Austin recommends: World of Warcraft in 2024 (inc The War Within) - Review

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@SkillUp 5 дней назад

@Flecco 5 дней назад

Well. Skill ups channel releasing a war within review before a final shape review wasn't in my bingo card.

@dud5606 4 дня назад

War Withing review will probably end up like the Baldurs Gate 3's review

@heartcoke 4 дня назад

I think shillup said the opportunity for the final shape review came and went already.

@RumblesBettr 4 дня назад

Who cares about final shits

@Giliver 4 дня назад

Should tell you exactly how Final Shape has gone. Lol I don't think anyone wants to talk about Bungie in a positive light right now.

@Ehh..... 4 дня назад

If i have to make a guess he was probably gonna be positive and a recommend (based on what ive heard about it) but then all the crap hit the fan with bungie.

@Benefits 5 дней назад

$80 USD for that Steel Series key cap???!! Not a whole set of key caps. Just a single key cap for the escape key. That is INSANE.

@kerch6071 5 дней назад

But it is nice.

@KamilNesa 5 дней назад

@@kerch6071 you are joking right?

@TheCocomunges 5 дней назад

Artisan keycaps are around that price, from 30-100$

@robdebone 5 дней назад

@@TheCocomungesI don't think he's denying that That's the price. I think he's just saying it's so overly priced it's insane for any of them at that price point

@AugustRx 5 дней назад

@@KamilNesaHey some of us are not broke. Forgive them

@nice_bnuuy 5 дней назад

I got burnt so many times from WoW that I'm probably never going back, but I hope WoW players get a W for once

@fireflyfrv654 5 дней назад

the game's still got some flaws, but compared to shadowlands, it definitely feels like the old dev team who was hellbent on making you as miserable as possible was replaced with someone who's focused on letting people have fun instead

@veryontron4279 5 дней назад

@@fireflyfrv654 I think that War Within might be the best the game has been in the last 10 years baring the large amount of technical bugs that still plauge it after the launch.

@dragonuv65 5 дней назад

I was the same, but War Within is great so far.

@MysteriousPear802 4 дня назад

the W is already here. people are loving the game right now

@vadim6656 4 дня назад

im loving it! i just started this week as i was awaiting reviews. it is soo much fun, the best ive had in a long while for WoW....i hated shadowlands

@majorbones251 4 дня назад

Is it just me or does Austin sound more and more like Skillup every video?

@Senumunu 4 дня назад

They are speaking with the same structure now. Corporate homogenization is what we call this.

@majorbones251 4 дня назад

@@Senumunu Or… Austin has kidnapped Skillup and is slowly taking over his life like a doppelgänger! You heard it here first.

@Bandoolero 4 дня назад

he does sound like him almost exactly

@Desmond-Dark 4 дня назад

I think it was like that in the beginning and it's one of the reasons I'm not the biggest fan of Austin's reviews. No offense to him.

@randerson5172 4 дня назад

Yep same cadence, same tone, same syllabus stresses. It’s like he’s a vocal clone

@djmanoedits8683 4 дня назад

This was the most back and forth review on this channel wtf lol

@steubenbreunden 4 дня назад

I think the difference here is that SkillUp is a great story teller who shapes the narrative from the start of the video, so even when you hear a bunch of negatives, you know his positives that make it a worthwhile recommendation are around the corner. Austin's opener literally doesn't mention his disdain for the campaign or story or any of his other misgivings, just a half second "any grievances I had" so you aren't prepared for the rest of the review.

@SociedadeDoRPG 4 дня назад

By what you said of Anduin "suddenly finding a civilization underground" i can see you skip the "stay a while and listen dialogues" and don't often click to read characters text dialogue. He hints at this very early on when he said the earthen called him "an Arathi" and he starts to investigate why

@_holy__ghost 2 дня назад

its stuff like this that makes me reconsider tuning in to austin reviews at all

@VagrantFox 3 дня назад

Austin whinging about WoW's unsatisfying plot and bad cast of characters is kind of rich considering his affinity for GW2

@nat040496 3 дня назад

WoW's open world isn't empty because of their world or questing design. It's empty because of "sharding". Creating dynamic instances of the same zone that split up the playerbase. This is done for performance reasons and so that you're not competing with as many other players for questing (would suck to compete with 20 other players to kill the same 5 boars), but it does also result in a world that feels less populated.

@taketheredpill4252 5 дней назад

Nice to see a well balanced take on TWW. Though from the prospective of a long time player WoW has never been as much fun. Been amazing to see old mates appear on the friends list. I would highly recommend giving it a chance.

@Zastrutzki 5 дней назад

Hardly heard anything that sounded like a recommendation.

