I’ve seen so many people on Instagram, Youtube, twitter, WoW Forum posts etc… comments complaining about the War within cinematic the most recent one. Talking about how “this doesn’t feel like WoW”! Or pointing out the random Earthern dwarf or the harronir as “random” races that don’t bring anything. Do these people not realize what they are saying?
Do they not remember the literal second cinematic to come out of WoW for the TBC Expansion, literally just showing off two new races that are doing random stuff and then showing Illidan at the end. This trailer showed off two new races (and more, including the new city, Arathi etc…) and then Xalatath. Pretty much identical, I don’t get these people.
What’s with the negativity?
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Hating Blizzard is a hobby for some people.
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Don’t even try to bring Vanilla/TBC/Wotlk. Those are awesome cinematics.
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They are. And they are iconic of course. Though I only mentioned TBC… this doesn’t take away from my point.
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I was thinking that it doesn’t have the feel of WoW while watching it as well. It’s not that it’s bad cinematic, it’s just that it doesn’t really feel very warcrafty. It feels like a trailer/teaser for another game and I can’t really put my finger on why. I’ve seen a few comments saying something similar.
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Yeah I do agree it doesn’t have the same feel. I would argue it feels less game-ish and more so a trailer for a show, still it doesn’t sit right with me. People bashing Blizzard for making a trailer that is visually stunning and portrays what we’ll see when we step into the expansion, you know? It’s basic but it’s good Imo.
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It doesn’t feel as WoW at all. 1st we see an allien trying to be a troll. Then a black woman with armour copy pasted from D4
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Are you talking about the TBC cinematic? The one that had illidan narrating the whole thing with backstory? That cinematic?
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Beast like troll-elf woman (Are Night elves not descendants of Trolls? She looks like she could be in between that phase, very Warcrafty to me) and why’d you have to mention she was black, whys that matter? The armor is very reminding of Diablo yeah, that shouldn’t ruin an entire trailer for you really… an armor set bother you that much? I mean it’s a badass armor set too LMAO
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hate watchers and hate gaming is a thing you know.
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She is black and she is a woman. This is a fact. Why not mention it? If she was a red short orc i’d say that.
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It’s funny you say that, because he talks like 4 times. Dropping about 3-5 words through out. Then the two minute trailer plays and he says “You are not prepared” at the end. Yes he gives a small narration. Xalatath gives a whole narration in the ENTIRE Shadow and fury cinematic. Pls yall gotta get off that nostalgia train bro
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Because you said “This doesnt feel like wow at all” and you follow it up with “then a black woman with armor copy pasted etc”… W bait
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And yet its memorable and gives story, also we arent talking about the shadow and fury trailer are we…
Was the trailor as bad as people making it out to be? No…is it comparable to TBC trailer? Also no.
And a thing of beauty it was too!
I thought it was alright, but it felt too hung up on the same three individuals repeating their one task. One is getting dressed, one is pulling a chain in a forge, one is dancing with flourescent plants. There’s barely any hint of progression or stakes until the final (much shorter) bit with the nerubian and her dark alchemy.
So yeah. Pleasant to look at, but sort of dull to be honest.
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Well then. The recent one gives off very easily understandable visual info. Lets us know all three factions are dealing with the same enemy etc. Shadow and Fury although not the most recent, gives narration. And the OFFICIAL trailer back at Blizzcon, that had Anduin and Thrall talking, explaining.
Also, I never said it was comparable to the TBC one. I’m saying that what the trailers had to offer are pretty much identical. I’m not trying to say either was better lol
Visually stunning doesn’t really cut it anymore. Rings of Power has some incredible visuals at times yet it’s pretty bad show. If you want to commend the visuals, then by all means praise the animators, they did the heavy lifting here, but great visuals don’t automatically make something good.
It’s pleasing to the eye but didn’t get me hyped at all. I feel like if I was someone who’s stopped keeping up with WoW a while ago and you told me it’s a teaser for a different game that vaguely resembles Warcraft, I probably wouldn’t think twice about it.
But it doesn’t, thats the problem. It has a new race of dwarfs doing what every other race of dwarfs do, it has a troll race doing what ever other troll race does and then it has a paladin that gives no info what so ever, the only visual info we got was the new city and its queen. This trailer feels like it’s clipped together from 3 seperate cineamics we haven’t seen yet.
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It showed two integrated races within World of Warcraft becoming playable, albeit Draenei are retconned. It also shows the dark portal that was closed in Vanilla, open up thanks to Illidan Stormrage.
What you are doing, is trying to shift a narrative through dishonest argumentation.
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