Remember that Illidan was a boss we had to fight at one point. They left you on a cliffhanger, that portal that opened up goes to Quel'Danas, an island housing Burning Crusade's final raid and by far its hardest bosses: The Sunwell Plateau. Most of the voice-overs in these trailers are lines from the very many bosses in these raids.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Kil'jaeden was the one talking in the end right until the portal opened to Quel'danas. The Raid is called Sunwell Plateau
Hurricane did do an excellent job with these trailers, totally epic and awesome from beginning to end. Always nice to see you guys checking out fan made content for whatever franchise. Gotta support the fandoms you are now a part of, and in some cases, the fan made things can be even better than the official things. Cheers!!!😁
3:03: “I like the music” The music used is called Dust and Light by Twelve Titans Music. It was featured in the final Hobbit film trailer and is a criminally underrated piece of epic orchestration. I’ve used it myself in my own ROTK trailer.
As someone who spent literally hundreds of hours in Blackwing Lair, with 40 other people, week after week after week. I was both incredibly triggered and washed over with a sense of joy, seeing that first cinematic.
After Hurricane, i would recommend iKEdit: Extinction, Druid class, Demon Hunters. He makes top tier content with in-game assets. Such good job in fact he got hired and works for Blizzard for past 3-4 years.
This is done by people who made private servers for world of warcraft, played there for 3 years and met bunch of amazing people, one of the best experiences in my life :)
So I don’t usually like reaction videos. I always thought the concept was really dumb, but you two make me love them. I love that you two get genuinely interested in what you’re watching and actually follow the larger world of Warcraft story. I love seeing people appreciate the rich lore of the game. You two are also the genuinely sweetest people I’ve ever seen on RUclips and it makes me heart happy. I watch all your videos now.
Thanks so much for the kind words. 🙂 Glad you are enjoying the channel. We love exploring these different franchises and learning about them through not only the videos but the comments from community as well. 😀🥳🤗
The timeline in this is a fair bit earlier than you're familiar with, particularly the Black Temple stuff with Illidan. Burning Crusade was the first expansion to vanilla World of Warcraft, and this was when Illidan was WELL within his phase as a heavy-hitter legendary villain. He wouldn't become a bit of an anti-hero until MUCH later, like 5 expansions away or something like that. Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria, and Warlords of Draenor all happened in between Illidan's fall at the Black Temple and his eventual return at the beginning of Legion. So for most players at this time, storming the Black Temple and ascending your way through it to ultimately find Illidan waiting for you at its peak was...well, in a word: "epic". Though Illidan is not QUITE as "ultimate evil", this was like leading an army into Mordor and confronting Sauron face-to-face...crazier even, since you had to work your way through the entirety of the massive Outlands to even get to the zone where the Black Temple stands. A lot of the different areas shown in Hellfire and Black Temple were all part of the months-long campaign to eventually find your way TO Illidan. I wasn't even around for the expansion, just played it myself solo when I finally picked up the game like 5 expansions in...and I can still imagine how it must have felt to be there during its release. Glory days of WoW indeed. :)
i never saw Illidan as a villain, that was simply how he was portrayed, anyone playing WC3 knew that he was doing what he felt he had to do, including becoming a demon to save Tyrande, had he not done so, it's likely that the Legion would've won and she would've perished.
@@UltimateGamerCC Absolutely, and it even was made more clear to a general audience during Legion when we dove into his backstory and justifications. He was kind of a "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions" kind of character. Did things that "heroes" don't do, to try to make the difference he felt was needed. I only call the pre-Legion era his "villain phase" because of how he was clearly painted as at the very least an antagonist, someone who went too far and had to be stopped. It's just how he was portrayed, as you said. Illidan has always been far more complicated than just surface level, and I was a WC3 vet far before I looked into anything WoW so I get where you're coming from exactly. I'm just trying to clarify for Ken and Bethany that these videos come from a time when Illidan was decidedly NOT considered a hero. This was the sort of time frame when people would say "Yeah! Illidan!" in a lot the same kind of spirit as "Yeah! Darth Vader!" Because he's awesome and you love to see him do his thing, not because he's here to save the day and everything will be alright now lol.
@@ericmartin8870 lol yeah tbf he was going too far, the demon in him was kind of taking over, once resurrected his mind was his own again. speaking of which i hope we get to see him again soon enough, not expecting to see him at the end of DF or anything, but i do hope he comes back sometime to help us put the light in it's place.
To the question about the time line. The videos are in order the content came out but it is from endgame content in the original wow and up to the 3rd raid in the first expansion which is Burning Crusade. The last trailer was teasing Sunwell Plateau. Sunwell was the last endgame content added before the pre-expansion patch. This is the time line the these raids were added to the original game (because there are classic servers since 2019 to relive all that): july 2005 Black Wing Lair, January 2006 Ahn'Qiraj, June 2006, May 2007 Black Temple. Most of the scenes in the video would be made in a machinima program. So you had to export the 3D asests from the game, rig and animate. So there is a lot of work in this stuff. There might be in game scenes used for this but i couldnt tell for sure. I think you are still missing the Leeroy Jenkins lore.
All of these raids are from the base game and the 1st expansion 'The Burning Crusade.'. Starting with the base game, it is, Raid (Final Boss) - Molten Core (Ragnaros), Blackwing Lair (Nefarion), Ahn'Qiraj (C'thun), Naxxramas (Kel'thuzad).There was also Zul'Gurub in the base game but it wasn't shown in the video. The Burning Crusade raids are Magtheridon's Lair (Magtheridon), Gruul's Lair (Gruul the Dragonkiller), Serpentshrine Cavern (Lady Vashj), Black Temple (Illidan), and Sunwell Plateau, which was in the Isle of Quel'danas beyond that portal everyone looked at at the end of the trailer.
