In game cutscenes get really good around warlords of draenor expansion and beyond c: aalso I would advise watching the artsy cinematics. Namely, warlods, harbringers, and warbringers
Battle of Azeroth cinematic is my personal favourite. Even watching it now still gives me the spine tingling sensation when Sylvannas turns into a Banshee and yells ‘FOR THE HORDE’.
The first cinematic is actually is 20 years old. In Battle For Azeroth cinematic the elf lady is an undead so shes in the horde and she technically was a high elf instead of Night Elves are different breed of elfs on the alliance.
All elves are descendant from Trolls > night elves > high elves/nightborne > blood elves/void elves. Trolls/Nightborne/Blood Elves are Horde, where Night Elves/High Elves/Void Elves are Alliance Sylvanas was a High Elf Ranger that was killed then turned into an undead Banshee Sylvanas became the leader of the undead after freeing most of them of their masters control and giving them free will Undead are part of the Horde
"Saurfang's Mak'gora" is a good compilation of the major cinematics of Battle for Azeroth and might give more context to Anduin's changes. Between Legion, BFA, and Shadowlands, the young prince has been forced to grow up very fast.
One of the few things you can still count on today from Blizzard. The art style, soundtrack and cinematic teams havn't disapointed a single time. Would be nice if that could be said about the other aspects of their games in the last few years
Here's list of cinematics in chronological order if you need (Battle for Azeroth is only one that had several complete cinematics): World of Warcraft 2004 The Burning Crusade Wrath of the Lich-King Cataclysm Mists of Pandaria Warlords of Draenor Legion Battle for Azeroth - Old Soldier Battle for Azeroth - main Battle for Azeroth - Lost Honor Battle for Azeroth - Safe Haven Battle for Azeroth - Reckoning Shadowlands (+Beyond the Veil cinematic) Dragonflight (+Lauch cinematic) The War Within (+Date announcement cinematic) Also, ingame pre-rendered cinematics got good after Pandaria and Draenor so you may watch these too if you get interested in the story: Mists of Pandaria - Patch 5.4: Siege of Orgrimmar Siege of Orgrimmar final cinematic Thrall vs Garrosh cinematic The Broken Shore Nighthold finale Rejection of the gift Raising a King cinematic The Negotiation Shadowlands features trailer (helpful to understand what's goin on) Kingsmourne Anduin Raid finale (There are many other cool ones but those are best for person who's not into story yet)
This game is a large part of my life, has been since I was a kid. Really enjoyed your video. It's nice getting to see other people enjoy what I enjoy so much.
Its always very nice to see someone appreciating the game you've spend so many years into, especially cinematic art of WoW, which is carrying the entire company on its shoulders
I’m not sure if you caught it, but the guy in the last trailer (anduin) is the same guy that calls down the light in the battle for Azeroth trailer. The last one is the next expansion and battle for Azeroth is a few expansions ago. The orc with the nice voice in the last one is voiced by Chris Metzen who also voiced Varian Wrynn (Anduin’s dad). The ‘my son’ in the trailer is Varian. Edit - it releases in August.
still get goosebumps watching the original first trailer. Man do I wish to be able to return to that moment, when everything was still new and exciting about the game.
I don't know why, since I'm a diehard Horde player, I STILL find that moment in the War Within trailer where the ghostly hand of Anduyn's father on his shoulder brings tears to my eyes. In a way, it's like a mirror of the final cutscene in Wrath of the Lich King when you finish the raid.
the human in the final trailer, anduin, was the same guy from the trailer before, the one with the divine light power at the end there, not sure if you noticed that
The final cinematic features Anduin who is the young king in the lion's mask in the BFA cinematic. Since then, he's gone from a young boy who lost his father in Legion to a semi-broken and jaded king after what he's witnessed and endured. It's been interesting to see his character grow over the expansions/years. I am curious to see how he develops in the next 3 expansions.
this was fun to watch from your perspective! the first video made me & my 20 year toons tear up lol!! the music in all expansions never fails! nice commentary!
I have yet to see someone find a list of all actual cinematics available, but if you find what you can, especially in-game and in order, you'd get the opportunity to follow the story pretty well. The later expansions especially. The first you'll find in game are from Wrath of the Lich King, they start to really pick up in Pandaria, and are now included quite often. I've played the game since vanilla, it's always fun to watch someone explore the lore/game that I love.
