Comments on: Cataclysm: Peacebloom v Ghouls

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:56:17 +0000

There’s a re-creation of the classic arcade game Joust in Mt. Hyjal.

It’s only playable one time for one quest chain.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:56:32 +0000

The Peggle WoW addon is the only version of Peggle that works on my computer, as it seems a lot of Popcap games hate my soundcard.

By: Dril

Dril — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:41:39 +0000

That video was awesome. ‘Tis nice having funny Brits on the webz…but their southern vowels grated against my northern upbringing :/

By: Tesh

Tesh — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:23:50 +0000

What, no mention of Puzzle Pirates? I can understand not remembering Gatheryn, but PP *is* minigames in a persistent world.

…and yes, combat is a minigame, as is playing with the economy. Crafting really should be in most cases (though with an easy option for those who don’t like minigames, if crafted stuff is necessary for raids and the like). These MMO things really don’t have a lot of overarching, unified game design (like a Mass Effect), and that’s OK. They are more like “virtual worlds” with a lot of things to do, some of which aren’t even games.

That said, I do find it a wee bit odd that Peggle and PvZ are in WoW. Not terrible, not surprising, just… odd. It really does shift the overall WoW one more little step into the “minigame suite” than a virtual world. The Dungeon Finder effectively made a dungeon crawling minigame subset of the combat minigame.

All in all, that’s probably smart marketing.

By: Utakata

Utakata — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:47:12 +0000

I would like to have one called “Dunk the Developer.”

By: Kring

Kring — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:08:44 +0000

That’s their first step upon attacking and destroying Zynga and taking over Facebook. Zynga might be good in stealing and polishing other companies ideas but no one masters it like Blizzard does.