The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
ekaterinodar wrote:
To be honest, I'm done being the "adventurer" and would like to actually be the "hero". Since...well...ever we're treated as groupies of the real heroes, do all the work, and then get treated like common folk. Here I am standing in gear I tore off the body of the greatest threat to the whole freakin' universe and I'm still being treated as santa's little helper.
We've been given a taste of just how awesome our characters are, of how awesome the world sees us sometimes. The first damn quest in Northrend if you go the Borean Tundra route as Alliance, for instance. I'm tired of people not knowing who we are. I'm tired of being AFGNCAAP(Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral Culturally-Ambiguous Adventure Person). After 85 levels, dozens of dungeons, numerous raids and countless quests, the player character should be a well known entity in the game world. It shouldn't be "Jaina Proudmoore's here, we're saved! Oh, and she brought some adventurers. Also cool.". It should be "Thank the Light, Poldaran's here. We're mother@#%^ing saved!"
Instead, they insult the achievements of the player characters by making us play second fiddle to a damn archaeologist? And cower in fear because a damn goblin pulls a gun on you just so said archaeologist can play hero? *****, I'm a mage. A powerful one, at that. I took on Illidan without blinking. Yogg-saron was one of my previous foes. Yet I cower before a goblin with a gun? I can bend reality to my whim. With the speed of a single thought, that gun could be teleported from his hand to the bottom of the nearest ocean. Not to mention mana shield. Remember the scene in ID4 where they fired at the soda can? I'm that alien ship. And let's not forget the ability to affect the flow of time itself in a localized area. Without some kind of ultra powerful gun or a massive barrage, why does that NPC even pose a threat?
And I'm not even mentioning just how heroes of other classes can trivialize the same issue, from the warrior that can deflect the bullets right off of his massively powerful armor, or rogue who could have a dagger in the goblin's throat before he could even react, the warlock whose demon could calmly intercept the bullet for its master or the shaman who can call the spirits of nature to bring forth a wind so mighty as to sweep the bullet away.
Don't get me wrong, they could still have played out the whole Harrison Jones coming to save you bit, but it should be more believable, perhaps "trapped in a magically created field that completely prevents you from using your powers" kind of thing, not "he has a gun, proceed to wet yourself".
These people you play second fiddle to, they could be great heroes, but at this point, they need to play as your commanding officer or perhaps the Jedi Master to your Jedi Knight instead of playing the Jedi Master to your Clone Trooper.
I WOULD SO PLAY THIS GAME. Seriously. They show us these cinematics showing characters do this kind of stuff, trying to hype us up to believe we're doing it, when we're not. If they created the game around truly making our characters true heroes it'd be AWESOME. Would it ***** with the balance of the game? Sure, that's why you'd rebalance it. I'd much rather be taking on 40 bad guys in a frenzy of time warping, shadow jumping, demon wielding mayhem then clicking 1, 2, 1, 2 and then being called an "adventurer" who has to go help NamedNPC#4 who gets ICE TRAPPED against the last boss yet all of us weaker characters don't, defeat him, and aren't even allowed to make it into the final cut scene.
YAY TIRION! .............
LockeColeMA wrote:
Mazra wrote:
ekaterinodar wrote:
2) You've spent four full games trying to convince me that the Horde are bad ...
Wait, what? Since when did they begin this? Granted, I've only been playing since the beta
I think he means from an Alliance point of view. Since the start of the game, Blizzard's tried to work up hate between the two sides, and it just kinda feels half-hearted.
This. Yeah, I realize that the Horde aren't evil. But as an alliance character GC tells us we want there to be "conflict". Yet we have all of this "conflict" in the midst of situations which in the real world would bring skirmishing factions together (like for example the Soviet Union joining forces with the Allies to defeat **** Germany). The freakin' lich king is about to wipe out all life as we know it and we're... jousting? WTHECK?!
Suspension of disbelief only goes so far. There are so many blinding holes that its impossible to continue to suspend my disbelief. Okay fantasy game violates rules of reality. I can work with that. But fantasy game consistently violating its own rules every expansion/patch/blog post is enough.
As for playing the game...I'm seriously considering suspending my account for good. When group of 40 and 50 year old casual players are all saying the game is too easy... I know its not just me and a bunch of elitist anymore.
MoP sounds like its going to be Hello
