I've never seen World of Warcraft before! | Cinematic Trailers Blind Reaction
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- This was my first time ever seeing anything from World of Warcraft! I check out 4 of the cinematic trailers and was really impressed with the quality and storytelling within them. Let me know if you have any other WoW content you would like to see me react to. Thanks!
00:00 Original Trailer
03:44 Mists of Pandaria
08:02 Battle for Azeroth
13:16 The war within
#wow #worldofwarcraft #reaction - Hry
Would you like to see me react to the in game cinematics as well?
YES YES YES YES
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absolutley there are a ton of in game cinematics to watch:) 20 years of wow:)
In game cutscenes get really good around warlords of draenor expansion and beyond c: aalso I would advise watching the artsy cinematics. Namely, warlods, harbringers, and warbringers
please also check "World of Warcraft - Warbringers" series, you will asolutely love it
The first cinematic is actually is 20 years old. In Battle For Azeroth cinematic the elf lady is an undead so shes in the horde and she technically was a high elf instead of Night Elves are different breed of elfs on the alliance.
Wow! No pun intended. Thanks for the info and for checking out the video!
@@SolitarySaturn no we wow fans are about about the puns.
The woman in the Battle for Azeroth trailer was the Warchief of the Horde in the Battle for Azeroth expansion, named Sylvanas Windrunner. She's a long-time established character. She was killed by the Lich King and turned into a Banshee. She broke free of him and joined, along with her "Forsaken" (undesd), the Horde. She was named warchief in the Legion expansion and her actions there stared the war. The young guy in the Battle for Azeroth trailer is King Anduin Wrynn. He is new to the throne, his father, King Varian Wrynn died at the start of Legion and left the 18 year old Anduin to succeed him. The worgen (big gray wolf) is King Genn Greymane, a friend of Varian's who has become advisor to Anduin. Genn has a big desire to kill Sylvanas because her Forsaken army came in and killed people in his kingdom of Gilneas, including Genn's son. This has made things a bit tough for Anduin, who believes they can settle this stuff without violence right up until the start of Battle for Azeroth. In Battle for Azeroth, Anduin is about 20-22.
The last one, The War Within, is the expansion that will go live in late August. We're doing beta testing now on it and the pre-patch fun will start in late July. We're doing some fun re-do in Mists of Pandaria as a way to get people caught up characters and have some good story redo's. Yes, you can play a Pandaran in the game, both Horde and Alliance have them. The story and the places are beautiful, it was my favorite expansion because of that. If you want a giggle that happens just after the Mists of Pandaria trailer, go find a short called "Bottoms Up" put out by World of Warcraft. It's what the two characters (orc and human) are doing.
The World Within trailer is the former warchief of the Horde, named Thrall. He's a beloved character and revered on both sides. He was in the early Warcraft games, the leader of the rebellion when the Orcs were slaves. He and Anduin were kidnapped, along with several others, by Sylvanas and taken to the Shadowlands (where souls go when they die, but Sylvanas and the others are not dead). She's working with the new bad guy in that one and they were tortured. Anduin was dominated by the Jailer when he showed he had the Light power. Sylvanas tried to talk him into willingly joining with them to "defeat death" but he refused and so he was forced. And the Jailer had him doing some very awful things, including stabbing someone. He had no free will and while he was dominated, he was still seeing what he was being made to do. Needless to say, this screwed with him brain a bit. After Shadowlands, he disappeared for a time, just traveling around trying to get rid of the memories and make peace with himself. A dandy case of PTSD, to be sure. In the World Within, Thrall comes to him to tell him that they need him. The hand on the shoulder reminds Anduin of the cut scene in the Shadowlands expansion where he managed to break free of the domination with help of the ghosts of his father and of Varok Saurfang, who was a friend. Thrall's hand triggered the PTSD. Varok Saurfang is a friend of Thrrall's and of Anduin, he's the orc in the Battle for Azeroth trailer in the red armor that gets turned into a pin cushion by the elven hunters. He survives, and he and Anduin end up working together, along with Thrall, to stop Sylvanas.
