Imagine hearing that after almost 20 years your favorite game was going to get remade. Imagine knowing that Arthas vs Illidan was originally supposed to be a full-blown cinematic that wasn't made due to time and budget constraints. Imagine hoping that after all those years, Blizzard, widely known for the amazing quality of their cinematics, would do this scene justice, letting us see Arthas vs Illidan in all its cinematic glory. Imagine then playing the game and seeing this as the result of all that anticipation.
I have known this sad fact as well, and I have made sure to mention it in any video that even has a blip of this scene. Thank you for helping spread the good, but sad word.
The ending of the cutscene should have been a dude in the bath playing with his Arthas and Illidan action figures. It would make the stiff animations believable at least.
Tbh there is nothing in it. Bad Sound, stiff animations, lame fighting. Those 2 used to be super powerful and Illidan just gets 2 hitted. Also the smile from Arthas at the start, that is horrible he doesn't look like a badass, more like a drug addicted rapist.
Power of Sargearas (since he made the legion) against the power of The Jailer (since he made the "The Lich King" role, the Crown of Domination, Frostmourne, which made the Scourge.). You'd have thought the battle flow wouldn't be as weird.
I was mad that Illidan got hit in the first one, I thought he disengaged to go defensive and couldnt defend which always was weird to me. This one does feel like it's missing a lot of beats.
@@peoplearegood6221 Yes, and this cutscene is less than 6 months old, so that point is completely invalid. This was created within the past year, it is not the same cutscene as from 2003. It's just laziness, like the rest of Reforged.
@@bryton1920 They still at the very least commissioned it, approved it, and put their name on it, before including it in their IP. So they thought this was acceptable work.
Illidan: "turns into his demon form" Arthas: Ha! Perfect. I'll just wait for him to fly at me and... Illidan: "starts throwing green meteors" Arthas: ... f***.
this is like a freebie tho, they said they don't plan on reforging any of the cinamatics and I was not expecting them to do this at all either. so I can't complain for one bonus reforged cinematic they gave us outside of what they told us when I pre-purchased the game.
@@231swift google "warcraft 3 reforged outsourced" and you'll find some articles. Not only that, Lemon Sky, the Malaysian game dev company outright state that they worked on Reforged
Does it not look like plastic figurines animated? like 1:13 That entire scene somehow looks like some sort of stop motion animation. The entire thing is so far in the frikin uncanny valley for me that its ridiculous. This is not regular 3d animation for sure, they somehow cut down the time on making it and this was the end result, and frankly id prefer the frikin original w3 shait over this cringe.
@@randomnamechannel9813 I don't mean anything towards him, but IkEdit makes much better videos with a DECIMAL of what Blizzard has and it's as good or way better than this.
@@darykeng this is not reforged cinematic, this is a ingame made cinematic, EXACTLY LIKE THE ORIGINAL COMBAT SCENE. And the only "reforged" cinematic is the Warcraft 3 Trailer / Intro cinematic. At least try to be not stupid.
Well spotted. You shaved a quarter off the runtime. As long as we're min/maxing, bump it up to 1.5. Since they didn't bother composing a score or recording any dialogue they look like they're actually strong enough to wield their respective weapons and the grunting sounds aren't too cartoony.
I always wanted a proper Arthas vs Illidan cinematic. Never thought the original one could have been better than a reforged cinematic which made after 20 years of the original one.
The original was a 30 second battle, which you would think is more normal since it's a 1 shot kill situation, but in this for some reason they prolonged it so illidan can growl and then use his HANDS in a sword fight... i... don't understand
@@culturageekyartesmarciales1169 The first strike by arthas to Illidan shows Illidan and Arthas having different stances. This one adds weird "suspense" things like arthas dropping his weapon (with 2 hands on his weapon? Disarmed?) and then illidan gets mad and rages but then uses HANDS in a blade fight makes NO sense.
@silver2zilver that and arthas' strikes are so damn slow. And he's supposed to be inhumanely strong and fast in this scene. Him and Illidan should've basically has a dbz/the flash style of charge.
Wow wonderful! The most beautiful school project i've seen in a while! I'm sure you will get an A, Timmy! ... Wait, what you mean it's a blizzard cinematic?
@@sanzharzaitenov5268 Not when considering the year produced, and the facial animations were worse than some of the old cinematics, lol. Contextually a freaking terrible cinematic.
They really had a chance to make an amazing fight here that we could of only dreamed in the modified for time one in the original, but we got this instead.
@@SporkyMcFly Check graphic performance in 2002 vs 2020 my friend than say something about "old animation being bad". Also old cutscene is 50seconds long not 2 minutes what makes it stupidly slow.
