gdi blizz

[yukie]

why did you have to give me another race of nifty, gender-ambiguous, ancient, snarky, cantankerous arthropod people to squee about.

(though, your writer should've totally had them call the PC 'biped'... XD)

Now I wanna write Anub'arak and some of the Klaxxi having a big philosophical debate. :B

ETA: LORE SPOILARS in DW comments, proceed at own risk.

Comments

[silverr]

*snorfle*

Usually I avoid the insect people (massive Spheksophobia here) but the Klaxxi are too fun. You're spot on about the snark. (Is it the Dissector and the Manipulator who are like arthropod Asric and Jadaar?)

(And seriously, Klaxxi'va Set sounds just like Sméagol to me, while one of the other ones sounds like the Talosians from "The Menagerie," so they kinda put me a little more at ease. At least Blizz laid off the Buzzy Silithus sound.)

[yukie]

I was pleasantly surprised by their voices XD; if they had hit the droning button hard I would have honestly hitchhiked to California and beaten the sound design team with my shoe (after beating the dink-wads responsible for the colour science fail of the firelands).

And they use the apostrophe to denote a sound! That's really neat. They were doing so much homework this round. I haven't forgiven them get for some of the Cata transgressions (Sylvanas, Jaina, Tyrande--Metzen, for your grievous sins against these fantastic ladies, I will bite you, and then I will BITE YOU MORE), but I'm happier with the lesser amount of fail, and the expansion feeling full and rounded.

XD; man now I'm back on nerding language again (it doesn't take much to get me doing that--or nerding about food for that matter omg the Pandarian cooking) and pffff god we know next to no Nerubian, We have one phrase ("Shabtir bakh sokhen") and then inconsistent random noises that I assume are phonetic. XD;

My speculation is that the -ramas denotes a necropolis (well, it does now) since so damn many have that suffix (Zeramas, Kolramas, Talramas, and so on) and that Naxxramas might actually mean 'Dread Citadel' as it was called in the game. (And that's probably a veiled Nerubian snark renaming of the building.)

That leaves some of the odd names out--Malykriss, Voltarus, Acherus, Naxxanar. I'm not sure what to make of those. Malykriss may will translate to Vile Hold in Nerubian. I dunno about the rest.

I liek the bugpoeple lol XD;; Well the qiraji can bite me but I like the Nerubians and klaxxi a ton.