The sword was stabbed into Azeroth in Silithus (the desert they're in) at the end of Legion by a Titan. They're not known why, but it was responsible, in part, for the Battle for Azeroth. The visions are, supposedly, the soul of Azeroth, but they're not sure. But we'll find out who and why is calling when the expansion comes out.
I recommend a series of Catch Up videos put together by a CZcamsr named Athelarius. It's made of cut scenes and will give you the entire history from the first expansion all the way to this next one. They're long, but very much worth it.
I've been playing since 2008 when my adult kids got me into the game (I wanted to know what they were going on about at Thanksgiving dinner) by giving me the Burning Crusade expansion. I love it, been playing daily since then. I play for the lore, not so much all the fighting, raids, dungeons, etc.
Cool recap.. Nowadays I would just rather watch this story from a TV.. the cinematics look stunning. The gameplay has not appealed to me in a long time. Last time I played was Classic and went all the way to the end of Naxxramas. In TBC I quit again since no point doing all that hamsterwheel again :) Originally I did play TBC to the start of Sunwell but once the guild stopped raiding I started to slow down on my WoW playtime. In WotLK I didn't even start raiding again.. just played to 80 and afterwards I paused my subscription and just came back every now and then.
Anduin, the human in the final trailer is the adult version of the young man who called down that Light from the heavens to ressurect the Alliance. He's lost his Light.
"Saurfang's Mak'gora" is a good compilation of the major cinematics of Battle for Azeroth and might give more context to Anduin's changes. Between Legion, BFA, and Shadowlands, the young prince has been forced to grow up very fast.
some of the earlier cinimatics were just uploaded 14 years ago but they are actually older, like the first one came out before youtube was a thing, they were just RE-uploaded, so to know the time line of releases (cinimatics are usually out about half a year before the actual expansion)
World of Warcraft (the original game) 2004
WoW: "The Burning Crusade" 2007
WoW: "The Wrath Of The Lich King" 2008
WoW: "Cataclysm" 2010
WoW: "Msts Of Pandaria" 2012
WoW: "Warlords Of Draenor" 2014
WoW: "Legion" 2016
WoW: "Battle For Azeroth" 2018
WoW: "Shadowlands" 2020
WoW: "Dragonflight" (current expansion) 2022
WoW: "The War Within" should drop this year 2024
Wrath of the Lich King is the one you really needed to include here - the pinnacle of their "original" cinematics.
Ok might need a part 2 then
@@SolitarySaturn For part 2 I would recommend Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Shadowlands, and Dragonflight in that order.
Yeah really surprised that Wrath didn't make it into the first one. Who was feeding Saturn these!? lol
@@lockekappa500 Nobody which was likely the problem haha
Wrath of the Lich King cinematic is great, but it spoils warcraft3 quite a bit. Ideally you'd play through warcraft3 first, it's the bedrock of wow.
Blizz has an insane CGI crew making these trailers.
I would suggest you watch ALL of the cinematics and in order, it tells the best story! But yes even to today, that first cinematic can still get a wow player pumped up, and its graphics still hold up even today. The cow people are called Tauren, that undead "mage" is an Foresaken Warlock, and he was summoning a demon known as an Infernal. Every powerful demon, but quite unwieldy. Not so much anymore but back in the old days you had to be on top of controlling it, or it would start attacking every mob or enemy around you. The Night Elf woman was a druid, nature mage that can shapeshift into animals of Azeroth.
Yes you can play as Pandaren. The were the first race that was allowed to choose which side they wanted to play on, Alliance or Horde. In the cinematic, that is Chen Stormstout, he is Pandaren, but from another place called the wandering Isle. An island on the back of a gigantic sea turtle, the travels the sea. Hence the name wandering Isle. When he learned of Pandarian's existence he had to come and check it out and rand into the Horde and the Alliance. In the expansion you actually quest along side him, and his niece Lilu at times.
