@sunny said in General Video Game Thread:
I am already thrilled with the changes made pre-xpac in the leadup. The scaling zones is pretty much the best thing ever.
I'm pretty ambivalent, even in alpha for BfA.
On one hand I love how now you can basically pick the zone you want and stick around until it's done (or you are done with it); there's no more dropping a questline when it's incomplete because you just outleveled it. Hell, you don't even need to do entire expansions at all - don't like Northrend or Outlands? Don't go there! Which to be honest used to be annoying since you had to fly to portals, take zeppelins, etc.
But on the other hand leveling really is so damn boring these days as all of the carrots are being taken out of it. I don't look forward to the next level up since... well, nothing happens other than that a number changes. Woo-hoo, I dinged 24 to 25... but so what? There are basically no new talents (there are but very infrequently, and they usually don't change gameplay), the mobs don't get any easier since they scale up to you immediately, and if you have heirlooms - which yes, is optional - you rarely even switch to new, better gear.
For all vanilla was annoying in many, many ways every time you dinged mattered. You got better every time you got a level.