every thing that came after The Return of the Jedi is trash but I’m not going to send death threats to the actors, directors, etc. over it.
It’s a weird and unhealthy obsession some people have.
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Most of these threads assume everyone in the forums, or at least those who don’t share your own’s opinion, have a shared hive mind.
So every time you see a post you don’t agree with, and then you see another post that argues the opposite, you assume it’s the hive mind contradicting itself.
In reality, there are thousands of people that con possibly post on these forums. Even some that may share X opinion may disagree on Y.
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My suggestion would be if you want darker, go with something in the Diablo series, where you can tear something into little pieces then set an explosion off and make it rain dead things. (que “Let the bodies hit the floor!”)
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Best song by Disturbed. 
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What? David Bowie doesn’t sing this song. 
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See, that’s not really what I would consider fully “dark” either. You can fill something to the brim with gore and viscera, but that doesn’t make it dark. It’s a theme, a mood, the overarching narrative and, most importantly, intent. I’d say the Diablo series is grim.
My main issue with df is that it feels noticeably less mature than any previous expansion. I don’t mind lighter stories but the problem with df is that its stories were a giant nothingburger unless you were personally invested in the emotional well being of the dragons. Having emotional arcs is fine but df was basically nothing but emotional arcs and it got kinda super boring because no one was actually doing anything impactful. Fyrrak was a decent villain for say a mid tier raid but hes apparently going to be the final boss of df and…just no.
Yet another thread complaining in advance about something that may never happen, because if they wait and it doesn’t happen they’ll lose the opportunity to throw a tantrum over it on the forum.
If Blizzard creates “darker stories” and the quality of writing is no better than the current expansion, people will have every right to complain.
How it always goes. Spock (God bless ya Leonard Nimoy) said it best.
"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting.
It is not logical, but it is often true." -Spock
I don’t get how people can take it that seriously. Its a movie about space wizards hecks sake
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Unless the emoji is you knowing you’re using the wrong band and having a laugh. I can’t tell sometimes.
I was mostly having a laugh because I’ve seen the forums do a very similar pattern again and again. If it upset me enough to have a tantrum, I wouldn’t be here.
Yeah. This song is infamous for that.
Ah gotcha. I remember that being a joke when places like kazaa or limewire did that with bands