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Maiev Shadowsong

The Shanghai Dragons

Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal (the expansion)

Isquen posted...

It's funny that it's also relevant in current WoW, because Necrotic Wake is in the dungeon rotation again (puke) and you have to have the flunky hook his boss over to make the boss vulnerable (double puke.)

That sounds time-consuming and annoying.

- Power Overwhelming
Defense of the Ancients
StarCraft
User Map Settings
Warcraft III
Necromancer (Diablo 2)
Diablo II
Heroes (WC3): I know some people don't like the hero system in WC3 because it deemphasizes the RTS elements and centralizes the game around them, as opposed to the broader tactical options you have in SC2, but honestly? This IS WC3 to me. This is the game's core identity that sets it apart from every other RTS game (YES okay I've played D&D: Dragonshard, no one on Earth remembers that game except for me), and it makes more sense for a fantasy setting than a sci-fi setting anyway. Like, yes, StarCraft is a better game than WC3, but the hero system gives WC3 something to offer that StarCraft doesn't have, and I appreciate that. I also appreciate how your ability choices and items hold over through each map in the campaign. Overall, it's just a great idea that was executed perfectly.
Oynxia Wipe Video
Leeroy Jenkins
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
World of Warcraft

- Jacked Up and Good to Go
True Colors (StarCraft mission)
Scarlet Monastery
Corrupted Blood Incident
Make Love, Not Warcraft
In Utter Darkness
Witch Skin (Mercy)
Tower Defense
Battle.net (Original)
Zeratul
Zerg Rush
Red Shirt Guy
Archon
Saviors of Uldum (Hearthstone Trailer)
Ulduar
Auction House (WoW)
Terran Theme 3
Campaign-only Units
Arthas Menethil
Aldaris
Junkenstein's Revenge
Blackrock Depths: And here we have it, the single most awkwardly-placed instance in Vanilla in terms of level. 52-60 means most of the gear is just not quite good enough for a 60 to bother with, but there are a handful of kill things you just absolutely want. I ran this a million times hoping against hope for that like 0.001% chance of Ironfoe. I just looked up what the drop rate is, some sites are saying 5%, horseshit, I never saw a single person EVER with Ironfoe, and that's a weapon you'd keep equipping until like Thunderfury. Even in WotLK, where you could just solo the instance yourself, I did ran it and Strath UD a few times hoping for Ironfoe or the horse, just for bragging rights, and I never saw either. Anyway, let's talk about this instance, it's both the best and the worst. In terms of concept and aesthetics, A+ job. The idea of entering the forbidden city of the Dark Iron Dwarves and having to fight your way to the emperor, who's holding Ironforge's princess hostage (except not really), and along the way you go through a bar of neutral dwarves minding their own business, see the mythical Dark Iron Anvil, and go through a lot of actual city things you see in all of the racial capitals, like the bar and a bank, is really strong. Like, the idea of just a normal capital city that is a dungeon you explore is good, and the idea of the twisted evil cousins of the dwarves is good. Did they ever do another instance like this, I can't remember? I guess you explore Zul'gurub, but that's not the same thing, that's much more of a traditional dungeon. And yet, I still have to rank this somewhat low for a few reasons. The first is that just getting to it is a pain in the ass (I assume it's way worse for the Horde, at least this is near IF), you WILL get seen by a troll shadow priest and you WILL get mind controlled into the lava. I was able to survive that numerous times because paladins have divine shield, but no one else has a chance. More importantly, it's huge. It is by far the largest non-raid in vanilla, possibly the entire game and all expansions? It is outrageously easy to get lost and not know where to go. You can save like twenty minutes by bringing a key or a rogue, to the point where people will just assume you have one of them, and if you don't, yikes, your party might just leave right then and there. Then there's a section before the emperor at the verrrrrrrrrrry end where you have to fight a trillion non-elite dwarves that keep coming at you while you light torches or whatever, I don't even remember anymore, and you'd BETTER have a mage or a warlock to handle them. At least mages are common. But like... I really do like how this dungeon can be explored in a thousand different ways, and all of the little tricks you can use to get around 80% of it. Like, I haven't played this in forever, but I still remember you open the two doors on the left, enter the bar, kill some fire elementals, go left, go through the hallway, jump out the window, then jump around on the rocks in the lava to bypass the rest of the dungeon, so you only have to do a few fire elementals, the infinite dwarf room, and the emperor. That's fun! That's a cool trick that I don't know if Blizzard actually intended, probably not, but they at least knew not to patch it out. Ah well, I still like this dungeon, even with its flaws. But I'll tell you this, too: the fact that the Dark Iron dwarves get a redone, less confusing version of this instance to be their racial capital once they joined the Alliance while the gnomes STILL haven't retaken Gnomeregan is like the funniest thing ever.