For more details of who and why. Ragnaros - Fire lord of this planet accidentally summoned to this relm by Darkiron Dwarfs. Ragnaros was imprisoned cause he got captured and corrupted by old gods. Nefarion - elder son of deathwing, disguise in human form doing experiment on creating hybrid dragons. C'thun - is the first ever old god able to escape from his prison, and horde and alliance join forces to stop him. Kelthuzad - one of biggest lore figures, and battle of naxxramas was one of key events in lore. Kelthuzad was a curious mage, one of first to join lichking willingly. Battle of Naxxramas is huge part of the story Ashbringer. Magtheridon - a demonlord in charge of destroyed Draenor now called outland. Defeated by Ilidian and imprisoned to use his blood as a boost to illidian's army. We kill him to weaken Illidian. Gruul - once a famous giant now driven to madness. Lady Vashj - hand maiden of Queen Ashara, send to Illidian and became his most loyal follower. Plays huge role in various expansions, and also in Shadowland as she died in burning crusade. Illidian - no need explanation.
The videos are all showing off the various patches and the raids in the base game from 2004 followed by The Burning Crusade. Molten Core with the Fire Lord Ragnaros (the big fire-mace), Blackwin Lair with the black dragon Nefarian as the final boss, the Old God C'thun and its minions of bug-people with Ahn Qiraj. After that we entered the Outland where we saw the various zones, followed by playings facing off against Lady Vashj (Handmaiden to Azshara, the lady you saw in a Warbringers episode as she got turned into a Lizard-squid), Kael'thas Sunstrider (Blood elf) and finally against Illidan in the Black Temple. As everyone is tired after defeating Illidan, we see the Portal open to the next raid, The Sunwell. After the Sunwell we would have seen the Wrath of the Lich king expansion (the video of Arthas raising the ice dragon). So this is the very beginning of the WoW timeline (muuuch more story has taken place before WoW though). So all the short orcs and humans and trolls fighting the bosses in the raids, with the voice overs being lines said by those bosses. There are many bosses i a raid so it's just a few seconds from each encounter. The "players" in the clip are dressed in gear sets that we loot from the bosses (nerds can recognize famous staffs and shields and other parts). In the Naxxramas clip you can see they are all white and transparent which ment the raid wiped, they all died, and had to go in to try again (just like regular players). The reference again during the Black Temple video makes it more obvious with the "Press to releave"-button and loadingscreen =) I wish the earlier clips he made are as long as detailed as the later ones! Some cool fights and scenes there! EDIT: The dragon you saw dead early on in the videos is actually a child of Deathwing. While Deathwing was still below ground being corrupted by the Old Gods, his children were up and about and causing massive political trouble for the Humans.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Yeh those videos are amazing and really makes me as a player feel part of the world! It feels more living and, for a lack of a better word, "realistic". The creator has done a really good job!
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames About Deathwings children. He had Onyxia and Nefarian. They were proper masters of political intrigues and manipulation and Onyxia was responsible for the upbringing of Anduin as a child. So things could have gone really bad!. The WoW channel Platinum WoW has made a 2-part series (~10min each video) about Onyxias rise to powert and downfall (as well as parts of what happened after her death) Part 1: ruclips.net/video/7XMl1Dpoi7A/видео.html Part 2: ruclips.net/video/O1DIWkpYnUk/видео.html They are not cool action videos like the ones in this video, but I think Blizzard have done the small stories very well in the past so can be worth giving it a look!
THis is a pretty good summary of the various Raids of WoW through the expansions and the years. I do like that the player base is shown as a unending and unrelenting Blight ;p, it...accurate... For those curious Raids are 25-40man instanced Dungeons, with usually between 6 to 12 Bosses and multiple areas to clear. Raids are not only challenges for any group of people, but also the source of the best items and equipement that the game as to offer. Raids are deeply tied to the story and themes of the Expansion that is currently live at the time. AS the level cap got higher, lower level Raids could be trivialised after a point, but they still are a huge chunk of the game's Endgame.
All the raids shown here are vanilla to BC era raids, level 60 and 70 content. There are tons of embellishments that Hurricane animated, like the chains dropping that rock into the lava, that rock never fell like that in the actual game and is still there even in current time as it has the meeting stone to summon other players to do the raids and dungeons there. A lot of the animations of the raids or parts of them exploding are more symbolic of us as the players forming raid groups of 20/25/40 players and "crushing " those raids. About the dragon, his name is Nefarian and he is the son of Neltharion who you might know as Deathwing. He is also the brother of Onyxia of you are familiar with her. He was kind of the main boss in original WoW for a while until patches brought out Ahn'qiraj (pronounced "on-keer-oj" and the Old God C'thun as a 40 man raid boss.
Fun little fact that you guys already probably knew but, Illidan in the Black Temple Voiced by the same lovely Gentleman who voices Vax in Vox Machina *Liam O'Brien* and one of the four horseman in Naxx was Percy! Talesin Jaffe
11:01 - Not sure if anyone has said it but, this is all from Burning Crusade. The very first WoW expansion and the one just before Wrath of the Lich King.
This is a look at the raids the player characters encounter during the classic wow era and Burning Crusade the first world of warcraft xpac. A huge amount of lore is played out in these raids.
