The cinematic looks good but I felt like it was missing something to make me get more excited.
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or Ardenweald with those stags⌠We really needed that. It added so much to the story.
I swear, if we get another 6 token characters that are horribly written and only there for diversity quotas, Imma 
through my 
into Azeroth.
I donât care if that black, half-elf, disabled Paladin is straight or not, as long as the character itself is like-able written.
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I liked it. Itâs that moment of everyone preparing for a coming war. I know itâs not everyoneâs cup of tea but I was okay with it. Just hope there are more of them too in the same sort of way, before weâre shown the big one of Xalâatath⌠
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Looks pretty but lacks narrative substance. Unless the War Within is meant to be a joke, then the dwarf pulling a big chain makes sense.
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Alright, I let it stew, and I figured it out.
The reason is that the characters in this TWW cinematic are in fact not player characters. The Arathi woman is missing an arm - you canât make a character with that handicap.
They belong to some of the races we can play, but they are in fact all of them NPCâs with names you can find in the game world, and of course existing characters arenât represented either - you only see the new ones. For the vanilla ones, you couldnât.
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Itâs a story character.
The Dwarf? Likely a story character
The Harronir? Likely a story character.
So yeah, none of those are really player characters.
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Alright; fair enough. I can understand that.
It basically reinforces why this cinematic needs a voice over. To make it clear to us why we should care about these 3 characters or the groups the represent.
I do have to add though; for me personally none of the characters in the original vanilla WoW trailer were âplayer charactersâ. I would never play any of those particular combinations of race/class. But yes; if a cinematic is going to focus on a character (or several); we should either already know who these people are and what the represent, or it should be made clear through the trailer. Neither of these things is true for this particular one.
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Juts came home and watched it now.
Itâs exactly like the one for Shadowlands:
Shows off each of the new races and the landscape, and then ends with a close up of the main villain.
Itâs 1:1 the Shadowlands launch cinematic.
Is it any good? No. Itâs bland and forgettable.
Like the one for the Shadowlands, then it feels like a montage of TV advertisement clips that have been sown together into a cinematic. And just like Blizzard used the one for the Shadowlands as short advertisement segments by cutting it up in smaller pieces, then I suspect theyâll do the same with the one for The War Within.
Itâs not made to frame the story of the expansion or highlight a particular character or otherwise set a tone for the adventure to come.
Itâs 2 mins of different cinematic shots that can be used by the marketing department in various ways. Nothing more, nothing less.
Disappointing, butâŚit is what it is. 
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The difference again is the lack of a voice over telling us âwhat is going onâ.
I donât know if theyâre really suffering due to the videogame VA strike, or whether this was a conscious decision.
If it really is due to the strike, why didnât they get Chris Metzen to just do it?
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I donât know. The one for the Shadowlands does have some framing or explanation in the beginning and then a word from The Jailer to end it on. Which already sets the bar low. WotLK would be the high-note of narration.
The War Within has nothing.
Would it have been better if Xalâatath had said a few words? Probably.
I donât know. Again, I donât think the intetion is to tell anything with it, so maybe thatâs why they didnât try to?
Eh. If they did this, if they did that, then yeah, it would be better. But they didnât. Ergo we sit here with the feeling that it wasnât very good. At least I do.
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Good question.
I expected it to be narrative, but it wasnât. I mean itâs cool donât get me wrong but it just showcases a few characters. Itâs ok, nothing too great. I was expecting something episodic like the BFA ones though
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Well that is just false because, i was new to the franchise aswell i saw that trailer the dwarf hunter with bear and the second character i made after my first (gnome warrior which i only leveled to ten)
Was a dwarf hunter following the image of that trailer bear and all.
I like Xalâatath so far, but sheâs mewing in every shot and piece of promotional material. Does she have any other expressions?
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Honestly one of their worst ones tbh.
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All three of them are preparing for war against the Nerubian Queen while having to deal with their own wars within.
I wonder if weâll get something like the Harbringers, Afterlives, or Warbringers cinematics, that sort of frames the story of the expansion a bit.
Because if those couple of short stories they released a while ago were it, oh boyâŚ
Twiggzs, I meant watching the 2004 Cinematic BEFORE playing any Warcraft game.
Of course there is the possibility you as a player make a connection there if you already played the game.
But the cinematic on itself, without context, doesnât tell much.
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