This is a perfect representation of what Reforged is all about; fall way short of what was promised by gutting everything that people loved and throw some bizarre HD skins on it. I watched the original and it was so much more believable (despite the characters barely having hands) because they actually moved like they didn't want to get cut by the other guy
So let me get this straight. Illidan disarms Arthas, who's a step in front of him, with Arthas throwing his hands up in the air. Yet Arthas somehow makes it back to his sword with Illidan in tow. Now please make me believe ILLIDAN STORMRAGE, a NIGHT ELF DEMON with WINGS AND HOOVES is SLOWER than a VERY LOW ON POWER (remember the campaign!) DEATH KNIGHT that needed to both DO A 180 AND RUN AND DO ANOTHER 180 BACK TO HIS OPPONENT. Excuse me what?
Arthas was obv. using his E (Frozen Tempest). Illidan's useless against that, even with the speed boost Metamorphosis gets at 20. Plus the Illidan player was a noob. Overusing Dive limited his DPS while he only used one Sweeping Strike to engage. Missed the Evasion on Arthas' final AA. Scrub.
To be fair this is quite an atrocious example where the actual game its being remastered from has a better cinematic cutscene... It's just another game in the pile of disappoints recently released. Through to even fairer, they honestly should have seen this coming with Activision in the mix and only have their own sleds to blame for buying trash.
There is exactly one thing that I like in this: Illidan moving very slightly after his defeat. Great way to foreshadow that he will still be alive and kicking in WoW. The original made it look like he was 100% dead due to low poly count (and possibly because there were no plans to bring him back yet).
I like how Arthas cut right through Illidan, but when Turalion tried to slay Illidan in the legion cinematic he just grabbed the blade like it was barely anything. Goes to show what kinda power Arthas had. And he wasn't even the true lich king yet at this time, I believe the open gate area that Arthas proceeded to is where he gets the helm.
@Thor dude its REFIRGED. have you played warcraft 3? from 2002? the idea of reforge to make the game little bit better looking. mostly better textures. same old game but just little better, not entirely new game. thats the idea. and this cinematic is the same from 2002 but reforged. the same old cinematic. you guys look like fking idiots
As an asian, I have to agree: Give us the old Blizzard with their high quality products, I dont want to see shitty anime-fights with plot-holes big enough for Sargaera's sword to punch through.
@@rcblazer since i didn't remember at all what it was like, i went to watch that and i find the rumors greatly exaggerated. come on, this is bad but the old one is like 15 second long, nothing happens and it has bad camerawork and terrible original war3 graphics. i thought it was an actual cinematic from the way people are talking about it.
Up to now every time I heard that the original was better my response was... "Yah. I din't like reforged too." But now that I've re-watched the old fight I'm actually amazed by how it really is better. 😂
They retconned the hell out of this fight, in the original Illidan getting his ass handed to him the entire 30 second fight, he was on his back after the first swing.
@@Masterwar15 Starcraft; Diablo all very famous game franchises. But we all know who is the *Golden Goose* of the family, and Warcraft 3 is the game that started it!
How can something look so good yet so bad at the same time? As stills, the models look beautiful. As an animation, this looks like some vfx college student's project
At least it clarifies the Lore...Arthas was supposed to have 0% chance to win on his own, but seeing how the blade is shining at the end, I suppose that the few of the power the Lich King had left and gave to Arthas did more than just giving back Arthas' former strength
The lack of music really murdered the tension. It added a lot to the original fight, even though it was shorter and not as well animated. You still got sucked into that fight, and it didn't feel like they were running around with 2 ton weights either.
The biggest insult is the missed execution and waste of potential. With this new animation style the fights could be more impactful with every swing and every camera angle. But instead we get the same camera focus on Arthus' boot when sliding back and not a full body shot. The killing blow was the same, black fade out with glowing blue sword to black screen with a cut through.
The animations are slow and have no weight behind them, so it feels like 2 action figures fighting in slow motion. The increased length of the fight also highlights how much it needed some dialogue. It feels uncharacteristic for both Arthas and Illidan to be so quiet during a fight.
Watching it at 1.25 speed actually improves it a lot. The characters are faster so it feels more like a real fight. And while there still isn't any dialogue, it atleast reduces the length of the awkward pauses.
aparently in the novel Illidan even told arthas something like : ''Fool, i have trained with these warglaves for thousands of years. how long did you train with your precious sword ?'' or something along those lines. imagine a scene where illidan flies into the air and hovers while he boasts about his training like '' oh yea, i have trained so haarrd''
Thor but it is published by Blizzard brand so audience expects no less than a classic Blizzard level of cinematography. Guess Blizzard isn’t equal quality anymore.
