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--- lb:warcraft [2025-05-12 12:37:59] – [Trivilinks] ninjasr
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 ====== Warcraft ======
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 **Warcraft** is a fantasy(ish) game franchise created by Blizzard. It was initially a series of RTS games, then an MMO called **World of Warcraft**, which you've probably heard of once or twice. Besides the games, there are several books and comics expanding and tearing apart the story.\\  I think of myself as a pretty big Warcraft fan, seeing as I've been playing //The Frozen Throne// semi-regularly since I was 9 or 10...in single-player only. That said, I am not at all happy about how the story has gone since //The Frozen Throne//((:fn:>You could say I basically hate the direction.)) and I don't think anything short of a hard reset can fix the issues that plague Warcraft. Ironically, although I really //really// like a lot of what Warcraft has, I can’t help but criticize it.\\  Anyhow, let's just get into it.
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-[[lb:wc:alexstrasza]] • [[lb:wc:azshara]] • [[lb:wc:onyxia]]\\  [[lb:wc:naga]] • [[lb:wc:nelf]] • [[lb:wc:sayaad]]\\  [[lb:wc:darnassian]]
+[[lb:wc:alexstrasza]] • [[lb:wc:azshara]] • [[lb:wc:onyxia]] • [[lb:wc:sally whitemane]]\\
+[[lb:wc:blood elves]] • [[lb:wc:high elves]] • [[lb:wc:draenei]] • [[lb:wc:naga]] • [[lb:wc:nelf]] • [[lb:wc:sayaad]]\\
+[[lb:wc:alliance]] • [[lb:wc:defias]] • [[lb:wc:scarlet crusade]]\\
+[[lb:wc:darnassian]]\\
+[[lb:wc:forgotten]] • [[lb:wc:retcons]]
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 ===== Notes =====
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 === Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos ===
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 The story here is good...I think. Though there is an obvious problem in that it doesn't really explain how we went from Warcraft 2 to here...not that I've played Warcraft 2, but there is basically zero explanation of the state of affairs.\\  It's also obvious that this is when they started doing whatever.
 === Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne ===
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 The story here is pretty good as well. I mean, it's the second half of Arthas' story, which is nice.\\  My notes note that the most notable thing that I noticed was the rebalance. Though all I really noticed was that units were made cheaper.\\  The last thing I'll note is that I //think// this was the first time players encountered the **Old Gods**. Right now though? Not infuriating. If only those players knew.\\  Though I'm not saying much here, //The Frozen Throne// is definitely one of my favorite games of all time.
 ==== Warcraft (Film) ====
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 I'll be honest...I think fans are too harsh with this film. Blizzard was less respectful towards Warcraft and they //own// it.\\  I occasionally re-watch the film because I legitimately like it. The aesthetic was nailed (though I would have preferred the WC3-era aesthetics). The plot //just works// and, while trying to make the worldbuilding cohesive is an un-enviable job...they did a pretty good job with making it all fit. Ironically, I've found fans don't like that it wasn't a good adaptation...but it did do a good job adapting lore that constantly changes.\\  That said, there are issues here:
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     * The term I use for it (WoWW or WoW Wiki) is technically not correct, as it's simply the ‘Warcraft Wiki’, but I don't think it matters too much.
   * [[https://www.hiveworkshop.com|HIVE]]
-    * A Warcraft forum based around Warcraft 3 modding. Also great for looking for tech issues with Warcraft 3.
+    * A Warcraft forum based around Warcraft 3 modding. Also great for looking for help with tech issues.
   * [[1d6>Warcraft]]
   * [[1d6>World_of_Warcraft|World of Warcraft]]
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   * Despite the use of a [[lb:wc:nelf|Nelf]] in the banner images and the use of their language...I almost didn't publish the article on them. I realized that this would have been //weird//, so I polished it last-minute.
   * I just remembered this...but when Reforged first came out, I was shocked by how //bad// it looked. It still looks pretty bad. Are there people who seriously think this looks better?
+  * I should note that I do want to re-play Warcraft 3...again...as well as some custom campaigns, but I'm experiencing some esoteric bug that has disabled about half of the sounds in-game.
+    * So I decided to test it just now and, get this, it's working again for some reason. No clue why. At least that's the case for the old version of the game. Maybe I should check for unofficial patches.