@cluin1470 4 дня назад

Yeah this was a weird one. The first, like, 2/3 of the video were complaints. After that segment Austin said the game is good because you can play solo and the side content is fun solo. Almost every good part had a caveat, then the game got an overall recommend? Super strange review for something that's "recommended".

@belowbronze8588 4 дня назад

He criticizes the story/open world for its issues, praises delves, the gearing curve/options, and hero talents, while pointing out where there are issues with each. Its a nuanced review that supports the recommendation.

@MrAlbinoGhost 4 дня назад

@@cluin1470 given his closing line about expecting to be here for "a good time, not a long time (based off of previous experience)" i think it's safe to say that a big part of that recommendation comes from WoW's fundamentals - the core moment-to-moment gameplay has never really been beaten within the standard MMO genre. buttons feel good to press, boss encounters are almost always fun, and classes almost all play in a fun, mostly-distinct way. some games have definitely innovated in ways that make them stand out, but WoW CRUSHES everything else in the tab-target mmo genre gameplay-wise. I think this should have been elaborated on in the video, as this is the first time the channel has talked about the game but i believe the implication is there

@SirQuantization 4 дня назад

If they say ‘not recommended’ people don’t watch. Who wants to watch a review that is telling them a game sucks? Less people for sure.

@Desmond-Dark 4 дня назад

@@belowbronze8588 You're correct. Also I wish people would drop the desire to see a rating or recommendation / no recommendation. When it comes to reviews the only thing that SHOULD matter is their content.

@Hartfeltet 4 дня назад

Damn, I didn’t even notice the transition from Ralph to Austin

@Urbish-v3t 4 дня назад

Good video, agree with pretty much everything here. The rapid campaign and lack of open world difficulty remains a major problem for me, but the instanced content is still really strong. I wish they would look at Classic and GW2 (not so much FFXIV!) and increase the difficulty of the open world because it's so trivial that it becomes mindnumbing and loses opportunity for cooperation between players. At the end of the day this expansion is more Retail WoW. If you like it you'll have a good time, and if you don't there's nothing here to change your mind.

@Muck-da 5 дней назад

This expac has been good and definitely builds on the good that dragonflight brought to the game. Story is alright, feel like it has potential but we’ll see where they go from here. In regards to content, this has been the most fun I’ve had playing WoW since Legion tbh

@BluestCheese 4 дня назад

@SkillUp Not seeing other players during the campaign is because the zones change during the campaign. When you first get to Hallowfall the zone is permanently day until you get to the story beat where it turns night, then youre in the normal zone. You couldn't see anyone because no one on your server was still doing the starting quests.

@ms3862 4 дня назад

That's why the game sucks now. When I played Cataclysm you would find players doing starting quests 3 weeks after launch. But the new expansion no one is doing starter quest after 2 days. The game feels a lot smaller than I remember it almost feels like a single player game now, the mighty have fallen, even trying to find dungeons and raids, the queues are long because not many players online

@Wolfstorm701 4 дня назад

@@ms3862 This is categorically untrue.

@xarbinchaoticneutral1785 3 дня назад

@@ms3862are you brain dead? That's not how queues work. And the game ain't anywhere near dead. Cope more

@yapp2yapp2 3 дня назад

@@ms3862 Why are you lying? What's with you goobers wanting games you don't play to fail? What is the point of lying about it? Just mind your own biz, this is degenerate behavior.

@MrHiglon 4 дня назад

Unearned monologues of introspection does exactly describe how it felt to me.

@JustS0meK1dd 4 дня назад

This is the first expansion that I haven't played on release (I started playing WoW in 2005). As much as I would love to dive back in, I know that regardless of how much casual content there is, I wouldn't be able to help myself when faced with the challenge of competing at the high end... I played Dragonflight for the first three patches, initially intending to be a casual player. Within a month or so, I was already in a heroic/mythic raiding guild whilst pumping +20-27 mythic+ keys. WoW is definitely more accessible than it has ever been, but it is also just as capable of consuming every moment of your free time. There are just too many other awesome games that I miss out on every time I start playing again. I'm glad to see that the launch has been a success though, and I hope it continues for many years to come.

@Werewolf8608 4 дня назад

Never went as hardcore as you.... But I understand where you're coming from. WoW can be extremely time consuming... Especially with all the games that exist nowadays. Honestly, I now play relatively casual so I can spread my time out between multiple games. I truly love WoW, but don't want to be pigeonholed into just playing it only.