This is what my €40 went towards, I have literally helped fund the death and reforge of my first Blizzard game... At least it seems that they let their intern film students work on their first project by animating this video for us. It's a nice touch they didn't add any battle music as well - really lets the awkwardness flow that much better.
every time I remember that these two used to be respected heroes that became like this. It makes me wonder what kind of villain the warden could've been.
So Blizzard is branching out into ASMR videos? I think Arthas pooped himself, that's why he was moving so stiffly, he didn't want it sloshing around into his boots. As for the demon thing, I don't know what his problem was.
@@Titi-pu2hl Well... it's actually was even clunkier since they used the in-game engine for that cut-scene, which wasn't great for an elaborate close-up fight.
Aside from the lack of music, this is perfect, though it's weird If they don't have the conversation of "The Frozen Throne is mine, demon. Step aside. Leave this world" They're supposed to say that a cutscene before this but now Arthas appears and then illidan comes down when they should already be talking to each other, so does that not happen? It makes sense they don't talk in the fight because everything has been said but thats why they talk before it starts
@@almas4663 the disappointment began with the announcement of not including the promised cinematics Blizzard is still making fun of people that pre-ordered the game
@@almas4663 One of the oldest "*Blizzard Legends*" is that they didn't had time to make this in CGI back in the day. How on earth they missed the opportunity again is beyond me. Also, it looks bad, it looks like a fan machinima. As for the rest of the cinematics...HD? That's cute, fans have them in 4k on UA-cam!
@@ddrfreak4578 Anime has no place in the Warcraft universe PERIOD... None of the original blizzard games were ever about that anime stuff. Now since none of the original people no longer work at Blizzard (if hardly any) the company itself changed, where even some of the original Blizzard staff (like Diablo's creator) said it changed completely. They hired a Malaysian company "Lemon Sky Studios" to actually develop Warcraft 3 reforge... The old Blizzard would of never pulled that move. The crap pisses me off...
What's with the stiff walk at the start? That's not Arthas, that's Arthritis.
XD
you sir, made my day
Lmfao
It's cold outside
He walks like he just shoved a broom up his ass
Imagine hearing that after almost 20 years your favorite game was going to get remade. Imagine knowing that Arthas vs Illidan was originally supposed to be a full-blown cinematic that wasn't made due to time and budget constraints. Imagine hoping that after all those years, Blizzard, widely known for the amazing quality of their cinematics, would do this scene justice, letting us see Arthas vs Illidan in all its cinematic glory. Imagine then playing the game and seeing this as the result of all that anticipation.
Therapist: What is causing your deep feelings of sadness and disappointment?
Me:
I have known this sad fact as well, and I have made sure to mention it in any video that even has a blip of this scene.
Thank you for helping spread the good, but sad word.
I know it is disappointing.
this is way better than the other version lol
@@plus_sign not even close
"Look how they massacred my boy."
RIP Warcraft III, you'll be forever in our hearts.
glad i still had my pirated version.
@@tuanang7889 Lucky...
I'll never be able to play the good version of Warcraft III 😭😭😭😭
@@raudello3666 You can sail the high seas.
@Miguel Santos That doesn't fix the myriad of other issues the Refunded version has.
quote: "is this an out of season april fools joke?"
"Don't you have Phones" #facepalm
The ending of the cutscene should have been a dude in the bath playing with his Arthas and Illidan action figures. It would make the stiff animations believable at least.
Lmfao
bruh lmao
LMAO my favorite comment. Thank you.
underrated comment!
:D :D :D :D lol
It’s not just the music missing. It’s the flow of the fight that is weird
No Kidding we expected more out of this 😕
I tried to edit it to look better. I added music and i timed music very good but its still weird and boring 😔.
Tbh there is nothing in it. Bad Sound, stiff animations, lame fighting. Those 2 used to be super powerful and Illidan just gets 2 hitted. Also the smile from Arthas at the start, that is horrible he doesn't look like a badass, more like a drug addicted rapist.
Power of Sargearas (since he made the legion) against the power of The Jailer (since he made the "The Lich King" role, the Crown of Domination, Frostmourne, which made the Scourge.). You'd have thought the battle flow wouldn't be as weird.
I was mad that Illidan got hit in the first one, I thought he disengaged to go defensive and couldnt defend which always was weird to me. This one does feel like it's missing a lot of beats.
