Who is Chris Metzen? (The Genius Behind Blizzard Entertainment)
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
- For us long time World of Warcraft and Blizzard fans, Chris Metzen is a household name. We've known him since his early days at Blizzard Entertainment, we know him as the mastermind behind Warcraft lore, as well as a well published author whose work is beloved. But for newcomers to the Blizzard community a question always tend to pop up of: Who is Chris Metzen and why is he such a big deal?
In this video, Moocluck gives us a little documentary-like experience as to who Chris Metzen is and why he is so important for the future of Blizzard Entertainment, World of Warcraft and more.
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This was so well spoken, Moocluck. I'm emotional. Thank you for also being the heart of the community.
Holt shit I haven't heard MooClucks voice in YEARS, good to see you're back
Now since we got Chris back - I want all of the big WoW music composers back. I would love nothing more than to see Russell Brower return,more of Neal Acree,more of Jason Hayes,Sam Cardon,Derek Duke,Glen Stafford. THEY are the ones making that true WoW atmosphere.
Metzen's absence was definitely felt in the stories and overall game direction. It really felt like the heart and soul was no longer there. The Warcraft franchise in particular was his baby that he helped grow and flourish and when he left, the game kind of lost that feeling or touch of what made it 'Warcraft' in the first place. While I don't want to get my hopes up too high as of right now, I can't deny the joy I felt to see Chris back up on the stage talking about future expansions.
my thoughts exactly, I'm cautiously optimistic about the magic coming back to WoW.
Panic attacks suck man. I empathize deeply with him about that. It's rough.
TLDW: what we have always known. Chris Metzen is iconic because he cares the way the players do. It is his story we are playing. Without the storyteller, the story loses meaning. Plain and simple. (But watch the whole video because it is awesome and insanely well done)
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he was a good artist too him and samwise killed it with the art.
Chris Metzen is the heart and soul of World of Warcraft a God among Fantasy worlds and stories, just love the man :D
Your Metzen memes back in the day were glorious 🤣
"He got old". FFS children. We got picked on, beat up and othered for playing D&D and liking fantasy movies and games. It wasn't cool or trendy. Only those who truly loved it stuck with it and openly admitted to it, let alone made a career of it.
Metzen is one of us OGs. Give the guy a chance. If you're creative and you have a gift for storytelling, you don't just wake up one day having lost those abilities. While we do get a little more soft hearted maybe, we're also growing more jaded and less likely to care about pleasing the masses. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. If he bungs this up, he will receive A LOT of criticism from his OG peers. I'll be first in line...
Amen.
Hear hear! 💪🏽
Well said. As a 40 year old who has played the WC franchise since the OG Warcraft, I loved the game, its premise and its execution, and I loved watching it grow into WC2 and then into WC3, which was a radical departure from the previous two in terms of storytelling and gameplay. I’m also old enough to know how both time and experience affect an individual, and I still have faith in Metzen’s ability to get WoW back onto the right path. I will absolutely give the guy a chance to make the Warcraft storytelling great again…
I started in Warcraft III moving on to WoW, and never left. Losing Metzen when we did left a chasm no one could fill no matter how hard they tried or how good they were. It was everywhere in the game. However, I am glad that he is back and I do hope that he still has that Metzen magic he is known for. I hope it's enough. I really do.
I was an old S&S, comic-reading, Fellowship, Lovecraft, and Transformers kind of nerdess, finally lured into playing WoW towards the end of WoD. A friend assured me that the storytelling was top notch, the lore incredible, and there was gold in them thar enemies’ pockets. I came, I paid my subs, and stayed.
I signed up for The War Within - even if there’s no fire-wreathed Fallen - on release day. Looking forwards to travelling the path with Metzen once more the bard.
Good to hear your voice again, Moocluck. I havent preordered an expansion since BfA (where I cancelled my sub halfway through), but once again I’m all in. I’m betting it all on the return of the true Warchief 🔥
This is something that needs to be regognized. Hope they will do something similar documentary officially like Runescape did.
god i missed metzen so much
“Subtle shifts in story telling”. Is that what we are calling Shadowlands now?
Excellent job my friend. You covered it all and with a stellar voice.
