MTG Player Reacts to ALL WoW Cinematics
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waitttttttttttt apparently this isnt all of them?! i was LIED TO
EDIT: Since this has been picked by the algorithm, can you all please list the ones I missed watching?? I just went off what that video said, it was literally titled "all wow cinematics" lol
You missed the first cinematic from the Saurfang "We dont get to hide" guy
There are a LOT of In-game and actual cinematics missing from this 😓
Just with the Broken Shore and Old Soldier you would have a lot more context for the later cinematics ( they’re very good as well)..
@VoxyTwitch Yeah if you want to see all of them, like including all the in-game ones and also all the side cinematics there is literals hours or even tens of hours more worth of cinematics that were not included in the video you watched.
Missed the big sword in the last cinematic being plugged into azaroth
The fact that this compilation didn't have Old Soldier is a bigger crime than what Garrosh did to Pandaria
Garosh did nothing wrong
@@alexanderhristov2795 nobody who suffered through WoD would say such a thing
Also the fact that they included the cinematic for the War Within but not the ending of Legion to show how that sword got there in the first place, I feel like they missed out on a bunch of relevant story things for no apparent reason. And yeah I agree, not including Old Soldier is criminal
@@Vaishino you have a fair point
@@Vaishino touché
People can mistakenly dismiss Mists of Pandaria as ripping off Kung Fu Panda all the like, but this character, Chen Stormstout was in Warcraft 3 in 2003 way before that movie
The people making this mistake are the same idiots who want to bash a billion-dollar game they don't even play. Makes perfect sense.
Even then who cares? Kung Fu Panda is one the best animated movies ever made. I like Pandaren Monks. They are hilarious and badass tanks
I mean, he was a joke character, but that doesn't mean he didn't exist. He even had his own questline in vanilla wow, even if he didn't exist in the game! You could find "Chen's Empty Keg" in the Barrens, and had to kill a bunch of mobs for it.
Also, even if you didn't like the story of MoP, everyone that has played it has to concede the point that the raids were amazing, and the classes had peak design.
I didn't love the theme or pandas that much, but the best pvp and most fun classes, and the art was super vivid and gorgeous
@@FireSigndand the story was good.
Made more sense than many of the other expansions
I love that we keep having to be reminded there's a HUGE ASS SWORD stabbed into the planet.
Don t worry nothing will happened about it...
@DiabloTommaso and what exactly can anyone do about it? We can't very well pull it out. Mining through it will take decades. We stopped the corruption coming out of it and we stopped the bleeding already. What else are we gonna do? Grow the size of a titan and pull it out?
WHAT SWORD ?
I remember flying around and seeing that sword for the first time years and years after it happened. I had no idea and when I saw it I just HAD to know. That thing is legitimately immense
Fun, awesome fact... WotLK released the same month and year as Call of Duty: World at War!
all cinematics no wrathgate, no broken shore, man the one who made that compilation is on something
there's always cutscenes missing in every one of these compilation videos.. no one can get it right.. XD
Arthas, my son...
No king rule for ever!
@@Higgarn and not every king becomes a legend
and that is my whole teenage
where illidans story??
All y'all with childhood memories of this. WOW was released 3 weeks after I turned 31 in 2004...lol. I just turned 50 and I'm still playing. I'll never forget those first few magical days of exploring and getting killed a bunch of times by Princess over at the Brackwell Pumpkin Patch.
I fell off the mountains in the Valley of Trials into the sea and was eaten by a shark. My first WoW death, still remember.
@@Michael-kd1ho My first death was when a group of warlocks summoned an Infernal and watched as it tore through Goldshire
I wonder how the author of the video made his selection of the cinematics, because obviously a crazy amount of the (mostly in-game) cinematics are missing, but also its not like he wanted to not include the ingame ones since some of them are included like the end of Pandaria (siege of Orgrimmar raid end cinematic). But then some of the actual cinematics are also not included, like the video shows "Warbringers: Sylvanas" (the one with the different animation where sylvanas is bansheed by Arthas and then burns the big tree down), but not "Warbringers: Jaina" or "Warbringers: Ashara".
