Who hates World of Warcraft TBG and why?

mjl1783 wrote:

If it's all going to be about fighting shit, then just make a fantasy wargame, or an arena combat game. Don't call it an adventure game if there's not going to be any actual adventure.

It is not a wargame because I am fighting with - and powering up - one character.
Age of Conan is a fantasy wargame. Very different to Runebound.

Being trapped in a maze may not be all that thematic, but at least in Talisman there are different things happening. One turn you're fighting a dragon, the next you're in a maze, then you may be hit with a tornado, or thrown into a dungeon.

So what? It all still boils down to "roll a die, on a 1 miss a turn, on a 2 pick up a spell..."

With the Runebound/WoW model, it's "you climb a cliff and fight a monster," followed by "you go into the woods and fight a monster," followed by "you enter a cave and fight a monster..." And so on and so forth. That's not adventure, that just grinding, and I've always considered level grinding to be a chore in video games.

Grinding can be an adventure.

In the end you don't like it, good luck to you. Personally I find those 'open world' video games where you run around lost pointlessly exploring as boring as all get out. To each his own.

Will you guys get some frakking avatars so I can tell who's who?