Its funny though this expansion was hated by the general public. tons of Kung-fu Panda memes, and people didn't want this. They thought it was a joke, but for those that stayed and played the expansion. It turned out to be one of best expansions in the game, because to the content, the story, the raids were amazing. (Raids are group content where 10 or more players coordinate to kill big bosses for loot)
Azeroth is the name of the planet that all these mortal races live on. It is the name of the world Soul that incubates within it, hence it became the name of the world. That sword is an ancient elven blade named Shalamayne. Gifted to him. It obeys its wielder if they are honorable and righteous. When completely one with the blade, The wielder can separate it into 2 swords and dual wield it. Varian is Andiun's late father. The Wolf man is a Worgen, infact he is the king of the Gineans. King Genn Greymane. He lost his kingdom to the Worgen Curse, and then the Foresaken. The Nightelves took the Worgen in and helped them to tame the beasts within and they ended up rejoining the Alliance after years of self isolation. King Greymane, became one of Andiun's advisors upon Varian's death, and a sudo-father/grandfather figure for him as well. During the lose of Gilneas. Genn's son was killed by Sylvannas the banshee Queen.
This was another reason why Genn took to Andiun, not really said, but kind of implied transferring his loss for his son, into making sure that Andiun had that kind of Father Figure, After Varian fell at the battle of the Broken Isles.
Sylvannas was the leader of the Foresaken, Undead Humans, and elves. She did this as one of the first Undead Scourge of the Death Knight Arthas' army to regain her mind. No longer wanted among her people the High Elves, and not wanted among the Humans and the alliance for being Undead, the gathered the Foresaken and joined the Horde. In the Battle for Azeroth time period she was Warchief of he Horde, after Vuljin of the Dark Spear Trolls died from his wounds from the battle of the Broken Isles.
During Shadowlands Expansion, Andiun was captured by Sylvannas, who was working for Zovaal, aka the Jailer. She tried to convert Andiun over to their side believing he would be stronger for them if he did it willingly, but when he didn't the Jailer used Corrupted Shalamayne, now know as Kingmourne, a runeblade now., to dominate Andiun's mind. Domination isn't mind control completely. It changes your thought to align with whom ever is doing the dominating. Basically Andiun became a passenger in his own body. And he was maid to hurt alot of people within the Shadowlands. The problem is, he felt exhilaration from it. He had incredible power, and why he is so distraught now is he doesn't know. Was that the Jailer's emotions he was feeling, or his own. Its not exactly the best description, but its the best way i know how to compare it.
Imagine being almost mentally gRaped, and submitted, forced to do terrible things all the while he could do nothing to stop it. A part of you might of enjoyed it, or the person dominating you enjoyed it and you felt it as your own. That is where Andiun was when he finally regained control of his mind when we defeated him in the Specular of the First Ones, and the spirits of Varock Saurafang, and his father Varian Wrynn came to him and helped him break the domination.
In The War Within cinematic, Andiun has been traveling alone for 5 years. He didn't return to Stormwind and take back his role as king. He doesn't feel worthy of it anymore. And he doesn't call upon the Light, because he doesn't feel worthy of it as well, and he is also afraid if he tries, it won't answer him. His whole life he's used the Light as trained Priest, to heal and aid. Its been a core aspect of Andiun. Now, he so scared that it won't answer him after what he's done, that he even refuses to call upon it.
What Andiun doesn't know is that the Light answers the call of those that have conviction and righteousness. Its not a "purely good." Force. We know this because people that are "bad guys." Like the Scarlet Crusade, insane paladins and priest that want all undead destroyed. If you aren't one of them, you are against them. They can still use the light even though they are bad guys. One of the first Paladin's Tyrion Fordring, he was excommunicated from the Church and the Order of the Silver Hand. Stripped of his powers, and left to exile. Well, little did anyone know he was still able to call upon the light, because of his conviction and his righteousness. which was needed when he came out of Exile before Wrath of the Lich King expansion. He gathered up remnants of the Order of the Silver Hand, the Argent Dawn, and those that were not insane of the Scarlet Crusade, and formed the Argent Crusade.
During the Battle of Lights Hope Chapel. When Arthas sent his Death Knights. (you the DK players) to it to destroy it and lure Tyrion out of hiding. the leader of the Death Knights wielded the Corrupted Ashbringer. A Very VERY powerful weapon that was originally used to destroy the Scourge, undead army. When Morgraine learned that he was just fodder for the Lich King, he was able to regain his own mind, and threw the blade to Tyrion. Who was about to face the Lich King at this battle. The instant the Corrupted Ashbringer touched Tyrion's hand. He was so powerful in the Light that he instantly purified the Corrupted Ashbringer back to its Original Form and used it to wound the Lich King and forced him to retreat.