Like I understand the video cannot show everything, because it would be a 6 hour video (maybe even more lol), but also a lot of important scenes with context are missing. Like for example in the last "the War Within" cinematic there is the huge sword, but the entierity of Argus cinematics from Legion is not in the video so Voxy has never seen anything about that sword. How it got there, what it is and so on. It probably doesnt matter much since she would not get the context probably anyway (especially since she doesnt even recognise the main characters as most of them being the main Hearthstone heroes until they keep showing up in every cinematic and chat mentions it), but it further makes the video selection from the original author weird.
And obviously this way some of the favourite cinematics of people watching are skipped. Nevertheless the main intro cinematics of all the expansion are included so I guess this video achieved the goal mostly.
Some of them made sense (the end of the SoO raid is the only visual we have that leads into the WoD trailer), while skipping the Warbringers trailers aside from Sylvanas doesn't add anything to the other cinematics, but yes, skipping the Sargeras sword plunge makes the War Within very awkward, but I guess since it didn't go directly into BFA (which is more on Blizzard than anything), it would feel random until you got to the end of the cinematic.
If you want to check out a channel that's been doing reactions to ALL of the cinematics (including the in-game quest related ones) in chronological order (about half way done with Shadowlands atm), go look at Phil Hartshorn's page. It's not just a "ooh that's cool" type of reactions, but from the PoV of someone who studies film and cinematography.
«Old Soldier» is always missing. I mean… WTF?
@@BakedHotdog If you're looking for feedback and insight from someone who says they understand the industry, that's fine. Just don't be so naive as to believe those reactions are even the least bit genuine.
Agreed. This is such a weird compilation. It includes Garrosh's end, but not Arthas's. It has ingame cinematics, but not all of the proper ones. And it includes a random assortment of the artsy ones.
To this day I'm not happy with the direction they took Sylvanas, but god damn, that "FOR THE HORDE!" still gives me chills.
A shame they took her down that well. And made that sick shout, feel oh so hollow now with context...
lets hope chronicles 4 fixed that error
yeah, i didn't like it either. But I like the direction they took with the forsaken. Squashed their beef with the Worgens, formed the Desolate Council to Govern themselves. It was pretty great. Basically showed they didn't need no "banshee queen".
Man they missed some really important cinematics in this
Definitely missing The Old Soldier
@@el_diabolical1 death to saurfang ! hail Sylvanas the true queen
@@Wollfanges Long live character assassinations of beloved female leads? I don't miss Blizzard's complete incapability to not do some "my bitch wife, amirite?" bullshit. Honestly pleasantly surprised Alexstraza wasn't retconned into being a directionless pawn with angst issues this expansion after what they did to Jaina and Sylvanas in the past, fingers crossed for a better tomorrow I suppose...
@@Flamewarden_Honoushugoshin You just want marie sue's, imperfect characters are superior. Jaina is completely fine. Sylvanas was asassinated not by blizzard but by serial sexual predators that no longer work there.
@@NanoLT Huh? What part of thinking Jaina completely abandoning the oath she killed her own father (or at least played a part in his death) over as soon as there was a shift in the Horde's leadership was a stupid writing choice means I "want Marie Sues"? Her power wasn't what people loved about her, it was her dedication to her ideals, even in the face of her love, Arthas, or her father. Writing that out of her character was...pretty abhorrent. It's one of the many reasons I stand firmly by the belief that from the beginning of the Garrosh arc to the end of Shadowlands they completely failed the series for not having any respect for any of the established characters they were writing for (I guess Anduin and Saurfang had a kinda decent arc? A lot of the rest just kinda acted irrationally or got Ned Stark'd without any kind of payoff or underlying critique, Show style instead of Book style). And yeah, It probably was the shitty sex pests fault, in both cases. Glad they are gone.
