Da biggest baddest Waaagh!

So, I’ve known Warhammer Age of Reckoning was slated to be released from a long time ago, and since the beginning I was very enthusiastic about it, unfortunately things happened, and I forgot about it for a period of time. Recently (and ironically, right before almost making the decision to head back into WoW due to a complete lack of anything to do) my best friend, told me to view the new Warhammer trailer. So I did. And I do not regret it one bit. I was always a fan of Warhammer games, previously mostly only the 40k stuff. But I’ve gotten very deeply into the Lore (High Elven mostly, since High Elven classes will be my primary mainstays upon entry into the game) and found one particular class, the Swordmaster, to be quite interesting since it could revive my rather dead Blood Elf Paladin character, with how he was actually intended to be in the first place, but could not be due to WoW’s issues (including but not limited to terrible RPers, and the unbelievable amount of queerness among Blood Elves, lack of interesting or even coherent lore, and plenty of other just generally crappy things.)

I’ve done much research into the High Elves and as a fan of both Nordic and Chinese cultures, I rather appreciate the crossing of the two into one. Especially the “Sword Dancing” that the High Elven Swordmasters perform, which is basically a Chinese art form (most would know this as Jedi Light Saber fighting though.) There are plenty of other aspects in terms of influences that I enjoy in the High Elf race (although the entire game has some amazing influences from real life, notably the Holy Roman Empire in the form of…surprise, the Empire) But I’ll delve into those in a subsequent post. So if you’re into MMORPGs, I don’t think that Mythic would fail to deliver, nor anything from the Warhammer world. Here are both the new and old trailers, in that order, for your viewing pleasure.

If you wish to know more, visit Warhammer Age of Reckoning’s Website.

World of Haven’t-Played Craft.

As of the past two, three months, I’ve had absolutely no activity in World of Warcraft for several reasons. One, my internet died for a month. Two, my subscription ended when I got my internet back. Three, I haven’t had the motivation enough to go and purchase a new card so I can play again. I’ve been listening to this album by Ars Arcana, called “The Savage Tongue.” It’s all instrumental stuff, basically. Some really epic pieces. The whole album I associate with playing my most recent character in World of Warcraft with, since I listened to the album extensively while playing on him.

Just listening to this makes me wonder what the hell has become of my realm, Steamwheedle Cartel. The place has probably become completely different. Everyone I knew as little infant level 1’s are probably epic’d out level 70’s. It pains me to think about some of the memories I had in game, especially while listening to this album by Ars Arcana. Long and the short of it is, World of Warcraft, to me, is unlike any other game. So much music I have, I associate with memories of points in my World of Warcraft timeline, and with certain characters, and events. I guess it’s just that powerful of a game at points. My life has been moving along quite well without World of Warcraft, but just as of recently, I’ve been itching to get back into the game.

Which, also raises the issue of my character. He’s been “dead” for many months, and suddenly comes back. I have an interesting story for his disappearance, but will anybody who cared about my character even care about him anymore? Will they even remember Tszuriel Candorfin, Sergeant of the Argent Dawn and zombie killer extraordinaire? Probably not. Maybe in my wishful thinking. But maybe a few will. Perhaps I will venture out tomorrow to purchase a 60 Day card and hop back into Azeroth, and resume my life as a Paladin.