Thread 718905421

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The era of good WoW cinematic trailers is over.
There is truly nothing left. Annihilation.
This property will be rebooted before 2030.

>caring about WoW in 2025
Too late to detransition huh?

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>>718905421 (OP)
>Doesn't look like a 2000s trash celeb
Still not there

>>718905421 (OP)
Why was her grabbing the light and walking out with triumphant music so fucking lame and the BFA trailer with Anduin doing the same was 11/10? Is it just poor worksmanship in setting the scene? I think it was maybe that there was like no ebb and flow or an arc in the whole thing, there's nothing that feels relieved or turned around once she finally steps out with the new powers, it was like the trailer just kind of meandered until that point with things not feeling very desperate nor changing much, and then when she steps out there's nothing resolved and it just kind of keeps meandering just with her killing random mooks with light now and there's no real confrontation with the villain or anythi-I think I answered my own question.

>>718906765
That's a big part of it. It was that Anduin was healing his troops that we'd just seen get their ass kicked after the Horde got a big second wind. It wasn't just him getting reinforcements out of nowhere. It was a display of his own power and his own 'rally the troops' moment after clearly being on the back foot. The battle for silvermoon barely looks like a battle while the siege on the undercity at least looked like one.

I think another big thing is that despite being a generic army, Anduin's forces aren't literally faceless soldiers. Players can clearly see dwarves, night elves, draenei and other races all in his army that I think helps players link their characters to what's happening on screen. The Army of the Light backing up Liadrin wasn't even clear until Blizz said it was them later. People guessed it was the Arathi or the Silver Hand alongside the Army of the Light guesses because it just wasn't clear beyond 'paladins'. Just poor storytelling.

>>718907304
good point, these trailers are usualyl filled with small snippets of random guys doing cool shit that you replay over and over again and remember, these guys were not only faceless but it was shot in a way where they were just kind of a blob doing some random extras-in-background-fighting stuff. Like did John Bloodelf faction leader do anything memorable or unique in that entire thing, or say anything cool? They could have animated some cool spellbreaker shit and really play up the magic prowess of the blood elves. Everything she said was also really fucking generic and lame, and the music wasn't bloodpumping triumphant in a martial way, just in an ethereal way. When WoW start talking about "The Light" it's always been kind of lacking substance and this was the same thing, no twist to what she was doing or anything. Anduin conveyed that classic good boy reaching for the light cliché a lot better just by how they animated his face and by letting the action speak for itself instead of the extremely mediocre dialogue.

>Just poor storytelling.
Just insane to me that these types of screenplays don't go throuhg like a second or third pass or revisions before they hand it over to the animators to sit down and painstakingly animate this shit for like six months (even if this wasn't up to par with their usual quality, I heard rumors this wasn't the same team as before and it's now outsourced? Dunno)

>>718905421 (OP)
I am so tired of this Le Avengers cinematics...

>>718905421 (OP)
>woke filter off

>>718905421 (OP)
who?

>>718907767
we're so many years away from end game now that you have to wonder how it can have such a hold on these writers still. shouldn't we be at hte next big thing being aped now at this point? can't we at least get that? fug

uh oh op, u gonna be featured on leddit gamingcirclejerk

>>718908016
XDDD

>>718908125
Because looking like a generic manfaced elf from Elder Scrolls is better than somewhat resembling the in-game model of Liadrin, of course

>>718907304
>>718906765
It's simple: WoW lost its identity.

The cinematics used to tell their own stories. As shit as BFA ended up, its cinematic was fantastic and had plenty of identity and storytelling in just 4 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJr3dXZfcg
>Sylvanas is on the top of the parapets, signifying her position considering herself above the rest of the Horde
>She then joins the battle proper and even takes on her banshee form, reminding us of her history before being at the very frontlines, down with the troops, and screaming "for the Horde"
>Every aspect of her character is portrayed; her elitist self-view, her combat prowess and fucked up backstory, and ultimately her actual pride of leading the Horde (at least until they retconned that lol)

>Anduin is shown to be a somewhat competent warrior, leading the charge and fucking up some horde guys before he gets his shit pushed in
>He drops Shalamayne into the ground and summons the Light to heal his army, showing that he is understanding that he can't lead the Alliance by just trying to emulate his father when he is a very different person to Varian

>We see each race of the Alliance fighting distinctly, but working together effectively; the humans and draenei shield the dwarven riflemen, while Night Elves fire from afar and gnomes + dwarves operate machinery inside the siege towers
>We see Orcs, Taurens, and Trolls fighting side-by-side, showing their integration as a faction while the undead are still "outsiders"
>Saurfang is the first to action from the warcry, carrying the Horde flag, showing his leadership role in the Horde

Compare that to the Midnight trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiIjThwKLaE
>The Blood Elves look like humans with big ears
>Nobody even knows who the fuck Liadrin was meant to be until her name is spoken
>Quel'Thalas army for some reason has no magic or archers or Horde presence
>Nobody knew who the fuck the random paladin backup was until Blizz told us
It's awful.

>doesn't make men happy
>doesn't make women happy
So what the fuck is this for? Just to piss everyone off?

>>718908125
>GCJ not being massive imbecilic faggots in charge of pushing this shit into gaming: challenge impossible.