It's fine to have flawed characters, but it feels real fucking weird to have a character completely give up on a struggle they had been fighting over their entire life the moment a traumatic even happens when their whole life has been that struggle...I dunno I just never bought the whole "Jaina is mean now and hates orcs" shit. Like why wasn't she right there trying to reinstate Saurfang and Thrall, or make clandestine meetings with dissidents within the Horde? "Kill them all" just literally makes no sense for her character, who has seen death before in this conflict, unless I'm missing another cop-out bullshit like some demon was controlling her or something. Like I'm sorry but even a big arcane bomb isn't really justification enough for one of the most intelligent and rational characters the history of Warcraft becoming essentially a "women dumb and emotional" joke by some jackass in the writing room. I dunno, maybe I'm outa line, but I feel like she suffered at least as Sylvanas from the terrible conditions at Blizzard at the time...
I'd honestly suggest watching all the in game cutscenes from mists of Pandaria on wards pretty much if you want to see the actual story for these trailers to make sense. It's pretty weird that they included the occasional scene but not others. Plus yknow, farm that reaction content for free views!
Can't believe they didn't include the Jaina Warbringers, like, it DEFINED the BfA cinematics for tons of people
A true crime!!!!
@@itsyaboihermanand retcond jaina story .... Not my fault mommy its the orcs fault, daady was good not a warmongering maniac......
@@dimvots6729 It did not do that, it showed the perspective of the Kul'tiran nation and Jaina's own struggles with the Horde's constant betrayals and thinking that her father may have been right
@@BurakkuHishou it was a pathetic attempt to buy sympathy from the fans, but she is by far the biggest piece of sh**T from the three stooges that had a warbringer episode... First she betrayed her father, the man who she owes being alive to, for a bunch of orcs, then later on she betrays those orcs because they did exactly what her father told her they would do... She makes the other two look like petty war criminals
@@BurakkuHishou Jaina was already the ultimate Mary Sue in the game because whenever she did anything dodgy, it just got handwaved by the characters. That cutscene was the ultimate pampering of an already overly pampered character.
The Warchief Pre Shadowlands: "The spirits have granted me clarity."
Me after Shadowlands: "Did they, though? Did they really?" 😖
im honestly a bit surprised it took so long for anduin to start having serious existential dread and PTSD. The kid has been through allot since he was introduced.
Well he was always positive, the complete opposite of his fhater. And yet he broke when he was a murder machine. He is hard on himself for what he has done. He doesn t care he was mind controlled. And yet i think the best evolution his characther had was when he decided to be a bit like if father (and his father like him). I find him really really really really too naive before that
@@DiabloTommaso he was too naive, but he was also a child. and theres a charm to childlike naivety. Seeing the world for what you wish it was instead of what you know it is. The fact he is more haunted now just means he is growing up.
im jsut hoping they dont do what i think they are gonna do with him and make him a PTSD burn out that needs to be replaced. but we will see.
@@DiabloTommaso did he actually kill anybody being a Jailor's puppet? He stabbed an Archon but she lives. Maybe killed a dozen of players but we can resurrect ourselves so that's doesn't count. For me he's just being a drama queen. Blizzard want us to sympathize with him but I cant see why
@@ltwatlas6948 you don t get Anduin s characther and that s fine. He didn t want to be king. When he accepted that role he wanted to protect everyone. Sarufang died, his father died, he lead and army to war and the casualty were immense. Eaven in the cinematic is underlined how all the soldiers were moved to the front. He was alredy mentaly proven and than he became a tool.
@@ltwatlas6948 Anduin was tortured physically and mentally (probably spiritually too) until his will submitted to the Jailer, after which he was puppeted and forced to fight his former friends and allies. If that is not reason for PTSD, then what the fuck is? Do you also think soldiers returning from the battlefield with PTSD are drama queens, if they haven't killed anyone?
The flight path thing, yeah, that hit pretty hard back in the day. You'd go out into the second zone after the first one, finish some quests and then have one that sent you back to your capital city, to learn some new spells or whatever. So you'd fly back and then open up the map and go "holy crap that's one zone.... and there's a whole other 10 or so of those on this continent and then a whole other continent as well!?"
