Oldest World of Warcraft trailer (2001)
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- Опубликовано: 12 авг 2007
- The first game play footage of World of Warcraft officially unveiled to the public in this short trailer. The World of Warcraft engine was actually just Warcraft III's engine on steroids.
In-game footage released two years before this sleeping giant hit the shelves. What your seeing is actually a pimped out Warcraft III engine. It looks like they had only finished some of the Eastern Kingdoms at this pint in development namely Elwynn Forest, Darkshire, and Westfall. 
Игры
Looks amazing, can't wait till it comes out.
Noyze made my day :D
It's gonna be a lot better than Everquest hopefully
Noyze must be someone using internet explorer
Gloir That's great.
***** Was? Bro the games not out yet...
I love how the gnoll models still haven't changed at all through 2016.
Or ghoul and skeleton models. Haha
2016.. WOTLK forever...
everything in the entire game looks the same except for the playable races.. and new zones that didnt exist back then :c
New Ghoul model incoming sometime this year.
Perfection doesn't need to be changed.
1:37
the "miss miss" really captures the vanilla experience
+Lord Garfield you can play vanilla today
***** shitty? k
***** so high you can't even log in at China peak times, no thanks
***** try 2pm GMT sometime then
mobs are appearing after you've passed them
***** are you fucking serious? ask literally anybody who has played at china peak hours, they'll tell you the same thing
Can't wait for release.
i wish we could say it unironically :(
Some of the players weren't even born :)))
Doesn't it just make you feel old?
I'm 35,so...
VOLTRONUS I remember when WoW was released in Sweden, I didn't play it myself until TBC though, but man was that good times :)
I'm 24 now, I was 13 then.
I wasn't
+VOLTRONUS Well, i was 9 years old when this trailer comes out, and at 2005 first time i played, i got surprised by the potential of the game really, awesome!!
Back when trailers actually showed gameplay, not a fancy and overtuned movie-trailer. Those were better times.
Duskwood forest used to be so dark, you could only go there with a torch...
lol, for real!
slampog
I mean it. They tried that in the Beta. Scrapped that though.
oh man i think i remember that, i was scared shitless when i accidentally wandered there as a kid with my new human character. If i remember correctly i actually got lost there at some point lol
uneliasmarsu
It was in the closed Beta.... I don't know if you had access. It was nevertheless still pretty dark... Until Cataclysm.
*****
There was a whole system for carrying torches and stuff, and while they make the game easier to understand currently, I don't think there will be much of it in the game... But maybe in the future...
I remember this one kid in the high school computer lab saying "Yeah! Starcraft Ghost is going to be amazing! World of Warcraft looks like ass, its gonna suck!"
I love how you can clearly recognize each zone, simply by color and feel.
I remember watching this 10 times over and screen shotting plus printing them out to gaze on them before going to school .... I had never seen anything like this. Kinda wierd to sit here so many years later and ... like its a wierd dream time... time is wierd...
How do you feel about the song?
Dude I thought I was crazy for printing WoW screenshots! I used to think Onyxia was the coolest dragon ever and printed a bunch of screenshots of her at school since I didn't have a printer at home. I was printing these along with Happy Tree Friends images and I'd stick the prints to my bedroom wall. The teachers were not amused. 😆
...I should get myself a Onyxia poster for nostagia's sake.
You were both crazy
I spent half of my life on that game
“*Times Change*”
-Garrosh
Im glad the average warrior experience at 1:20 didnt change between 2001 and 2004
I cried.
pshero The Warcraft franchise is a beautiful thing :)
look who's here lmao
+pshero IM YOUR #1 SUB! Jblacks1000rr
+pshero oh wow, it's the wannabe homeless man,hello
I'am with you man /hug
finally a real expansion.. just the upgrade we needed after shadowlands
Original WoW developers in Blizzard poured their heart and soul into....
sad to see it become a corporate whore under activision...
Corporate whore under Microsoft.
@@NorthHollywood Microsoft just acquired them, has nothing to do with it
2:10 that human hair floating and its 2001.
1:35 = Attack! For the Horde!
1:38 = Miss Miss :(
+Hoshpakk LMAO
for the horde isnt a good war shout xD
kek.
