The Undead...

masteen · Post by **masteen** » November 15, 2004, 3:46 pm

I have to admit that I am impressed with the way Blizzard developed this race. Their quests tell many sad stories of families torn apart even in undeath by the Scourge, and of the dark hope that these people have to survive. I have to say kudos to Blizzard for their handling of what I thought would be the most unsympathetic race.

archeiron · Post by **archeiron** » November 15, 2004, 3:51 pm

I have to agree that the Undead areas are very well done. I will be playing one at release.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » November 15, 2004, 6:04 pm

As a story side-note,

Thrall wanted nothing to do with the Forsaken joining the horde. It was Cairne and the Tauren that convinced Thrall to give them a chance and let them in.

archeiron · Post by **archeiron** » November 15, 2004, 6:16 pm

Animalor wrote:As a story side-note,

Thrall wanted nothing to do with the Forsaken joining the horde. It was Cairne and the Tauren that convinced Thrall to give them a chance and let them in.

As the "New Age" is not covered on http://www.worldofwarcraft.com website, I would be curious to know where you are getting the lore from. There isn't a lot of information on the events leading right up to modern times from the end of the Frozen Throne campaign.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » November 15, 2004, 6:18 pm

I was expecting them to be written as very blood-thirsty and soulless, but the quest arcs portray them in an almost sympathetic light.

Post by **Xouqoa** » November 15, 2004, 6:41 pm

But they're not undead anymore. They are unundead.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » November 15, 2004, 7:52 pm

Living undead girl?

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » November 15, 2004, 8:13 pm

archeiron wrote:
Animalor wrote:As a story side-note,

Thrall wanted nothing to do with the Forsaken joining the horde. It was Cairne and the Tauren that convinced Thrall to give them a chance and let them in.
As the "New Age" is not covered on http://www.worldofwarcraft.com website, I would be curious to know where you are getting the lore from. There isn't a lot of information on the events leading right up to modern times from the end of the Frozen Throne campaign.

In-game quests =)

There's a quest thread that deals with this part of the story.

Don't figure it's important enough to black out as a spoiler

Fenna · Post by **Fenna** » November 16, 2004, 12:17 pm

I also like the fact that many of the undead NPC's have normal names, or as normal as names get in a Fantasy setting. It shows that they were probably normal people before becoming undead. And then they go back and live normal lives, like being a farmer, but they're actually walking corpses. Just like real life.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » November 16, 2004, 12:46 pm

Equal rights for the formerly living!

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » November 16, 2004, 1:38 pm

Has anyone noticed a group of undead NPC's hanging out in the Undercity are named after the members of Project Mayhem from Fight Club?

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » November 16, 2004, 2:48 pm

Skogen wrote:Has anyone noticed a group of undead NPC's hanging out in the Undercity are named after the members of Project Mayhem from Fight Club?

Yeah I saw them. Pretty funny

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » November 16, 2004, 5:04 pm

I've been trying to decide whether to play EQ2 or WOW. My computer runs WOW very well and will barley run EQ2. So far I really like the Quests in WOW as well. Are you guys going to be playing at release?

Marb

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » November 16, 2004, 8:40 pm

Undead Yes! Unperson No!

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » November 16, 2004, 9:31 pm

Marbus wrote:I've been trying to decide whether to play EQ2 or WOW. My computer runs WOW very well and will barley run EQ2. So far I really like the Quests in WOW as well. Are you guys going to be playing at release?

Marb

Sounds like you've already come to your conclusion, but let me finish it off for you. WoW is fun, EQ2 is not.

Avestan · Post by **Avestan** » November 16, 2004, 10:22 pm

after playing both, I am actually leaning towards EQ2. . .more depth at endgame. *shrug* tough call.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » November 17, 2004, 1:17 am

WoW is sooooo much fun

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » November 17, 2004, 2:26 am

Avestan wrote:after playing both, I am actually leaning towards EQ2. . .more depth at endgame. *shrug* tough call.

I dunno what EQ2 will be like at endgave but for every easy level you got from 1-60 in WoW, the challenge will be returned to you 10fold in raids.

I've seen Onyxia and the best attempt right now has only managed to get her down to 65% of max health.

When she hit that she started flying around and buttraped the raid.

WoW endgame is gonna be rockin.

Pherr the Dorf · Post by **Pherr the Dorf** » November 17, 2004, 3:13 am

Animalor wrote:
Avestan wrote:after playing both, I am actually leaning towards EQ2. . .more depth at endgame. *shrug* tough call.
I dunno what EQ2 will be like at endgave but for every easy level you got from 1-60 in WoW, the challenge will be returned to you 10fold in raids.

I've seen Onyxia and the best attempt right now has only managed to get her down to 65% of max health.

When she hit that she started flying around and buttraped the raid.

WoW endgame is gonna be rockin.

A mob that assrapes suddenly at random at a certain % doesn't sound like OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS of fun

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » November 17, 2004, 9:44 am

Pherr the Dorf wrote:
Animalor wrote:
Avestan wrote:after playing both, I am actually leaning towards EQ2. . .more depth at endgame. *shrug* tough call.
I dunno what EQ2 will be like at endgave but for every easy level you got from 1-60 in WoW, the challenge will be returned to you 10fold in raids.

I've seen Onyxia and the best attempt right now has only managed to get her down to 65% of max health.

When she hit that she started flying around and buttraped the raid.

WoW endgame is gonna be rockin.
A mob that assrapes suddenly at random at a certain % doesn't sound like OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS of fun

And you played EQ for how long?

Pherr the Dorf · Post by **Pherr the Dorf** » November 17, 2004, 11:40 am

Animalor wrote:
Pherr the Dorf wrote:
Animalor wrote:
Avestan wrote:after playing both, I am actually leaning towards EQ2. . .more depth at endgame. *shrug* tough call.
I dunno what EQ2 will be like at endgave but for every easy level you got from 1-60 in WoW, the challenge will be returned to you 10fold in raids.

I've seen Onyxia and the best attempt right now has only managed to get her down to 65% of max health.

When she hit that she started flying around and buttraped the raid.

WoW endgame is gonna be rockin.
A mob that assrapes suddenly at random at a certain % doesn't sound like OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS of fun
And you played EQ for how long?

My point exactly, thanks for backin me up, sounds awfullllll familiar