So far all dragons we have seen are quite... destructive. Would be cool to see two dragons fight! The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: skl.sh/chrisconnor03211
@@christopherlansky Yes really, in fact during the final raid of the expansion the second to last fight you jump on his back and destroy the pieces of armor causing him to literally fall apart. Last fight he looks nothing like a dragon
That’s not entirely true, he was falling apart because his body was literally ripped apart from having too much power coursing through it. The other dragon aspects defeated him much later during the second war by destroying the dragon soul, that caused him to take shelter where the twilights hammer begin repairing his body
Context: Before Deathwing became the Final boss of the expansion he was a random world encounter which burned everyone to death by simply flying over the world. If you were unlucky and died to his actions you got an achievement called "Stood in Fire".
I got that...back in my noob days...running into Arathi..had the map open fully and wondered what the flashing red around the edges was.....I was a dead huntard :(..but YAY achievement >.
Funny meta aspect to that...Chris saw these in reverse. We got this trailer showing how devastating Deathwing was. Then in game, we just had him fly around and burn stuff here and there once in a while. Then a year later, obviously nothing much had progressed in terms of Deathwing's rage destroying the world because it was all done at the expansion launch. FFXIV releases their final video to coincide with 1.0 shutdown and I remember MMO-Champion and the main WoW forums flipping out that Bahamut just destroyed more in 3 minutes than Deathwing had in a full year. While 1.0 was such a horrible game, Yoshida certainly left an impact, even on the competition's player base, with that cinematic.
Correction For you: Cataclysm was released on Dec 7 2010. The Film version of the Hobbit (Pt1) came out on December 6 2012 (no dragon in Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Smaug is in the Hobbit). Cataclysm was first.
In terms of film, yes, Smaug came after this. Technically Smaug made his debut in storytelling in 1937 though. Surely Mr. Tolkien's work influenced more than we even think.
@@yoJawn True, Tolkien has to have been one of the most influential authors in literature and media. Deathwing was probably inspired by Smaug to some extant.
@@uncensored008 Aside from his descent into madness (by the Old Gods, Smaug went mad with Greed), there really is no similarity to Smaug with it comes to Neltharion (Deathwing). Warcraft mostly drew it inspiration from D&D, H.P. Lovecraft, and a few other fantasy/Sci Fi inspirations. Neltharion was the lord of the Black Dragon Flight, and the Aspect of the Earth among his brethren. But we don't see Neltharion sitting on a bed of coveted gold stolen from a kingdom of dwarves. After being driven mad by the old gods, he became the aspect of death, who sought destruction and ruin all over the world. If anything, Neltharion had more similarities to Tetsuo from the film, "Akira" near his end. lol Smaug, himself, was not a dragon clad in armor (although he boasted about natural armor/skin), with his body being rendered apart from the inside out by corrupted magma and fire from within. Smaug was simply described by Tolkien as a reddish-gold dragon with big bat-like wings and sharp teeth and claws. On his belly was a crusty coating of old treasure that's stuck to him like an extra set of scales. he was a very...decorated but fierce red dragon. So not too much similar between them. There are many dragons from old stories written, so we can't just default to Smaug for the inspiration for modern day dragon characters.
That's funny how Chris was immediately like "he reminded me of Smaug exploding out of the mountain." When I walked out of the theatre for Desolation of Smaug, I turned to my brother and was like "that part at the end where Smaug was going all Deathwing towards Laketown was sick" and he was just like "ya he was Deathwinging it up"
Another cool detail that happens in lore but isn't shown in the cinematic is the fact that the only reason Deathwing landed in Stormwind was to retrieve the heads of Nefarian and Onyxia, his son and daughter respectively, so he can have them stitched back onto their bodies and raised as undead minions.
imagine being lvl 6 human entering the Stormwind City for the first time and the Worldbreaker himself lands right in front of you... like damn... today is not my day
Deathwing is one of the Dragon Aspects, a council of old dragons that have extensive powers over the world. He betrayed the other ones at some point, as he was influenced by eldritch creatures and went progressively insane. They created the Dragon Soul, an artifact that is destructive to dragons. It slowly tore him apart as he coveted it, unwilling to let it go to keep this power for himself. He had to be forged back together to not be a blobbering mass of wobbling fillet and spare ribs. It took a grand alliance of heroes, adventurers and the other Aspects to bring him down for good.
by the time he suggested the creation of the dragon soul, N'zoth had already gotten in his head, if i recall. he turned it on the other dragons almost immediately.
@@HavocHounds1988 if i recall, Malygos was the only one who survived that fight, and the blue's only came back in any capacity i forget if there were just a fistful of them not at that particular battlefield, or if there was a clutch of eggs somewhere that were already growing.
@@edschramm6757 Yeah I think It was either only Malygos or a small handful that survived. I know that Sindragosa was killed in that confrontation, she was blasted all the way to Northrend where she tried to crawl to Dragonblight but wasn't able to make it there before she died.
Lore Time: - The dragon is called Neltharian the earth warder. Neltharion was the dragon aspect of the earth and the deep places of Azeroth. Along with his fellow aspects, Alexstrasza, Ysera, Nozdormu, and Malygos, he was created and given power by the Titans so he could watch over Azeroth. - Long time ago he was corrupted by the old gods (Namely Yogg Saron), became mad and tried to undo the world as Deathwing. He was defeated and his body was almost torn apart. - He spent hundreds of years recovering and cultists of the twilight hammer clan were rebuilding him by infusing armor plates to his body just to keep it together. - When he regained his powers he "woke up" and unleashed his fury and hatred upon Azeroth. He is so powerful and his wings have so much down force he actually tore the world apart and changed the scenery. -His ultimate goal was to bring the hour of twilight: the fulfillment of a chain of events instigated by the Old Gods many eons ago. It is prophesied as the moment when the Old Gods will finally be freed from their ancient prisons and will return to end all life on Azeroth. - It took the combined forces of both factions, the dragon soul (an artifact created by deathwing himself long time ago) and the other aspects to put him down. We actually had to fight him in 2 loooooooooooong fights (he was the final and second to last boss in his raid) and he actually was one of the toughest bosses in WoW.
Pretty much this. People meme on Cataclysm now, but it was pretty epic at the time, despite systemic gameplay flaws that have continued to plague the game since. This cinematic is loaded with imagery that was familiar to the playerbase, places they had traveled through in-game since the original release, and watching them being torn apart was equal parts awesome and tragic - many of the scars left in Deathwing's wake remain to this day. The tidal wave you see lands on Booty Bay, nearly destroying parts of the settlement and splitting the ground in the jungles of Stranglethorn Vale. The flood you see washing over cliffs continues on to fill Thousand Needles, a dry, rocky canyon that has now become an immense lake. The 'bridge' Deathwing breaks with his roar is actually a dock at the village of Auberdine, which was utterly destroyed in his wake, the residents having since relocated to a new village to the north along the shore.