Welcome to the Warcraft universe and Azeroth (the planet/plane)! I don't plan to provide spoilers, but I will share some of the basics with you. The base/core races were Night Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, and Humans for the Alliance; Undead/Forsaken (the dead warlock), Tauren (minotaur), Trolls, and Orcs were for the Horde. At the next expansion, Blood Elves and Draenei were added. Blood Elves joined the Forsaken after many events in Warcraft 2 and 3 and the D,raenei or "space goats" as many call them joined with the Alliance. Fast forward to the Battle for Azeroth trailer and you see the narrator Sylvanas The Dark Lady Queen of the undead, who is the Banshee Queen. She was a Blood Elf until Arthas (Warcraft 3) took her soul when he killed her and rezzed her as a banshee along with her rangers. You can see the rangers on the top of the wall (Keep firing!) along with the Forsaken and others of the Horde. She is the best archer in Azeroth and my favorite NPC. After she behaved BADLY she and others of the Horde had to protect her home city which lays under the ruins there. The Alliance laid seige to it led by the boy-king (Mr. Baby face there) Anduin. He was one of the most powerful priests in Azeroth and you can see his mass rez of his army there. Sylanas did not turn on her Horde there in that cinematic; she was leading them. For the last cinematic, we see a broken Anduin after the events of the 2 expansions between BfA (Battle for Azeroth) and the upcoming War With (TWW) that drops 8-26-2024. He's wandering, lost mentally trying to get his pieces of his soul/heart back together. The orc you see there that comes to him was the GOAT Troll named Thrall. If you've played Warcraft 3, he's one of the two characters you can play as there. He's a shaman that's been through hell himself. From the beginning, he's been voiced by Chris Metzen one of the creators of WoW and that's his voice that you comment on. The sword? Well, the meme goes "What sword?" It's been driven into a desert in Azeroth and hopefully we learn more about it in this expac. Hope you enjoy you trip--we fans are VERY ENTHUSIATIC about our game!
No they 100% did not. That was the whole point, and they said it like 20 times. They said that they did not use SGI on top of real actors (motion capture). It is 100% SGI, which is a lot harder.
The confusion with Sylvanas. 🤣🤣🤣 Our Banshee Queen! I've played long enough that for some reason, I view Thrall as THE Warchief, no matter who else held the title. Lol.
There is a cinematic of sorts that took place during the Shadowlands expansion that helps to explain the character of Sylvanas. It's called "Shattered Legacies". If you are interested in understanding her character and how she "fell", then that would be one to check out. Not as flashy as the ones you sampled, but more lore-driven.
The last one the Orc Thrall, is my favorite character in Warcraft and has been for 30 years the voice of Thrall is actually one of the founders of Blizzard Chris Metzen and many of us see him as the savior of Blizzard and bringing WoW back to the right path.
Great video! I never noticed that Anduin (The Alliance King of Stormwind, he is wearing lion helm) has the same hairstyle as his father Varian Wyrnn! Varian was killed in the previous expansion.
Yes, graphics have increased since the original cinematic release in November 2004. But the best WoW cinematic in my opinion is : "Patrick that's the Ashbringer" (The soundtrack is the best soundtrack of nearly 20 years of world of warcraft and really shines.)
Oh how I would love to sit down with someone who was interested in knowing the lore of the Warcraft Universe. No matter how you view the game and the direction it has gone the lore is rich and marvelous. Oh and what sword? 😉
If you wanta be in for an experience, i recommend finding the chronological order the expansions were launched in, then watch all CG Videos in order then watch all of the ingame cinematics in order! See the evolution of WoWs story telling!
This game got me hooked for 5 straight years and I keep coming back when an expension is highly regarded. Last one, Dragonflight, got me for 3 months. Usualy i just level 2 or 3 characters to top level, do the regular instances and stop but Dragonflight was good, i did raid and everything. I hope the next one will be good too because i still love this game. Too bad pvp is kind of "dead", it take way too much time to get in a fight because of the matching system with rank and everything. Still an awesome game, if you like gaming, you have to give it a try and take all the time you need to progress. For my first lvl 60 character, vanilla, it took me hundreds of hours the get there, it's much easier now and perfect for a newcomer.
Pandaren Monks, at least during Mists of Pandaria, were the funnest race/class to play, ever. Remember the hours of fun playing a WW Monk, all the punches, the kicks, the backflip kicks, all performed by a chubby panda girl was always hilarious. But so addictively fun! Sadly, the expansion that came after this heavily nerfed monks and made them not fun anymore... but that's how it always is with a class introduced by an expansion.. they always nerf the frick out of it the expansion after.
u need to watch em all from the start to the end atm and aslso if ure into the lore theres a ton of ingame cinematicts to watch¨ panda is awsome i main a restoration shaman panda and i love it!¨
Sylvannas Windrunner, former Ranger General of the High Elves of Silvermoon, now known as the "Blood Elves", "Banshee Queen" of the Scourge and ruler of Lorderaen, and the LAST appointed Warchief of the Horde.
