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king on this was the sort of thing that i played back then which is victory games ambush a solitaire ww2 wargame from jonathan arnold of board game geek their game was set in the star trek universe where up to three players were fighting over control of a specific doohickey using several starships each the three factions federation klingons and romulans were pretty much equal in overall strength and movement is this like star fleet battles i asked no my friend replied that s too complex we re aiming more for axis and allies okay i thought let s give it a try the game had potential but i felt that they lost something with the rules as simple as they were the various ships with their number rating is fine i began but have you thought about two numbers one for attack and one for defense that ll allow you to have more and different types of starships out there we re not doing any of that avalon hill bullshit one of the team snapped back at me that crap is too hard and we want this to get a wide audience after that i realized that they weren t really planning on taking my advice to heart so i just kept it basic with some generally positive feedback and then found an excuse to leave rather early the irony is that not only am i the one who prefers simple systems to more complex ones these days the so called simple systems found in wow s classic era are far more complex than what i proposed back then computers have a habit of condensing complexity to manageable levels after all kirk galloping about the cosmos is a game for the young doctor uhura now what is that supposed to mean from star trek 2 the wrath of khan that s not to say that complexity is bad by any means if you know going in how complex things are and if said complexity is presented well the complexity isn t necessarily a problem the thing is if complexity is gradually added to over the course of years you may not realize just how complex things had gotten until said complexity becomes overwhelming or in my case poking my nose into world of warcraft after a decade away i like to use the blood elf starting areas up to and including the ghostlands as a great way to introduce someone into the various systems of wow well tbc era wow in a gradual fashion the build up includes things such as timed events escort quests mobs with aoe damage mobs that chain pull and mobs that drop the don t stand in the bad stuff in the end you even have opportunities for grouping up for the two abomination elites as well as dar khan drathir but along with everything else that got nerfed in cataclysm those grouping opportunities were obliterated as well that basic introduction carried my original toons all the way up to max level in original wrath of the lich king because that foundation was utilized and built upon from the beginning from what i ve read the brand new intro zone provided in shadowlands exile s reach does a great job of providing a new player a way of learning the basics of wow but what ends up happening is that those basics get thrown out the window once you reach high enough level to hit the various expansions not that people can t utilize the basics of don t stand in the bad but that you re not exposed to the systems found in the expacs until you reach those expacs like oh say legion or shadowlands or even dragonflight existing players may not notice it at all or may even think it a new quirk of the current expansion but players who had been away for years or are new will notice that wasn t always the case as the systems found in tbc classic and wrath classic flying and membership in scryers aldor being the notable exceptions are also found in vanilla classic after a while all that bait and switch complexity just blurs together and makes you feel like an idiot for not understanding it all if that doesn t happen on its own the loudmouth toxic aspects of the wow community certainly will do that for you lol l2p noob from memebase via pinterest the thing is sometimes all you want to do is hit an enemy with your axe which brings me to diablo 4 i m moderately interested in diablo 4 but to my mind as someone who never played the diablo franchise i d first want to play diablo 2 and then 3 before finally setting my foot into diablo 4 if that sounds vaguely familiar to long time readers of the blog that s the process i used to approach retail wow with starting in cataclysm i d select a toon or two and then level those new toon s from l1 all the way to max level when the new expansion dropped this meant that the crowd had already cleared to max level begun their raiding and were sitting in trade chat complaining that they were bored before i even killed my first mob in the new areas it also gave me a chance to experience the game as it was presented whether that presentation was purposely intended or not in the case of diablo i m not one to replay rpgs ad nauseum because replaying and releveling to the end at increased difficulty levels doesn t engage me so if i wanted to try those games out i d wait for a massive sale and then purchase those games at the price that reflects the worth of a single playthrough rather than a steady stream of replays for whatever reason i suspect that the replay concept of diablo arose because people would replay the game while they waited for diablo 3 and then diablo 4 to be announced and released now it s just part of how the game is played nevertheless when i watch diablo 4 youtube videos what i m struck by are how much diablo 4 and world of warcraft have blurred together terminology wise people talking about affixes grinding for renown and the various seasons could be talking about either game really add in world bosses and dungeon grinding and you d have a hard time distinguishing discussions between the two games if you weren t looking at the screen that does highlight something that i never thought i d ever have to contend with in an action rpg such as diablo just how much complexity from wow has bled over into diablo i mean i hit it with my axe is pretty much the hallmark of the diablo playstyle but if you have to pay attention to all of this other crap just to play the game to completion what s the point what else is out there that if you missed a specific item you were doomed to not playing the game right and that you had to start over we ve all experienced this feeling before which makes you wonder why you spent all this time in the first place from gamerant kind of like that ol diamond flask for warriors in wow classic if you didn t know that was a bis item for warriors in classic classic era and you missed out on selecting it as the reward from the voodoo feathers quest then you were simply shit outta luck l2p noob indeed in the end complexity is an aftereffect of how long a game has been in existence all games will over time become more and more complex as additions are made to the base game hell just look at all the additions to the various incarnations of sid meier s civilization over the years the thing is just how the game implements that complexity and builds up to that complexity is critically important and that is something that blizzard s properties need to work more extensively on such as oh 9 years from the date of this post but effectively 12 years you can just opt out of this culture as i kind of have but that only goes so far even i partake in the min