This brought tears to my eyes
This Video is so well made, MooCluck is an amazing narrator. Nice to see that the grumpy Warlock is back :)
This was an excellent documentary, and Moocluck is the perfect host for such things!
MOOCLUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice to hear your voice again, mate!
I feel hope for any xpact now that Metzen is onboard. If Blizzard wants to satisfy the player base and really bring back that WoW nostalgia, give him the keys to the franchise and the resources he needs to further develop what he started and then get out of his way!!!
IMO Samwise Didier is the true master of warcraft he gave the style we all love
Thank you for doing this.
Long live Green Jesus Man
Good to hear Moocluck again, though I hope Nixxiom gets better soon too.
Love this Moocluck voiceover
I stopped playing in shadowland, and I only got excited to play WoW again with war within announcement
His Arrived just like Thrall who retired but his job called back to clean the mess all higher ups, yet fans celebrated for their hero has came back to give their childhood back.
Nixxiom do you think you could do and updated wow machinima tutorial for 2024 wow model viewer is impossible to get working.
I personally use a Warlords of Draenor version of model viewer. I've had it since WoD and intentionally kept a version of WoD on my PC for it to run off, since I knew WMV would just break repeatedly over and over in the future. The WoD version was very stable (for me at least) which is why I kept it.
hopefully they update model viewer to be more stable or some other alternative comes around. i only have DF installed@@NixxiomOnRUclips
Warchief Frull is my favourite.
I'm not so hopful, the current culture that was allowed to thrive in blizzard certainly wont' allow Metzen to take the story back to it's edge it once had. i mean ffs look at DF as a whole, it felt like a children's cartoon.
Family 🥺 👨👨👦🌈🏳🌈
I remember children's cartoons had more substance than DF.
"current culture" Yeah, people have been doomsaying about this so-called culture ever since MoP was revealed
Wont lie, it was fun hearing you moocluck
Moocluck only comes back to do Bangers
Great video
I love when the N00b eduficates my brain. Thanks No00b!
Moocluck!! We love you!!
Even tho I don’t play wow, it’ll be cool to see what metzen can accomplish
Too many hands started cooking in the pot. The games were good because Metzen and the rest of his team cared about the stories being told. Eventually outside influence like Activision got too involved in the projects.
This is exactly true.
fantastic narrator :D
We can't go back, as badly as we want to.
Is this the same Nixxiom that was in Super Planet Dolan for awhile ?
mooncluck, missed ya bud
Moocluck!
metzen truly was the beating heart of warcraft. unfortunately, i don’t think he alone is enough to bring it back to its roots now.
too much talent has left and the new hires that have replaced them are pushing such a detached and unfitting narrative. it’s the sad truth.
i’ll still check out TWW and the world soul saga as a whole, but i’ll be shocked if it isn’t more of the same issues we’ve been seeing with the narrative as of late.
I agree with the “pushed narrative” aspect. My hope is that the man who wrote the vast majority of Warcraft’s great lore has the spine and fortitude to tell those who have less talent in their entire body than Metzen does in his nail clippings to eff off if he needs to. Their garbage storytelling and forced “social justice” narratives have no place in a world like the World of Warcraft.
My hope is the blizzard finally got all the brain rot out of their system in Dragonflight and remember it's a fantasy game and not a podium for spouting political beliefs. They really went hard with it in this expansion. Can't escape into the world for long without a trans dragon or a gay horse-man couple to yoink you right back to reality.
@@Pumkin932yep
We want Garrosh back...to pave a new Path of Glory.
You forgot to mention that Chris Metzen, also worked on the story of Stormgate !!!! Please everyone go check out Stormgate, if you love Warcraft/Starcraft !!!
Is it just me or is Moocluck sounding more and more like Illidan
Ohhh that is why SOD rocks! Go figure.