'For the Horde!'
Pah... "Lok'tar Ogar!" is a much better Horde war cry.
Not after Broken Shore it is.
I miss how this game use to be a actual struggle to find things and level I played at launch and it's not the same never will be
Those days of wonder are over man. Too much information now
Well you can still play like that, just uninstall all add ons and read the quest text instead! But we are a bit spoiled with the information available
The Warcraft 3 sound effects are super nostalgic.
When trailers were made in windows movie maker but the games were golden, now they're made in hollywood like quality and the games are dogshit.
People nowaday considers that a good game is one with impressive graphics and a good story. Basically they prefer to watch an interactive movie than enjoyable game. People requesting story mode for elden ring says all.
Works of Warcraft was one of a kind. Loved the feeling of the early 2000’s feeling of living in a game for the first time
I am pretty sure that even Blizzard could not predicted that this game will become a massive success that have survived for almost 20 years (even if it is not as popular at it was during the last half of the first decade of the century)
Alpha WoW was amazing, they totally ruinedit with vanilla... gg Bliz
***** Goldshire looked so much better @ 1:20 !
And so much bigger. The reason why they did such a massive crunch on the scale was for a good reason. I don't care how good it looks, if I'm going to run through that multiple times back and looking for my questgiver, that's going to get old real fast.
Alpha WoW was goofy as fuck.
ElectroMonkey WoW was better on paper they totally ruined it with Alpha
ElectroMonkey WoW on thought was amazing they totally ruined it with writing down on paper.
The thing about it that people seem to be missing is that the game has lost it's sense of what it was. Warcraft was an awesome universe, and yes I'd say that it even rivaled Tolkien in it's awesomeness. It lost it's DNA -- it's 'warcrafty-ness' which made the game so awesome. The game was very authentic back in the day and was what it was, it didn't cater to the masses!! Vanilla WoW did such a good job at immersing you in it's universe, and it was an awesome one!! I think one thing that really messed it up was flying mounts!!
+Rusticfucker it didn't lose anything, it's just your nostalgia blinding you. If Vanilla was released today it would fail. Hard.
+Solaxe S
It has lost it's sense of accomplishment. And the world does not seem to draw you in the same way as vanilla does. Getting epic mount was a big fucking deal you'd be happy about for days back then. Getting ANYTHING in wow now, hardly makes you smile. There's nothing special, cus it's too easy to get ( even rare mounts etc). Vanilla there was ALWAYS chatting in general/guild/random players u meet. You had to socialise to complete qs and you had to work TOGETHER. Vanilla private realm has opened this year, called Nostalrius - and i promise you i'm never going back to retail. the Community is awesome and i feel drawn to the world again.
+Solaxe S You're completely right. Mass releasing Vanilla WoW would flop as it wouldn't near even 1mil players. However, release a brand new game with better engine, combat, and the difficulty of vanilla, and it would be a massive success. While vanilla wasn't even that difficult, it was the sense of difficulty, the fact that a level 2 wolf could kick your ass was incentive to be careful. All vanilla players truly want is a sense of true danger again.
Looks better than shadowlands
You here too in 2021
looks better than FFXIV
@@lookas541 Exactly, at least not shit for weebs
@@Keksimus ffxiv looks waay better than wow man stop being so trash fanboy
Sad but true
I remember when I watched this back im the day. I was wondering if my PC could run that using my 56K modem
I think they reduced the quality between the pre alpha and the beta.
What is absolutely crazy to me is that from the announcement in 2001 to the upload of this video, merely 6 years have passed.
But from the upload of this video TO NOW ALMOST 16 YEARS HAVE PASSED WTF
Yeah ... time flies fast bro ....
Some of us are not even alive anymore ...
My friend recently died and he was 18 ... just a week ago, he was just a boy ....
May his soul rest in piece within God's grace
So painful.
Time goes bro, love your family, love your friends. God be with us all.
Back then, little did Blizzard know that this would go on to become the highest grossing video game of all time...
Jeffrey de Kogel until cataclysm came out , and the game went down the hill tutuTUUUUUUUU!!!
I miss the days off getting lost in Silverpine Forest & having to ask someone to help me get back to Brill.
