this expansions feels like it was made between 10 am and 2 pm on a Monday after u party all weekend ! XD nothing original , everything is like , lets get this shit out i dont want to see it anymore !
@alexxenaosas2416 this comment feels like the same hate comment about the game on a video about the game they don't like apparently but deep down they play the game anyway
@@GorehowlBeardhead the 80% of players who quit because is all downhill, but still want a good mmo so they keep watching wow news to see if they improve only to be disappointed and complain again...
I hate how chaotic they make all the early quests. Like, "WE NEED TO PUSH FORWARD OR WE'LL DIE" and it's always a bunch of wreckage, dead bodies, infinite spawn of enemies that dont do damage, players 1 shotting everything... compare that with classic where you actually had to take care not to aggro 2 mobs at the same time, take your time, use your cooldowns. Now everyone is jumping teleporting 1shotting, not even reading quests, everything glows, 7000 addons and a clusterfuck of things on the monitor
You were killing Gods an expansion ago - the power level of players is justified... What game expects us to do with that power outside of "railroaded" story events is another thing though.. playing a godslayer-errand boy is a narrative failure.
Nahhh they shoulda given that Khadgar Scene more Budget. He did one Hyperbeam and was all tired and shit - They made him act old and senile and shit. If you gonna kill someone off atleast make them go out in a bang like Varian. Imagine Khadgar uses Ice Block then goes birb mode then does several more Hyperbeams and its this big action scene. But nahhhhhhh, Dark Heart plot armor one shots Khadgar.
@wernighpotgieter1048 this ^, 100% he just got kidnapped, literally like 2 cutscenes later or before (I forget which) xalatath tells her dudes to kidnap people and that she has plans for them
I don't think that is inacurate to how Khadgar is presented usually though. Remember the effort it took him to blow up the dan to stop the Iron Horde in WoD? The effort to teleport us out of Kil'jaeden's ship after Tomb of Sargeras? Khadgar is very powerful but his shows of strength have alwys been a bit on the slow side.
@@linkaiser8709 He casts spells - It's not bc he is struggling. - In Alternate Draenor the magic was being "weird". In Kil'jaedens Ship he is teleporting several people in a long distance location so the supposed "cast" time would be longer. Here they are clearly trying to make it seem like he is senile. He was out of Breathe after one "Hyperbeam" - while in the Harbingers cinematic he pulls off one of those Beam with one hand and look badass. They did this to make Xal look like a threat. But the very least they coulda done is gave Khadgar a fight.
It's not Early Access - the product is ready (which makes it even worse). It's normal access, they just try to extort players to pay extra for normal access to the game. Let's not fall for naeketing language and call their extortion Early Access.
3 days EA is a scam.. Nothing really opens for a month (season 1 begins).. Till then its just leveling your toons and afk for the next month till raids open etc.
@@jakuboledzki6499there's a good chance TWW would still be released on the 26 if the early access didn't exist. WotLK and WoD were released on a Thursday/Friday. The other 6 expansions were released on a Monday/Tuesday. Majority of big games are pretty much finished weeks/months before release day, the time remaining till release is usually spent on bugs and buffs/nerfs. Still, its insanely scummy to sell 3 day early access.
Maybe, but EA is a good thing. It means there's less people all logging in at the same time on launch day. It also means that the starting areas will be less congested.
Man not just that but it’s literally the same quest grinds, kill this pick uo this and talk to that guy or free someone. It’s so unimaginative that i would demand a refund after 10 minutes in if i were a sucker to wow still.
@@LucifaarEA fucking sucks, especially in a game like WoW. There's been 0 issues with launches since WoD. Let's not pretend this is anything but greed from Blizzard.
Same, why the fuck do they keep killing off old established loved characters to "build up" these shitty new ones that no one cares about. I mean fuck, it didn't help make even Sylvanas a cool character when she beat the lich king and killed Saurfang, why the fuck do they think that the same narrative device is going to work with this void encrusted knife-ear. It just immediately tells me they have learned nothing on how to develop a character.
@@nolp2898because destroying the heroic ideal is part of the agenda (especially if the hero is male). They can’t make you give up your possessions and eat ze bugs otherwise.
So when did Khadgar lose power? Like, he finessed the literal hell itself out of Medivh and killed his demon. So he's weaker since when exactly? I'm so fucking glad I didn't pay for this. The lore is beyond unbelievably fucked at this point, they have no way of fixing it.
@justanobody0 even if thats the case him being tired after one beam and losing that way doesnt line up with what he has done in the past. Again, when did he lose power? This is just Boruto 2.0, nerf everyone else to make the main character and villains look stronger it is fucking dumb
So to summarize the expansion: 1. You are saving the "environment" (He talked to the soul of Azeroth) 2. You save animals and can't barely kill them anymore (Peta) 3. The male leaders cry and the women stay composed. (Anduinn & Faerin Lothar) 4. The story is about people being "confused in their own body" (Still pushing politics LBTQ in this case) And people still have hope for WoW.
How come every time there is a dialogue involving a male and a female NPC, the female always ends up lambasting the male NPC, and he goes like "Yes, dear"?! Even in the Forbidden Reach at level 3, you save a druid from a cave with spiders, and a Dwarf guy is happy they got out and she goes like "Shut up! Those poor spiders!" and the Draenei woman goes "Yeah! Shut up!" and he says "Yes, dear...". What kind of tumbleristas write this crap?! I mean you KNOW it has to be a frustrated woman writing these dialogues, men don't have an axe to grind with women.
Honestly, it could just be American writing style? I noticed American scripts whether it be movies or games loves repetitive cliches or corny jokes or these weird quips. Not saying other countries do it, just we don’t rely on it as heavily. This ‘yes dear’ trope is a classic cliche. Seriously cringe.
@@jackofpixels Ah yes, you can't legitimately criticize anything involving women because then you're an "incel". Like how criticizing glorious leader in a 3rd world communist country meant you're a contra-revolutionary and American agent.
He was never the "Guardian" he trained under the guardian and has his staff but never underwent the ritual to transfer power. He was just a very power mage with an extremely strong weapon.
I actually f*cking hated Dragonflight's lore even more than Shadowlands. Everything went soft. I don't care about all the feewings and fwendship magic, hugging and kisses. Dragonflight fits more into f*cking My Little Pony than Warcraft. Big mommy energy my ass.
Yeah, instead of DragonFlight, they should’ve called it My little Dragon. Bc most of the Dracthyr designs just looked like skinny dragons from Deviantart really. Not the well crafted anthro dragon designs from Baulder’s Gate 3 and those are true dragons, Dracthyr is quite literally weird.
Wow used to be a massive world in which you don’t really matter, doing quests for random cool NPCs. You needed your friends help, and the world felt real. Now it’s literally like a single player game “HERO! You’re back we need your help!” Meanwhile everyone is standing around doing the exact same thing… in an expansion world 10% the size of Kalimdor. Everyone looks cute and colourful. Lore is destroyed. Man fuck blizzard duuuuuude
Dude, have you seen how cute and colorful warcraft 3 is? What are these criticisms? There are valid ones out there, but what has changed exactly when it comes to the visual style other than it's higher quality? If you're going to say the lore is destroyed now, do you acknowledge that TBC screwed up the lore beyond repair? And then WoD did it again? You understand how many people have said this game is dead and the story is irredeemable, yet they lived and played through that happening multiple times and somehow still have fond memories of those times. When shadowlands happens it's somehow different??? Just admit you moved on from this game. Why are you so angry? It's just a game.
@@hobosnake1the visual style has definitely changed, the game has always been relatively colourful but it’s been cranked up a notch every expansion. The game definitely used to look more gritty. Just because the visual style was less sophisticated back then doesn’t mean it was cute. Look at the original art for WoW and compare it to the Pixar characters of today. Gear and weapons also look more and more ridiculous. When it comes to lore, I’m not talking about whether the lore breaks WC3 lore or whatever, as long as the lore is good. Early expansions lore were easy to follow and pretty cool. Lore now is a convoluted mess of relationships, feelings, esoteric far out subjects, existentialism, galaxy level tnreats. The game has changed and not for the better, you know I’m right because the sub numbers don’t lie. And no, I don’t have fond memories of shadowlands, didn’t play it because I don’t like the game anymore. I do miss the game a lot, what it used to be.
@@meurumtrain4747 yeah it makes sense, but it shouldn’t have come to this is what I’m saying. Shouldn’t have taken the game in this direction, it’s an mmo that tries to be a single player hero game with the story. It was better when you could watch the story unfold and play a small part in it, it felt epic. Now you’re present for every major event in the world and have saved huge lore characters personally. And so are all your mates, and all your alts. It’s just ridiculous
The internet: "WoW is back, it's as good as legion, the quests are so good." *clicks to random point in asmongold's video to see him bored clicking through a quest to 'play with orphans'* mfw 😒
Gameplay and visuals are good. Plot is pretty stupid so far. Every zone plot is this: Angry/evil male running things poorly/too rigidly. Smart/good woman decides to set things right.