As others have said the Lich King is probably the best cinematic from "OG" wow On another note, regardless of what people's opinion on the game is now, one thing that has almost always stayed consistent is the amazing high quality of their launch cinematics. They have managed to hype up expansions that went on to bomb with the player base and made people salty and want to quit the game...then the next expansion movie comes and people just forget all that and love the game again....till the cycle repeats and after 20 years, it's repeated a lot haha
In the Battle for Azeroth Trailer I think you mistaken Sylvanas as being with the Alliance. She is undead banshee who basically wears her own body as a skin suite. She leads other undead humans and elves that were no longer accepted by the Aliance after they became undead and they ended up joining the Horde
if the last warcraft was warcraft 2, you realy missed quite a lot. even to the point, that you don't recognize most of the races. so Tauren (the beastmen) and Nightelves (the purple elves) are from Kalimdor. An entire Kontinent, that was introduced during WC3. same with most of the important Chars. Sylvannas (the Darkelf Lady on horde Side) was a former Highelf but was turned into an undead and enslaved by Arthas, a Deathknight and former prince of Lordaron. Eventually the grip of his Control vanished and Sylvannas, along with some other undead where able to regain control of themselves. most of those undead where former citicens of the now destoryed Lordaron and they founded a new City in the ruins of old Lordaron, naming themselves "the forsaken" with Sylvannas as their leader. however the alliance didn't want to have anything to do with undead, even if most of them where former friends and family. instead the Horde took them in. That is why we see Sylvannas fighting on the side of the Horde. The City was later attacked as seen in the trailer. another thing is, that many chars age during the expansion. Anduin, the Guy you see in the last trailer is the same guy, who you saw at the siege of Lordaron in "battle for azeroth", just ofc much younger. in the first version of WOW, anduin was just a child as the prince of Stormwind where you can see him standing in Stormwind Castle about other trailers, there are still many. unfortionalty, without some knowledge of WC3, you will prob not recognize the featured chars. in chronological order: the burning crusade, feasturing Illidan, a Nightelf turned demon wtraith of the lich king, faturing Arthas as mentioned above Cataclism, featuring deathwing. actucally a Name you should know form WC2 warlords of dreanor, featuring guldan. could have also been around during WC2 but not sure Legion, featuring Vaian, Anduins father and also Sylvannas again
wrath of the lich king, shadowlands, warlords of dreanor all epic cinematics. You might also try league of legends seasonal cinematics, its a huge rabbithole with epic stuff.
Blizzard have lost their touch with making games, but their cinematic guys are always on their A game :D whether it is Overwatch, WoW, Diablo or anything else, the cinematic guys will absolutely ace it :)
I would have recommended watching the trailers in order to see the quality ramp up and the storyline intact. It gives you better perspective in who the characters are and what all is happening. Also, you missed the best trailer WoW ever made: The Wrath of the Lich King.
Sorry for my english. Could you react to all Diablo 3 cinematics? From all Blizzard cinematics i really like Diablo 3 the best. Incredible. Thanks for this reaction man!
Weird how all these people that have never seen WoW before are suddenly making videos within a month of each other? Weird. So low effort that he missed over half of the expansions and the most ICONIC ones at that.
oh you should definitly do yourself the favour and watch all the cinematics in order (would appriciate the reaction though, I love watching non-wow people react to my games cinematics). At the very LEAST you need to watch Wrath of the Litch King, and all the Battle for Azeroth cinematics including Old Soldier. If you like those you reacted to here, you'll love the rest.
bro, you have to watch the cinematics in chronological order or you won't understand anything. Also you have to watch the endings of the patches and raids cutscenes to get a better picture of why this guy is bad and why that guy is good.
aww man you dint even watch the 2 best one - Burning Crusade and Wrath Lich king are THE vids to watch, they are to this day best animated/story promo vids ever ;__;
Don't know you from Adam, but if I may suggest: Don't just grab 'randomly selected trailers'. Any fanbase will feel appalled at a perceived lack of respect. You obviously can tell by the sheer number of existing reactors towards said content, this is a well-established and worthy rabbit hole to explore for yourself & channel... show your audience a respectful path that goes from start to finish as it should. You're out nothing and garner extra videos and content for it. Food for thought. /shrug
'lack of respect to the fanbase' by selecting random media content instead of reacting to everything in a chronological order... That's some mental stuff
Theres no better example of cinematics being way cooler than the content they are based on. Blizzard games cinematics are basically just animated versions of 1980s-2000s video game box art. they would give a really sick looking cover to get you to buy the product then you go play it and it looks like a turd lol. that being said most people who fell in love with wow also learned to appreciate the art style. and going for an artistic style vs a realistic style for the game itself kind of ages better than a game that aims for realism when the graphical technology just wasnt there yet. But yea Blizzard and Square have always been pretty legendary for the cinematics.
There was a lot of cool stuff in Shadowlands but the big picture narrative never came together. That whole expansion was a victim of circumstances... lead narrative designer Afrasiabi fired for SA, the related investigations, lawsuit, and worker strikes, then covid shutdowns, and then poor design philosophy pushed on the team by Activision to force increased engagement. The game is in such a better state now. And Chris Metzen is back as creative director.
@@SuzakuX i agree 100%, i played pretty much through whole of it 3-4 years ago and i've been saying it for a while. Expasion that was doomed to everything else going on. Story wasnt told at all in the end, only hinting us in the end that Primus was behind literally everything, and carving domination runes on Zovaals body, just like Zovaal dominated anduin through armor runes.. Literally left as most unexplained expansion ever, and 70% of people trying to forget it ever happened, even if Blizzard said it will be very relevant in near future, as they will try to fix SL's image.
If the Warcraft lore interests you, and real time strategy is more your jam, I would highly recommend checking out Warcraft 3. Much of the future lore is built on the foundation that Warcraft 3 lays.
