Watching this video made me want to play World of Warcraft again but sadly I know it’s not the same and that’s okay it will always and forever be one of the first games to ever make me fall in love with gaming.
with WoW SPP you can play it as a single player experience. you can set it up to enjoy it as you want. it's cool to enjoy the thing without actually investing too much time into it.
I Just resubbed due to the pandemic since alot of stuff is closed where I live, fell in love with tanking again, now I just need a relaxed guide to join ^^
You would like want it to be the same, trust me. We wish we could watch old cartoons the way they were and we can but you'll soon realize they weren't as good as your kid self made it out to be. You may hear tales of the game and think man this is awesome, but once you actually play it , you realize it's an absolute slog and the exciting part is only cool for a moment, then fades into annoyance. The additions to the game came as playera evolved and asked for them or it became unsustainable. The trainers for example, back then you needed money to learn your spells which now would be absolutely horrible. Leveling and having to return every time to the city to buy new spells / ranks and change talents. The commodities we have today are impossible to deny
Given how ridiculously popular MOBAs were at the time (and still are now), to not finish just one of those BGs is a shame. They designed entire underwater zones to test out a concept, but to not include one BG with a very popular play style seems like a huge miss.
it should be implemented more... dynamic then. What's the point of having decaying undead if it's only noticable on leveling. It's like worgen. No one plays in human form and there is no point of switching between them. So for an undead It would be cool if upon character death you "reset" in terms of visuals. So if you die - upon ressurecting you once again "fresh" and start decaying again. I dunno, maybe 1 piece for every 1 hour of game time. Like you've been stitched together by forsaken
Havenswood the island expedition from bfa can be explored fully & I'd imagine this is something he would have covered, as a fury venthry warrior you can climb the cliffs via heroic leap & door of shadow all the way up to a mini village thats always been inaccessible with some interesting things that take place especially inside the clone of greymane manor. Must have spent hours going through that area on multiple runs
Been playing SoM, actually enjoying it a lot. Would love if they added azshara crater and all the other un used bgs (that are outdated aestheticly) into vanilla+, that's if they aren't going to add it into retail (Which i doubt they will).
there is no vanilla+, SoM is just a gimmick, its not adding anything that wasnt already added to the game in expansions, its not adding content that was never in the game to begin with. recycling a concept isnt the same as making something from scratch.
9:43 For what it’s worth, the original “Moba” was a StarCraft map called Aeon of Strife, named after a time period in Protoss history. DotA is obviously the one that later became massively popular.
@Hirumaredx 2:07 Small correction: The talent point buying system was actually still in the closed beta for the first 2000 beta testers, which invited the fansite operators (of which I was one). When they moved it to a bigger testing group (maybe even open beta, can't quite recall) the talent tree system was introduced. But I worked with that point buy system for some time before it was replaced. Interesting to note was that the devs were in the game with us during that period and we reported bugs directly to them and we showed them how things broke for us. I recall Hunter was also added late in the beta (maybe it even was the last? Again, can't quite recall) so it received less polish then some which might explain how the devs were still struggling with the interface and mechanics of the class. And that's saying something looking at the classes as WoW originally launched. :)
That must have been so cool. I kinda like the old talent system, they should have kept both for more customizability. Like in PvP you could put all points into frost resistance if you had problem with frost mages, but instead be weak against other schools of magic, or have them balanced if you wanted.
Omfg, I've been to that Azshara crater map. There used to be a private server called Mond-WoW, it was a totally custom server. They made a bunch of their own "dungeon maps" by using the ingame map files that had never been completed/used, and the Azshara crater map was one of the ones they populated with mobs and objectives to turn into a dungeon. Amazing to see it again after so many years! I had actually forgotten about it. Oh, the nostalgia :D
If they do add the Isle of Dragon’s, then it needs to be in a location easily accessed on Azeroth. Personally preferably by using a flying mount and no reputation requirement in order to fly there. Please no more cosmological warfare. If you’re gonna have a big baddie, then you have to let the villain win every once in awhile. Not all heroes are able to succeed. Let it be a more recent villain and not some 10,000 year old deity that gets killed in one shot. I would love to have Zovaal win and reshape reality.
"Remember. Remember why we fight. Zovaal won. The dark eternal broke us. In the face of such defeat the forces of order could not hold. It is well then that have not broken. Forged in Azeroth's fire. We are hope manifest and where we stand there will be light in the darkness. No matter the cost" WORLD OF WARCRAFT: AGE OF TOTALLY NOT SIGMAR
@@Red1Green2Blue3 the last patch in BFA was the most fun ive had playing wow in years. Loved corruption and visions. The raid was good to. BFA had its issues but it got better to the end.