Hope I gave you enough context and lore about things. I'm sorry i know its a bit of a ready, but this is cliffnotes compared to the actual lore. Again I recommend that you find an anthology of all the cinematics, and watch them all in order. It is well worth your time even if you rewatch some of these that you have already seen.
Would love to do that if everyone would enjoy seeing that.
Wow, exactly this! Would be cool to watch all in order. It just gives a little more to it. Would recommend that aswell.
But including only the trailers or all cinematics made? To be honest, all cinematics together are a movie but totally worth and would love to watch it together / seeing an reaction! :D
Just to add that Anduin was a Priest when growing up, but became a Paladin. That's why he wears plate armor in BFA cinematic.
Here's list of cinematics in chronological order if you need (Battle for Azeroth is only one that had several complete cinematics):
World of Warcraft 2004
The Burning Crusade
Wrath of the Lich-King
Cataclysm
Mists of Pandaria
Warlords of Draenor
Legion
Battle for Azeroth - Old Soldier
Battle for Azeroth - main
Battle for Azeroth - Lost Honor
Battle for Azeroth - Safe Haven
Battle for Azeroth - Reckoning
Shadowlands (+Beyond the Veil cinematic)
Dragonflight (+Lauch cinematic)
The War Within (+Date announcement cinematic)
Also, ingame pre-rendered cinematics got good after Pandaria and Draenor so you may watch these too if you get interested in the story:
Mists of Pandaria - Patch 5.4: Siege of Orgrimmar
Siege of Orgrimmar final cinematic
Thrall vs Garrosh cinematic
The Broken Shore
Nighthold finale
Rejection of the gift
Raising a King cinematic
The Negotiation
Shadowlands features trailer (helpful to understand what's goin on)
Kingsmourne
Anduin Raid finale
(There are many other cool ones but those are best for person who's not into story yet)
Thank you this is really helpful!
So many books written, so much lore and retcons since 2004. The rabbit hole goes very deep when it comes to WoW. Definitely worth to watch all cinematics for sure!
It is in my plans. Thanks for the support!
This game is a large part of my life, has been since I was a kid. Really enjoyed your video. It's nice getting to see other people enjoy what I enjoy so much.
Appreciate you stopping by for the video!
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but there is a follow up video to the Mist on Pandaria cinematic called Bottoms up.
It’s a quick(under a minute) video of the two soldiers being drunk at a bar after their little fight 😅
Really cool video! I always love seeing a new perspective on some of the cinematics and things, and they have definitely improved over the years with their visual storytelling
Glad you enjoyed it!
Also, if you want more WoW recommendations, I suggest reacting to the Daughter of the Sea song - the title of the youtube video is "Warbringers: Jaina"
Honestly, please react to the Harbingers and the Warbringers series, they have amazing Art and Stories
I’m not sure if you caught it, but the guy in the last trailer (anduin) is the same guy that calls down the light in the battle for Azeroth trailer. The last one is the next expansion and battle for Azeroth is a few expansions ago. The orc with the nice voice in the last one is voiced by Chris Metzen who also voiced Varian Wrynn (Anduin’s dad). The ‘my son’ in the trailer is Varian.
Edit - it releases in August.
Oh I didn't piece that together actually. Thanks!
Silvanas the elf that screamed for the Horde was a blood elf. She was killed and turned into an undead. For the Horde, we have Tauren (The bull-like people), Goblin, Orc, Blood Elf, Undead and Trolls. For the Alliance there are Humans, Worgen, Night Elf, Dwarf, Gnome, Draenei. As well, there are Pandarian and Dracthyr (humanoid dragons) that are neutral fractions (Both sides can use them)
Sylvanas - the one you thought was a siren - was a high elf in life, a different set to night elves. Her backstory(and elves in general) goes fairly deep, but very brief sum is she's an undead Banshee, leading an undead people (The Forsaken) who are part of the Horde.
It's complicated. :P
Haha I liked the “It’s complicated”! Thanks for checking out the video!