I started World of Warcraft with Cataclysm. We fought on the back of a dragon ! That was so epic ! And the CarbotAnimation's video is a good funny recap of the fight : ruclips.net/video/ka5zPNYZo3M/видео.html :D
the old god that corrupted him was N'Zot. not Yogg Saron. and during in game raid, Dragon Soul, 2nd or 3rd boss actually say that they are N'Zot heralds or something like that
He wasn't created by the Titans only given power, the dragons aspects were simply Proto Drakes before the Titan Keepers decided to give them some power to help defend the world after the Galakrond incident
The armor was a necessity, as his body was falling apart due to the corruption of the old gods. Don't worry, players had a lot of fun prying the armor plates off of his back :P
If by fun you mean having a nightmare of a time. I still to this day think that the back of deathwing is the hardest damn raid ever made haha. Still was fun, man I loved Deathwing so much.
The thing about the 2 Blizzard logos : the second one is the true intended logo that is integrated in the cinematic because in certain situations they will have the trailer play without the first logo (like when they do the big reveal of the cinematic, or when it plays inside the game, or any other situation where revealing that this is a Blizzard trailer is something that needs to be announced after the establishing shots of the video), while the first one is more like a media tag when the video is left standalone (like in this case, RUclips). I can't say they've always been 100% consistent with that practice over the years, but it's marketing decisions for sure.
Back in the day, Blizzard expansion cinematics were more centered around introducing the bad guy of the expansion. With The Burning Crusade it was Illidan, with Wrath of the Lich King it was Arthas, and with Cataclysm it was Deathwing. However, with the cinematics beyond this one, they are a bit longer and are an actual scene having to do with the events during or leading up to what happens in the expansion.
Also something I think you missed is that they show that it is clearly night time in the final scene yet it is his wings that lights up the entire sky like a new dawn is coming.
8:30 : Yes, the metal pieces they're hammering into the dragon are essentially band-aids. This was done in the planetary core, hence why there's earthquakes when he slams his head against the stone.
Deathwing has so much power he's literally falling apart and melting from within. He's in hiding because back in Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal's novel adaptation, Khadgar (a hero of the Alliance) ripped apart the metal plating that held him together, forcing him to retreat and spend decades having new plates forged and put on him while he recuperated. Cataclysm was a bold idea for its time: revitalize the original continents of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms by having Deathwing cause widespread destruction, while having some zones that were famously barren and desolate (like the Western and Eastern Plaguelands and, uh, Desolace) regrowing and developing new life to show the passage of time and the effect the players and factions like the Cenarion Circle (a druidic order) and Argent Dawn/Crusade (an order of primarily warriors, priests, and paladins fighting back seemingly-endless waves of undead in the ravaged remains of what used to be Lordaeron, one of the main human kingdoms in the setting, not to be confused with the Scarlet Crusade/Onslaught, a hostile faction of primarily warriors, priests, and paladins who fight the undead like the Argent Dawn/Crusade, but were driven mad over time and now attack anyone who isn't one of their own indiscriminately--and oftentimes turn on their own over the mere suspicion of being undead sympathizer).
i don't know that i would call it driven mad in the case of the Scarlet Crusade. their leadership was replaced with Dreadlords over time, so they were pushed further and further, slowly twisting their ideals. i believe Balnazzar specifically was the one who pulled that one off. though there may have been a second dreadlord in there somewhere too.
Ah I remember how awesome this was back then. The idea of cataclysm is fascinating, and the overwhelming power concept of this dragon is unique and so cool.
Deathwing was so massive that fighting him in game consisted of a two part fight. First part was fighting on his back, trying to break off pieces of his armor, then the second part was basically fighting parts of him, claws/appendages, and effectually attacking just his head. Wasn't the best fight, mechanically, but it did give you a pretty good idea of how massive he was.
I realized I hadn't seen you in my feed for awhile and just thought. "let's go see what that filmmaker who reacted to the warcraft stuff is doing." apparently the universe wanted me to see this. Thank you for making quality content.
And he should see the whole thing, where the orc and human are drunk trying to figure out what kicked their butts in the mist. Many reactions stop watching once the logo appears. I did so, myself. It wasn't until Legion was live that I saw that extra part.
His "armor" was more like hot steel stitches and pins holding his body together and preventing it from being ripped apart. That's why it was being nailed into him.
To add on the lore already shared - each of the Dragon Aspects embodied a control over certain concept - Alextrasza was the Life-Binder, Nozdormu was the Timeless-One etc. Before he took up the name of Deathwing, his name was Neltharion the Earth-Warder. As an aspect of the land itself, he became corrupted due to Old Gods that were imprisoned deep within the planet's core whose whispers he could hear. In the same vein, whenever he felt pain as the armor was being stitched onto him, the land itself was being destroyed.
This was a crazy expansion too--Blizz ripped their established world apart. So all those events we see in the cinematic, destroying everything, is reflected in the game. It permanently altered the landscapes that they'd had for years. I think overall it was a gutsy thing to do. There are good dragons in World of Warcraft too--and we work with them quite a lot. Deathwing, who was the head of the black dragonflight, had been corrupted. Most (but not all) of the black dragonflight had been corrupted, and some of the blue dragonflight as well. Deathwing was a hard boss to fight with some crazy mechanics. You had to try and break the armor while riding on his back, while he was trying to shake you off. If you didn't move quick enough, or moved the wrong way, you'd be dead instantaneously.
This is one of my favorite cinematics. It just feels so epic! They really put the work to stabilish Deathwing as a menacing enemy. And you got most of the thing about him right: long ago, he was defeated and retreated to the depths of the earth. His body is falling apart because of the power of the Dragon Stone he has, and so, in order to defeat him, us players have to jump on his back in a awesome fight to detach his armor from his back and make him vulnerable again. Quite an epic battle.
A really cool thing about blizzard's trailers is that they're not just a presentation, what happens in the trailer is actual story before the expansion starts so what happens in the trailer is reflected on the actual game. One example is here in the Cataclysm cinematic: in the end when Deathwing close on the towers of Stormwind and they melt below them, when you're actually in game you see those towers melted by the claws. Also the dam in Loch Modan that's destroyed in the cinematic is also destroyed in game. This has been happening since the Wrath of the Lich King trailer.
Hey Chris! hope you've been alright during all this time, really love your vids man, you're so good at what you do, can't wait to see more in the future, have a good one!
so to a degree, yes, they put armor on him. but as much as it is to protect him, its also whats holding deathwing together : after he fell to N'zoth's corruption, he started breaking apart. so to hold himself together physically, he had plates put on. they just happen to also be made from one of the toughest metals on Azeroth. As for his size : the plates across his back - one of them is knocked off immediately prior to his first fight in his raid, "Spine of Deathwing". ONE segment is large enough for 25 players to fit on his back without overlapping (they do because it makes it easier to manage mechanics, but its possible). this guy is insanely large.