@@SolitarySaturn May I suggest budgeting time for more than a second video. There are hours and hours of cinematics and ingame cutscenes and some of us will watch reactions to all of them. If you do it expansion by expansion including the cutscenes the lore will be more understandable too.
Be very careful with world of warcraft. It's extremely addictive, and narratively is heavily sub par. You just keep playing because of the reinforcement rate. It feels very nice. FFXIV is much, much better, while keeping the outdated monetization scheme. ...If you like this trailers, you should look at the hearthstone trailers. Some of those were incredible. The good old days...
@@SolitarySaturn Warcraft isn't really all that narratively subpar, a lot of haters since the last expac wasn't received very well since they did the elf lady so badly. (TBF her character has been bad since Wrath in 2008 but no one will admit that) WoW is a very iffy game and some of the narrative happens in outside media (comics, etc)
FFXIV has a killer story but IMO it does almost everything else worse, including the core gameplay and QOL features. I think a lot of the people who migrated to FFXIV during SL realized that after they finished the Endwalker MSQ. Once you're done with the story, the rest of the game is kinda lacking. Now, if you could have the story (and I guess housing) of FFXIV with the gameplay and core systems of WoW, you'd really have something.
@@SuzakuX Alot of people don't seem to realize that YoshiP actually based XIV off of WotLK systems, and they never changed. I'm a huge FF fan, but WoW's narrative is a lot more engaging most of the time. XIV has it moments, but I feel like I actually get immersed in the Warcraft universe more.
Check out this updated WOW video as well for the trailers I missed: ruclips.net/video/oIGfWqlfpGk/видео.html
Sylvanas has been a banshee and leader of the Horde's undead since I think the expansion for Warcraft 3.
Wrath of the Lich King is the one you really needed to include here - the pinnacle of their "original" cinematics.
Ok might need a part 2 then
@@SolitarySaturn For part 2 I would recommend Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Shadowlands, and Dragonflight in that order.
Yeah really surprised that Wrath didn't make it into the first one. Who was feeding Saturn these!? lol
@@lockekappa500 Nobody which was likely the problem haha
Wrath of the Lich King cinematic is great, but it spoils warcraft3 quite a bit. Ideally you'd play through warcraft3 first, it's the bedrock of wow.
Would you like to see me react to the in game cinematics as well?
YES YES YES YES
100%
absolutley there are a ton of in game cinematics to watch:) 20 years of wow:)
In game cutscenes get really good around warlords of draenor expansion and beyond c: aalso I would advise watching the artsy cinematics. Namely, warlods, harbringers, and warbringers
please also check "World of Warcraft - Warbringers" series, you will asolutely love it
Battle of Azeroth cinematic is my personal favourite. Even watching it now still gives me the spine tingling sensation when Sylvannas turns into a Banshee and yells ‘FOR THE HORDE’.
when i watch these trailers i actually get goosebumps again... FOR THE HORDEEE!!!
Yessss
I've seen the BFA trailer well over 100 times. I still get emotional when she yells that (even with everything)
The first cinematic is actually is 20 years old. In Battle For Azeroth cinematic the elf lady is an undead so shes in the horde and she technically was a high elf instead of Night Elves are different breed of elfs on the alliance.
Wow! No pun intended. Thanks for the info and for checking out the video!
@@SolitarySaturn no we wow fans are about about the puns.
All elves are descendant from Trolls > night elves > high elves/nightborne > blood elves/void elves.
Trolls/Nightborne/Blood Elves are Horde, where Night Elves/High Elves/Void Elves are Alliance
Sylvanas was a High Elf Ranger that was killed then turned into an undead Banshee
Sylvanas became the leader of the undead after freeing most of them of their masters control and giving them free will
Undead are part of the Horde
i'm getting old 🙂
@@IgorEngelen1974 Tell me about it
"Saurfang's Mak'gora" is a good compilation of the major cinematics of Battle for Azeroth and might give more context to Anduin's changes. Between Legion, BFA, and Shadowlands, the young prince has been forced to grow up very fast.
Blizz has an insane CGI crew making these trailers.
One of the few things you can still count on today from Blizzard. The art style, soundtrack and cinematic teams havn't disapointed a single time. Would be nice if that could be said about the other aspects of their games in the last few years
That Sylvanus "For the horde" still makes my arm hair stand up years later
i allways get goosebumbs when sche screams for the horde
Long time player here. I’ve watched these cinematics dozens of times. They still give me goose bumps.
