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Remember Gladiator? That movie with Russel Crowe? Fun movie… won the Oscar, and had a climax that was a complete let down.

Why? Because it kept repeating the same promise throughout the movie only to completely abandon it in the third act.

What am I talking about? Russel Crowe’s army. The movie keeps strongly inferring that Russel is going to reunite with his army and storm Rome. The movie was peppered with all sorts of lines in different places…

Senator, “But… but… there hasn’t been an invasion of Rome in over 700 years!”

Russel, “Where is my army?”
Servant, “Right outside the city my liege. And they are fat… and bored!”

Awesome! An event that hasn’t happened in centuries! A cantankerous army invading Rome led by Russel Crowe! Uber-awesome!

Did it happen? NOPE!

Instead the movie pulls a 180 on you. Russel is caught trying to escape, and instead we have him, now hobbling around crippled, fighting a one on one duel with the Emperor. We don’t even get to see the hero at full strength fighting the bad guy at full strength. Yes it won the academy award. Take a look at other best picture winners though and I’d say that had more to do with Russel dieing at the end than anything else.

The fact of the matter is, from a storytelling standpoint, the ending felt like a let down. Don’t infer something over and over in your story then not follow through.

Why am I mentioning this? Because it looks like Chris Metzen is considering doing this.

It happened at Blizzcon ‘07 and it has to do with Garona, the famous half-orc, female rogue first featured in Warcraft 1.
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Very interesting article over at Gamasutra discusses what we can learn from Film Noir to make better B-Rated games through clever design and storytelling. It’s a good read.

You can check it out here.

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When it comes to loregies about WoW there’s lots of talk regarding races such as the Blood Elves, Pandaren, and Orcs. One of the most underrated races however, are the Centaur.

They have their own zone, Desolace, and they’re closer than one might realize to becoming a force to be reckoned with in the over-arching world of Warcraft.

What they need is a catalyst. And they have one. Actually… two.
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If you play WoW and haven’t watched this, you’re missing out.
If you’re a Thrall fan, Jaina Fan, Rexxar Fan, any kind of WoW fan and you haven’t watched this, you’re missing out.

So give it a watch here.

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For anyone interested in WoW Lore, this YouTube channel by Sylvanel has a lot of good stuff posted.

You can check it out here.

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One of my favorite book series of all time is “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams. If you like British humor, I recommend checking it out. And no, don’t bother with the movie. The television series from almost three decades ago is actually much better.

Anyway, at one point in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s story, there’s a race that suddenly acquires space technology and a creates a righteous ruckus throughout the galaxy as it lays an irrefutable swath of destruction in its path wherever it goes.

The characters investigating this occurrence discover that this violent race acquired their technology from a crashed spaceship they found and reverse engineered it. But after finding that actual crashed ship themselves, the character make a startling discovery. It’s not actually a crashed ship. Sure it looks like a crashed ship… smashed to bits… all of the inner workings exposed…. but upon closer examination it’s revealed that this is not a wrecked space vessel. Instead, it’s something designed to look like a crashed spaceship that was actually built from scratch to specifically allow someone to reverse engineer how a spaceship works. When I remember this story, I think of Darkfall.
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I stumbled upon this article the other day and remembered reading about this incident when it originally happened. Two years later and it’s still impressive.
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As with the Night Elves, the Dwarves are also heading down the path to civil war. The reason lies in one, soon to be born, dwarf.

If one has done the quest “The Princess Saved?” on the Horde side, or “The Princess’s Surprise” on the Alliance side, then one already has an idea of what we’re talking about.
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As part of an interview Warcry did with Jeff Kaplan, Jeff was asked…

WarCry: Much of the Horde experience in Outland revolved around the history of the orcs and the Mag’har tribe. What races can we expect to find tied to the lands of Northrend?

Jeffrey Kaplan: Northrend has some great story development in it. Humans, dwarves, tauren, and trolls will all have their storylines developed further. Of course, all of the other races will share the spotlight as well, but those four have an especially strong presence throughout the icy continent.

The rest of the article can be found here.

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With the exception of a logo for the top left corner that should be ready in a couple days, the Loregy.com forums are up and ready to go!

Enjoy, and I’ll see you there!

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