@@joshholmes1372 I'll rephrase. The overall plot is decent. Most of the new characters in each zone fit the above mold. So the plot is OK, the new characters in each zone are largely dumb.
@@joshholmes1372not really. These people are just insane and they don't know what they're talking about. They're looking so hard for things that are "woke" that only the women stand out to them and they disregard everything else. Forget that Anduin literally pulls a Varian Wrynn. Nope that never happened. That could never happen because WoW is so "woke". Aka "I dislike women and had no personal growth since I started playing WoW at 13 years old"
If people actually wanted WoW to get better, they'd hold back their impulse from playing - let Blizzard hit the rock bottom (Which it won't as long as people get tricked by marketing and nostalgia baits) and then, Blizzard will actually start to make changes that can bring it closer to the glorious MMO it was. You can't blame an entity of profit for milking everything, when it's enabled to do just that. It will be too late, if you let it go for long enough - because majority of the players will be entirely replaced by new wave of players whom have no idea what made WoW good in the first place.
@@johnarildramberg3132 It needs to improve compared to what blizzard expects people to pay and what else is on the market for that cost. renting access to wow is no longer appealing when free to play or buy to play games offer nearly everything better than 20 year old wow.
their a multi billion dollar corpartation. why would they lose money on purpose. as a buisness model that makes no sense. as a game devloper sure but theyre smarter than you think
@@alexandermarch161 they’re either bots or really stupid. How else would I explain the ‘WOKE WOKE WOKE’ comments posted with 100 likes within 5 minutes of the video going live. Believe it or not, bots are a real thing now.
It was just more enjoyable. It was charming. You wanted to explore the world, see the new zones. Now everyone wants to zoom as fast as possible. At max level you stand in the new town queuing for instant content. Basically the whole world is a lobby for instance content. They made the world mean absolutely nothing and that's a shame. All of the zones in the past 10 years are alien worlds with none of the original charm. Between that and all the "systems" and convoluted currencies the only reason people play anymore is the combat and how smooth and reactive it is. They can only coast on their combat for so long.
Everyone trying to zoom is not a single individual's problem though. I don't zoom through a game unless it's with an alt. It's just what a lot of the player base wants to do because they want to be world first or get into certain content fast...people do this with all mmos.
@@bmw9616 dude 99% of retail playerbase are people who played this game for years and some even decades, put a 10-12 year old kid like we once was and he would be blown out by the deepness of azeroth and wouldnt rush shit to do M+
You can tell Metzen wrote the Dal intro and first couple quests, they managed to build a tiny bit a hype and then it immediately smashed into a brick wall and it all died.
That is a perfect short summary. The whole Intro with Dalaran was really good and was so fun. And then everything else happened after that and i felt absolutely nothing. No Hype, no Happiness. Just emptieness.
Metzen doesnt have absolute control like he used to, he admits as such in an interview. The woke cabal took control from him after her wrote the intro prob
@@Robin-cd8zt We don't know the full extent on Metzens involvement but Im sure he reviewed the story when he got back. Neither of you are correct in your overall assumption. He worked on it, did he write any of it? We don't know fully but we do know much of it was already worked on but as his job requires him to understand what's going on it's safe to assume he at least took hands on work in the project. There's no "Nice try ig" cause you're the same brainlet in this case.
@@Robin-cd8zt Man showed up and took over development before it was finished. You're positing that he could not possibly contribute to a project he joined mid development? That is one of the smoothest brain takes possible, the intro felt extremely legion-esque and felt nothing like the rest of the expansion, there is zero chance the same people who wrote and led DF and the majority of TWW wrote and developed that introduction.
My favorite part of WoW always was how certain areas feel very immersive. Boralus was iconic to me during BfA, so much potential for RP events. And many more areas, like the Arathi fortress they redid a few years back with updated graphics for the inn and other buildings. From what I see this expansion looks pretty, but not worth the ridiculous pricing and 22$ CAD monthly sub just to stand around and roleplay. Gameplay is so boring and getting anything done at max lvl is a second job.
I find it funny when kids say wow is not expensive because it's just 20$. Well, 20 bucks to RENT the game for 30 days. With 60-80$ you can buy a full game these days which you will own forever. On top of that they want you to buy expansions every 2 years and pay for extra cosmetics from the cash shop... too expensive!
Glad to hear the positive feedback on the visuals. They could somehow make those interior of the houses official guild meeting places, you could enter a unique zone so as not to doublebook, or you can reserve the actual room, and only that guild can go into that house
Asmon: "I love it when an RPG is really comprehensive like this. Makes the world feel alive." *Pillar falls that can easily be jumped over.* Blizzard: "YOU'LL HAVE TO FIND ANOTHER WAY AROUND"
He is playing a game were the creators of that game hate him and his guts and even say that asmongold is dangerous. The same company that Abused Women the same company that censored women and replace them with a bowl of fruit in 2019 and the censorship that's arguably more sexist
@@IKIGAIofficial no. "What it is" is AWFUL. the "it is what it is" is a maladaptive coping mechanism to roll over and let people hurt yoj and use you as a door mat You matter you deserve better. The world deserves better.
People gotta let WoW go and realize it’s not what it used to be, and neither are the people making it. They need a hard reset for this game and I’m hoping it’s after this shitty expansion trilogy. Your favorite pizza from Papa Johns could bang but 7 years later the people that work there are probably different making the same named pizza you usually get completely different, probably worse. That’s what has happened with WoW. Blizzard is riding on the coattails of their legacy while doing dogshit to live up to it
Dragonflight was great and TWW is shaping up to be even better in my opinion. You're entitled to your opinion but don't act like you speak for the majority. I bet a vast majority of the people who shit on the game have barely even touched it and just regurgitate the same shit their bubble keep spouting.
Bald man's first impressions: - 5 seconds calling story flaccid - 8 minutes of visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, music, visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, music, visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, music, visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, music - 5 minutes of saying gameplay is mid and reminiscing about old expansions once again wow survives entirely due to nostalgia of people who can't get over graphics from 20 years ago
Or maybe, the game is genuinely fine and you've just become extremely bitter towards it. The brainrot of crying about "DEI" and calling everything woke is destroying your mental ability.
5 minutes in, already bored, that quest system needs to be changed, why is the tone of wow now disney/pixar/marvel? I hate that crap. What happened to the lotr/warhammer atmosphere?
Cozy, bubbly and colorfull vibes are more appealing to the masses. Your examples disney etc are proving that. If you want a gritty and adult experience you need to play the From Software games. Or if you insist on a mmorpg then maybe ff14 or elder scrolls online, not exactly lotr /warhammer but atleast the story treats you like an adult.
@@alexandermarch161 No, I want the atmosphere that was there at its prime with the current combat, not this gay woke stuff Already beat DS and Elden Ring, need some mmo Also there is no other mmorpg on the market with as good tab target combat FFXIV and ESO are just awful games, for different reasons, this apply to every other mmo honestly So basically the 2 most played ones are the gayest, time to stop hoping, it's over WoW can't be good with the multicolored hair trans people behind it Couldn't play DF because of how woke it is too
I regret every complaint about 'the NPCs in WoW being too powerful and you being a secondary character' You were supposed to buff the player character, not nerf every fucking NPC that isn't Alleria
You cant realistically buff character that like idiot is constantly getting borrowed power to lose it next expansion. Not to mention that your evil strong Villain was just a sidekick to a true strong and evil Villain that was just a sidekick to a true strong and evil Villain that was just a sidekick to a true strong and evil Villain that was just a sidekick to a true strong and evil Villain.
considering khadgars age and what xalatath is i would say xal wins that every time. you can seethe you can cope but your just triggered a character you loved 10 years ago is dead.
@@h.benali8304sure that could make sense. But then why just sacrifice him at the start? It’s not like khadgar ran in their of his own choices. They literally WROTE home to die. Just make xalatath and him not 1v1 each other
@@brian2554 khadgar despite being weak to xalatath still was the strongest at dalaran at that moment and also he couldve won if xalatath didnt have the darkheart which is the weapon she wields (it absorbs all types of magic) it was more of a final selfless moment so most of dalaran could evacuate, its also why he says to alleria that this isnt the real fight.
Just found you recently, Asmongold. Now, I just enjoy watching your content at night since Im an insomniac. Original, passionate, and at the same time, couldn't give 2 F's... Love it, man. ✌️
Solid xpac so far. Doesn’t feel like a different game or anything but it’s apparent that they put a lot of work into quest/story design. Cinematics are great so far. Definitely feels like they’re moving things in the right direction
@@GrassSaint33 been there on launch for 6 xpac's and the servers struggling and poppin off with players were actually good content for me, bunch of interactions with people.
