World of Warcraft

Well, I havn't posted in a very long time, mostly due to life, school, life, getting a girl friend, life, school, you get the picture. But now I'm more or less planning on keeping to the straight and narrow path of blogging so to speak. And to kick it off I am posting about a new phase of my life, World of Warcraft.

I'm sure most of you know about world of warcraft. It's the multiplayer game set in the world of Azeroth, the land of the warcraft games. My friend brice recently convinced me to try it out, and ever since then I've been hooked. I'm planning to buy a subscription either tomorrow or over the weekend.

But anyway, I'm currently playing a level 16 Night Elf Hunter named NorinMHX and I just started a level 7 dwarf warior named Thrashimus. Overall I have to say that, while not being the absolute best MMO I have ever played, it comes pretty close. The graphics, while not flashy by todays standard are no slouch, and the sheer size of the game map that rivals Star Wars Galaxies in it's size makes me wonder how many poor people spent years to make it. As you travel around in the world (something that has earned this game the title World of Walkcraft, more on that later) I can't help but wonder "where are the freakin' transitions". Each "zone" of the map has a distinct weather, darkness, landscape, etc. In the 5 zones I have traveled I have walked across the border and gone from sunny daylight to dark twilight and back to sunny daylight in the space of a few minutes. Something to be desired there, but still nothing game breaking. The monsters seem varried, and the combat is a little more in depth than you traditional right click, wait, buff, wait, power, wait, loot, but still is nothing like Lineage 2 or ragonok in it's complexity. My biggest problem I have with the game is that there is no way of traveling except by walking or taking a ship until you discover flight paths (which you have to do in ever city before you can fly there), so you wind up walking... a lot.

Overall, good game, I look forward to getting to lvl 60 (maybe 70 if I get the pack). Buy this if you like these kind of games.