max ing culture whenever i fire up sixtyupgrades com to see if a specific piece of gear is an upgrade or not still classic era has been a true refuge from the meta driven culture found in wrath classic they were most definitely old school in that they hated star trek the next generation i was the only one who regularly watched st tng and even then i stopped watching by my junior year of college i m pretty sure i soloed dar khan during the cataclysm expansion on a horde toon at level and maybe even soloed the abominations as well i want to point out that membership in aldor or scryers was entirely optional in tbc you d think it was required but i managed to simply ignore it on deuce while leveling her and never had any issues with that of course i wasn t going to raid so that meant i wasn t gaining access to any scryer or aldor specific crafting recipes but since i could just buy those if i needed them it wasn t a big deal per se flying in tbc wasn t mandatory if you weren t planning on raiding or accessing the tempest keep 5 person dungeons as my old tbc classic main briganaa didn t gain access to flying until some days after hitting max level and i absolutely was required to enter into those tempest keep instances for attunements but deuce like before skipped flying entirely until she finally had to bite the bullet and get it at l80 in northrend now that i think about it i m pretty sure that neve still doesn t have flying in wrath classic and she s been at l80 for a long time now it s just not a priority for me in the same way that i don t have a single toon in the entirety of wrath classic that has epic flying somewhere i can hear the collective mass of wrath players screaming at the audacity to simply not give a fuck about flying anywhere fast i mean good luck trying to get diablo 1 to work if you can find a legal copy at all oh the irony i wrote this over the weekend and between then and now the blizzard summer sale appeared with d2 resurrected at 67 off and the entire d3 franchise at 26 off to be honest i wasn t expecting this sale right now more like in november december and my budget is kind of shot to hell with car repairs and my oldest getting her wisdom teeth yanked so i ll likely pass on d2 posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels boardgames wow wow classic wrath classic tuesday june 20 2023 so here s a toast as i ve alluded to over the past few months my questing buddy has continued to raid in wrath classic by joining a friday night semi pug put on by a mutual friend of ours i call it a semi pug because it has a regular group of about 10 15 people and they pug the rest of the spots initially the pug was for a full size 25 person raid but after enough failed raids due to puggers simply not having the gear or the basic skills needed to understand things like don t stand in fire the raid lead dropped the pug down to a 10 person raid so that the regulars could get the gear they need to once again ramp up to a 25 person raid so for the past month that 10 person raid has pretty much worked according to plan the raid has been getting clears of ulduar which my questing buddy was thinking she wasn t going to see at all given how the 25 person raids had been going that doesn t mean they ve gotten to algalon because they ve not met the requirements for that but they have been downing yogg saron regularly now i ve been proud of her given that she s new to healing for this expac and i know from experience that she s gotten really good at it part of this is that she attacks the game like a puzzle to be solved figuring out how to get the bis gear she needs and picking the brains of people she knows and respects who are better at healing than her that she does this with three kids and their associated demands on her time is even more impressive and have i mentioned that she puts up with my quirks and foibles i d not blame her if she threw up her hands and declared you re impossible but she just keeps hanging in there the two of us back in early january when we were clowning around in shattrath before raid time so on the eve of the trial of the crusader raid here s to my questing buddy and her success whatever those requirements are no i m not going to look it up because when our 10 person raid team broke up i simply stopped caring at that point okay that s not entirely true because i didn t care all that much to begin with in wrath classic as i was determined to not do what i did in tbc classic and go all hardcore about it for me that meant only giving just as much of a damn about raiding as would pass the minimum requirements to actually get into the raid i think i can hear my questing buddy screaming because for her part of the love of the game is all the plotting for gear i know enough about the cadence of raiding that it typically takes a few tries to get the positioning and whatnot correct and unless you re hardcore enough to get into the ptr to practice those first attempts to work out the kinks will be on live servers this does spill over into classic era too as she ll frequently drag me along when i d be more inclined to simply just screw around and fish or something in game that s how we discovered we could two person significant portions of gnomeregan as hunter and mage at level and the same with scarlet monastery library and uldaman posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels friends wrath classic monday june 19 2023 meme monday free rpg day memes you know what s coming up on saturday june 24th free rpg day yes that annual event designed to grow gaming where people can visit their local game store and pick up an introductory or sample rpg to a game they ve never tried before if you want to see if there s a flgs near you that is participating in free rpg day head onto the official website and take a look and in honor of free rpg day here s a few rpg memes to make you chuckle and snicker for some people it takes a few minutes to properly get into character from pinterest this is the same reason why my cleric back in college chose blind fighting as a specialty because i wanted to and you bet your ass it sure came in handy from joe jusko oh for pete s sake okay i ll give it a try elwsgas elwsgas wtf name is that sounds like some disease i d take gas x for from fyxt rpg uh oh from ifunny co ha that happened to our game group recently although the intelligent sword told the minotaur that picked it up to get lost from facebook com rpgenerations and one bonus meme fueling the imagination of the next generation from imgflip posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels free rpg day meme monday memes tuesday june 13 2023 how did the eu end up being the odd one out that s the question i have when both the uk and now the us federal trade commission are suing to block the microsoft acquisition of blizzard typically the eu is the one these days who is less of a paper tiger for mergers acquisitions than the uk and us are but i suppose that everybody is allowed an outlier or maybe the eu plays more diablo 4 than we guessed posted by redbeard at 7 52 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard monday june 12 2023 meme monday miscellaneous memes once more since i didn t have a specific theme lined up i figured that another miscellaneous collection would suffice besides i had a bunch of memes 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