Comments on: Game > Lore

By: GoW

GoW — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:21:43 +0000

@Asu - Wow, that’s really interesting. I had no idea that people actively took villain roles, that’s a lot closer to classic pen and paper roleplaying. Although, without complete control of the environment, wouldn’t you need a large “supporting” cast to make it work? Or do you just interlace the RP story with the WoW environment?

Hmm.

By: Asu

Asu — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:28:16 +0000

I find the people who get upset about things like the motorcycles aren’t the RPers. Anyone who complains about the motorcycles wasn’t paying attention to the planes, zepplins, trams and submarines.

The RPers use WoW as a setting and rarely use quests/bosses etc as part of their RP. If you need a villian you have someone play that villian. The game part is what you do when you’re not RPing, not often actually part of the RP.

By: Auzara

Auzara — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:30:39 +0000

“Come on, people. On the fantasy whack-out scale spaceship > motorcycle.”

Thank you, I got a really good chuckle out of this.

By: Larísa

Larísa — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:24:00 +0000

I smiled a lot reading this post (not only because of the link lovage, thank you! :)). When you think about it there are many pretty illogical things in the game. Just as there are in Star Trek and all sorts of other fantasy/sf fiction. Just think about the breathing… is there really atosphere on those little astroids you can fly to? Where are the ladies rest rooms? Is it only some quest animals that have that kinds of physical needs? The list is endless when you think about it.

There have been some fun tries to explain stuff. I just loved the things done at the blog Cope: http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=119, looking into the natural science aspects of the world.

In one way I can agree that since there are space ships, why make such a big deal about motorcycles? You’re perfectly logical. But to be honest, I’m no fan of motorcycles myself. I can’t give you any convincing reasons for it, but to me it just doesn’t fit in. I guess it reminds me too much of the real world. I don’t want to see cars or trafic lights or TV monitors either… I think Blizzard has succeeded in making a nice mixture of fantazy and science fiction, a special blend of their own. But motorcycles? That’s neither… it’s just to plain. Imo.

Oh dear, THIS was a wall-of-text-kind-of-a-comment! Proably I should better had made a post about it. Maybe I will one day. Anyway: thanks for a fun post to read.

By: Airee.net » World of Warcraft

Airee.net » World of Warcraft — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:50:09 +0000

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By: Cynra

Cynra — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:56:17 +0000

One of the fun things that roleplayers do is come up with logical explanations within the universe’s standards for why many of these happen. In particular, the characterization is easily corrected using a mod with more information, such as surname, titles, and physical appearance. Many roleplayers assume that cross-environment communication occurs due to nifty gnomish/goblin (your choice, though draeneic could also be applied, I suppose! That’s something to consider…) devices.

It’s fun. You deal. The thing to keep in mind is that the world is the way that it is and that we shouldn’t try to go about the efforts to justify everything that happens. We watch a show about dragons or spaceships or faeries or angels or devils and don’t sit there and try to justify why those things exist in that universe and not our own; it’s called suspension of belief. So, if players and mobs are incapable of sustaining a physical and lasting death (other than the “DELETE” option), or if we’re capable of carrying items in bags with almost no limit, why do we need to come up for a reason why it occurs? It does. The end.

Personally, I feel it’s Blizzard’s game. There are already elements of steampunk within the universe and we’re gradually gaining new technology as the years pass. Why should it be so surprising? Bleh!