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World of Warcraft: No More Macho than Oblivion
My Agent tends to mock the things I do in Oblivion: The Elder Scrolls, like pick flowers and invest in bookshops. Well, when I say 'mock', I mean 'blow up my house', as those of you who have looked at his Oblivion-related blog know. Caroline, working all day on her thesis, has now picked up a night-time World of Warcraft habit, and it does my heart good to find that one of the essentials of that game is to find ingredients and cook recipes. Recipes! You can even come up with your own. I may have to look into this. But should there be any remaining doubt as to the relative manliness of the two game systems...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy09JZpLsFc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy09JZpLsFc
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Dear Mr Cornell
I'm a fan of your books and TV programmes but if you get into WoW you'll never finish another one as you'll be spending all day and night power levelling your Hunter and pwning LOLadins in the BGs.
Don't make me start a petition.
Yours Concernedly
A. Fan
I lost six months of my life to WoW. I like to max out my crafts in RPGs, too. My orc has cooking maxed out (even though she's a shaman and doesn't really need food), and is close to max on alchemy.
I've barely played for the last year and still can't bring myself to cancel the account. Now a friend is trying to convince me to play Lineage II....
There's no need to worry, I've never pwned a LOLadin in my life. That's the fanspeak language opposite of the Victorian Gentlemens' Club Talk of Doctor Who fans, isn't it? And Deanna, you obviously speak as a survivor. '...and I'm a WoW addict.' You could hold meetings online. In character. In some sort of massive multiplayer... oh.
How do you like Oblivion? I was a huge fan of Daggerfall and Morrowind, but haven't picked up the latest TES title (need a better video card first).
As if I didn't respect Paul Cornell enough... now I know he's a TES fan! ;)
I live in Oblivion, I absolutely love it. The level of world building these guys have managed. The graphics and music have the ability to actually conjure up emotional reactions. If you loved the previous ones, this is more of the same, but in a whole new league, exactly as a game development should be. (I'm waiting for a good new Civilization.) And thanks!
I would have thought Caroline would have been above such things... What server is she on? We might bump into each other. :)
She tells me she's on Dark Spear, and her character name is Eledhwyn.
That's the thing with WoW - so popular, so many servers, so small a chance that you'd actually bump into anyone you know! :)
I play as Denn (mainly, sometimes Kaius) on the Eonar server.
(Deleted this comment once, as it went screwy and wasn't using the link to my own blog. Having a senior moment.)
I told Caroline this, and she sighed and said you'd thus never meet. I've just linked to your blog, by the way, and Glitter For Brains while I was at it.
Thanks for the link, Paully - I shall do the same!
Of course the big question is Alliance or Horde?
Eledhwyn sounds rather Night-Elfy to me...
Alliance, and human paladin, it seems. I know not of what I speak.
I can tell Paul likes Morrowind. Especially after reading his story in the horror anthology PHOBIC.
albie
Absolutely, that was the idea.