It all started with the scan visor

#1 - Nov. 5, 2011, 12:15 a.m.
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I'll start off by saying I am an avid fan of almost the entire Metroid series (except other M, but that's not important). I had beaten these games without ever bothering to read whatever information the scan visor might have given me in the game. For those who don't know, the scan visor examines whatever you were scanning and extracted information from it to submit to your log book.

The first time I'd played through Metroid Prime, as I said, I paid no heed to the scan visor. But recently I decided to go back and play through it again. This time I read everything the scan visor told me. And let me tell you, it was enthralling. The background it gave, the holes it filled, were eye opening to me.

Now let me get to how this applies to WoW. I'm sure we all know that their are people who don't bother even reading the quest-text anymore since what they need to do is usually clearly displayed on their map. Please, I ask you not to do this. You're missing out on the most important part of a game, the story. Yes, there are plenty of tongue-in-cheek quests in this game but those are rather fun to read through and there's a good amount of serious quests to balance this out.

The people at blizzard put quite a bit of work into making these quests interesting for you, the player. So next time you get the chance to quest, whether it be leveling an alt, or trying to get that elusive title you've been after for so long, please read the quest text.

You don't have to listen to me, but you might enjoy the game a bit more if you do.
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#13 - Nov. 5, 2011, 2:07 a.m.
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The people at blizzard put quite a bit of work into making these quests interesting for you, the player. So next time you get the chance to quest, whether it be leveling an alt, or trying to get that elusive title you've been after for so long, please read the quest text.

You don't have to listen to me, but you might enjoy the game a bit more if you do.


Personally, I definitely enjoy the process of questing more if I do it at my leisure and take time to read the quest text and understand the point of what I'm doing, and how that flows into the next quest in the series, or the story of the zone I'm in. That's one of the reasons I enjoyed leveling lower level characters in the wake of Cataclysm - I was able to go back through old familiar zones, but have a new experience along the way.

Of course, it can also be fun to try to blast through a zone and questing as fast as I can, though that kind of gameplay is compelling to me usually after I already know the quests in a zone pretty well.