The coolest thing about this expansion was that they actually redesigned the entire world in game to be torn apart by the cataclysm. A lot of the shots in the cinematic showcase a few of the affected landscapes and locales players had come to love - with flooding, fissures, structural damage, all sorts of good stuff.
@CHRIS CONNOR Warthunder Victory is ours ! Please go watch it, it's almost like a movie but it is a trailer for a game you will love it, it is a bit old but absolutely well made.
YES! I've waited months for this reaction! And your detailed analysis is much appreciated! It's really cool to see all the different zones in the cinematic, places that we as players (the ones who started before cataclysm) have quested in, and to see the sheer magnitude of Deathwing's destruction.
Yes pretty much that. He was beaten before and barely survived. Now he comes back after something like 10 years. Everybody thought him dead, killed by his fellow dragons and few mortals but he survived and he came back for revenge on the world.
Reason he has that flame like infusion on his wings is because as the aspect of the earth his blood is literally magma. His consort was burned for being brave enough to lay with him from his blood spilling on her after his body got torn apart. Just some extra lore that most don't read up on. As for killing Deathwing back in the day, one of the best rides in mmo gaming, sas that blizz hasn't recaptured that hype
Have u ever seen warcraft 3 reign of chaos cinematic 4 : arthus's betrayel ?? It an old warcraft cinrmatic but it hits home everytime time i see it. 1 of the best Warcraft storylines at its peek
For your info: Deathwing is a servant to the Old Gods (Think H.P. Lovecraftian beings) and has been so corrupted, that he mutated into in an almost unrecognizable form. His Elementium(I think) armor is keeping him in shape, pun intended.
About the logos… I think the first appearance of the logo is more of a video game presentation. Logos are usually very prominent in games during splash screens. The second (more subdued) time is the actual “movie” one.
Chris, when I 1st started playing WoW I was a boring human hunter...that bit where Deathwing lands on the 2 towers is my capital city and for 3 expansions it was just wrecked :)
In a way, you're correct. Deathwings was a dragon aspect, but he got corrupted and went insane. He start attacking other dragon aspects before he was beaten. His body will fall apart without those armor.
Actually there is an item called the One Ring, you can get it by fishing. Just like Smeagol did. It gives +1 to all stats. Also the wotlk content and the current one is heavily inspired by the LotR.
You have to consider to, the harbor he destroyed after he breaks out of the mountain and the city he lands on are on opposite ends of the world with a massive ocean between them. Meaning that entire time he was leaving that gigantic wave of fire behind him covering a large part of the planet
So lots of people talking about the history. The raid was a scenario where you had a dozen stages where you ultimately had to get on an airship, go into 'hyperdrive', and chase him down. Luckily, he doesn't maneuver well. In the penultimate fight we airdrop onto his back are riding on him because he's as big as the airship. We attacked the plates on his back which would go flying off and then his corrupted blood would form blobs and attack. The entire party had to manage their position because he would lean to one side if too many people were there and everyone would get thrown off. Ultimately we do enough damage and he crashes into the Maelstrom for the final fight. In the final fight the players jump between five ledges and attack different parts of the dragon because he is otherwise so massive it's like attacking a city. The NPCs (Thrall and the Dragon Aspects) are busy charging the magic railgun so you're really delaying him more than softening him up. Ultimately Thrall fired the magic canon and Deathwing was vanquished. You may remember Thrall from his retirement on the farm in the Saurfang vs. Sylvanas cinematic. Some of the most interesting and original raiding I've seen anywhere.
Deathwing is always such an optimistic person. The first word(s) in this trailer: "Pain. Agony." The first word in "Day of the Dragon", the first book Deathwing is a part of: "War."
here's some background story for you, the Dragon you saw was originally Neltharion, Guardian of the Earth, the Black Dragonflight was in charge of protecting the whole of Azeroth. that changed when the Old Gods twisted Neltharion's mind and corrupted his body, that armor was grafted onto his flesh in order to help hold him together, as the Old God's corruption is slowly tearing him apart. now as "Deathwing" he seeks to destroy all that he was charged to protect, so that the Old Gods can lay claim to Azeroth, his emergence from Deepholm (center of the planet basically) caused a lot of damage in the process, much of the world changed that day. if you would love to know more, keep watching WoW stuff and i will do my best to educate you, may the light be with you.
Thanks, I cut them myself though since everything is closed from like a year ago so I just go based on shape and how I generally want it to be :) I am sure if you show a photo or a quick clip they will get it
So lore stuff. This is Neltharian/ Deathwing. He's the aspect of earth, guardian. And was brainwashed by oldgods. During war of ancient event. He was defeated and he escaped and being doing stuff behind scene for 10000 years. He draw powers from oldgod Nzoth, and that power corrupt his body and already breaking him apart. Force him to use those armour to stay intact. In Cataclysm, he awakened and cause those destructions ( actually game world redesigned during cataclysm cause this in lore). His ultimate goal in cataclysm is to cause hour of twilight, a point where all light in world extinguish, sun will be blocked forever. So that oldgods will be back in power again.
The next cinematic that you should watch is the Legion one. After that i would suggest you watch the Legion - Alliance Broken Shore cinematic (and Horde version) + the 7.2 in game cinematic A found memento: Raising a King, these last 3 are in-game cinematics which will give you a little bit of background as to why did the trust between the Horde and Alliance broke down before the Battle of Azeroth cinematic and it will give you a little bit of background on the blonde King of the Alliance(Anduin) and the sword with the awesome orb(Shalamayne).
To give you the scale of this dragon we as players have a fight with his abominations on his back !!! Way up to the sky we try to defeat his minions as he try to make us fall by rolling his body! Great boss fights!!!
DAMN the monitor looks sick!! the resolution makes the trailer look like it was done this year....but it was 11 years go....well better late than never!
Despite being a year late, heres the lore of the dragon: if was somewhat known as a powerful and noble dragon, and turned mad by dark forces, narrating the entire cinematic you see his first real visual introduction.
Fun fact: The waves crashing in the canyon were multiple petabyte on data in their frist iteration. Oh an yeah we fought. The fight was split between standing on his back to remove the armor and then another fight on the ground were we were supposed to buy time so the npc's can finish him. All in all not a great fight. Also you might want to take a look at these ingame cinmatics. Third video is context for the second video. ruclips.net/p/PLBNIzRWjciDOs768QbQGMEnWDkbw73BQ6
Gotta say this is one of the best cinematics WoW has released. The amount of suspense and chills I get from Neltharion, The Earth-Warder (Deathwing) as he is showcased gets me to this day! I started WoW just before Cataclysm was released so this was my first expansion and Deathwing is my OG first WoW boss I killed! I was so hyped to get into WoW by watching this trailer! And I'm glad you were feeling the same way when you watched it! It's a great cinematic!