It's kinda nice to see these 3 go from going hard and sweating at the start of every expansion to just hanging out, chatting, chilling and just trying the make the most of a game. Just the bois having a good time
Blizzard for sure lost its marble. Even their cinematics and animations are not good anymore. Khadgar death was so anti climactic too. He's The Guardian with the staff of Medivh and all he managed to do was one slow and telegraphed spell that did absolutley nothing and that's it!? Remember the original WoW cinematic with the fire mage on top of that tower pummeling fireballs at an Infernal that was climbing towards him and by the end he freezes everything around?! Yeah, that was just a random mage being 100% epic while Khadgar died like a useless old men.
This is the exact thing I ranted about for like 5-10 mins in the beginning of my review, I haven’t saw anyone post an honest WoW review and it’s sad. SELL OUTS
@@hackintosh3899 The cel-shading look of botw is also just a concession, because the Switch can't manage better graphics without the performance completely collapsing. It is a graphic style that is not very detailed and comes with a strong glare effect and filters. Pure window dressing.
To all the peeps bitching about him purchasing the pre order while telling people to not buy the preorders ............ He's a content creator. Just be happy he's purchasing pre-orders to give you the scoop so you're potentially not wasting your money.
True, but this guy has milk toast mid level takes now and no real content anymore, talking head, but still can be entertaining I just would not call it content
Blizzard has been promoting the so called "end game" as the actual game, so no one wants to "waste" time runnig around doing quests, walking by foot and chilling around. People just want to get to "end game" ASAP
its all up to you how you want to play lol i played slow for the first two weeks and enjoyed it very, noone si forcing you to do max level content instantly, you will loose nothing unless you compete for 0.1% player base
@FillipikPlaysCZ no, actually Blizzard IS forcing you to do max level content ASAP with all those limited time rewards and things that get locked behind max level.
Why are all the female characters the only badass warriors? The male characters are emo losers and they made Anduin into justin timberlake. Wow has gone woke.
@@retrogeko7955 thrall just disappears or mopes, cries. Dwarf turned into a pretty crystal and is comedic relief. The most powerful mage just looks surprised and does nothing, dies.
@@retrogeko7955 who said anything about white? Also obvious woke narrative is not lost on anyone. A female warrior is a tired troupe that never made any sense. No guy wants to continuously play either a female warrior or a soy boy, when the game caters to mostly men. Bad market knowledge.
are yall ready for the usual arc of wow is good , then wow suck , then bellular videos about blizzard fucking shit up , then blizzard redemption , then blizzard suck , etc till we dont hear about it no more for another year and xpac
Xal'atath isn't an elf. She/it is a void entity that took over a dead elf body after being released from its dagger imprisonment and has been around since the dark empire days.
I ranted about this in my honest review / rant, but it’s crazy how khadgar launched a hyper beam at her and she just stood there and nothing happened, like no magic shield? No doge? She just stood there and didn’t even move an inch….okay???
World of Warcraft should be renamed to Women of Warcraft or World of Girlpower or some other dumbass name. Almost every single lead character is some "boss babe" and all the men seem to be completely emasculated or get blown up.
@@Koppa_Cabanahe’s right. I’ve Reddit threads full of people talking about how they’re terrified to talk to the door dash driver and have panic attacks if they knock and don’t leave the food at the door.
The graphics look like lego/legos or playmobil. Also where has the war gone in world of warcraft? I dont think these lego people that they call characters even have blood
When the only good thing left in wow is the art team. Everything else feels like its stuck in the past and is slowly eroding away, the fun is gone, the lore has been destroyed, and ur left doing the same click shiny quests to lvl . But hey, the art team did a great job huh.
@@Thalarion the same boring shit u been doing for years? the same shit where addons just tell you what to do. the same grind that gets deleted when the new patch releases and it starts all over again?
Alright, I have 100% finished the first two zones as a mounted DK and I can say that as far as questing goes, these are the best since WoD imo. I absolutely loved Ringing deeps and the story in the zones is not bad, I actually cared about some of characters and side quests. It’s not perfect but it’s such a step up and such a palate cleanser after finishing Dawntrail last month which was very painful to get through. This is coming from someone who quit mid DF campaign because I couldn’t stomach the tone and zones, the centaur zone broke me
It''s Wow, Khadgar did not die, and if he did, it'll take one expansion breaking set rules to get him alive again. or whatever they'll pull out of their sleeve. an expansion set in the afterlife of the afterlife for example.
Is it true that one of the first quests in this new expansion when your still in Dalaran has you catching butterflies??? my friend started yesterday and i will try new expansion out this weekend, but he told me that he for real had to catch butterflies and make pottery stuff.... That is just weird, whats next? quest to go in the kitchen and make a sandwich??? xD
I'm just a casual who's played WoW a few times and all these modern expansions look exactly the same to me. The Store Within doesn't excite me it looks like Fortnite graphics and they just add bots to dungeons? looks stupid on first glance
The way that void dagger girl killed or captured Khadgar is so fucking tiresome. Give us struggle from villain perspective like arthas, some kind of arc. Every villian in last couple of years was invicible and everything they do is just show up, from like mystical past and take shit effortlessly. Arthas story is the best and its not even a debate.
Exact thing I opened with in my review / rant, dude threw a hyper beam at the main villian and she just stood there and ate it without moving an inch….like come on
2:21:37 - I'm pretty sure that was one of the first YT videos of Asmongold that I saw. YT was recommending him a bunch and after like 5 tries I finally felt like "fucking fine, TH-cam, I'll check him out". Him getting killed by a GM was hilarious, and the glitching was super cool. Been watching ever since.
i dont get the complaints about delves being ''easy'',normal dungeons are also easy...its fun to do em the first time,but then you are just farming it for loot,delves are basicaly the new ''pillar'',but more solo focused
@@San4311 right sure,but even when the harder ones come out,point is the same,eventualy even m+ that gives the max gear will also become easy,unless you feel like pushing high keys ofc,but for gear max only it will get easy eventualy,if they made m+ harder assman would blow a vein
Easily the best traditional Mmorpg available. Does that mean it's great? Not really, but definitely better than the others available. I'm hoping Ashes of Creation finally gives the mmorpg something new and worthwhile to play long term
@@mr.grumps3544 Nothing about retail is traditional. It's zoomer daily mobile grind like a phone game with a horrible story. I'll give some people a pass if they play true classic and say that's a traditional experience, but this game is dead and nothing but a lame shell otherwise.
@@shaggysweetnessI don't understand the dead part, there's players everywhere in retail and classic. Do you mean it's dead like its not how it used to be?
@@TornSilencio Only due to massive server merges will you see a tiny fraction of players that used to be in the game at it's height of design and great story and gameplay. Almost every server is low pop and dead, so they had to smash them all together to barely keep it alive.
I remember I was in a french play in a theater - I was so bored, when people ask me how it was, I kinda said "that was visually stunning, framing was really awesome". When you try to like something that is not good enough.
"Why should I be the leader of our people?" "Because you care for them. Which is apparently a quality no one else has and the only one required for the job."
it's simply insane to me how little effort blizzard puts into WoW - this game engine in 2024 is beyond comical at this point. it's just downright disgraceful.
Fortnite the MMO. Completely soulless. The story is written by the most uncreative people on planet Earth for a player base they think is made up of children.
I was going to buy this yesterday and instead of letting the team cook, Blizzard just told them to be like Disney. I'm so sorry Chris, you don't deserve this treatment.
@@omensoffate Most of this was made before he was brought in. Game dev does not move that fast, especially with the weirdos at blizz now. Maybe we'll see the story improve next expansion, but chances are he's just going to do what he's told and be afraid of offending the weirdos that have taken over blizz.
About the priest set at the end, 100% whoever made that set should be making the other sets. Period, its one of the best sets ive seen and its not even close. Been playing since Vanilla WoW.
The point is not about affording it. If you have to question if can afford a game then you probably shouldn't be gaming at all. The point is whether its a good business practice or not. @@wernighpotgieter1048
if its anything like MOP remix, you just blast through content as fast as possible to do chores to upgrade gear just to finally make it before gear is obsolete. wow HC is the best version of the game where everything is extremly meaningful
First expansion I haven't played, paying to play a competitive game and still having to deal with early access was too much for me. Im sad, i loved this game so much.
Game has been dead since cataclysm. By dead i mean it lost its original soul. Yet people seemed to keep rewarding the company by playing it..I decided i after 14 years to play my shaman again, eh its ok, i will have my fun for as long as i enjoy the gameplay, which ofc is inferior to what it used to be.
@@Skyshadow1yeah it definitely feels way different. I think for me I was used to playing with old friends but once they quit I never joined another guild again and played solo, more so a lonely feeling for me I guess. It feels better when you can enjoy crazy shit with others.