@deadwejght5357 4 дня назад

Your not missing out if your enjoying the game your playing

@JustS0meK1dd 3 дня назад

@@deadwejght5357 The thing is, after playing all of the hard content the first time, I start playing more for the challenge, and because I feel like I need to progress my gear/rating rather than just feeling joy about playing the game. It keeps me occupied, but there are so many varied gaming experiences across so many genres, that it's a shame to only play one game. There could be multiple others that only take 30-50 hours to finish and could become some of the best experiences I've had in gaming. For example, if I hadn't taken a break off of WoW in 2018 because I was getting too sweaty, I would have never discovered how much I love souls-like games. The From Software titles are now my favourite experiences in all of gaming, and I definitely wouldn't have have time to play the 6 games I missed in the series if I was still pushing high Mythic+ keys and raiding in wow.

@yapp2yapp2 3 дня назад

You can just not do that lol. I'm a former mythic raider, havent done any keys, after curve i've been chilling till the next tier.

@JustS0meK1dd 2 дня назад

@@yapp2yapp2 I'm sure some people can, but I'm not one of them. Wow is the only game that I would say I was somewhat addicted to. I hated when my ilvl was falling behind because I didn't get enough Mythic raid bosses or 20+ M+ keys done in a week, or that my M+ logs were outside the 95-99 bracket. Curve was really just the first goal I had of each patch, and from then it was when the real sweat started. It just isn't a game that is good for me on a personal level, and I'm finally at a place where I can recognise that.

@robingoodfellow8097 5 дней назад

I wonder if the open world feeling empty might be an Australian server issue? On NA it’s pretty much always the opposite, there are times where the mobs simply don’t spawn fast enough because so many people are all doing the same open world content

@Coheed420 4 дня назад

Or maybe that he has Warmode off. I turn on Warmode and I’m constantly doing stuff and fighting people in the open world.

@warlock3691 4 дня назад

I thought the same. HE might be on a low pop server. I'm on a high pop and see people everywhere.

@KibblesDoesStuff 4 дня назад

I think it's absolutely server based. I play on proudmoore and tichondrius, the areas were so full of players my frames kept dropping

@Giliver 4 дня назад

@@warlock3691I thought all zones were cross realm now so server pop shouldn't matter?

@KibblesDoesStuff 4 дня назад

@@Giliver they are, but it only slightly fills from other servers. The difference between high pop and low pop servers is immediately noticable.

@JulesNekro 5 дней назад

don't bother with Acti-Blizz

@Castrimaris 5 дней назад

Thank you for this! I've always been interested in WoW and similar games, but also am sorta of a loner and don't like much playing with other people. Having a look at all the features and the mechanics from a casual PoV (like myself) has been interesting.

@morgezorge6387 5 дней назад

I'm so glad that i'm out.

@seekhearts 5 дней назад

its the most fun ive had in years playing wow, i don't feel any need to log in when i don't want to, and when i do i always have something to do that is satisfying and can get done in 30mins or less. the story is actually the bigger part that fills in a lot of gaps that linger from the past, but also teases us with questions about the future of azeroth. also a lot of the side quests had their own fantastic little storylines about them too, i felt invested into the dementia riddled earthen who we help shut down. i just hope they can keep up with the unquenchable thirst for new content and types of things to do.

@Drunkencrono 4 дня назад

Great video as usual. I'm liking TWW so far, and I think your recap of the story helped me reflect on my own feelings about it. For example the Earthen story...Despite doing every quest in the first zone, it never really felt like they did a good job making the whole "unbound vs oathsworn" thing compelling because they didn't really show big differences between the two or why they split in the first place. The unbound seem to either be unhappy with their assigned roles, or feel abandoned by their absent creators (especially when it comes to the memory bank no longer functioning), but while we see personal stories about both it never feels like either is really affecting their society as a whole. I will say for Anduin, I think his arc was less about "not needing the light" and more about how he felt disconnected and unworthy of it, with interactions showing how he was still capable of feeling it and eventually using it again on his own. Which was nice enough with a good enough payoff but much more of a common story for a troubled paladin. For the gameplay, I think you touched on it a lot with how solo friendly and season focused it is now, not to mention the outdoors feeling more vestigial than ever. I really do like the new content but over time WoW has felt more like an ARPG that has a heavy multiplayer leaning than an MMO. But it's not just WoW, that's a complaint I could level at the whole genre nowadays. I still see plenty of people around myself, but does it matter? MMOs feel less like living worlds full of people so much as virtual lobbies for an internet game.

@fredriksk21 5 дней назад

I'm sure the game is good but... Blizzard, eew

@Gebirges 5 дней назад

Clear your mind of what you know as "Activision Blizzard", this is now "Microsoft's Blizzard" and it's darn good.

@truedps8 5 дней назад

It's not good lol. The only people who enjoy it are people that have a long history with WoW.

@seanjenkins5505 5 дней назад

Everyone seems to forget that all of the bad things exposed about blizzard were happening during the "golden years" it was just exposed recently.

@ClipperFanW 5 дней назад

Your comment smells of trying to be a part of the cool kids.