>>718909376
>Quel'Thalas army for some reason has no magic or archers
For those 5 blood elf fans out there and for the ancient Kael enjoyers...actually getting a cinematic focused on their niche faction and getting this indistinguishible from anything else crap is kind of a slap to the face. Not every day you get a WoW cinematic

>>718909409
I dunno what needs to happen for the culture to continue the cycle and to revert back to nerdy outcast dudes sitting around in groups making cool shit with only the nerdy tomboys that everyone likes being around because they have a genuine place in the team who can unashamedly make stuff they want to without looking over their shoulder again, but it feels very far off still at this point. Case in point someone like Metzen has to dance around all these people's wishes and swallow his real thoughts of what he wants to do, and he might even have internalized their complaints about his heavy metal protagonists which is why he made sad Thrall and keeps making sad Anduin and shit.

>>718909409
They tried to make women(men) happy

>>718905421 (OP)
Why did you give her a michael jackson nose?

>>718908125
lol

>>718909016
>in-game model of Liadrin
I swear most of you niggers are not WoW fans
You think every elf looks like the generic in-game model? How are you people this retarded...

>>718909376
>>The Blood Elves look like humans with big ears
Yeah unlike sylvanas not looking like a human with big ears
I have to stop reading the shit you dumb niggers will type
It's so retarded

>>Nobody even knows who the fuck Liadrin was meant to be until her name is spoken

Yeah the identity of the paladin with the blood knight armor helping Lor'thamar is the big mystery of this cutscene
You have to be mentally challenged to even have some doubts

>>718905421 (OP)
this is literally trans genocide

>>718911076
Liadrin in the cinematic looks NOTHING like Liadrin in any of the art

Neither of the two blood elves have glowing eyes, or the high cheekbones/thin face that they are meant to

Blizzard isn't going to fuck you anon, you don't have the breastmilk for them to be interested

>>718910720
To be fair to the Fable devs, the reference model is also pretty ugly, which is usually not the case.

>>718910720
The model isn't exactly a 10 either, and is getting carried by generous lighting and makeup (something games struggle to do when mocaping real models).

>>718909409
>>718910720
>deliberately changes real woman's face to look more like his
Once again proof that it's trannies all the way down.

>>718905421 (OP)
I didn't watch the slop and assumes that troon to be just some random elf, but it is supppsed to be Liadrin? Good lord Blizztard, what are you doing?

>>718909409
trannies

>>718905819
Literally only 1 wow cinematic was ever good

>>718911663
/v/ doesn't know what women look like without makeup

>>718909376
>Nobody even knows
That's the problem. WoW keeps shoving shit characters in our face that don't have a place in the story, and we never see again. They whip out a third-tier character from 18 years ago and think we're supposed to care like it's Illidan or something.

>BFA troll royalty - never see them again. Princess Who?
>BFA every damn Kul'tiran. Left them behind forever.
Aside: Why was there a six-figure fully rendered animation about Thrall fucking around in Outland? Was it a teaser for something? Thrall's big return? He didn't do jack shit. He watched Saurfang die and then he talked a little. I care so little about Thrall's mystery family, let me guess his daughter is named Marilyn Susan.

>Shadowshit: worthless, boring characters in every covenant. None of which will ever leave the afterlife for any reason. Expansion was a waste of time lore-wise. Just awful. Also, all of our gods are robots from the N64 dimension, how's that for "immersion"?

>DF: The same damn dragons that were supposed to be "at the end of their age" in Cataclysm. Basically mini-gods except they can't/refuse to help us right now. If we ever see that frost primal dragon woman again I'll be shocked. Nameless boring centaurs. Walrus people with no personality besides "LOL SOUP". Fucking Moles from Wisconsin I was sick of ten minutes into that cavern patch.

We have no ongoing story, no main characters the audience roots for or even has strong feelings against. They're all a beige pile of blandness against a beige backdrop. Blizz has to resort to using characters made by people who gave a fuck to elicit any kind of reaction from their audience.

when do zoomers start taking over? I want some skibidi rizz cinematics

>>718916569
And the worst thing, anon, is that the people who play this game *still* care about this """lore""", and pay attention to shit like the teasers for what they reveal about upcoming story beats, etc.

Really makes you think.

>>718910816
As I said, "somewhat resembling". That edit is still closer to the in-game model. And yes I know she gets a model change in Midnight

One of the sadder parts of wow's decline into irrelevancy is the decrease in fanart. Half of what gets posted now is ai garbage.

>>718905421 (OP)
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODSSSS
GET THIS PEDO

>>718906765
>BFA trailer with Anduin doing the same was 11/10? Is it just poor worksmanship in setting the scene?
Anduin in BFA did the mass res + some kind of force field. In midnight I have no idea whatever happened. She prayed and suddenly the whole fucking army was just there, sitting and waiting for epic entrance. I swear, if she summoned a generic element of holy light out of the sunwell it would be more memorable than a bunch of faceless knights l.

She's pretty in the concept art, meaning that the uglyfied her on purpose, just like that crippled nigro from TWW, looks absolutely disgusting in cinematic, but her in game model at least doesn't look like an orc.

>>718916937
All good characters are gone. I can't care less about Lorthemar since the only memorable thing that he did is marrying to the leader of nightborn elves.

>>718916746
>>718916569
First time trying to come to terms with terminally domesticated, hypernigger-turbofaggot dentcattle and the sophistry that commands them to consume at the behest of usury?

>>718917673
>debtcattle*
Pardon me.

give it to me straight, is retail worth it?

>>718917943
Gameplay is still good and you can have fun with friends. For solo experience it's still very boring, you really shouldn't play MMOs for that.