You might be wondering... BUT PLATINUM YOU FORGOT 'insert zone here' IN KALIMDOR!!!! The reason I didn't cover it probably is because A. It's boring B. I have plans to a whole video about something related to it in the future C. I already talked about it
Stranglethorn basically WAS Vietnam if you were a first-time Horde Player on a PVP server. After having levelled in Horde zones for the first 30 levels, you get on a flight to arrive at a military base in a jungle-covered tropical region of an Eastern continent, and once you venture into the jungle, you will face enemy forces behind every tree.
@@tiffles3890 yeah man. going save until duskwood and then arriving at a rebel camp, already greeted by a "neutral" tauren npc... or maxlevel campers right at the entrance^^ though, arriving by plane surely gave style points to horde.
Oh man, that reawoke some old memories. I refused to turn off PVP despite constantly being slain to the point of frustration It was always some high level dickhead who just killed low-level players for no reason, something that the internet would later dub a "tryhard"
Missed references: 1. The statue in Booty Bay is an obvious homage to Cristo Redentor, the defining landmark of Rio de Janeiro 2. The perpetually dark forest where giant spiders roam is literally Tolkien's Mirkwood
“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.” --- Also Salvador Dalí “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” ---- This too, was Salvador Dalí “It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.” ---- Salvador Dalí
Just wanna mention that Kurzen's whole story is originally sourced from Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness," in which the protagonist travels into "darkest Africa" to meet a man named Kurtz and experiences more and more maddening scenes of depravity and evil as he travels until he is confronted by an insane man named Kurtz who is the personification of all the horror he's experienced up until then. Apocalypse now was a re-imagining of the novella set during the Vietnam War.
You could have said that in Booty Bay, the place with the big statue is called Janeiros Point, which is a reference to Rio de Janeiro and the statue itself is a reference to the statue of Jesus in Rio.
Stranglethorn vale has >a strong resemblance to the most southern point to Vietnam >a stand in for the Rio de Janeiro landmark >a stand in for Ernest Hemingway >references to Apocalypse now >struggling native empires facing extinction Blizz dev1: "This area will be... Uh jungle land." Blizz dev2: "what kind of jungle? There's many types-" Blizz dev1: "doesn't matter. Just fill it with tropical...things."
Outside of Booty Bay, nobody has actually been able to establish permanent, functioning holds. They're all military/camps (and nobody bothers to build anything more because their existences are always under threat and unguaranteed).
Sounds like Wyrmrest Accord? I'm good friends with those dudes. And the leader is really into worgen lore, he writes articles about them for wowpedia, so some of the lore on worgen on that site is actually due to his compiling.
Damn, this video is oddly perfect for the campaign I'm playing in. I'm running a Gurubashi shadow hunter and my party just got through Duskwood, survived an encounter with the Dark Riders and is now dicking around in ZG. Gonna send this to my dm, awesome content as always!
Always loved Eastern Kingdoms. It's your standard EverQuest style continent. It's got it all, frozen highlands, feverish swamps, Elvish . . . tree's that are way too flippin high and too easy for a young entrepreneuring Dwarf to fall to his death from while doing a quest to kill a spider... human kingdoms in the middle.
Funny that Stranglethorn was actually based on vietnam, cause all of my friends used to call it vietnam for a number of reasons: the fact that you always had to watch your back or an enemy player would kill you, and if some low lvl died he would call his high lvl friends and get revenge and then he would call his friends and then it would become a massive battle. that place was constantly infested in fights and ambushes and leveling was kind of slow because you had to always walk carefully, avoiding roads and hide in the bushes if you had to recover. fun times.
I ran a D&D 4th edition game back in the day based on the Duskwood Scythe of Elune plot. Good times. This video brought the memories back, thanks for that.
Great video. Who knew Stranglethorn had speaking trees. Also, I believe Duskwood has a bit more lore with the Night's Watch as they were forming a cult and were wiped out. Would've loved it being touched on a bit.
Man this is gonna be a 6 part minimum! You barely covered 3 zones, and still have Blasted Lands, Swamp of Sorrows. Searing Gorge, Burning Stepes, Loch Modan, Wetlands, Arathi Highlands, South Shore, Hillsbrad, Hinterlands, Silverpine, Tirisfal, East and Western Plaguelands, Quel'Thalas and the most important of all: Westfall! With all the defias Brotherhood lore!!!! ALSO: Why noone ever talks about Kurzen's model?! He uses an early alpha human model and his armor is so damn unique!!!