Press M
A true masterpiece of an MMO, and an unforgettable experience.
You can see how much WoW has grown by just watching this. The graphics, the gameplay, and the lore. The lore has a life of it's own. It's amazing to see how far it's all come. Sure there have been ups and downs but the game is still very much alive.
If you were to travel back in time and show Blizzard the trailer for Warlords of Draenor and all the things that are happening at this very moment, they'd all be awestruck knowing that they made all of it. And it truly is amazing compared to this.
Fun Fact: The animation on the rigs that allows your character to turn around and look straight at whatever you have selected existed since 2001 as you can clearly see at the end with the guy looking up at the ent, but we did not get that till Legion in 2017 LOL
@@user-wb9rq5nn2e nah the character head moving to look at what you’re targeting was added in legion
@@user-wb9rq5nn2e yea it was legion or BFA when they added it. It was a nice little touch
lol the warrior missed twice in a row then it cut off lmao
hard to believe... its been almost 15 years...
20 now
2:02 a footman casting purge... alright :D
i lol'd at it aswell haha
Was probably a scroll spell that did dmg to summoned creatures as in WC3.
lol..
Seing this you can clearly see how much they were using from their old Wc3 engine
It's like Warcraft 3 and Everquest combined together haha
2 Swings: misses
Seems pretty accurate for Classic.
Why’s it look better then, then now…
Little did Blizzard knew, 14 years later, its the biggest and most played MMORPG in all RPG's
+gavin brown That's right!
+gavin brown Hardly, other games are getting past WoW soon, many leaving cuz Activison wants money and doesn't care about what gamers want. Wotlk was the last good expansion.
Roberts K True that Wrath = the best expansion, But what about legion coming out, it may destroy wrath?
+gavin brown nope, no way. Legion can be better than WoD but *NO HUMANLY POSSIBLE* way that it will be better than WotLK, I mean...it's Arthas that we're talking about and Northrend was the most beautiful thing Blizzard ever created....just remember those zones
Chris Toromanović Vanilla is by far the best time of WoW, but best expansion, it is WotLK for me, no other exp had me hooked like that, the music, the zones, the quests, dungeons, raids, everything was perfect for me in WotLK and the fact I love winter and icy zones :D
Reminds me of when Blizzard weren't a mega-corporation, as in better.
you mean when they didnt make money? So i guess what ever you do, when you become successful at it, you want us to hate you to? Things change. The casual player owns the field now. People need to get over it, there is still hardcore content. Like hardcore SOO that most that yells no hardcore game play in wow cant do lol.
James E Hudson
No, I mean the inevitable complacency and exploitation of having monopoly. Just look at how long Blizzard go without adding new content - because they don't have to bother, there's no competition so they can get away with it.
William Fenton lol u r really funny
***** No he does not. They are making a Starcraft Expansion, A WOW expansion, a hearthstone one was just finished and they are in the middle of making a MOBA he does not have a point.
TWINxDiamonds No, he does have a point. When he said "Just look at how long Blizzard can go without adding new content," he is referring to WoW, which is currently going through the biggest gap between content in WoW history. The last major patch was released a little over a year ago. 1 year and nothing new besides minor additions and fixes. This is because they came out and said they will be pumping yearly expansions now, so that means less work on the content in this expansion, more work into the next one. And they don't care about losing subs currently, because they know they will make more money in the end when people buy the new expansion and resub to WoW. This is the mentality of corporate Activison (who merged with Blizzard). "Activision has now expanded the game's development team to accelerate content delivery, which includes expansions." I saw this line in an article and immediately knew that most of that accelerated content delivery would be going into expansions.