I'm sick of this early access garbage. I may not play this game anymore... It's ridiculous how they messed up the event. Half of my guild wasn't able to play. What a rat move.
So I was thinking to break and maybe purchase this.. then I watched 5 minutes of this gameplay and I am like nope - not going through this again. I would likely go through 2 months of effort just to realize I'm in a pointless grind of dailies and collecting items that will get obsolete in the next patch. None of my friends are playing and Blizzard has completely erased all the good will they had with the player base. There was a time I would instabuy anything they released just to show support. Not anymore. Whoever still enjoys WoW - have fun and all the best. I'll keep my 2005-2009 guild/raid times memories close. Nothing ever came close to that and ultimately makes me realize this game was always about playing with others that you knew and liked. Whether that was my brother, my best friend or other people I met. Playing WoW today feels like an arcade, not like being part of a world. Which sucks, because I would really love it to not be like this while simultaneously aware that I don't have the time anymore to play like I used to in 2005 :)
43:14 Mcconnell catches up, levelling together starts here
6:15:19 First impressions with The War Within
this expansions feels like it was made between 10 am and 2 pm on a Monday after u party all weekend ! XD nothing original , everything is like , lets get this shit out i dont want to see it anymore !
@alexxenaosas2416 this comment feels like the same hate comment about the game on a video about the game they don't like apparently but deep down they play the game anyway
@@PulseOfMe true
@@PulseOfMe You just described about 80% of the WoW community by this point
@@GorehowlBeardhead the 80% of players who quit because is all downhill, but still want a good mmo so they keep watching wow news to see if they improve only to be disappointed and complain again...
He hadn't played wow in so long that he forgot to mispronounce Silithus.
How is it pronounced
@@NickyZanoni how asmongold Said it. Read the op again.
He mispronounced Dalaran instead.
@@NickyZanoniSil-ith-thus. Most people say Sith-uh-less
@@McCandlessMikeisnt that a disease?
Mcconnell wants Asmon to like this expansion SO BAD so he can play with him again.
McConnell is nothing without Asmon.
I think you mean so he can mooch off him again
@@justin9744 where is ur pfp from?
I want Mcconnell and Asmon back to playing WoW. Even if the expansion sucks lol
@@ashrayapoorva1839looks like Days Gone emblem
Alleria at 8:43
"She can not hide from me"
Idk man but she explained a few minutes ago that she did that for years already.
RIP Dalaran #6.
Many would be furious if the were the capital of an expansion again.
That's true, the other copies are still there lmao
I stopped playing when there was only 1 ... I cant believe you said 6
I hate how chaotic they make all the early quests. Like, "WE NEED TO PUSH FORWARD OR WE'LL DIE" and it's always a bunch of wreckage, dead bodies, infinite spawn of enemies that dont do damage, players 1 shotting everything...
compare that with classic where you actually had to take care not to aggro 2 mobs at the same time, take your time, use your cooldowns. Now everyone is jumping teleporting 1shotting, not even reading quests, everything glows, 7000 addons and a clusterfuck of things on the monitor
LMAO true
Its just the generational change, gen Z requieres more fast paced gameplay and flashy combat
@@wladynoszkapitany8277Nah we don't . Stop blaming all on us when you can't make sense of anything yourself dude
You were killing Gods an expansion ago - the power level of players is justified... What game expects us to do with that power outside of "railroaded" story events is another thing though.. playing a godslayer-errand boy is a narrative failure.
@@acchre6465it’s definitely your generation- maybe not you specifically.
So we went from 300 Spartans to Gossip Girl I see
More like Meet the Spartans.
@@rainbowprism6242 That movie was actually good in that it was funny AF. It fulfilled it's premise wonderfully, unlike -War- SlopCraft today.
Is that the overhaul feel of Hallowfall ?
XOXO
the insane amount of girlboss , I'm shocked they still have a man in the story
Nahhh they shoulda given that Khadgar Scene more Budget. He did one Hyperbeam and was all tired and shit - They made him act old and senile and shit. If you gonna kill someone off atleast make them go out in a bang like Varian.
Imagine Khadgar uses Ice Block then goes birb mode then does several more Hyperbeams and its this big action scene. But nahhhhhhh, Dark Heart plot armor one shots Khadgar.
Dont think he is dead.
@wernighpotgieter1048 this ^, 100% he just got kidnapped, literally like 2 cutscenes later or before (I forget which) xalatath tells her dudes to kidnap people and that she has plans for them
The rule of thumb for these kind of things is if you dont see a body, you shouldn't assume theyre dead.
I don't think that is inacurate to how Khadgar is presented usually though. Remember the effort it took him to blow up the dan to stop the Iron Horde in WoD? The effort to teleport us out of Kil'jaeden's ship after Tomb of Sargeras? Khadgar is very powerful but his shows of strength have alwys been a bit on the slow side.
@@linkaiser8709 He casts spells - It's not bc he is struggling. - In Alternate Draenor the magic was being "weird". In Kil'jaedens Ship he is teleporting several people in a long distance location so the supposed "cast" time would be longer.
Here they are clearly trying to make it seem like he is senile. He was out of Breathe after one "Hyperbeam" - while in the Harbingers cinematic he pulls off one of those Beam with one hand and look badass.
They did this to make Xal look like a threat. But the very least they coulda done is gave Khadgar a fight.
40E for 3 days EA ... miss me with that bull*hit
It's not Early Access - the product is ready (which makes it even worse).
It's normal access, they just try to extort players to pay extra for normal access to the game.
Let's not fall for naeketing language and call their extortion Early Access.
3 days EA is a scam.. Nothing really opens for a month (season 1 begins).. Till then its just leveling your toons and afk for the next month till raids open etc.
2004-2023: €20 for 2 months playtime.
2024: €40 for 3 days playtime.
Welcome to the end-time boys...
@@jakuboledzki6499there's a good chance TWW would still be released on the 26 if the early access didn't exist. WotLK and WoD were released on a Thursday/Friday. The other 6 expansions were released on a Monday/Tuesday. Majority of big games are pretty much finished weeks/months before release day, the time remaining till release is usually spent on bugs and buffs/nerfs. Still, its insanely scummy to sell 3 day early access.
easiest skip of my life ngl
every quest is a therapy session, every quest is a different flavor of "i understand" "youre not alone" "im here for you"
its all so cringe
Millennial and gen z women writers be like
Early access in a MMO like World of Warcraft totally destroys the excitement of launch day.
Maybe, but EA is a good thing. It means there's less people all logging in at the same time on launch day. It also means that the starting areas will be less congested.
This is already ruined by the beta/ptr access. Everything is mathed, min/maxed out and explored well before launch day.
@@Lucifaarso we can get rid of sharding? Yeah I didn't think so
Man not just that but it’s literally the same quest grinds, kill this pick uo this and talk to that guy or free someone. It’s so unimaginative that i would demand a refund after 10 minutes in if i were a sucker to wow still.
@@LucifaarEA fucking sucks, especially in a game like WoW. There's been 0 issues with launches since WoD. Let's not pretend this is anything but greed from Blizzard.
no way they gave andiun the fuckboy haircut lmao
THAT and the guybrows...
THAT and the boyface...
He's hot can't deny it.
@@moe504nah he's lower than mid with that head. He looked better before he wandered in the wilderness
you guys gay
Is it just me or does the dialogue sound a bit like a Southpark episode?
No because that would imply its at least somewhat entertaining.
for me every english voice acting sounds like south park, I don't know why.
Saturday morning cartoon vibes.
I'm kinda glad Blizzard did early access. Now I can see how bad it is beforehand and not be tempted to buy it on release
Same, why the fuck do they keep killing off old established loved characters to "build up" these shitty new ones that no one cares about.
I mean fuck, it didn't help make even Sylvanas a cool character when she beat the lich king and killed Saurfang, why the fuck do they think that the same narrative device is going to work with this void encrusted knife-ear.
It just immediately tells me they have learned nothing on how to develop a character.
its not really early access, its delayed access.
100%
@@nolp2898because destroying the heroic ideal is part of the agenda (especially if the hero is male). They can’t make you give up your possessions and eat ze bugs otherwise.