I dont remember exacly, but there is a quest, probably for rouge on ~110lvl, in which it comes out whole darkshire from spooky duskwood is evil and you literally go for mission to kill their lider :)
In Outland, there is an arrakoa that gives you a quest called "time is of the essence". Then you have to fight the banished arrakoa called Skettis. This is a direct reference to an 80's move called "The Dark Crystal". I loved that movie when I was a child.
You should absolutely do a video on the origins of the Worgen. An entire series about essential lore to each playable race would be awesome, something like "Why do I want them dead" where you explain essential lore for each race.
Those references to the Vietnam War and Hemet Nesingwary are more than enough for me to never forget Stranglethorn. A zone that I will always both love and hate.
Also the Blue Crystal Colonel Kurtzen used in the potions was actually Azerite! Its mentioned thru a journal of neighbor enemies that the crystal was given by the twilights hammer clan thru n'zoth!
I live in a town named Hemet, and i honestly get a laugh everytime i see hemet in game. Its been such a funny meme to me even as a kid, because i was born and raised here in Hemet. Lol
Really like the premise of these videos, i usually only watch asmongold reacting to them, but these are so well made i have to give you the deserved views for them
Aron Werner why do you watch Asmon? Someone who rips off other people’s content and comments with his useless opinion.... yeah, watch the videos without a dude interrupting and “reacting”
Hemet's name in Brazil is Rosarões Guima, also referencing a writer by the name of João Guimarões Rosa, and his book "Grande Sertão Veredas" is in the game as "Grande Espinhaço: Veredas".
That Green gob butt what!? Also Idk I never thought the night watch was g.o.t. but I see it. Love that zone. Yeah Redridge is hard even with a group in mid 20. It felt like a dungeon.
Considering how unsocial WoW can be, I think all party/elite quests should have the option to recruit nps from side quests for support of elite quests.
Deadwind wasn't blown up when Medivh died, it happened at a seemingly ever-changing time. There's an old dialogue from the books wherein Khadgar asks 'Why did you come to Karazhan? When did the explosion happen?' to which Medivh rebutts that time is irrelevant, it could have exploded when the tower was built, or the tower was already built and waited there for Medivh; It didn't matter.
With the version of the looking for Mankirk's wife quest, there used to be a quartet of elite alliance NPC's walking nearby. I always felt that they were the ones who actually killed Mankirk's wife and that the quillboars were unjustly accused of her murder.
Leveled my rogue through dusk wood with my rogue. Loved the zone and Darkshire was my favorite. Then I did Legion and went on a vengeful murder spree for a long time.
4:34 It was actually Ulthalesh, The Deadwind Harvester that destroyed the land and created the magical nexus, then Medivh came by and went "wow, cool magical nexus, this seems like a great place to build a tower!"
You might be wondering...
BUT PLATINUM YOU FORGOT 'insert zone here' IN KALIMDOR!!!!
The reason I didn't cover it probably is because
A. It's boring
B. I have plans to a whole video about something related to it in the future
C. I already talked about it
I think you forgot D.
It’s corrupted
Don't forget to mention Goldshire, hotbed of debauchery and sin!
At the end You got him bro asmongold lol
I mean you forgot a number of them so I am still trying to figure out which one you had in mind :D
dont care ima say it anyways. forgot to mention the night watch joins the legion >:3
Stranglethorn basically WAS Vietnam if you were a first-time Horde Player on a PVP server. After having levelled in Horde zones for the first 30 levels, you get on a flight to arrive at a military base in a jungle-covered tropical region of an Eastern continent, and once you venture into the jungle, you will face enemy forces behind every tree.
Not just first time, and it certainly wasn't any different for the Alliance either.
@@tiffles3890 yeah man. going save until duskwood and then arriving at a rebel camp, already greeted by a "neutral" tauren npc... or maxlevel campers right at the entrance^^
though, arriving by plane surely gave style points to horde.
@@udozocklein6023 I did it right back to the horde by camping right outside of Grom'gol base camp with my max level rogue.
@@tiffles3890 yeah bro, on pvp servers its eye for an eye :p otherwise i'd go mad.
