Now I Want to play WAR as Order, and more specifically the Engineer but this quote makes me want to play both sides! Not to mention thanks to Book of Grudges for steering me toward this Gamespy Journal of Press in closed Beta seemingly immune to the NDA sword.
In this case I unlocked one of ten potential flavor entries on Norsca about the Chaos Portal, receiving a small xp reward along with a well-written and fun short (about a page) about a Chaos Sorcerer and a Marauder checking out a Chaos Portal. When the Sorcerer asks the Marauder what he thinks of it, well, I’ll just let the text speak for itself:
“Bjorn was lying on the ground in the fetal position, gently rocking and humming to himself. His hands were covered with blood: his own. The Sorcerer stared into the ragged mess of the Marauder’s eye sockets. The man had clawed out his own eyes.”
This is the kind of news got me excited about the ToK and PvE in general. This might be the single best original Idea that Mythic has brought to the MMOG market. Now this isn’t clearly “new” because almost every game to date puts you in the hero shoes or shoes of great importance. Every game creates a huge land with great mountains, ruins, landmarks, easter eggs, and cinematics to progress a storyline. Every game gives your the scene but no story! In every OTHER game that storlyline is the same for anyone that plays it and that’s the key to the ToK being so utterly huge to the MMO genre. The great thing is that everyones ToK will be different, but equally fascinating to read.The ToK is like a choose your own adventure novel if the ToK Is infact as deep as Carrie G. (ToK creator and spokeswomen) claims.
I can hope that Mythic will print it into an Italian leather bound book upon the inevitable day I choose to leave the WAR effort, just for me to keep(I really do).
