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Chris Metzen
18 years ago
This is Rumor Control, here are the facts:
So I was cleaning my room a bit today, when I saw a page of a book sticking out from under a pile of papers in the "to be recycled stack". Now, what made me notice this page? Well... it had artwork on it. Not my art either, so that got me curious, so I dug a bit, and found it to be a picture of a dwarf mounted on a gryphon's back, with the gryphon on the brow of a rather crudely build warship, tossing a disemboweled Orc over the side.
Most of the gamers here that are 20 and older probably know what game this is, but for those who don't, this was the front page under the cover of the Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness Game Manual. Now, a fun fact is that Mister Chris Metzen did a HUGE amount of the artwork and design work for EVERY game in the Wacraft and Starcraft series, and is apparently the vice president of the creative design team over at Blizzard. I spent the next hour of the day scouring the intertubes for his artwork, but oddly, found almost nothing through cumulative Google and Google Image Searches. If anyone out there knows where I can find some of his stuff (I am also looking for the World of Warcraft Art book, cause it has some awesome stuff in it) please tell me!
But this got me thinking, well, Warcraft 3 was AWESOME for its time, but I didn't enjoy its portrayal of the orcs as much. I had grown accusted to the bloodthirsty orcs of the 90's who would murder, rape, pillage, and plunder, not tree hugging hippy shaman orcs. So I concluded that what I really want to see from Blizzard is not a new Starcraft Game, or a new WoW expansion. I want to see a more fully fleshed out version of Wacraft: Orcs and Humans, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, and Wacraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, rebuilt with a restored score in NON midi format, with 3d graphics that makes the orcs look like the orcs we love from the goddamn trailers, not the toony orcs that make little 12 year olds want their parents to shell out 15 bucks a month for.
And while I am on this topic, I also want Blizzard to follow the Example CCP is setting with EVE Online. Basically what CCP and EVE are doing is creating a graphical update specifically to take advantage of (windows vists/ Dx10, not sure specifically which) which will only be available to those with the Windows Vista version of the game. here is a link to some samle ships they are upgrading.
http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/video/4/.....Comparison.wmv
I request that Blizzard TOTALLY rip off this idea and give us photorealistic orcs, blood elves, humans, dranei, night elves, tauren, trolls, dwarves, undead, and gnomes! I want to SEE the rotted flesh on an undead Deathknight swaying in a simulated breeze rushing over Northrend as he prepares to assault the frozen throne along with his guild of 60 level 80 characters!
Also, Bulletproof Backpack, for when you are attending the most ghetto schools on earth.
http://www.backpackshield.com/
Most of the gamers here that are 20 and older probably know what game this is, but for those who don't, this was the front page under the cover of the Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness Game Manual. Now, a fun fact is that Mister Chris Metzen did a HUGE amount of the artwork and design work for EVERY game in the Wacraft and Starcraft series, and is apparently the vice president of the creative design team over at Blizzard. I spent the next hour of the day scouring the intertubes for his artwork, but oddly, found almost nothing through cumulative Google and Google Image Searches. If anyone out there knows where I can find some of his stuff (I am also looking for the World of Warcraft Art book, cause it has some awesome stuff in it) please tell me!
But this got me thinking, well, Warcraft 3 was AWESOME for its time, but I didn't enjoy its portrayal of the orcs as much. I had grown accusted to the bloodthirsty orcs of the 90's who would murder, rape, pillage, and plunder, not tree hugging hippy shaman orcs. So I concluded that what I really want to see from Blizzard is not a new Starcraft Game, or a new WoW expansion. I want to see a more fully fleshed out version of Wacraft: Orcs and Humans, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, and Wacraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, rebuilt with a restored score in NON midi format, with 3d graphics that makes the orcs look like the orcs we love from the goddamn trailers, not the toony orcs that make little 12 year olds want their parents to shell out 15 bucks a month for.
And while I am on this topic, I also want Blizzard to follow the Example CCP is setting with EVE Online. Basically what CCP and EVE are doing is creating a graphical update specifically to take advantage of (windows vists/ Dx10, not sure specifically which) which will only be available to those with the Windows Vista version of the game. here is a link to some samle ships they are upgrading.
http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/video/4/.....Comparison.wmv
I request that Blizzard TOTALLY rip off this idea and give us photorealistic orcs, blood elves, humans, dranei, night elves, tauren, trolls, dwarves, undead, and gnomes! I want to SEE the rotted flesh on an undead Deathknight swaying in a simulated breeze rushing over Northrend as he prepares to assault the frozen throne along with his guild of 60 level 80 characters!
Also, Bulletproof Backpack, for when you are attending the most ghetto schools on earth.
http://www.backpackshield.com/