Oh man, that reawoke some old memories. I refused to turn off PVP despite constantly being slain to the point of frustration
It was always some high level dickhead who just killed low-level players for no reason, something that the internet would later dub a "tryhard"
There are two things I love in this world:
Platinum WoW videos &
*Mommy Whitemane*
I see you too are a man of culture.
@DerShrimp1 I gotta say Jaina definitely got the better... online representation... if you get my drift.
@@mojolotz yeah but does she have thighs so great that can revive people?
She's more of an older sister type imo
ThiCCmane
Hey plat where is my part 2 I'm getting withdrawals
Yeah, where's the part 2??
It's been 4 months and still no part 2 T_T
@@zitadoeza now 6 month 😭
@@Temptation666 He has forgotten hasn't he :(
@@zitadoeza seems like it
Missed references:
1. The statue in Booty Bay is an obvious homage to Cristo Redentor, the defining landmark of Rio de Janeiro
2. The perpetually dark forest where giant spiders roam is literally Tolkien's Mirkwood
So Booty Bay Is acctualy Rio de Janeiro ? Someway somehow that makes lots of sense.
“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
― Salvador Dalí
Don't tell vaulty
this sentiment is hack thinking, which most post-modern artists were
“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
--- Also Salvador Dalí
“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”
---- This too, was Salvador Dalí
“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”
---- Salvador Dalí
Morganth and his tower, the other mage and his tower? The two towers?
Not only that, but you can see into Morganth's tower from the other tower using an orb called the Eye of Azora - basically a Palantír
Also Morganth kinda sounds like Morgoth.
Yuppp even the wizards are dressed one light one dark and there are a few other coincidences
STV: Exists
Alliance players: *WHY ARE THE TREES SPEAKING ORCISH?*
The trees are actually speaking Zandali.
Just wanna mention that Kurzen's whole story is originally sourced from Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness," in which the protagonist travels into "darkest Africa" to meet a man named Kurtz and experiences more and more maddening scenes of depravity and evil as he travels until he is confronted by an insane man named Kurtz who is the personification of all the horror he's experienced up until then. Apocalypse now was a re-imagining of the novella set during the Vietnam War.
You could have said that in Booty Bay, the place with the big statue is called Janeiros Point, which is a reference to Rio de Janeiro and the statue itself is a reference to the statue of Jesus in Rio.
Stranglethorn vale has
>a strong resemblance to the most southern point to Vietnam
>a stand in for the Rio de Janeiro landmark
>a stand in for Ernest Hemingway
>references to Apocalypse now
>struggling native empires facing extinction
Blizz dev1: "This area will be... Uh jungle land."
Blizz dev2: "what kind of jungle? There's many types-"
Blizz dev1: "doesn't matter. Just fill it with tropical...things."
@J. T. huehuehue fart fetish huehuehue brazil #1 huehuehue bolsonaro is my dad
@J. T. Brazil is an overgrown drug cartel hue hue hue
jesus as a tiny green man
@@BIacklce Historically accurate, as all things should be.
"Redridge is probably the most peaceful zone there is"
PvP servers would like a word with you.
Lol yes ty. Exactly
Troll empire: in decline, scraping by just for survival
Everyone else: *I* *T* *S*
*F* *R* *E* *E*
*R* *E* *A* *L*
*E* *S* *T* *A* *T* *E*
Outside of Booty Bay, nobody has actually been able to establish permanent, functioning holds.
They're all military/camps (and nobody bothers to build anything more because their existences are always under threat and unguaranteed).
I'm just amazed that you're able to put out wholly original videos about a 15 year old game played by millions.
Bless us on this great platinum wow upload
The hairless one is coming
Praise be to the bald one!
Fly, you fools!
He even greeted him at 9:48
Hide your virgins
Such a dead meme, he has a slightly receding hair line... it will happen to us all you know 😂
10/10 Video. On my server there's a guild that RP's as the worgen infesting duskwood. Super immersive.
What’s the server
I'm curious too
We call those furry clan rpers
Sounds like Wyrmrest Accord? I'm good friends with those dudes. And the leader is really into worgen lore, he writes articles about them for wowpedia, so some of the lore on worgen on that site is actually due to his compiling.
@@waaurufu Oh man, small world! And you are correct.