It's horrifying that Raid: Shadow Legends has better CGI than an official cutscene from a multi-billion dollar mega-company like Blizzard.
Yeap! 1000%
Dude. This game is from over a decade ago...
@@peoplearegood6221 Yes, and this cutscene is less than 6 months old, so that point is completely invalid. This was created within the past year, it is not the same cutscene as from 2003. It's just laziness, like the rest of Reforged.
@@derekbush6239 Just so you're aware, Blizzard didn't make this cutscene.
@@bryton1920 They still at the very least commissioned it, approved it, and put their name on it, before including it in their IP. So they thought this was acceptable work.
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Worse. Raid shadow legends ads are better animated than this
there is zero tension in this cinematic, also it doesnt make any sense, illidan transforms into demon form to jump directly onto the blade? wtf?!?
Right, it makes no sense, he goes against the sword, also why is so slow and strage?! This fight is awful.
I mean, maybe it is something about Arthas that makes every rival an idiot. Sylvanas guitar-slide into him too.
original war3 story never make any sense
Hey at least it's true to the original cinematic in that way
this is pretty much exactly what happened in the original cutscene though?
I guess Frostmourne has eaten soul of this cinematic, because there is none.
Dam son
Good one!
Tomáš Plánička he ist not eating ilidans soul ilidan is alaiv Noob
The soul of warcraft died after WC3
i guess Frostmourne has eaten alot, cause it looks thicc in this cinematic
Who exactly is liking this? Rule 34 artists do a better job for free.
People who don't feel the need to make their entire identity about hating a game company,
@@VangaurdTDS Tasteless Shiteaters like that trash cinematic and it seems you're one of them.
@@ET-tt5nc shut the hell up , its was the point of this cutscene, been more simple than the others like in theoriginal version, research a little
Illidan: "turns into his demon form"
Arthas: Ha! Perfect. I'll just wait for him to fly at me and...
Illidan: "starts throwing green meteors"
Arthas: ... f***.
*cannot attack air units*
Death grip lol
LMAO
Death coil and death animated gargoyls back :))))))))) lol
The only "reforged" cinematic, and it looks like an indie low budget video. Damn blizzard you used to put effort in your games
People who bought the pre-sale are to blame. They have their money already, why would they care to put effort into it?
Reforged wasn't even made by blizzard. They outsourced it.
this is like a freebie tho, they said they don't plan on reforging any of the cinamatics and I was not expecting them to do this at all either.
so I can't complain for one bonus reforged cinematic they gave us outside of what they told us when I pre-purchased the game.
@@heroicxidiot wheres the proof? and what company?
@@231swift google "warcraft 3 reforged outsourced" and you'll find some articles. Not only that, Lemon Sky, the Malaysian game dev company outright state that they worked on Reforged
Even if the two heroes fought on HOTS, they would be more energetic than this.
And Arthas also wins there lol
Runehearth are you sure?
and I also, 시공 조아.
The hots cinematics are probably the most blizz thing in recent years and they've all but given up on the game
@@Frazzledotd As much as bfa sucked the trailer was great
I love how unwieldy their weapons are, to the point that even the animators struggled to make that fight look good xD
Yeah, both of them seem like they are struggling just to hold them, let alone put power into their strikes.
Me: Mom, can we get Warcraft 3?
Mom: No we have Warcraft 3 at home.
Warcraft 3 at home:
Looks like a fan-made
Chinese outsource.
@@tessatessa3894 Acceptable Reason.
True
I think fans can make it much better than
much worse
It honestly looks like some UA-cam channel made it, that’s how off the models look.
The models are great, the animation sucks.
Does it not look like plastic figurines animated? like 1:13
That entire scene somehow looks like some sort of stop motion animation.
The entire thing is so far in the frikin uncanny valley for me that its ridiculous. This is not regular 3d animation for sure, they somehow cut down the time on making it and this was the end result, and frankly id prefer the frikin original w3 shait over this cringe.
Agree
I'm pretty sure that Blizz didn't make this. I think they outsourced a ton of the art work.
@@randomnamechannel9813 I don't mean anything towards him, but IkEdit makes much better videos with a DECIMAL of what Blizzard has and it's as good or way better than this.
they somehow managed to make this iconic fight look even more underwhelming than it was in warcraft 3, good job blizz.
So you're telling me the WOW intro looked like it did and 15 years later, THIS is the best they had?
This looks like a stop motion project with action figures made by a fan.
There's a fan remake of this cutscene that's literally higher quality using WoW models.
I feel like a good percentage of us thought the exact same thing only about 20 seconds in.