@@SolitarySaturn "it's complicated" is probably the understatement of the year lol :) with the game being 20 years old, with many expansions, there's a ton of lore leading up to the next expansion that's releasing in a few months - The War Within. As someone who's just now getting into the franchise, it's easy to get overwhelmed with all the info that's out there. I'll echo someone else's comment that you should look for & react to the cinematics (both rendered cinematics as well as in-game cinematics) in chronological order. It will help you make sense of the storylines and better appreciate the world building as you get further and further into your exploration of the WoW universe.
I'm currently taking a break from WoW until the next expansion comes out (I'm in my 3rd full playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 & absolutely love it! but that's a franchise to delve into another day) but I have always enjoyed seeing a game that I've played since it's 2nd expansion (The Burning Crusade) through the eyes of someone who's never played it before. Thanks for the WoW reaction, and hope to see more of them.
@@zarasha8220 Appreciate you!
You should watch all the cinematics! There are full compilations on yt.
I would love to. I will add it to my list.
the human in the final trailer, anduin, was the same guy from the trailer before, the one with the divine light power at the end there, not sure if you noticed that
You have Night elves on the Alliance side and Blood elves on the Horde side.
In current WoW, the world is awakening and all we knew is coming undone
The dynamic between humans and orcs have change immensely since WC2. Almost since the 2nd expansion (Wrath of the Lich King), the horde and alliance have been teaming up to a certain degree to battle the "Big Bad" of the xpac. The xpac Battle for Azeroth would be considered the 4th war like how WC1-3 where each their own wars, respectively. And even then, there is a team up for that xpac.
The War Within will be coming out August 26.
They actually used a real actor as reference for Anduin in The War Within cinematic
It looked amazing!
Ive been playing 20 years and its still the funniest game ive ever played
Yeah, you can play Pandarens in the game. Same for Worgen (werewolves), Tauren, Vulpera (needs to be unlocked) and Dractyr (might have spelled that wrong)
I only started playing WoW around Burning Crusade time so that's when I got into it. They used to put said expansion trailers on dvd/bluray in their collection editions before they stopped doing that. So I sopped buying them. Think last CE I got was Legion, only started with that with WOLK to Legion expansions.
Back in the day, I got the Battlechest of Vanilla/TBC discs for £9, was on sale. Wanted a new game, wasn't interested in the RTS side of Warcraft.. Not sure what made me buy it, probably the cost of other games being £30-40 at the time and wanted to give something a go.
That was 18 years ago... Might've started 19 as in 2005 or 2006. Around that time.
To be fair to Sylvanas and the undead, the Alliance decided to be against all undead, even those that broke free and wanted to return home peacefully, so they all joined the Horde. Doesn't mean any particular undead character isn't a complete maniac or evil dude or dudette.
It took like 20 years for tauren to finally get that kickass 2h totem weapon from the cinematic.
I’m just picturing this comment with the “It’s been 84 years” meme haha
lots of catching up to do its only been about 2 decades
lol!
Wrath of the Lich King is a must watch trailer
On my list. Please stay tuned. Thanks!
You should watch all of them btw. Especially the BfA series.
I haven’t played WoW in a decade and this really made me twitchy. Makes me want to login and go exploring.
Wrath if the litch king is a must watch
Pandaren Monks, at least during Mists of Pandaria, were the funnest race/class to play, ever. Remember the hours of fun playing a WW Monk, all the punches, the kicks, the backflip kicks, all performed by a chubby panda girl was always hilarious. But so addictively fun! Sadly, the expansion that came after this heavily nerfed monks and made them not fun anymore... but that's how it always is with a class introduced by an expansion.. they always nerf the frick out of it the expansion after.
for the alliance and most of all FOR AZEROTH!!!
u need to watch em all from the start to the end atm and aslso if ure into the lore theres a ton of ingame cinematicts to watch¨
panda is awsome i main a restoration shaman panda and i love it!¨
Definitely should watch them in order in your free time!
im on lvling a restoration shaman panda atm and i love it
No motion capture in the last cinematic, all hand drawn. They only grabbed some images from the voice actors whilst they were recording the vocal lines. Thrall's (ie the big green guy) voice actor is Chris Metzen, one of the CEO's of Blizzard.
That is really impressive!
