Problem:
Can we all (hypothetically) agree that WoW is terrible at explaining its lore and quest texts are almost incomprehensible, when it comes to telling you what’s going on?
Solution:
They could implement some type of story book with pictures and some art in the game to narrate the story in a condensed clear form with a good overview. The pages of the book could be filled based on the content you did.
This means we unlock pages after completing certain quest chains for example. I.e. completing the aberrus campaign would unlock a chapter in your journal, where the entire lore of this raid is explained with some cool art, etc. The same could apply to all quests. They could start with current content and slowly add some legacy content too, if they have the summarized stories already at hand. I think this would be a very elegant way to actually tell the story in-game to new players and generally to people, who are questionning for example why they kill this yellow lizard in aberrus and who Neltharion is.
To give a current example: Unlocking old Scholomance could unlock a chapter in your book for example, where the story of this dungeon is explained well, because it does seem kind of interesting.
If someone thinks that this is a lot of effort for legacy content: Well in 2023 it’s actually very easy and kind of cheap to do. In the end, they could simply just feed chatgpt or another A.I. all the quests+warcraft books and then have it reproduce summaries of the content in a good way. Blizzard for sure has the data stored somewhere in a practical way to do this easily. These book entries don’t have to be lyrical master pieces too, but rather just summaries to let people know, why they should be mad at a raid boss.
In more recent ones, I find the whole forced linear Campaign storytelling waaaay overdone. Though, to be fair, if someone asked me to tell the story of one of the Shadowlands zones now, I’d be trying to fit all the pieces in order, and racking my brains for what I’d be leaving out.
In all cases, though, backstory is never explained clearly. A lot of people would say it doesn’t need to be; others do wonder about it.
Let’s face it; they’d be more likely to turn that into a big hardcover coffee-table book retailing at $199.99.
But yes, something would be nice. God bles sthe people at Wowpedia, without whom I would be even more clueless than I am.
there is the whole catch in it, you go into the dungeon or raid you explore it as you are inside such book
allso, many people dont read but we have detailed dungeon information and raid
there is lore behind every boss what happened that we face it
we allso have story bits and lore to discover by ourself
allso, there are obviously wow lore books that explain burning of teldarssil war crimes etc.
I can’t remember who it was but someone suggested that we should make use of the Library in Ironforge and some suitable Horde city location where we could visit and learn about the lore or build up our own lore repository of the things that happened in the games history.
Wow, that actually sounds really epic. I do kind of like my idea more personally, because it would make it convenient and it could be more easily tied to in-game progression, because I think unlocking story lines directly after major quest thresholds feels better. However, a library would also be kind of cool to be fair. Lots of old school RPGs also have these types of libraries, if you think back to the old pokémon games for example on the original nintento DS, etc. It’s clear that they can’t really explain all the story with cinematics, but I think a more “permanent” option than puzzling together quest texts would be awesome.
Bonus points if every section comes with a start/resume button, such that you get guided to the NPC who begins it, or if you abandoned a quest chain part way, you can find it again.
