>something from the earth.. is calling.. someone.. is coming.. it means something.. maybe.. we need to be ready.. for whatever.. it might.. be big.. we might need to go.. somewhere.. to do.. something.. maybe.. sometime in the future.. we need to answer.. the call.. of someone.. in order to.. achieve the.. thing.. maybe..
yeah WoW writing sucked for years.
it was never good
>feelings
>sad stuff
>my feelings
>your feelings
>let's talk about our feelings
>World of Warcraft
Thrall is so fucking lame I wish Garrosh killed him.
Blizzard is the king of missed opportunities, and they could have made the most shocking moments in fiction of all time and pussied out.
Fucking pathetic.
Where's the Garrosh
>I'd fucking do it again
image with the onion-hufing sylvanas
whoops
Yep this is what happens when trannies and women write your game
this cinematic was written by chris metzen.
He hasn't been back in charge long enough for them to write and animate that. He really hasn't been back long enough to have any real effect on this coming expansion. You got fooled by marketing.
You got fooled by marketing.
They are trotting out Metzen and pretending it's all him because the fanbase needs to believe that. This shit goes into development long before anyone hears about it and Metzen has not been back that long. It's just a fact.
metzen has been back for over a year and given his history they probably fast tracked him to a senior position long before it was officially announced. that's plenty of time to influence a cinematic that has basically nothing going on except two dudes talking. it's not 2007 anymore, this cgi doesn't take them years to make.
you got fooled into thinking metzen isn't a slop writer like all the rest of them and you're in denial that he wrote this crap.
Didn’t Metzen produce everything up to BFA? Hardly a good track record in the latter half of his career.
dude you're clearly wrong. take the L this is pathetic
Metzen is shit ever since WoW came out. Look at SC2, Diablo 3 or WoW expacs such as tbc, wotlk or cata.
>no mocap
bullshit. Anduin is the worst ever in this cinematic, instead using the "old" cgi model, this one is just lame ass facescan of some random intern
I mean he was around for the recording at least
Is this the bigger bad Jailer was referring to in his dying words?
Please forget aboit that, we really didn't have a plan at all but wanted to make it seem like we do.
In 10 years kids will be nostalgic ovet shadowlands, meaning we can do a continuation to jailers shit.
But now we can milk the retards who were infants during pandashit.
>guys what if instead of making an expansion, we started selling major patches instead? That way we could charge expansion prices three times per expansion!
>great idea jim, but we don't actually have an expansion ready, how do we sell this to the paypiggies?
>just give people some generic titles, have Metzen come out to appeal to boomers, and make some dialog-- sorry, expansion cinematic with thrall saying some very vague shit! Three times the content!
>You're getting a promotion jim
At this point I'm convinced this is how meetings with the director go. Imagine an expansion cinematic being literally just two dudes talking for a minute or two, and even worse, saying nothing at all.
FIVE MINUTES
>According to Christie Golden, Metzen himself wrote this shit
AHAHAHHA
Look, I was gonna go easy on you not to hurt your feelings
But I'm only going to get this one chance
Something's wrong, I can feel it
Just a feeling I've got, like something's about to happen, but I don't know what.
If that means what I think it means, we're in trouble, big trouble
And if he is as bananas as you say, I'm not taking any chances
You make this thread every hour but wow still won. Seethe chudlet
>Metzen is le good
Wasn't Chris Metzen caught searching his own name when the sex scandal stuff dropped to see if he had been implicated?
Yes.
Weirdly no one ever followed up on it.
Chris Metzen
The Great Milk Caper
Rockstar make World of Warcraft now?
wow writing really reminds me of modern capeshit in regards to ruining characters and having YA-tier writing
Their lead narrative director openly wojaks over MCU shit on Twitter. Make of that what you will.
It's not so much being inspired by it as much as it is the general talent pool being terrible. Everything is just middle grade and sophomoric with modern writers. Like they've consumed nothing but cartoons and transformers movies.
feminized writing
>Anduin goes to WoW hell and becomes the slave of WoW Satan who runs a BDSM sex dungeon (Torghast is literally a buck breaking barn)
>it’s implied that the Jailer surprise sex’d Anduin (you can tell from the look on his face that it’s a sex-related trauma)
>somehow he’s a pussy for not manning up after Satan rapes him and buck breaks his soul
Some of you have never endured real hardship and it shows
>somehow he’s a pussy for not manning up after Satan rapes him and buck breaks his soul
Yes
when will we get a cinematic of these events?
