(09-27-2013, 02:34 PM)X Wrote:(09-27-2013, 02:15 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: I have no kind words for Cataclysm.Oh... I liked Cata.
For anything about Cataclysm.
Worst expansion ever. Â Hate it. Â Hate it. Â Hate it. Â
The big problem with it I think was that it simply wasn't polished, which there are some decent, legitimate reasons for. You know, like half the production team just up and leaving to go do Guild Wars. It had plenty of potential, but everything falls just sort of good, leaving you with so much mediocre it's disheartening.
Except Dragon Soul. That was the worst thing to ever happen. Ever. Whoever okayed production on that is worse than Hitler...fusioned with Stalin all DBZ style... and then put his mega awful fusion brains into the body of a shark. With robot legs.
And for people who have never done it, with how ridiculous that creature I described above is? Dragon Soul is that ridiculous. And it's a cornerstone of canon in an extremely serious story.
Cataclysm was a complete and utter joke and was a giant wake up call for me to realise that the current Blizzard is no longer the same Blizzard that I came to adore as a gamer. I just can't understand how they thought it would be a good idea to completely remove large portions of content in favour of eliminating the original charm of many zones, especially when idiotic gimmicks and joke quest chains emerged in abundance.
Vashj'ir was brilliant though and a very unique experience. Yet Ul'dum - a zone I'd been anticipating and speculating about for years became one giant pop culture reference with a bit of serious lore mixed in. Gilneas was incredible and yet the worgen - and anything to do with Gilneas as a whole - ended up being forced into obscurity in a manner similar to the draenei. When playable races go without anything in the way of major lore updates for years at a time then I figured it was time to jump ship.
As for Thancred, I agree that his voice doesn't fit him. It's a very nice voice, mind you - his character model is just too 'twinky' by comparison to how he sounds. I'm not surprised, though - the majority of male miqo'te and midlander faces look pretty feminine and/or 'twinky'. It's one of the reasons as to why I chose to play as a Highlander and ended up designing one inspired by Gabranth, Basch and Vossler of Final Fantasy XII.
