counter counter point: it will cost you significantly more to play sonic 3 with me, your friend, then it will cost you to play world of warcraft classic with me
wow classic was also a job, but only if you were raiding at the highest level.
waking up at 3am on a weeknight to do thaddius attempts and spending multiple hours a day farming grave moss for shadow protection potions for loatheb was not a great use of my freshman year of college but here we are.
there’s a really good argument for some of the earlier versions of wow being better and more interesting both narratively and mechanically than the current iteration (personally I think they peaked during lich king). A lot of the stuff they’ve put in over the past several years has been poorly received.
The problem is we’ve all done the content from those early expansions so many times at this point that I can’t see being excited to go back to it for any real length of time unless you just didn’t play it while it was current. But even then, a big part of why vanilla wow worked was because nobody knew what the fuck they were doing yet. At this point everything is such common knowledge that people were lv 60 within a couple days and clearing MC in classic within the first week. It’ll never have the same sense of wonder, confusion, and exploration again.
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i just wanna try to get into that broken airport or find nessie again thats the shit id get into in mmos
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wow classic was also a job, but only if you were raiding at the highest level.
waking up at 3am on a weeknight to do thaddius attempts and spending multiple hours a day farming grave moss for shadow protection potions for loatheb was not a great use of my freshman year of college but here we are.
I could wake up, go to a raid, then goof off the rest of the week and not feel like I was letting the guild down with my absence the rest of the week.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Yeah like, it's definitely playing on nostalgia, but I also think its probably people just enjoying an old game that they loved and want to play again. No different than putting in an old game that you love that has bad mechanics or the like that you forgive because it's a game you love.
It is different than that because it does not cost me 15 dollars to play sonic 3
Eh, I've paid $15 (or more) to re-purchase old games I know longer own. Now, if you want to critique that most of those people will drop off of WoW after a month or so, I agree. But that's a different conversation.
counter counter point: it will cost you significantly more to play sonic 3 with me, your friend, then it will cost you to play world of warcraft classic with me
Yeah, I'm playing City of Heroes right now, which is 7 months older than WoW.
A big part of why I'm playing is nostalgia. I missed this game, and the world, and the community.
But, a part that's just as big is the game itself. The massive amount of both visual and playstyle customization, the sheer variety in teams and classes (you barely need tanks! Hell,like 90% of the time it's better to have buffs than healers!) and more stuff, it's just a great game and I like playing it even apart from reliving a game i had in high school, I still think it's better than plenty of MMOs in a lot of ways.
turtleantGunpla Dadis the best.Registered Userregular
WoW Classic, if nothing else, really does a good job highlighting some of the faults of modern WoW.
For example, the item balance in old WoW was garbage, but at least getting a new piece of gear felt meaningful. Maybe it does something weird, or has silly stats, or looks fricken clown shoes ugly in a funny way.
Whereas in current WoW your stats barely matter. They are just numbers that go up and every item only has the 1 that you need. Gear never does anything interesting except maybe if it's a trinket. And now a days each xpac has like 2 looks at most for any given item type, so it probably wont even look different. I took my old main through the newest xpac a while back and his gear looked exactly the same from when I got everything replaced around lvl111 all the way to 120. And no decisions were made along the way. Just equip the thing with the highest item level and go.
Like...it makes sense, in that both CAH and ClickHole are based out of Chicago (I can't read the article because I'm not subscribing to the Wall St. Journal, but I would guess any deal to buy ClickHole would also include the Onion and...possibly the AV Club?) and I'd imagine CAH would have to be a better ownership group than G/O media and Jim Spanfeller.
But...Max Temkin is a piece of shit.
Side note, the headline on that article being, "Deadspin Resignations Threaten New Owner's Turnaround," is a fucking HELL of a headline to put on all of this. Shout out to the Wall Street Journal for maintaining their brand integrity I guess
The Matrix sequels aren't as good but they're pretty good and are exactly what you get when you tell two people who love anime in the 90s to make two big action movies
Matrix 2 was a disappointing sequel (IMO) while there are amazing setpieces, the plot is kinda shitty, the twist doesn't land and the ending makes no sense.
