• Poogona [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Baseline warcraft stories were almost good, like if I squinted I could pretend they were doing a big and at times subtle plotline about stuff like imperialism and indigenous displacement/resistance but those days are long gone even if I was giving too much credit

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      When Blizzard's "rock stars" decided to unravel their setting's own complexity to have "Alliance good actually" and "Horde evil now actually" and then put Sylvanas in charge of it for extra Chaotic Stupid with generic "corrupted" waifu characteristics, I was done.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      This is a side question, but when I peeked at recent Diablo games ("do you guys not have phones?!" mobile grifting aside), I noticed yet another fucking corrupted feeeemale villain on the cover. Yeah yeah "Lilith" and all that, but probably just Kerrigan/Sylvannas. Again. Right?

      • Poogona [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        I haven't played d4 since release but I'll be honest the story actually wasn't their worst and did not fall into that trap, you just fight Lilith at the end. Iirc she was just Mister Diablo's daughter.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1 month ago

          There could have been potential if the Blizzard hacks bothered to anything with the pre-Old Testament Lilith character, but that might take some writing ability. sans-shrug