I was involved with the story surrounding Wrath of the Lich King, and have played through as much of Mists of Pandaria as I have in part to finish stories. Not that I haven’t had my moments with the lore in Azeroth now and again. Somehow that little bit inoculated me against caring about the lore.
#Where is my warcraft 3 cd key stored series
So, before WoW, I played the Warcraft series for a few minor moments in between Total Annihilation, StarCraft, and Age of Empires (I and II, but not III). I think Warcraft II may have literally only been installed at the office and not at home. I only picked up the Warcraft games over the years because they were the game of the moment for people at the office. And even then, of Blizzard games, StarCraft and the Diablo games were far more popular in my group of friends. To my mind they were in the RTS genre to be played against other people, not single player games to be explored. This was because I never had any enthusiasm for them other than as games to play with friends. I have just never gone through the single player campaigns on any of them. Strange because I have actually owned all of the Warcraft RTS games, the source of the lore for WoW. In Azeroth they don’t even register because didn’t they always have stupid techno gadgets in their games?īasically, in WoW, in Azeroth, my take on the lore is pretty much whatever has been handed to me piecemeal over the years, without me having ever managed to get invested in it. Hover disks in Norrath annoy me because that isn’t 1999. And the whole crazy mounts thing irks to this day in EQII in a way that doesn’t bother me at all in WoW. Part of my problem with EverQuest II early on was the movement away from the lore of the original in the first couple of expansions. I have a pretty solid notion of what Norrath should be like based on that, something that has not always served me well. While it was something new, the games connection to TorilMUD (itself rooted in Forgotten Realms, which gives me a lore erection just saying the name), along with its newness and nature at launch, set my expectations and ideas about Norrath. I also came to care about the lore in EverQuest. As many interesting little features as Turbine has in LOTRO, I am pretty sure I wouldn’t have played it a tenth as much as I have if it wasn’t grounded in the works of Tolkien. I certainly care about the lore in Lord of the Rings Online. It means that I haven’t really felt as connected to the game through its lore as I have in other similar games.
Warcraft doesn’t interest a lot of people I am sure.īut that fact that World of Warcraft has ended up being my MMORPG of choice for most of the last decade is what makes it strange. Well, I suppose that, in and of itself isn’t odd. My relationship with Blizzard and its games is odd in that Warcraft has never been all that interesting to me.
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