Comments on: Our Man In Northrend

By: j

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:54:46 +0000

If you take a put a piece of shit in a box and slap a guarantee on it you still have a piece of shit with a guarantee!

By: Kai

Kai — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:30:49 +0000

What quest is that where you go through the catacombs with the bubble? Is it alliance only? I quit WoW several months ago in favor of finishing my thesis, but have a friend who’s trying to find that quest. And I’d like to see it, too.
I must say, having becoming thoroughly unimpressed with WoW since Burning Crusade came out, WotLK is much more engaging. I absolutely love the new mechanics they’re trying to get working with the old system and keep requesting that my friend show me when she gets to certain parts, i.e. the Wrath Gate and the battle for the Undercity.
Too bad I’d have to buy and play through Burning Crusade to get any of the goodies from WotLK, though.

By: DBeaver

DBeaver — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:11:43 +0000

Erik: I’m pretty sure the title is a reference to the book “Our man in Havana” by Graham Greene, and so was the quote in Pulp Fiction.

I enjoyed reading the article, even though I don’t tend to play MMO’s much. My problem with them is that the game worlds are, for technical reasons I think, usually rather bland. Both the need to create huge areas and the fact that those areas have to be rendered together with some hundred player models on an average computer have kept the pixel count rather low. I like immersion when I play, and therefore usually go for FPS’s. But reading the last part of the article made me curious. How much detail and beautiful small ideas are there, if you look closer?

By: Flint

Flint — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:44:02 +0000

Okay, the Wrath Gate questline and especially its finale (including both the Wrathgate finale and the final quest of the continuation line afterwards) = one of the best and most epic quests ever in WoW.

Expansion luff.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:41:28 +0000

My interest in WAR is indeed flagging a bit – not because the game itself is any worse than it was originally, but because I can’t seem to stick with MMOs for that long. WAR’s already doing quite well in keeping me this long. The other thing is that a perennial lack of tanks is preventing me from successfully doing the dungeons and PQs I’d like to – our four or five healer, one DPS groups are very impressively capable and all, but there are limits.

However. WAR need not fear competition from WoW in *my* case. Blizzard lost my business before Burning Crusade even came out. Not because I disliked WoW. Heavens, I loved it. But because I am out $80 (my WoW CE) because of Blizzard’s extraordinarily poor customer service. Not going to hand them more of my money for another account to arbitrarily strip me of, thanks.

By: skalpadda

skalpadda — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:36:54 +0000

The first sets of quests seem a lot more and engaging than the ones you started out with in the previous expansion. There’s this feeling of momentum that wasn’t really there when I first set foot in Outland. Also, I’m not spending my first day in the game in an orange coloured desert killing orange demon boars and orange orcs.

Oh, and the norse mythology influences are amazingly funny. Playing horde in Howling Fjord feels as if the zombies are invading Norway :)

By: Harlequin

Harlequin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:20:16 +0000

I played for about two hours last night and I noticed something. I was actually enjoying the quests. Maybe it’s the “new game smell”, but I really like Northrend so far…and I haven’t even gotten around to making a Death Knight yet.

I reserve total judgment for a few weeks, but so far it is off to a good start. I’m not even going to say now it’s all uber and amazing, but it just feels well constructed.

By: Zyrusticae

Zyrusticae — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:38:55 +0000

Eh. WoW just didn’t ‘click’ with me. Maybe it’s the atrociously dated graphics. Maybe it’s because I’ve already played the grinding game before (several, times, in fact). Maybe I just didn’t like the emptiness in the newbie zones. Either way, WotLK has absolutely no appeal to someone like me. Which is just as well, I suppose. Very few MMOs are capable of hooking me in anymore.

By: Fleethof

Fleethof — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:48:47 +0000

I’m honestly blown away by this expansion. My jaw was dropping during the entire Death Knight starting zone. I don’t think I’ve EVER said “holy cow!” or “oh my goodness!” while playing this game before, but I certainly was during my 3-4 hours doing the Death Knight starting zone. I can’t wait to get to Northrend and see what else they have in store!

The highlight for me so far has been the phasing technology. I think Blizz can REALLY do alot of cool stuff with that.

By: Flint

Flint — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:33:16 +0000

I’ve been loving Wrath immensely. Questing and exploring is the reason why I play the game (outside the obvious like the addictive character development) and I certainly haven’t been disappointed. I started straight out in Howling Fjord because it looked better in the pictures and its more ‘remote’ location seemed good, and seems like I made the right choice. I’m just a really happy panda now, exploring a brand new world with my favourite character (and his trusty bear) who can get a bit further again.

Oh and the music in the expansion is great. Want the soundtrack.

By: Doug F

Doug F — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:12:07 +0000

What you said about Howling Fjord is what I’ve been telling my guildmates all week – and on top of being the more remote zone, it is also much better looking.

I also have to echo what DraconianOne and others have said about improved endgame accessibility – I “quit” WoW in January of this year, and it was the thought of being able to see all of the raid content with 9 friends, rather than the usual 15-20 friends and 4-9 obnoxious morons that brought me back.

By: Jetsetlemming

Jetsetlemming — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:00:14 +0000

If Wow just but had a tourist class so I could properly explore the world without having to worry about those damn monsters and other players, I might play it.