{"id":2149,"date":"2012-10-02T21:43:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T04:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2012-10-02T21:44:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T04:44:37","slug":"looking-for-another-game-world-of-warcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2012\/10\/looking-for-another-game-world-of-warcraft.html","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Another Game: World of Warcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yeah, I know.<\/p>\n

WoW has been sort of the EVERYBODY’S PLAYING IT, SO YOU SHOULD PLAY IT megalithic giant that people either love, or love to hate, or both. Maybe it’s still cool or maybe it’s not<\/a>, but it still has\u00a09 million subscribers<\/em> or players or some metric that means\u00a0a lot of people play it.<\/em><\/p>\n

I dabbled briefly with WoW over at Lee and De’s house, oh, about seven years ago (while trying to decide if this new “City of Heroes” was thing was where I wanted to be, when I heard all these great rumors about “World of Warcraft”). \u00a0Under Lee’s\u00a0tutelage\u00a0I rolled up a Tauran warrior and went hallooing off into the wilderness.<\/p>\n

And, about an hour later, decided I’d had enough cross-country racing when I was in junior high, so I darned well didn’t need it for my MMORPG. Plus, kinda dull and boring missions. Plus weird stuff about being dead and either having to run (again) back, or wake in the graveyard and have something bad happen to your stuff, or something.<\/p>\n

WoW became the online gaming Microsoft (or IBM or Apple, depending on your hi-tech era of Nine Hundred Pound Industry Gorillas), and I enjoyed making fun of it and not giving it a second thought.<\/p>\n

Until Les, of\u00a0Stupid Evil Bastard<\/a> fame, offered, in my CoH Grieving, to introduce me to the game and escort me from first level.<\/p>\n

So … WoW is free and pretty un-gimped up to Level 20. So, good for toying with.<\/p>\n

And having someone experience to walk me through (chatting via Skype) worked out okay, though, to be honest, I think I could have figured most of it out. \u00a0WoW uses a lot of industry standards (many of which, in fact, it probably set) in terms of interface and the like.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We rolled up a couple of Pandarens because, well, who wouldn’t? I played a Hunter, Les a Monk. \u00a0My female Pandaren was nicely zaftig. Les opined his male one actually mirrored his own body structure.<\/p>\n

And, y’know what? I had fun. \u00a0The basics are pretty familiar, the intro zones in Pandaria are nicely laid out, with good stories. I like the graphics. It seems like they’ve filed off some of the dullness and grindiness that the game used to have for beginners. \u00a0We played for a couple of hours, dinged to 6th level, and parked it (I had\u00a0other plans<\/a>), and I really enjoyed the mix of missions and activities. And the setting \/story was also quite nice.<\/p>\n

Too early to apply my checklist<\/a>, but things look fairly promising.<\/p>\n

I think I’d like to play some more. I don’t know if it’s The Game I’ll Be Playing, but I definitely want to play more (and get Margie trying it out, too).<\/p>\n

Not sure if I should be thanking Les, or plotting some dark and bitter vengeance toward him … but I’ll settle for a thanks for the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I know. WoW has been sort of the EVERYBODY’S PLAYING IT, SO YOU SHOULD PLAY IT megalithic giant that people either love, or love to hate, or both. Maybe it’s still cool or maybe it’s not, but it still has\u00a09 million subscribers or players or some metric that means\u00a0a lot of people play it. … Continue reading “Looking for Another Game: World of Warcraft”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay","category-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}