Knee deep in the hoopla sinking in your fight, Too many runaways eating up the night.

We built this city!

So, the devs have released some of their thinking behind the artwork for Garrisons.  Honestly, how much thought Blizz has put into this feature, I can't freaking wait!

This takes me back to something I heard Lore talk about quite often during one of his videos during Dragon Soul, where he was talking about how the story wasn't about us, but about how we were the sidekicks for Thrall and the Aspects...that sounds like a band name....  We get these cut scenes, bits of story, and it features a bunch of NPC's, and not any of us that are actually fighting these bosses.  It makes you feel like you don't matter.  And yeah, we all know we are never going to be as strong as Thrall, but our group is at least!

And I've noticed how Blizz has realized that desire in the player base.  All through MoP, everything is focused on us, the player.  Garrosh, and Wrynn, during the quests that came mid expansion down in Krasarang, the "pvp area", relies on us, the player, the super agent that has been out in the field.  The scenarios, the pandaren rely on us to free their beach of the Hozen menace.  Even the cut scenes in ToT and SoO feature us, our actual characters, making the charge at Siegecrafter, or Tortos's bridge.

And in WoD, we're going to be the one that builds the forward outpost, the city, the stronghold out in the wilderness.  The story, while still having lots of Alliance vs Horde, is going to be even more so about how we, individually, shape the world, literally.

I really like where Blizz is going with this.  And they aren't just doing stock building artwork for this stuff.  Which they totally could.  They could make it the typical Stormwind/Orgrimmar building look, just slap the same textures/models down in the wilderness, and solely focus on what the buildings do for us.  But they aren't.  They are making it, while still being true to the Stormwind/Orgrimmar, unique.  There are tons of detail in just the tiniest of things, like the book cases, the random bits of crafting mats on the floor, and then as the buildings "level up" they get cleaner, classier, bigger, badder!  It gets pretty fucking cool!!

If you haven't seen any of what I am talking about, go check everything out on MMO-Champion.  Do it!  DO EET NOAH!

Seriously, this game is going to let us design our own freaking town.  We get to build it all how we want.  We're freaking rock stars!  I've never been more excited about something in my entire gaming life as this.  And I really do hope that Blizz puts it in so that if you group with someone, or raid with people, everyone can go to the group leader's city, that'd be really cool.

This makes me think of stuff I read in the book "Ready Player One", where you have your own planet, or asteroid, stuff like that.  Or the private chat room that Aech ran where you could invite people in to hang out.  It's those types of things that I find very cool.  Where you can show off what you like, your interests, and just hang out, immerse yourself in what you enjoy.