Or how big of a deal it felt actually getting to 1 gold back in those early days when money was relatively tight and knowing there were things that'd cost a 1000 of those.
For me there was also exploring areas we'd been through in the strategy games, interacting with characters we'd controlled and such. It's funny to think about how long the time period between Frozen Throne and WoW releasing was. It wasn't that long really but when it finally came out it felt like I'd been waiting to play WoW for a decade or something, even 6 months feels like an age when you're young and now it's been 2 decades basically and some amount of that has gone by in a flash.
Bro the time thing is totally true the time flys by now that I don't play anymore but we used too play lol everyday waiting on expansion years took forever it seemed
On one hand having that first flightpath was *amazing* when you just realized the scale of the world. On the other, the first time you took a flightpath as a solo player going from the northernmost flightpath of a continent to the most southern one because you didn't have the knowledge to just buy a portal from another player was _brutal_ .
lol no what was brutal was starting a night elf and trying to get to Stormwind as soon as you could by foot.
@@hadoken95 That at least involved some input instead of watching a timer countdown until you go afk on the flight path. I did that run a couple of times, but it didn't feel even as close to as brutal as seeing a 15+ minute wait on a flight path.
Where is Warbringers: Azshara? CMON DAMMIT, we need to give Voxy Sunken City backstory asap!
Warbringers: Jaina is also missing and opening cinematic to Lordaeron before they enter throne room. Even though Warbringers: Jaina was more of a music video it still provides context to the story that follows.
That sword was aimed at the heart of azeroth by the Titan Sargeras (the same titan whos blood is the source of fel magic, the same magic that turned the orcs green when they drank mannoroths blood in the warlords cinimatic) The reason they didn't drink it in the cinematic is because garrosh (son of grommash the guy who said "we will never be slaves" and the guy thrall killed with lightning traveled back in time and warned his father about the consequences of drinking that blood) The war within is part of a world soul saga (they have announced the next 3 expansions of Warcraft at once this is the first one in the world soul saga) it will be about fighting for the heart of the world so to speak.
Wrath of the Lich King is the best one, even people who don’t play WoW have heard about it
"even people who don’t play WoW have heard about it"
That fact doesn't tell anything about wow wotlk
@@different_stuff Wrath was when the game had the highest peaking number of players ever, and is still highly regarded as one of the best if not the best expansion ever made by wow players, better? jeez..
@@RamseZ76 wrath was the "end" of wow. the all things what people hated. were intreoduced in wotlk. Plus blizzard was under Activision when was wotlk so....
Wrath trailer is awesome but WoD,TWW are so much better
WoD is the best cinematic, though.
It's quite good, I especially like the voiceover contrasting with how things turned out.
The last 4-5 seconds always looked odd to me though. The whole thing looks detailed and 'real' then Arthus' nose/mouth look like rubber.
I still get chills and goosebumps watching that first trailer 20 years later.
100% the battle for Azeroth cinematic was the best! Both sides giving chills in the same cinematic Is just so dope! That Banshee scream though! I still wish they had a toy that had that scream and her banshee form, so damn good!
Voxy watching you react to these videos even though youbare not so familiar with the varying storyline and characters was awesome!
So thirsty. Chug-a-lug!
Geez. The smile on your face as you watch is infectious. I had a lot of fun watching these alongside you
55:18 I love that side-eye the forsaken banner carrier gives her. Shame the story just... well you know. The cinematic team never failed to deliver though.
So... to put a few things into perspective... lol
I'll start with Mists of Pandaria.. Garrosh (Red Orc that was struck with lightning by thrall) was made warchief of the Horde. During his reign, he committed war crimes against Pandaria during the entire expansion. That led Thrall to make him "Answer for his crimes" and the Panda's put him on trial. What they didn't show is that Garrosh escaped and entered the Cavern's of Time... Which leads to the next expansion "Warlord's of Draenor"
The intro of WoD said "35 Years Ago" because he went back in time (Alternate timeline) to save his dad from drinking the Demon blood. That is why Gul'Dan (Red eyed Orc) said "This was not our destiny" and Garrosh replied with "Times Change"... Skip to end of expansion, Gul'Dan entered the portal to our current timeline and brough the demons with him. Which leads to the "Legion" expansion.
