Last Chance

Tonight is the last chance for any major female Worgen updates to go live... just thought I'd throw that out there.

Had some pre-Cata fun in Stormwind this evening, lining up some Pilgrim's Bounty feasts from the bank to the new auction house.
I've still got 51 left, got to think of somewhere good to place them before they expire!

I've decided to start Cataclysm with my warrior and hunter. Let's see how long I go without itching to heal. Have fun tonight, everyone! :)

Wow!

I've now had over 1000 visitors to my blog! Thank you to everyone who's stopped by, I hope you've enjoyed the read. :)

So I've finally decided my worgen will be a male rogue, who will tie into the stories of my other characters nicely. I've never wanted to play a rogue much, but now I'm excited for it. AND this means avoiding the goofy female worgen. Win-win!

If only I could decide what to level as my main, come Tuesday. I've narrowed it down to warrior/hunter/priest, but which?!

5 Minutes till Worgen, am I right?

Whipped these up today, as a little comparison between the male and female Two Forms (transformation) ability. Hoping the female animation is just incomplete.


A real difference (not just something that's possibly incomplete): When the males transform, they are standing upright, which creates a frightening shadow beneath them as their hands become claws. Females? They crouch down, bending their knees, creating a little huddle of a shadow with an arm sticking out. Not nearly as cool. (The shadows are not demonstrated in the pictures above.)

More on Worgen.

This was linked in the beta forums, I thought it was excellent:

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/7131/worgen.png

But with two and a half weeks to go before Cataclysm... probably no chance. Sigh.

I've Changed My Mind.

I don't think that female worgen need to have glowing eyes. I would just like the male and female worgen to be the same, glowy or not.

I came to the conclusion that the females needed glowing eyes simply because the males already had it, and instead of just saying, "They should be the same," it became "females need this [because the males have it]". Wording it wrong. I'm guessing others have done the same. Though, there probably are people who want it one specific way.

But yeah, basically, it's not that one needs to look like the other, it's that they need to look like each other.

Am I going too deep into this? For WoW, yes. But I think this is actually a very important viewpoint when creating equality between women and men.

Anyway, I thought there needed to be some representation of a comparison of normal eyes and glowing eyes for males. Here we go!
I think they could look really cool with normal eyes, as long as, you know, it's not up to me to make them. :)

Glowing Eyes for Female Worgen

I think if the female worgen had glowing eyes they would instantly be ten times better (though their squarebutts would still need fixing). I'm seriously wondering what their reason behind the males' and females' eyes being different is... and for some reason I can't post on the beta forums. Hmph.

Here's some quick photoshop work I did to give the females glowing eyes. Which do you think is better? Poll below!

Which female worgen looks better?

Worgen Cinematic

I'm curious.... The worgen cinematic is done and was released at Blizzcon (I haven't watched it because I want to keep it a surprise. Haven't quested through either), but considering the female worgen models aren't complete, will there be any female worgen in it?

More comments to come later re: Blizzcon.

First Real Look at Female Worgen

I'll say first off that it's nice to finally have a female model that dares to try to look more ferocious than sexy.
Good Things:

• Ferocious (Though I think they could definitely turn up the ferocity dial).
  
• Hair options are variations of a mane.
• Unique animations.
• Cool customization options (facial colouring patterns, asymmetrical ears).
  

Now, that said, there are still some issues.

• Half of the ear options are stuck under their mane.
• Their faces don't move.
  
• There are chunky polygons that do not match the rest of the model (lower torso, butt).
• They look a lot like an edited female Draenei model, which is where I think the out-of-place polygons come from. If you look at them from the side, their belly sticks out as far as their tits (yes, tits, not breasts), and the shape of their butt suggests that there should be a tail, but there isn't. From the thigh up, it looks like they're going to have the same arc posture that Draenei do, but then they tried to amend it by just sucking the mid-torso in. Baaad.
• Their breasts are huge! I'm not asking for natural or average, it's a video game and doesn't need to represent real life... but these are beyond ridiculous. It looks like there are balloons trying to rise out of her chest. Are they supposed to be huge to compensate for the 8 or so that dogs usually have?? Joking....
• They don't have as many skin tone options as the Stormwind Humans, but the "reason" could be geographical.

Anyway, considering female Worgen still can't be played on the beta (only looked at in the create-a-character menu), I'm guessing they're still working on these models. But it was nice to have a preview of what they're working on!

Still waiting.

One of these days they're going to finish the female worgen model. Eventually. Maybe.

Soon.

Spoiler Dilemma

I'm never sure how much new information I want to look at when spoilers pop up.

Looking at new class abilities and talents isn't something I avoid; mechanics that I would be reading in game are something I do like to learn about early, so I can have a better understanding of them when the time comes to use them.

It's visuals that I don't like to get early. I love the moments of awe when you see new graphics, animations and spell effects and you think that's cool.

But even knowing the types of things I do and don't want to see early, it's hard not to look at it all. Part of this is because I got an invite for Wrath when it was in beta, and wanted to enjoy the excitement of that; I adapted myself to spoilers! And as a result, the release of Wrath wasn't quite as cool as for Burning Crusade. I don't want the same thing to happen for Cataclysm... but I've already looked at tons of screenshots, because I didn't think about waiting.

So though I've decided now to look at fewer spoilers, there's still one problem. I do want to know what things are changing from old Azeroth, to appease my nostalgia. On one hand I want it to be a surprise for what they change, and on the other I want to get used to the idea of certain things no longer being there. But then it wouldn't be cataclysmic, now would it? Hm.

One thing I won't be holding back on is female worgen. Srsly. For how much else is done already, you'd think the female worgen would be a little more complete. I'll be changing my human mage into a worgen once they allow that edit, which I'm guessing to be at least 3 months after the expansion is released, if not a little longer.