Just give me a movie that's of the same quality as the World of Warcraft cinematics. Why do we need to wait for live action negotiations and daydreams??? Into the line of greatness comes the Cataclysm cinematic. It's not quite as awe inspiring as WOTLK but it's still gets me excited. And in my mind, nothing - I mean n-o-t-h-i-n-g, beats Illidan's TBC trailer. I watched it twice just getting the link.
Stop f'ing around with your live action shenanigans and deliver us a CGI movie for cripssake! OMFG these trailers are always so hot they even get me pumped and I'm over being excited about playing WOW. At this point, no one in my family plans on doing Cataclysm but that might change for someone as the time draws closer.
I'm not going to lie. I'd love to see the revamped zones. Plus levels 1 to 20 are always a sweet deal. I have no doubt that revisiting to do the the Worgen starter zone would be fun. But eh, not sure I want to buy the box just to fly around Azeroth and level a soon to be abandoned Worgen.
Regardless, I have to give Blizzard mad props again because their tailers are awesome. Damn, give us a movie PLEASE!!! I'd take the day off from work and wait in line on opening day like a sycophantic lap dog!
The CGI is excellent, as always, so I applaud the technical quality of the trailer, but nothing more. The monologue is so poorly written it's embarrassing, and delivered by a uninspired voice-actor who suspiciously sounds like a re-pitched Thrall.
I'm getting the same feeling here I got when I saw the abysmal cutscene after defeating Arthas; that some of the more talented writing staff was moved last year to work on Starcraft 2 and/or Diablo 3. I've only played about a quarter of the campaign in SC2, but the cutscenes there do so much more have the feel and touch of the Blizzard that delivered the vanilla and TBC trailers.
So all in all, massively disappointed here :o)
Posted by: Ziyi | October 20, 2010 at 01:00 PM
The poignancy is definitely missing. I wasn't sure it's because this isn't a fallen human, so it's less engaging or they decided enough with the EMO male anti-heroes. Definitely not as good as the previous ones but I'd still them making a CGI movie versus waiting forever to never, on a live action flick.
Posted by: Alysianah aka Saylah | October 20, 2010 at 02:05 PM
It's definitely the voice that kills it, I've experimented with watching the trailer muted and have the LoTR Balrog theme run alongside it, makes it much more appealing!
And yes I'm wasting time on stuff like that on purpose to postpone doing my dishes hihi :o))
Posted by: Ziyi | October 20, 2010 at 02:47 PM
Yes, Blizzard's people always create excellent cinematic trailers, but I do agree that the voice could be better. Maybe I'll try the Balrog version :)
Posted by: Sebastian | October 23, 2010 at 11:36 AM
Don't get me wrong, on a technical level Blizzard make fantastic CGI cinematics - I love watching them all. I think the very first for Vanilla WoW was was actually better then the Illidan one, by the way.
But nothing, I mean nothing, beats Craft of War: Blind -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWgW3ogaV84
It's just so awesome :)
Posted by: Solidfaith | October 24, 2010 at 07:41 AM
My college animation professor said they should make a full CGI movie years ago when I showed him the WarCraft 3 cinematics. It's not Pixar quality, but they could hang in there with Dreamworks or the other "me too" CGI studios. (In short, they are technically great, short on story, which is why they can't compare to Pixar.)
Posted by: Tesh | November 03, 2010 at 12:24 PM