In Legion, many things happened that is too much to explain, so I'll make it short. In the end, we go to the seat of the Pantheon (basically Olympus) and meet the Titan's. Amongst those Titan's, is Sargeras (The God of War respectfully) and the leader of the Legion.. as a Titan, well.. he's the size of the planet. When we freed the other titan's that he imprisoned, they got together and pulled his ass back to the pantheon stating "Brother, your crusade is OVER!"... well of course he didn't like that, so right before he was ripped from the planet, he summoned his sword and plunged it into the planet before the legion was wiped out for good.
Battle for Azeroth was straight forward. Horde vs. Alliance. But with Sylvanas, she had plans. It was all a big game to make everyone kill each other on both sides because she made a pact with the Jailer long before that (Jailer is the Lich King's leader in the Shadowlands). Skip, skip, skip, skip... Sylvanas used the power of the Jailer to turn Anduin into a Death Knight (What Arthas/Lich King was). Though Anduin was freed of that grasp, regret took a toll on him. Anduin was a Paladin, and the way the light works in this world, is that if you believe you deserve the light, and you're using it for a good cause, you will have it. Otherwise, you won't. So through Anduin's regret (As stated in the last cinematic) he said "I'm not that person anymore. I have no light. Not after what I've seen... not after what I've done." So now he's just a regular warrior with no light (You can also tell that his sword no longer has a ball of light within it either as it did in the Battle for Azeroth trailer). And at the end, Thrall stated that he isn't sure who's causing the visions, but the Sword was aimed at SOMEONE. I figure in piecing it together, Sargeras wanted to have the last laugh and break some ancient evil out from the world... basically pulling a "If I can't have the planet, nobody can" type move. And there you have it lol.
I didn't mention Dragonflight because it seemed entirely irrelevant to the story. The dragon's used to be the planets defenders back in Cataclysm, and the end of that expansion became "The age of Mortal's." The dragon's were irrelevant to the story from Cataclysm leading up to Dragonflight. They basically came back and said "It's our time again." whoopty dooo...
Watching these again gave me the chills and that's as someone who's basically been playing since the beginning as a kid. Wrath is definitely my favorite and where I got my official start and became a DK for life.
Started playing WoW as a kid in 2004, and even though I quit some time ago, these cinematics still give me goosebumps
Just to be clear, Saurfang is the living embodiment of the meme "Beware old men in professions where men die young."
All of these WOW cinematics hit me right in the nostalgia - get me so hype! New subber btw, nice to meet yall /moo (Tauren main)
aaah the racist race
Love whatching these with you Voxy ^^ Blizzard trailers was the reason I got into there games way back when.
I have seen this trailer soooo many times, and every single time when the singing comes in, it gets me right in the feels every time. So much nostalgia for me in this trailer. Not that of times way back when, cuz i was in my early 20's :D, but time spent with friends.
These are not all of the cinematics just to let you know. You skipped a bunch of them.
This is so funny man, keep it up, love to see more!
They jumped the Broken Shore Cinematic wtf…….
Had the exact same feeling on my first flightpath too at roughly the same age, it was the teldrassil to auberdine path and it amazed me. Teldrassil was awesome but it felt like such an enclosed space like other games I'd played before, and suddenly I was over an ocean heading towards an entire world. Amazing feeling.
The Warbringer Videos for WoD Legion and Bfa are pretty awesome if you want to add to Wow reaction. Unique Artstyle to get a bit of Lore for each of their expension.
I just love that you had a big smile on yo face for the whole lich king cinematic. (I do the same thing because it's probably my favourite expac, although "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!!!" is pretty good too) We were eatin good in wrath and BC huh...
Oh no!! they left out old soldier :(
I share that feeling. The first time I took a flight path. After playing for several weeks. Only a couple of hours per day but still. A long time. And all of a sudden. Elevated. seeing all of the land I quested through from above. And the feeling of grandeur and epic scale that was left to experience. Nostalgia. One of a kind game experience achieved. I hear you. I agree.