Here's list of cinematics in chronological order if you need (Battle for Azeroth is only one that had several complete cinematics):
World of Warcraft 2004
The Burning Crusade
Wrath of the Lich-King
Cataclysm
Mists of Pandaria
Warlords of Draenor
Legion
Battle for Azeroth - Old Soldier
Battle for Azeroth - main
Battle for Azeroth - Lost Honor
Battle for Azeroth - Safe Haven
Battle for Azeroth - Reckoning
Shadowlands (+Beyond the Veil cinematic)
Dragonflight (+Lauch cinematic)
The War Within (+Date announcement cinematic)
Also, ingame pre-rendered cinematics got good after Pandaria and Draenor so you may watch these too if you get interested in the story:
Mists of Pandaria - Patch 5.4: Siege of Orgrimmar
Siege of Orgrimmar final cinematic
Thrall vs Garrosh cinematic
The Broken Shore
Nighthold finale
Rejection of the gift
Raising a King cinematic
The Negotiation
Shadowlands features trailer (helpful to understand what's goin on)
Kingsmourne
Anduin Raid finale
(There are many other cool ones but those are best for person who's not into story yet)
Thank you this is really helpful!
I can't believe you left out The Wrath Gate, it was their first real in game cinematic. They created a tool just for it, that people still use.
@@shawnmorris906 forgot that Wrathgate and Fall of the Lich king got remastered and are watchable nowadays, sure.
This game is a large part of my life, has been since I was a kid. Really enjoyed your video. It's nice getting to see other people enjoy what I enjoy so much.
Appreciate you stopping by for the video!
I'm always overwhelmed when I watch the first cinamatic of wow 😭💗
Its always very nice to see someone appreciating the game you've spend so many years into, especially cinematic art of WoW, which is carrying the entire company on its shoulders
I’m not sure if you caught it, but the guy in the last trailer (anduin) is the same guy that calls down the light in the battle for Azeroth trailer. The last one is the next expansion and battle for Azeroth is a few expansions ago. The orc with the nice voice in the last one is voiced by Chris Metzen who also voiced Varian Wrynn (Anduin’s dad). The ‘my son’ in the trailer is Varian.
Edit - it releases in August.
Oh I didn't piece that together actually. Thanks!
still get goosebumps watching the original first trailer. Man do I wish to be able to return to that moment, when everything was still new and exciting about the game.
I don't know why, since I'm a diehard Horde player, I STILL find that moment in the War Within trailer where the ghostly hand of Anduyn's father on his shoulder brings tears to my eyes. In a way, it's like a mirror of the final cutscene in Wrath of the Lich King when you finish the raid.
the human in the final trailer, anduin, was the same guy from the trailer before, the one with the divine light power at the end there, not sure if you noticed that
For someone recalling information from Warcraft 3 all these years later you did a pretty good job with the lore lol
The final cinematic features Anduin who is the young king in the lion's mask in the BFA cinematic. Since then, he's gone from a young boy who lost his father in Legion to a semi-broken and jaded king after what he's witnessed and endured. It's been interesting to see his character grow over the expansions/years. I am curious to see how he develops in the next 3 expansions.
Fun fact; The VA voicing the elf lady in the azeroth trailer is the same one voicing Livia (the white armor lady in FFXIV).
this was fun to watch from your perspective! the first video made me & my 20 year toons tear up lol!! the music in all expansions never fails! nice commentary!
Anduin suffering from some heavy PTSD id say
I have yet to see someone find a list of all actual cinematics available, but if you find what you can, especially in-game and in order, you'd get the opportunity to follow the story pretty well. The later expansions especially. The first you'll find in game are from Wrath of the Lich King, they start to really pick up in Pandaria, and are now included quite often. I've played the game since vanilla, it's always fun to watch someone explore the lore/game that I love.
You should watch all the cinematics! There are full compilations on yt.
I would love to. I will add it to my list.
Welcome to the Warcraft universe and Azeroth (the planet/plane)! I don't plan to provide spoilers, but I will share some of the basics with you. The base/core races were Night Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, and Humans for the Alliance; Undead/Forsaken (the dead warlock), Tauren (minotaur), Trolls, and Orcs were for the Horde. At the next expansion, Blood Elves and Draenei were added. Blood Elves joined the Forsaken after many events in Warcraft 2 and 3 and the D,raenei or "space goats" as many call them joined with the Alliance.
Fast forward to the Battle for Azeroth trailer and you see the narrator Sylvanas The Dark Lady Queen of the undead, who is the Banshee Queen. She was a Blood Elf until Arthas (Warcraft 3) took her soul when he killed her and rezzed her as a banshee along with her rangers. You can see the rangers on the top of the wall (Keep firing!) along with the Forsaken and others of the Horde. She is the best archer in Azeroth and my favorite NPC. After she behaved BADLY she and others of the Horde had to protect her home city which lays under the ruins there. The Alliance laid seige to it led by the boy-king (Mr. Baby face there) Anduin. He was one of the most powerful priests in Azeroth and you can see his mass rez of his army there. Sylanas did not turn on her Horde there in that cinematic; she was leading them.
For the last cinematic, we see a broken Anduin after the events of the 2 expansions between BfA (Battle for Azeroth) and the upcoming War With (TWW) that drops 8-26-2024. He's wandering, lost mentally trying to get his pieces of his soul/heart back together. The orc you see there that comes to him was the GOAT Troll named Thrall. If you've played Warcraft 3, he's one of the two characters you can play as there. He's a shaman that's been through hell himself. From the beginning, he's been voiced by Chris Metzen one of the creators of WoW and that's his voice that you comment on. The sword? Well, the meme goes "What sword?" It's been driven into a desert in Azeroth and hopefully we learn more about it in this expac.
