To the first-point, what purpose is there to playing any video game? For pleasure and enjoyment. It doesn't matter if the game is Madden or WoW, if you're having fun, then there is a point to it (And before you say anything, yes. People do have fun playing WoW. I know from first-hand experience.)raunchious said:Good Job Yahtzee, you've pulled back the metaphorical curtain covering the metaphorical wizard of the metaphorical land of WoW. Yes, there is essentially no point to doing anything in WoW. The whole thing is a hamster wheel. Well...more like a giant hamster wheel with rims on it in which you're a superhero fighting monsters with your friends. But you don't have any of those do you, Yahtzee? Otherwise you might have fun playing WoW.
That being said, the level grind in WoW (and mmorpgs in general) actively works to alienate people with limited free time, the dungeons are too damn long to play through in a single sitting, and it's hard to find interesting people in a game that doesn't require much thinking besides: "How many turtle-porpoises do I still need to kill?"
Rule 34 my friend... there are some artists out there that makes really nice pics of... of... uhm...Reveras said:Troll, Orc, Tauren, Dwarf, Gnome, Goblin females are attractive to you? Ummm ....ok....
Yahtzee, I gotta say: you claim "Nobody ever ruined their lives trying to get 100% of the items in Super Metroid." All I can say to that is TRUST ME, THERE IS SOMEBODY OUT THERE WHO DID.Yahtzee Croshaw said:World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
This week, Zero Punctuation reviews World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
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I don't think any of my characters ended up in any weird places, but then again, I always log out in cities. You shouldn't have any issues in that regard.Stabby Joe said:That's a lot of responses from people who clearly haven't watch it.
Since I actually did however I've got a question... how does the expansion impact those who don't have it? I haven't played in a few months and am now wondering when I do I'll be on top of a mountain or beneath a whole new town.
No... thats EVEBlueInkAlchemist said:Judging by some of the drivel floating around the WoW forums, you'd think this "game" is nothing more than a glorified spreadsheet passed around a table by a bunch of fat nerds.[/b]
That would require thoughtAlandoril said:Well, maybe the option to post should be greyed out until the mods deem it to be such a time that people have actually watched a video.Zombie_Fish said:They were put on probation for not telling us the secret to time travel and somehow being able to watch a four minute video before posting two minutes after the video was uploaded. Posting without watching the video is useless in terms of discussion value and is only done so that people can be the first to respond to the videos, and resultantly is a form of obnoxious behaviour that we will punish for.Jewrean said:Why were the first 5 posts put on probation? WTF? Whoever that mod was they have the brain of a biased chimp.
Surely that's got to be better than putting people on probation for having gut reactions?
In case you're wondering what's taken me so long to respond, I actually like this idea so I decided to ask other staff members about it and have only recently gotten a response from one of the higher powers.Alandoril said:Well, maybe the option to post should be greyed out until the mods deem it to be such a time that people have actually watched a video.
Surely that's got to be better than putting people on probation for having gut reactions?