True, that may be true.
Anduin isn’t really popular with the WC2 alliance fanboy crowd in my experience. He’s too forgiving and peace-loving. There was some spike in popularity after the BfA cinematic because it looks like he’s finally becoming “Manduin” and more masculine (even though that makes no sense given his established characterization) and killing Hordies. Way is Varian so popular? Because he’s human, and kills horde.
A lot of the old WC2 fans don’t want some peace with the Horde, they want an eternal orc vs human war.
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For better or worse, I got the impression from the book “Rise of the Lich King” that Arthas is Golden’s favorite character.
Who’s the guy you’re saying does self-inserts? Metzen? To his credit, he addressed how he’d done that with Thrall and walked it back. Or is it someone else?
I could give constructive criticism on how I think the story could work going forward and addressing consequences and plot threads… but that’s supposed to be the writer’s job, not ours.
Danuser, basically self inserted himself as Nathanos, or at the very least its very very coincidental.
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Her world building is atrocious. But maybe she thinks she is writing for children and wants whatever she writes to be an identifiable world for her young readers.
Maybe, but it does create some issues of scale when it took Arthas and co a month to sail from Lordaeron to Northrend to hunt Mal’ganis. However it takes a few hours from something like Stormwind to Theramore using the same mode of transport. Like what?
If it is to “help” a younger audience it needs to stop. Children are not stupid. People need to stop thinking that they are.
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Actually i think thats just the current team taking gameplay conventions as canon.
The story is terrible because blizzard has terrible game developers that think that “solving a problem that stems from a gas leak is solved by creating more gas leaks”
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…the squad of Orc troops carefully poked around the area of the south Barrens where their spies had warned of a possible Alliance ambush occurring. This far north of the ruins of Camp Taurajo they ran the risk of running into rogue elements of erupting Emerald Nightmare that had flooded up from Wailing Caverns. Human troops were bad enough, but the mutated plants and animals… A shudder when through the commander. Human culture did not live as close to nature as many horde ones did, but at least they weren’t perversions of it!
“…snap into a slim jim…”
The commander’s head snapped up. That had been a human voice, speaking a human language! His troops were already scanning the horizon, looking for movement behind tree trunks and rocks. All of them, even.,… wait. One was missing!
“Where Boh’Behk?” He’d been here, just a moment ago.
One man gasped in horror and pointed. There, in the tall dry golden grass, a pair of legs kicked up into the air spasmodically. They surrounded the unconscious body. He’d been buried upside-down, up to his elbows, in the earth. Someone had literally pile-driven him into it!
Too late, the commander realized the distraction. Like a lion pouncing, the enemy was upon them! It was madness unleashed. Armed only with his knees, elbows, and impressive (for a human) bulk, the garishly-dressed combatant was making hash of Warchief Garrosh’s proudest soldiers! He practically bounced between them, bounced OFF of them, body slamming them with laughter and wild incoherent battle cries!
The commander, axe and shield already knocked out of his normally strong green hands, caught the briefest glimpse of a smiling, bearded face wearing huge colored eyewear before he himself was smashed down prone. Half-blinded, he began crawling away on his hands and knees, that mad battle-roar still ringing in his ears…
“OOOOOOHHH YEEEEEEAAAAA!!!”
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That actually sounds like a ton more fun than Shadowlands has been, probably because it’s actually funny and not meant to be serious.
10/10, would play.