Tbh "a group of watchmen abandoned by their authorities yet fighting for survival" is such a common trope not only in fantasy, but life itself
Yea but I don’t believe the Night Watch is purely coincidental
@@michaelsuder3956 so... Blizzard take in 2004 the idea of an nearly unknown bookseries to make them? Guess... not
Mirco Beier it’s a fantasy game so they could have read A Song of Ice and Fire. And it was well known around here when it came out
@@MircoBeier Nearly unknown? Hardly.
Damn, this video is oddly perfect for the campaign I'm playing in.
I'm running a Gurubashi shadow hunter and my party just got through Duskwood, survived an encounter with the Dark Riders and is now dicking around in ZG.
Gonna send this to my dm, awesome content as always!
Keep em coming, love these lore videos! Great job, awesome content as always.
You got one of the best channels in general. Ty for your work great sir
Always loved Eastern Kingdoms. It's your standard EverQuest style continent. It's got it all, frozen highlands, feverish swamps, Elvish . . . tree's that are way too flippin high and too easy for a young entrepreneuring Dwarf to fall to his death from while doing a quest to kill a spider... human kingdoms in the middle.
3 years passed, and no part 2 yet 😢
I already like this series as I wanted something like this for years.
OK let's go iam subscribed
Glad you covered duskwood today. This is my favorite zone in all of wow.
Same. Hit 60 on my locks there in Vanilla.
Liked before I watched because these vids are fricken awesome.
you're by far the funniest best hip meme maker youtuber ive ever watced
The Editing skill is improving bruh.. nice work
Your videos are the best. Greetings from a Brazilian fan! Please release the part 2!
Funny that Stranglethorn was actually based on vietnam, cause all of my friends used to call it vietnam for a number of reasons: the fact that you always had to watch your back or an enemy player would kill you, and if some low lvl died he would call his high lvl friends and get revenge and then he would call his friends and then it would become a massive battle. that place was constantly infested in fights and ambushes and leveling was kind of slow because you had to always walk carefully, avoiding roads and hide in the bushes if you had to recover. fun times.
Im really enjoying these zone lore videos, u got something special here keep it up
"[...] turning *things* into sheep [...]"
Nice one! XD
"Hi Asmongold" xD
but why?
@@FREEFallART he was watching and replying to some videos from PlatinumWOW imo =)
Your videos are perfect to throw up while doing some mindless quests for the 10th+ time. I really appreciate what you do!
Looking forward to part 2+🙂
Me too
I ran a D&D 4th edition game back in the day based on the Duskwood Scythe of Elune plot. Good times. This video brought the memories back, thanks for that.
criminally underrated channel
Hello Bald one, we've been expecting you. Please leave the good man who made this video atleast a like and share his vid in chat, he deserves it.
Pog
It makes me sad when he relies on these and a few other creators then doesn’t like the videos or sub
Platinum Wow, the literal god
Great video. Who knew Stranglethorn had speaking trees. Also, I believe Duskwood has a bit more lore with the Night's Watch as they were forming a cult and were wiped out. Would've loved it being touched on a bit.
I love this kind of content!
This was incredible. 100% subscribed after this.
We need part two! :D Great video tho btw.
Can't wait for Part 2
I'm here after the Asmongolds reaction video and I don't even play Wow but found this video interesting and entertaining
love your explanations about the wow lore and you can see how much work you put into it. keep it up
Man this is gonna be a 6 part minimum! You barely covered 3 zones, and still have Blasted Lands, Swamp of Sorrows. Searing Gorge, Burning Stepes, Loch Modan, Wetlands, Arathi Highlands, South Shore, Hillsbrad, Hinterlands, Silverpine, Tirisfal, East and Western Plaguelands, Quel'Thalas and the most important of all: Westfall! With all the defias Brotherhood lore!!!!
ALSO: Why noone ever talks about Kurzen's model?! He uses an early alpha human model and his armor is so damn unique!!!
Great video
I dont remember exacly, but there is a quest, probably for rouge on ~110lvl, in which it comes out whole darkshire from spooky duskwood is evil and you literally go for mission to kill their lider :)
The night watch in Duskwood pre-dates A Song of Ice And Fire... But uh... alright
Booty Bay is probably still my favorite place to go... I always feel like I landed in Jamaica or something when I get there lol
The fucking Alex Jones chickens get me all the time
The hi asmond was so funny at the end.