Hope you enjoy you trip--we fans are VERY ENTHUSIATIC about our game!
They actually used a real actor as reference for Anduin in The War Within cinematic
It looked amazing!
No they 100% did not. That was the whole point, and they said it like 20 times. They said that they did not use SGI on top of real actors (motion capture). It is 100% SGI, which is a lot harder.
awesome reaction thanks for getting the cinematic volume right. Great personality too
I appreciate that!
The confusion with Sylvanas. 🤣🤣🤣 Our Banshee Queen! I've played long enough that for some reason, I view Thrall as THE Warchief, no matter who else held the title. Lol.
There is a cinematic of sorts that took place during the Shadowlands expansion that helps to explain the character of Sylvanas. It's called "Shattered Legacies". If you are interested in understanding her character and how she "fell", then that would be one to check out. Not as flashy as the ones you sampled, but more lore-driven.
The last one the Orc Thrall, is my favorite character in Warcraft and has been for 30 years the voice of Thrall is actually one of the founders of Blizzard Chris Metzen and many of us see him as the savior of Blizzard and bringing WoW back to the right path.
That is so cool!
Man Battle for Azeroth still hits. It's too bad what they did to Sylvannas. I liked when she seemed to embrace the Warchief mantle in the trailer.
Great video! I never noticed that Anduin (The Alliance King of Stormwind, he is wearing lion helm) has the same hairstyle as his father Varian Wyrnn! Varian was killed in the previous expansion.
Thanks! Check out my most recent upload if you want to see my reaction to the rest of the trailers also. :)
Only 'first time' react I ever found credible, that's a sub!
Yes, graphics have increased since the original cinematic release in November 2004.
But the best WoW cinematic in my opinion is : "Patrick that's the Ashbringer"
(The soundtrack is the best soundtrack of nearly 20 years of world of warcraft and really shines.)
Oh how I would love to sit down with someone who was interested in knowing the lore of the Warcraft Universe. No matter how you view the game and the direction it has gone the lore is rich and marvelous.
Oh and what sword? 😉
There are 4 different reaces of elves, 2 are horde, 2 are alliance. The lady in the video is actually neither, she's undead.
In current WoW, the world is awakening and all we knew is coming undone
I've been playing since vanilla wow so almost 20 yrs I've been playing. I'm 42 now. Still play
Great reaction my guy! Really enjoyable after playing these games for 15 years on and off
Appreciate you! Plan to check out more of the trailers/cinematics as well, so stay tuned :)
@@SolitarySaturn i subscribed for this! :D
the Battle for Azeroth scene has Sylvannas, the Banshee Queen. She leads the Undead, who are a Horde race.
I just watched the other trailers in my newest video and learned a bit more about her which was cool!
If you wanta be in for an experience, i recommend finding the chronological order the expansions were launched in, then watch all CG Videos in order then watch all of the ingame cinematics in order! See the evolution of WoWs story telling!
It took like 20 years for tauren to finally get that kickass 2h totem weapon from the cinematic.
I’m just picturing this comment with the “It’s been 84 years” meme haha
The music is bangin'!!! Always has been!!
This game got me hooked for 5 straight years and I keep coming back when an expension is highly regarded. Last one, Dragonflight, got me for 3 months. Usualy i just level 2 or 3 characters to top level, do the regular instances and stop but Dragonflight was good, i did raid and everything. I hope the next one will be good too because i still love this game. Too bad pvp is kind of "dead", it take way too much time to get in a fight because of the matching system with rank and everything. Still an awesome game, if you like gaming, you have to give it a try and take all the time you need to progress. For my first lvl 60 character, vanilla, it took me hundreds of hours the get there, it's much easier now and perfect for a newcomer.
Pandaren Monks, at least during Mists of Pandaria, were the funnest race/class to play, ever. Remember the hours of fun playing a WW Monk, all the punches, the kicks, the backflip kicks, all performed by a chubby panda girl was always hilarious. But so addictively fun! Sadly, the expansion that came after this heavily nerfed monks and made them not fun anymore... but that's how it always is with a class introduced by an expansion.. they always nerf the frick out of it the expansion after.
I haven’t played WoW in a decade and this really made me twitchy. Makes me want to login and go exploring.
u need to watch em all from the start to the end atm and aslso if ure into the lore theres a ton of ingame cinematicts to watch¨
panda is awsome i main a restoration shaman panda and i love it!¨
Night elves and void elves are Alliance. Blood elves and Nighborne elves are Horde. There are a lot of elves to keep track of.
Sylvannas Windrunner, former Ranger General of the High Elves of Silvermoon, now known as the "Blood Elves", "Banshee Queen" of the Scourge and ruler of Lorderaen, and the LAST appointed Warchief of the Horde.