My favorite is Mist of Pandara.
if the last warcraft was warcraft 2, you realy missed quite a lot. even to the point, that you don't recognize most of the races. so Tauren (the beastmen) and Nightelves (the purple elves) are from Kalimdor. An entire Kontinent, that was introduced during WC3.
same with most of the important Chars. Sylvannas (the Darkelf Lady on horde Side) was a former Highelf but was turned into an undead and enslaved by Arthas, a Deathknight and former prince of Lordaron. Eventually the grip of his Control vanished and Sylvannas, along with some other undead where able to regain control of themselves. most of those undead where former citicens of the now destoryed Lordaron and they founded a new City in the ruins of old Lordaron, naming themselves "the forsaken" with Sylvannas as their leader. however the alliance didn't want to have anything to do with undead, even if most of them where former friends and family. instead the Horde took them in. That is why we see Sylvannas fighting on the side of the Horde. The City was later attacked as seen in the trailer.
another thing is, that many chars age during the expansion. Anduin, the Guy you see in the last trailer is the same guy, who you saw at the siege of Lordaron in "battle for azeroth", just ofc much younger. in the first version of WOW, anduin was just a child as the prince of Stormwind where you can see him standing in Stormwind Castle
about other trailers, there are still many. unfortionalty, without some knowledge of WC3, you will prob not recognize the featured chars. in chronological order:
the burning crusade, feasturing Illidan, a Nightelf turned demon
wtraith of the lich king, faturing Arthas as mentioned above
Cataclism, featuring deathwing. actucally a Name you should know form WC2
warlords of dreanor, featuring guldan. could have also been around during WC2 but not sure
Legion, featuring Vaian, Anduins father and also Sylvannas again
wrath of the lich king, shadowlands, warlords of dreanor all epic cinematics. You might also try league of legends seasonal cinematics, its a huge rabbithole with epic stuff.
Really wish you'd watched them all in release order.
Yeah my bad. I may create another video where I watch them all and just include these reactions in it.
"She did turn on us"
I MEAN
You're totally not wrong.....
Just..... context lol
if you liked this, check out Total War: Warhammer 1, 2 and 3 Trailers and Faction Cinematics
Bro says he knows NOTHING about World of Warcraft and then immediately references Warcraft III - Yea alright
I've been playing WoW since 07. They've got some great cinematics, but I've gotten tired of the game :/
One of my fave cinematics was Old Soldier. In the story, it comes before the Battle for Azeroth cinematic
Sylvanas ! ❤❤
Time to start playing wow! Join us 😂
eehhh i started playing at start in 2004 and now it has been 20 years not 14:)
Yeah my bad I was looking at the video upload date on youtube that I was watching.
U need to watch the Shadowlands one
00:35 You mean 20 years old, not 14 😉 It came out in 2004
oh you should definitly do yourself the favour and watch all the cinematics in order (would appriciate the reaction though, I love watching non-wow people react to my games cinematics). At the very LEAST you need to watch Wrath of the Litch King, and all the Battle for Azeroth cinematics including Old Soldier. If you like those you reacted to here, you'll love the rest.
Yeah I for sure will check the rest out in another video. Stay tuned :)
Azeroth is the name of the planet. So, you were incorrect in your thinking.
Don't know you from Adam, but if I may suggest: Don't just grab 'randomly selected trailers'. Any fanbase will feel appalled at a perceived lack of respect. You obviously can tell by the sheer number of existing reactors towards said content, this is a well-established and worthy rabbit hole to explore for yourself & channel... show your audience a respectful path that goes from start to finish as it should. You're out nothing and garner extra videos and content for it. Food for thought. /shrug
Thanks for the feedback :)
@@SolitarySaturn Thanks for accepting it seemingly well.
Can u watch diablo more cinematic?
Sure I would love to check them out!
16:18 ahhhhh this makes me so angry (surely too much for nothing) that the majority of people thought that he was going to stab him when it’s SO obvious that it’s the orc advancing to the blade and not the opposite. You can even see that the human was shaking and that the fact that the orc approaches stabilizes the sword and the man
there is better wow cinematics to watch... please watch them all :D
Stay tuned :)
If you want more of the Warcraft lore, I highly recommend playing Warcraft 3 :) after that, the story continues in WoW
azeroth is our world all of us horde or alliance¨or other ...lol
Back in WC2, Azeroth is what Blizzard called Stormwind. So you had Azeroth in the south, Lordaeron in the north. They retconned that some time in WoW. Just google a warcraft 2 map.
