Dragon Army - WTF?!?

Posted: 6008 days ago

Edited: 6008 days ago

A news artcle:

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Over on Boing Boing this evening, I read about WTF?!, a terrific-sounding sidescroller role-playing video game that is a spot-on parody of World of Warcraft.

In his post about the new game, Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow linked to games guru Greg Costikyan's own entry on WTF?!, which drew the parallels to the massively successful WoW and an image like the one above: "It's a World of Warcraft screenshot, right? Well, no--it's a screenshot from WTF?!, a Flash-based sidescroller parodying WoW. And it's note-perfect, too--every interface element and the backgrounds and characters look like they're ripped straight from Azeroth."

In WoW, Azeroth, of course, is the planet on which that game takes place. In WTF?!, the geography is known as Azimuth. Get it?

The scenario of the parody is as follows: "The time/space continuum of Azimuth has enfolded. A Rift Lord's unwittingly opened a portal from the earthly netherworld, and the place is crawling with infamous historical thinkers, like Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Mary Daly, each of whom is trying to enlist your help in (the) effort to figure out (what) WTF Azimuth is all about."

Well, this looks like it could ensnare a lot of people, especially those who are fans of WoW but happen to have a little time to spend on something else, or those who snarl at giving WoW publisher Blizzard Entertainment $15 a month and would rather get the look and feel of that game for nothing.

For now, WTF?! is just a demo with limited play available, but it sounds like a full version could well be in the works.

So what does it all mean? It means there are some seriously funny people out there who love a good time, who are having a bit of a laugh at WoW's expense, and who have a really good eye for detail, as any WoW fan will agree.

Bless them.

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It's a World of Warcraft screenshot, right? Well, no -- it's a screenshot from WTF?!, a Flash-based sidescroller parodying WoW. And it's note-perfect, too -- every interface element and the backgrounds and characters look like they're ripped straight from Azeroth.
The gameplay is pretty similar, too, for all that this is a sidescroller -- the same tedious level-grind, based on the same sort of tedious quests ("go kill seven sheep"). But the satirical way it treats that level-grind is priceless, a telling commentary on the common tropes of the MMO. The quests get increasingly weird -- your newbie quest giver asks you to go cast a spell on sheep that have been transformed by the evil mage Karl Marx into communist brain-slaves to restore them to their rightful ovine form, and then tells you to go kill Marx himself. But Marx shows you that your previous quest-giver is simply a tool of capitalist oppression, and becomes your new quest giver. Sigmund Freud also makes an appearance.

Hahaa. Quote: "Hint: Don't worry, this will take as long as the time it takes to play a 2V2 match with 4 ret pallies."

http://playthisthing.com/wtf

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