Better than the endings to WoD, BFA & SL. Not a high bar to pass, granted, but at least it's going in the right direction.
Will the “Aspects” even be in the story or just gone till Last Titan? If they’re defenders of Azeroth they should literally be respond to every single expansion threat from now on
As far as gameplay goes, Dragonflight was definitely an improvement. But the story, on the other hand, is definitely not an improvement. Shadowlands is the low point, but Dragonflight is pretty close story-wise. Danuser said that Dragonflight was his baby and my goodness, that story was terrible. It's not enough that it's bad, no, it's actually incredibly boring. Even the cutscenes are terrible and deviate from what we are used to from the expansions.In summary, everything is filler.
Disregarding the blame game, and I’m not a lore head by any means, but I think my frustration is probably that it’s a bit hard to invest in the story as it’s currently being told while we’re getting the kind of storytelling complexity of Baldur’s Gate 3, for example. Obviously an MMO is bound by different constraints but with FFXIV out there as well, it’s a bit hard to believe that it’s not fairly low effort on Blizzard’s part. It’s one thing to pivot away from the cosmic mania of SL but it’s another to have a raid ending pretty much be something from a Saturday morning cartoon. Hopefully the three expansion announcement is a sign they’re re-committing to the storytelling part of the game and hopefully innovating in how they tell it - we’ll see if the trend of moving the story more into the minor matches continues in the rest of DF - but there’s very little meat and instead a lot of speculation bait, so far.
I want to clear something on the lies I see mentioned in some posts. Metzen's last work before he returned was the BFA launch cinematic. SL and DF stories were entirely Danuser. This means that Metzen is responsable for everything up to Legion and everything regarding the Worldsoul Saga. What's in-between it is Danuser. Metzen created the lore for Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft. He has alot more experience and is better at understanding his audience. He never delivered a boring or bland cinematic or storyline. Also, Metzen understands WoW lore and WoW audience better than any other writer because HE CREATED THE DAMNED WARCRAFT UNIVERSE. !@#$ on him all you want but comparing Metzen to Danuser is comparing the kid that hits the ball in front of the apartment complex to Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo or any professional football player. If you &*!@ on Metzen atleast ^&*! on his mistakes.Also, I do not wish Danuser to be fired. I only wish to acknowledge his ^&*! ups (not publicly, just reflected in his work) and not repeat them if he still works for Blizzard.
Maybe I missed it, but did they mention where Amirdrassil is going to be on Azeroth?
"listen hero, this a filler expansion anyway good job killing this fire dragon"game is getting better but lore is like... bottom of the sink you know"ahah big bad strong earth dragon create army of fragile, little twink dragon because....!"this is not power fantasy more like weak fantasy lol