- Stay a While and Listen
Jeff Kaplan Dinoflask Videos
Witchwood (Hearthstone Trailer)
Demon Hunter (Diablo)
Galvadon (Theme)
Siege Tanks
Roadhog
Pokmon RPG StarCraft UMS Maps
SCVs, Drones, and Probes
Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker
Jaina Proudmoore
Tyrael
Fall of Lordaeron (Campaign): It's well-handled. Arthas' fall to darkness, his weird friendship with Kel'thuzad, and that scene where he murders his father, all great. Uther goes out like a bit of a punk, but at least he gets a good line to go out on. It's important to always remember that evil campaigns can be done well, and Arthas destroying all of his own birthright and giving himself to evil actually is done pretty well. You know what would've been a funnier concept than time traveling evil orcs? Anyway, the idea of going around assaulting cities from WC2, murdering their leaders and subsuming everything for the Scourge is good. I remember the last mission being the hardest, because it's a "survive for 30 minutes" mission as undead, a race that is geared toward offense, and you don't get Kel'thuzad. But the campaign is still fun! Though, the undead aren't as interesting as the Zerg, so make of that what you will. I guess that's something you can say, is that the Zerg are absolutely not a mirror of the orcs from WC1 and WC2, they are their own thing, but the undead sort of are a mirror of the Zerg. I don't know how you could have mitigated that, though, since the core concept of both is turning YOU into US.
Light v Tempest
Stop Poking Me
Meat Hook
Nukes
Diablo 1 Recreation Event (Diablo 3)
Sombra ARG
Tychus Findlay
Wrath of the Lich King Opening Cinematic
Winston
Psychopath Mei
Ilios Bottomless Pit
Overwatch SFM Pornography

The Horde: Where the Alliance has always been the classic "pretty heroic characters banding together against a greater threat," the Horde started as just a horde of monster men. Initially just orcs, then it expanded to include trolls, goblins, and ogres (really just to counter the Alliance's new elves, gnomes, and dwarves). And in WC3, it was just Thrall's refugee orc group that took in some trolls and tauren (to replace the ogres - notably, the Alliance also lost gnomes in that game, and suddenly the goblins are neutral). But then in WoW, the Horde takes a new direction. It becomes the reject faction. The ugly weirdos who band together because they have nowhere else to go, and that's what makes it inherently more interesting than the Alliance could ever be. The Horde gets 100% of the pathos. And this stays true even in BC, where the Draenei join the Alliance not because the Night Elves helped them, but because they're generic good guys. And the Blood Elves join the Horde because they're also evil assholes, but are pretty, so now the Horde can attract more players. I know Horde players complain that they're cast as the villains more often than the Alliance, and that's usually true (the only time I can think of the Alliance being kind of in the wrong is Alterac Valley), but like... you took in the Forsaken and Blood Elves. You got what you asked for. And later, the Horde gets goblins (to counter gnomes?) and the Alliance gets worgen. Does anyone really like the Worgen? I don't, although I like how Gilneas and Kul Tiras eventually got rejoined the Alliance. I'm just saying, people wanted to play as high elves, ogres, and naga, and instead we got the worgen, vulpera, Panderan, and Dracthyr. Let's not even go into the vulpera, Horde players, those things are 10000% just furry bait, you cannot convince me otherwise, that's way more embarrassing than void elves... though maybe not more than the lightforged draenei and mechagnomes. I'm just saying, the coolest WoW race that's not playable has always been naga, get it together. Like, I'd seriously prefer Tuskarr or Frostborn, at least they look cool.
Mystery Deathmatch
Tassadar
Arcturus Mengsk: Mengsk goes from being a manipulative, lying, evil son of a bitch in SC1 who keeps surviving by the skin of his teeth to being the most blatantly evil dictator ever in SC2. Like, it is impossible to believe that anyone is loyal to this obviously evil man who has been in power for five years and declared himself emperor. Argh, but I do like SC1 Mengsk, he is a good character. That part in HotS where he has a plan to kill Kerrigan using anti-Zerginess, and she kills him, and then Raynor is like "It's over," and Kerrigan says "I have to go now my planet needs me" and flies into the sky like Poochie is definitely the funniest moment in any Blizzard game ever. I guess I'll also just say this, the idea that the heroes are willing to give Mengsk's son a chance is absurd, and the idea that Mengsk's son is actually a really cool guy who isn't evil is absurd, and the idea that the Terrans are all willing to just obey him after Mengsk dies is absurd. Like, after it's revealed that Mengsk intentionally got the Confederacy's capital eaten by Zerg in order to seize power during the chaos, you'd think ANYONE would care, and it's literally never brought up again. I don't know, I like the idea that Mengsk's planet was destroyed by the Confederacy and he's still super angry about it forty years later, but has become just as bad as the people he's fighting. I'm willing to accept that Mengsk lost some of his skills after becoming emperor and stopped bothering with being charismatic after Raynor left him. He's not THAT bad in SC2, I guess. Not great, but not the worst thing.
Modern D2 Clones
Diablo (Game)
Alterac Valley
Griefing
Hearthstone (Game): The only card game I've played since high school is Slay the Spire, and technically Triple Triad when I replayed FF8. This is just not a genre I care about. That said, it does seem to me that Blizzard made a real attempt with Hearthstone to be a real game that is good, with constant updates and a competitive scene. And you know what? I respect that. Still not gonna play it, though.
Creep (Zerg)