@@Personalinfo404worse
So when did Khadgar lose power? Like, he finessed the literal hell itself out of Medivh and killed his demon. So he's weaker since when exactly? I'm so fucking glad I didn't pay for this. The lore is beyond unbelievably fucked at this point, they have no way of fixing it.
it´s simple. He´s a guy fighting against a woman. There is no way he´d ever win in "modern" story telling.
someone said since there is no body, he might've teleported away and is chilling on a couch in a new zone, watching some tv, munching on some popcorn
@justanobody0 even if thats the case him being tired after one beam and losing that way doesnt line up with what he has done in the past. Again, when did he lose power? This is just Boruto 2.0, nerf everyone else to make the main character and villains look stronger it is fucking dumb
I ranted about this exact thing in my review of the game, I usually don’t post game reviews but this had me so shook that I had to post a rant lol
Wake up buddy, Wow lore already ended with wotlk
WoW feels like it’s absolutely exhausted
Oooo... I don't know! I'm sure they could still squeeze more crap in! Like laser guns, magical robots and space battles! Give 'em time 👍🏼
The only thing I'm exhausted is people complaining about the game instead of playing something else
So to summarize the expansion:
1. You are saving the "environment" (He talked to the soul of Azeroth)
2. You save animals and can't barely kill them anymore (Peta)
3. The male leaders cry and the women stay composed. (Anduinn & Faerin Lothar)
4. The story is about people being "confused in their own body" (Still pushing politics LBTQ in this case)
And people still have hope for WoW.
how do you have a “summary” of an expansion that came out less than 24 hours ago? You’re npc with zero ability to form your own opinions
@@jordanbailey218 still coping
@@jordanbailey218 There was a beta access…
@@jordanbailey218I’ve been playing the expansion since release yesterday, finished the campaign. He is 100% right.
@@jordanbailey218prob cause it took about 5 hours to complete the entire main story and 8 hours to hit max lvl… the games a joke bro
How come every time there is a dialogue involving a male and a female NPC, the female always ends up lambasting the male NPC, and he goes like "Yes, dear"?!
Even in the Forbidden Reach at level 3, you save a druid from a cave with spiders, and a Dwarf guy is happy they got out and she goes like "Shut up! Those poor spiders!" and the Draenei woman goes "Yeah! Shut up!" and he says "Yes, dear...".
What kind of tumbleristas write this crap?! I mean you KNOW it has to be a frustrated woman writing these dialogues, men don't have an axe to grind with women.
You obviously "have an axe to grind with women"
You both may be right.
Honestly, it could just be American writing style? I noticed American scripts whether it be movies or games loves repetitive cliches or corny jokes or these weird quips. Not saying other countries do it, just we don’t rely on it as heavily. This ‘yes dear’ trope is a classic cliche. Seriously cringe.
@@jackofpixels Ah yes, you can't legitimately criticize anything involving women because then you're an "incel". Like how criticizing glorious leader in a 3rd world communist country meant you're a contra-revolutionary and American agent.
goblin subversion in every aspect of society.
Imagine killing the "Guardian" the supposedly strongest mage and protector of Azeroth in the OPENING of an expansion... Classic Blizzard writing
Yeah, let’s have no stakes for characters
hes not dead, there is LITERALLY a datamined khadgar that will appear later
@@brunosebastiann yea we know thats the point. it doesnt fool anyone anymore when a character "Dies"
They did the same thing to Tirion, the fucking ASHBRINGER
He was never the "Guardian" he trained under the guardian and has his staff but never underwent the ritual to transfer power. He was just a very power mage with an extremely strong weapon.
I actually f*cking hated Dragonflight's lore even more than Shadowlands. Everything went soft. I don't care about all the feewings and fwendship magic, hugging and kisses. Dragonflight fits more into f*cking My Little Pony than Warcraft. Big mommy energy my ass.
Yeah, instead of DragonFlight, they should’ve called it My little Dragon. Bc most of the Dracthyr designs just looked like skinny dragons from Deviantart really. Not the well crafted anthro dragon designs from Baulder’s Gate 3 and those are true dragons, Dracthyr is quite literally weird.
troooo brother. If I had to choose between the two, I'd go with SL too
get help
You underestimare My Mittle Pony. It has characters and stakes.
@@jamesvarela233 Have you seen the artist that designed them? She's a literal furry artist. I'm not even kidding.
How did it take less than 30 minutes for the next strong independent girlboss to kill one of the mightiest mages in the entire lore.
Fr its so annoying
and why even? she said "ill put dalaran to better use" just to blow it up? seems like odd dialogue
Hes not dead, Xal teleported him and all the city to some Void realm
@@rawrproductions5963 Chris Metzen has returned
Its a void entity that uses the body of a dead night elf.
You don't look good they still make you "the champion" smaller then every major npc.. kills the vibe when you're a human dwarf.
thats the very very very least problem this game has
Yeh @@Morphologicallyy
@@Morphologicallyy so true.
The taller you are the more important. Wow logic
Just buy alot of potions of giant growth from the auction house. They make you bigger.
Wow used to be a massive world in which you don’t really matter, doing quests for random cool NPCs. You needed your friends help, and the world felt real. Now it’s literally like a single player game “HERO! You’re back we need your help!” Meanwhile everyone is standing around doing the exact same thing… in an expansion world 10% the size of Kalimdor. Everyone looks cute and colourful. Lore is destroyed. Man fuck blizzard duuuuuude
Dude, have you seen how cute and colorful warcraft 3 is? What are these criticisms? There are valid ones out there, but what has changed exactly when it comes to the visual style other than it's higher quality?
If you're going to say the lore is destroyed now, do you acknowledge that TBC screwed up the lore beyond repair? And then WoD did it again? You understand how many people have said this game is dead and the story is irredeemable, yet they lived and played through that happening multiple times and somehow still have fond memories of those times. When shadowlands happens it's somehow different??? Just admit you moved on from this game. Why are you so angry? It's just a game.
This makes sense in the first expansions, but atm it makes perfect sense to be considered a hero. Especially because of what we’ve been through.
@@meurumtrain4747 Right? my alts have stopped so many world ending threats they'd probably be miffed if they weren't considered heroes
@@hobosnake1the visual style has definitely changed, the game has always been relatively colourful but it’s been cranked up a notch every expansion. The game definitely used to look more gritty. Just because the visual style was less sophisticated back then doesn’t mean it was cute. Look at the original art for WoW and compare it to the Pixar characters of today. Gear and weapons also look more and more ridiculous. When it comes to lore, I’m not talking about whether the lore breaks WC3 lore or whatever, as long as the lore is good. Early expansions lore were easy to follow and pretty cool. Lore now is a convoluted mess of relationships, feelings, esoteric far out subjects, existentialism, galaxy level tnreats. The game has changed and not for the better, you know I’m right because the sub numbers don’t lie. And no, I don’t have fond memories of shadowlands, didn’t play it because I don’t like the game anymore. I do miss the game a lot, what it used to be.
@@meurumtrain4747 yeah it makes sense, but it shouldn’t have come to this is what I’m saying. Shouldn’t have taken the game in this direction, it’s an mmo that tries to be a single player hero game with the story. It was better when you could watch the story unfold and play a small part in it, it felt epic. Now you’re present for every major event in the world and have saved huge lore characters personally. And so are all your mates, and all your alts. It’s just ridiculous
The internet: "WoW is back, it's as good as legion, the quests are so good."
*clicks to random point in asmongold's video to see him bored clicking through a quest to 'play with orphans'*
mfw 😒
Gameplay and visuals are good. Plot is pretty stupid so far. Every zone plot is this: Angry/evil male running things poorly/too rigidly. Smart/good woman decides to set things right.
Ouch, really?
@@joshholmes1372 I'll rephrase. The overall plot is decent. Most of the new characters in each zone fit the above mold. So the plot is OK, the new characters in each zone are largely dumb.
@@joshholmes1372not really. These people are just insane and they don't know what they're talking about. They're looking so hard for things that are "woke" that only the women stand out to them and they disregard everything else. Forget that Anduin literally pulls a Varian Wrynn. Nope that never happened. That could never happen because WoW is so "woke". Aka "I dislike women and had no personal growth since I started playing WoW at 13 years old"
Nah but it is, dog. Everything is getting gayer and needing more therapy. Blizzard follows this trend, like Disney, MCU, Ubi, etc.
Wait, but isn't a queen and an evil night elf chick behind all this?
Thank god for Asmon, not gonna touch this shit ever again
If people actually wanted WoW to get better, they'd hold back their impulse from playing - let Blizzard hit the rock bottom (Which it won't as long as people get tricked by marketing and nostalgia baits) and then, Blizzard will actually start to make changes that can bring it closer to the glorious MMO it was. You can't blame an entity of profit for milking everything, when it's enabled to do just that. It will be too late, if you let it go for long enough - because majority of the players will be entirely replaced by new wave of players whom have no idea what made WoW good in the first place.
Game has already massively improved since DF, and TWW looks even better. What are you on about?
@@johnarildramberg3132 people were saying the exact same thing about dragonflight when it came out
@@johnarildramberg3132 I'm new to the game, I started playing the classic, which version is this? She is much more polished.
