WoW so followed EQ

[h0tr0d (shaere)]

Everything worth saying has already been said by someone else before. Everything worth doing has already been done by somebody else before.

[Polyphemous]

So say those who like to think that all wisdom is their's. Yet if there can be a new kind of porn that has never been seen on the internet, can there not be many things worth doing and saying in RL that have not yet been done or said?

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1901172

[h0tr0d (shaere)]

.... no. It may not be recorded... but somewhere, it has been said, or done before. Perhaps not verbatim, but...name the great thinkers/philosophers.

Now name the current ones...every speech I hear has quotes from someone else... all the politicians do it.

[Kraftwerk]

Kunark was a jungle continent, it had ~2-3 desert-ish zones. TBC was a charred wasteland, not so much desert so don't really see any comparison there. You could make a comparison between Velious and WotLK, but then again WotLK was just mining into a pivotal lore that was already years old by then and entrenched into the franchise (Arthas/Northrend) not really an "EQ did snow 2nd xpac so let's get to it" situation. Third xpac is a return to basic continents with no new continent or world so I would say it is decidedly differing from EQ's #3 being a new planet and slight genre change into a bit of sci-fi. You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to.

[Polyphemous]

I don't remember any of Plato's works being entitled "dick in the dick dialogues."

Of course politicians echo what has been said before, it is not a sign of anything other than their speech writers having researched the subject of persuasion. Use what is familiar to sell what is new. Lincoln's Gettysburg address parallels Pericles' Funeral Oration, not because Lincoln couldn't think of anything new to say, but because his readers would be familiar with the style and would better understand what he is trying to say than if he just got up and started doing a beatbox freestyle rap about homiez dyin' in da field fo freedom yo.

Your only proof for your assertion is that it could not be otherwise, yet my example shows how it could indeed be otherwise. Billions of people over about 20 years have been uploading and downloading porn every day (youporn on a different tab atm), gazillions of dollars are made by internet porn each year, massive companies like google are devoted to archiving and making all this porn (and the few other things on the internet) easily searched... and yet with all that not a single instance of dick in the dick porn.

Perhaps you think that 20 years is not significant considering the 10,000's of years of human existence? (or 6,000 years if that guy in EC is to be believed) But the massive increase in the holding capacity of the earth brought about by modern science, and the attendant population increase means that more people were alive in the 1990's than in all of human history combined. So even though much of what was written in the past has been lost, that which is lost is but a very small fragment of the totality of information within the internet. An internet with no examples of DitD porn.

[h0tr0d (shaere)]

It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on your door, and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth." And so it goes away. Puzzling.

[fastboy21]

i never thought of kunark as a desert. for the most part, it was dense jungle areas iirc.

[Rael]

WotLK is a direct nod to Velious. Furor even admitted Velious was his favourite expansion. I'm guessing a future WoW expansion will be called "Emerald Dream" or "Maelstrom" or something which will be its equivalent of PoP.

[Humerox]

Originally Posted by Volga [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Isn't EverQuest kind of based on Meridian59 in terms of game play style?

Meh...actually EQ was a graphical Diku Mud. Wasn't based on the code but it had that Diku Mud feeling.

Meridian 59 was great...too bad Near death Studios kicked the bucket for good early this year. I also loved UO...them was the days, lol

[guineapig]

Yeah, I agree with many of the above. Very little of Kunark was desert-like. That continent had a wide range of climates, not unlike Antonica. That alone kind of ruins the comparison.