- Systems Functional
Alamo
Un'Goro Crater
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
Blizzcon
Big Game Hunters
Yogg-Saron, Hope's End (Card)
Voyage to the Sunken City (Hearthstone Trailer)
Samir Duran
Town of Salem
Death Blossom
Vaelastrasz the Corrupt
Darkspear Trolls
Warriors (WoW Classic)
Mass Carriers
Retribution Paladins
Mercy Multi-Rez
Thrall
12 Days of StarCraft
Mists of Pandaria
Jaedong
Warsong Gulch
Horde Bias vs Alliance Bias
Bethesda, BioWare, and Blizzard
Quests (WoW)
Heroes of the Storm
Javelin Amazon
WoW Classic
Nazeebo
Bob, do Something!
Overwatch and TF2 Comparisons
Jade Golems
Wings of Liberty
Vicarious Visions: Blizzard, Albany? Huh. Okay, what did they make... I have played zero games listed on their Wikipedia page. I'll just judge them by the reviews for Barbie: Magic Genie Adventure. Says it scores around 2.5/5 or 6/10, that sounds fair.
Dr. Boom (Card)
Looking for Baal?
Artanis
Rogue (Diablo): It's kind of funny how the Rogue and Sorcerer go out like absolute punks in D2. The Warrior got corrupted by evil being implanted into his head, but those two just went crazy and started killing people because they couldn't handle the stress. Anyway, D1 classes don't really have unique abilities, they just have unique stat distributions, like the Warrior can still learn all of the same spells as the Sorcerer, but the Sorcerer just gets more magic. So, trying to compare them is sort of pointless, because all you have to go on is their designs and how they die in the second game. Like, she's fine as a design for a rogue, I guess. That's about all I have to say for her, though.

- Fifty DKP Minus
Sombra
Infestor: Am I wrong for thinking this just looks like a Zerg version of a Reaver? It has the exact same shape and proportions, just with spines added. But it has nothing to do with Reavers at all. Very odd design choice. Anyway, the idea of the Zerg innovating with new ideas is good, even if I can't remember using these things ever. Like, really, the Zerg of SC2 should've been completely different from SC1. They should've had almost completely new units that they innovated and evolved in the time since the first game, with like one or two staying the same. Instead, we've just got drones, zerglings, hydralists, overlords, and mustalisks again, and then a couple of new additions. Wait a second, if these were invented by the Zerg after the first game, why are there Primal Zerg versions? Goddammit.
Diablo III
Terran Building Flight

Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal: It is bizarre how important Ner'zhul and Gul'dan are to the lore, and how both just die with zero fanfare or importance. Gul'dan especially, who dies in a cutscene from the past during TFT. The idea of going back to Draenor to take the fight to the orcs is good, the idea of Khadgar destroying the portal on Draenor's side to sacrifice himself. But the problem is that this is still WC2, and I don't like WC2's gameplay, so there you go.
Warcraft II
Ana
Lost Vikings II: Norse by Norsewest
Prison Break (World of Warcraft)
Jeff Kaplan Videos
Stratholme
Sarah Kerrigan
Radio Free Zerg
Mike Morhaime
Lost Vikings
Maiev Shadowsong: It's bizarre to me that WoW turned Illidan into a crazy villain and Maeiv into a sympathetic hero. In TFT, she is absolutely, 100% not sympathetic. She is 100% the villain protagonist who lies to Tyrande, gets a ton of people needlessly killed, and spends all of her time focused on useless revenge out of pride and a refusal to accept defeat. At the end of the game, she pointlessly charges into Draenor to keep chasing Illidan, Ahab-style. Like, this is a woman who spent 10000 years or whatever guarding a jail with one person in it, she's clearly crazy from the get-go... although she's also right to be angry at Tyrande for killing her guards after they were just obeying Malfurion's orders to guard the prison. Like, clearly it is Maeiv who should be the crazy villain in BC who goes off the deep end and sells her soul to demons or whatever in an attempt to imprison Illidan, and Illidan should be the one who's sympathetic and needs your help. Instead, it's Vashy, Kael'thas, and Illidan who go insane. She's not even THAT involved in the death of Illidan! Sure, she's THERE, and she's there when he dies, but she's not even really the key, it's Akama who does most of the work. And according to the Wiki, Maiev is involved in every expansion since then, hanging out and still being moderately important. Completely bizarre that the super-popular Illidan dies and she doesn't. Like, look at this, she's in Shadowlands, that's the easiest opportunity ever for her to meet Illidan and have some kind of closure because he's dead and she's in the afterlife while still alive... and instead, her contribution is to just sort of stand around while Tyrande judges Sylvanas for being crazy? Like, the idea that Maeiv of all people is remorseful for her crazy actions in the past is insane, she should've been the person who never learns anything and keeps going crazier and crazier until you put her down like a dog. If that had happened, I would definitely have ranked her higher. I think this is the only time I know of where the Ahab character learns her lesson and actually becomes a better person as a result... except that that happened because she actually did get her revenge. Like, it would be acceptable if she realized how far she was going and let go of revenge, and Illidan dies anyway, or something like that, but as she's written, it's totally bizarre.
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
Un'Goro: The Journey
Warcraft I
Mei's Snowball Offensive
Murky
Legacy of the Void Opening Cinematic
Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans
kekeke: In high school, my friend kept going "ekk-ay ekk-ay ekk-ay" to make fun of Korean people. Weird guy. He also took ninjitsu for twelve years, he was weird, but he'd kick your ass without even trying.
Hero Shooter (Genre)
StarCraft II
Warcraft (Film)
Shanghai Dragons: "The Shanghai Dragons did not win a single match in their first season in the OWL, going 040, giving them the record for the worst single-season record in professional sports history. The team also holds the record for the longest losing streak in professional sports history at 42 losses, passing the previous record 28-game losing streak held by the Philadelphia 76ers." Hahahahaha what.
Silicon & Synapse
Blackthorne (Game)
Flying (WoW)
Goldshire Inn (Moonguard)
Call of Duty on Battle.net
Symmetra's Shield Generator Ult
Scepter of the Shifting Sands Quest Chain
Rescuing the Guy in Blackrock Depths: God, I hated this quest. He walks so slowly and aggros on mobs nowhere near himself, although at least he's near the start of the dungeon. I don't remember how many times I had to redo this quest while attuning for MC, or whatever the quest was part of, I don't even remember anymore. It's amazing how the annoying escort quests are more memorable than like half of the rest of the game.

