[–] Zaqwert 1 point 16 points 17 points (+17|-1) ago (edited ago)
Metzen did some good work in the 90's and early 2000's, but for the last 15 years he's been a total hack.
The storylines, plot lines, and lore for all the games he's been in charge of since WarCraft 3 has been awful.
StarCraft 2's three games? Horrible, awful stories. Diablo 3? Embarrassingly awful. Every WoW expansion since WOTLK? Awful.
He regurgitates the same plot elements over and over.
A prophecy.
A powerful, chosen individual.
An invading threat.
Somebody gets "corrupted"
etc.
Same shit every game, every expansion.
[–] HughMungus 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Exactly, I can't even play WoW anymore because it's the exact same content while expecting different results.
[–] Star_Platinum 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I feel bad because he and his friends brought a lot of people joy with their work back in the day, but he just didn't have the chops to steer the franchise into the future. My knee jerk reaction is to me mad at him for 'ruining' WoW, but I think I'd just rather hope that he has a happy life working on other projects
[–] Fitblue ago
Check out Legion, it brought me back after a 1.5 year hiatus. It's managed to pull me back in hard.
[–] neogag 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
I think he regressed massively as a writer. "Let's take this revolution... Into overdrive!!"
His writing in the 90s made for pretty decent, if pulpy, videogame stories. In recent years he's been phoning it in and if I had to guess, I'd say he's been exposed to too much cringey nerd shit at conventions, inspired by his characters, to be able to take any of this shit seriously anymore.