RedRagToAnOrc
02-14-2006, 11:19 AM
I thought this might go in the replay thread, but with the current inactivity there, plus the fact that this poses a decent question, I thought I'd stick it in a new thread.
Those of you who keep up to date on Audio Commentaries from WCR may well know that Mr.Cygnus, a fairly good (well, better than most of us) Night-Elf player on Azeroth, has done a new audio. In it, he talks mostly about how Warcraft is devolving into a game where there is no space to invent things anymore, and cookie cutter strategies lead the way.
Now, we've seen this before, and we've talked about it. But I thought, maybe to prove him wrong, maybe to prove to myself that Warcraft could still be played for fun, I would challenge that. I set up a new account on Azeroth, and played ten games. The first game I played someone who was new to WC online. But even then, I was hooked. My Naga mass wisp rush had thrashed the guy, albeit in five minutes or less.
So I continued. And I did what I do worst. I improvised. ;)
Here is the result of my 'experiment'. Nine games - four wins and five losses. Some of it is stuff that you will have seen before, some of it isn't. Some of it is strange hybrids of various strategies. And some strange things happened. I discovered that I was, in fact, playing people in the low to middle 30s - which is my standard. And I may not have been winning, but I discovered stuff I didn't know.
I became strangely addicted to Treants. And Pandaren Brewmasters. As both first and second hero choices. I became addicted to wisp rushing. And Faerie Dragons. I discovered that massing Chimaeras and Faerie Dragons against Riflemen may work if you have good enough micro. And I realised that although I was playing at 50% with people of eventually about a Level 30 standard, I was having fun.
So can you stray far from cookie cutting? No. But it's damn fun.
Thoughts?
Replay pack attached.
Those of you who keep up to date on Audio Commentaries from WCR may well know that Mr.Cygnus, a fairly good (well, better than most of us) Night-Elf player on Azeroth, has done a new audio. In it, he talks mostly about how Warcraft is devolving into a game where there is no space to invent things anymore, and cookie cutter strategies lead the way.
Now, we've seen this before, and we've talked about it. But I thought, maybe to prove him wrong, maybe to prove to myself that Warcraft could still be played for fun, I would challenge that. I set up a new account on Azeroth, and played ten games. The first game I played someone who was new to WC online. But even then, I was hooked. My Naga mass wisp rush had thrashed the guy, albeit in five minutes or less.
So I continued. And I did what I do worst. I improvised. ;)
Here is the result of my 'experiment'. Nine games - four wins and five losses. Some of it is stuff that you will have seen before, some of it isn't. Some of it is strange hybrids of various strategies. And some strange things happened. I discovered that I was, in fact, playing people in the low to middle 30s - which is my standard. And I may not have been winning, but I discovered stuff I didn't know.
I became strangely addicted to Treants. And Pandaren Brewmasters. As both first and second hero choices. I became addicted to wisp rushing. And Faerie Dragons. I discovered that massing Chimaeras and Faerie Dragons against Riflemen may work if you have good enough micro. And I realised that although I was playing at 50% with people of eventually about a Level 30 standard, I was having fun.
So can you stray far from cookie cutting? No. But it's damn fun.
Thoughts?
Replay pack attached.