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What are you playing this week?
I uninstalled Slay the Spire 1 and 2. I realized that the games (mainly sts2) took up a lot of time and capacity due to my need to play optimally, without giving me much joy in return.
Started and finished a Civ V game instead. I got around 30 wonders, because I was playing on a more relaxed difficulty than usual.
Tried out The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales (demo) briefly. Dismayed to find it has no ultrawide support. And they call it HD-2D yet all the characters are pixel art style. Might play it in 16:9 on my TV at some polnt. They've priced it very highly, and it has denuvo, so I might wait for a deep discount further down the road.
I'm still playing WoW Classic TBC. I'm more playing it to goof around than anything, so at this point I've started eleven characters and my highest leveled is just now reaching Outland. I'm amazed at the variety of players in the game these days. You somehow have complete morons who have no idea how to play a 30 year old game come on dude, and try-hards who are dead set on effortmaxxing a 30 year old game. In other words, everyone trying harder than me is a loser who needs to get a life, and everyone trying less hard than me is a mouthbreathing moron.
Experiencing the game again, I've played through all the starting zones, and I'm trying to decide if, when designing WoW, the devs/lore team liked the Horde better, or if they did the Alliance first and figured a lot out before starting on the Horde. Because the Horde starting zones are all so much better in basically every way. The leveling experience to 20 is just so superior for the Horde than for the Alliance, and there's no countervailing improvement later. My ranking of starting zones would go:
Undead>Blood Elves>>Orcs/Trolls>>Dwarves/Gnomes>>>>>>Humans>>>>>Night Elves
I just kinda hate the Dranei entirely so I can't really rate them fairly. They're just so stupid that I can't even really put them on the scale, but if I had to there would 500 lbs of whale shit before we get to them.
The routing is better, the leveling process is easier, the early dungeons are better integrated into the questing process, the different races have better access to each other. It's easier and smoother in non-dumb ways. Leveling in the Barrens or Silverpine, you are consistently moving from quest to quest on level and routing smoothly without running into the wrong areas; in Westfall you can't level through without leaving or grinding, and you're constantly routing through higher level mobs if you aren't careful and getting splattered in the dirt. The Undead have a consistent story and enemies, as do the Orcs and Tauren. The Night Elves and Dwarves seem to just noodle around doing nothing in particular, the Gnomes get basically zero lore after one (admittedly great) level 30 instance. The Humans are the worst, the way the game is laid out by nature the "evil" Defias Brotherhood bandits vastly outnumber both player characters and friendly NPCs, indicating that...you're the baddie. You're the agent of an oppressive government striking down a mass peasant rebellion against an out-of-touch elite. The Defias never even really do anything bad, we're just told they are bad and evil because they're building a giant ...Pirate ship? Dumbass storyline.
Back in the day my main was a Night Elf Druid, and I can still hear in my head the ambient music, which was best for Night Elves out of all the factions. Shadowglen -> Teldrassil-> Darnassus -> Ashenvale. Who could forget Moonfall? I mean despite it being parodied in South Park. I was never one of those players who put on death metal or whatever as the music; I always kept the game music, which set the mood. Horde music sucked, except maybe the Undead, which was dark, but eventually repetitive. The music in Stormwind and surrounding was way over-the-top "We are the pure ones" herald horns and brass. I'm sure all of it was done by one guy on a synthesizer but it was all very impressive. Dun Morogh in particular I liked.
Funny, I also raided with a Nelf feral druid back when TBC came out the first time. I liked that on a Druid I could very easily tank, dps, and quest without changing up my gear or spec.
The music might have changed my opinion, but these days I'm playing on the couch next to the quite pregnant Mrs. FiveHour, who wants me in the room with her, but doesn't really want to talk to me right now.
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