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World of Warcraft Comes to South Park
lmd writes "The first episode of South Park Season 10 is this Wednesday, October 4, at 10:00 PM Eastern/Pacific Time on Comedy Central. It will be called "Make Love, Not Warcraft". A sneak peek in Quicktime and DivX is available." Flash version of the blurb courtesy of Kotaku.
What zone are they in? It looks kinda like Hillsbrad, near the internment camp, but I don't recognize the structure. Anyone with better WoW geography than me able to post a screenshot of themselves standing in front of that building? Or did Blizzard give them a private server with unique geography? (TBC zone perhaps?)
Ironically, this is true for me! I'm raiding Naxxramas when this episode first airs. It's too bad Comedy Central isn't known for excessively re-running the crap out of a show, otherwise I might get a chance to see it again! Oh, wait, nevermind... :P
Hey, if any of you bored slashdoters with WoW accounts want to run around with an epic geared rogue on Whisperwind for a bit, drop me a tell. Check out my uberleet gear!
And before the stereotypical comments come in about WoW raiders having no life I feel I must point out that yes, that's entirely true! Haha, well, more true for the hard-core pvpers grinding rank. Raiding actually only takes a few hours a night, which, while sounding like a lot, isn't really much different than watching TV a few hours a night like the average American. And considering the quaity of most TV shows and how annoying commercials are becoming, I think WoW is a lot more entertaining.
Yeah, the delay is stupid - especially when we can get The Daily Show and Letterman really quickly. The problem is that they don't realise that South Park is sometimes current-affairs based satire that needs to be seen quickly.
I'm very glad they stop half-way through the series. It gives them more time to come up with ideas, hopefully reducing the number of shitty "crab people" episodes. US TV is too often run line an assembly line, but really good comedy doesn't work on demand like that.
It is the lowest level of mmorpg: dice-based "combat" game. It lacks any tatical or strategic elements, which you'd think would be emphasized considering the "massively multiplayerness" of the whole thing.
It's very pretty, but it's no more complicated than bridge or cribbage. In fact, that's insulting to bridge and cribbage. It's a bit more akin to a giant, endless game of slapjack.
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I have to agree. I played 30 hours of WoW (level 20 hunter, level 8 Warlock) after reading so much about it. It finally dawned on me that it wasn't going to get any more interesting and that 7 million people really do like playing a game where your time is split between watching your avatar on auto-run and mindlessly pressing the same sequence of buttons hour after hour. It is addictive in that there always appears to be something more exciting round the next corner, but as a game it's terrible.
It looks like you left right before it got good.
The first 20-25 levels are boring as hell, as there's not much to do other than fetch quests and farming. But once you get into instanced dungeons, the game picks up and becomes great fun, although there's certainly still a good deal of grinding to do. The five-man dungeons in WoW are an absolute blast, and there's always something new to see until right around the time you hit the level cap.
The endgame is terrible--40-man raids are horrible in oh-so-many ways--you can't get 40 people together without some degree of bullshit, be it guild drama, inept players, scheduling problems or terrible leadership, and once you do, you're spending dozens of hours a week doing the same thing over and over again for the chance to get a few pieces of virtual armor with higher numbers on them--but I had loads of fun on the journey to level 60.