Watching your Videos is like being back in 04/05, digesting everything WoW related we could find in gaming magazines. Even, or especially because i stopped playing WoW long time ago, its like coming home again, reliving those days. Thanks for that !
The Warfronts were a huge missed opportunity in BfA. It really makes me sad that Blizz prioritizes time wasting crap over things like Warfronts and Islands. Islands were a great idea that they just gave up on. I really liked the concepts of both. They were fresh and had so much potential.
Both a things they tried out, but never touched again after initially messing up the first try. Like island expeditions sounds awesome in theory, it really just needed refinement
I always binged your Yu Gi Oh vids to sleep to, now randomly stumbled upon this video and thought "Wait... I recognize this voice"... Glad to have found more variety and I Love that your content is so easily understandable even when you don't play any of the games.
artistguy99 yeah you wall jumped out of the area and killed yourself near the zone border. When WoW doesn’t know which graveyard to res you at it sends you to westfall graveyard for alliance. Spirit res and done :)
I feel a lot of the dragon isles potential has already gone. I mean isnt it meant to be twightlights hammer, n'zoth type people? Seems weird to go there now and do it. Perhaps they will do something completely different there if we go.
What the other dude said, but also, just because flying creatures live there doesnt mean the land itself will start to fly. Harpies live on grounded continents, as do... I mean, birds..
@Rose Anne Boushard what does that have to do with my point? Dragons living on floating islands wouldn't be "closer to the lore" because no azeroth dragons live on floating islands lol
As the replies would suggest, even though it is possible that there are some floating hidden islands kinda like the turtle in MoP isn’t impossible, I think a lot of people do not want another brand new twist on something familiar. It would be great to return back to the more familiar “world” of Warcraft, which doesn’t have any history or indication that there are floating islands. Dalaran is an exception and it would kinda cheapen the feel if there are more floating fortresses around in my opinion
none of the dragons could do their jobs better on a flying island than they could in their current arrangements. - The black dragons are related to the Earth, and it's forces. Only makes sense to stick in the largest part of the earth and stay with it. Even when they turned evil. They hid by taking on human guises or burrowing deeper into the earth, even into Deepholm. - The Green dragons are connected to the emerald dream, the forces of nature, and spend much of their time sleeping to connect with the dream. Not only is a flying island unnecessary and possibly counterproductive, it's potentially a risk, as many situations can make waking up from the Dream on-demand impossible which is not desirable if the island starts falling. - The Bronze dragons don't want to draw attention to themselves, normally - true for all flights, but the bronze in particular. That's why their home base is accessible primarily from a hole in the ground on the far side of a desert from anywhere real. - The only group which even dabbles in floating islands is the Blue dragonflight, and even then, they seem to have strict limits. Most Blue Dragon flying platforms are small and thin, used to focus the great confluence of ley lines (which in-lore is counterproductvely causing damage all around - aka it's a bad idea only happening because Malygos isn't thinking straight). Malygos saw the Kirin Tor's magic as dangerous for the world, and thus sought to destroy them for it - doubtless he saw Dalaran as a grave example of hubris. - The red dragons would thus want to be connected to the ground as well, as that's where most life and all of the other flights are. - And lastly, the only other known flying islands - the Halls of Valor, possibly the plane of air's settlements - were generally owned by creatures and groups that resented Dragonkind. Odyn saw the dragons as insufficient for their purpose, the Elementals and dragons have usually been opposing each other as agents of the Old Gods and Titans,
Everquest has a lot of quests, quite a bit more then people think, no way any zone in wow had more then the entire game of EQ at the time. I can believe WoW to have more the EQ, but not just one zone.
Elwyn Forest maybe, between low priority quests, main story and quest chains + dailies, perhaps "almost as much" . There are so so many quests dude it's insane, but not that it's any good, as many are copies of the other, kill X, get Y from killing Z, talk to G
I guess something simple they could have done to implement the decaying part of the undead, is by making 6 variations of the skin textures to look more gross and have it change every 10 levels.
The Azshara crater bg would have made sense after the burning of Teldrassil, like a desperate push by the night elves to storm into Orgrimmar, but instead we got Darkshore and Arathi warfronts
That huge temple on the Dragon Isles is a very early indication of N'Zoth's followers doing shit who could have served as the main antagonists. On an early alpha map it also said that Alexstrasza was supposed to appear here.
The location shown in this video are not the Dragon Isles. It‘s Designer Island, a hidden location only accessible by GMs (teleportation is required). Check it out yourself. This video is so misleading.
The real issue is how the lore writing team hasn't had a stable nor consistent writer since Metzen left. Additionally whoever decided to retcon a bunch of metzen's work to shoe horn the sylvanas character assassination and subsequent zovaal bullshit - should be fired.
