I'm weak. That's about all everyone needs to know. I broke
down yesterday and bought World of Warcraft, even after I swore I would
not even touch it until I got all of my finals and papers and such for
all of my classes done. Well, like I said, I'm weak. I
ended up creating my character last night when I got back from
volleyball, and I am now a Human Rogue on the Darkspear server along
with Afro and other guys around here playing the game. If you're
playing and you want to look me up, my character's name is
Arbiter. (heheheh)
Beyond that though, the game is incredibly fun. I don't know
what exactly it is about the game, but I love it. The combat is
fun, and even in melee combat, you're able to do many different skills
or strikes to keep the combat interesting, and you never feel like
you're just sitting there waiting for your character to land the
finishing blow, you can always add on abilities or do special strikes
to help speed up the process. The landscape is truly Warcraft as
well. Some of the little touches that I ran into last night made
me really smile. Around the Abbey where I started, there were
some NPC peasants walking around, and by clicking on them, they gave
their standard Warcraft III answers like, "More Work?" Truly,
Blizzard knew how to give this MMORPG the style and the fun that would
make this game worthy of the Warcraft name.
If you've been
looking for a good game to get yourself into the MMORPG realm, this is
it. WoW, after only just a few hours is extremely fun, and you
don't find yourself completely helpless in the beginning, unlike some
other MMOs, like Final Fantasy XI. Overall, the game is pretty
cool, and I can't wait to keep playing and gaining special abilities
and such like that. Backstab rocks.
-Jack