@LogicalError007 5 дней назад

@@truedps8So, you don't know.

@Gebirges 5 дней назад

Anduin had struggled for years, his war within doesn't get fixed "a few hours in". His conflict gets slightly fixed as the final part of the max level campaign after a ton of character moments, him throwing against the odds of winning and more events and story happen. It's actually a good thing he gained something from it cuz a sad Anduin is not what we want to see 😣

@TheShawnMower 4 дня назад

As a horde I can't stand emo Anduin. Alliance is supposed to represent hope and light. Glad he's having his character arc furthered and redeeming him a little

@cactuss33ds 4 дня назад

i want to see it. he needs to become an alcoholic

@BryantKeith 5 дней назад

I wonder if the play population thing is an issue with oceania? I am on a extremely well populated wow server and I group up with random people constantly to do world quests. So much so, I don't even need to find a group to do the weekly World boss - just jump in with a large group already doing it.

@Alesthes 4 дня назад

I guess so, because in my experience this "the open world is empty" claim is just wild: there's always plenty of people around in all open world areas and events...

@lylianx4209 4 дня назад

Could anybody explain to me who exactly Villainess Toerings is? I'm considering jumping back for the xpac but literally all I know about the big bad is that she's some evil void thing that jumped out of a weapon and possessed a dead elf. Like, what is she all about and why I should I care?

@omegaxtrigun 4 дня назад

Uh she’s cryptic. And the void will consume all in time. And uh, ya that’s about it. You pretty much got the gist of it. Real compelling stuff eh? lol

@Silphage 4 дня назад

I understand the complaints many have about catering to solo play being antithetical to an MMO, but it's kind of a lost argument at this point. Solo "casual" players have made up a *significant* part of the audience for over 15 years, Blizzard knows this. Of course they want to serve that audience.

@atheistsquid 4 дня назад

The arathi aren't "ancient humans" they have been there for less than a generation. You didn't pay any attention to half the story.

@AmocideB День назад

The Arathi in Hollowfall have been their for less than a generation. The Arathi race as a whole exist somewhere else and is in fact ancient humans, YOU didnt pay attention to half the story.

@cyntheticgaming 22 часа назад

Ahhh the OP is right though, referring to them as “ancient humans” is like calling the scandanavian people ancient cause they’re descended from Vikings

@backboardfilms 5 дней назад

Glad Austin had a good time with it, but I’m really hoping we get that Silent hill 2 review here soon

@DireWulfHD 4 дня назад

I'm one of those people whose friends try to get them to play the game then they tell me to "Oh dude install this addon and this addon and this addon and this addon x500 and then spend 10 hours setting them up. You need these addons!" And then I never install the game and move on with my life.

@trixdahalt 5 дней назад

As someone who is new to WoW, this expansion is really fun! I disagree about the campaign though, it’s better than what it’s made out to be here.

@potatoeOnRooftop 5 дней назад

Would you say that this a good entry point? And if so have you had to boost to a level or something? Can you follow the story without knowing anything? Sorry really want to get in this but Im afraid it's like destiny 2

@noahmellemstrand4756 4 дня назад

⁠@@potatoeOnRooftopI think so! Having played WoW for a good chunk of my life I can confidently say that Blizzard has put in in-game features for new players to catch up on the story. There’s an npc who can trigger a cutscene that can update people on the broadstrokes. As far as I know you should be able to get a character boost to jump right in to the expansion as part of the base edition of the expansion. Even if you don’t boost the default levelling up experience for new players is really good; been introducing the game to my partner and they’ve been enjoying the experience. Worth a shot!

@potatoeOnRooftop 4 дня назад

@@noahmellemstrand4756Wow thanks for taking the time to answer in such Detail. Really appreciate it ❤️

@Giliver 4 дня назад

@@potatoeOnRooftopthe only content WoW has sunsetted would be from cataclysm, it got rid of a bunch of the old vanilla quests and reworked those zones. In terms of story that stuff is so old now it genuinely doesn't matter to the plot but if you wanted to experience it all you can go play WoW classic. Hell you can play WoW classic, Cataclysm Classic and the War Within using the same monthly sub so go ham on whichever you like!(You still gotta buy war within of course) WoW isn't like Destiny where you gotta play every single season or else you miss story, in WoW 99% of old content is readily available.

@Giliver 4 дня назад

@@potatoeOnRooftopalso DON'T boost your first character, if you do the game is gonna be ridiculously overwhelming for you and you'll likely quit. Lol Level up a character and get used to their spells and playstyle, it takes next to no time to reach max level anyway so that extra playtime will help you a lot.

@Michael-eb8nf 5 дней назад

All that jacked-up stuff that happened at Blizz over the years plus how much the game dropped in quality chased me off after a decade of play. It gave me so much more time to try other stuff, without it dominating my time I am enjoying gaming so much more. Never going back.