DKC music and booty bay made me really nostalgic ! I was so happy to hear it.
9:49
You're welcome asmondgold
In Outland, there is an arrakoa that gives you a quest called "time is of the essence". Then you have to fight the banished arrakoa called Skettis. This is a direct reference to an 80's move called "The Dark Crystal". I loved that movie when I was a child.
Asmon will have stories about his father during Vietnam to share
You should absolutely do a video on the origins of the Worgen. An entire series about essential lore to each playable race would be awesome, something like "Why do I want them dead" where you explain essential lore for each race.
Great video as always ! ;D
Those references to the Vietnam War and Hemet Nesingwary are more than enough for me to never forget Stranglethorn. A zone that I will always both love and hate.
This video has me just ticking off the list of references in game
Also the Blue Crystal Colonel Kurtzen used in the potions was actually Azerite! Its mentioned thru a journal of neighbor enemies that the crystal was given by the twilights hammer clan thru n'zoth!
Superb work. thank you!
really hope we get a part 2.
Part 2 when
Great job this is soo entertaning!
Nice to see the hard work others take to do a living from.
best current wow content creator
Nice vid. Great cliffhanger.
Your work makes me happy🥰
You should have started from the north!!!!! The plaguelands are going to be a great episode!
No mention of Morgan Ladimore? Saddest and most awesome questline in Duskwood
great video!
I live in a town named Hemet, and i honestly get a laugh everytime i see hemet in game. Its been such a funny meme to me even as a kid, because i was born and raised here in Hemet. Lol
Dude you crack meeee upppppp
Love your videos man, keep it up:)
Really like the premise of these videos, i usually only watch asmongold reacting to them, but these are so well made i have to give you the deserved views for them
Aron Werner why do you watch Asmon? Someone who rips off other people’s content and comments with his useless opinion.... yeah, watch the videos without a dude interrupting and “reacting”
@@iriswaldenburger2315 I don't watch him anymore
Hemet's name in Brazil is Rosarões Guima, also referencing a writer by the name of João Guimarões Rosa, and his book "Grande Sertão Veredas" is in the game as "Grande Espinhaço: Veredas".
Can't wait for the bald dude to react to this :D
I don't even play WoW but I keep finding myself watching videos like this, great video.
Duskwood, best lore area in the game
That Green gob butt what!? Also Idk I never thought the night watch was g.o.t. but I see it. Love that zone. Yeah Redridge is hard even with a group in mid 20. It felt like a dungeon.
Considering how unsocial WoW can be, I think all party/elite quests should have the option to recruit nps from side quests for support of elite quests.
"I could make a whole video about the origins of the Worgen."
That aged nicely.
Got Fang of the Faceless and Mugger's Belt yesterday, and a Plat WoW upload today? Damn. I'm doin well
Deadwind wasn't blown up when Medivh died, it happened at a seemingly ever-changing time. There's an old dialogue from the books wherein Khadgar asks 'Why did you come to Karazhan? When did the explosion happen?' to which Medivh rebutts that time is irrelevant, it could have exploded when the tower was built, or the tower was already built and waited there for Medivh; It didn't matter.
With the version of the looking for Mankirk's wife quest, there used to be a quartet of elite alliance NPC's walking nearby. I always felt that they were the ones who actually killed Mankirk's wife and that the quillboars were unjustly accused of her murder.
surely he will upload part 2 soon right guys
Bald man's chat is full of mouth breathers
Leveled my rogue through dusk wood with my rogue. Loved the zone and Darkshire was my favorite. Then I did Legion and went on a vengeful murder spree for a long time.
Fucking love your content man. Here before the bald one
Here before Asmon. Hi Asmon chat! Also amazing video Platinum really well done
I liked it when you talked about both vanilla and cata quests.
I uhm... I want more of the mechanical chicken
you videos are amazing!
Wooo! Spooky forest!
4:34 It was actually Ulthalesh, The Deadwind Harvester that destroyed the land and created the magical nexus, then Medivh came by and went "wow, cool magical nexus, this seems like a great place to build a tower!"
how come theres no part 2 to this video?
Janeiro's Point in Booty Bay is also a reference to RIO THE JANEIRO and the CRISTO REDENTOR statue in Brazil
Where's Part 2, mate?
What happened to part 2