So, I'm still in Kalimdor as a Tauren, which right now I'm enjoying. The visuals are still managing to string me along, and there is enough of a story that I can feel invested in the character (though it is peculiar to be invested in a character who keeps dying, espeically when I have to stare at my rotting carcass every time--more on that later).
I discovered a really useful site.
http://wow.stratics.com/content/features/guides/mulgore/index.php#riteofvision2
This is a website that goes through systematically describing how to win all of the quests in my area. While this feels startlingly close to CHEATING, I feel like the game designers intended for users to constantly be huddling and discussing strategy. After all, that builds on the community aspect that this game supposedly does better than most, and allows them to make quests as challenging and complicated as they like. And besides, Warcraft allows you to explore an entire continet, or if you get high level enough and entire planet--it isn't fun in the least to look for a single glowing needle (or in my case, a wellstone) in an entire world. Yes, wandering around is rewarding simply in the stunning visuals you will encounter, but the longer that is all that keeps me playing the more I want to just go outside.
After thought: I was re-watching some of these videos recently, and noticed that Yatzee actually said that WOW is as good as MMORPGs are likely to get. Huh. Here's the link: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9-Tabula-Rasa
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I would agree with you that the game designers are keenly aware that users are creating the fan content, so I wouldn't count it as "cheating."
ReplyDeleteThere are third-party applications that also help in the questing process, in fact, I think it's taken for granted that people will use these tools. That's why Blizzard has a full-time staff that is constantly updating and creating new content.
Yeah, I was being a bit facetious. That being said, it is sort of a cool model to take advantage of the fact that gamers are always going online. I always avoid looking online for games like Cave Story where the point is to discover everything on your own, but there are dozens of players who just go straight to google and solve everything in five minutes, so why not just work that in? I approve.
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