@nineonewon 4 дня назад

I'm just curious. Why do these videos always have people like you feeling the need to tell everyone you quit and why. I just don't understand why ex wow players feel the need to comment it.

@Giliver 4 дня назад

@@nineonewona good portion of people who invest thousands of hours into something let alone thousands of dollars will always feel the need to talk about it, there's nothing wrong with that.

@MarigoldAW 4 дня назад

@@nineonewon You realize everyone does this right? Anyone who has spent even a couple hundred hours on a hobby does this. Destiny players do this, League of Legends players do this, CSGO players do this, Valorant players do this and it is normal. Telling new people about their experience gives newbies a better view and helps them make a more informed decision on whether it is something to spend their time and money on.

@StefanBlurr 4 дня назад

It took them 20 years to start improving accessibility.

@capellozapellini6074 5 дней назад

How kind of you, Austin. No thank you though.

@catatonic165 4 дня назад

I grew up playing WoW in my teens, stopped when they released Cata. It will always be the best gaming period of my life, but ill never be able to go back to it. Its just strayed too far from what it used to be.

@LightBrand 4 дня назад

And I'm a 14-year player finally quitting when my 12-month sub runs out in Feb because they wiped out 90% of my multiple guild banks. No restoration, no compensation, that's that. With his set as a precedence, it saps all motivation to play when you know it's going to happen again, and your shit can just disappear, and they can't do anything about it.

@Rakka5 5 дней назад

Yeah no thanks. I'm not gonna make the same mistake with trusting Blizzard.

@Dystinction1 4 дня назад

I like a lot of what I see in War Within. But what keeps me from comitting is the community. Since ive been away, its gone from mid, to outright deranged. I dont feel like its appropriate to recommend it to people i care about.

@heartofodds 2 дня назад

Campaign doesn't give enough fn weapons. They could give you five times more. They give you five pairs of pants before you get a new weapon. And you're dropped in a new zone, old weapon, suddenly surrounded, and I do mean surrounded, by bullet sponges. The only thing they forgot was to insult my mother.

@heartofodds 2 дня назад

You could tell me Tories wrote the campaign this time. So gd stingy, and insulting while they're at it. And you pay them.

@robertjmessenger 4 дня назад

It's the easiest it's ever been to gear up to get into PvP. definitely recommend. I used to always be behind if I didn't play the whole expac.

@jamesvonderhaar2553 4 дня назад

It’s strange that there’s no mention of how toxic WoW’s community is. I thought FFXIV players were just being self-congratulatory when they bragged about their community norms, but no, when WoW is your point of comparison every community looks like a paradise. And it does substantially diminish the experience. If you don’t know the content yet, good luck finding a queue with people who won’t melt down when your noobishness adds a few seconds to the clear time. I guess it’s possible to get around this if you can summon 4 friends at will to do instances, but why bother when games with non-shitty communities exist?

@stressedoutofexistence663 4 дня назад

I agree, but ultimately WoW's toxicity stems from its systems and gameplay (timed runs, long runs back to the boss to have another go, VERY, VERY grindy crafting system). Even if Blizzard softens these things, it will take literal years for the playerbase to calm down.

@umarthdc 4 дня назад

My favs are the little tyrants that kick the 2 lowest dps after each raid boss.

@RichSmithson 4 дня назад

I agree. Biggest problem this game faces is its community.

@lanadelsultana 4 дня назад

I understand your point, but I haven't run into toxicity all xpac. Make your own groups for m+ and join a guild, you can curate your own experience.

@Dystinction1 4 дня назад

@@lanadelsultana How do you even do that without dragging people into the game?

@CHEFPKR 5 дней назад

Damn it Austin, don't tempt me!

@KibblesDoesStuff 4 дня назад

Genuinely the most fun I've ever had with wow. Definitely worth checking out

@anubrakahn2970 4 дня назад

I've not played WoW in over a decade. I can't believe the graphics still look the same.

@charlieswan1514 4 дня назад

Ayyyyy Brewmaster Monk, my original class!

@FingerPuppetSarcasm 4 дня назад

I got into both Retail and Cata Classic a month ago and its been an absolute blast. I didn't expect the WW "story" would be very brief cut scenes with characters talking about their feelings for the most part. The new zones are cool and gorgeous though.

@roti8 5 дней назад

I'll put it in my backlog right after Concord.

@heymelon 5 дней назад

Recommends? I'm less excited to try it after this video

@DeathComeInPeace 4 дня назад

Good one, haha!

@iyaramonk 4 дня назад

That would be funny if the game still existed :p

@ModestPavement 3 дня назад

Too soon man

@Coheed420 4 дня назад

The war within is pretty good after dealing with the shitshow Shadowlands was. Never been easier to gear up and PvP.

