Warcraft Retrospective 6: Doomhammer Goes North

Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness was actually the first Warcraft game I ever played in my life, as a child in early school soon after it came out. I didn’t have a computer back then, so I played it on my friends’ computers. And I have a confession to make: when I played it, I didn’t know anything I’ve been talking about for the last four posts.

Warcraft Retrospective 5: Tides of Darkness, the Manual

Last time, we ended on Warcraft 1’s multiple-choice finale. Either the orcs conquered Stormwind Keep, or the humans drove them back into the portal they came from.

Behind the Scenes: "Dream and Nightmare", "UPF-6237: Shadowmeld"

Here are some author’s notes for two stories I posted on Argent Archives. Before I proceed, however, I should make one thing absolutely clear:

Warcraft Retrospective 4: Warcraft 1, the Human Campaign and Closing Thoughts

Now that we’re done with the Warcraft 1 orc campaign, let’s look at the other side of the conflict.

Warcraft Retrospective 3: Warcraft 1, the Orc Campaign

Based on the somber, detailed language of the Warcraft 1 manual, you might expect the game itself to have washed-out colors tending towards grey and brown, and an overall eerie, unsettling atmosphere slanted into horror.

Warcraft Retrospective 2: Warcraft 1, the Manual

One day, I did an interesting mental exercise. I rewatched the first Star Wars movie, Episode IV: A New Hope — or rather just Star Wars as it was known at release — pretending I was seeing it for the first time, and knew nothing whatsoever about the Star Wars setting as we’ve come to think of it.

Thoughts on the WoW 11.0 Announcement

So… The War Within is in. On one hand, I’m relieved it wasn’t Avaloren: The Generic Expansion, as the now-confirmed-fake leak indicated. On the other hand, I’m disappointed that there’s once again no world revamp. Now would be a perfect time to de-Cataclysm the old world, remove embarrassing questlines like Rambo of Redridge and CSI Westfall, and replace dated questlines with evergreen ones.

Warcraft Retrospective 1: The Evolution of Blizzard

War on Magic campaign begins on Argent Dawn EU!

Tonight, Lintian returned to Dalaran to partake in the first event in the War on Magic RP campaign by Acheleus and Kelly. The hook is as simple as they come: the Primalists have allied themselves with the mage-hunters from the Nexus War to eradicate mortal mages on all of Azeroth. It’s the execution that matters, and this is where roleplayers are far ahead of Blizzard.