- You Are Not Prepared
6 Bastion Team
StarCraft 64
Microsoft Acquisition
Auction House (Diablo 3)
7v1 comp stomp no noob no bs
Ready Player One
Cole Cassidy
Do You Guys Not Have Phones?
No Mercy TikTok Trend
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
Bobby Kotick
Always Online
Nova
Activision
Being Corrupted into a Being Raid Boss

- Not Even Death Can Save You
Sylvanas Windrunner
Warcraft III: Reforged
BlitzChung Incident
Overwatch 2's PvE Cancellation
Blizzard (Weather)
Cosby Suite

Queens (original Starcraft)

The word "Dragoon"

Overwatch

Terran Marine (unit)

Tristram

so I can't find the clip but one time in the first season of Lucioball and everyone else loaded in as Lucio like normal but the game glitched and I loaded in as McCree with a gun and was the only one who could just shoot the other players

so that glitch

*Reads the Maiev writeup*
About that... Illidan didnt die, he went to prison again. And then past Gul'Dan broke him out during Legion. And he wasnt crazy, but his fate is now "now HE'S a warden for a Titan." Maiev is just... not doing anything since? Maybe one heritage quest for Night Elves introduced in Dragonflight?

Eugh. Night elves.

Though that brings up...

Nomination: Night Elves (WC3 faction, NOT WoW)

Whimsyshire (Diablo 3 secret level)

Isquen posted...

*Reads the Maiev writeup*
About that... Illidan didnt die, he went to prison again. And then past Gul'Dan broke him out during Legion. And he wasnt crazy, but his fate is now "now HE'S a warden for a Titan." Maiev is just... not doing anything since? Maybe one heritage quest for Night Elves introduced in Dragonflight?

wtf

I was certain Illidan died in BC.

The Barrens

I had the WC3 human campaign in mind, but including undead works as well, I guess

Nominate: Going out like a punk

Vicarious Visions made Diablo II: Resurrected.

Gear Score

Karazhan (Raid)

handsomeboy2012 posted...

I had the WC3 human campaign in mind, but including undead works as well, I guess

Nominate: Going out like a punk

Whoooooooops, Ill add the human campaign as well.

LinkMarioSamus posted...

Vicarious Visions made Diablo II: Resurrected.

Only played the original!

Bitto posted...

kek

This was more aimed at the text chat and how "lol" in Alliance becomes "kek" for Horde.

- Power Overwhelming
Defense of the Ancients
StarCraft
User Map Settings
Warcraft III
Necromancer (Diablo 2)
Diablo II
Heroes (WC3)
Oynxia Wipe Video
Leeroy Jenkins
kek: 11/10 idea to make some words translate consistently, and to make lol recognizable as kek. The Orcish equivalent of "bur" isn't as good, though, because it doesn't clearly map the sounds to lol.
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
World of Warcraft

- Jacked Up and Good to Go
True Colors (StarCraft mission)
Scarlet Monastery
Corrupted Blood Incident
Make Love, Not Warcraft
In Utter Darkness
Witch Skin (Mercy)
Tower Defense
Battle.net (Original)
Zeratul
Zerg Rush
Red Shirt Guy
Archon
Saviors of Uldum (Hearthstone Trailer)
Ulduar
Auction House (WoW)
Terran Theme 3
Campaign-only Units
Arthas Menethil
Aldaris
Junkenstein's Revenge
Blackrock Depths