@ToboeArticWolf 4 дня назад

What addon is the one changing the UI for quests in 22:00 and 22:08? I like how it looks, specially while showing the rewards

@harkenblitz892 5 дней назад

A lot of the character and world building is in side quests this xpac. So if you just did the main campaign, that would be why you didnt see that.

@adareyu 4 дня назад

Bro austin please do ffxiv, cmon man

@Jmdeleeuw- 5 дней назад

I'm only 9 minutes in but I have yet to hear anything that sounds positive. I'm a bit unsure why this is a 'recommends' rating. Edit: Okey around 11:00 he starts taking about some positives.

@bisquiteentrisket3518 5 дней назад

I’m sorry WOW fans (please destroy my will to live in the comments), but this will always look like a 2000’s computer game at the public library to me.

@dootdoothere 4 дня назад

gonna be honest, the game needs every bit of scuffed 2000s graphics it can get, because once you start raiding your fps will grind to a total halt unless you're on a state of the art machine. my 5800x3d + 3080 gets absolutely clobbered by modern wow. part of it is definitely an optimization issue but the rest is because the game can be quite demanding, especially on the cpu

@cluin1470 4 дня назад

I think it's just the "Blizz" style. I quite like it to be honest and miss it from time to time. I can totally understand why some people would be turned off by it though. Everyone has their preferences.

@DamoBloggs 4 дня назад

Switched to ESO a while back, and then tried to go back to WoW after a while, but it felt and looked so clunky and dated...

@miss_bec 4 дня назад

WoW looks pretty god awful, but even as an FF14 fan who's used to pretty good graphics l really like them. Its got a charm to it that's deliberate and a good reminder of just how old the game itself is, along with the Warcraft franchise as a whole. I think the game would be all the worse if it tried to pretty itself up, because we all know that art direction is rarely worth compromising for the sake of graphical fidelity.

@Coheed420 4 дня назад

I think it’s aged fine. It’s good they don’t do photo-realistic graphics because those age everytime.

@FancyTophatDude 15 часов назад

I feel like Xal'Atath is more interesting than most of Wow's usual villains.She has a fun personality, she's aware of the accomplishments of the players in all of the previous expansions and how this kinda stuff tends to go for expansion villains and she's more likely than not gonna stick around for the next couple of expansions, so I don't need her schemes to pay off right away.

@Yohanzs 4 дня назад

There is no need to socialize in the game because mmos make it so you can do all the content without anyone else and it ruins the social aspect of the game and all modern mmos are the same in that regard just menus and queuing

@jman2542 4 дня назад

How many different types of dwarves does the Warcraft lore have at this point?! Everything blizzard does with this IP today screams lazy.

@tangentkatz 4 дня назад

I'm sure the comments are very balanced and civil on this one lol. TWW was made better for me because I played FF14: Dawntrail first. While the story in Wow still isn't amazing, it moved at a reasonable pace, made me care about a new culture (of dwarves even), and included a lot of gameplay. Whereas Dawntrail's writing managed to be boring, too long, and resolved too quickly all at the same.

@NerdNavigator 4 дня назад

Weren't the Earthen's creators like ... the Titans? .. I thought we had learned a lot about them..

@ayasolaris4971 4 дня назад

what do you think about Metaphor Refantazio? Played it?

@wisceupho 2 дня назад

What is that transmog set on your warrior? @2:03

@deepdab141 4 дня назад

talking about wow without really mentioning the raids or dungeons is like talking about destiny without mentioning the shooting

@sebastiancintron29 5 дней назад

Well ill be. Never thought id see the day where people actually recommend WoW. After the mass exodus and completely negative reception that Blizzard and WoW had for the past couple of years i never thought this would happen. Im still not going to play it, never cared much for WoW, but good on them.

@Hickeroar 4 дня назад

Not knowing "what her deal is" is kinda a hallmark of the WoW stories. It's not a good hallmark, mind you, but this seems to be how they tell stories now. Would be much better if we had Lich King style villains again whose motivations we understand, and present a great target for our campaign.

@EastyyBlogspot 5 дней назад

I have not played wow for so long.....i want to check is the content kept in over the years or does a lot of it get removed or changed ?

@mrwolf710 4 дня назад

I haven’t been this addicted to WoW since 2004-2005. This is as good as it’s ever been. Like seriously hooked again.

@dreadgrave3379 4 дня назад

Legit thought there was just a mini Warframe review given 'The War Within.'

