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I used to be really into Warcraft. I don't think I ever played the first one very much until later out of a sense of completeness. I got into it when Warcraft 2 came out and loved the hell out of it. Then Starcraft came out and I loved the SHIT out of that and sort of forgot about Warcraft and didn't really care much about it ever again. There was a time when they were developing an adventure game where you played a young orc raised by humans that I was really excited for, but that game was cancelled and they moved onto Warcraft 3 and eventually World of Warcraft, which I returned to having no interest in whatsoever.
The thing about the later Warcrafts is that I might have been interested in them if it didn't look like the characters were designed specifically to stop me from being interested. At this point, ever WoW character that I see (as action figures at the comic shop) just looks like an amalgamation of every drawing in the margin of a 4th period English class notebook in the whole world. Everything is so huge and stupid. Huge and stupid axes, huge and stupid swords, huge and stupid spikey shoulder pads, huge and stupid clompy metal boots. Except the women who dress like sweet sweet slutty sluts (sluttiness is a form of armor in most fantasy world situations). The word to describe the design ouvre of Warcraft at this point would be "juvenile," or maybe "addmorespikes."
But anyway, I liked Starcraft more because it was in space with cool aliens and stuff, and there was some subtlety. And I've waited forever for Starcraft 2 to finally come out. And the designs were really cool. The humans had big huge powered armor suits so that they'd have a chance against the aliens and they still didn't do much good, and the protoss were like, whatever, protoss. The zerg were the best though and my favorite was the hydralisk. It was the right amount of creepy and scary shit while still maintaining a good sense of proportion in its design. All sleek and sort of insectoid sort of reptilian.
But look at what good ol' hydralisk looks like in the new game.
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The thing about the later Warcrafts is that I might have been interested in them if it didn't look like the characters were designed specifically to stop me from being interested. At this point, ever WoW character that I see (as action figures at the comic shop) just looks like an amalgamation of every drawing in the margin of a 4th period English class notebook in the whole world. Everything is so huge and stupid. Huge and stupid axes, huge and stupid swords, huge and stupid spikey shoulder pads, huge and stupid clompy metal boots. Except the women who dress like sweet sweet slutty sluts (sluttiness is a form of armor in most fantasy world situations). The word to describe the design ouvre of Warcraft at this point would be "juvenile," or maybe "addmorespikes."
But anyway, I liked Starcraft more because it was in space with cool aliens and stuff, and there was some subtlety. And I've waited forever for Starcraft 2 to finally come out. And the designs were really cool. The humans had big huge powered armor suits so that they'd have a chance against the aliens and they still didn't do much good, and the protoss were like, whatever, protoss. The zerg were the best though and my favorite was the hydralisk. It was the right amount of creepy and scary shit while still maintaining a good sense of proportion in its design. All sleek and sort of insectoid sort of reptilian.
But look at what good ol' hydralisk looks like in the new game.
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