Scratch that, actual fan would make 110% better
@@darykeng this is not reforged cinematic, this is a ingame made cinematic, EXACTLY LIKE THE ORIGINAL COMBAT SCENE.
And the only "reforged" cinematic is the Warcraft 3 Trailer / Intro cinematic.
At least try to be not stupid.
@@Qaosbringer and? How is this changing statement that fan would make this 17 yo scene better?
Warcraft III: Refunded
You have been replaced by 20 Chinese players.
The fight is actually much better when watched at 1.25 speed. It gets more dynamic.
Holy hell it does!
Lol genius
Well spotted. You shaved a quarter off the runtime. As long as we're min/maxing, bump it up to 1.5. Since they didn't bother composing a score or recording any dialogue they look like they're actually strong enough to wield their respective weapons and the grunting sounds aren't too cartoony.
smart guy
I always wanted a proper Arthas vs Illidan cinematic. Never thought the original one could have been better than a reforged cinematic which made after 20 years of the original one.
How is it better exactly
@@culturageekyartesmarciales1169 The old one is better in every single conceivable way
The original was a 30 second battle, which you would think is more normal since it's a 1 shot kill situation, but in this for some reason they prolonged it so illidan can growl and then use his HANDS in a sword fight... i... don't understand
@@culturageekyartesmarciales1169 The first strike by arthas to Illidan shows Illidan and Arthas having different stances. This one adds weird "suspense" things like arthas dropping his weapon (with 2 hands on his weapon? Disarmed?) and then illidan gets mad and rages but then uses HANDS in a blade fight makes NO sense.
@silver2zilver that and arthas' strikes are so damn slow.
And he's supposed to be inhumanely strong and fast in this scene.
Him and Illidan should've basically has a dbz/the flash style of charge.
Well, this certainly makes me feel better about not preordering 😂
...I keep telling myself my meat wagon was worth it
Why such stiff movements? The sound effects of their weapons colliding with one another doesn't match with their fighting it feels like.
cuz it's cold
Why Illidan don't cutting him 1:00 and let him go ???
Illidan could not lose to Arthas, even without a change
Those weapons feel like they have no weight. There is literally no exaggeration on that movement to swing the sword.
its rushed
Wow wonderful! The most beautiful school project i've seen in a while! I'm sure you will get an A, Timmy!
...
Wait, what you mean it's a blizzard cinematic?
Beter than their first version
@@sanzharzaitenov5268 Not when considering the year produced, and the facial animations were worse than some of the old cinematics, lol. Contextually a freaking terrible cinematic.
That anime flight in the end though, I can't take it.
HM........looks far to plastic,
Lego Ninjago final fight, lmao
Yes! Just my thought! Looks like some kid playing with his action figures.
@@Khajar yeah that was also what I was thinking when I first saw it,
@@RussianGamerTeam That was better lmao
@@Johnx3m What was?
Hearing Arthas running to get his sword cracks me up for some reason.
They really had a chance to make an amazing fight here that we could of only dreamed in the modified for time one in the original, but we got this instead.
[smiles in smug anime face]
There is no weight to any action, so it looks like they are fighting in space or underwater , what a really bad animation geez
Looks 10 000 times better than the original to me.
@@SporkyMcFly Check graphic performance in 2002 vs 2020 my friend than say something about "old animation being bad". Also old cutscene is 50seconds long not 2 minutes what makes it stupidly slow.
They couldn't have even had Illidan say "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!" at the beginning?
Feels weird
Does it feel like watching rocks fight?! Or does it feel like they are made out of wood and not flesh!
@@ironic4910 My bet is that it's because the cutscene is in engine.
@@ironic4910 both dude, both
Because it's missing the music. Imagine Darth Maul and ObiWan's fight without Dual of Fates
I know, there's something really odd about it. The older one felt a lot more dinamic
This is a perfect representation of what Reforged is all about; fall way short of what was promised by gutting everything that people loved and throw some bizarre HD skins on it.
I watched the original and it was so much more believable (despite the characters barely having hands) because they actually moved like they didn't want to get cut by the other guy
More than 20 years ago, Final Fantasy VIII made better cinematic scenes !
Warcraft 3 openings are epic
So let me get this straight.
Illidan disarms Arthas, who's a step in front of him, with Arthas throwing his hands up in the air. Yet Arthas somehow makes it back to his sword with Illidan in tow.
Now please make me believe ILLIDAN STORMRAGE, a NIGHT ELF DEMON with WINGS AND HOOVES is SLOWER than a VERY LOW ON POWER (remember the campaign!) DEATH KNIGHT that needed to both DO A 180 AND RUN AND DO ANOTHER 180 BACK TO HIS OPPONENT.
