Discussion

Yesterday, I asked about WoW Villains who didn't get as much development as we might have wanted.

The more I think about the Jailer, the main antagonist in Shadowlands, the more I feel like he didn't end up working out as I'd hoped.

To this day, when I hear the original theme that plays behind the World of Warcraft login screen -- you know the one -- I am immediately drawn back to December of 2004, when I would log on to my Human Warrior Marketh (later deleted and rerolled as my Human Warrior Scythos because I didn't like the name Marketh anymore) and run around the Wetlands trying to get to the boat to Kalimdor.

Fiction has tropes, and a lot of games are an avenue of storytelling -- World of Warcraft has told a lot of stories over the years.

I have pretty weird tastes in video games, I suspect.

In a recent interview, Ion Hazzikostas -- World of Warcraft's Game Director -- talked about how to solve the eventual leveling squish problem caused by adding levels with every expansion.

Video games are full of real-life references -- some of them are more overt, like WoW's Floyd Pinkus, while others are a little less obvious, like a license plate on a car or a background piece of artwork that reference something a little more niche.

I was thinking about Lord of the Clans the other day.

It has been almost 8 years since Warlords of Draenor came out, and I finally got the Sunhide Gronnling mount from Poundfist on Saturday night.

Heroes of the Storm was the first MOBA I ever played, and I had a lot of fun with it -- even though half the time I ended up playing Malfurion, possibly due to a curse from an ancient mummy or something.