@@johnarildramberg3132 It needs to improve compared to what blizzard expects people to pay and what else is on the market for that cost. renting access to wow is no longer appealing when free to play or buy to play games offer nearly everything better than 20 year old wow.
their a multi billion dollar corpartation. why would they lose money on purpose. as a buisness model that makes no sense. as a game devloper sure but theyre smarter than you think
From a 6 hour gameplay, the only good thing Asmon had to say about the new expansion was the interior design 😂😂😂
At 6:20 in he says he likes the NPCs joining you in quests. Literally first 10 minutes dude.
@@robertlipsey1160his viewers are sheep who just repeat what he says they have no way to critically think for themselves.
@@degonite I think it’s actually bots. It’s always the same, immediate ‘woke’ comments within a few minutes of posting.
@@robertlipsey1160 sure, definitly not copium, the whole internet is full of bots and nobody is fed up with woke stuff in games.
@@alexandermarch161 they’re either bots or really stupid. How else would I explain the ‘WOKE WOKE WOKE’ comments posted with 100 likes within 5 minutes of the video going live. Believe it or not, bots are a real thing now.
This lore and dialogue is written by a bunch of 12 yeal olds
feminists and activists. correction.
@@isturbo1984Is there a difference? Those activists have infantile thinking patterns.
@@OilFreeFeathers true
Written by metzen again
Reddit
at this point I'm targeting wow subscription holders as enemies of the state
Like you are the ambassador of entertainment. Go sit ya as down at the kids table
I really preferred when WoW was simpler.
It was just more enjoyable. It was charming. You wanted to explore the world, see the new zones. Now everyone wants to zoom as fast as possible. At max level you stand in the new town queuing for instant content. Basically the whole world is a lobby for instance content. They made the world mean absolutely nothing and that's a shame. All of the zones in the past 10 years are alien worlds with none of the original charm. Between that and all the "systems" and convoluted currencies the only reason people play anymore is the combat and how smooth and reactive it is. They can only coast on their combat for so long.
Everyone trying to zoom is not a single individual's problem though. I don't zoom through a game unless it's with an alt. It's just what a lot of the player base wants to do because they want to be world first or get into certain content fast...people do this with all mmos.
wow classic era is still very alive, the hardcore fanbase keeps the spirit of wow alive forever
@@bmw9616 dude 99% of retail playerbase are people who played this game for years and some even decades, put a 10-12 year old kid like we once was and he would be blown out by the deepness of azeroth and wouldnt rush shit to do M+
@@subzero-v6h hardcore is dead man. The servers never have more than 2 layers
You can tell Metzen wrote the Dal intro and first couple quests, they managed to build a tiny bit a hype and then it immediately smashed into a brick wall and it all died.
That is a perfect short summary.
The whole Intro with Dalaran was really good and was so fun.
And then everything else happened after that and i felt absolutely nothing.
No Hype, no Happiness. Just emptieness.
Metzen wrote none of this expac it was already in development when he returned but nice try ig
Metzen doesnt have absolute control like he used to, he admits as such in an interview. The woke cabal took control from him after her wrote the intro prob
@@Robin-cd8zt We don't know the full extent on Metzens involvement but Im sure he reviewed the story when he got back. Neither of you are correct in your overall assumption. He worked on it, did he write any of it? We don't know fully but we do know much of it was already worked on but as his job requires him to understand what's going on it's safe to assume he at least took hands on work in the project. There's no "Nice try ig" cause you're the same brainlet in this case.
@@Robin-cd8zt Man showed up and took over development before it was finished. You're positing that he could not possibly contribute to a project he joined mid development? That is one of the smoothest brain takes possible, the intro felt extremely legion-esque and felt nothing like the rest of the expansion, there is zero chance the same people who wrote and led DF and the majority of TWW wrote and developed that introduction.
My favorite part of WoW always was how certain areas feel very immersive. Boralus was iconic to me during BfA, so much potential for RP events. And many more areas, like the Arathi fortress they redid a few years back with updated graphics for the inn and other buildings. From what I see this expansion looks pretty, but not worth the ridiculous pricing and 22$ CAD monthly sub just to stand around and roleplay. Gameplay is so boring and getting anything done at max lvl is a second job.
that's why you just hit max and casually grind stuff out when you feel like it.
but yeah the monthly sub price is stupid ..
"looks" it feels great that's all I know
I find it funny when kids say wow is not expensive because it's just 20$. Well, 20 bucks to RENT the game for 30 days. With 60-80$ you can buy a full game these days which you will own forever. On top of that they want you to buy expansions every 2 years and pay for extra cosmetics from the cash shop... too expensive!
New xpac, new game of portal roulette.
Glad to hear the positive feedback on the visuals. They could somehow make those interior of the houses official guild meeting places, you could enter a unique zone so as not to doublebook, or you can reserve the actual room, and only that guild can go into that house
Asmon: "I love it when an RPG is really comprehensive like this. Makes the world feel alive."
*Pillar falls that can easily be jumped over.*
Blizzard: "YOU'LL HAVE TO FIND ANOTHER WAY AROUND"
He is playing a game were the creators of that game hate him and his guts and even say that asmongold is dangerous. The same company that Abused Women the same company that censored women and replace them with a bowl of fruit in 2019 and the censorship that's arguably more sexist
It is what it is.
@@IKIGAIofficial no. "What it is" is AWFUL. the "it is what it is" is a maladaptive coping mechanism to roll over and let people hurt yoj and use you as a door mat
You matter you deserve better. The world deserves better.
It is what it is
@@VolkColopatrion People deep down do not care about what Blizzard has done. And they laugh at those who actually have a moral compass.
@@Rudolf215 who are you speaking for?
People gotta let WoW go and realize it’s not what it used to be, and neither are the people making it. They need a hard reset for this game and I’m hoping it’s after this shitty expansion trilogy. Your favorite pizza from Papa Johns could bang but 7 years later the people that work there are probably different making the same named pizza you usually get completely different, probably worse. That’s what has happened with WoW. Blizzard is riding on the coattails of their legacy while doing dogshit to live up to it
lots of people enjoy it...why should they 'let it go' just because you don't like it now if they do?
@@RGSMANIAFrogs in boiling water
Dragonflight was great and TWW is shaping up to be even better in my opinion. You're entitled to your opinion but don't act like you speak for the majority. I bet a vast majority of the people who shit on the game have barely even touched it and just regurgitate the same shit their bubble keep spouting.
@@ninolinoyt game is hot trash, give it up lil bro
@@tiopapichulo2136 Nice argumentation, truly a wise individual
Bald man's first impressions:
- 5 seconds calling story flaccid
- 8 minutes of visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, music, visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, music, visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, music, visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, visual, music
- 5 minutes of saying gameplay is mid and reminiscing about old expansions
once again wow survives entirely due to nostalgia of people who can't get over graphics from 20 years ago
Or maybe, the game is genuinely fine and you've just become extremely bitter towards it. The brainrot of crying about "DEI" and calling everything woke is destroying your mental ability.
And here you are, typing a paragraph about it. Who's the real loser?
@@Kratos-eg7ez Still you.
None of this is what even remotely happens in the video
5 minutes in, already bored, that quest system needs to be changed, why is the tone of wow now disney/pixar/marvel? I hate that crap. What happened to the lotr/warhammer atmosphere?
There’s never been a thing
@@NVNNN there was, vanilla/tbc/wotlk at the very least with some lovecraft
Cozy, bubbly and colorfull vibes are more appealing to the masses. Your examples disney etc are proving that. If you want a gritty and adult experience you need to play the From Software games. Or if you insist on a mmorpg then maybe ff14 or elder scrolls online, not exactly lotr /warhammer but atleast the story treats you like an adult.
@@alexandermarch161 No, I want the atmosphere that was there at its prime with the current combat, not this gay woke stuff
Already beat DS and Elden Ring, need some mmo
Also there is no other mmorpg on the market with as good tab target combat
FFXIV and ESO are just awful games, for different reasons, this apply to every other mmo honestly
So basically the 2 most played ones are the gayest, time to stop hoping, it's over
WoW can't be good with the multicolored hair trans people behind it
Couldn't play DF because of how woke it is too
Very true!! It’s so marvel like now, and at it’s worst state (woke)
I regret every complaint about 'the NPCs in WoW being too powerful and you being a secondary character'
You were supposed to buff the player character, not nerf every fucking NPC that isn't Alleria
While ironically the only people who could lead the charge against literal Argus' world soul was the player characters themselves.
You cant realistically buff character that like idiot is constantly getting borrowed power to lose it next expansion. Not to mention that your evil strong Villain was just a sidekick to a true strong and evil Villain that was just a sidekick to a true strong and evil Villain that was just a sidekick to a true strong and evil Villain that was just a sidekick to a true strong and evil Villain.
considering khadgars age and what xalatath is i would say xal wins that every time. you can seethe you can cope but your just triggered a character you loved 10 years ago is dead.