Side note for naxxamas is there's a giant flesh golem named Thaddeus that is made out of women and children that fell to the lich king and throughout the battle you can hear the voices of them wailing and calling out for release just another horrific creation
World of Warcraft had just started. It had been about a year, and these were the first three raid 'tiers'. Molten Core vs Ragnaros, Blackwing Lair vs Onyxia / Nefarion, and Naxxramas vs Kel'thuzad. Ahn'Qiraj was an interlude between tiers 2 and 3, but once Naxxramas's whole experience got moved out during Wrath of the Lich King, Ahn'Qiraj became Classic's final raid. I did not see a Karazhan trailer, but Karazhan, Magtheridon's lair and Gruul's Lair were the 4th tier, during The Burning Crusade's endgame. It was followed by the completion of Lady Vashj and Kael'thas Sunstrider's stories in tier 5 with the cavernous Serpentshrine Cavern and the Tempest Keep Naaru ships. Tier 6 featured another unseen raid (Time travel to Hyjal Summit to fight Archimonde) but Black Temple vs Illidan, and Sunwell Plateau vs Kil'jaeden were the other Tier 6 raids. Yeah I never got to play it, but the original Naxxramas was SO difficult that they had to introduce another raid before it in order to properly prepare and gear up players before they can tackle the necropolis itself. Correct me if I'm wrong.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Yup that's how the expansions go. You go through the 'main story' of the expansion, gathering the meat of the plot, then conclude it by doing dungeons. Said dungeons ultimately tie in together and you go finish off the main villains in their raids. Each expansion works like that except Classic, to an extend. Most of Classic's story was 'discover Azeroth!' with the first 2-3 raids being essentially the closest to a big endgame story in spite of having enormous dungeons. Every expansion after this distilled a formula to simplify things, starting with Cataclysm. Classic: Explore Azeroth. Its world is open. Burning Crusade: Oh, so is the orc homeworld. Wrath of the Lich King: Let's go chill up north with Arthas Cataclysm: Cultists are conquering the world or something HEY LOOK A BIG DRAGON Mists of Pandaria: Our boat bumped onto pandaland Warlords of Draenor: Garrosh goes all "What if" with time travel Legion: Ok, demons. Battle for Azeroth: Is there something else in the 'things from early Warcraft we haven't put in WoW; bucket? Yeah? Ok. N'zoth and Nagas and 4th war Shadowlands: Sylvanas Dragonflight: "The game will finally be as interesting as its cinematics, we promise!"
These trailers were all from the creator Hurricane! Now with the release of Wrath of the Lich King Classic (same old game from long ago, in large parts as it was back then for those that want to re-live that experience) Blizzard also released some trailers and Lore-recaps. They released a trailer of the Lich King sending the Undead to attack the Alliance and Horde, followed by players taking up arms and mobilizing to go to Northrend, the continent where the Lich king sits. It shows sections of each zone of the continent and glimpses of the story playing out there, along with the first round of bosses we will be facing. They also released a short (duration 3:50) Lore recap (not made by Hurricane) of what led up to Arthas becoming the Lich King, narrated by Jaina. Posting links as a comment in case Links makes this comment enter "Awaiting approval"-folder!
Hurricane's trailer of the Wrath of the Lich king expansion (comissioned by Blizzard) ruclips.net/video/e-__XX2HEkA/видео.html (duration: 2:42) Jaina's lore recap of Arthas becoming Lich King. ruclips.net/video/WhREhLx4czo/видео.html
Hurricane is one of the best trailer content creators out their for WoW, the dude is incredibly faithful to the look and hype of the game and is one of the most respected WoW creators out there. You HAVE to watch the newest trailer for Wrath of the Lich King Classic that he made on World of Warcraft's official channel, the man literally made the hype for WotLK even more then there already was.
so many Dungeons and Raids yet to be highlighted in this way, obviously the most classic ones would be done in this fashion first, that being said i enjoyed seeing these.
Black Temple was in BC. The enemy WAS the Legion but it wasn't Legion. The Dragonflight Alpha invites went out and this is the 2nd alpha not after shadowlands I haven't immediately gotten into since LK so that's aggravating. I wanna play as Spyro!
I know this vid is 1 year old, but you should REALLY watch the new one from Hurricane with The Lich King. its insane ! Blizz have hired Hurricane now to make stuff for them 😝
There is also a video that you can look into that is called world of warcraft extinction. It is a fan based video but it ties in so well with the events in the game after the legion expansion is over. Would highly recommended.
The dude who throws his sword at Illidan is based off a real player. And yes, that's how it feels to actually play the world of warcraft for the first time. Hurricane is so good. Blizzard hired him to make videos. You can check out the Wrath of Lich King Classic trailer that's done by Hurricane.
there are Eight expansions to World of Warcraft, what you watched was the Boss Fights to the first Two; the original release of the game where you End with the Naxramas Raid, and the Burning Crusade Expansion where you Riad after Raid after Raid until you get to the Black Temple to defeat Illadan Stormrage. Original Game 2004, Burning Crusade 2007 ... less than 1% of the players playing the game were able to defeat Naxramas or The Black Temple. (I personaly only made it as far as Gurtogg Bloodboil) The next expansion was Wrath of the Litch King 2008
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames You have NO Idea... LOL, we would fight a boss like The Four Horsman in Naxxramas week after week after week, and die trying every time. (the Raid resets itself every Tuesday and ya have to start over if you didn't complete the Raid). Then suddenly; the stars align, your teammates all work together... and for us Lady Blaumeux was always the last one to die; and to watch her drop dead for the first time and hear that DEFFENING SCREAM of 39 other players through the TeamSpeak server YELL in JOY and TRIUMPH as weeks of fighting and working together finally paid off. ... Nothing like it.
Oh yes guys, get in on the fan animation for WoW there is some amazing stuff! Also "Oh is that a Haunted house?" Actually, in a way it's a Haunted house but over the top. Never actually thought of it that way, it is basically a house of horrors. Just one that can fly & some can shoot, basically a flying fortress house of horrors. Originally by lore, The Lich King took his architecture from the Nerubians whom are the spider race that live under Northrend, however with Shadowlands they show the design for Naxxaramus to be copied from Maldraxxus(the army part of the death realm) however I do not believe Blizzard has addressed the issue of how the Nerubians got the architecture from them or if The Lich King instead got it from there but again then why did the Nerubians have it too as they were there before The Lich King.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Not sure if there is any videos that could show the atmosphere of Naxx, but they did a really good job with it. Example, there is a set of bosses which are basically the 4 horsemen. 1 of them is connected to the holy light still which is abnormal for undead yet he tries to fight the control & warn everyone to run away. There is another boss whom was in the video, he is a giant stitched together from hundreds if not thousands of corpses & in the back ground you can hear all the souls wailing & crying for help.