I played the whole expansion. The raid with Deathwing was honestly pretty badass, his encounter was so epic it spanned two separate encounters. One where you are riding on his back while he is flying and the next where you fight him directly with the help of the other Dragon Aspects. Was a really fun raid.
pretty sure the last shot is meant like you are in fron of it since the towers wher he lands on are from the entrance of a maincity where all new players have to go inside
It was great when he came out. He'd fly all over the game and if he passed over you he'd kill you and you'd get an achievement for dying to him. Even lower level chars it was a lot of fun. They also changed the entire world. What he destroyed in the trailer was destroyed in the game world. It was what they used to update the graphics.
The story behind neltharion which was once one of the dragon aspects and became deathwing later but way to much story behind all that even to put it into a shorten form comment :D
He's called Deathwing, I love your cinematic analysis. He got fucked up in the books over 20 years ago, he had Mithril ( if memory serves ) plated onto his skin, then he upgraded it to a newer type of metal. He's the aspect of Earth and as he says " the world heaves with my torment" because he has the power of earth. he razed 2 main cities. was my favorite expansion. Very Lovecraftian.
I like how you brought up the lighting above Deathwing in that first shot of him while they're forging the armor onto him. I never noticed it before. That area where he had the armor put on him is called Deepholm and is actually the area underneath the Maelstrom you always see in the center of the world map. The colors they use in the cinematic are the same colors that are in that area in-game. You can actually go to the location where they put the armor on Deathwing in the game, but it looks a bit different since the camera angles tried to make it look like he's in a lava filled cave rather than a zone that is actually somewhat expansive comparatively. Even though it's still underground.
his raid was actually fairly easy compared to the previous expansions last raid boss. although I may only think that because at this point I was much more experienced than I had been in WotLK. although, there were literally two boss fights that were him. the first of the two we had to fight corruptions on his back and get the armor off him. I believe this was the fight my guild found the hardest, because one of the tanks (me) had severe latency and just couldn't kite things well without losing aggro. and because of that latency, I also tended to get flung off the side when he barrel rolled.
Blizzard from the beginning into the 2000's was a studio with personality and they showed it. Now I would say that it is more of a habit and their style. They show their logo up front and large like MCU, Lucas Arts, Fox, and the likes of Cinema. Trailers and cut scenes were held to a high standard in the company.
Deathwing was a really fun fight. You had to get on his back and beat him out of the sky, he lands in the center of the world called the Malestrom, which is just a giant whirlpool at the center of the ocean, and you have to fight him while he's trying to climb out of it.
Like is shown in the video, several landmarks in the game's world were destroyed by the Dragon in this expansion, permanently changing the landscape of some areas like having an entire canyon zone became a huge river with pirates and such.
This armour they put on him is to keep his body together since it's falling apart due to exposure to insanely powerful artifact called dragon soul he created himself (with the guidence of old golds) to obliterate demons....and everybody else. After using that artifact for the first time killing demons, mortals and even his fellow dragons he earned his name as a Deathwing the Destroyer. Neltharion the Earthwarder was no more.
Then he tries to scare the statues! Does it work!? Yes! One of them faints! Always a fan of your cinematography analysis. Planning to teach my self how to animate on a 2d medium, and eventually 3d. Your blizzard cinematic analysis is always very entertaining.
If I may make a suggestion, I'd like to see you react to The Thin Red Path from For Honor, it may not be long, nor an immensely animated thing, but I'd still love to hear your points on how the thing is shot. I personally find it extremely powerful for how little it is and I'd like to know from a pro's view if that strength in the cinematic comes solely from the amazing narration or the visuals, if not both. If anything any of For Honor's promotion cinematics would be interesting to hear you say what you think of them.
He's been torn apart basicly, and first half of fight with him is breaking those metal plates off him, while riding his back. Pretty sick, and was insanely hard back in the day without coordination.
So far all dragons we have seen are quite... destructive. Would be cool to see two dragons fight!
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You should watch World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria and World of Warcraft Legion.
FFXIV Heavensward - Hraesvelgr versus Nidhogg. It's arguably spoilers, and it's not a pre-rendered cinematic, but it's pretty fantastic.
Someone asked for diablo cutscenes in the comments and i would just like to say that diablo 3 has some really cool cutscenes too
Finally some WoW!!! Yes!!
Deathwing had to be armored to keep his body from tearing itself apart from the power of the Dragon Soul
Damn really?
@@christopherlansky Yes really, in fact during the final raid of the expansion the second to last fight you jump on his back and destroy the pieces of armor causing him to literally fall apart. Last fight he looks nothing like a dragon
Not only, he was falling a part because the other 4 elder dragons beats him once already
That’s not entirely true, he was falling apart because his body was literally ripped apart from having too much power coursing through it. The other dragon aspects defeated him much later during the second war by destroying the dragon soul, that caused him to take shelter where the twilights hammer begin repairing his body
So do I understand right that his power Is So enormous his body shouldnt be able to handle it And thats why he has the Armor "stitches"
Context: Before Deathwing became the Final boss of the expansion he was a random world encounter which burned everyone to death by simply flying over the world. If you were unlucky and died to his actions you got an achievement called "Stood in Fire".
I got that...back in my noob days...running into Arathi..had the map open fully and wondered what the flashing red around the edges was.....I was a dead huntard :(..but YAY achievement >.
Played every day. Never once stood in the fire. I got into a zone just after he left or I left just before he'd come in.
Funny meta aspect to that...Chris saw these in reverse.
We got this trailer showing how devastating Deathwing was. Then in game, we just had him fly around and burn stuff here and there once in a while.
Then a year later, obviously nothing much had progressed in terms of Deathwing's rage destroying the world because it was all done at the expansion launch. FFXIV releases their final video to coincide with 1.0 shutdown and I remember MMO-Champion and the main WoW forums flipping out that Bahamut just destroyed more in 3 minutes than Deathwing had in a full year.
While 1.0 was such a horrible game, Yoshida certainly left an impact, even on the competition's player base, with that cinematic.
bruh... I remember that shit, he flew over my head when I did some quest in the barrens... motherfucking dragon i swear
I was leveling, about level 15. He came from behind, and burned me to a crisp. Talk about gnome barbeque. At least I got "Stood in Fire".
Correction For you:
Cataclysm was released on Dec 7 2010.
The Film version of the Hobbit (Pt1) came out on December 6 2012 (no dragon in Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Smaug is in the Hobbit).
Cataclysm was first.
In terms of film, yes, Smaug came after this. Technically Smaug made his debut in storytelling in 1937 though. Surely Mr. Tolkien's work influenced more than we even think.