Matrix 3 was a better movie, but all the stuff with fighting the machines in Zion wasn't really what I was interested in the Matrix for, and the few matrix fight scenes aren't great IMO. Also they fail to explain wtf happened at the end of Matrix 2 and it takes some work to piece together what happens in this film.
The Matrix sequels aren't as good but they're pretty good and are exactly what you get when you tell two people who love anime in the 90s to make two big action movies
And also tell them that instead of the one sequel they had planned they needed to make two.
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Were friends?!?!?
waking up at 3am on a weeknight to do thaddius attempts and spending multiple hours a day farming grave moss for shadow protection potions for loatheb was not a great use of my freshman year of college but here we are.
The problem is we’ve all done the content from those early expansions so many times at this point that I can’t see being excited to go back to it for any real length of time unless you just didn’t play it while it was current. But even then, a big part of why vanilla wow worked was because nobody knew what the fuck they were doing yet. At this point everything is such common knowledge that people were lv 60 within a couple days and clearing MC in classic within the first week. It’ll never have the same sense of wonder, confusion, and exploration again.
I could wake up, go to a raid, then goof off the rest of the week and not feel like I was letting the guild down with my absence the rest of the week.
Eh, I've paid $15 (or more) to re-purchase old games I know longer own. Now, if you want to critique that most of those people will drop off of WoW after a month or so, I agree. But that's a different conversation.
Yeah, friends but only during full moons
they're really searching for every possible way to be scummy as shit over there, huh
Xeecee: "We should play Deadly Premonition..."
Liz: "Ugggghhhh it's so baaaaaaad but yes."
A big part of why I'm playing is nostalgia. I missed this game, and the world, and the community.
But, a part that's just as big is the game itself. The massive amount of both visual and playstyle customization, the sheer variety in teams and classes (you barely need tanks! Hell,like 90% of the time it's better to have buffs than healers!) and more stuff, it's just a great game and I like playing it even apart from reliving a game i had in high school, I still think it's better than plenty of MMOs in a lot of ways.
He has good Destiny fashion.
For example, the item balance in old WoW was garbage, but at least getting a new piece of gear felt meaningful. Maybe it does something weird, or has silly stats, or looks fricken clown shoes ugly in a funny way.
Whereas in current WoW your stats barely matter. They are just numbers that go up and every item only has the 1 that you need. Gear never does anything interesting except maybe if it's a trinket. And now a days each xpac has like 2 looks at most for any given item type, so it probably wont even look different. I took my old main through the newest xpac a while back and his gear looked exactly the same from when I got everything replaced around lvl111 all the way to 120. And no decisions were made along the way. Just equip the thing with the highest item level and go.
But...Max Temkin is a piece of shit.
Side note, the headline on that article being, "Deadspin Resignations Threaten New Owner's Turnaround," is a fucking HELL of a headline to put on all of this. Shout out to the Wall Street Journal for maintaining their brand integrity I guess
hell yeah it is
this is the worst headline i ever read
and why they're actually good
and how things like the weird albino twins and the Merovingian are good
and this might be the worst movie take I have ever been exposed to
My favorite part is all the metaphors David is using for Griffin's joke's not landing
"You're being impeached! That just made the swing-state conservatives turn against you"
"That was awful! Now even the hardline loyalists are voting to impeach"
"I tried to help you land that plane, but I couldn't! The plane is on FIRE"
Hey have you heard about this podcast called Blank Check
Because boy that’ll broaden your horizons
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Matrix 3 was a better movie, but all the stuff with fighting the machines in Zion wasn't really what I was interested in the Matrix for, and the few matrix fight scenes aren't great IMO. Also they fail to explain wtf happened at the end of Matrix 2 and it takes some work to piece together what happens in this film.
yeah
yeah
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I'm hearing this now on the GB extra life stream and holy shit
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And also tell them that instead of the one sequel they had planned they needed to make two.
Naaah.
Boring to watch maybe.
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