I mean not really... WoW has been a burning pit of retcons and lorelols for more than a decade. TBC is one of the biggest offenders with characters doing things completely outside of their normal behaviour and contrived plot points.
@@electricmayhem8147 yeah but none of the zovaal bullshit was present in the edge of night story. Retconned later to suit the story. Go read it, still up on the wow site. "Edge of Night" by Dave Kosak
@@electricmayhem8147 Sylvanas jumps from the top and dies. The valkyr show her the future of the forsaken without her leadership and she's like fuck that they're my people. None of the "zovaal deal to escape the maw". Sylvanas was fine. A proud faction leader until she was subverted to suit a flawed narrative with a fucking boring puppet master.
I can imagine if the talent system from beta made it live, people getting kicked from raids because they had the audacity to put points in crafting to make armor. "we can get gear in raids, respec now, or you wont raid with us." or speccing deep into 2H axes but getting a better 2H sword... now you have redo everything and deep into swords... then getting a better 2H mace...
I managed to get myself into Azshara’s crater in the TBC expansion. I didnt quite understand at the time where I was and thought that I had gotten into some weird part of Azshara.
Something you've also missed, when covering 'You, Robot,' I noticed a nod to the movie Robots, with Mama Wheeler. Could be wrong, but that felt familiar, and I wondered if that was a reference as well. They really had a lot of fun with that one, I think.
A couple of years ago I registered on a private instant 70 pvp server to do some casual BGs. One of the first Battlegrounds i got thrown into was some weird autumn themed map with a dense forest where you had to fight for supplies against the enemy faction. Only later found out it was Azharas Crater. Never seen it again on another server
Tirisfal Glades is a lot like Elwynn Forest if you think about it. It makes sense to have Tirisfal Glades and Silverpine Forest be made last, as by the time they have made the rest of the Human zones, they are really good at making those zones and using the world building tools. Now they just need to do the same but put a dark spin on it with effects, filters and lighting combined with the music and ambience.
I don't know if you read these. But if you wanted a video idea -- There's a map in Warcraft 3, it's like uh, some Halloween themed LOL map. Anyways, that map came out prior to WoW's release, and the heroes are basically beta versions of WoW's classes. You can see a lot of WoW's abilities in like their super alpha form, as they made them work for that Wc3 map. I think covering that map and its connection to WoW would be a fun watch. I don't think many people know about it.
I enjoy the stories and content around WoW more than I enjoy WoW. I don’t play WoW anymore, I stopped a little bit into Shadowlands as I didn’t enjoy the leveling and heard the endgame wasn’t better compared to other MMOs, but I still watch your content, its a way to still engage and learn about a world I have loved and grown up with for years without having to play the game
Haven’t seriously played since WotLK, but I remember spending an hour around the coast of one of continents and found an old area with a lighthouse that wasn’t used anymore. Thought it was the coolest thing back then
Hiru, since its leak season, can you do list about all the leaks from vanilla to Shadowlands? And see what did get into the game and what didn't. That would ne cool.
What’s the music once we get to battleground scrap content??? The music made it really different, I miss Wow, I miss Hayven, I miss having fun as a whole, but thx to your channel and many other talented contend creator it’s less painful ❤️
i remember seeing those battlegrounds on modding forums, and maybe even some custom content WotLK private servers had them (although i'm not sure about that)
One small autocorrect is Black Dragon’s were corrupted by the old gods to become evil, and many forced to serve the flight, even if they didn’t want to.
Sadly the series was rather unpopular, and our artist got a new job and so we have not been able to continue. Although we are thinking of bringing the series back, but its extremely unlikely.
they would need to entirely update it cause its current graphics do not fit for current wow, and at that point they might aswell make a brand new battleground.
Video idea: History of Kills Taken Away by Blizzard, for example, the infamous Lich King Saronite Bomb incident, or that raid group that deleted the floor in AQ to get to C'Thun
I feel like azhara crater would work so well in season of discovery... would be such a fun way to add new pvp content that is still in the spirit of vanilla!
Gosh, back when they not only knew what they wanted, made a game for the player, and cared about the unique player experience. Probably never again. Thats a premium game.
The Dragon Isles are not the only location missing as you said. Tel‘Abim, Plunder Isles etc. are still missing, too. By the way, the picture in the thumb nail and footage shown in your video are not the Dragon Isles and you should know that 🤔
1- we said the only ones mentioned in the initial list of zones that did not get added, plunder isles and telabim were not in those. 2- that is the dragon isles, we know from the concept art that giant old god building is an asset for the dragon isles.