- Stay a While and Listen
Jeff Kaplan Dinoflask Videos
Witchwood (Hearthstone Trailer)
Demon Hunter (Diablo)
Galvadon (Theme)
Siege Tanks
Roadhog
Pokmon RPG StarCraft UMS Maps
SCVs, Drones, and Probes
Human Campaign (WC3): Okay, now that I know the Fall of Lordaeron was the human campaign and not the undead one, I apologize. This is the best 'fallen hero' story Blizzard ever did, even if it's pretty obvious from the start where Arthas' story is heading. I like how we see the generic idealism and heroism of the Alliance's setting, I like how Arthas has three other people around him to warn him against his path, I like how he's tempted further and further into evil, I like how he gives up more and more in exchange for less and less, I like how he finally gives up his soul for power to achieve his revenge, sacrificing what he has left, it's all well-handled. Mal'ganis is kind of a boring asshole, but it's fine. And I said this before, but the Culling of Stratholme is probably the best mission in any Warcraft game from a story perspective. Overall, a very effective opening for WC3.
Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker
Karazhan (Raid): The idea of going into Medivh's tower is good. Man, Medivh! The only character ever that they didn't bring back, what a sign of restraint... oh, it says he comes back after I stopped playing, okay. That's deeply unfortunaholy shit he has a son? God, I'm remembering this now, everyone hated this half-orc son of his, right? Says it's of dubious canon, that's good. Anyway, Karazhan is fine. It's kind of too large? But I like the servants, I like succubi, I like the decadent fallen mage aesthetic. I'm aware that long after I stopped playing, there was some controversy where Blizzard replaced the bimbos to be half men and the portraits of naked women with bowls of fruit? Honestly, I'm not mad about that. Is... is this the only thing of note in Deadwind Pass? I remember riding through it many times to reach Sunken Temple (I take it back, ST is the most awkwardly-leveled instance in the game, not BRD) and I cannot recall seeing anything of interest ever. It is a cool-looking zone, but even that is partly just aping the far superior Duskwood to its west.
Jaina Proudmoore
Marine (Unit): "What if Aliens' disposable space marines had slightly more realistic versions of 40K's space marine armor?" I love the lore that almost all of them are just prisoners gangpressed into service by basically just brainwashing them with drugs, and the ones who are so crazy that it doesn't work become firebats and reapers, that's wonderful. It doesn't make a ton of sense that they're called marines, because they are in no way an elite force, but that just makes it funnier. And God, I love how their special ability is to pump themselves full of meth so they can fire faster at the cost of health. It's such a fun mechanic that perfectly displays how cheap life is in the future and how much of a dystopia their world is, and no one really cares. Like, their lives are worth SLIGHTLY more than a Zergling's, it's great.
Tyrael
Undead Campaign (WC3)
Light v Tempest
Stop Poking Me
Meat Hook
Dragoon (Word): Originally a class of mounted infantry, who use horses for mobility, then dismount to fight on foot. Okay. I have no idea how that turned into armored guys with spears who jump into the air or crippled warriors in spider mechs, but I'll allow it. It honestly is a super cool word, but it's not quite fitting with all of the other Protoss unit names, which tend to be a little fancier (Templar, Arbiter, etc) or very simplistic (Reaver, Probe).
Nukes
Diablo 1 Recreation Event (Diablo 3)
Overwatch (Game): For a number of years, this was the perfect game to play while talking with your friends on Discord about other stuff. The absolute perfect game for that exact purpose, the perfect game to turn your brain off while playing. It's true that it's not as well-designed as TF2, but what is? Most of the heroes have unique and fun abilities, most look cool (I hate Junker Queen), most have cool skins, and the levels aren't bad. Like, as a TF2 clone, it is as good as you could have possibly hoped for, both in terms of gameplay and just having its own identity. Does it look weirdly like Pixar animation? Yes. Are some of the characters just boring assholes? Yes. Is the lore just abandoned after a while? Yes. Did I argue with people about whether Hanzo and Kiriko are using magic or just technology themed like magic? You better believe it's just technology. Like, it was a fun ride, and it's a shame that Blizzard decided to ruin their own creation, but I'm glad this was the hero shooter that took off. I said this before, but I got everything I needed out of this genre already. I can't imagine anyone needs anything out of Deadlock or whatever.
Sombra ARG
Tychus Findlay
Wrath of the Lich King Opening Cinematic
The Barrens: Sorry! As an Alliance player, I heard about the legendary Barrens chat, but never got to experience it myself. It is kind of interesting how three Horde races feed directly into the Barrens, so it's by far the most overpopulated zone in the game, whereas the Alliance's second zones are more spread out. And it's interesting how the Barrens is also a zone that the Alliance visits occasionally despite being hostile, there's no equivalent for the Horde. You even have Ratchet, a neutral town, whereas Alliance players won't be seeing any neutral towns until like level 35. I love how the Barrens is a zone that's like in progress, not from a game development perspective, but from an in-lore perspective. The orcs are still in the process of taming it, and by taming it I mean murdering its indigenous inhabitants like the quillboar and centaurs, who ARE sapient and DO fight back. That was always funny, how Thrall claims to be peaceful even as his people massacre the quillboar. And it's fine, it's not like the Alliance isn't simultaneously murdering a ton of kobolds, but I'm just saying, it's funny. Overall, this is a really solid zone that I approve of, but it's nowhere near my favorite WoW zone or anything.
Winston
Psychopath Mei
Ilios Bottomless Pit
Overwatch SFM Pornography
The Horde
Mystery Deathmatch
Tassadar
Arcturus Mengsk
Modern D2 Clones
Diablo (Game)