Shadowlands was a crap expansion, but the trailer for that expansion was epic.
There was a lot of cool stuff in Shadowlands but the big picture narrative never came together. That whole expansion was a victim of circumstances... lead narrative designer Afrasiabi fired for SA, the related investigations, lawsuit, and worker strikes, then covid shutdowns, and then poor design philosophy pushed on the team by Activision to force increased engagement.
The game is in such a better state now. And Chris Metzen is back as creative director.
@@SuzakuX i agree 100%, i played pretty much through whole of it 3-4 years ago and i've been saying it for a while.
Expasion that was doomed to everything else going on.
Story wasnt told at all in the end, only hinting us in the end that Primus was behind literally everything, and carving domination runes on Zovaals body, just like Zovaal dominated anduin through armor runes..
Literally left as most unexplained expansion ever, and 70% of people trying to forget it ever happened, even if Blizzard said it will be very relevant in near future, as they will try to fix SL's image.
cinematics are not complete if you do not watch "wrath of the lich king"
I’m planning to do a second video to watch all of them now.
@@SolitarySaturn May I suggest budgeting time for more than a second video. There are hours and hours of cinematics and ingame cutscenes and some of us will watch reactions to all of them. If you do it expansion by expansion including the cutscenes the lore will be more understandable too.
@@dangerbook4807 Would love to!
I started playing in 2005. Took breaks here and there, was one of the worlds top Heroic raiders during Legion. Have fun. I took breaks when it stopped being fun and if you don't like the content, don't do it. fans of things like this can be mean because they have so much invested in it emotionally. The war within is everything i want and I can't even afford to play it so im just happy for those who can.
other then the first trailer, you watched the like 3 worst cinematics they have released.
lol that is what I get for choosing some at random. I have plans to watch the others as well now.
If the Warcraft lore interests you, and real time strategy is more your jam, I would highly recommend checking out Warcraft 3. Much of the future lore is built on the foundation that Warcraft 3 lays.
Theres no better example of cinematics being way cooler than the content they are based on. Blizzard games cinematics are basically just animated versions of 1980s-2000s video game box art. they would give a really sick looking cover to get you to buy the product then you go play it and it looks like a turd lol. that being said most people who fell in love with wow also learned to appreciate the art style. and going for an artistic style vs a realistic style for the game itself kind of ages better than a game that aims for realism when the graphical technology just wasnt there yet. But yea Blizzard and Square have always been pretty legendary for the cinematics.
Bro fr watched only the worst cinematics lol
Be very careful with world of warcraft. It's extremely addictive, and narratively is heavily sub par. You just keep playing because of the reinforcement rate. It feels very nice. FFXIV is much, much better, while keeping the outdated monetization scheme.
...If you like this trailers, you should look at the hearthstone trailers. Some of those were incredible. The good old days...
I don’t think I have the bandwidth to dive into another huge game but it is fun to explore some things like trailers and cinematics.
@@SolitarySaturn Warcraft isn't really all that narratively subpar, a lot of haters since the last expac wasn't received very well since they did the elf lady so badly. (TBF her character has been bad since Wrath in 2008 but no one will admit that) WoW is a very iffy game and some of the narrative happens in outside media (comics, etc)
FFXIV has a killer story but IMO it does almost everything else worse, including the core gameplay and QOL features. I think a lot of the people who migrated to FFXIV during SL realized that after they finished the Endwalker MSQ. Once you're done with the story, the rest of the game is kinda lacking.
Now, if you could have the story (and I guess housing) of FFXIV with the gameplay and core systems of WoW, you'd really have something.
@@SuzakuX Alot of people don't seem to realize that YoshiP actually based XIV off of WotLK systems, and they never changed. I'm a huge FF fan, but WoW's narrative is a lot more engaging most of the time. XIV has it moments, but I feel like I actually get immersed in the Warcraft universe more.