“God the Wrath cinematic was so boring, Arthas just sat down, walked for a bit and then stood there. He didn’t even kill anyone.”
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Should’ve been Kalecgos saving him. Man can teleport after all
I remember when the expectation for the cinematics before that one was race representation and how angry people were (me) that gnomes hadn’t been represented yet in either Burning Crusade or Vanilla.
My fingers and toes were crossed for gnomes to finally appear in the Wrath cinematic only for it to be completely about Arthas which is LAME.
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Well thank god for Legion and its many blessings
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The armour of domination wriggles and falls apart. The sixteen gnomes operating the Lich King suit panic and scatter. Expansion over
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The Lich King was Vincent Adultman all along…
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im a simple person. i see dragons, i feel hopeful. what was my draw to guild wars 2? dragons. gimee those big boise and girls
CURSED OVER 9000!!!
I’ve seen takes not dissimilar to that when it comes to animations.
Then we have dommed anduin doing the frostmourne pose in every other cinematic he’s in, blizzard clearly expecting the wafer thin skulled players to oooh and ahh at the familiar visuals in a pavlovian impulse to consume while not bothering to write an actual story.
Consider for a moment the true appearance of a high def 4k gnome in the siege of lordaeron cinematic, the animation team having to work with already cartoonish exaggerated features.
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The crux of it is if you got invested in the stone guy or not. It was easier for people to get attached to Arthas in the Wrath cinematic because he had several years of lore behind him.
I couldn’t get attached to the stone virgin, and I wanted to see him hit by a hammer. So I found it incredibly boring, and I ended up hammering the “skip forward five seconds” button.
If you don’t feel attached to the lead character for whatever reason, then chances are you won’t get invested in the product itself.
I wouldn’t rate it as the worst cinematic, but I didn’t enjoy it very much.
I’d rate it above Shadowlands and Burning Crusade. I literally had to rewatch the Burning Crusade one to remember what it even was, aside from YOU ARE NOT PREPARED.
Draenei closes his Brandon Sanderson novel, Blood Elf casts her racial, Illidan uses metamorphosis to turn into a meme. It felt like the transitional period between “we tell a short narrative” in the Wrath one, and “just have characters doing cool things for some trailer footage” in vanilla.
I guess you had that warlock using hellfire on the murlocs too? That was in like every side bar ad for WoW in the early 10s.
Congrats, you’re the target demographic majority of WoW players who skip cinematics on the first viewing!
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Let’s not pretend that the Shadowlands marketing mp4 uploaded to youtube had any cinematic quality to it.
I was hooked right off the bat for the watchers because one of my absolute fondest memories of early wow was delving into Uldaman and seeing the remnants of the titans’ presence (before they turned into a more in your face type sci-fi sentinels) and fighting their unusually hostile guardians so I imagine in a similar vein the Wrath cinematic would fall pretty flat if you hadn’t played WC3.
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I wouldn’t say I was particularly invested in stone man as a character per se. I don’t need to see anything further from him, but I did think he served as a cool hook for the cinematic and showing the passage of time on the isles and how it became relevant again.
What is objectively true though is that if you make a person stone they are immediately 100% more cool. See Wildstar.
NOTE: This does not apply to Magni because he is diamond and not stone. Don’t @ me
but yes, the internet love to overly attached themselves to one particular thing and it’s tiresome and i’m not surprised they’re doing it for him.
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I’m not pretending the Shadowlands marketing mp4 had any cinematic quality. The Shadowlands one sucked swampy nuts and I don’t know a single person who was overly enthusiastic about it. A lot of Shadowlands hype seemed to be “at least it’s not BfA.”
You’re probably right about the Lich King cinematic not landing without prior knowledge of WoW… If I showed some of my younger relatives it, they’d look at me like an alien. Or they’d recognize him as a Minecraft youtuber’s skin since apparently that’s a thing.
This sarcastic applause would wound me if the WoW writing team produced any worthwhile cinematics these past four or five years.
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this sentence brings me incredible pain. cinematicic and cutscene skippers are hellspawn
Depends on the game. You really didn’t miss anything if you skipped the goofy scene where Tyrande chokes an undead, or when the Jailer waddles through a portal to Zerith Mortis which literally nobody knew a thing about at the time.
I wouldn’t skip cutscenes in some games, but let’s not act like I’ve missed some high art by not paying attention to WoW cutscenes.
you assume i achknowledge shadowlands as a thing that happened and not just a fever dream arc
Tangentially related, the Junker Queen cinematic from Overwatch would be great if the titular character didn’t turn to the camera every 40 seconds to explain what was happening.
Boggles the mind how anyone thought that was a good idea.
“AW CRIKEY E’S GOT A BIGGER MAGNET THAN ME”
Yes. It’s happening on screen right now and I can see it, why are you saying these things
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I think it was genius storytelling and more games should include it, especially Kojima games.
“I am going to shoot my boss now. The flowers are turning red now.”
“Hrrrnnng… I am slowly crawling through this microwave and being fried to death…”
“I am punching this American senator very rapidly!”
“I am climbing a ladder. This is a very long ladder. Still climbing. This is a big ladder. I’d eat a snake to get off this ladder.”
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