These trailers are machinima, meaning they use game assets -scenes and models as they are in the game. He had to come up with the choreography for all the characters, though, cause those are supposed to represent all of the players. Blizzard cinematics don't do that, especially not with multiple player characters (full raids, in this case). The animations, and the voice lines of the bosses are vanilla. The paths that the player characters take are his.
Its not Hurricane, but please react to Secrets of Ulduar Remastered. It happened during Wrath of the Lich King, but they used the updated models, it still holds up imo. There is a 'movie' that features the raid's content, but it isnt in HD.
In that giant floating pyramid (Naxxramus) there is a boss named Thaddius he is considered one the most horrific bosses in Warcraft and possibly any game EVER because Thaddius is made with the flesh of a innocent *women and children* ....that right and you can hear their screams and pleads to be saved throughout the fight. That fight was a tough fight to stomach.
You guys REAAAALLY should react to the trailer "Fall of the Lich King". It's on World of Warcraft official channel but it also has been made by Hurricane and it's VEERY good.
Illidan cant really die since he has an Immortal Demon Soul the only place where he can be killed is in the Twisting Nether (the realm where all Demon "souls" go when their body is killed) where he will stay until he can get a suitable "host body" if his original body is destroyed. If i remember it correctly... Ps. would highly recommend checking out WARCRAFT | Reign of Chaos - Season 1 (EN) by JoseBV
ah some raids were more iconic than others but i have yet to find a raid that wasnt wonderfully done. Ahn Quiraji was the creepiest by far you constantly had whispers in your ear like "you will die" "give up" and stuff like that XD Naxramas had the potentially best "scaling" boss in the game cause he got a mechanic (the "dance") that can oneshot players on any level if you mess up. And you need to spend some time learning the pattern and memorising the movement. Or you cheapshot it like me and iceblock XD Black temple houses one of the most iconic characters in illidan and the only brothel / harem in WoW XD and definitively react to Ulduar the movie - best raiding experience youll get without raiding in one of the best raids of them all
These are fan made trailers for ingame events in WoW. Like raids and such. Others explain it much better in comments but we don’t want to butcher their explanations 🤗
Unrelated to these videos but i would love to see your reaction to Lore W****s, [The Seven Kingdoms: Part 1 - Warcraft Lore] video, problematic name but i guess you could just say by Lore or Lore "door" XD if not maybe patreon exclusive, anyway those videos are awesome for insight in to the humans lore in world of warcraft! =)
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames His channel is great though i would probably only recommend about four videos as most of the content is about the lore of different areas that players visit which might be to much, so i would recommend The Seven Kingdoms part 1 and 2, together they are under 20 minutes. I would say their vibe is somewhat that of Bricky's Warhammer 40K videos that you reacted to but for World of Warcraft Lore/History talking about (you guessed it) The Seven Kingdoms of Humans. The other two are the stories about Illidan, Mograine and the Ashbringer. Illidan's video is slightly outdated but awesome anyway.
Hi, 11 days late but you guys should totally react to Platinum WoW’s lore videos sometime! His video about Wrathion (the handsome dragon who looks a bit like Prince of Persia in BfA) is very good, it’s titled ‘Warcraft’s Stupidest Dragon’
This fan trailers kind of play with old school player nostalgia , re-live their many raid fight with epic action pack. so it gonna be huge confuse to non warcraft player indeed
if you are looking for a way older movie, you can watch this one: Ulduar the Movie. ruclips.net/video/pNjfh4ISna0/видео.html Ulduar is considerer by most as the best raid ever, and was released on Patch 3.1. The video is made by ingame stuffs.
Remember that Illidan was a boss we had to fight at one point. They left you on a cliffhanger, that portal that opened up goes to Quel'Danas, an island housing Burning Crusade's final raid and by far its hardest bosses: The Sunwell Plateau. Most of the voice-overs in these trailers are lines from the very many bosses in these raids.
Thanks for giving us some more context for these 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Kil'jaeden was the one talking in the end right until the portal opened to Quel'danas. The Raid is called Sunwell Plateau
"soldiers of the scourge minions of the darkness hear the call of the high lord" so much in love with voice lines of Darion Mograine
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Hurricane did do an excellent job with these trailers, totally epic and awesome from beginning to end. Always nice to see you guys checking out fan made content for whatever franchise. Gotta support the fandoms you are now a part of, and in some cases, the fan made things can be even better than the official things. Cheers!!!😁
We’ve been told about these for awhile now. Very impressive work 🤩 🍻
3:03: “I like the music”
The music used is called Dust and Light by Twelve Titans Music. It was featured in the final Hobbit film trailer and is a criminally underrated piece of epic orchestration. I’ve used it myself in my own ROTK trailer.
Thanks for informing us on that 😀
As someone who spent literally hundreds of hours in Blackwing Lair, with 40 other people, week after week after week.
I was both incredibly triggered and washed over with a sense of joy, seeing that first cinematic.
☺️ we heard these raids, and maybe that one in particular, were super tough and only like 1% finished 😅
After Hurricane, i would recommend iKEdit: Extinction, Druid class, Demon Hunters. He makes top tier content with in-game assets. Such good job in fact he got hired and works for Blizzard for past 3-4 years.
Nice! Thanks for letting us know about those 😀
Man, that ending. When the portal to Isle of Quel'Danas opens :D TBC seemed as good as over, but then...
Hurricanes videos are on another level. Such a badass WoW videos he has.
This is done by people who made private servers for world of warcraft, played there for 3 years and met bunch of amazing people, one of the best experiences in my life :)
Illidan is voiced by the wonderful voice actor Liam O'Brien who is a member of Critical Role, and the voice of Vax in the Legend of Vox Machina.
Two legends 😎🤟🤩
So I don’t usually like reaction videos. I always thought the concept was really dumb, but you two make me love them. I love that you two get genuinely interested in what you’re watching and actually follow the larger world of Warcraft story. I love seeing people appreciate the rich lore of the game. You two are also the genuinely sweetest people I’ve ever seen on RUclips and it makes me heart happy. I watch all your videos now.