@MarcelloLins 4 дня назад

The first 3 minutes of this video perfectly sum up my experience as well. TWW made the game approachable for someone with a life, with a family, with a social circle and limited time to play. I get the feeling I'm still making progress, not missing anything the game has to offer, and getting ready to push the harder content when I feel like it

@djerikfury 4 дня назад

Is this the "Austin Recommends" or "Skill Up" channel. I hope Austin gets a raise for doing majority of reviews on this channel

@gr0men 4 дня назад

If you're not on Frostmourne as an Aussie players you're on a dead server. And if you're not alliance on Frostmourne.... well good luck being in War Mode

@Silphage 4 дня назад

Just about everything is cross-server now and has been for years? They've even made guilds cross server with this expansion. The open-world is generally a mix of every server in your region (at least it is for oceanic, might be different for NA/EU) depending on your war-mode setting. Oceania is extremely alliance heavy though, true - Alliance gets like 95% of the supply drop chests 😂

@gr0men 4 дня назад

@@Silphage Wrong. Play on Frostmourne and you will get steamrolled as horde the second the airship drop becomes available.

@Silphage 4 дня назад

@gr0men Did you misread my comment? I agreed with you about alliance dominating horde. But its oceanic wide, not just Frostmourne.

@TylerR909 4 дня назад

I'm still not over them charging for Launch Night for the first time in WoW's history... In a subscription-based game.

@Andrewspieces Час назад

Hi Ralph. There is a difference between your voice's sound mixing on the starting sponsor, on this video, and the sound of your voice on the review. It's like the high frequencies have been reduced. I think your voice mixing used to sound more like the way it does on the sponsor section, which I think is a lot clearer. I was wondering the reason behind this, and if you had had any feedback on this element of your content? Hope it's ok to say. I'm just curious to understand, and wonder if this is a design choice, or if you prefer it mixed like this for a reason. Thanks for your content.

@Revaks 4 дня назад

Returned to the game after being away since the start of Battle for Azeroth. I've been having a BLAST. The endgame feels rewarding without wasting your time with blind rng. Looking forward to a lot more!

@happydan20 4 дня назад

I can't stand how little the story matters, they release a new expansion and want players to jump to it, they don't give a shit if you experience older content. When the devs don't care and view everything as disposable, I can't care either.

@Pichu11000 4 дня назад

Systems wise the game is better than ever, the current problem is gameplay. The game is designed to be fun for dps players, if you play healer or tank you are a second class citizen and are only there to enable DPS players to have fun, which translates on a SEVERE lack of people wanting to play those roles so you have to choose between playing a fun class (dps) which means you'll be sitting in looking for group for an hour before you can find a tank and healer to go with you OR playing tank/heal which will get you instant groups but not only requires 10 times the skill of dpsing but is also stressing, unrewarding and everyone will blame you when the party dies.

@friendlyNewb 4 дня назад

Played the game since Vanilla Naxx and honestly I will still stand by WoW's worse expansion is still just meh, is it terrible compared to the rest of them... yes. But was it a bad game, no, but it wasn't good... Shadowlands and WoD were truly meh, confusing and odd, but i didn't hate them and still stand by Wrath and Legion were the best... Coming back to War Within... I played till max level then I really haven't been back since, I have had as much fun with War Within as i did Battle for Azeroth and that took me a moment to remember it's name. It's flashy and the cutscenes are great, but once I was done with the campaign, I didn't seem to have the care, passion or anything to keep going... I went and played WoW: Project Ascension instead... Great video Austin!

@Yusukeyuyu 3 дня назад

recommend ? blizzard? skillup ? is that you?

@RobinCould 4 дня назад

conflict of interest? in my skillup review?

@b3rt257 4 дня назад

Hi Austin, since you’re reviewing MMOs and you definitely know a lot about the genre, do you have any plans to review Throne and Liberty?

@badgermcwaffles4834 4 дня назад

dragonflight might've brought me back but war within kept me

@LeonidasGGG 3 дня назад

I'm playing Wayfinder Early Access solo and loving it. Hope to play co-op once I reach endgame. The full 1.0 version comes out Oct 21st and I hope you guys cover it as well. 😉

@noodleborne 4 дня назад

This review is so all over the place, hardly sounds like a recommendation based on all those nitpicks. TWW is better than Legion, don't @ me.

@Eckythump 4 дня назад

Austin should choose mining and herbalism as professions and fly around the Ringing Depths. He'll see other players (and a myriad of bots) swarm each and every node he lands on.

@CaptainBlitz 5 дней назад

As good as the game might be, the reminder of who who worked on it, at least in the past 10 years, has really left a stain on its image for me.

@rasako9742 4 дня назад

Do you shop at Walmart? Purchase things on Amazon? Interact with literally any corporation of more than a handful of employees? Because horrible people do horrible things, and they are everywhere. Blizzard is a company of like, 8000 employees. Of course there were gonna be some degenerates there. It's rare to find someone in power who ISN'T abusing it

@Marcoboyle00 5 дней назад

he gotta be playing with that steelseries mmo mouse with those action bars and keybinds! ALT+1,2,3,4 for your main buttons? insane man!