Excuse me what?
There is simply no logic in the cinematic, you wont find one second of it that has actual thought put into it.
Arthas was obv. using his E (Frozen Tempest). Illidan's useless against that, even with the speed boost Metamorphosis gets at 20. Plus the Illidan player was a noob. Overusing Dive limited his DPS while he only used one Sweeping Strike to engage. Missed the Evasion on Arthas' final AA. Scrub.
@@Mike-ds4ht This isn't Hots. It was Warcraft 3. Both Illidan and Arthas had no such abilities.
He wasnt low on power if you remember the Lich King gave his remaining powers to him to at the start of the mission, he goes back to lvl 10.
@@Mithguar r/whoooosh
Quite literally 2 old men fight over the recliner.
Its like a symbolism for crying W3 fanboys over this cinematic lmao
To be fair this is quite an atrocious example where the actual game its being remastered from has a better cinematic cutscene...
It's just another game in the pile of disappoints recently released.
Through to even fairer, they honestly should have seen this coming with Activision in the mix and only have their own sleds to blame for buying trash.
What the actual F ?! Some fanmade cinetmatic are more dynamic and polished than this thing ! It's insane to see that Blizzard produced that..
Almost heaven, West Virginia....
How did they make this worse than the original? At least that one still holds up
Because they are looking for short money
The original was kinda bad too tbh
the orginal actualy sucks
@@lazarus8453 I agree with this.... but that is no excuse for this damn cinematic, which, apart from the graphic is at least as bad.....
@@lazarus8453 *less
Better cinematic than N'zoth's death
Is when you expect more.
Not a very high bar set there
Honestly actually going to disagree with that... at least that looked somewhat decent, even if it was anticlimactic
When Blizzard's cinematic is so bad you need to compare it to Blizzard's cinematic
Illidan:
There is exactly one thing that I like in this: Illidan moving very slightly after his defeat. Great way to foreshadow that he will still be alive and kicking in WoW. The original made it look like he was 100% dead due to low poly count (and possibly because there were no plans to bring him back yet).
The animation for this looks pretty clumsy, unpolished. Kinda like those amateur Garry's Mod animations, but worse.
Why are you everywhere?!
For real, this looks fan made instead of a multi BILLION dollar companies effort...
Even some random TF2 SFMs are better than this.
Looks like one of those terribly bad Chinese mobile game ad.
@@JTHMRulez1 Am I? :O
The movements are so stiff.
It amuses me that the slow-mo section where Arthas dodges Illidans attack looks the same speed as the rest of the fight.
I like how Arthas cut right through Illidan, but when Turalion tried to slay Illidan in the legion cinematic he just grabbed the blade like it was barely anything.
Goes to show what kinda power Arthas had. And he wasn't even the true lich king yet at this time, I believe the open gate area that Arthas proceeded to is where he gets the helm.
Yea I think you’re right if I remember correctly illidan was there for the soul purpose to not allow arthas to reach the crown
@@Raumes513 Yes that's right. Didn't go so well for poor Illidan lol
It feels made by some asian company...
maybe cuz its 15-20 years old thing
It kinda was. Reforged was outsourced to some Malaysian company
Bernhart Schmieder all the graphics was made by a company named lemon sky . They are asians. So blizzard have put a really little effort in this game
@Thor dude its REFIRGED. have you played warcraft 3? from 2002? the idea of reforge to make the game little bit better looking. mostly better textures. same old game but just little better, not entirely new game. thats the idea. and this cinematic is the same from 2002 but reforged. the same old cinematic. you guys look like fking idiots
@@naidenhristov95 This cutscene alone is brand new, with new models and animations, it's nothing like the original.
This looks so bad omg
ONE OF THE BEST CINEMATICS BLIZZARD HAS EVER MADE
oh wait
Man, can you imagine if this cinematic was actually good?
This is not Blizzard Quality at all!!! Its outsourced animation again?!
It's perfect! Stop blindfully hate everything! That was a perfect way to show the fight
again ? different animation was outsourced or the Diablo immortal is on your mind ?
@@almas4663 lol blind ?
@@JetrekkerteJ You knew what this is gonna be at Blizzcon 2019,it's amazing
The Models were outsorced
This feels like those cinematics for mobile games. I guess that isn't surprising, they live for the Chinese market now.
As an asian, I have to agree: Give us the old Blizzard with their high quality products, I dont want to see shitty anime-fights with plot-holes big enough for Sargaera's sword to punch through.
