How Top Twitch Streamer “Asmongold” Got Me to Appreciate Gamer Culture (Part One)

Despite being born at the perfect age to enjoy console gaming, or perhaps because of it, I never really got the appeal of massively multiplayer online role-playing games like World of Warcraft. From the time I was six years old, struggling like heck to navigate my way through The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, jamming my thumb too hard against the joystick controller that it’d’ give me blisters before rage quitting because I couldn’t figure out the water dungeon, I learned that video games were more about solving puzzles than investing large amounts of time. Fast forward to 2020, I was locked inside my apartment during the COVID-19 outbreak when I came across a content creator named “Asmongold.” I saw that he made lots of videos about World of Warcraft. Or, more accurately, he made a lot of videos about the current state of World of Warcraft. He had apparently become disillusioned with what the game had become, a sentiment I struggled to connect with as someone who hadn’t even thought about the game since briefly trying it out upon its initial release in 2005. Still, given that the game was a cultural phenomenon at one point in time, I clicked through several of his videos to see how it turned a decade and a half later. <a href="https://medium.com/@hjmedia/how-top-twitch-streamer-asmongold-got-me-to-appreciate-gamer-culture-part-one-b213055d006b">Read More</a>