Sorry chuddy but you need to read the books, yes books as in plural. 🙂
>Alexstraza gets raped
>Anduin gets raped
>Blizzard really like rape stories
Of course they do. They have a lot of experience.
>For the World of Warcraft to live.. New heroes must be born.
>Alexstraza touches Anduins stomach then looks at Thrall and smiles
>painted-on muscles and 'stone' geometry
How has WoW still not moved on from this? Surely their graphical budget can afford to double the polycount by now.
Because third-worlders need to be able to play WoW on outdated hardware.
WoW actually runs like shit since Shadowlands. I have more consistent frames in elden ring than old wow zones lol
>polycount
Thief 3 and Deus Ex are years older than wow and have better bumpmaps. It must be by design somehow. Not even blizzard is that incompetent.
They're held back by the ancient engine they've used since WoW's initial release
This. I think the WoW engine is from 97-98.
It's literally the Warcraft 3 engine.
and still one of the best engine for mmorpgs.
Because those guys knew what the fuck to do. Programming was difficult enough to keep all the retards out.
This is why:
Most WoW players are brown from shithole countries nowadays.
Game already runs like shit considering how bad it looks
looks no better than vanilla but uses 10 to 100 fold the amount of resources very ecological blizzard
For the longest times most computers couldnt run it properly. I remember reinstaling the game after not playing for a while in my then brand new GTX 660ti and being confused as to why I could only get 40fps.
Alex took it a lot better, I guess women are into it though
>Alexstrasza
If your force a husband and wife to have sex over and over at gun point that really isn't rape.
Who would've thought that writer of such classics as starcraft 2 and diablo 3 could only produce "le heckin mysterious and le deep" word diarrhea
>ANDUIN!
>HEAR, FEEL, THINK!
>Ohhh Thrall, Thrall! It's cuming! It's cuming! Get ready!
>Blizzdrones clap
WTF is this shit!?
I really hope this is the last WoW "expansion" and they just end up turning whatever is left of Warcraft into mobile garbage or something.
Looking at them trying to make anything with this IP is just pathetic and sad at this point, i can't even bother to care anymore. I just wish more of the decent characters had died before BFA so they didn't get completely ruined (looking at you Maiev)
>fuck you, COWARD!
>I'D DO IT AGAIN!
Sad that this is all they gave him and he still stole the whole show:
>Fuck the fake Horde, fuck the Alliance, fuck everybody in this entire world, fuck these new villains, fuck artifact power, Sylvanas is a fucking bitch, Thrall is a pussy, Anduin is worse than his father in every conceivable way, and most of all, FUCK YOU.
>Deletes himself from reality.
Garrosh was a real one. That old WoW spirit died with both him and Varian.
My warchief
Why do... older people text like this... unironically people do... i find it weird...
Because that's how the character talks in the trailer.
It sounds as strange as it looks written.
They’re genuinely trying to write WoW as if its some compelling drama when it has SW prequels level dialogue, capeshit writing, a Warhammer aesthetic and zero redeeming villains or protagonist.
They are trying to emulate FFXIV's storytelling because a lot of the current WoW devs play it and are open about playing it.
What they don't realize is that XIV's story isn't anything really groundbreaking it's just consistent. Like Yoshida himself admitted that the "ending" that played out in the past couple expansions didn't really come together until they started thinking about it BUT they made sure to remember things from before so they could call back and tie things together when they needed to. Also the strength of FF's "story" comes from the characters, people care about them.
WoW has a lot of good characters that are just written poorly or lack direction, or their directions change constantly.
tldr: WoW writers are trying to emulate a grand story without realizing how the story got that point in the first place. They are trying to speedrun it.
Gtfo you vile troon
I'm sorry you can't mentally process a proper post due to your third world favela monkey upbringing but please stop sharing your obsession with everyone. Nobody asked why you always think about trannies.
We can’t even take a shit on WoW properly anymore. You vile troons have to invade every WoW thread and make it all about your dead troony game.
Keep coping and hoping little guy. If you keep saying it long enough it's bound to manifest in reality.
Have you cut your dick already
ironic
>a Warhammer aesthetic
my dude warhammer itself was ruined by warcraft, this isn't warhammer aesthetic this is 100% warcraft aesthetic
Because... they run out of air... when typing.... bro
Can you feel if? The tummy quakes?
ROCK AND STONE SISTER
>metzen shits out some diarrhea onto a plate
>wowfags lap it up
lmao
the biggest problem of this cinematic is that Thrall looks like fucking dogshit. if he was made with the same love Garrosh face model received in WoD intro it would be decent. but he's modeled after retarded looking ingame models with their new graphic style so yeah. they should have made him after the warcraft 3 unironically
>hero
>champion
>you must....