Fkin love u moocluck
I clicked just because of the title
And then Blizzard paywalled launch night, the first time they've ever paywalled content, and we realized any "return to form" was absolute bullshit but 99% of players ate it up anyway.
fuck wow i want warcraft 4
Rip hellscream ally for life but gota respect the goats
If metzen fixes Blizzard... that would be a bigger achievement than all his past achievements combined. Blizzard are beyond repair now and they will feel the knockout blow when riot takes over the role of Blizzard once they release riot mmo
The problem is. Im not hyped for titan soul saga. After the dragonflight expansion. I thought of it. And we accomplished nothing this expansion. We couldve had galakrond, we couldve had deathwing, the primalists couldve been an actual damn threat if they killed one of the aspects. I'll be honest the thing i wanted most out of dragonflight when i found out that emerald dream was gonna be the last little zone. And fyrrak was gonna be the last boss.... i was like ok.... and we just kinda killed him and gave the night elves a new home (a new home that if you visit isnt even a city and theres no night elf npcs anywhere and its absolutely barren and useless as a visiting zone) when i saw the end of expac thing and the aspects got their powers back and all i saw was cringe. I realized yes dragonflight had the best gameplay. But WOD had a better story. Fucking WOD. Wanna know MY ending to dragonflight. Aspects get their powers. And mid speach when ysera starts talking again she gets blasted by a void beam. And dies on the spot and falls to the floor. Iridikron kills half the aspects and sabellion. Leave malygos, yseras daughter, ebonhorn. But kill everyone else. And give us A REASON to be hype for the next expac. Something to leave us hungry for that next story as we run away from a corrupted voided out world tree.
They're getting rid of all the faction stuff too.
The fucking Forsaken and Worgen are best buds now.
Soul's dead. Chris alone can't save this garbage.
Exactly. Its just so shit. Awful characters…. Awful atmosphere… lame as hell.
Chris Metzen.
You know how many times I've literally walked through old zones and typed to myself 'Fuck me I miss when they made zones so simple' As I walk through Tirisfal Glades' as an alliance, Just the ambience and music, Puts literal 10 fold levels of dung puke spunk fart snot and fat man sweat on valdrakken., Old is gold, New is cheap game hub
I'm just glad that Actitrash is out of the picture
It's not “I Gamon will save us”, it's “I Metzen will save us”
ah yes a water tuurnament! lets see how those Nagas joust upon their sea horses!
Who narrated this? This wasn’t Nixxiom
But what does asmon think of the video? How do i know what to think if i dont know what asmon thinks
I didnt realize Legion was his last expansion before he left. It's no wonder that BfA - DF narrative was so shit and blasphemous. If I ever return to retail, it would be because of him. After being very pleased with the success of SoD and Blizzard listening and being active with their hotfixes and communication, I think they deserve a chance again. So I will most likely be buying the next expansion after skipping out the last 3. Hopefully it would be like right where i left off: After Sargeras pierces Azerorh
his the living brain of warcraft and theyre only hope if they want straighten the blizzard ship againg to where it should go...
👍👍 its clucktaculous
Blizzard fan boys licking Metzen like it would make Blizzard good again and pretending it was not his fault it fell in the first place.
To think a former chicken would be so well spoken... 😆
Is it just me or does The War Within cinematic seem WAY too emotionally focused?
Focusing on emotional sides will kill this game further than it already has.
only a miracle would make me play wow retail. Like, a wow2 that is not a cartoon, that destroys most of the last 2 decades of warcraft.
I miss ghostcrawler
i never liked how horde sided he was.
Funny how one person can literally drive the entire company of thousands to a better path.
In any case, Chris Metzen is definitely one of great ones in Video Games, and his name will definitely stand up there with the few others in Video Game history.
I hate retail now but god damn if I didn't log in after watching this. Chris Metzen gives me hope.
Here before the bald man reacts
Eh, hoped to hear something about Metzen not about what Metzen did at Blizzard....meh. Pretty shallow take IMO.
I find it weird we all praise him but I remember everyone getting very tired of him turning thrall into Green Jesus
Green Jesus was bad. But... It was better than most of the storylines in BFA - DF.
People have selective memory. Now that he's back, it is the perfect opportunity to recall how great he is and how dogshit the current Blizz is. It's all about their narrative. He also wrote Medan btw.
