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Some of the best moments in PC gaming are the bite-sized remembrances of some of our best gaming memories. Before I even understood how computers worked I was playing World of Warcraft. There WOW WoTLK Classic Gold  was a new expansion called Burning Crusade, the game's initial expansion, had just been launched, and I was making my way towards Hellfire Peninsula as a clueless little tauren warrior. I wanted to check out what was new and had been waiting for an extremely long time until I reached level at 58. which would allow me to enter in the newly created zone.

The Dark Portal, your doorway into the unknown was built inside The Blasted Lands, a area that was quite scary for you were a top-level character. You had to sneak past creatures with huge axes and demons before you could reach the stone steps leading into the portal. The enormous, swirling entrance with the cloaked figures holding the gate glared at you as you approached, as if the moment could come when they decide that you were not worthy to join their realm.

When I stepped through the Dark Portal, the bright expanse of Outland was poured out in front of me. The bright, purple sky bled into the mountains of orange on Hellfire Peninsula. In the case of someone who had no experience with the cosmic aspect of Warcraft at the time the view was intriguing. This moment of fantasy merging with sci-fi was probably when the particular blend of visual concepts first made its way into my brain to be re-ignited mostly by the parts of Elden Ring.

Hellfire Peninsula looks red hot and looks like it's about go up in flames. Along with having a lot of detail in the environment It was also covered with cracks that released fire every couple of seconds. Each time I fired my graphics card started to lag and my frame rate dipped to one or two digits. Being young and unaware of PC gaming, I figured my game's transformation into PowerPoint presentation was normal and that only added to the effects.

It was worth it. Outland probably changed my life and reinforced my personal preferences for fantasy and the way I would like my huge worlds built. It also gave me an appreciation for the amount of work my computer had to carry out to handle the entire thing. I upgraded my graphics card not long after, which further increased my admiration for the bizarre planet.

However, the first step is the most important thing. It's the moment every assumption I made about the game was dispelled, and eventually, World of Warcraft got larger, more expansive and more bizarre. Games don't do that often, and once they have, you spend WoTLK Gold  the remainder of your life waiting for it to happen again.