1. Her thirsting over Illidan is lowkey comedy gold
2. Arthas is to this day Blizzard's golden goose and they KNOW IT.
He is literally the best villain they've ever created and the fact that his expansion is widely considered the peak of WoW's popularity is like a shadow they still haven't been able to get out from. Helps that the cinematic is as good now as it was back then.
3. Anduin turning into MANDUIN over the years is honestly an awesome character arc.
4. Your confusion with Shadowlands echoes how the community felt.
Them doing nothing with Bolvar as the Lich King after years of buildup, Sylvannas getting redeemed (or at least getting a second chance) but Arthas being condemned for bis crimes despite their very similar circumstances and the Jailer being bootleg Thanos with a plan we STILL don't understand to this day is what makes Shadowlands the worst expansion storywise in my opinion.
Arthas DOESN T NEED REDEPTION. Really guys. He was always an ego maniac and had always people to stop him and make him reason. He doomed himself and almost the entire planet.
That said shadowlands could have been really good if they didn t rush it. Storywhise like they made it it s just forgettable that s eaven worse than bad imo.
Bolvar was wasted? Not so sure. He has not enough story behind him to be something interesting. A stand alone expansion wuold have made him cheap arthas 2.0.
Could he have been an ally? Maybe. I don t like this idea as well.
Sylvanas wasn't redeemed. She's still farming souls in the Maw.
Honestly so much stuff since like Cata when they ran out of all the loose story threads left from Warcraft III has been just an absolute mess. Like I'm sure there are some competent writers on the team because every now and then we get a genuinely good character arc or plot that makes enough sense to be passable, but there are literally dozens of character assassinations and "but why though?" story threads for every one of those. I'm not saying there can't be twists or hidden motives that only get revealed years later, but I swear the lead writers for the last several years were just like "cheap plot twists mean the story is interesting, right?". I'm still not fully convinced they have any fucking clue what they want the horde to be and just keep retreading the LITERAL plot point of the Orc campaign in WCIII:Reign of Chaos (Except now the warmonger sub-faction ISN'T poisoned by a literal giant demon...just fucking a long chain of fucking dumbasses that have no real plans for their own people beyond "war I guess" or like you said, w/e the fuck all the Jailer shit was about. Like, I almost wish the main story would stop jerking off the Titans' dicks for 2 seconds to write a coherent plot that doesn't retcon half the entire Warcraft story...maybe Azeroth being born will actually change something, like how FFIVX reinvented itself after 1.X got scrapped with A Realm Reborn)
@@DiabloTommaso 1. Arthas wasn't an ego maniac. He was reckless as hell, but his heart was in the right place until his need for vengeance got the better of him. But once he picked up Frostmourne he can't be held fully accountable for his actions as his soul was literally consumed by it.
2. I'm just saying its hypocritical af that we are supposed to have a level of sympathy for Sylvannas who has done stuff that's just as bad if not worse than Arthas, keep in mind she was the one who started this new war with the Alliance with the sole purpose of sending as many souls as possible to basically giga hell.
3. I feel like Bolvar should have *at least* been more active. The guy was literally asleep up until Legion, where he actually started to feel somewhat relevant again. Then he shows up briefly in BFA and then he stops being the Lich King before Shadowlands even starts properly.
Why even bother making Bolvar the Lich King then if he's just gomna be a plot device
@@LuckySmurf she kind of is?
Yeah they didn't magically forgive her, but its clear we're supposed to have sympathy for her, at least on some level.
They also kind of dissociated her from the blame by making her soul split into 2 halves like Uther's did.
"many will not understand.." RIP voljin.. i.. still dont understand.. but i do not forgive bliz.. losing him, in that way, was the end of wow's future for me..
