If divine and devil both lie in detail, then art lies in intention, and I lie awake. Usually writing about WoW for @BellularGaming.
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I think morality and overt connection to real life has displaced fantasy and empathy as the lens through which many people experience stories
No race or faction in Warcraft gets to cast the first stone (except the flawless Tauren, naturally!)
Where modern WoW story struggles is in selling the differences as meaningful, and selling how hard seeing past them can be
But tough to do when even the writers are likely playing the moral balancing game their heads like a lot of players do
real talk, modern WoW is a tough sell at $15/mo with this quality of output
they're so lucky MMO players are genre-captured and don't seek out better
we live in an era of excellence, if only you have the will to be curious and curate your own experiences
(play Ace Combat 8!!!)
it also contributes to the idea of it as a competitive esports-type production, which I don’t like for Forever
and, finally, I think it enables a culture of sandbagging and crying for instant changes, instead of patient acceptance letting devs slowly make calls for next patch
I’ve long thought this about modern’s approach to post-patch tuning
I understand the logic, but it feels like building on shifting sand, a crutch for devs to never truly have conviction in their work with a 1.0
eternal early access vibes
people clowning on him but he’s not wrong
the illusion of a world is broken by impermanence and the hand of the developer
of course beta needs changes, that’s the point, but a constant micro-adjustment approach will change the vibe of live
not necessarily worse! but different
Don't wanna be that guy but I'll be that guy. Anyone else feel like even in Beta all this tuning they're doing is kind of retailish? Like every week reading specific changes and notes.
Obviously it's based on feedback and they're doing a great job, but could this turn into like our situation where they can't please every class and spec and we just wait every couple weeks for "weaker" specs to be buffed or builds in this case?
Maybe I wasn't paying attention in 2019 but I felt like we never got this many tuning and adjustments.
Maybe at launch it just be chill as is
Everyone talks about games in broad strokes, and the deep, deep artistry is rarely mentioned even in proper reviews.
On that, Ace Combat 8 is legitimately one of the best games I have ever played. The technical mastery of every field is just beyond belief.
"as a sky-touched shen'dorei elf"
"I can certainly understand how easily intolerance and prejudice can take root."
I really wonder how quest writers are trained and what oversight they're under. But hey, at least shipping with obvious first drafts is accurate to Classic.
finished Control Resonant
nobody moves like Remedy, excellent PS3-era action game with more artistic flair and better storytelling chops than most studios
real game lovers too, nowhere near Kojima or Yoko Taro-tier, but Resonant knows it's a game and not a movie with tasks
Nuance hat on here. The game experience is exceptional! People are camping, grouping, exploring, etc.
The arguing is because people want to defend it.
We already lost this to 'evolution' once, and Blizzard clearly know enough now to avoid it, but people are rightfully afraid.
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Players will unwittingly BEG Blizzard to ruin the game. It is Blizzard's job to understand the downstream effects of what feedback they choose to action. I trust this Forever team based on their decisions and rationale so far, but I completely get being militant anti-QoL.