As others have said the Lich King is probably the best cinematic from "OG" wow
On another note, regardless of what people's opinion on the game is now, one thing that has almost always stayed consistent is the amazing high quality of their launch cinematics. They have managed to hype up expansions that went on to bomb with the player base and made people salty and want to quit the game...then the next expansion movie comes and people just forget all that and love the game again....till the cycle repeats and after 20 years, it's repeated a lot haha
im on lvling a restoration shaman panda atm and i love it
King's honor, friend.
In the Battle for Azeroth Trailer I think you mistaken Sylvanas as being with the Alliance. She is undead banshee who basically wears her own body as a skin suite. She leads other undead humans and elves that were no longer accepted by the Aliance after they became undead and they ended up joining the Horde
for the alliance and most of all FOR AZEROTH!!!
Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm are the best cinematics
Definitely should watch them in order in your free time!
"What sword?" 😂
The war within comes out August 24th or something so it's not out yet.
They will be releasing the pre-expansion content for The War Within on July 23, 2024.
"She did turn on us"
I MEAN
You're totally not wrong.....
Just..... context lol
Shadowlands ;-)
if the last warcraft was warcraft 2, you realy missed quite a lot. even to the point, that you don't recognize most of the races. so Tauren (the beastmen) and Nightelves (the purple elves) are from Kalimdor. An entire Kontinent, that was introduced during WC3.
same with most of the important Chars. Sylvannas (the Darkelf Lady on horde Side) was a former Highelf but was turned into an undead and enslaved by Arthas, a Deathknight and former prince of Lordaron. Eventually the grip of his Control vanished and Sylvannas, along with some other undead where able to regain control of themselves. most of those undead where former citicens of the now destoryed Lordaron and they founded a new City in the ruins of old Lordaron, naming themselves "the forsaken" with Sylvannas as their leader. however the alliance didn't want to have anything to do with undead, even if most of them where former friends and family. instead the Horde took them in. That is why we see Sylvannas fighting on the side of the Horde. The City was later attacked as seen in the trailer.
another thing is, that many chars age during the expansion. Anduin, the Guy you see in the last trailer is the same guy, who you saw at the siege of Lordaron in "battle for azeroth", just ofc much younger. in the first version of WOW, anduin was just a child as the prince of Stormwind where you can see him standing in Stormwind Castle
about other trailers, there are still many. unfortionalty, without some knowledge of WC3, you will prob not recognize the featured chars. in chronological order:
the burning crusade, feasturing Illidan, a Nightelf turned demon
wtraith of the lich king, faturing Arthas as mentioned above
Cataclism, featuring deathwing. actucally a Name you should know form WC2
warlords of dreanor, featuring guldan. could have also been around during WC2 but not sure
Legion, featuring Vaian, Anduins father and also Sylvannas again
Sylvanas the banshee queen 💗 and Duratan are by far my fave boss'
wrath of the lich king, shadowlands, warlords of dreanor all epic cinematics. You might also try league of legends seasonal cinematics, its a huge rabbithole with epic stuff.
Bro says he knows NOTHING about World of Warcraft and then immediately references Warcraft III - Yea alright
Blizzard have lost their touch with making games, but their cinematic guys are always on their A game :D
whether it is Overwatch, WoW, Diablo or anything else, the cinematic guys will absolutely ace it :)
Really wish you'd watched them all in release order.
Yeah my bad. I may create another video where I watch them all and just include these reactions in it.
I would have recommended watching the trailers in order to see the quality ramp up and the storyline intact. It gives you better perspective in who the characters are and what all is happening.
Also, you missed the best trailer WoW ever made: The Wrath of the Lich King.
You missed out on watching the best Cinematic Blizzard ever made for WoW was the Wrath of the Lich King intro cinematic... such a shame...
Check out my most recent upload. I fixed this. :)
Sorry for my english. Could you react to all Diablo 3 cinematics? From all Blizzard cinematics i really like Diablo 3 the best. Incredible.
Thanks for this reaction man!
The evil wizard is a warlock ahahah
What sword?
Couldn’t care less about the game anymore, but the cinematics are always fire
the first trailer was the best....
No, she did not turn on them. She was undead and is the leader of the horde lol
Weird how all these people that have never seen WoW before are suddenly making videos within a month of each other? Weird. So low effort that he missed over half of the expansions and the most ICONIC ones at that.
Time to start playing wow! Join us 😂
Would love to have you join us in game!
oh you should definitly do yourself the favour and watch all the cinematics in order (would appriciate the reaction though, I love watching non-wow people react to my games cinematics). At the very LEAST you need to watch Wrath of the Litch King, and all the Battle for Azeroth cinematics including Old Soldier. If you like those you reacted to here, you'll love the rest.
Yeah I for sure will check the rest out in another video. Stay tuned :)
For the Horde!
Without Wrath of the lich king this reaction video doesn’t count😂
Hopefully I have now corrected this in my most recent upload. Check it out! :)
bro, you have to watch the cinematics in chronological order or you won't understand anything.
Also you have to watch the endings of the patches and raids cutscenes to get a better picture of why
this guy is bad and why that guy is good.