But you said it yourself; they are pumping out so many expansions and new games. Just as William Fenton said, they have grown into a mega corporate enterprise and as such now think like one. "How can we rake in the most amount of money" has become the #1 goal putting "How can we deliver the best games possible to our fans" in the backseat. I noticed this change in their philosophy when they started to introduce changes all throughout Cata to make the game more casual. If they make the game easy, the game becomes accessible to more people, more subs. From a business standpoint, it entirely makes sense. But it challenges the integrity of their original vision for the game. But hey, things change and there's not necessarily anything wrong with that. I have gotten older and as such haven't had as much time to play the game, so I welcome the change.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not trying to hit them with the "evil, money grubbing corporation line." I'm merely calling it for how it is. I'm just saying they aren't that little game studio with a vision that they once were. They're able to cut corners, displease fans, and get away with it because they know they can. They know very well where they stand in the industry.
wow I remember watching this when I was a kid, this trailer was on the disc of diablo 2 or Warcraft 3, I dont remember which game, but I was very excited watching this
History in the making....
how far we've come
Now if they released Wow : Alpha classic
Right. With paid boosts and retail lizard mounts
It’d be really fun
They only had 1.12 patch data everything else was lost
you think you do, but you dont
I still remember how hyped I was seeing this for the first time. The music is so good. The bird flying through the trees at 0:53. Those little touches that give a game life and create immersion are so important and lost on so many developers.
This hits me right in the feels.... im currently 17, and world of warcraft was my first gaming experience (except pokemon)... i grew up with this game :(
I can't believe your parents would let their 7 year old son play WoW
Rebecca Wolf because of... oh yeah, all the cartoon violence.... also, you must be a troll with that south park image.
***** and what exactly did that actually do to me? i might have been addictet do it for a set period of time, but i was under age, meaning i couldnt just play it all day because i had parretns you dimwit.
And when i got older (now) i got bored with the game. What you people fail to see, is that putting a bar for a small kid, makes the kid want to cross that bar... so stop putting ridicioules unnecessary bars.
***** And might i add.... that i could speak proper english at the age of 10 (im Danish) and i could write proper english when i was 8.
If you ask me, gaming has done a LOT more good then bad to me, and that is what stupid grown ups from previous generations don't get. They just put games as a "bad thing" for kids, even though it is exactly the same as playing with say, lego when said grown ups were kids.
***** trust me. If this message was actually important for me to look completely right, it would look right. I did get top grades in spelling (english).
It's cool how a lot has changed, but the ghouls and gnolls look exactly the same. After watching the Warlords of Draenor trailer, I kind of want to install Warcraft III.
I actually love the look of this, shame they didn't keep some of the original UI and graphics in the initial release.
How all other MMOs looked when WoW released
Every time I get goosebumps from this Ent
I love how dark the night was 1:05
WoW will never feel new and exciting again. No other MMO will ever capture the same feeling of mystery and exploration that early WoW had despite being a terrible game from the gameplay perspective. Everything is datamined these days and public beta is a thing.
No one will ever risk pumping millions into an MMO that isn't overly streamlined. The average attention span of a modern player does not allow for that.
Think about it and when you are done, feel free to weep a little. It's ok. Twas the golden age of the MMO genre.
Very true. But there will always be something else for the next generation to look forward to. Or one can hope there will be. I haven't played the game for 3 years now and just watched this. Brings back so many lovely memories from my childhood. It was amazing to take part in the world of warcraft.
I started playing wow last year and it's still pretty exciting.
WoW mechanics were very similar to the game that was released before Wow called everquest.
Wow felt new to you because you were one of the casual waves who experienced their first MMO that was not Tibia or Runescape. But yeah, Wow had its own charm and it was awesome but the game mechanics itself were casual and not revolutionizing at all.
*****
There, there. Take a deep breath. Your misplaced anger seem to impede your reading comprehension.
Eh... Needs more Maplestory before there was max levels ;3 Sooooo many irl friends made through that game didn't even know how to manage my time o.o or my texting overage xD
Loved your 16 second intro!
i hella remember seeing this in 1994 and playing wow in 1995
Ok 100% logic thee
+xXDragonKingXx there*
+xXDragonKingXx ha noob
meh i've been playing since vanilla days and tbh the thing i miss about vanilla isnt the gameplay but the actual community, because everything was so hard to get people had to work together to reach goals, i think retail wow would go back to that state if they removed the queue systems cross realm. why? because a realm should be a community, its what makes the game social, also remove LFR and LFG and flying mounts, people would bitch about it like crazy but in the end it will be for the better imo. i'm pretty sure people miss vanilla not because it was good/bad but more for the actual social aspect, dont get me wrong, wow is social right now but it is far from what it used to be
I wanna play this old version :D
JWille Series less than a day
Wow, I never thought I'd see actual alpha stage gameplay, thanks!
that was a extra good video! I liked it!.