Thanks so much for the kind words. 🙂 Glad you are enjoying the channel. We love exploring these different franchises and learning about them through not only the videos but the comments from community as well. 😀🥳🤗
The timeline in this is a fair bit earlier than you're familiar with, particularly the Black Temple stuff with Illidan. Burning Crusade was the first expansion to vanilla World of Warcraft, and this was when Illidan was WELL within his phase as a heavy-hitter legendary villain. He wouldn't become a bit of an anti-hero until MUCH later, like 5 expansions away or something like that. Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria, and Warlords of Draenor all happened in between Illidan's fall at the Black Temple and his eventual return at the beginning of Legion.
So for most players at this time, storming the Black Temple and ascending your way through it to ultimately find Illidan waiting for you at its peak was...well, in a word: "epic". Though Illidan is not QUITE as "ultimate evil", this was like leading an army into Mordor and confronting Sauron face-to-face...crazier even, since you had to work your way through the entirety of the massive Outlands to even get to the zone where the Black Temple stands. A lot of the different areas shown in Hellfire and Black Temple were all part of the months-long campaign to eventually find your way TO Illidan.
I wasn't even around for the expansion, just played it myself solo when I finally picked up the game like 5 expansions in...and I can still imagine how it must have felt to be there during its release. Glory days of WoW indeed. :)
i never saw Illidan as a villain, that was simply how he was portrayed, anyone playing WC3 knew that he was doing what he felt he had to do, including becoming a demon to save Tyrande, had he not done so, it's likely that the Legion would've won and she would've perished.
@@UltimateGamerCC Absolutely, and it even was made more clear to a general audience during Legion when we dove into his backstory and justifications.
He was kind of a "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions" kind of character. Did things that "heroes" don't do, to try to make the difference he felt was needed.
I only call the pre-Legion era his "villain phase" because of how he was clearly painted as at the very least an antagonist, someone who went too far and had to be stopped. It's just how he was portrayed, as you said.
Illidan has always been far more complicated than just surface level, and I was a WC3 vet far before I looked into anything WoW so I get where you're coming from exactly. I'm just trying to clarify for Ken and Bethany that these videos come from a time when Illidan was decidedly NOT considered a hero.
This was the sort of time frame when people would say "Yeah! Illidan!" in a lot the same kind of spirit as "Yeah! Darth Vader!" Because he's awesome and you love to see him do his thing, not because he's here to save the day and everything will be alright now lol.
Thanks for helping us make sense of it all, Eric. This is a timeline we need to familiarize ourself with more for sure 🙂
@@ericmartin8870 lol yeah tbf he was going too far, the demon in him was kind of taking over, once resurrected his mind was his own again. speaking of which i hope we get to see him again soon enough, not expecting to see him at the end of DF or anything, but i do hope he comes back sometime to help us put the light in it's place.
I love the bit "Was that a haunted house? Please tell me that was a haunted house." ...Probably never one you'd see at disney ! XD
Those bosses were a pain especially in An'Quarji since Cthun was so buggy that he essentially one spotted people lol.
To the question about the time line. The videos are in order the content came out but it is from endgame content in the original wow and up to the 3rd raid in the first expansion which is Burning Crusade. The last trailer was teasing Sunwell Plateau. Sunwell was the last endgame content added before the pre-expansion patch.
This is the time line the these raids were added to the original game (because there are classic servers since 2019 to relive all that): july 2005 Black Wing Lair, January 2006 Ahn'Qiraj, June 2006, May 2007 Black Temple.
Most of the scenes in the video would be made in a machinima program. So you had to export the 3D asests from the game, rig and animate. So there is a lot of work in this stuff. There might be in game scenes used for this but i couldnt tell for sure.
I think you are still missing the Leeroy Jenkins lore.
Haha, looking forward to learning about Mr Leeroy Jenkins 😛
All of these raids are from the base game and the 1st expansion 'The Burning Crusade.'. Starting with the base game, it is, Raid (Final Boss) - Molten Core (Ragnaros), Blackwing Lair (Nefarion), Ahn'Qiraj (C'thun), Naxxramas (Kel'thuzad).There was also Zul'Gurub in the base game but it wasn't shown in the video. The Burning Crusade raids are Magtheridon's Lair (Magtheridon), Gruul's Lair (Gruul the Dragonkiller), Serpentshrine Cavern (Lady Vashj), Black Temple (Illidan), and Sunwell Plateau, which was in the Isle of Quel'danas beyond that portal everyone looked at at the end of the trailer.
Thanks for helping explain more of what is going on to us 🙂
For more details of who and why.
Ragnaros - Fire lord of this planet accidentally summoned to this relm by Darkiron Dwarfs. Ragnaros was imprisoned cause he got captured and corrupted by old gods.
Nefarion - elder son of deathwing, disguise in human form doing experiment on creating hybrid dragons.
C'thun - is the first ever old god able to escape from his prison, and horde and alliance join forces to stop him.
Kelthuzad - one of biggest lore figures, and battle of naxxramas was one of key events in lore. Kelthuzad was a curious mage, one of first to join lichking willingly. Battle of Naxxramas is huge part of the story Ashbringer.
Magtheridon - a demonlord in charge of destroyed Draenor now called outland. Defeated by Ilidian and imprisoned to use his blood as a boost to illidian's army. We kill him to weaken Illidian.
Gruul - once a famous giant now driven to madness.
Lady Vashj - hand maiden of Queen Ashara, send to Illidian and became his most loyal follower. Plays huge role in various expansions, and also in Shadowland as she died in burning crusade.
Illidian - no need explanation.
for an all time WOW player these vids are soooooo gooood... all places, bosses and voicelines, just epic
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The videos are all showing off the various patches and the raids in the base game from 2004 followed by The Burning Crusade. Molten Core with the Fire Lord Ragnaros (the big fire-mace), Blackwin Lair with the black dragon Nefarian as the final boss, the Old God C'thun and its minions of bug-people with Ahn Qiraj. After that we entered the Outland where we saw the various zones, followed by playings facing off against Lady Vashj (Handmaiden to Azshara, the lady you saw in a Warbringers episode as she got turned into a Lizard-squid), Kael'thas Sunstrider (Blood elf) and finally against Illidan in the Black Temple.
