Breakfast Topic: So we were driving through The Barrens ...

My husband and I have been playing since he bought the game for us on Valentine's Day of 2006, while we were dating. In June, we got engaged and I started planning the wedding. We drove from the Phoenix area through the Hoover Dam and desert to Vegas in April 2007. Our human characters were around level 40 or so when we set out on our adventure, so we hadn't seen too much of Azeroth. It's hard to look around when you're running from ?? beasts just for a flight path, but what we did see stuck with us.
The entire drive to Vegas was filled with arguments and discussions about the landscape we saw as we drove. I thought it looked like Westfall, and he claimed it was more like the Redridge Mountains. Well, maybe some areas, I conceded. We agreed that none of it looked like Elwynn Forrest. I don't think we even mentioned The Barrens, but we had only traveled through The Barrens briefly for his warlock quests. It was a fun drive filled with WoW, even though we were nowhere near a computer.
What places have you been that remind you of the Azerothian landscape? Do you see the World of Warcraft everywhere you look?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
Jack Miles Aug 17th 2010 8:06AM
Yes; I live in Stormwind.
Schadenfreude Aug 17th 2010 10:13AM
Northrend is pretty much Canada. I live next to Grizzly Hills.
shotgun.shenanigans Aug 17th 2010 12:16PM
Oh god I would love to live in Grizzly Hills. So beautiful.
BC?
Armill3 Aug 17th 2010 12:20PM
Howling Fjord and Grizzly Hills definitely seem very Canada/Rockies-inspired to me. Borean Tundra, though? With its geysers and funky formations, it actually seemed pretty-Yellowstone-inspired to me.
MusedMoose Aug 17th 2010 7:33PM
When I lived in Vermont, I lived in the Howling Fjord in summer...
...and the Storm Peaks in winter. @_@
CDave Aug 18th 2010 1:12PM
Maine, so Grizzly Hills and Elwynn depending on the season. Pretty much any zone with an abundance of pine trees is similar to Maine.
Also, I went to the real Ngorongoro Crater in June and while they got the lost land kinda feel to it right, the jungles are actually in the mountains around the crater; there were some patches of trees around, but no sprawling jungle like in WoW.
Josin Aug 17th 2010 8:07AM
We were driving through the Barrens, and with our Gnomish Telephoto Lens, got this great photograph of the Badlands!
Gordal Aug 17th 2010 8:24AM
I couldn't help but notice that myself. Gah.
Josin Aug 17th 2010 8:30AM
Also, just to stay on the topic, Pennsylvania reminds me a lot of Grizzly Hills.
Possum Aug 17th 2010 8:59AM
That's just how you tell he's Alliance..
Possum Aug 17th 2010 9:07AM
Oh 'Bethany', sorry. That's how you tell *she* is Alliance ;)
Boz Aug 17th 2010 9:16AM
"Pennsylvania reminds me a lot of Grizzly Hills"
You know you've been playing too much World of Warcraft when real-life reminds you of Azeroth, instead of the other way around!
Grovinofdarkhour Aug 17th 2010 11:01AM
When they published my Breakfast Topic, the photo I attached was disregarded and they showed one they liked better. So the photo above may well not be her choice.
Josin Aug 17th 2010 11:06AM
Grovin, all the more reason to make fun of it, so that they don't do stuff like that. ;D
Greg Aug 17th 2010 8:09AM
Where to meet the wow babes? ) : haha gratz
Dreamstorm Aug 17th 2010 8:09AM
We don't have vast quantities of dusty plains or rocky mountains in the Netherlands...
:(
Rodrigo Aug 17th 2010 8:52AM
So, it doesn't look like the Netherstorm in the Netherlands *cough*^^?
oxley Aug 17th 2010 4:09PM
It kinda does right about now...
Twowolves Aug 17th 2010 8:11AM
I was attending a conference in the Canadian Rockies in Alberta, SW of Calgary, several years ago. Did some hiking and horseback riding, and the area reminded me a lot of The Hinterlands, especially after a two hour hike to 'Troll Falls'; a nice rugged waterfall.
ithalaine Aug 17th 2010 8:11AM
i remember going to a forest that looked like a cross between fangorn forest and stranglethorn vale i also climbed a mountain range that looked a lot like storm peaks