World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Cinematic

[Psychodrake]

For your viewing pleasure

I don't want any of that "I'm not interested in WoW" rubbish, I want discussion on Blizzard cinematics and how they should make a god damn movie already. The only disappointing thing, to me, about this video is the fairly average dialogue compared to the Wrath of the Lich King cinematic which had more structure to it. Deathwing kicks the Lich Kings ass anyday though, I'm glad they represented him so well in the cinematic.

Blizzard cinematics just blow me away every single time.

[ryshi]

cool, but the latest patch has boned my comp. pretty sure i'm gonna need a new comp for cata.

Always good cinematics. Movie worthy? yeah. Where would they begin making a movie though? They've already botched one of the best plot's they've had by releasing WoW. I mean by creating WoW and allowing players to kill historical warcraft figures......they've kind of killed the warcraft plot.

I guess they could do a marine movie. There could be zerg. They could call it Ultramarine. It'd be the same as the GW one but with a weaker plot, much cooler graphics, it'd sell better, and as a whole a smoother rule syst....

[swarmy]

Movie? I think not...Movies becoming games tend to flop at large and I can't think of any great examples of it working the other way around either. Plus, everything they seem to do outside of the game itself seems pretty eye-roll worthy...Just my opinion. Also, I want my 6,500 hours of life back Blizzard.

[Psychodrake]

Oct 18, 2010 1:40:18 GMT @ryshi said:

cool, but the latest patch has boned my comp. pretty sure i'm gonna need a new comp for cata.

Always good cinematics. Movie worthy? yeah. Where would they begin making a movie though? They've already botched one of the best plot's they've had by releasing WoW. I mean by creating WoW and allowing players to kill historical warcraft figures......they've kind of killed the warcraft plot.

I guess they could do a marine movie. There could be zerg. They could call it Ultramarine. It'd be the same as the GW one but with a weaker plot, much cooler graphics, it'd sell better, and as a whole a smoother rule syst....

I kind of disagree with the plot being destroyed. Unfortunately it is a side effect of an MMO but considering how big WoW is, they have done a very good job in trying to keep it true to how it has been. I liked the Lich King's death cutscene personally, I thought it was rather touching. Think about it for a second, they have to please 12 million people at this point. I personally believe if WoW never kicked off as well as it did, they might have followed the story a little better.

New patch is alright with me, I'm just loving messing around with the sunshafts and water. The water is pretty disappointing compared to what they had previously shown though, it made the best looking zones Zangarmarsh/Scholozar by a long shot.

[ryshi]

"Don't remember what happened here because I need to replace the lich king and no one can know" *erect a mural with a magic reenactment of the events that transpired in middle of the capital city*

New patch sucks (please do not swear). I'm a hunter if you couldn't tell.

They could have easily done a better job. Ahin'Quiraj? that was an instance. Naxxaramas(at 60)? that was an instance. Blackwing Lair and Molten Core? Again. None of those permanently altered what was occurring within the warcraft series in a manner that killed off key players before they had a chance to finish any sort of significant work they had. I'm not even going to go on my "the game is piss easy, keeps getting easier, and as a result much crappier" rant.

They could have just as easily kept creating instances that didn't involve arthas, illidan, kil'jaedan, Kael'thalas, etc etc and furthered that otherwise. But then again I don't know if they have any intention of releasing a warcraft 4.......so that's kind of moot. They wouldn't be able to do a warcraft movie though. Not one that's actually significant. Too many fanboys would contest and argue if so much as a few details of the major plot changed and honestly despite how "sweet" looking they made it look WoW is looked down upon with nerdy stigma. "DUDE YOU WANNA GO SEE THE WORLD OF WARCRAFT MOVIE?!?" "nah brah, nah"

I could see blizzard putting out a new totally original movie concept. But I'm still of the opinion using warcraft would be dumb.

[The Tomato]

I have never played WoW, so i cant really coment on that one but the first time i played WC3 around 8 years ago the intro really blew me away.

Then the game started and i got this...


Dont get me wrong, its a great game and i still play it with friends sometimes and a game that lasts 8 years really have something, but i just cant get my head around how the same people who make those fantastic cinematics can churn out all the blocky playdough characters we normaly associate with warcraft.

I know about the whole RAM argument but you think that when its posible to get such beutifully rendered grass in the begining they would give lipsynching a try.

Might be why I never did give WoW a try.

As a sidenote, a movie would be awesome, but it would have to be original content because games that become movies tend to Fail Misserably.

Still, no worries?

[swarmy]

Their insanely optimized models/effects/game-play are the key to their success. Blizzard was very crafty to do this on all their big hit games. If you were a big game company with a pristine record of quality games which would you market your games to by performance specs alone: 1 million top notch gaming towers or 12 million computers with a wide range of specs? Graphics have never been blizzards big selling point; extensively tested an meticulously refined game design has been.

[Trygon]

I'm not interested in WoW.

[Psychodrake]

Oct 18, 2010 20:36:05 GMT Trygon said:

I'm not interested in WoW.

Get off my lawn.

Though Trygon pretty much summed up all the above posts except Chris who is talking about the actual game. I wanted conversation about the cinematic, not how the graphics are (please do not swear).

[The Tomato]

It is a discusion about the trailer, the entire post relates to the trailer.

I simply stated that the cinematics are usaly lightyears ahead of the actual games grapics.

If you took offense from my opinion on this subject i offer you my deepest apology

[Psychodrake]

No offense taken, I just get irrirated that every time something to do with Warcraft is brought up, people find any reason they can to put it down.

The graphics are great for an MMO, especially with the water and sunshaft update. If the old models got some extra polys, it would be a contender to Aion graphically.

[Hellbreaker]

They gave water an overhaul? Nice. But what's 'sunshaft'?

Cheers!

[yoritomo]

World of Warcrack? Seriously? Don't you have something better you can do with your time?


The problem with Blizzard and making a movie is that cinematics really aren't that great. The look excellent next to the half-assed animation that you see in the real game, but when you put them next to cinema quality computer animation the fall short.

I look at Pixar's Cars and I can see the care they took to have constant lighting and reflections throughout a scene. I see the detail in the grass and smoke. I see how the characters interact with the environment, like leaving tracks on the ground.

I look at Dreamworks' Over the Hedge and I see how each character has a different kind of fur. I see how that fur behaves differently on the different critters.

I look at the Space Marine movie trailer and I see a something that isn't a polished as other computer animated movies. I see shortcuts like motion capture being used instead of programing the computer do the physics. I see poor lipsyncing.

If Blizzard was to try this they'd have the same problems. I wouldn't want to sit through an hour and a half of it. And I certainly wouldn't want to pay money to see it.

[salamut2202]

wow has taken lives. here is a googles, referenced, unreliable source.

yori, no drug references, it was in the pro board guide lines.

[yoritomo]

Seriously, you're mod bating? After all the warnings and temp ban you still don't get it? Especially since you've obviously never read the ProBoards' terms and conditions.


Sorry Sal. I sad you were banned the next time you pulled any kind of stunt, and now I have to pull the trigger.

Goodbye.