@@yoJawn True, Tolkien has to have been one of the most influential authors in literature and media. Deathwing was probably inspired by Smaug to some extant.
@@uncensored008 Aside from his descent into madness (by the Old Gods, Smaug went mad with Greed), there really is no similarity to Smaug with it comes to Neltharion (Deathwing). Warcraft mostly drew it inspiration from D&D, H.P. Lovecraft, and a few other fantasy/Sci Fi inspirations. Neltharion was the lord of the Black Dragon Flight, and the Aspect of the Earth among his brethren. But we don't see Neltharion sitting on a bed of coveted gold stolen from a kingdom of dwarves. After being driven mad by the old gods, he became the aspect of death, who sought destruction and ruin all over the world. If anything, Neltharion had more similarities to Tetsuo from the film, "Akira" near his end. lol
Smaug, himself, was not a dragon clad in armor (although he boasted about natural armor/skin), with his body being rendered apart from the inside out by corrupted magma and fire from within. Smaug was simply described by Tolkien as a reddish-gold dragon with big bat-like wings and sharp teeth and claws. On his belly was a crusty coating of old treasure that's stuck to him like an extra set of scales. he was a very...decorated but fierce red dragon.
So not too much similar between them. There are many dragons from old stories written, so we can't just default to Smaug for the inspiration for modern day dragon characters.
Beside Smaug is a Wyvern, Deathwing is a Dragon.
@Evolution deniers are full of bullshit okay. But it's is still a fact.
That's funny how Chris was immediately like "he reminded me of Smaug exploding out of the mountain."
When I walked out of the theatre for Desolation of Smaug, I turned to my brother and was like "that part at the end where Smaug was going all Deathwing towards Laketown was sick" and he was just like "ya he was Deathwinging it up"
Another cool detail that happens in lore but isn't shown in the cinematic is the fact that the only reason Deathwing landed in Stormwind was to retrieve the heads of Nefarian and Onyxia, his son and daughter respectively, so he can have them stitched back onto their bodies and raised as undead minions.
Oh I never knew that. That's pretty neat.
imagine being lvl 6 human entering the Stormwind City for the first time and the Worldbreaker himself lands right in front of you... like damn... today is not my day
Deathwing is one of the Dragon Aspects, a council of old dragons that have extensive powers over the world. He betrayed the other ones at some point, as he was influenced by eldritch creatures and went progressively insane. They created the Dragon Soul, an artifact that is destructive to dragons. It slowly tore him apart as he coveted it, unwilling to let it go to keep this power for himself. He had to be forged back together to not be a blobbering mass of wobbling fillet and spare ribs. It took a grand alliance of heroes, adventurers and the other Aspects to bring him down for good.
by the time he suggested the creation of the dragon soul, N'zoth had already gotten in his head, if i recall. he turned it on the other dragons almost immediately.
@@edschramm6757 Yep, and almost made the Blue dragons extinct.
@@HavocHounds1988 if i recall, Malygos was the only one who survived that fight, and the blue's only came back in any capacity i forget if there were just a fistful of them not at that particular battlefield, or if there was a clutch of eggs somewhere that were already growing.
@@edschramm6757 Yeah I think It was either only Malygos or a small handful that survived. I know that Sindragosa was killed in that confrontation, she was blasted all the way to Northrend where she tried to crawl to Dragonblight but wasn't able to make it there before she died.
@@HavocHounds1988 I feel bad for her 😞.
Lore Time:
- The dragon is called Neltharian the earth warder. Neltharion was the dragon aspect of the earth and the deep places of Azeroth. Along with his fellow aspects, Alexstrasza, Ysera, Nozdormu, and Malygos, he was created and given power by the Titans so he could watch over Azeroth.
- Long time ago he was corrupted by the old gods (Namely Yogg Saron), became mad and tried to undo the world as Deathwing. He was defeated and his body was almost torn apart.
- He spent hundreds of years recovering and cultists of the twilight hammer clan were rebuilding him by infusing armor plates to his body just to keep it together.
- When he regained his powers he "woke up" and unleashed his fury and hatred upon Azeroth. He is so powerful and his wings have so much down force he actually tore the world apart and changed the scenery.
-His ultimate goal was to bring the hour of twilight: the fulfillment of a chain of events instigated by the Old Gods many eons ago. It is prophesied as the moment when the Old Gods will finally be freed from their ancient prisons and will return to end all life on Azeroth.
- It took the combined forces of both factions, the dragon soul (an artifact created by deathwing himself long time ago) and the other aspects to put him down.
We actually had to fight him in 2 loooooooooooong fights (he was the final and second to last boss in his raid) and he actually was one of the toughest bosses in WoW.
Pretty much this. People meme on Cataclysm now, but it was pretty epic at the time, despite systemic gameplay flaws that have continued to plague the game since. This cinematic is loaded with imagery that was familiar to the playerbase, places they had traveled through in-game since the original release, and watching them being torn apart was equal parts awesome and tragic - many of the scars left in Deathwing's wake remain to this day.
The tidal wave you see lands on Booty Bay, nearly destroying parts of the settlement and splitting the ground in the jungles of Stranglethorn Vale.
The flood you see washing over cliffs continues on to fill Thousand Needles, a dry, rocky canyon that has now become an immense lake.
The 'bridge' Deathwing breaks with his roar is actually a dock at the village of Auberdine, which was utterly destroyed in his wake, the residents having since relocated to a new village to the north along the shore.
I dunno if he was one of the toughest. I think original Naxxramas still takes the cake. World First kills came faster and faster over the years.
I started World of Warcraft with Cataclysm. We fought on the back of a dragon ! That was so epic !
And the CarbotAnimation's video is a good funny recap of the fight : ruclips.net/video/ka5zPNYZo3M/видео.html :D
the old god that corrupted him was N'Zot. not Yogg Saron. and during in game raid, Dragon Soul, 2nd or 3rd boss actually say that they are N'Zot heralds or something like that
He wasn't created by the Titans only given power, the dragons aspects were simply Proto Drakes before the Titan Keepers decided to give them some power to help defend the world after the Galakrond incident
The armor was a necessity, as his body was falling apart due to the corruption of the old gods. Don't worry, players had a lot of fun prying the armor plates off of his back :P
ah yeah... boss fight before last boss was hardest..
And after taking off his amor, he became like a huge magma smile with some remains of his form
If by fun you mean having a nightmare of a time. I still to this day think that the back of deathwing is the hardest damn raid ever made haha. Still was fun, man I loved Deathwing so much.
Deathwing yells: I AM DEATHWING, THE DESTROYER, THE END OF ALL THINGS, INEVITABLE, INDOMITABLE; I AM THE CATACLYSM!
