The Queue: Thedar Kurge

I was going to write a depressing “Bad health thing that happened to Ol’ Matthew” post here, but instead, I decided to say hi, talk about how the Blizzard app really hates my computer, and say that I’m back in my Baldur’s Gate 3 BS again. Yes, another Dark Urge. I have yet to play the game as anything but ol’ Durge.

And yes, I really did name the character Thedar Kurge. I wouldn’t lie about that.

I kind of agree, triple A game development has become almost irrelevant to my interests. The game I’m most looking forward to right now is a tossup between Dispatch and Greedfall 2, and the stuff I’m playing now (although I would be playing a ton of WoW if my computer would successfully update it) is either games from yesteryear like BG3 or Rogue Trader or even older games like Fallout 4. Even my Diablo 4 rampages have become more weekly than daily, and I find myself looking at Steam sales like the recent Isometric RPG event with keen interest.

Maybe I’m becoming a hipster in my old age. Anyway, Sovereign Syndicate looks cool, I’m just emo enough to pick up Dark Envoy entirely for the name, and The Ascent is the Cyberpunk Diablo you need to check out.

So yeah, I’m getting burned out on triple A games. Indies are more and more where it’s at.

They can have the Warrior one. Have fun hanging around with almost none of the famous Warriors of the game’s history while a giant expletive deleted keeps making you prove yourself to him over and over again. Do you want to be a Pokemon for a dude whose face is literally on fire? No? Tough, because that’s the entire Warrior Order Hall experience.

Yes, I’m still bitter. The Paladin Order Hall is amazing. The DK Order Hall is just Acherus again, but that makes sense and the campaign is greatness personified. Even the Hunter order hall has oodles of famous Hunters from across Azeroth. The Warrior one? Literally a bunch of grunting Vrykul and the occasional cameo from Danath or Saurfang. It’s depressing.

I am not an expert on what computer tech/gear Elephant’s prefer, I’m sorry.

I can’t pretend I have a real answer for this one, but I do have thoughts about it, and I’m going to vent them here.

• I think repeatable questing is good and fine, and I’m not arguing for its removal. But I also think some of the best quests I ever experienced weren’t repeatable. World Quests are great, I love them, but WoW really needs questlines that aren’t necessarily campaigns or devoted to the main plot, just expansive and cool story moments for the overall world. This is something we saw a lot in Vanilla, and I think we need more of it.
• I like it when we get updated and expanded dungeons. I dislike it when we lost the old versions of those dungeons as a result. I’d like to see original Stratholme, Scarlet Monastery and even Sunken Temple without having to play WoW Classic. 
• I think new quests requiring us to go to places outside the latest expansion zones are fun. I’d like more of them.
• I like Campaigns and think they’re great for a plethora of reasons, but I’d really love it if I could start a simple quest like Go get me a shrubbery and then look up to realize I’m 20 quests deep and that shrubbery is now being guarded by giant ground sloths with axes and none of this is related to the Void or whatever the big bad of this expansion is.
• In general, I think you lose some of what was so cool about the game when you focus too much on a big bad or looming threat. I’m not saying get rid of them, but I do think quests in general need to be more diverse than the expansion model always allows.

Nope. I think most people have argued for the existence of a new threat, and the Devourers from Shadowlands are generally seen as the first sign of that threat. It’s not the Void, which is still part of existence even while it scratches at the upholstery, it’s a literal unraveling force. An unmaking from existence itself.

Dimensius is a powerful entity and one that had world-ending repercussions for K’aresh, no doubt. But he’s not going to eat all existence.

Okay, this old man, he wrote one, he wrote the Queue and now he’s done. Gonna go try and get my body to stop being awake now. Take care everyone.