hrm okay. interesting. i wonder how the age judgment works in such particular cases.
Isn’t WoW designated 16+ of recent years? Plus it’s cartoon appearance would most likely be making it okay. Think of all the cartoon shows that you watched as a kid that would sometimes show someones brain popping out etc.
I also want his jaw for my forsaken though, my goodness.
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Shaw the monarchist lickspittle. Bet he believes in the Divine Right of Kings too.
It generally isn’t a large issue if the gore on display is cartoony, see abominations, which are far greater offenders in that regard. An exposed brain like on that mob is even less like gore and more like an image from a science textbook.
Wow’s only rated T by the ESRB (North America) as far as I can tell, PEGI (Europe) still has it rated as 12+.
Filled with a lot of loopholes and usually decided based on a case-by-case basis
Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit (Battle of the 5 armies included) got a PG-13 rating for example because it depicts intense fantasy action violence and frightening images, despite how Peter Jackson went crazy with Del Toro’s monster designs in the Hobbit movie, some of which was basically nightmare fuel that you’d expect to see in Maldraxxus in this game
edit: Not counting the extended edition, that was an over the top gorefest lmao
Having your game go up an age rating also actually takes some more drastic stuff, usually. As the rating agency has to actively care about what you’re doing with it. They often tend to hand out a rating and then just keep it.
Basically the easiest way to up your age rating is if you suddenly decided to include a lot of sex or drugs. European rating systems are a bit more sensitive when it’s about gore too, but that’s been getting less severe over the years.
Oh, and some countries will get a bit hissy about you mentioning same sex relationships. No matter what.
I wonder how the new Nightwarrior stuff is going to go down there…
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Depends entirely on anyone bringing it to attention to the people who care. There aren’t that many that are very invested in actually following along with side stories in video games.
At this point the dude is just alive for the sake of pissing the players off.
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god I love him so much.
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God I hate him so much.
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i join on that. im happy to know we remove that corpse couple in the next expansion
I think one of the wowhead comments nailed it. We’ll end up killing him, effectively shipping his soul straight to Sylvanas in the Maw.
If only. He’ll probably do an “Enough!,” make more snarky comments and then escape.
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nooo you can’t be smug and powerful, that’s the player’s trick 
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Apparently he’s even got his own cinematic where he dies… For good unless there’s a shadowlands of the shadowlands.
Still… The guy’s cringe.
It would be fine if he didn’t talk like your average SW RPer.
Smirks and dodges all ur attacks then kills everybody around him effortlessly
You can have a sarcastic or boastful villain without making them just aggravating to listen to or put up with.
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Might be the point of Nathanos… But while it’s fine to like him as it is, it’s just as valid to detest him for that.
I’ve attended plenty of RP-PvP events that have the players talking exactly like Nathanos does. The same smug, superior, self-satisfied tones. It’s not a ‘Stormwind’ exclusive thing even slightly.
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To be honest I find Nathanos to be quite a nice change of pace since literally every NPC loves the player for being the Champion of Azeroth and Alliance/Horde so it is nice change of pace of him being snarky and slightly annoyed at our accomplishments.
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