Quote Originally Posted by Shougun View Post
What you liked about WoW, that I've read so far, Dark Souls (and in general all the soul-like games from FromSoft, like Bloodborne, Demon Souls, Sekiro) does in massive spades and I would say not only does it more but does it better (the environment is pretty rich in detail and the characters pretty much never give themselves a huge introduction and backstory, you pick it up overtime through objects, environment, and small quips).
Maybe I'll go give Dark Souls another shot then. I have the trilogy for PS4, but never really got around to it properly, largely because Monster Hunter World/Iceborne ate up almost 2,000 hours of my life and virtually all of the time I spent playing console games this console generation aside from the couple of weeks I spent on Nier Automata.

Quote Originally Posted by Shougun View Post
Although in a big critique of WoW- I think they handle retcons poorly and their general quality, I feel from watching random story / lore / game announcement videos, is that it has gone down over time, I enjoy the ideas and concepts of the new things they try and I wouldn't say anything like the team is devoid of skill or interesting concepts (and I feel often players here give it an unfair shake, especially since many of the ideas one game uses another seems to be influenced on in a back and forth), but that there appears to be lack of funds and time they need to do what they should have done well (which I feel the earlier days of Blizzard that wouldn't have happened, Blizzard used to be my favorite company for "whatever happens, it'll be done good" but I wouldn't trust anything until it's been thoroughly reviewed first (there are still a few companies out there that'll refuse to deliver anything but excellence but they seem to be fewer and fewer).
Absolutely. Warcraft III and early WoW had a serviceable story, though I always felt WCIII and anything related to it, such as WotLK, was generally overrated in that regard. Following MoP, however, Blizzard basically gave up on doing anything genuinely new in favor of an unending stream of returns and retcons in a cheap attempt to cash in on nostalgia regardless of the demands it placed on the universe. A lot of the retcons they introduce actually make even bigger problems than they fix, like the Legion being the same Legion in every reality. Why should any player want to care about the lore when the people making it obviously don't and change it regularly to suit their most immediate needs?