Like 70% of this things has cartoon named gravity falls, do we deem gravity falls very dark and gritty?
None of this elements make the setting dark just by itself, most of the really dark things that Warcraft has is exaggerated to the point of being silly, or caricature, like for example half of forsaken warcrimes throught their main storyline is brushed aside as tongue in cheek joke.
Blood splatters also are very unrealistic on purpose because game is 12+ and we have cartoony gore bordering on completely unrealistic since Warcraft 3, guess why.
Warhammer fb is largely satire on dnd and has many instances of being borderly silly with large amount of puns in names, what WoW really is - tame more appropriate to masses Warhammer with large DND influences (mage spell names is bright example of directly taking elements from dnd)
I feel like people either dont read the quest texts or just dont pay attentionâŚgiven this game is child friendly you wont get x rated horror style content.
But Ive just watched Fyrakk straight up burn his own followers to death. Plus in the Waking Shore some of your first quests involve helping a Drakonid retrieve some dragon eggs which have been corrupted and must be destroyedâŚmeaning you are essentially killing babies!
Those are just 2 random examples from the game.
Seriously its not Blizzards fault if you lack imagination!!
It is, and it constantly ridicules these kind of themes or donât talk much about them, wonât ever make anything gory too graphical, we are getting âscreen fading out to blackâ when someone DAAARES to axe someoneâs head or use any other weapon in any graphically violent way since forever, none of the dark themes gets properly flased out, last time they tried it was burning of teldrassil but it was so awkward half of community still doesnât understand that this act supposed to be condemnable by horde players too, not just alliance.
Deep dark fantasy
I donât even pay much attention to the story. I skip the cinematics even on first viewing, and I have an addon to blast through the quests without reading them.
If I wanted a good story, Iâd read one of the many great works of literature out there.
Because world building, lore is almost always good, like from the recent look at qâonzu, very entertaing classical trickster god.
Usually its main storylines that are bad
Social Contagion, plays a big part in this; you rarely see a movie where the antagonist wins in the end and itâs romanticized, and as a result, we have less interesting stories.
Plus, Go woke go broke.
Itâs happening everywhere, Disney Snow White: sheâs now a Girl Boss who can beat up all the men, sheâs The One who will dismantle the patriarchy.
Why is it always about ânext xpac will be betterâ? Why not start now? Why do we have this kiddy disney crap NOW? In that trailer with Fyrakk talking to Alextraza, he should have been beheading her and putting her head on a spike and then the others assemple to get some sort of revenge on him. That would be more warcraft.
Not this marvel disney garbage for 5 year olds. Nothing has consequences, all the good guys win and are alive and happy.
If they cant fix it right NOW, they wont fix it later and you will get same marvel soy disney crap for the rest of their entire âsagaâ. Story might as well be nonexistent.
because every expac has occuring theme to it, an idea, as you can see df wasnât a daemonculaba from the start, and wonât be in the end too.
Anyway QUACK QUACK QUACK
That expansion damn near broke my spirit with how dark, edgy and depressing it was.
I am so glad theyâre doing this kind of story now.
Donât like it? Deal with it.
Undoubtedly there will be other themes in the future (but hopefully never something like Shadowlands again - everything dark and edgy everywhere is NOT a good plan).
Take BfA⌠The systems might have been crap, but the zones and themes were nicely balanced: Some were pretty and cozy and others were dark and brooding or violent. Thatâs fine.
I view DF as a cleansing palate for the horrible taste Shadowlands left.
Not neccesarily, a lot of creatives that I know, including me, wish to someday be able to create and work on our own stuff and IPs. I mean I love spider-man, I would love to draw/write for spider-man but I would love more to create my own spider-man.