>return home...
>...and buy the ultra deluxe edition of the newest expansion
I can't wait for the mothercrystal to tell me to think hear feel
Chris metzen
I wish garrosh had won the mak'gora.
>those numbers
>warmonging
>fights for what he think is right
>one vs all
>best xpacs
>dies
>worst xpacs ever
NOT A COINCIDENCE YALL
wow is STILL going? jesus christ just let it die already
Most of the trailer focused on their feelings rather than the looming conflict, that's how you know it was written by women
Why do all their cinematics have these weird pauses in between words now
Forced drama.
Nu-Writing anticipates its own tiktok edit. Gives room for where the music will go to enhance the epic spine chilling goosebumps raising mic drop.
WoW writing 101 to make the writing seem more impactful than it is.
>character says something
>other character breathes in audibly
>other character makes a grandiose platitude about current situation.
>cinematic ends with implications
>within two patches the payoff is either weak or the character arc is dropped completely
It's like the "Forgive me, Zanibarto" style of writing only more dogshit. It's everywhere in Blizzard's games, along with releasing novels where 75% of the backstory for current plot is but all the projected character arcs are thrown out.
Always liked how Knaak and Golden basically insert their own bullshit into the setting and nobody cares because the devs ignore it anyway.
Golden managed to make her pet (Anduin) the MC of this franchise and all the cinematics about him. So yea, the devs have to deal with their decisions.
blizzard tries really hard to make their dogshit writing feel deep and epic
for me its most apparent with anything related to overwatch, they always go for that generic epic hollywood feel which comes of as forced because the game itself is nothing more than a braindead team shooter with zero actual story in it
at least here this trailer represents something related to the story that will happen in the game itself
>at least here this trailer represents something related to the story that will happen in the game itself
It's dogshit, literally two characters standing on a beach spouting exposition at each other at a snail's pace to draw out the trailer. Compare that to the older trailers like TBC, Wrath or Cataclysm where they showcase upcoming stuff or hype up the new big bad. This is probably the worst trailer they've ever made in terms of artistic creativity and showcasing what's in store for the players.
Thrall I just can't *long pause* the jailer ruined my *long pause* bussy
WoW writing consists of characters throwing one liners at each other in turns.
This has been a WOW staple since the beginning and once you notice it it makes every cinematic fucking exhausting to listen to, in some of them literally every line is delivered that way. Issue doesn't exist in wc3
>something from the earth.. is calling.. someone.. is coming.. it means something.. maybe.. we need to be ready.. for whatever.. it might.. be big.. we might need to go.. somewhere.. to do.. something.. maybe.. sometime in the future.. we need to answer.. the call.. of someone.. in order to.. achieve the.. thing.. maybe..
Pic related, her name is Azeroth/The Last Titan.
>Make her a troll because "trolls are the original race"
They won't do that.
Some anon in other thread already explained that we already seen her in one of the past expansions.
That's a fan render.
Obviously, still it's a female troll.
It's not going to be though
would
>troll
fuck you
>had a whole expansion about this
>thrall still can't figure this out
Azeroth will be a high elf or night elf for sure
They'll probably cop out. We're assuming she'll resemble "a race" because Argus had an Eredar crest.
CHAMPION!
remember they ended shadowlands with "even bigger bad is coming" storyline
At least they ended it.
They should just retcon shadowlands out of existance if they know better.
They should all-a-dream it that it was just some Gnome having a mushroom trip that he created a pantheon of robot gods in a clockwork universe.
After same consideration, that's exactly what they seem to be doing.
If you think about it, the whole idea is just restarting after Legion and forgetting about everything in between. Only lasting effect was Anduin being drama queen which this cinematic aims to "fix", and next time you see him in game he will be all good.
They also seem to retcon their memories, because Magni told everyone exactly what is going on in BFA and now they are acting like nobody knows shit again.
>Zanzibart...is coming...
>Finally...it is over.
>No....this is just the Zanzibart
Sick to death of corporate platitude-based writing. I started noticing it in FFXIII in which characters would barely talk outside of exchanging platitudes.
then
>i am a member of the horde/alliance, i fight enemy races and i defeat small and large threats across the world. fuck greenskins/stomp gnomes into the dirt
now
>i am a Hero and i must fight the new planet-destroying threat in order to Save Our World. past grievances must be put aside and emotional wounds healed. also my faction leader has a deep emotional/sexual connection to the opposing faction leaders
Chris Metzen