WoW: Cataclysm Cinematic Intro Blows Everything Up Forever

[ArmorArmadillo]

Really disappointing. Compared to Zul'Aman, Fury of the Sunwell, "You Are Not Prepared", this is just so bland. "Hey, I'm a dragon named deathwing. I cause death. Here I am. Watch as I decimate an entire pier and cause significant cracking in a dam."

I don't know what's been happening, but since SC2 Blizzard's storytelling standard is dropping like a rock and flavor is getting more hollow.

 

[Aeshi]

That's a bit biased.

I could say Zul'Aman was just some troll going "I hate elves waah they're horde now waah die!"

 

[The Philistine]

The cinematic is aesthetically awesome as always, but everything else was underwhelming. Deathwing has the same Dr. Klaw problem as the Lich King, where he sounds rough but more cartoonish than intimidating or threatening. The scenery destruction was cool, as was Deathwing's touchdown at the gates of Stormwind, but it just doesn't stand up to previous cinematics.

The first two WoW cinematics are by far my favorite. The individual action and conflicts sweep you into the stories and make you want to jump into the action. With both the WotLK and Cata cinematics, it's more like, "oh, there's the baddie I'm going to down at the end of the content cycle" and not much else. I know they're trying to tie in the main villains' roles to their respective xpacs, but in the process they wind up leaving the player out in the process.

 

[Nocta-Aeterna]

i'm geared up for cataclysm!!!


OH WAIT i play Guild Wars and Aion.... nevermind

Speaking of GW: how long before GW.EN and GW2 was Cataclysm anounced? Cause the "Ancient Dragon wakes up again and destroys the world by flying over it" synopsis sounds vaguely familiar.

 

[matrix3509]

John when are you going to learn to stop baiting the Blizzard hating demographic of this website? They come out of the fucking woodwork like an anti-Blizzard version of 4chan like it is.

 

[illas]

Visually stunning, but the music wasn't spectacular (just good, IMO) and there was no defining quote; like "You are not prepared!" to anchor the marketing campaign around.

 

[Bigsmith]

Sooooooooo.... Fire resist gear huh?

There is not enough in the world and outland comined.

CURSE YOU BLIZZARD... i appear to be failing at attempting to not go back to wow cause of this...

 

[jamradar]

Needs more cowbell.

 

[Roganzar]

For all the complaints about Deathwing no one brought up Baron Unterbheit. Seriously, giant metal jaw.

 

[camazotz]

Hum. Well I loved the cinematic and I really loved the music. Looks my my prolonged break from WoW may be ending soon.

 

[Necromancer1991]

...Ok, it does nothing to explain his motivations or anything, but cool as hell though.

 

[Ildecia]

i'm geared up for cataclysm!!!


OH WAIT i play Guild Wars and Aion.... nevermind

Speaking of GW: how long before GW.EN and GW2 was Cataclysm anounced? Cause the "Ancient Dragon wakes up again and destroys the world by flying over it" synopsis sounds vaguely familiar.

hahaha... yeah now that i think about it, that makes me wonder too.

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

Yes. I could watch this cinematic for ever.

 

[mptothedc]

He just tore the world to shreds by flying around and someone is going to TANK him? Discuss.

 

[Necrofudge]

It looks awesome enough to almost convince me to pay 15.99 a month for it. almost

 

[tetron]

I quit this game a couple months before cata released. I quit for SC2 btw so still a blizzard fanboy. My friend was over at his friend's house when he was playing on his pally and from what my friend saw I was right to quit. They gayed WoW up so much with this expansion. I saw the holy pally changes before I quit and I was like, oh fuck you blizzard, fuck you.

My favorite cinematic was the wotlk expansion. The vanilla and BC were cool but wotlk was just so in theme.

 

[Hanzo Hattori]

Why the hell cant they make their game more more difficult again... I mean the dungeon browser was a nice addition and stuff, but seriously, in a few days everything will be beaten again... Every damn noob is able to get the best gear with no really effort. I'd like to see separately gear you'll only get in raids. Like you can get all the kind-of nice stuff as usual, but if you want to get the ULTRA-L33T-GEAR you have to do a hella difficult raid that can't be finished within a few days...

sorry for my bad english btw

 

[Ferisar]

Why the hell cant they make their game more more difficult again... I mean the dungeon browser was a nice addition and stuff, but seriously, in a few days everything will be beaten again... Every damn noob is able to get the best gear with no really effort. I'd like to see separately gear you'll only get in raids. Like you can get all the kind-of nice stuff as usual, but if you want to get the ULTRA-L33T-GEAR you have to do a hella difficult raid that can't be finished within a few days...

sorry for my bad english btw

Thanks for discussing the cinematic man, really appreciate it.

Also, lol@ "hardcore GAEMZARS" raging about casual content.

 

[Hanzo Hattori]

Why the hell cant they make their game more more difficult again... I mean the dungeon browser was a nice addition and stuff, but seriously, in a few days everything will be beaten again... Every damn noob is able to get the best gear with no really effort. I'd like to see separately gear you'll only get in raids. Like you can get all the kind-of nice stuff as usual, but if you want to get the ULTRA-L33T-GEAR you have to do a hella difficult raid that can't be finished within a few days...

sorry for my bad english btw

Thanks for discussing the cinematic man, really appreciate it.

Also, lol@ "hardcore GAEMZARS" raging about casual content.

Oh, well, sorry, forgot about that one in my rage^^.

In my eyes the cinematic is really nicely done, but it seems kind of... void. I mean don't get me wrong it looks great, but you don't really get a feeling of how the game is going to change and all that stuff. Also is there nothing about the story, maybe it's just supposed to be eye candy, but yeah.

I'm not kind of a hardcore gamer myself, I just don't like how ANYONE can get EVERYTHING without much effort. It kind of takes the motivation to play away...