The thing about the 2 Blizzard logos : the second one is the true intended logo that is integrated in the cinematic because in certain situations they will have the trailer play without the first logo (like when they do the big reveal of the cinematic, or when it plays inside the game, or any other situation where revealing that this is a Blizzard trailer is something that needs to be announced after the establishing shots of the video), while the first one is more like a media tag when the video is left standalone (like in this case, RUclips). I can't say they've always been 100% consistent with that practice over the years, but it's marketing decisions for sure.
if I remember correctly, the flames on Deathwing's wings during this cinematic took up more memory than the entire game 10 fold xD
13:44
that isn't the shockwave of his wings, it's his roar... which just makes him look EVEN MORE powerful!
That makes no sense. The shockwave should arrive together with the sound, then.
Back in the day, Blizzard expansion cinematics were more centered around introducing the bad guy of the expansion. With The Burning Crusade it was Illidan, with Wrath of the Lich King it was Arthas, and with Cataclysm it was Deathwing. However, with the cinematics beyond this one, they are a bit longer and are an actual scene having to do with the events during or leading up to what happens in the expansion.
Wasn't Kil'jaeden the bad guy in TBC though 🤔.
I never noticed that when he gets to stormwind, the stormwind theme blends through in the music. That's so damn cool
Also something I think you missed is that they show that it is clearly night time in the final scene yet it is his wings that lights up the entire sky like a new dawn is coming.
Could you react to Diablo 3 Imperius vs diablo cinematic? It is really cool.
Yess
Yeaaah
This one and the Act 1 cinematic is awesome!!!
Yes
And the Reaper of Souls Cinematic.
It would be better he does all chronological order
8:30 : Yes, the metal pieces they're hammering into the dragon are essentially band-aids. This was done in the planetary core, hence why there's earthquakes when he slams his head against the stone.
I bet the amount of money and work that goes into these cinematic makes those logos massively valuable.
Deathwing has so much power he's literally falling apart and melting from within. He's in hiding because back in Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal's novel adaptation, Khadgar (a hero of the Alliance) ripped apart the metal plating that held him together, forcing him to retreat and spend decades having new plates forged and put on him while he recuperated.
Cataclysm was a bold idea for its time: revitalize the original continents of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms by having Deathwing cause widespread destruction, while having some zones that were famously barren and desolate (like the Western and Eastern Plaguelands and, uh, Desolace) regrowing and developing new life to show the passage of time and the effect the players and factions like the Cenarion Circle (a druidic order) and Argent Dawn/Crusade (an order of primarily warriors, priests, and paladins fighting back seemingly-endless waves of undead in the ravaged remains of what used to be Lordaeron, one of the main human kingdoms in the setting, not to be confused with the Scarlet Crusade/Onslaught, a hostile faction of primarily warriors, priests, and paladins who fight the undead like the Argent Dawn/Crusade, but were driven mad over time and now attack anyone who isn't one of their own indiscriminately--and oftentimes turn on their own over the mere suspicion of being undead sympathizer).
i don't know that i would call it driven mad in the case of the Scarlet Crusade. their leadership was replaced with Dreadlords over time, so they were pushed further and further, slowly twisting their ideals. i believe Balnazzar specifically was the one who pulled that one off. though there may have been a second dreadlord in there somewhere too.
Ah I remember how awesome this was back then. The idea of cataclysm is fascinating, and the overwhelming power concept of this dragon is unique and so cool.
Deathwing was so massive that fighting him in game consisted of a two part fight. First part was fighting on his back, trying to break off pieces of his armor, then the second part was basically fighting parts of him, claws/appendages, and effectually attacking just his head. Wasn't the best fight, mechanically, but it did give you a pretty good idea of how massive he was.
I’m a simple man. Chris react to ANY Blizzard cinematic i click& i upvote
I realized I hadn't seen you in my feed for awhile and just thought. "let's go see what that filmmaker who reacted to the warcraft stuff is doing." apparently the universe wanted me to see this. Thank you for making quality content.
You NEED to see World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria after! Man, it's so epic! I cry every time for that cinematic!
And he should see the whole thing, where the orc and human are drunk trying to figure out what kicked their butts in the mist.
Many reactions stop watching once the logo appears. I did so, myself. It wasn't until Legion was live that I saw that extra part.
Why ?
His "armor" was more like hot steel stitches and pins holding his body together and preventing it from being ripped apart. That's why it was being nailed into him.
To add on the lore already shared - each of the Dragon Aspects embodied a control over certain concept - Alextrasza was the Life-Binder, Nozdormu was the Timeless-One etc. Before he took up the name of Deathwing, his name was Neltharion the Earth-Warder. As an aspect of the land itself, he became corrupted due to Old Gods that were imprisoned deep within the planet's core whose whispers he could hear. In the same vein, whenever he felt pain as the armor was being stitched onto him, the land itself was being destroyed.
Das no lake, da boi flew over a whole fudgin ocean.
This was a crazy expansion too--Blizz ripped their established world apart. So all those events we see in the cinematic, destroying everything, is reflected in the game. It permanently altered the landscapes that they'd had for years. I think overall it was a gutsy thing to do.
There are good dragons in World of Warcraft too--and we work with them quite a lot. Deathwing, who was the head of the black dragonflight, had been corrupted. Most (but not all) of the black dragonflight had been corrupted, and some of the blue dragonflight as well.
Deathwing was a hard boss to fight with some crazy mechanics. You had to try and break the armor while riding on his back, while he was trying to shake you off. If you didn't move quick enough, or moved the wrong way, you'd be dead instantaneously.
Chris: "That jawline is also like... POWER"
Deathwing: "I AM POWER INCARNATE!"
Neltarion - Aspect of Earth. Deathwing.
This is one of my favorite cinematics. It just feels so epic! They really put the work to stabilish Deathwing as a menacing enemy. And you got most of the thing about him right: long ago, he was defeated and retreated to the depths of the earth. His body is falling apart because of the power of the Dragon Stone he has, and so, in order to defeat him, us players have to jump on his back in a awesome fight to detach his armor from his back and make him vulnerable again. Quite an epic battle.
Ever reacted to Killing Monsters from Witcher 3? It's kinda short, but it's pretty awesome
One of my favorite cenimatics gives me chills when he Flys and destroys iconic places
A really cool thing about blizzard's trailers is that they're not just a presentation, what happens in the trailer is actual story before the expansion starts so what happens in the trailer is reflected on the actual game. One example is here in the Cataclysm cinematic: in the end when Deathwing close on the towers of Stormwind and they melt below them, when you're actually in game you see those towers melted by the claws. Also the dam in Loch Modan that's destroyed in the cinematic is also destroyed in game.
This has been happening since the Wrath of the Lich King trailer.
blizz always knocks it out of the park with cinematics.
