Of course, I’m a fan of Egypt, Indiana Jones, and bad Nazi humor.

It feels like they made the zone just for me =P

I guess if it had lasted only a few quests I’d have shrugged it off, but at points I genuinely felt like just stopping doing them., and it was only everyone’s insistence that the zone was so great that led me to finish them.

I loved the other Uldum stuff, so I guess maybe I was humourless that day, or it went on too long, or I didn’t like the wholesale Indiana Jones retelling, or felt my char had nothing to do with the storyline.

But I stand by what I said in the blog post, too. I guess having a ton of people stop by and comment on something I thought was kind of an interesting reaction that I’d not felt before is making me revise whether I should feel anything at all!

So let me rephrase, Arb, if you’re still reading this: What about seeing a parody in WoW made you uncomfortable, apparently much more than what you might have seen in the original Indy movies? I can understand that might be a bit of a personal question for many reasons, but I will say I’m honestly curious.

Even the cut scenes didn’t bother me; I thought there were a few too many, but I kinda understand what they were going for. I mean, as we did quests and completed the chain, we were changing the zone and that had to be shown somehow.

I really think there was payoff in the end though; Brann showed up and we were led into Halls of Origination, and as a Starcaller, it was friggin’ profound to go two-for-two on literally saving the world.

I loved Uldum. I thought it was cheeky, not taking itself too seriously, but still providing a great bridge (the Titans, re-origination, the influence of the Twilight’s Hammer) between fairly significant places/events in prior expansions that seemed to really make no sense.

Now, as for Schnottz and his minions; remember that they’re not riffs of Nazis per se – they’re the Nazis that were in the film, which I would assume (I haven’t seen the old classic Indy movies) were portrayed as over the top and a little wacky.

If you’re going to draw offense at the Nazi references, I’d point you toward the source material for the entire parody and ask that you get offended by that, too.

@Tobold: Guess what? The Nazis WERE villains. The Nazis committed some of the most horrific injustices ever conceived against the human race and you DON’T want to make fun of them? If you’re offended by Nazis because you’re German, perhaps you should disassociate yourself with Deutschland because the rest of the world will ALWAYS know Germany as the country that gave birth to one of the most dangerous people the world has ever known. I encourage mocking and belittling Nazis as much as possible because they deserve no better.

Now that that’s out of the way, Uldum is INCREDIBLE! The Harrison Jones quests are the most fun quests anywhere in the game, for me anyway. The environment feels like it should: a vast desert with many secrets to find. I’ll admit, the Ramkahen should play more prominently but there’s plenty to love about Uldum and I know I’ll be doing every quest in the zone on all my alts.