If the past really is a foreign country, I\u2019m terribly disappointed at the lack of good travel agents to facilitate visits to the most intriguing locations. But, regardless of the tyranny of the one-way arrow of time in our physical universe, the past (and future) of fictional settings is fair game for a little chronal tourism.<\/p>\n
I jumped at the chance to play World of Warcraft Classic<\/a><\/em> in order to experience a version of Azeroth unblemished by The Shattering<\/a>, but I\u2019m hungry to see more of the past. I\u2019m drawn to the idea of wandering Northrend<\/a> before the Scourge rose or perambulating the great cities of Argus prior to their falling to the Burning Legion<\/a>.<\/p>\n Visiting other time periods in the Warcraft<\/em> universe doesn’t have to be confined to books or through random campaign scenarios within WoW<\/em> itself. Azeroth, both past and future, could serve as an awesome setting for other genres of games. It would be fun to play a darkly humorous city-building game set in Icecrown in the decade after Ner’zhul first crashed down into the icy wastes. A resource management game could be set during the Ordering of Azeroth<\/a> with the players taking the roles of mid-level bureaucrats in the Titanic Keeper hierarchy.<\/p>\n Heck, I\u2019d love to play a cozy farming simulator set in Westfall<\/a> during the decades before the First War, complete with trading visits to the Grand Hamlet. Or how about a visual novel\/dating simulator set in Old Southshore<\/a>, romancing the notables of the Silver Hand and Kirin Tor or captivating NPCs before the Fall of Lordareon?<\/p>\n So, how about you? Tell us about the time periods you\u2019d like to visit in the WoW<\/em> universe. Are you ready to explore the Black Empire at its height? Do you ache to visit a future New Southshore and learn how life has unfolded 20 years onward in game time? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If the past really is a foreign country, I\u2019m terribly disappointed at the lack of good travel agents to facilitate visits to the most intriguing locations. But, regardless of the tyranny of the one-way arrow of time in our physical universe, the past (and future) of fictional settings is fair game for a little chronal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":178661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,3],"tags":[5835,43853,78081,7713,20],"yst_prominent_words":[8243,11972,34349,26000,9021,9962,14635,39664,8147],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178666,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178659\/revisions\/178666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178659"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=178659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}