-avid reader

I’ve been playing for over 3 years now and there’s still so much to do.

I am still sometimes buying other games and we do own a Wii …. but I rarely manage to finish the other games. It just never happens.

I am just now re-discovering how cool it is to get a character to max-level and have so much fresh content before me – with that character. Of course I’ve done it all before with my main. But a new class … is so different.

I was intrigued to see you say that you used to subscribe to gaming magazines, and post-WoW have let that slide. I was exactly the same, and these days I don’t bother with the mags at all. Even more strangely, I used to be a relentless PC improver, upgrading my pc every couple of months to keep ahead of the curve so that the latest and greatest ran perfectly. I’ve not done any major upgrades to my PC since installing TBC, and I could swear that it has to do with not needing to.

I don’t own a console, and am not likely to do so. I have bought two games since starting playing WoW, Football Manager 2008 (for a niice change of pace) and Warcraft 3 (to get to grips with the lore before WotLK), and neither of them have seen a great deal of play time!

It’s a great opportunity to talk to him about what the kid and lady could have done differently… relating it to him and his friends, or even the two of you.

Like a good parent, you are viewing the program from the perspective of the message it’s sending to your son. However, if the boy or lady had ran across the street to warn the kids, then there’d be no need for Mr. Heroic Firefighter and no reason for the show.

excellent sumup for the game :) nuff said, and may wotlk and beyond hold the same enchantments for us to see and walk through

After posting it, I just looked at it and had second thoughts because it so totally had nothing whatsoever to do with WoW.

Now you have me wondering if that was dishonest, lol.

Also that fireman show you just described… I’m not sure I would have caught the same undertones you did but looking at it the way you did makes me wonder about all the other things I think of as harmless, that could easily be spreading the message of don’t get involved, call the authorities.

What I love about WoW is you can get deep into the story, feel like you’re playing in a living world, WITHOUT having to do that content. Sure, the Mount Hyjal raid is a key piece of WoW backstory. There’s also the quests in Kirin’Var Village in netherstorm that can almost totaly be solo’d. I enjoyed those, because as you run them you learn about the history of what happened in Netherstorm. There’s also a few quests that are meant to be solo’d, they’re in there for fun. There’s a Shadowmoon valley quest where you hide in a crate to easedrop on a fel orc. That’s a Metal Gear Solid reference, and I found it hilarious. There’s plenty of other nods to other games, like a quest chain that starts in Un’Goro that is a spoof/tribute to the Legend of Zelda games.
And then you have the true story chains. There’s a quest chain in Nagrand, a massive one, that ends in Thrall himself riding into Garadar and you see a scripted scene where Thrall retells the story of the final battle where the orcish horde freed itself from the Burning Legion’s control. It pulls Garrosh Hellscream out of his emo depression and puts a finish on the whole Nagrand story(for the Horde perspective at lease). You end up doing most every Mag’Hari quest in Nagrand, you need help for a few group quests, and have to run the Auchenai crypts. You earn that moment, its my favorite moment I’ve had in game.
I’m proud of pulling that off. Moreso than my Kara loot, or my s3 hunter axe, or any shiny piece of gear… I’m proud of what I have accomplished, not what I’ve looted or crafted. I’m in a bigger guild now, and we’re working on getting into that endgame content. The vast majority of my wow life has been in a small guild, with a few devoted friends, taking on Azeroth, and Outlands together. We’ve already planned to hit Northrend, and conquer its challenges together. I think the solo/small group play is where this game is strongest, and why WoW is beating every other mmo in existance.
If you’re horde and interested in finishing that Nagrand chain, here’s the wowhead link for the final quest, and all the prereqs are in the comments: http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10212

I love WoW, and I’ll gladly pay $15 a month for my pass into the world that has the entertainment value of 2-4 $50+ games a month.
See you all around Azeroth or Outlands,
Ralowae and BlackTooth, Zangarmarsh