Has this come out yet?
Nah was a kickstarter scam smh
Even Vanilla looks polished af compred to this
Listening to the music takes me back so much
ok, i cried a litttle, brought back memories from when i was 17½
Between this point and release, Tauren got Plainswalking and lost Plainswalking
And lostcit so late in development that it was in late beta builds. It also shows in how idiotic of a mount kodos are animation wise, having no business being event remotely as fast, and being spedup like 400% compared to their npc equivalents
And then Worgen got plainswalking.
WOW this brings back feels.
Love that the put a bit of this music in the BFA trailer :D
20 years ago damn. I was 11 now I'm married and have 2 kids :')
I hate to say this, but these old models look better than current. I mean. the hair animation for the human at the end of the trailer. I like that.
Then again I have no right to complain as newer models -might- be dropping with WoD, or they won't and it'll be another Dance Studio.
nerd
I actually remember being super hyped for this trailer. Time flies.
Looks amazing, can't wait till it comes out.
teehee
I bet this game will be epic and and nothing can ruin it
Missing link between Warcraft & World of Warcraft
Amazing that so much of the shown trailer actually made it into the game. We see Westfall, Stranglethorn Vale, Elwynn Forest and Duskwood, which means that Blizzard was already well on their way making a large part of the Eastern Kingdoms continent. And the music (A Call to Arms by Jason Hayes) is almost exactly the one used in the final game.
The music is wonderful.
wow! :) this is so nostalgic, i was 7 years old when i watche this for the first time, i still remember every single second.
damn.. those ghoul models were already that old
Looks better than Shadowlands
I remember seeing this in the Frozen Throne line of cinematics and didn't think it would be for me. Whew boy.
I remember when i saw this through one of the wc3 menu and i was hyped.
Pretty sure even this version would be more enjoyable than BFA and Shadowlands together
Go play classic crybaby.
@@StarInbound is he wrong though bfa and shadowlans suck ass
@@HoneylandUSA Well it's a matter of perspective. Gameplay wise I've found every expansion enjoyable. Storywise, it's hit or miss with me.
@@StarInbound if it matters on perspective why'd you insult him
@@HoneylandUSA Because I can. You got a problem with that?
Something oddly nostalgic about seeing this.
Although I was only six years old when this trailer came out. The Nostalgia is so real. Playing since 2005
Action packed, just wow.
from this to the cinematics we have now. insane.
zimThuet I meant trailer-wise.
Hell, the cinematic trailers we got in 2004 were way prettier than the sketchy comic book style we get now in 2016.
zimThuet I'm specifically talking about THIS trailer. As in the one I wrote this comment on.
that is the stupidest thing that I found here.
when people dont understand ur comment
This seems more like a player-created video clip then a trailer of a game....
It is 2021 and I got this in my recommendations 13 years later
I hope for a classic version of this to be released.
if this was in 2001 when was wc3 released?
2002
***** Oh, when I look back now,
That summer seemed to last forever
Alphamabetical 1996
+Big Daddy Delta 1994. the expansion was released in '96
wc3 is in 2002 and 2003
I remember it was so exciting to see the Warcraft universe with good graphics.
Can't wait for it to come out
Elwynn Forest looks soo cool. I wish it looked more like that now.
2001.....that time I was busy collecting Pokémon cards...
2021 and the ghoul/gnoll models still haven’t changed lol
Ghouls have changed. Changed during legion.
OMG I remember this. I was 14 when wow came out. best Christmas present ever.
One thing I really want from this trailer is the idle stances. They are actually idle not so stiff as to what we have today
I want to play as a Gnoll
FIRESTORM WOW: GUESS WE HAVE A IDEA FOR NEW REALM
the way they run is awsome
World of Warcraft 2 is looking really good. Can't wait.
RIP to all the gamers who died in 2001 on 9/11 and never got to play this masterpiece :(
A big total of 0 people were gamers in that tower
Such trailer, very wow.
Cant wait for this to come out
Stfu they lost the data
a fascinating trailer
Dat UI though...