Whimsyshire: I guess this game did come out at the height of MLP mania. I'll tell you this, I have never seen a single episode of MLP, and I never will, so if there are any specific references, I don't know them. The idea of this whimsical, fun, and bright level full of cutesy enemies like unicorns and teddy bears is good. The fact that it's a specific response to people complaining that the game isn't dark enough is also funny. As a spiritual successor to the secret cow level, I approve. Does D4 have a secret level, let me just check... Oh, it's also a cow level. Bro, that was D2's joke level, make your own. D3 gets some points for not entirely riding D2's coattails!
Alterac Valley
Griefing
Hearthstone (Game)
Spawning as McCree in Lucioball: I've never seen this happen, but it sounds hilarious. I hope all of the Lucios were annoyed at being killed.
Creep (Zerg)

- Systems Functional
Alamo
Un'Goro Crater
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
Blizzcon
Big Game Hunters
Night Elves (WC3 Faction): They're strong aesthetically, Night Elves are easily my favorite version of Wood Elves in any fantasy media. Giving them purple skin and woodsy hair colors was a good decision. I like how their most important buildings are all sapient trees, that's a fun touch to make them more magical and nature-y than the humans. I like how the trees can defend themselves against melee attackers, that's a cute touch. I like how they're kind of useless in melee combat, the only units they have that can competently fight up close are the mountain giant and the druid of the claw. I like how they're mostly women, with men in spellcaster roles, a fine enough reverse of how the humans do it, and I wish WoW had kept that dynamic, but I understand why they had to make the genders balanced, so it's fine. As an army, they clearly map mostly clearly onto the Protoss, being the "wiser than humans" faction that specializes in active-use abilities instead of raw stats. But the result of this is that they just require more skill than I have, so I just sort of never used them outside of the campaign. I've seen a lot of people argue that it doesn't make sense for them to join the Alliance in WoW, and that they should've been a third faction or neutral, but I disagree. The Alliance is stationed in the Eastern Kingdoms, so it has no overlapping land claims, and it has a problem with Orcs, the people invading and taking over Night Elf territory. It seems entirely reasonable that the Night Elves would see the humans as natural allies. Anyway, yeah: strong visuals and atmosphere, but I just don't like their gameplay at all.
Yogg-Saron, Hope's End (Card)
Voyage to the Sunken City (Hearthstone Trailer)
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Town of Salem
Death Blossom
Vaelastrasz the Corrupt
Darkspear Trolls
Warriors (WoW Classic)
Mass Carriers
Retribution Paladins
Mercy Multi-Rez
Thrall
12 Days of StarCraft
Mists of Pandaria
Jaedong
Warsong Gulch
Horde Bias vs Alliance Bias
Bethesda, BioWare, and Blizzard
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Javelin Amazon
WoW Classic
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Overwatch and TF2 Comparisons
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Tristram: What a cozy little town oh nooooooooooo. It's appropriate that in this bleak world, everything you tried to accomplish in the first game was for naught, even down to saving the town. The only survivors are Deckard Cain and Adia, and you'll wish she died too. Showing us its destroyed corpse in the second game is a good move, it helps show how the demons can't really be stopped, and combined with the heroes of the first game being corrupted, shows us that everything is against us. The fact that this is one of the few non-randomized zones is also good, I guess you couldn't really randomize it since it's based on the original game's map. I love how the friendly blacksmith is now undead and attacks you. But I can't for the life of me think of why anyone in D3 would name their town "New Tristram," that's just asking for trouble. Anyway, you visit its ruins AGAIN in D3, and it's like... we already did this. You don't need to visit Tristram every single game. Oh wait, you don't technically visit it in D4, but the Wiki says you visit a recreation of the town in a vision, okay. Well, I guess this town is just the Green Hills Zone of Diablo, so be it.
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Ana
Lost Vikings II: Norse by Norsewest
Prison Break (World of Warcraft)
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Stratholme
Queen (StarCraft 1): Almost completely useless. This unit doesn't fit the style of Zerg gameplay at all. As a late game unit, for 100 minerals and vespene gas, you get a very fragile flying unit with the ability to infest a command center (useless), parasite an enemy (useless), ensnare a group of enemies (useless by the time you get it), and instantly kill a non-robot/archon ground unit (almost useless). It is well designed from a visual perspective, it's ugly and yet still very slightly feminine in its eyes, but it's hard to think of anything less valuable to the battlefield. Even more strangely, for something called a "queen," it has nothing to do with like controlling the Swarm, and it's not any more important than any other random unit. That concept already went to the Overlords! Completely bizarre unit in every way, I don't know if I ever saw this outside of campaign missions. Okay, according to the Wiki, the Hatchery was supposed to be a queen Aliens-style that lays eggs in front of you, but they couldn't get it to look right, that actually makes complete sense.
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Warcraft I
Gear Score: Ugh, kill me. Obviously, WoW was already a numbers game, but this removes all pretense and reduces every PUG question to "what's your gear score?" And I can't even blame them for asking that! It's now a valid question, especially for me, the tank! No one's gear matters more than the tank's!
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Legacy of the Void Opening Cinematic
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Blackthorne (Game)
Flying (WoW)
Goldshire Inn (Moonguard)
Call of Duty on Battle.net
Symmetra's Shield Generator Ult
Scepter of the Shifting Sands Quest Chain
Rescuing the Guy in Blackrock Depths

