08-12-2010, 01:30 AM
Firecrest Wrote:As a loose follower of the lore, the end of Wrath makes no sense to me. Why does it matter who wears the helmet? If the power is in the helmet, then why does Arthas’ defeat have nothing to do with us removing his helmet? I thought the bad guy was in the sword anyhow. If the sword breaks and all the souls it sucked get free, why doesn’t the bad guy get free too? Where’d the bad guy go?
Why exactly does there need to be a Lich King? There was no Lich King at some point in the past and everyone got along just fine then. So what gives? And what good is he locked in a block of ice? Why’s he need to be in there anyway? Who put the block of ice there? And couldn’t the Lich King just leave whenever the hell he felt like?
I don't even know who the Lich King is, anyhow. I think he's some combination of some bad guy trapped in Forstmourn and the human host that wields it, right? The sword and the world were just fine doing their thing until Arthas picked that shit up, so why the hell does there need to be a Lich King? Why can we just go back to that?
The Lich King exerts some form of control over the Scourge apparently, but what the hell does that even mean? Without the Lich King the Scourge would, what? Be even more mindless than they already are? Stupider undead doesn’t really sound like a bad thing. I think I heard someone say that, without the Lich King, they’d somehow overrun the world or something, but that makes no sense at all. Isn’t that what they are trying to do already? How is the Scourge’s stated goal of world domination somehow made worse by having a leader?
Who the fuck are the Scourge anyhow? How are they different from the rest of the undead? Aren’t they the ones that were lobbing plague bombs all over the place in that one cinematic? And if that was them, what the fuck were they doing shooting that shit at Arthas, who is supposedly controlling them?
All in all, the confusion made the whole thing pretty unsatisfying as a player of the game. Akama and Illidan I could understand. Blizzard should leave the shit you need a flowchart to follow in the paperback novels and keep things a bit more simple in game.
Don't get me started on Illidan and how blizzard portrayed him to dumb down the finer points of the lore surrounding him. They basically did all they could to make him seem insane and crazy to fit the evil role of the cover boss on BC, which they did for Arthas and wrath as well. The complexities of the characters is lost by the fact that the vast majority of people want to BEAT UP TEH BAD GUYZ!