Tag: warcraft 3

so last night, I decided to hunt down the flower-crowns for the Lunar Festival (see here for the results), and while I was in Winterspring, I flew my Nightbourne mage up to the highest mountain and took this screen-capture. The first one is at view distance 3, and the second one is at maximum view distance. Like I always knew: Mount Hyjal is the tallest mountain on Azeroth (with the Storm Peaks pulling in at a close second, I’d say)

PS – Mount Neverest doesn’t count because pandaria

PPS – don’t take the above as factual information, since I’ve not measured how tall any of the four peaks truly are

Warcraft 3: the Bad Stuff

So for the most part, i love Warcraft 3 and consider characters and lore established therein as superior to those established in WoW, even fan-beloved Burning Crusade (looking at you, garrosh!). But, like with everything, even Warcraft 3 had its problems, few though they may be. Here are the things i didn’t like about Warcraft 3…

1) copying Starcraft’s steep difficulty curve
2) sylvanas windrunner
3) Kael’thas
4) Frozen Throne’s depiction of the Draenei
5) the caricature that was Lord Strawman (aka. Garithos)
6) fucking pandas!

A Different Gaming Experience

So while i’m considered enough of a gamer for my parents to get on my case if i spend any amount of time on a console or at my laptop, once again i’m not part of the “gamer” crowd. I’ve never played any Mario, Zelda, Sonic or any other big japanese/Nintendo titles that are considered an essential part of gaming sub-culture. I mean, back in my day, we had a PlayStation 1, and this was before the downfall of video rental stores, so the number of games we actually owned versus the number of games we played was very different. My first “japanese” game was Tekken 2 (and later Soul Calibur 2 at the local arcade at the mall), but for the majority, the games i played were PC strategy games: Age of Empires, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, Warcraft 3. That sort of thing.