Is this true? WH40K MMO in the making?

[stray]

i don't like warcraft plot at all. it reads like some amateur hour medieval plot rehash. 10x worse when you follow the Wc3 Campaign.

Rehashed plot or not, it's not supposed to be high fantasy or anything. More like... The Saturday Morning Cartoon version of rehashed fantasy plots. That has some appeal, I think. I can appreciate that particular presentation of fantasy, even if the general "plot" isn't all that great. Most fantasy is just way too serious for it's own good. When I think of it, some strange amalgam of Fabio, Brock Lesnar, and Comic Book guy come to mind. Not good.

Only Conan gets a pass, as far as serious fantasy goes.

Also, there are some original elements to Warcraft. It's not all a rehash. Like Trolls. These guys are not your momma's trolls. They're damn cool. Fuck the rest of Warcraft actually. There should be a jungle platformer game with just a troll in it.

[rk47]

Ja man, dis be the hoodooo!  Mumba Jamba~

[Azazel]

[stray]

I'm not sure what's wrong with the Caribbean culture thing. I mean, that's bad how? Most human cultures and accents are represented in fantasy somehow, but that's one of the few that isn't very much. So at the very least, it's not a rehash...Which is what you were complaining about, right?

As for the particular voiceover, you really haven't thought it through. They have the only tolerable grunt in the game. 

Not to mention the strut, the red mohawks, and ability to do a capoeira dance.

[Kirth]

Like Trolls. These guys are not your momma's trolls. They're damn cool. Fuck the rest of Warcraft actually. There should be a jungle platformer game with just a troll in it.

given the sheer amount of troll biased instances, this is close to the truth.

[WindupAtheist]

I also enjoy how if a race is based off a culture that isn't white, it's automatically in the Horde.

But that's a red herring, really.  WoW is the Old West, and we (even the Horde) are all the white man, and the indians are all the murlocs and gnolls and ogres we slaughter.  I mean, you know, we have to go to their villages and butcher them in front of their own huts.  Because they're totally a threat to the kingdom of Ironforge and it's fucking guns and giant tanks and shit.  Right.

Now excuse me, I have to go put some smallpox in some kobold blankets to get some XP and a new hat.  Apparently the continent-spanning empire which is the Alliance finds their shitty little mining camp a super-serious threat.

 

[rk47]

haha XD you're right i shdn't take the game too seriously, unlike Warhammer which is quite ...'THIS IS SRS BUSINESS' tone emanating everywhere, Warcraft is something else. 

[Ingmar]

I also enjoy how if a race is based off a culture that isn't white, it's automatically in the Horde.

But that's a red herring, really.  WoW is the Old West, and we (even the Horde) are all the white man, and the indians are all the murlocs and gnolls and ogres we slaughter.  I mean, you know, we have to go to their villages and butcher them in front of their own huts.  Because they're totally a threat to the kingdom of Ironforge and it's fucking guns and giant tanks and shit.  Right.

Now excuse me, I have to go put some smallpox in some kobold blankets to get some XP and a new hat.  Apparently the continent-spanning empire which is the Alliance finds their shitty little mining camp a super-serious threat.

 

If this forum had a karma thing, I would mod you up as far as I possibly could for this post. Then I'd hump your leg. 

[Sjofn]

Now excuse me, I have to go put some smallpox in some kobold blankets to get some XP and a new hat.  Apparently the continent-spanning empire which is the Alliance finds their shitty little mining camp a super-serious threat.

Look, we have a severe wax shortage, and those little savages don't understand just how badly we NEED to take candle.

[Azazel]

I'm not sure what's wrong with the Caribbean culture thing. I mean, that's bad how? Most human cultures and accents are represented in fantasy somehow, but that's one of the few that isn't very much. So at the very least, it's not a rehash...Which is what you were complaining about, right?

Nope, wrong on oh so many counts. I don't mind trolls. I prefer orcs and tauren, but WoW trolls are ok.

My objection is that JJB has tainted all the fun out of the playful caribbean accent.



Also, much for WUA's post.

We always talked about genocide whenever we ran back into Nesingwary.

[WindupAtheist]

Our descendants won't be laughing 200 years from now, when they lose all their GP to some gnoll blackjack dealer at the Riverpaw Tribal Casino.

[stray]

I'm not sure what's wrong with the Caribbean culture thing. I mean, that's bad how? Most human cultures and accents are represented in fantasy somehow, but that's one of the few that isn't very much. So at the very least, it's not a rehash...Which is what you were complaining about, right?

Nope, wrong on oh so many counts. I don't mind trolls. I prefer orcs and tauren, but WoW trolls are ok.

My objection is that JJB has tainted all the fun out of the playful caribbean accent.

JJB? What's that?

Anyways.. I have some love for the Gnomes as well.


All that said, I don't even play the damn game!  Not sure why I'm talking about any of this . My only high lvl character is a Tauren Druid. No gnomes or trolls. All I know is that both have the slickest hair styles, color pallete, and the best mounts (trolls are cool in other ways as well, as I stated above). And as far as the whole cartoony feel of WoW goes, both of those races play to that strength the most.

[HaemishM]

Our descendants won't be laughing 200 years from now, when they lose all their GP to some gnoll blackjack dealer at the Riverpaw Tribal Casino.

EPIC WIN X 2. 

[5150]

JJB? What's that?

[stray]

Jar Jar Binks isn't even remotely Carribean.

[Rasix]

Of course not, he's Gungan.