Just that maniacal grin as she stands beside Princess Ansurek makes “evil auntie Xal’atath” the dark and brutal that we need in this game.
If we’re going to head to a defeat that precedes “Midnight” then a world that needs no Inky Black Potion to be dark. The world needs to have more of the old version of Duskwood, where the soldiers began carrying a torch to light it up somewhat…
As the world succumbs to the danger that evil auntie Xal’atath represents we, the players, should find ourselves huddling around campfires in groups because going out alone is foolhardy.
Even flying alone would become foolhardy when evil auntie Xal’atath spirals a cloud of Void through the air that makes Fyrakk look like a baby by comparison. Yeah, if you want brutal, disturbing and dangerous that’s how the world should BECOME as a consequence of Xal’atath’s actions and she does all of it with impunity. Until Midnight, when we’re fighting back and fighting for our futures…
I’d say the cutesy stuff is overly represented just in DF.
Every other expansion’s got lots of gruesome content in it.
The story of Vashj’ir in Cata
Garrosh in MoP
WoD as a whole was pretty metal imo
Legion was the same
There is Drustvar and Nazmir in BfA, Nya’lotha is metal asf
Maldraxxus, Revendreth, The Maw in Shadowlands
Really, the only xpac that doesn’t have any significant metal theme is DF and that is over now.
The storytelling problem I do see is the inability to take it’s dark themes seriously and “lightening it up” with marvel level humor. But that is an industry wide issue, not just a wow issue.
The problem is with the older folk leaving and new people coming. The style of writing changes and modern writers/artists do different stuff than older people also I know this is horrible thing to say but male and female writers do different style writing.
Male writers like to have story told in action, where as females usually tend to make more talking bits. Compare Battle for Azeroth to Dragonflight. Lot of talking and looking at the distance in DF where as in BfA stuff explode and characters act. Its just the way they write. And NO, this does not mean this means EVERYONE
That’s the issue. We don’t see this as the exception, but as a change that will go forward.
It’s not that metal / dark content is completely non-existent; it’s that it has been reduced in prevalence compared to previous expansions. Talking with random numbers, if a previous expansion was 30% metal, Dragonflight was 5% metal.
Not only that, in Dragonflight we are mostly called to rescue and nurse the victims of any such dark occurencies, whereas in previous expansions we either participated in those or just took advantage of it.
Oof I feel like that’s a bit grabbed out of the air until we really compare quests by quest. As over arching story’s kinda stay on the same area of focus on the dark topics being more in the background.
Well that’s on the community , not on the devs.
Remember how people refused to do the quest with helping the orcs r a p e , Alextrasza?
Atleast we still help to break Arthas beloved horse the legs
It makes me always sad to see people talk like you do. It’s just such a low quality of in and output. Basically you bring nothing to the conversation outside of trying to make yourself look cool and edgy ?
Maybe try to edit your message to increase it quality as a second attempt to say what you wanna say
dude id literally pay you to shut up but i know talent like that owns its master instead of the other way around.
Go play Warhammer but oh wait Warhammer community is on the same crybaby bs.