@@h.benali8304sure that could make sense. But then why just sacrifice him at the start? It’s not like khadgar ran in their of his own choices. They literally WROTE home to die. Just make xalatath and him not 1v1 each other
@@brian2554 khadgar despite being weak to xalatath still was the strongest at dalaran at that moment and also he couldve won if xalatath didnt have the darkheart which is the weapon she wields (it absorbs all types of magic) it was more of a final selfless moment so most of dalaran could evacuate, its also why he says to alleria that this isnt the real fight.
Destroyed every great villain and hero now theyre taking down the best cities 1 by 1.
They bringing it the DEI characters instead
@@BloodFireDeath_ Trump supporter 💀
@@johnarildramberg3132 you look like an average biden voter
@@thepexa4290 lmao he watches make-up tutorials...gayyyyyyyyy
@@thepexa4290 Not from US lol 😂
Damn this feels so soulless
The game? Yeah I agree. It looks so dull.
Watching Asmon play WoW is literally depression. But watching Xaryu or Pikaboo play it is laughs all around
has been since shadowlands
It's shockingly easy. Like I've been barely doing fuck all, mainly just farming ore to sell on the AH and I'm already 75 after a few hours.
@@41Nizmo unlike the previous expansions which are known for their difficult leveling
So reasons I should buy this expansion are:
1. Buildings
2. Music
3. ....?
I’m sure there’s more
do you expect raid and mythic dungeons review when he is leveling?
@@andrelima9428 No, I'm saying that the whole "First impressions" segment was about how nice the interiors look.
3. to play with friends if you had them
Doesn't it get tedious at some point to keep shitting on a game you're not playing?
Classic: Second or Third mob joins the fight - "Uh, oh!"
Retail: "Let me pull all thirty of these guys, it will only take 3 hits."
"Azeroth! Speak to me! What are you trying to tell us!" -Azeroth: "The game is dead. The company is led by greedy m0r0ns. Let it die."
Just found you recently, Asmongold. Now, I just enjoy watching your content at night since Im an insomniac.
Original, passionate, and at the same time, couldn't give 2 F's... Love it, man. ✌️
I usually white knight WoW but paygating an expansion for days is so lame
Solid xpac so far. Doesn’t feel like a different game or anything but it’s apparent that they put a lot of work into quest/story design. Cinematics are great so far. Definitely feels like they’re moving things in the right direction
yea who need good gameplay in a videogame, that would be crazy.
Imagine charging 100% extra for 3 days early access and ruining your launch experience xD
People paid for it so are they really stupid for offering it?
Knowing how trash the WoW servers are, it's probably best to split it up like this.
@@GrassSaint33 been there on launch for 6 xpac's and the servers struggling and poppin off with players were actually good content for me, bunch of interactions with people.
It's kinda nice to see these 3 go from going hard and sweating at the start of every expansion to just hanging out, chatting, chilling and just trying the make the most of a game. Just the bois having a good time
This actually looks like the most boring shit out there.
Blizzard for sure lost its marble. Even their cinematics and animations are not good anymore. Khadgar death was so anti climactic too. He's The Guardian with the staff of Medivh and all he managed to do was one slow and telegraphed spell that did absolutley nothing and that's it!? Remember the original WoW cinematic with the fire mage on top of that tower pummeling fireballs at an Infernal that was climbing towards him and by the end he freezes everything around?! Yeah, that was just a random mage being 100% epic while Khadgar died like a useless old men.
Another well established strong character gets deleted by a girlboss in the opening, nice
This is the exact thing I ranted about for like 5-10 mins in the beginning of my review, I haven’t saw anyone post an honest WoW review and it’s sad. SELL OUTS
For 10 years now, it's been "well the art is good"
Meanwhile he probably never even played something like Zelda Breath of the Wild that worked on a freakin glorified phone and looked better.
@@hackintosh3899I’m all for crapping on wow. But botw looks genuinely terrible
@@hackintosh3899
The cel-shading look of botw is also just a concession, because the Switch can't manage better graphics without the performance completely collapsing.
It is a graphic style that is not very detailed and comes with a strong glare effect and filters. Pure window dressing.
To all the peeps bitching about him purchasing the pre order while telling people to not buy the preorders ............ He's a content creator. Just be happy he's purchasing pre-orders to give you the scoop so you're potentially not wasting your money.
True, but this guy has milk toast mid level takes now and no real content anymore, talking head, but still can be entertaining I just would not call it content
that option to make spiders look like crabs is incredible to me.
A dagger managed to do what the Legion couldn't...
How epic!
it’s all the shadow priests’ fault
Did Pixar make this expansion
I think if the game was more slowly paced people might actually be able to take in all the little details of the world design.
Blizzard has been promoting the so called "end game" as the actual game, so no one wants to "waste" time runnig around doing quests, walking by foot and chilling around. People just want to get to "end game" ASAP
@@VictorD-y7j you're correct which is kind of a bummer. The journey to max level in MMOS to me is just as important as the end game.
its all up to you how you want to play lol i played slow for the first two weeks and enjoyed it very, noone si forcing you to do max level content instantly, you will loose nothing unless you compete for 0.1% player base
@FillipikPlaysCZ no, actually Blizzard IS forcing you to do max level content ASAP with all those limited time rewards and things that get locked behind max level.
@@VictorD-y7jthen just remove the levelibg and make the game a raid simulator with city hubs.
"World of Warcraft - THE WOKE WITHIN" enough said.
Wokecraft
What’s woke about this expansion?
@@geemo everything
@@Siren--Head any specific examples?
The return of Mcconnell ❤
Freaking finally!!
Lets goooooo
McCool the man
Not sure why people like him. He is a whiney kid.
@Personalinfo404 Have u ever talked to mcconnell? Ever raided with him off stream? Mcconnell is a content God.
Why are all the female characters the only badass warriors? The male characters are emo losers and they made Anduin into justin timberlake. Wow has gone woke.
It doesnt make sense. Women are heroic but they can never replace a dude in terms of brute strength and leadership.
Xal I'm pretty sure isnt even a woman, but whatever it is took over a woman's body.
What other male characters are "soy" other than anduin? You just want a big muscley white man as lead. No need to explain ;)
@@retrogeko7955 thrall just disappears or mopes, cries. Dwarf turned into a pretty crystal and is comedic relief. The most powerful mage just looks surprised and does nothing, dies.
@@retrogeko7955 who said anything about white? Also obvious woke narrative is not lost on anyone.
A female warrior is a tired troupe that never made any sense. No guy wants to continuously play either a female warrior or a soy boy, when the game caters to mostly men. Bad market knowledge.
are yall ready for the usual arc of wow is good , then wow suck , then bellular videos about blizzard fucking shit up , then blizzard redemption , then blizzard suck , etc till we dont hear about it no more for another year and xpac
A scary elf lady with insane plot armor! First time for everything!
Xal'atath isn't an elf. She/it is a void entity that took over a dead elf body after being released from its dagger imprisonment and has been around since the dark empire days.
Personally I'd rather stare at a hot female villain, but that's just me
I ranted about this in my honest review / rant, but it’s crazy how khadgar launched a hyper beam at her and she just stood there and nothing happened, like no magic shield? No doge? She just stood there and didn’t even move an inch….okay???
What plot armor???
@@mr.grumps3544how about the other elf though...
World of Warcraft should be renamed to Women of Warcraft or World of Girlpower or some other dumbass name. Almost every single lead character is some "boss babe" and all the men seem to be completely emasculated or get blown up.
This is the exact thing I ranted about for like 5-10 mins on my review video lol
"seem to be"
@@Senumunu you're right, they "are" emasculated
The Zoomer Within.
Where the hell is the CGI movie blizzard is known for??
Imagine being scared of spiders in a video game. Like is there a way to lose even more control of your life?
They are testing this feature for the next spiderman movie.
Imagine not knowing that arachnophobia is a pathology. Like is there a way to lose more IQ than that ?
@@jackbower9087 being unsocial as nothing to do with a phobia wich is a pathological condition
@@Koppa_Cabanahe’s right. I’ve Reddit threads full of people talking about how they’re terrified to talk to the door dash driver and have panic attacks if they knock and don’t leave the food at the door.
@@MrTaylork1 As I said being unsocial isn’t a pathology like arachnophobia is please read carefully.
Like this is two very different topics
Look at both McConnel and Asmon ignore the DEI trans/woke garbage, just cus this game pays their cheque...
The graphics look like lego/legos or playmobil. Also where has the war gone in world of warcraft? I dont think these lego people that they call characters even have blood
The war stayed in WC3
When the only good thing left in wow is the art team. Everything else feels like its stuck in the past and is slowly eroding away, the fun is gone, the lore has been destroyed, and ur left doing the same click shiny quests to lvl . But hey, the art team did a great job huh.