- You Are Not Prepared
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StarCraft 64
Microsoft Acquisition
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7v1 comp stomp no noob no bs
Ready Player One
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Do You Guys Not Have Phones?
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World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
Bobby Kotick
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Being Corrupted into a Being Raid Boss

- Not Even Death Can Save You
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Overwatch 2's PvE Cancellation
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Cosby Suite

Junker Queen

wow classic hardcore

Anagram posted...

Is... is this the only thing of note in Deadwind Pass?

That was where the Forgotten Crypt was, where you could only get in as a spirit and had the upside-down bodies tied to chains. Apparently in Legion they eventually did something with the Crypt. That was another kinda cool part about original WoW; the stuff they dropped in that would eventually open up later like Mt. Hyjal or the gates to Uldum. I imagine they must have used everything by now.

Nom: Gnomeregan

Marius (Diablo II)

Arthas chooses to purge Stratholme.

Deadwind Pass now houses Legion's "elite" dungeon - both wings of Return to Karazhan - and it was where Dalaran was sitting for a little bit at the start of the expansion (before they teleported it to the Broken Shore)

Honestly, they keep going back to old zones every so often. Darkshore, Uldum, and the Arathi Highlands wound up being important in Battle for Azeroth. And... uh..

Nomination: Silithus + "What sword?"

Twilight of the Gods (Reign of Chaos final battle)

Leeroy Jenkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8kx7zMdvRI

(if you need context for the intro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qclWxalxrs)

Hemet Nesingwary

Diablo II paladin builds

Isquen posted...

Nomination: Silithus + "What sword?"

What is this? The Sword of Sargeras is all I found googling it, is that what you meant?

Carbot Animations

Warcraft III RoC Human Campaign End Cinematic

Anagram posted...

What is this? The Sword of Sargeras is all I found googling it, is that what you meant?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5lDoW_tye4

C9

bryans7 posted...

That was where the Forgotten Crypt was, where you could only get in as a spirit and had the upside-down bodies tied to chains. Apparently in Legion they eventually did something with the Crypt. That was another kinda cool part about original WoW; the stuff they dropped in that would eventually open up later like Mt. Hyjal or the gates to Uldum. I imagine they must have used everything by now.

Honestly I loved that about classic WoW. Between climbing up mountains, abusing Noggenfogger Elixirs, climbing into walls, etc you could really get to some interesting areas. Made it feel like there was so much to explore in the world.

So I guess nominate Hidden Areas in WoW Classic.

Isquen posted...

Deadwind Pass now houses Legion's "elite" dungeon - both wings of Return to Karazhan - and it was where Dalaran was sitting for a little bit at the start of the expansion (before they teleported it to the Broken Shore)

Honestly, they keep going back to old zones every so often. Darkshore, Uldum, and the Arathi Highlands wound up being important in Battle for Azeroth. And... uh..

Nomination: Silithus + "What sword?"

bryans7 posted...

That was where the Forgotten Crypt was, where you could only get in as a spirit and had the upside-down bodies tied to chains. Apparently in Legion they eventually did something with the Crypt. That was another kinda cool part about original WoW; the stuff they dropped in that would eventually open up later like Mt. Hyjal or the gates to Uldum. I imagine they must have used everything by now.

Nom: Gnomeregan

Oh, I'm glad they added more to DWP, it is, if nothing else, a cool-looking zone.

Stitches

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The Deckard Cain Rap

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Get to 300

300!