@@Dogmelter42 Metzen was still creative director when BFA was written lmao, nice try
all of you who don’t have hope make me sad. you all say that chris metzen got old and isn’t the same, but so did you. you all got so old and jaded that you can’t even have the slightest bit of hope. try smiling every once in a while
>hope
hoping for what exactly?
that your precious metzen isn't going to retcon even more already established things like he always did?
First!
Fuck to late :(
Action speaks louder, will see if he can reclaim his past achievements or did he became complacent during his hiatus. Can he take full control again over the narrative or will he has to compromise with the new woke activist writers. Next expansion and story is not out yet, hype will always lead to disappointment.
Jesus.
Capitalism is what make blizzard met his downfall
without metzen, blizz's narritive was one of mental diarrhea.
The ONE & ONLY
HIS HIGHNESTY
CHRIS METZEN !
Great video. I want to believe that Metzen can make WoW great again but I’m afraid blizzard has destroyed this franchise to the point where it still won’t be popular like Classic thru Wrath. Disney has ruined “Marvel and Star Wars” and blizzard has ruined Warcraft.
This is like saying TP, the genius behind your butt.
xd
blizzard went to shit the minute he left in all honesty
Christ Metzen, hallowed be thy name.
Green jesus baby
the guy who accidently posted his own name when looking if anyone named him during the sexual harassment shitstorm.
Genious 😂
He's a good Entertainer, but that's about it
I really cannot understand the hype for him. If you read any of his books, you are going to lose half of your brain cells - it feels like they are written by a 10-year-old. Actually, reading "Of blood and honor" made me question myself - "I cannot believe I have been playing WoW for all these years".
too little too late. plus you know he at least knew about the cosby room bullshit
Metzen was always a hack who loved his retcons
wc3 had them
vanilla wow had them
tbc was a giant flaming turd filled with retcons and every other expansion he has and hasn't worked on was also full of absolutely idiotic retcons and shit writing
anybody who claims that metzen or other blizz writers are/were somehow brilliant is clearly delusional
This will be hilarious when the next expansions fall flat again.
Tell us you haven't played Dragonflight without TELLING us you haven't played Dragonflight 😂
I would agree that none of the later expansions (post legion) have had even close to the story depth or story telling using the world as tools as the ones before Legion did. Calling it "falling flat" though doesn't really do it justice
@@Lewtiii I did play DF and it wasn't good. I would agree that compared to Shadowlands is an improvement, but I'm personally so tired of the "1 raid, 8 dungeons, 4 zones" bullshit. The game needs more to keep being relevant, and I think the first of the next three expansions will be a dud, so it will be a major disaster that they have already planned the next chapters. The only thing that would save Wow is a Wow 2 IMO.
@@devak18 I assume you mean Wow 2 as in a brand new game then? Which would probably mean a full on reset of the characters people have spent literally 20 years with? Or do you want them to pull some rocket league/fortnite shit and have you bring everything on your account to a brand new game (which btw would be an insane undertaking even for a dev team of team 2's size) that won't even be the game you wanted to play in the first place?!
WoW 2, if anything, would be (ofc after a couple of months of New World-ish overhyping) a death sentence to wow imo. Feel free to prove me wrong though, nobody would be happier than me if you're able.
@@devak18 Also DF wasn't good? Are you even aware of how many changes they made this expansion that people have been asking for for DECADES?
... "DF wasn't good" gtfo 😂
@@Lewtiii DF was better than SL, but why was it less popular then? Thing is, the formula is tired af, they can keep improving wow all they like, but its just boring for everyone but the people that they have been milking for more than a decade. And yes, im talking about a full reset of the game. Wow wont bring any new players no matter what they do, so its just a slow death from now on. A full game reset will make it so people fall in love with the game again.
I guess any genius ruins their own work due to ego if inflated enough. Metzen was a problem by the time cataclysm came.
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All that diversity crap along with empowering women will tarnish a franchise....just put the best person for the job (whatever race or sex) in charge....damn anything else.
The copium god is back lets go he will safe blizzard 😷😷😷😷😷🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He is so overhyped one man can't change this game back to what it used to be.
It can be…better 😂 I don’t want what it used to be. Let’s try something new
Is this AI generated?
Wow is to Bloated
1 Guy against 100s of others that develop it today, waste of time for him