Hey Chris! hope you've been alright during all this time, really love your vids man, you're so good at what you do, can't wait to see more in the future, have a good one!
so to a degree, yes, they put armor on him. but as much as it is to protect him, its also whats holding deathwing together : after he fell to N'zoth's corruption, he started breaking apart. so to hold himself together physically, he had plates put on. they just happen to also be made from one of the toughest metals on Azeroth.
As for his size : the plates across his back - one of them is knocked off immediately prior to his first fight in his raid, "Spine of Deathwing". ONE segment is large enough for 25 players to fit on his back without overlapping (they do because it makes it easier to manage mechanics, but its possible). this guy is insanely large.
The coolest thing about this expansion was that they actually redesigned the entire world in game to be torn apart by the cataclysm. A lot of the shots in the cinematic showcase a few of the affected landscapes and locales players had come to love - with flooding, fissures, structural damage, all sorts of good stuff.
@CHRIS CONNOR Warthunder Victory is ours ! Please go watch it, it's almost like a movie but it is a trailer for a game you will love it, it is a bit old but absolutely well made.
YES! I've waited months for this reaction! And your detailed analysis is much appreciated! It's really cool to see all the different zones in the cinematic, places that we as players (the ones who started before cataclysm) have quested in, and to see the sheer magnitude of Deathwing's destruction.
Yes pretty much that. He was beaten before and barely survived. Now he comes back after something like 10 years. Everybody thought him dead, killed by his fellow dragons and few mortals but he survived and he came back for revenge on the world.
The mountain where he escapes from, where is that? Looks like nearby a night elf harbor. And was it the twilight cultist that put on the armor?
not sure the first part, second WAS Auberdine, and third Yes.
Reason he has that flame like infusion on his wings is because as the aspect of the earth his blood is literally magma. His consort was burned for being brave enough to lay with him from his blood spilling on her after his body got torn apart. Just some extra lore that most don't read up on.
As for killing Deathwing back in the day, one of the best rides in mmo gaming, sas that blizz hasn't recaptured that hype
It would be fun to see you react to the Total War: Warhammer 3 trailer. It's pretty damn epic.
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Have u ever seen warcraft 3 reign of chaos cinematic 4 : arthus's betrayel ??
It an old warcraft cinrmatic but it hits home everytime time i see it.
1 of the best Warcraft storylines at its peek
love the game cinematic reviews ^^ from wow, to star wars and wticher
For your info:
Deathwing is a servant to the Old Gods (Think H.P. Lovecraftian beings) and has been so corrupted, that he mutated into in an almost unrecognizable form.
His Elementium(I think) armor is keeping him in shape, pun intended.
i'm almost positive it's elementium. mentally i have gone to adamantium about 50 times, but thats Wolverine, not Deathwing
About the logos… I think the first appearance of the logo is more of a video game presentation. Logos are usually very prominent in games during splash screens. The second (more subdued) time is the actual “movie” one.
you da man Chris! keep up the good vids!
Chris, when I 1st started playing WoW I was a boring human hunter...that bit where Deathwing lands on the 2 towers is my capital city and for 3 expansions it was just wrecked :)
Really like your videos. Keeps up the good work!
@CHRISCONNOR I want to open my OWN café!! So, THANK you!!
In a way, you're correct. Deathwings was a dragon aspect, but he got corrupted and went insane. He start attacking other dragon aspects before he was beaten. His body will fall apart without those armor.
I started playing wow ever since I saw the Cataclysm trailer and for me it's the best ever.
Actually there is an item called the One Ring, you can get it by fishing. Just like Smeagol did. It gives +1 to all stats. Also the wotlk content and the current one is heavily inspired by the LotR.
You have to consider to, the harbor he destroyed after he breaks out of the mountain and the city he lands on are on opposite ends of the world with a massive ocean between them. Meaning that entire time he was leaving that gigantic wave of fire behind him covering a large part of the planet
So lots of people talking about the history.
The raid was a scenario where you had a dozen stages where you ultimately had to get on an airship, go into 'hyperdrive', and chase him down. Luckily, he doesn't maneuver well.
In the penultimate fight we airdrop onto his back are riding on him because he's as big as the airship. We attacked the plates on his back which would go flying off and then his corrupted blood would form blobs and attack. The entire party had to manage their position because he would lean to one side if too many people were there and everyone would get thrown off. Ultimately we do enough damage and he crashes into the Maelstrom for the final fight.
In the final fight the players jump between five ledges and attack different parts of the dragon because he is otherwise so massive it's like attacking a city. The NPCs (Thrall and the Dragon Aspects) are busy charging the magic railgun so you're really delaying him more than softening him up. Ultimately Thrall fired the magic canon and Deathwing was vanquished. You may remember Thrall from his retirement on the farm in the Saurfang vs. Sylvanas cinematic.
Some of the most interesting and original raiding I've seen anywhere.
dude you rly need to check out Warcraft 3 : Arthas' Betrayal. Love your vids btw rly got me interested in film making :D
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Deathwing is always such an optimistic person.
The first word(s) in this trailer: "Pain. Agony."
The first word in "Day of the Dragon", the first book Deathwing is a part of: "War."
here's some background story for you, the Dragon you saw was originally Neltharion, Guardian of the Earth, the Black Dragonflight was in charge of protecting the whole of Azeroth. that changed when the Old Gods twisted Neltharion's mind and corrupted his body, that armor was grafted onto his flesh in order to help hold him together, as the Old God's corruption is slowly tearing him apart. now as "Deathwing" he seeks to destroy all that he was charged to protect, so that the Old Gods can lay claim to Azeroth, his emergence from Deepholm (center of the planet basically) caused a lot of damage in the process, much of the world changed that day.
if you would love to know more, keep watching WoW stuff and i will do my best to educate you, may the light be with you.
What do you tell the hairdresser to do your hairstyle? I wanted to try it out looks really good on you mate!
Thanks, I cut them myself though since everything is closed from like a year ago so I just go based on shape and how I generally want it to be :) I am sure if you show a photo or a quick clip they will get it
I like your analysis of this trailer. Subbed ❤️
"And all will burn beneath the shadow of my wings."
Goosebumps
So lore stuff.
This is Neltharian/ Deathwing. He's the aspect of earth, guardian. And was brainwashed by oldgods.
During war of ancient event. He was defeated and he escaped and being doing stuff behind scene for 10000 years.
He draw powers from oldgod Nzoth, and that power corrupt his body and already breaking him apart. Force him to use those armour to stay intact.
In Cataclysm, he awakened and cause those destructions ( actually game world redesigned during cataclysm cause this in lore). His ultimate goal in cataclysm is to cause hour of twilight, a point where all light in world extinguish, sun will be blocked forever. So that oldgods will be back in power again.
