iTZKooPA is not a turtle, but a Gnome born around the shores of a frozen lake in Dun Morogh. Being born a gnome iTZKooPA is an accomplished swimmer, only matched by the best of those in the Azerothian games. When not fighting off the Troggs in hopes of recapturing Gnomeregan, iTZKooPA spends his time in the shadows. Quietly stalking anyone and anything who may have the delicious loot he so direly needs to complete his next cooking recipe. You can look for him if you dare, but once you find him it may already be to late.
Patch 3.3: Icecrown Raid Difficulty Makes Raiding Even More Granular
Posted by iTZKooPA on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 - 9 Comments
Blizzard first chopped up the difficulty settings of World of Warcraft in vanilla WoW with optional bosses, or new loot tables for killing a boss in a certain way - effectively the first hard mode before that label came to be. The idea was taken a step further in The Burning Crusade with the introduction ... More
Respecting Your Elders
Posted by iTZKooPA on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 - 4 Comments
You’ve probably noticed that I’ve been on a bit of a social kick lately, analyzing everything from FarmVille to guild history and how the topics could play out in World of Warcraft. Yesterday’s post only furthered that thinking, leading me to remember the the age old adage of respecting your elders. In our digital land ... More
The Next Expansion: Making A Case For Guild/Server History
Posted by iTZKooPA on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 - 12 Comments
My name is iTZKooPA and I’m a History Channel addict. /me waits for other members to say “Hi, iTZKooPA.” I watch numerous other shows across the greater TV universe, but the History Channel is one of the networks I always check first. I don’t know what it is about the History Channel, but the endless stream of ... More
Get the Most Out of Your Keyboard With Keybindings
Posted by iTZKooPA on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 - 16 Comments
I’ve been playing my priest a lot more often these days. No matter which spec she’s in, I use far more keys, far more frequently, than on my rogue. Solidsamm doesn’t go much farther than 6 on the keyboard, with ctrl+1-6 and Q and E joining the fun during certain situations. Sagart , either in ... More
Patch 3.3: LFG Overhaul Detailed
Posted by iTZKooPA on Friday, October 30th, 2009 - 12 Comments
The supposed final content patch for Wrath of the Lich King is bringing us a lot more than just content. Alongside Icecrown Citadel and its instances are a ton of convenience changes, items that have been sought after by players for years, and new ideas that were announced at BlizzCon 2009. Blizzard gave us the ... More
What Drives You - Challenge Or Reward?
Posted by iTZKooPA on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 - 13 Comments
The idea of playing a video game for the challenge is the foundation of video games. The earliest games didn’t reward anything (in fact, the first game was PvP), later attaching very small levels of points to the player’s achievements (yay, 10 points!). As video games blossomed, increasing in their complexity hundreds of times, so ... More
The Bugs Of World of Warcraft
Posted by iTZKooPA on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 - 30 Comments
Every video game has bugs, some game breaking, others just amusing. Old school NES players likely remember the Minus World from Super Mario Bros., and all arcade junkies strove to reach the unplayable 256th stage of Pacman. Yesterday I found an amusing, and somewhat expensive, bug inside WoW during my quest for Solidsagart’s first exalted ... More
The Experiment: FarmVille > WoW
Posted by iTZKooPA on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 - 15 Comments
For those who don’t frequent the world of Facebook, FarmVille is one of those ‘apps’ that users play to pretend they aren’t stalking people kill time between status updates. The video game was created by Zynga , a company that specializes in these types of social distractions. I call it a video game very loosely, ... More
PTR 3.3: New Tutorial System Incoming
Posted by iTZKooPA on Monday, October 26th, 2009 - 6 Comments
I love Nintendo, but there’s one game design aspect the company constantly employs that never ceases to piss me off, tutorials. Don’t get me wrong, in-game tutorials are great, and very useful for introducing games to new players, but the Big N takes them to the extreme. Take the new Mario & Luigi title for ... More
World of Warcraft: Schizophrenia
Posted by iTZKooPA on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 - 7 Comments
BlizzPlanet is reporting that the World of Warcraft comic from Wildstorm will be changing its title. Actually, it’s a bit more than a simple title change, more of a complete format modification. No longer will the comic flip-flop its focus between Horde and Alliance, as it has since the completion of Varian Wrynn’s story in ... More
