Worse if you use an addon like altoholic and it adds up ALL your play time on all your characters (minus any deleted ones).
Heartstones might transfer matter less efficiently than Gnomeregan transporters to, Gnomeregan technology also has safety protocols. Who knows how many characters hearthed home only to vanish into the Shadowlands?
Hearthstone side effects: Nausea and bone pains for several days after. Transportation process may send you elsewhere.
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The story behind some things in WoW is scary and disturbing. Thadius comes to mind.
However the execution is made in such a way it’s impossible for it to be scary.The cartoon style graphics don’t help either.
Any game that gives the player power to fight back this much and destroy the threat I really don’t consider scary.It is for like 30 min then I just consider all I see on screen bullet / spell spunges.
PS : a scary thing is goldshire Argent Dawn. There you can see the manifestations of the darkest thoughts in our community.
A chef using a knife to make something for a cooking show, and a serial killer who’s holding a knife and wants to kill someone with it, both are holding a knife. Why is the first one not scary while the second one is?
Just because wow has these elements doesn’t make it scary.
There is an addon for that?
Im not gonna get that
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/altoholic
I use it to manage my alts, it does various things.
There is a difference between creepy and horror.
Some games can have creepy moments (surnatural or realist) while horror games constantly push the player to “fear”, those games are more difficult to walk through because of that : fear, hesitation and building tension.
The mix between those types would be the Thief trilogy ( 1st and 3rd games) which had specific horror levels to scare the crap out of you while the rest of the game was alright with another tone and sometimes indeed creepy moments.
World of Warcraft only has creepy moments due to how a place or story is setup but you only find that in Classic/Vanilla and sometimes WotLK, not so much for the rest of expansions or in such tiny portion that it is not significant of notice.
WoW has 0 horror elements. As someone said cartoon graphics and 3rd person view doesn’t help.
Probably because children’s books and fairy tales contain stuff that is just as bad, if not worse, than that found in WOW. Have you read anything by Roald Dahl? His books are beloved by children worldwide and filled with some pretty horrid stuff (The BFG gets really dark if you strip away the fart jokes).
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Yeah, mate. Fun times.
Topic: As a hard-core horror games player, your arguments made me see the point. Yeah, WoW is not like survival-horror games like Penumbra, Amnesia, Outlast, etc. But when WoW was released, the horror games were just easy 3rd person shooters (most of them). All of my friends played WoW in 2006-ish but they refused to play low-res horror games like Clive Barker: Undying with me. Thats why I ask why nobody think about WoW as horror game.
I realise it can kinda feel like it deserves the tag when your box opens and you get the same ring for like the 3rd week in a row but cmon it’s not THAT scary is it?
The only thing that scares me in this game it’s not monsters I can one shot, but rather 30 angry Horde in WM on 
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WoW by far doesn’t resemble a horror game, just having a type of mobs/creatures doens’t mean it’s horror related. Shaun of the Dead has zombies and isn’t considered horror or a proper scary zombie or horror film/movie.
A good horror game doesn’t use cheap scares (Resident Evil pre-7 and remake) or makes you fight back effectivly. You get titles like the old Silent Hills, Fatal Frame or the more modern Outlast games. You’re the one being hunted and you’re just an ordinary man, can defend yourself but going in for attacks is near suicide.
But hey this is just from somebody who loves Asian horrors more than western, “But it’s boring!”. That’s the point horror should be strange and have lots of moments where nothing happens. I just can’t get scared or enjoy most western ones. Why? It’s steorotypical and more action horror movies. People always die in such stupid ways or due to stupid/bad decissions, it’s what Scary Movie showed us the most. Character gets a pick between gun or banana and because gun makes too much sense it’s banana… Or in the terms of horror movies “An efficient serial killer is on the loose! Let’s all split up solo, because reasons!”.
Anathor thing with western is how they feel to need to explain everything, Asian ones leave alot in the dark. Take Ringu, 7 days. Then it’s never mentioned again. Rings (the American adaptation) and they tell/show you the time all the time. There is hardly any suspense in western horror movies.
I don’t know… being sent to slaughter loads of innocents and take the tree with it was pretty horrific.
I mean… Why the “first” kids back then 15 years ago thought this game isnt scary? You just go to level up your character and you are sent to Duskwood in the tombs and the scary Mor`Ladim in the spooky night-time woods filled with zombies and spiders. Horror games wasnt so scary back then when WoW was released. WoW was the scarriest thing out there for the time. But every kid under 9 played it just like they play GTA. (In my personal experience - my cousins was scared to play the funny “Serious Sam” series which are not even close to a horror game, but they invited me and brag me to the WoW game back then).
Ok, maybe you wont get what Im saying cuz Im a lil drunk, but… WoW is a scary game if you just start to play it as a new player. Maybe party-up with some friends make it less scary, dunno.
I started playing this game when I was 10.
I used to turn on my computer right after waking up without having breakfast and keep playing whole day until my parents come home. I was not afraid of gore stuff etc but Spiders in Stonetalon Mountains to be more precise Spiders used to give me Heart Attacks, my pulse was going over 200/min because of arachnophobia. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger right…now I enjoy killing them in both game and real life.
I used to panic in dungeons at first, it used to feel stressful when I was a kid but anything other than what I’ve mentioned were not scary at all.
I also think that kids must see gory stuff and creepy places, only then they can overcome of such realities. Instead of trying to wrap children up in cotton wool parents must allow children to see such stuff. I will personally make my children watch and learn such things so that he/she can overcome of these facts, so that they won’t go through a trauma or get shocked when they see similar situations in real life.
WoW must be PEGI 7.
Fundamental difference, you have all these horror elements, but you also consistently have a way to fight back. Whereas in the horror film most of the time all you can do is run and hide, you don’t have the option to annihilate the crazed murderer with a chaos bolt, or blitz the ghost with a pyroblast.
The elements in horror films aren’t the crucial part, they’re effectively just props, fear comes from the characters being helpless to defend themselves.
Would any zombie film be scary if the main character is a paladin, strolling around in heavy plate armor, scything through them with a claymore blazing with holy light?
There’s also the disassociation thing that’s part of an mmo, it’s a bit more difficult to feel terrified of something while your chat window is full of people chattering.
How would a person who is afraid when he is playing wow handle day to day life?
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I agree. I have never been more scared as the first time I entered Twilight Highlands.
Because all those things don’t really look scary that much. They are good enough to represent what they are supposed to represent.
How could it be scary?
All the scare building running up to facing whatever is supposed to be scary gets ruined the moment the bad guy voices a line, which is so generic and cringe that all of these emotions replace being scared.
I’ve given an example or two in my posts already, but just another case of that is Rezan voice acting.
The voice they gave to it is imo so decoupled from what it’s supposed to be representing it’s criminal.
Although, Americans are basic af, a whiff of British accent and they automatically identify it as an authority, which is what they were probably going for in this example. But it’s just so bad.