The next cinematic that you should watch is the Legion one. After that i would suggest you watch the Legion - Alliance Broken Shore cinematic (and Horde version) + the 7.2 in game cinematic A found memento: Raising a King, these last 3 are in-game cinematics which will give you a little bit of background as to why did the trust between the Horde and Alliance broke down before the Battle of Azeroth cinematic and it will give you a little bit of background on the blonde King of the Alliance(Anduin) and the sword with the awesome orb(Shalamayne).
To give you the scale of this dragon we as players have a fight with his abominations on his back !!! Way up to the sky we try to defeat his minions as he try to make us fall by rolling his body! Great boss fights!!!
DAMN the monitor looks sick!! the resolution makes the trailer look like it was done this year....but it was 11 years go....well better late than never!
Despite being a year late, heres the lore of the dragon: if was somewhat known as a powerful and noble dragon, and turned mad by dark forces, narrating the entire cinematic you see his first real visual introduction.
remember that massive ocean wave scene from 2012? almost identical to that statue standing with its arms open infront of that gigantic wave
Fun fact: The waves crashing in the canyon were multiple petabyte on data in their frist iteration.
Oh an yeah we fought. The fight was split between standing on his back to remove the armor and then another fight on the ground were we were supposed to buy time so the npc's can finish him. All in all not a great fight.
Also you might want to take a look at these ingame cinmatics. Third video is context for the second video.
ruclips.net/p/PLBNIzRWjciDOs768QbQGMEnWDkbw73BQ6
Gotta say this is one of the best cinematics WoW has released. The amount of suspense and chills I get from Neltharion, The Earth-Warder (Deathwing) as he is showcased gets me to this day! I started WoW just before Cataclysm was released so this was my first expansion and Deathwing is my OG first WoW boss I killed! I was so hyped to get into WoW by watching this trailer! And I'm glad you were feeling the same way when you watched it! It's a great cinematic!
The cinematic was the best thing about the entire expansion.
I played the whole expansion. The raid with Deathwing was honestly pretty badass, his encounter was so epic it spanned two separate encounters. One where you are riding on his back while he is flying and the next where you fight him directly with the help of the other Dragon Aspects. Was a really fun raid.
Love the reaction/review.. and I especially love that u commented on my absolute favorite part of the cinematic at 13:29 haha.. its so sick
pretty sure the last shot is meant like you are in fron of it since the towers wher he lands on are from the entrance of a maincity where all new players have to go inside
It was great when he came out. He'd fly all over the game and if he passed over you he'd kill you and you'd get an achievement for dying to him. Even lower level chars it was a lot of fun. They also changed the entire world. What he destroyed in the trailer was destroyed in the game world. It was what they used to update the graphics.
Next: World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria. Very dynamic with a lot of fighting scenes
so we can conclude that this was pretty sick
The story behind neltharion which was once one of the dragon aspects and became deathwing later but way to much story behind all that even to put it into a shorten form comment :D
He's called Deathwing, I love your cinematic analysis. He got fucked up in the books over 20 years ago, he had Mithril ( if memory serves ) plated onto his skin, then he upgraded it to a newer type of metal. He's the aspect of Earth and as he says " the world heaves with my torment" because he has the power of earth. he razed 2 main cities. was my favorite expansion. Very Lovecraftian.
Also yeah i shit my pants when I saw it.... Not literally lol.
I like how you brought up the lighting above Deathwing in that first shot of him while they're forging the armor onto him. I never noticed it before. That area where he had the armor put on him is called Deepholm and is actually the area underneath the Maelstrom you always see in the center of the world map. The colors they use in the cinematic are the same colors that are in that area in-game. You can actually go to the location where they put the armor on Deathwing in the game, but it looks a bit different since the camera angles tried to make it look like he's in a lava filled cave rather than a zone that is actually somewhat expansive comparatively. Even though it's still underground.
anyone remember when you're just casually chilling and then everything was on fire ?
365 days in the year.
Also wingspan of this dragon, in meters. Fun fact.
Dude can you make more videos about apex legend . i like that video so much and I have been waiting since then for another one
Yes I will :)
his raid was actually fairly easy compared to the previous expansions last raid boss. although I may only think that because at this point I was much more experienced than I had been in WotLK. although, there were literally two boss fights that were him. the first of the two we had to fight corruptions on his back and get the armor off him. I believe this was the fight my guild found the hardest, because one of the tanks (me) had severe latency and just couldn't kite things well without losing aggro. and because of that latency, I also tended to get flung off the side when he barrel rolled.
Chris Mertz as Deathwing's voice,just legendary.
This one is by far my favorite Warcraft cinematic. I'm curious if you have reacted to the Star Citizen: Squadron 42 Official Trailer?
I really like to watch your reactions to game trailers. Tell me, could you take a look at Total war: warhammer cinematic?
Blizzard from the beginning into the 2000's was a studio with personality and they showed it. Now I would say that it is more of a habit and their style. They show their logo up front and large like MCU, Lucas Arts, Fox, and the likes of Cinema. Trailers and cut scenes were held to a high standard in the company.
I played it when it came out and it was awesome. We got to fight him on his back and to this day that was one of the hardest fights for me to do.
SO the reason those plates were begin placed upon him were not just for armor, but to keep him together.
Deathwing was a really fun fight. You had to get on his back and beat him out of the sky, he lands in the center of the world called the Malestrom, which is just a giant whirlpool at the center of the ocean, and you have to fight him while he's trying to climb out of it.
Like is shown in the video, several landmarks in the game's world were destroyed by the Dragon in this expansion, permanently changing the landscape of some areas like having an entire canyon zone became a huge river with pirates and such.
This armour they put on him is to keep his body together since it's falling apart due to exposure to insanely powerful artifact called dragon soul he created himself (with the guidence of old golds) to obliterate demons....and everybody else. After using that artifact for the first time killing demons, mortals and even his fellow dragons he earned his name as a Deathwing the Destroyer. Neltharion the Earthwarder was no more.
Then he tries to scare the statues!
Does it work!?
Yes!
One of them faints!
Always a fan of your cinematography analysis. Planning to teach my self how to animate on a 2d medium, and eventually 3d.
Your blizzard cinematic analysis is always very entertaining.
No mention of when he landed on the towers, the heat from his feet were melting the stone. Thought that was cool.
If I may make a suggestion, I'd like to see you react to The Thin Red Path from For Honor, it may not be long, nor an immensely animated thing, but I'd still love to hear your points on how the thing is shot. I personally find it extremely powerful for how little it is and I'd like to know from a pro's view if that strength in the cinematic comes solely from the amazing narration or the visuals, if not both.
If anything any of For Honor's promotion cinematics would be interesting to hear you say what you think of them.
He's been torn apart basicly, and first half of fight with him is breaking those metal plates off him, while riding his back. Pretty sick, and was insanely hard back in the day without coordination.