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Final Pre-Event Cinematics Reveal the Fate of Undercity - World of Warcraft - MMORPG.com
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Final Pre-Event Cinematics Reveal the Fate of Undercity - World of Warcraft - MMORPG.com
World of Warcraft News - The final three cinematics for the World of Warcraft pre-expansion event, The War of Thorns, have arrived with today's North American reset. In one, Jaina Proudmoore arrives at the Battle for Lordaeron and, in the other, Sylvanas Windrunner and Anduin Wrynn (and friends) have a short tete a tete. We'll let you watch to see how it all plays out.
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Yeah a neck reward would've been great Kappa
Seriously, however, she's had a rough go of it since the bombing of Theramore and she spends time there alone with her demons and her past as a peacemaker. She's finally breaking free from that "fragile sweet girl" (even though she's 40+ by lore) portrayal that she's been forced into since forever. She was always regarded as one of the strongest mages on Azeroth, second only to Khadgar, so seeing this display of ability is not totally out of place.
True, but this isn't supposed to be the real world or even particularly nuanced. It's supposed to be cartoonish evil vs cartoonish good. I mean, tell me honestly that the Alliance embodied by Manduin Wrynn isn't the perfect representation of the "Lawful Good Overdrive" meme.
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It is supposed to be somewhat nuanced though or at least consistent, it's not good vs evil, it never has been. They are showing signs of what their characters would actually be doing in this situation certainly, Baine's resistance and anger in this cinematic, Saurfangs hesitance in his - it's all there, they are simply letting it go for the sake of creating conflict.
There is no way Baine is okay with the burning of Teldrassil and blighting their own people, nor Saurfang and I feel as though the only reason they are allowing these characters to go along with Sylvannas is simply to create a villain for the expansion. It goes against everything we know about their characters/personalities and I think they could've done a lot better with this.
That said, awesome Jaina moment and solid cinematics as always. Genn always steals the scene, that VO. Here's to hoping they clean up the writing a little for the actual expansion.
I completely agree about Anduin though, very lawful good, archetypal etc... but at least he's consistent. I'm okay with him only because of his father. Totally loved Varian haha
So much this! Horrible pre-event compared to Legion.
I hope they'll have some story turn like that.
Jaina's "entrance" honestly makes 0 sense if you haven't seen the warbringers, so blizzard kind of dropped the ball there. They could've easily added a quest like the compass quest about varian and anduin's transition to give some backstory of what Jaina's been up to because as far as anyone in game knows, she just ragequit at the start of legion and then just pops back to "save" the day.
Greymane should've died.
Alleria's appearance kind of made little sense to me when you see who all is missing. I guess cause she's the sister so she has to show up.
Kind of the sad thing is this story is being a bit too predictable and wont get "good" until the following expansion. Its obvious Blizzard is using this expansion to set up characters like Thrall and Malfurion while sowing the seeds for Alleria's inevitable turn. You can see this a mile away. Honestly, the flow would be better if Illidan was still around and some how they focused more on a relationship between Bolvar and Sylvanas, not as the typical undead rising against the "major" factions but setting up something completely separate mainly because the undead dont fit in with either side when you give it a lot of thought. Plus, her turning to Bolvar makes the most sense after her plan with Helya fell through thanks to Greymane. Then again, I dont really know much about (or care much about) the Zandalari and their whole spirit rituals, so maybe that will peak her interest. One thing reigns true with Sylvanas, her priority was never about the horde, it was just about the survival of herself (slightly questioning if she cares about the undead after this event, given what she did).
why? So we can throw it away in a week when we get our azerite neck?
I'm pretty sure Ruku was referring to the title not doing so well in the western market, which is honestly to be expected since no video game based title has dont really that well since like Final Fantasy back in 2000 I believe. The eastern market loves stuff like this though which is why if you look over there, Bleach live action movie is like the number 1 thing they are talking about even though to me it looks like garbage.
I agree it is DnD Lawful Good and I would say Chaotic Evil. But not sure it was like that at the start, however it may just be that being in a roleplaying guild we played that down and gave it more nuance.
Me at the end of the event: Meh...
Always nice to see Jaina though.
And Graymane will die, I've heard somewhere that Blizzard is writing a quest chain about his owner taking him into the woods for "a walk."
/Cheers,
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World wide they took in over $430 million. Production cast was $160 million. Highest grossing video game movie ever... I think they did just fine and you should expect a sequel.
https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/21/11988990/warcraft-highest-grossing-video-game-movie
Matter of fact, if you took all of @SBFord notes from her 101 class today and used that as a script, it would make the best sequel movie of any of their expansions.
Nah. It did pretty bad. It only made like $50mil domestically in box office, got horrible reviews/ratings and "most" of the games community didn't like it. Plus, they don't get 100% of the money from ticket sales. In china it's average of 20-40% depending on the movie. Then you have to include money spent on marketing and stuff. It didn't do well by any means. Barely broke even. If it wasn't for the china release the movie would of been a huge failure.
Someone needs to tell Blizzard that not every story has to based around "iconic" characters, someone else should have been brought in slowly to the story on the Horde side to be the cause of all this. Then the Taurens could dump them and Sylvannas does not need to be the fall girl for every DLC.