Who plays wow to level? I'm here to raid and M+
@@Thalarion the same boring shit u been doing for years? the same shit where addons just tell you what to do. the same grind that gets deleted when the new patch releases and it starts all over again?
No even art team is not that good especially when it comes to character design.
@@ronuss What do you want? Dungeons and raids have always been core to wow
@@Thalarionyoure what ruined wow
Alright, I have 100% finished the first two zones as a mounted DK and I can say that as far as questing goes, these are the best since WoD imo. I absolutely loved Ringing deeps and the story in the zones is not bad, I actually cared about some of characters and side quests. It’s not perfect but it’s such a step up and such a palate cleanser after finishing Dawntrail last month which was very painful to get through. This is coming from someone who quit mid DF campaign because I couldn’t stomach the tone and zones, the centaur zone broke me
Finally a normal take
I'm so glad that I don't play WoW (or any other Blizzard game) anymore.
Honestly this shit looks so fucking bad.
It''s Wow, Khadgar did not die, and if he did, it'll take one expansion breaking set rules to get him alive again. or whatever they'll pull out of their sleeve. an expansion set in the afterlife of the afterlife for example.
Is it true that one of the first quests in this new expansion when your still in Dalaran has you catching butterflies???
my friend started yesterday and i will try new expansion out this weekend, but he told me that he for real had to catch butterflies and make pottery stuff....
That is just weird, whats next? quest to go in the kitchen and make a sandwich??? xD
It generally seems like nobody cares about this expansion. It looks worse than Dragonflight.
Which is why they paid so much to the influencers to shill it. It's pathetic how in the tank they are for this expansion.
I'm just a casual who's played WoW a few times and all these modern expansions look exactly the same to me. The Store Within doesn't excite me it looks like Fortnite graphics and they just add bots to dungeons? looks stupid on first glance
The way that void dagger girl killed or captured Khadgar is so fucking tiresome. Give us struggle from villain perspective like arthas, some kind of arc. Every villian in last couple of years was invicible and everything they do is just show up, from like mystical past and take shit effortlessly. Arthas story is the best and its not even a debate.
Exact thing I opened with in my review / rant, dude threw a hyper beam at the main villian and she just stood there and ate it without moving an inch….like come on
The one eyed, one armed black mary sue is really some absolute cringe shit.
Fell in love with WOW with the Legion Expansion... hopefully, they can make it back up.
2:21:37 - I'm pretty sure that was one of the first YT videos of Asmongold that I saw. YT was recommending him a bunch and after like 5 tries I finally felt like "fucking fine, TH-cam, I'll check him out". Him getting killed by a GM was hilarious, and the glitching was super cool. Been watching ever since.
i dont get the complaints about delves being ''easy'',normal dungeons are also easy...its fun to do em the first time,but then you are just farming it for loot,delves are basicaly the new ''pillar'',but more solo focused
Thing is, current delves to go T3. The hard ones aren't even available yet lol
@@San4311 right sure,but even when the harder ones come out,point is the same,eventualy even m+ that gives the max gear will also become easy,unless you feel like pushing high keys ofc,but for gear max only it will get easy eventualy,if they made m+ harder assman would blow a vein
Blizzard went from Broke to Woke. Imagine still playing this game in 2024 when there are ton of great games available.
Easily the best traditional Mmorpg available. Does that mean it's great? Not really, but definitely better than the others available. I'm hoping Ashes of Creation finally gives the mmorpg something new and worthwhile to play long term
@@mr.grumps3544 Nothing about retail is traditional. It's zoomer daily mobile grind like a phone game with a horrible story. I'll give some people a pass if they play true classic and say that's a traditional experience, but this game is dead and nothing but a lame shell otherwise.
@@shaggysweetnessI don't understand the dead part, there's players everywhere in retail and classic. Do you mean it's dead like its not how it used to be?
Hold on Im imagining it
@@TornSilencio Only due to massive server merges will you see a tiny fraction of players that used to be in the game at it's height of design and great story and gameplay. Almost every server is low pop and dead, so they had to smash them all together to barely keep it alive.
With the Dalaran’s destruction scene TWW had already more cool scenes than DF had over 2 years
I remember I was in a french play in a theater - I was so bored, when people ask me how it was, I kinda said "that was visually stunning, framing was really awesome". When you try to like something that is not good enough.
"Why should I be the leader of our people?"
"Because you care for them. Which is apparently a quality no one else has and the only one required for the job."
it's simply insane to me how little effort blizzard puts into WoW - this game engine in 2024 is beyond comical at this point. it's just downright disgraceful.
The game engine is about the last thing thats bad about WoW
Fortnite the MMO. Completely soulless. The story is written by the most uncreative people on planet Earth for a player base they think is made up of children.
Fortnite is a much better game than this.
I was going to buy this yesterday and instead of letting the team cook, Blizzard just told them to be like Disney. I'm so sorry Chris, you don't deserve this treatment.
He helped make it 😂
@@omensoffate Most of this was made before he was brought in. Game dev does not move that fast, especially with the weirdos at blizz now. Maybe we'll see the story improve next expansion, but chances are he's just going to do what he's told and be afraid of offending the weirdos that have taken over blizz.
About the priest set at the end, 100% whoever made that set should be making the other sets. Period, its one of the best sets ive seen and its not even close. Been playing since Vanilla WoW.
Nice to see Estivador is still playing. We were guildies in Scarlet Crusaders back in TBC raiding Karazhan. Cool Brazilian dude.
No way he paid an extra $40 just to play 3 days early....
Doesn't he do it everytime?
Wdym, He is a millionaire, kids even have 40$ for this.
He's a streamer, for him it's a business expense that probably will be covered by video revenue and etc
It’s only 25 if you don’t include the added game time
The point is not about affording it. If you have to question if can afford a game then you probably shouldn't be gaming at all.
The point is whether its a good business practice or not. @@wernighpotgieter1048
Like I said before, only way to fix this is to fire all the blue hairs with the spectrum piercings.
You sound unhinged.
Spectrum??? Are you sure you aren't on the spectrum? Pretty sure you meant septum.
@@joshholmes1372 I meant exactly what I said. Really think about the type of people who get bull rings, and then it makes sense.
@@filidhdeklend893 You must make boring characters in tabletop settings.
You mean Septum? the part of your nose? Lmao bro actually made me laugh. Didn't see your second comment to the other guy lol. Totally agree with you.
Why does Anduin look like a white black guy
Racist
He looks like the type of dude to force himself to speak in Ebonics.
Anduin is a beta simp now. Just to please the message.
@@wernighpotgieter1048 thank you for noticing
He looks like an Italian.
if its anything like MOP remix, you just blast through content as fast as possible to do chores to upgrade gear just to finally make it before gear is obsolete. wow HC is the best version of the game where everything is extremly meaningful
First expansion I haven't played, paying to play a competitive game and still having to deal with early access was too much for me. Im sad, i loved this game so much.
Must feel good to be a loyal fan of Blizzard to be rewarded with an additional $40 and possibly more going forward on every new release.
Let the game die already.
Game has been dead since cataclysm. By dead i mean it lost its original soul.
Yet people seemed to keep rewarding the company by playing it..I decided i after 14 years to play my shaman again, eh its ok, i will have my fun for as long as i enjoy the gameplay, which ofc is inferior to what it used to be.
@@Skyshadow1 this guy: let wow die😡 also this guy : lets check my shaman🫠
@@Skyshadow1just unsub bro 😂💀
@@Skyshadow1yeah it definitely feels way different. I think for me I was used to playing with old friends but once they quit I never joined another guild again and played solo, more so a lonely feeling for me I guess. It feels better when you can enjoy crazy shit with others.
@@gabetv6280 I was unsubed for 14 years, resubed to try, will stay for what it lasts
I'm sick of this early access garbage. I may not play this game anymore... It's ridiculous how they messed up the event. Half of my guild wasn't able to play. What a rat move.
Damn i didnt even consider guildies being left out lol
Modern gaymin for ya'
So I was thinking to break and maybe purchase this.. then I watched 5 minutes of this gameplay and I am like nope - not going through this again. I would likely go through 2 months of effort just to realize I'm in a pointless grind of dailies and collecting items that will get obsolete in the next patch.
None of my friends are playing and Blizzard has completely erased all the good will they had with the player base. There was a time I would instabuy anything they released just to show support. Not anymore. Whoever still enjoys WoW - have fun and all the best. I'll keep my 2005-2009 guild/raid times memories close. Nothing ever came close to that and ultimately makes me realize this game was always about playing with others that you knew and liked. Whether that was my brother, my best friend or other people I met.
Playing WoW today feels like an arcade, not like being part of a world. Which sucks, because I would really love it to not be like this while simultaneously aware that I don't have the time anymore to play like I used to in 2005 :)