I corrected this in a more recent video if you want to see the ones I missed on this video. I also plan to check out more. Thanks!
aww man you dint even watch the 2 best one - Burning Crusade and Wrath Lich king are THE vids to watch, they are to this day best animated/story promo vids ever ;__;
Asmongold has entered the building
Do overwatch cinematic reactions you'll love them
14????? This game has been around for 19 years.....
Yeah my bad. I was looking at the video upload date.
@@SolitarySaturn Enjoy the cut scenes..... wow does a great job with them, even when the game or story has issues.
😂😂😂😂 what is that thing (Tauren)
please dragonflight ;)
Check out my newest upload :)
Don't know you from Adam, but if I may suggest: Don't just grab 'randomly selected trailers'. Any fanbase will feel appalled at a perceived lack of respect. You obviously can tell by the sheer number of existing reactors towards said content, this is a well-established and worthy rabbit hole to explore for yourself & channel... show your audience a respectful path that goes from start to finish as it should. You're out nothing and garner extra videos and content for it. Food for thought. /shrug
Thanks for the feedback :)
@@SolitarySaturn Thanks for accepting it seemingly well.
'lack of respect to the fanbase' by selecting random media content instead of reacting to everything in a chronological order... That's some mental stuff
Theres no better example of cinematics being way cooler than the content they are based on. Blizzard games cinematics are basically just animated versions of 1980s-2000s video game box art. they would give a really sick looking cover to get you to buy the product then you go play it and it looks like a turd lol. that being said most people who fell in love with wow also learned to appreciate the art style. and going for an artistic style vs a realistic style for the game itself kind of ages better than a game that aims for realism when the graphical technology just wasnt there yet. But yea Blizzard and Square have always been pretty legendary for the cinematics.
Shadowlands was a crap expansion, but the trailer for that expansion was epic.
There was a lot of cool stuff in Shadowlands but the big picture narrative never came together. That whole expansion was a victim of circumstances... lead narrative designer Afrasiabi fired for SA, the related investigations, lawsuit, and worker strikes, then covid shutdowns, and then poor design philosophy pushed on the team by Activision to force increased engagement.
The game is in such a better state now. And Chris Metzen is back as creative director.
@@SuzakuX i agree 100%, i played pretty much through whole of it 3-4 years ago and i've been saying it for a while.
Expasion that was doomed to everything else going on.
Story wasnt told at all in the end, only hinting us in the end that Primus was behind literally everything, and carving domination runes on Zovaals body, just like Zovaal dominated anduin through armor runes..
Literally left as most unexplained expansion ever, and 70% of people trying to forget it ever happened, even if Blizzard said it will be very relevant in near future, as they will try to fix SL's image.
there is better wow cinematics to watch... please watch them all :D
Stay tuned :)
If the Warcraft lore interests you, and real time strategy is more your jam, I would highly recommend checking out Warcraft 3. Much of the future lore is built on the foundation that Warcraft 3 lays.
how can you react to WoW cinematics and skip Wrath of the Lich King :(
I’ll make it up to you soon :)
@@SolitarySaturn awesome!
cinematics are not complete if you do not watch "wrath of the lich king"
I’m planning to do a second video to watch all of them now.
@@SolitarySaturn May I suggest budgeting time for more than a second video. There are hours and hours of cinematics and ingame cutscenes and some of us will watch reactions to all of them. If you do it expansion by expansion including the cutscenes the lore will be more understandable too.
@@dangerbook4807 Would love to!
actually you missed the best ones lol unlucky
Poor luck indeed. I plan to watch those that I missed as well.
other then the first trailer, you watched the like 3 worst cinematics they have released.
lol that is what I get for choosing some at random. I have plans to watch the others as well now.
14 years old? Try 20.
Yeah my bad. Was looking at the video upload date
You only showed the shit expansions
why this game is so shit, having this stories
Be very careful with world of warcraft. It's extremely addictive, and narratively is heavily sub par. You just keep playing because of the reinforcement rate. It feels very nice. FFXIV is much, much better, while keeping the outdated monetization scheme.
...If you like this trailers, you should look at the hearthstone trailers. Some of those were incredible. The good old days...
I don’t think I have the bandwidth to dive into another huge game but it is fun to explore some things like trailers and cinematics.
@@SolitarySaturn Warcraft isn't really all that narratively subpar, a lot of haters since the last expac wasn't received very well since they did the elf lady so badly. (TBF her character has been bad since Wrath in 2008 but no one will admit that) WoW is a very iffy game and some of the narrative happens in outside media (comics, etc)
FFXIV has a killer story but IMO it does almost everything else worse, including the core gameplay and QOL features. I think a lot of the people who migrated to FFXIV during SL realized that after they finished the Endwalker MSQ. Once you're done with the story, the rest of the game is kinda lacking.
Now, if you could have the story (and I guess housing) of FFXIV with the gameplay and core systems of WoW, you'd really have something.
@@SuzakuX Alot of people don't seem to realize that YoshiP actually based XIV off of WotLK systems, and they never changed. I'm a huge FF fan, but WoW's narrative is a lot more engaging most of the time. XIV has it moments, but I feel like I actually get immersed in the Warcraft universe more.