As everyone is tired after defeating Illidan, we see the Portal open to the next raid, The Sunwell. After the Sunwell we would have seen the Wrath of the Lich king expansion (the video of Arthas raising the ice dragon). So this is the very beginning of the WoW timeline (muuuch more story has taken place before WoW though).
So all the short orcs and humans and trolls fighting the bosses in the raids, with the voice overs being lines said by those bosses. There are many bosses i a raid so it's just a few seconds from each encounter. The "players" in the clip are dressed in gear sets that we loot from the bosses (nerds can recognize famous staffs and shields and other parts).
In the Naxxramas clip you can see they are all white and transparent which ment the raid wiped, they all died, and had to go in to try again (just like regular players). The reference again during the Black Temple video makes it more obvious with the "Press to releave"-button and loadingscreen =)
I wish the earlier clips he made are as long as detailed as the later ones! Some cool fights and scenes there!
EDIT: The dragon you saw dead early on in the videos is actually a child of Deathwing. While Deathwing was still below ground being corrupted by the Old Gods, his children were up and about and causing massive political trouble for the Humans.
So even Deathwings kids were dicks 😒 🐉 Thanks for helping us make more sense of these and what is going on from player perspective 😀🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Yeh those videos are amazing and really makes me as a player feel part of the world! It feels more living and, for a lack of a better word, "realistic".
The creator has done a really good job!
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About Deathwings children.
He had Onyxia and Nefarian. They were proper masters of political intrigues and manipulation and Onyxia was responsible for the upbringing of Anduin as a child. So things could have gone really bad!.
The WoW channel Platinum WoW has made a 2-part series (~10min each video) about Onyxias rise to powert and downfall (as well as parts of what happened after her death)
Part 1: ruclips.net/video/7XMl1Dpoi7A/видео.html
Part 2: ruclips.net/video/O1DIWkpYnUk/видео.html
They are not cool action videos like the ones in this video, but I think Blizzard have done the small stories very well in the past so can be worth giving it a look!
THis is a pretty good summary of the various Raids of WoW through the expansions and the years.
I do like that the player base is shown as a unending and unrelenting Blight ;p, it...accurate...
For those curious Raids are 25-40man instanced Dungeons, with usually between 6 to 12 Bosses and multiple areas to clear.
Raids are not only challenges for any group of people, but also the source of the best items and equipement that the game as to offer.
Raids are deeply tied to the story and themes of the Expansion that is currently live at the time.
AS the level cap got higher, lower level Raids could be trivialised after a point, but they still are a huge chunk of the game's Endgame.
It's not a summary of those raids, it's an introduction to them.
Thanks for filling us in on raids and how they work in game 🙂😀
These videos are showcasing the first raids in Original Warcraft and the first expansion of burning crusade in terms of time line.
Thanks for clearing that up 🙂
All the raids shown here are vanilla to BC era raids, level 60 and 70 content. There are tons of embellishments that Hurricane animated, like the chains dropping that rock into the lava, that rock never fell like that in the actual game and is still there even in current time as it has the meeting stone to summon other players to do the raids and dungeons there. A lot of the animations of the raids or parts of them exploding are more symbolic of us as the players forming raid groups of 20/25/40 players and "crushing " those raids. About the dragon, his name is Nefarian and he is the son of Neltharion who you might know as Deathwing. He is also the brother of Onyxia of you are familiar with her. He was kind of the main boss in original WoW for a while until patches brought out Ahn'qiraj (pronounced "on-keer-oj" and the Old God C'thun as a 40 man raid boss.
Fun little fact that you guys already probably knew but, Illidan in the Black Temple Voiced by the same lovely Gentleman who voices Vax in Vox Machina *Liam O'Brien* and one of the four horseman in Naxx was Percy! Talesin Jaffe
We didn’t know that about Percy and four horseman 😀 But had heard that about Illidan and Vax 😁
All Fallout Parts ingame openings.
Do plan to get back to some Fallout 🙂
11:01 - Not sure if anyone has said it but, this is all from Burning Crusade. The very first WoW expansion and the one just before Wrath of the Lich King.
This is a look at the raids the player characters encounter during the classic wow era and Burning Crusade the first world of warcraft xpac. A huge amount of lore is played out in these raids.
Are u still planning to watch and react to all Warcraft 3 ingame cutscenes? 😊
We do plan on checking those out. Want the full Arthas story 😅
Side note for naxxamas is there's a giant flesh golem named Thaddeus that is made out of women and children that fell to the lich king and throughout the battle you can hear the voices of them wailing and calling out for release just another horrific creation
You should check Platinum WoW videos, he makes lore videos with humor mixed in. I think you both would enjoy them.
We do plan to check out that channel 🙂
World of Warcraft had just started. It had been about a year, and these were the first three raid 'tiers'. Molten Core vs Ragnaros, Blackwing Lair vs Onyxia / Nefarion, and Naxxramas vs Kel'thuzad. Ahn'Qiraj was an interlude between tiers 2 and 3, but once Naxxramas's whole experience got moved out during Wrath of the Lich King, Ahn'Qiraj became Classic's final raid.
I did not see a Karazhan trailer, but Karazhan, Magtheridon's lair and Gruul's Lair were the 4th tier, during The Burning Crusade's endgame. It was followed by the completion of Lady Vashj and Kael'thas Sunstrider's stories in tier 5 with the cavernous Serpentshrine Cavern and the Tempest Keep Naaru ships. Tier 6 featured another unseen raid (Time travel to Hyjal Summit to fight Archimonde) but Black Temple vs Illidan, and Sunwell Plateau vs Kil'jaeden were the other Tier 6 raids.
