Thursday, 10 November 2011

New World of Warcraft races for everyone

People often ask my what my opinion is regarding the newest expansion of WoW, Mists of Pandaria. Before I can even answer they start telling me why it will fail (which often seems as if those guys want to tell my why it _should_, it has to fail).
Well, after a while of listening I answer. Saying:


I accepted E.T. crashing with his ship into my BC garden. I suffered from palas on Horde side,... so why not Pandas. They fit far more into the wow lore than Dranei. Those guys caused a lot of headaches. But hey, why not invent far more new races?  Why not...
... unicorns...

  • Call them "UniCron", a time warped horse creature. 
  • Or Whalen - the marine life who decided to overjump some generation and got some legs, working for Mr. Burns - a self-igniting dragon. 
  • Bankdaren - the auctioneers and bankers get molten with their collected gold to a new race with the racial skill to get invisible during financial crisis.
  • Antologists - the ant life form who realized that they are far more than all other players together. A race of bookkeepers, empowered by idle times.
  • Kangoorox - the stone life. Has no arms, no legs, why should they - they are hills and mountains. But they can jump on others and have pets which do all the jobs the Kangoorox would need arms to.
  • Forensicks - a strange life form, mainly present in the virtual realities engis found during their experiments which include the combination of an enema syringe, arcane dust and a mage. Their racial is "Tears from Heaven", a omnipresent killer wave of QQ runs through the whole zone destroying everything. Only counterspell is provided by the next race...
  • Mosesmerize - a race that can divide seas, mainly called "GM class" but now a playable class, too. Often present in forums but because of the engi experiments also present in Warcaft (expansion: "Mists of Proctologia") 
You see, it isn't that difficult to implement a new race. And it's very easy to make fun of ideas by just exaggerating. But what is really fun is the claim of reality in a game where you can transform yourself into a dragon, dance the moonwalk as nightelf and beat bosses being made of fire. 
Guys, honestly: This is like travelling to Mars and wondering why there is no Fast Food restaurant there.

But who knows, perhaps there is one? We all know the famous class/race "Hamburglar". Sneaky class that travels from planet to planet to build up restaurants before any other species can claim the planet...


2 comments:

  1. I reckon they should have a race of walking Cows that practice Ancestor and Spirit worship. I mean isn't that just as "silly" as talking pandas?

    Oh...wait...

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  2. Sometimes when people are bitching about the Pandaren, I got the impression they do it because they know exactly they'll get sucked back into that maelstrom called WoW, no matter how often they try to bail out ;)

    Alj

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