@TerryFT86 4 дня назад

I NEED BLIZZARD TO BRING BACK HAPPY FARM IN PANDARIA i mean player housing, i was drunk

@Kmaitland89 4 дня назад

The take about not seeing other players was definitely not true for me in the us. Yes, everyone is flying around but I see them in the sky and doing world quests all over the place.

@Rockandtribe 4 дня назад

no comment on PVP?

@Bob-qd3bu 4 дня назад

This is a weird sentence for me to write but it feels like the ease with which you can solo super high level gear diminishes the game. I get that games need to evolve and change, but being the guy who grinded the ever loving shit out of raids to get those precious drops, this just feels like participation medals

@manolizerg 4 дня назад

idk anything about WoW or even Warcraft in general, but I love hearing Austin talk about games, so here I am 🌟

@ezraclark7904 5 дней назад

My brother picked it up again recently but was disappointed. It's all about the endgame, the leveling experience was barely there, we both loved the massive feeling of the world back in the day and that is gone.

@robdebone 5 дней назад

I'd argue while flying Mounts are great. They are what ruined that feeling

@umarthdc 5 дней назад

Yeah, it hasn't been about the leveling experience since wotlk. That's why wotlk pirate servers are so popular lol

@twiggy934 5 дней назад

I mean that has been gone since TBC, you sadly cant recapture that first feeling but no expansion ever could.

@cristianracovita9748 5 дней назад

what are you smoking bro? There's literally miles and miles on end to explore, the world IT IS massive. And the leveling experience is as it's always been, do quest, do the campaign and at the end rainds, endgame, etc.

@Josh-mu7qy 4 дня назад

The 1-70 experience can be done with whatever expansion you'd like to check out through "Chromie Time" then the 70-80 leveling experience was actually good, in my opinion. I did 95% of it from the campaign. Once I was capped, all the things you didn't do during leveling are now the endgame. And there's so much. And that's okay.

@silverbullet230 4 дня назад

I think my only gripe with the war within is that major cities still run like shit. Everything about this expansion is just pure fun. The new mythic+ system is not my favorite, but it's still fun to play.

@AeroZephron 4 дня назад

I refuse to play WoW again, until they delete gnomes.

@hazardtool3140 3 дня назад

fact that every one can't see that wow retail is basically INTERACTIVE MOVIE!! is troubling !! i grew up through everquest,, there was no maps,, no directions, no handouts and sure as hell no hand holding ! you was dropped into the world with a piece paper and starting weapon and told good luck!!! rest you had to figure out ! and if you die? you best get your body back ! 1 day to 10 years it don't matter you don't get that body it rots u lose everything ! im sorry to say i think people today need that b@#$ slap to wake up! if you took eq's mechanics and combine wow graphics we could have a seriously awesome mmo!

@BloomingShrooming 4 дня назад

Lots of online game servers are almost empty on GMT timezone servers basically. If people are able to play in a UTH timezone theres loads of people online as usual.

@Jinkaza1882 4 дня назад

You have in no way convinced me to give into playing this. I was very, very curious when it launched, wanting to see my toons again afters years being gone, and now that feeling is shown proper to have been ignored. Thank you for saving me time.

@ludio36 4 дня назад

I tried WoW years ago free for one month. It hooked me and I played it to the exclusion of all else except work and sleep, with every available minute spent in the game. When the free month ended and continuation would require money, I chose not to carry on. I didn't want to pay a subscription, the screen was too cluttered, pointless damage numbers and flashing colours obscured combat, everything looked plastic, there was much to do and nothing to achieve, there was too much grinding, and I didn't want to play a game that hogged my life. The videos advertising expansion packs looked great, but the game itself looked nothing like the those videos promised.

@FlameForgedSoul 4 дня назад

MMOs are the Social Media of the gaming world. Interpret this however you like.

@meatball402 5 дней назад

I saw the notification pop and I thought "silent hill 2?!" Nope, wow.

@ancientOne 5 дней назад

wow

@dr3357 День назад

Solo the last raidboss? A couple of weeks to get raid equal gear? ~6 skills used? Feels like they went balls deep on trying to please the crowd that just doesnt want to play/be social alot. Whole other game than what made it great back in the day.

@Buff_Cupcake 4 дня назад

After finishing the entire expansion i'm a hard disagree on some of your takes around not being able to relate too well to the story. The amount of script, dialogue and exposition is the best they've ever offered. I agree there are some open ends, but it's part of a written trilogy. And where there are unclosed threads when the expansion closes, there are far more tied off and satisfyingly complete.