New WoW Cinematic dropped a few hours ago... Thoughts?

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The War Within Official Cinematic | Shadows Beneath | World of Warcraft (youtube.com)

It feelts a bit off from the usual "Warcrafty"-theme we had in older cinematics like BfA, not to mention the bit overdone "I am a strong, Independent women (with disabilities)" of the Paladin character...

(You know Blizzard, having some Squires help her getting her gear on is in NO WAY shameful, but actual realistic. Have you ever seen a disabled person IRL dealing with that kind of handicap?)

That aside, the music sounds interesting. The visuals are definitely very good (shame the actual game doesn’t look like that tho!)

I am not sure about this cinematic. I hope the expansion itself will deliver where the exposé left out with the cinematic.

Your thoughts, forum?

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The trailer was boring slop and the characters look like a checkmark to get those juicy ESG funds from Larry Fink.

I will continue playing Warcraft 2 and 3, (own them both on CD not that remastered trash). But I will perhaps look if I still want to continue giving a company like Blizzard my money, and look to other ways to play a version of WoW if you catch my drift.

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I envy you a bit there. Have to see if I can get also a physical copy of both.

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It honestly looked like an overly artsy diablo cinematic.

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I was thinking about the checkmark thing,but didnt dare to say it. :grinning:

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You can buy warcraft 2 on GOG and you can download old wc3 pretty easily, I think hiveworkshop has a guide somewhere.

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Good to know.

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The good thing about GOG, you own the game when you buy. So you can just burn it in a CD. Not like steam where you don’t really own your games.

Warcraft 1 should be avoided, just watch it on youtube, that game did NOT age well, controls are clunky. But its also available for purchase on GOG. I buy all my games there now.

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What is funny to me is how many people say “so this is why there’s no Paladin in Diablo IV” in the video comments :rofl:

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The avatar na’vi part was pretty bad, the new arathi faction seemed to focus on nothing interesting. The earthen and rest of the scenery was ok.

I’d say that this trailer with the thrall anduin trailer are the worst we have had so far.

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Why isn’t there an orc running around in a murloc outfit? After all, this is warcraft today.

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It seems very diverse. Uninteresting. Focused on ticking the boxes and not the story.

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Makes me more interested in the Harronir.
I was already interested in the Arathi.

Overal it was okay. Not the greatest, not the worst.

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There’s something intriguing about it. Visually it looks great. I don’t like this new race. Recently, there have been a lot of Night Elves and things related to nature. I hope that this expansion will attract me for a long time. It has an atmosphere that suits me very well, with undergrounds and spiders.

It would be nice to do a visual graphic upgrade after completing these saga expansions as WoW 2.0.

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Oh, that will definitely happen, just not with photorealistic graphics. I think Blizzard will aim to rework older zones, especially the Old World over time to graphics on par with Dragonflight/TWW. Because that style looks rather timeless.

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It’s a modern type cinematic switching between 3 random chars at a fast pace posing to look cool, then it cuts to Xa’latath for a few seconds before ending.

I think I prefer when cinematics focus on 1 char you know and doesn’t switch image every 3 seconds like everything else today.

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The photorealistic graphics don’t even match this game. So I don’t even expect it. Let them still stay in this slightly fairy-tale style, but just visually upgrade them.

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Err… you know? technically is good. is amazing.

But if i watch this without context i wouldnt imagine its from world of warcraft. But from a generic fantasy\scifi series.

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Uhm… where’s the storyboarding? Nobody says anything and nobody does anything that seems out of their “normal every day activities” sort of thing.

It’s… kind of boring, actually?

The best thing I can say about it is that at least one person at Blizzard appears to know how caves are lit, which is more than I can say for the people who designed the lighting of the zones themselves.

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Tbf, I felt the same about the original WoW cinematic. As someone who came late to the party during S2 BfA, that cinematic literally told me nothing.

So perhaps this TWW cinematic is meant to mimic the old WoW cinematic from back then a bit. Showing only cool poses and scenes without any narrative.