There’s an addon that skip them automatically so you can maximize your grindset.
The last thing a Metal Gear game needs is more exposition.
Because it is assumed the demographic have no awareness nor attention span. Which is fair, queenie is distracting.
That whole game is a meme. A sign of the times, I guess!
a real meme game is “Untilted goose game”.
I spent like half an hour rewatching all the first cinematics so you don’t have to
Vanilla: intentionally light on story, which is fine. The intention is for an introduction to where we’re at in the story people to be like 'oh cool I can play my WC3 units in an MMO! Wait, I can be a female druid? or play as an undead?? that can summon infernals??!
solid 7/10
TBC: another ‘here are the cool things coming’ cinematic, giving you the power fantasy sell on the draenei and the ‘ooh, mana vampire elf’ for the blood elves (boy I sure wish that’d gone anywhere). You Are Not Prepared is still based
7.5/10
Wrath: the first story-based cutscene, which makes sense with how centered Arthas is. I like the contrast between Terenas and what Arthas is doing and the visuals and music are fantastic. They really did Sindragosa dirty by having her be voiced
9/10
Cata: Visuals are incredible, Deathwing superheating anything he touches is awesome, the voicing is iffy though. Mix of the writing being a little off and the voice modulation being not quite right. Shame the expansion sucked because the introduction is great
7/10
Mists: Great balance of comedy and earnest storytelling, I wish either monks or pandaren looked that cool in game. give us emperor shaohao’s build you cowards
9/10
Warlords: We Will Never Be Slaves is great. The distance between Gul’dan saying ‘you will be conquerors’ and grommash repeating it is a bit too long for you to appreciate the reversal but considering how flawed the concept of WoD was this was a great way to execute on it. shame they flubbed the rest of it lmaoooo
8/10
Legion: in which both factions learn the importance of having fighters to protect your capital ships and how not to get ownzoned by incoming enemy artillery. It’s too competently animated for me to call it bad but this is one of the weaker ones - it doesn’t do anything new or introduce the new features.
6/10
BFA: Easily the best of the bunch - both factions get cool moments, Sylvanas coming out of banshee form to yell FOR THE HORDE is awesome and I’m tired of pretending it’s not, Anduin being outclassed as a fighter and showing his strength as a priest instead is a good character moment. what could have been, gamers
10/10
SL: I do like that it’s clear that even with all her power, it’s clear that Sylvanas has to rely on her agility and banshee abilities to win a stand-up fight - if bolvar had hit her once she was probably a goner. The fakeout where you expect Sylvanas to take the Crown of Domination only to shatter it was cool, and I still don’t really know what ‘this world is a prison and I will set us all free’ means. Shattering the sky like glass is something I’ve never seen before so I really enjoyed it
8/10
Honk if Thatcher’s dead.
it’s still true in that blood elves suck out all of the joy from any thread they appear in
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YoUr PATHEEEEEEEEEEEETIC MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGIC BETRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYS YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!
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the story of TBC for the blood elves is ‘the elves, starving for magic after the Sunwell’s destruction, turn to ever more desperate means to maintain themselves - finding kinship with the Horde who have extensive experience with fighting against control, and watching as even their venerated prince falls to corruption. and then the sunwell got reignited with Light so none of this matters’
this voice line came back and hit me like a freight train
It’s okay though because as we know the Horde are the baddies and we have recently discovered that actually the light is a baddie too so it’s still on theme to be in the bad faction.
It’s the blood elf redemption story expansion where they immediately forget Velen and the draenei saving their entire species to go killing them again next expansion.
No, sending Liadrin and looted animabots to fight the legion in talador isn’t repayment.
every single Naaru is a civilisation-ending threat waiting to happen and should be drained of magic to be used by people who won’t, at any moment of stress, turn into a giant Voidborn soul funnel
Truly, the blood elves feed on others’ potential story and lore development, getting a narrative every other expansion while others (gnomes etc) languish in a loreless hell.
Yeah but they make cool musical note sounds and are therefore excellent and must be protected at all costs.
At least until they gave them voices. Would prefer if they needed to communicate that they just dropped a dope melody on us and a Draenei had to translate it.
Just blast it with Light and it turns into a happy chime again. Or let Alleria vore it, whatever.
That’s how it was in BC; chimes and telepathy rather than squeaky anime girl voices.
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Or if they straight-up puppeted Light-users to speak. Make the prime aspects of Light be faintly terrifying as they should be
The Xe’ra cinematic would have hit a lot harder if Turalyon says ‘we are so honoured to have you back’ and then she immediately assumes direct control
Peeve: Kind of wanting to come back to the game but knowing that I won’t stick with it for long due to other obligations.
What’s the current “meta” nowadays, even? Like how back in the day there was a crop up for House guilds and other doodoo like that.
And now we’re seeing people get hyped for Dragonflight because “at least it’s not Shadowlands”.
It probably won’t be that bad, but I don’t expect it to be particularly good, either.
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Lightmother knows best after all.
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Who hurt you?
For me, I like wow dragons. I enjoy their lore.
I’m looking forward to a new race and things that are bound to the actual world of Azeroth. Rather than the back water death plain.
Stone men.
I saw Stone Cinematic Man at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
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