Cataclysm? Seriously?
A good gaming pal called me up today. At first, I didn’t want to answer it since I was crazy busy. But, because it’s so hard to deny him, I did. What did he have to say? Everything he could possibly say about the “awesomeness” that is the World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm. He begged me to check out a bizillion images from the Alpha. So I did.
With the catchphrase “Cataclysm will destroy Azeroth as we know it. Nothing will be the same” one expects crazy great things. Well, it’s just not true. When I returned his call informing him of this, he all but exploded. He’s a die-hard fan (and HC raider) and finds the good in everything released for WoW, even the absolute shit.
So, a big deal with Cataclysm is the so-called destruction of the vanilla world. After seeing quite possibly every single Alpha image released, I’m having trouble finding the “destruction” in it… “Oh my god, you’re going to love the new Org!” my friend said. Really? New? The devs planted some random sticks in the ground in Orgrimmar… Yeah, that’s about it. All 40 old-world zones I had the displeasure of looking at again had NOTHING significantly different (as a new river running through a zone is far from being significant). Oh, look, that’s a new Goblin shop, that’s the biggest actual change I saw. Whoopity.
New zones (like Twin Peaks, Twilight Highlands, Deephome) appear to be nothing more than old zones slightly reskinned. SLIGHTLY. But you have to give the devs credit for what appears to be combining two old zones and dimming the lights so it looks different and calling it a new zone, right? No. Of absolutely everything I looked at, the only zone that appears unique in the tiniest sense was Vashj’ir. That’s it.
Face it guys, there’s nothing new going on there. Oh, unless you want to re-roll a Werewolf! YEAH! …
Blizzard continues milking the Warcraft name and the mind-numbed players. But hey, if you enjoy grinding levels and farming in a re-skinned Zangarmarsh, have at it. This household has sworn off Blizzard.
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