{"id":833,"date":"2007-02-11T20:45:34","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T02:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2007\/02\/speaking-out-of-my-hat-on-wow\/"},"modified":"2007-02-11T20:45:34","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T02:45:34","slug":"speaking-out-of-my-hat-on-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2007\/02\/speaking-out-of-my-hat-on-wow.html","title":{"rendered":"Speaking out of my hat on WoW"},"content":{"rendered":"

So we were down at Lee and De’s today, and in the evening Doyce and Lee were (again) talking WoW, and Doyce pulled up some of his toons, and at one point Margie said, “Move over,” and sat down to create a character — a female Tauren hunter.<\/p>\n

Now, 95% of what I know of Wow is from what I hear people say, and 5% is now from the couple of hours she and I spent taking turns running the Tauren through the first few levels. So, my largely uninformed thoughts:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \nWoW has beautiful graphics. Okay, so we were looking at Lee’s $300 graphics card, but, still, the richness of detail and texture were much nicer than CoX.<\/li>\n
  2. \nWoW has a highly textured and rich backstory and setting.<\/li>\n
  3. \nWoW is full of so many twiddly bits — things to keep track of, inventory, supplies, crap like that — that it would drive me absolutely buggy trying to play it full time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Really. I mean, yeah, there’s a bit of that in CoX — but, really, for the most part CoX is about going on missions to defeat\/commit evil. The “supplies” you need to track and find room for and all that are largely abstract Enhancements and Inspirations (and, honestly, a good chunk of that<\/em> I find irksome). It’s mostly about the missions — which, no matter how much one might bitch about the annoyance of pre-Travel Power jogging through Paragon City, are far more convenient and available
    \nthan loping along miles across the veldt to find wild boars.<\/p>\n

    But WoW seems to be all (or at least much) about the encumbrance-and-supply-inventory mechanic — just the sort of crap that I always hated in tabletop gaming, and which is no more entertaining here. One could, honestly, run a CoX character who never slotted anything in their powers and never popped an Inspiration. It would be annoying (and kind of unnecessary), but you could do it. So far as I can tell, you can’t advance at all in WoW without keeping track of (and\/or gathering and\/or selling)
    \nbroken claws and pig snouts. Margie’s hunter ran out of ammunition<\/em>. Which is accurate from a simulationist standpoint, but just freaking annoying from an heroic story standpoint.<\/p>\n

    Now, if Margie turned to me and said, “Dave, I’ve fallen in love with WoW and want to play it from now on,” I’d smile, grit my teeth, and play WoW with her (and hope that my vague impressions of how problematic WoW is for soloing and duoing are not correct). But given my druthers, I’m still getting plenty of kicks out of CoX, and didn’t see much tonight to change my mind.<\/p>\n

    Though the graphics, and the setting, are very cool.<\/p>\n

    <\/p>\n

    (And with that, everyone who loves WoW is welcome to tell me I’m full of shit and convince me otherwise. \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n

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    So we were down at Lee and De’s today, and in the evening Doyce and Lee were (again) talking WoW, and Doyce pulled up some of his toons, and at one point Margie said, “Move over,” and sat down to create a character — a female Tauren hunter. Now, 95% of what I know of … Continue reading “Speaking out of my hat on WoW”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}