Yeah I never got to play it, but the original Naxxramas was SO difficult that they had to introduce another raid before it in order to properly prepare and gear up players before they can tackle the necropolis itself. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks for giving us some history on these and some mor me context. Hadn’t realized how far these went back 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Yup that's how the expansions go. You go through the 'main story' of the expansion, gathering the meat of the plot, then conclude it by doing dungeons. Said dungeons ultimately tie in together and you go finish off the main villains in their raids. Each expansion works like that except Classic, to an extend. Most of Classic's story was 'discover Azeroth!' with the first 2-3 raids being essentially the closest to a big endgame story in spite of having enormous dungeons. Every expansion after this distilled a formula to simplify things, starting with Cataclysm.
Classic: Explore Azeroth. Its world is open.
Burning Crusade: Oh, so is the orc homeworld.
Wrath of the Lich King: Let's go chill up north with Arthas
Cataclysm: Cultists are conquering the world or something HEY LOOK A BIG DRAGON
Mists of Pandaria: Our boat bumped onto pandaland
Warlords of Draenor: Garrosh goes all "What if" with time travel
Legion: Ok, demons.
Battle for Azeroth: Is there something else in the 'things from early Warcraft we haven't put in WoW; bucket? Yeah? Ok. N'zoth and Nagas and 4th war
Shadowlands: Sylvanas
Dragonflight: "The game will finally be as interesting as its cinematics, we promise!"
These trailers were all from the creator Hurricane!
Now with the release of Wrath of the Lich King Classic (same old game from long ago, in large parts as it was back then for those that want to re-live that experience) Blizzard also released some trailers and Lore-recaps.
They released a trailer of the Lich King sending the Undead to attack the Alliance and Horde, followed by players taking up arms and mobilizing to go to Northrend, the continent where the Lich king sits. It shows sections of each zone of the continent and glimpses of the story playing out there, along with the first round of bosses we will be facing.
They also released a short (duration 3:50) Lore recap (not made by Hurricane) of what led up to Arthas becoming the Lich King, narrated by Jaina.
Posting links as a comment in case Links makes this comment enter "Awaiting approval"-folder!
Hurricane's trailer of the Wrath of the Lich king expansion (comissioned by Blizzard)
ruclips.net/video/e-__XX2HEkA/видео.html (duration: 2:42)
Jaina's lore recap of Arthas becoming Lich King.
ruclips.net/video/WhREhLx4czo/видео.html
lol that dude that killed illidan is kinda suppose to be the same dude that got worlds first kill on illidan in the game
Hurricane is one of the best trailer content creators out their for WoW, the dude is incredibly faithful to the look and hype of the game and is one of the most respected WoW creators out there.
You HAVE to watch the newest trailer for Wrath of the Lich King Classic that he made on World of Warcraft's official channel, the man literally made the hype for WotLK even more then there already was.
Illidan was the big baddy of the Burning Crusade expansion and his switch into a goody in Legion was a bit of a retcon, but overall fairly well done.
so many Dungeons and Raids yet to be highlighted in this way, obviously the most classic ones would be done in this fashion first, that being said i enjoyed seeing these.
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Black Temple was in BC. The enemy WAS the Legion but it wasn't Legion.
The Dragonflight Alpha invites went out and this is the 2nd alpha not after shadowlands I haven't immediately gotten into since LK so that's aggravating. I wanna play as Spyro!
Bummer. Why is Blizzard not giving you a proper invite? 😒😡
Yeah these hype videos are amazing. Incredible job by hurricane, watched them a bunch myself. 😄
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I know this vid is 1 year old, but you should REALLY watch the new one from Hurricane with The Lich King. its insane ! Blizz have hired Hurricane now to make stuff for them 😝
ty for reaction i love this guy so good
Our pleasure! Very impressive work 🤩
There is also a video that you can look into that is called world of warcraft extinction. It is a fan based video but it ties in so well with the events in the game after the legion expansion is over. Would highly recommended.
Thanks for letting us know about it 🙂
The dude who throws his sword at Illidan is based off a real player.
And yes, that's how it feels to actually play the world of warcraft for the first time.
Hurricane is so good. Blizzard hired him to make videos. You can check out the Wrath of Lich King Classic trailer that's done by Hurricane.
there are Eight expansions to World of Warcraft, what you watched was the Boss Fights to the first Two; the original release of the game where you End with the Naxramas Raid, and the Burning Crusade Expansion where you Riad after Raid after Raid until you get to the Black Temple to defeat Illadan Stormrage.
Original Game 2004, Burning Crusade 2007
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less than 1% of the players playing the game were able to defeat Naxramas or The Black Temple. (I personaly only made it as far as Gurtogg Bloodboil)
The next expansion was Wrath of the Litch King 2008
ruclips.net/video/UeooZNl_tDY/видео.html
here is the full story of Illadan Stormrage
I would separate it into two parts. Everything after chapter 7 (50:01) is world of warcraft story. Everything before is Warcraft 3
Damn. Must’ve felt good to be in that 1% 😅
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames You have NO Idea... LOL, we would fight a boss like The Four Horsman in Naxxramas week after week after week, and die trying every time. (the Raid resets itself every Tuesday and ya have to start over if you didn't complete the Raid). Then suddenly; the stars align, your teammates all work together... and for us Lady Blaumeux was always the last one to die; and to watch her drop dead for the first time and hear that DEFFENING SCREAM of 39 other players through the TeamSpeak server YELL in JOY and TRIUMPH as weeks of fighting and working together finally paid off.
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Nothing like it.
I sincerely hope you guys react to House Hexagon's WoW's darkest secret video, it will blow your mind
Thanks for the recommendation 🙂
Oh yes guys, get in on the fan animation for WoW there is some amazing stuff!
Also "Oh is that a Haunted house?"
Actually, in a way it's a Haunted house but over the top. Never actually thought of it that way, it is basically a house of horrors.
Just one that can fly & some can shoot, basically a flying fortress house of horrors.