Hell yeah... Totally agree, as a Native American... Which is pretty much an off-shoot of being an Asian, I guess? lol.
@@TheREALExposingtheJoyofS-px3ri whät
@@heftymagic4814 /smh... lol. Native Americans originally come from Asia... You're not very big into genealogy are you?
What does you being Asian have yo do with anything
They move like the figurines I'd control with my hands when I was a little kid.
Even machinimas have less stiff animations, never again outsource your games
Ok so let us all be reminded that this in done in 2020....i repeat 2020 .... looks like 2003 at best :(
Funny enough, the original version of this cinematic came out in 2003, and it's way better!
@@rcblazer since i didn't remember at all what it was like, i went to watch that and i find the rumors greatly exaggerated. come on, this is bad but the old one is like 15 second long, nothing happens and it has bad camerawork and terrible original war3 graphics. i thought it was an actual cinematic from the way people are talking about it.
You can tell by the lack of hair physics in Arthas' hair that Blizzard dropped the ball with this version.
Up to now every time I heard that the original was better my response was... "Yah. I din't like reforged too." But now that I've re-watched the old fight I'm actually amazed by how it really is better. 😂
I feel embarrassed for people who bought this.
Yikes.
I feel embarrassed for having every liked warcraft
@@Luirru55 Nah man, warcraft 3 was awesome. but reforged... well...
im not sure if i will download it when it will be cracked lol, says much
Arthas: It's over Illidan! I have the low ground!
Purely the best comment here!
Illidan: You underestimate my power!
They retconned the hell out of this fight, in the original Illidan getting his ass handed to him the entire 30 second fight, he was on his back after the first swing.
Even compared to Blizzard's weaker efforts, the entire execution of this 'reforged' cutscene feels shockingly sloppy, weightless and tension-lite.
So this is what we got after 17 years???
The game that put Blizzard on the map and this is the remastered cinematic of it.....
Epic Fail..
Grin..
That was Starcraft though.
Everything is a fail with Blizzard these days.
@@Masterwar15 Starcraft; Diablo all very famous game franchises.
But we all know who is the *Golden Goose* of the family, and Warcraft 3 is the game that started it!
Blizzard's humiliated Illidan . . .
Missing music and lack of good editing, the fight sits, there is no point to make it longer if you cannot fill it with actual immersive content.
How can something look so good yet so bad at the same time?
As stills, the models look beautiful. As an animation, this looks like some vfx college student's project
At least it clarifies the Lore...Arthas was supposed to have 0% chance to win on his own, but seeing how the blade is shining at the end, I suppose that the few of the power the Lich King had left and gave to Arthas did more than just giving back Arthas' former strength
It's like anime fight, without music with short breaks every few seconds and then you realize they swung their weapons maybe five times.
It miss at least 4 minutes tacitcs explanation from protagonist side :p
@@osrictemper4225 Exactly, and it is also missing when the protagonist and the villain stare at each other for an hour
@@leonardoromero3859 And some flashbacks! At least 2 episodes long ;)
The lack of music really murdered the tension. It added a lot to the original fight, even though it was shorter and not as well animated. You still got sucked into that fight, and it didn't feel like they were running around with 2 ton weights either.
The biggest insult is the missed execution and waste of potential. With this new animation style the fights could be more impactful with every swing and every camera angle. But instead we get the same camera focus on Arthus' boot when sliding back and not a full body shot. The killing blow was the same, black fade out with glowing blue sword to black screen with a cut through.
Had the animations not been so stuff this would look fantastic
The animations are slow and have no weight behind them, so it feels like 2 action figures fighting in slow motion.
The increased length of the fight also highlights how much it needed some dialogue. It feels uncharacteristic for both Arthas and Illidan to be so quiet during a fight.
Watching it at 1.25 speed actually improves it a lot. The characters are faster so it feels more like a real fight. And while there still isn't any dialogue, it atleast reduces the length of the awkward pauses.
Why Illidan don't cutting him 1:00 and let him go ???
@@Lichelf Your comment made me realise that i watched it at 1.5 speed at first and it still felt like eternity ;P
aparently in the novel Illidan even told arthas something like : ''Fool, i have trained with these warglaves for thousands of years. how long did you train with your precious sword ?'' or something along those lines. imagine a scene where illidan flies into the air and hovers while he boasts about his training like '' oh yea, i have trained so haarrd''
It hurts so much to see this again.
This looks like 80 year olds in the park fighting with walking sticks over cheating in backgammon.
They give their Mary sue sylvannas 3 good cinematics but the most relevant 1v1 in warcraft a sfm
eh, looks fan made. i was really expecting more from blizz.
It feels like it was unironically made by an indie company. I've seen better remakes of this fight from fans on youtube...*much* better remakes
Share them, then.
Thor but it is published by Blizzard brand so audience expects no less than a classic Blizzard level of cinematography. Guess Blizzard isn’t equal quality anymore.
Arthas's nose could suck all the air out of Azeroth in one breath.
2018: Do you guys have no phones?
2020: Do you guys have no sense of humor?
Okay, Blizzard. I thought Its impossible, but You did it! You killed my favourite game!
Something is missing - the music?
Feels better without it tbh.
The original cutscene didn't have music either.
@@farseer2043 Yes it did.
@@farseer2043 It did have.
This scene is so epic that it don't need music at all. It will only ruin the atmosphere.
Well.. now we have to wait 20 years for a remake of this...
I've waited years for the reforged game to come out only to see this?
This looks like one of those cheap Chinese mobile games.
Virgin Demon Hunter vs Chad Death Knight
10k+ years old virgin
Lore accurate! xD
@@Min-gy8zu that's even worse...
what does this word "chad" mean?
i didn't find the translation for it
i am from ukraine
@@user-kq2jf2hq6l ну типо идеальный мужик. Альфа самец.
Why did everyone press dislike on this? Literally, Wowhead didn't make it. They just uploaded it.
This is what my €40 went towards, I have literally helped fund the death and reforge of my first Blizzard game... At least it seems that they let their intern film students work on their first project by animating this video for us. It's a nice touch they didn't add any battle music as well - really lets the awkwardness flow that much better.
the slowest fight in the history of games
Am I the only one getting Robot Chicken vibes from this?
Please... Robot Chicken would make that 10x more exciting...
every time I remember that these two used to be respected heroes that became like this. It makes me wonder what kind of villain the warden could've been.
So Blizzard is branching out into ASMR videos?
I think Arthas pooped himself, that's why he was moving so stiffly, he didn't want it sloshing around into his boots. As for the demon thing, I don't know what his problem was.
looks worse than the original, lmao.
No. It doesn't.
@@ThomasWarhammer really does. At least as the original look smooth in its movement. This look so clunky.
TBH in the original, they barely did anything in the fight: both do long swords friction, Illidan do a backflip, Arthas do a swing, and it's over.
@@adiveler at least it wasn't clunky
@@Titi-pu2hl Well... it's actually was even clunkier since they used the in-game engine for that cut-scene, which wasn't great for an elaborate close-up fight.
Aside from the lack of music, this is perfect, though it's weird If they don't have the conversation of "The Frozen Throne is mine, demon. Step aside. Leave this world" They're supposed to say that a cutscene before this but now Arthas appears and then illidan comes down when they should already be talking to each other, so does that not happen? It makes sense they don't talk in the fight because everything has been said but thats why they talk before it starts
@Krljavi Dzo In my opinion, it's perfect, because it's done the same way as the original, looks far better and i really enjoyed it.
Not the same company that made the Wrath trailer. Same name however.
The one detail of this “remaster” I do like is that after Arthas cuts Illidan he doesn’t even bother to look back at him.
just as disappointing as i thought it would be
It's amazing,what are you talking about?
@@almas4663 the disappointment began with the announcement of not including the promised cinematics
Blizzard is still making fun of people that pre-ordered the game
@@kilerman6969 Shut up....Just Shut up..
@@almas4663 One of the oldest "*Blizzard Legends*" is that they didn't had time to make this in CGI back in the day.
How on earth they missed the opportunity again is beyond me. Also, it looks bad, it looks like a fan machinima.
As for the rest of the cinematics...HD? That's cute, fans have them in 4k on UA-cam!
@@almas4663 i think you should shut up
Feels like im watching 3d anime.
Don't insult anime... Anime have more impact than this pls.
Yeah like cheap anime with realistic effects
@@ddrfreak4578 Cant disagree.
Bro even Berserk 2016 has better animation then this.
@@ddrfreak4578 Anime has no place in the Warcraft universe PERIOD... None of the original blizzard games were ever about that anime stuff. Now since none of the original people no longer work at Blizzard (if hardly any) the company itself changed, where even some of the original Blizzard staff (like Diablo's creator) said it changed completely. They hired a Malaysian company "Lemon Sky Studios" to actually develop Warcraft 3 reforge... The old Blizzard would of never pulled that move. The crap pisses me off...
And here comes the day when a Blizzard cinematics isn't good.
Charles... the world is not the same as it was.
Me: feels abit clunky
Playback speed: *exists*
Me: excellent