Originally by lore, The Lich King took his architecture from the Nerubians whom are the spider race that live under Northrend, however with Shadowlands they show the design for Naxxaramus to be copied from Maldraxxus(the army part of the death realm) however I do not believe Blizzard has addressed the issue of how the Nerubians got the architecture from them or if The Lich King instead got it from there but again then why did the Nerubians have it too as they were there before The Lich King.
An over the top haunted house 😀👻 We can get behind that. Flying Fortress House of Horrors is a great name for a Halloween scary movie 😁
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Not sure if there is any videos that could show the atmosphere of Naxx, but they did a really good job with it.
Example, there is a set of bosses which are basically the 4 horsemen. 1 of them is connected to the holy light still which is abnormal for undead yet he tries to fight the control & warn everyone to run away.
There is another boss whom was in the video, he is a giant stitched together from hundreds if not thousands of corpses & in the back ground you can hear all the souls wailing & crying for help.
Stellaris fans still waiting. Would like to see those reaction. Many cool trailers in cosmo theme. Not an ad.
Stellaris will come eventually 🙂😇
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames "Humans don't live for centuries!" (c) Jayce Talis.
These trailers are machinima, meaning they use game assets -scenes and models as they are in the game. He had to come up with the choreography for all the characters, though, cause those are supposed to represent all of the players. Blizzard cinematics don't do that, especially not with multiple player characters (full raids, in this case). The animations, and the voice lines of the bosses are vanilla. The paths that the player characters take are his.
Thanks for helping explain how this all came together 🙂🤩
Its not Hurricane, but please react to Secrets of Ulduar Remastered. It happened during Wrath of the Lich King, but they used the updated models, it still holds up imo. There is a 'movie' that features the raid's content, but it isnt in HD.
Thanks for the recommendation for more Warcraft to check out 🙂
In that giant floating pyramid (Naxxramus) there is a boss named Thaddius he is considered one the most horrific bosses in Warcraft and possibly any game EVER because Thaddius is made with the flesh of a innocent *women and children* ....that right and you can hear their screams and pleads to be saved throughout the fight. That fight was a tough fight to stomach.
😱 that is horrible 😨
the screams and pleads also stop once you kill him with him thanking you
should react to the new one, Blizzard hired him to do one for Wrath of the Lich King
You guys REAAAALLY should react to the trailer "Fall of the Lich King". It's on World of Warcraft official channel but it also has been made by Hurricane and it's VEERY good.
Illidan cant really die since he has an Immortal Demon Soul the only place where he can be killed is in the Twisting Nether (the realm where all Demon "souls" go when their body is killed)
where he will stay until he can get a suitable "host body" if his original body is destroyed.
If i remember it correctly...
Ps. would highly recommend checking out WARCRAFT | Reign of Chaos - Season 1 (EN) by JoseBV
Thanks for the recommendation on more Warcraft to check out and for letting us know that Illidan can always return 😁🥳
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames your welcome 🙂
I reccommend IKEdit's "Extinction" video, it's a bit short but it's really good.
Will add to our WoW request list 🙂
ah some raids were more iconic than others but i have yet to find a raid that wasnt wonderfully done.
Ahn Quiraji was the creepiest by far you constantly had whispers in your ear like "you will die" "give up" and stuff like that XD
Naxramas had the potentially best "scaling" boss in the game cause he got a mechanic (the "dance") that can oneshot players on any level if you mess up. And you need to spend some time learning the pattern and memorising the movement. Or you cheapshot it like me and iceblock XD
Black temple houses one of the most iconic characters in illidan and the only brothel / harem in WoW XD
and definitively react to Ulduar the movie - best raiding experience youll get without raiding in one of the best raids of them all
The whispers are a nice touch. Especially if you have headphones in I bet that made it better 😁
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What is Black Temple?
These are fan made trailers for ingame events in WoW. Like raids and such. Others explain it much better in comments but we don’t want to butcher their explanations 🤗
Hey if you guys want to react to something scary you should react to all of the driver story's from twisted metal black
Thanks for the scary recommendation 👻😁
Looking like vision and Wanda
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Unrelated to these videos but i would love to see your reaction to Lore W****s, [The Seven Kingdoms: Part 1 - Warcraft Lore] video, problematic name but i guess you could just say by Lore or Lore "door" XD if not maybe patreon exclusive, anyway those videos are awesome for insight in to the humans lore in world of warcraft! =)
Thanks for the channel rec, Mr Blue 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames His channel is great though i would probably only recommend about four videos as most of the content is about the lore of different areas that players visit which might be to much, so i would recommend The Seven Kingdoms part 1 and 2, together they are under 20 minutes. I would say their vibe is somewhat that of Bricky's Warhammer 40K videos that you reacted to but for World of Warcraft Lore/History talking about (you guessed it) The Seven Kingdoms of Humans. The other two are the stories about Illidan, Mograine and the Ashbringer. Illidan's video is slightly outdated but awesome anyway.
Hi, 11 days late but you guys should totally react to Platinum WoW’s lore videos sometime! His video about Wrathion (the handsome dragon who looks a bit like Prince of Persia in BfA) is very good, it’s titled ‘Warcraft’s Stupidest Dragon’
This fan trailers kind of play with old school player nostalgia , re-live their many raid fight with epic action pack.
so it gonna be huge confuse to non warcraft player indeed
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if you are looking for a way older movie, you can watch this one: Ulduar the Movie. ruclips.net/video/pNjfh4ISna0/видео.html
Ulduar is considerer by most as the best raid ever, and was released on Patch 3.1. The video is made by ingame stuffs.
Thanks for sharing the link 🙂
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Hey buddy
Hey 🙂
You should be a wow player so that you can understand this with every cell in your body so that he can make you feel
We believe it hits so much harder having played through the raids ☺️
Also react to demon slayer hinokami chronicles ultimate techniques
On our request list 🥳
Hey! Can you react to Plants VS Zombies Garden Warfare 2
On our request list 🙂
Not much of a reaction video if you've got "stone face" for 90% of the video.
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I can't watch this. I don't want any spoilers.
Fair enough 🤗