He was themost underrated, smartest underdog, and wise beyond his long ears..
warcraft 3 and those first few cinematics caused me to have a nearly 10 year WoW addiction. lol
it's a good thing that the intro of the video didn't spoil the cinematics at all
1: if you're enjoying cinematics and want more they made new cinematics for the new wow classic games they're sorta fun aimed right at players. 2: they used that stop animation for cutscenes like for patches & stuff not new expansions 3: in another reaction comments we were all discussing whether saurfang & thrall were sending body language messages to each other especially when Saurfang asked "(family) where are they" and Thrall said "near" and that was good enough cause danger near we don't need family mixed up with it. 4: I started playing in BFA and have played ever since so boo to anyone saying they're bad expansions just because we were grinding like crazy for gear that ended up all unbalanced, the plot kept zigzagging, nothing to do for months with no new content etc etc lol. 5: oh and the Jaina cinematics from BFA make a movie all their own if you can find that set watch them 6: Sylvanas raid fight was mega hard Anduin raid fight was mega hard Jailer raid fight was pffft because Jailer was an empty puppet badguy
I'm so mad that they skipped one of the most important cinematic. Right after the Sylvanas Warbringers, they should show Old Soldier, and then the Battle for Azeroth opening cinematic.
I really enjoy seeing people react to cinematics of games that I love. It is kind of a shame though that most videos you tend to find online are only showing the shiny intro cinematics and leave out most if not all cutscenes that can also be very entertaining to watch and are essential to understand a bit of the story behind it all.
If you want to know more about the story and how it all began I would recommend looking up (or playing through) the cinematics and cutscenes of Warcraft 3. The first two Warcraft games also have some story and lore but can be a bit rough to get through.
Someone also mentioned Starcraft 2 and it would be awesome to see a reaction to that as well. Same as with World of Warcraft it is all about the time you want to spend on the cinematics and cutscenes. The length of videos that I have seen others react to can range from 2 - 7 hours.
Thank you for giving this a go and I hope you enjoyed it!
33:00 the animation style is that of a digital comic book, it was a special presentation style for hype series, starting with Legion's Harbingers series, THIS one is Sylvanas' Warbringer video, which was one of three for BFA.
FOR THE ALLIANCE!!! NIGHT ELF
ahhh seing how you got emotional at saurfang's death, you wouldve definitely cried if you watched the Old Soldier cinematic beforehand. That video compilation was kinda shitty it skips some important stuff.
I have to say, when the gigantic boarder on the sky-ship took the engine/turbine with him on the way down I was first like: "Waaaaay to go, got rid of the enemy but checkmated himself anyway.". Then after a few seconds I realized that letting that thing stay onboard would have been a way more successful way of suicide and my emotions changed to reluctant amusement, haha.
"You are not prepared....", "You... ARE NOT PREPARED!!!"
The chills back when it was released, it is funny how u get the same chills from the WotLK cinematic, I guess it just depends on when u started playing
Most Warcraft fans had played through the warcraft games(before world of warcraft came) so we knew Arthas and Illidan already before, so when TBC released it was just an amazing feeling of adventure knowing u could soon fight Illidan 💗
Wows most misunderstood hero
the ''Dead Guy'' is Nathanos he was a human in love with Sylvanas. He died and Sylvanas resurected him inside the body of his dead nephew... and hes the assholest of em all
Nathanos, AKA "Blizzard's less than subtle depiction of what they think is the Sylvanas fanbase."
Ah man... started right at the end of Vanilla and played through Legion. Ended up stopping at that point, but still remember the good times and still have occasional urges to play.
this is all the expansions and like previously mentioned, all the minor patches in between and ending cutscenes also exists :)
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As someone who played WoW for too many years, and is a huge Critical role fan, it's so funky looking back and having both Laura and Liam in parts of the game, didn't know them back then, but if i wanted anyone to voice over narrate my life, i would pick Liam O'Brien.
the voice of Sylvanas is the best female voice ingame ever.
Every time I see the cinematic of Mists of Pandaria I nearly start crying. It was the first addon I played with my friends, where we really could play together and I will never forget it for that
Wrath of the Lich King was and is still to this day, hands down bar none, the BEST Warcraft cinematic of ALL TIME.
At this point, I'm going to do my own compilation XD people keep reacting to this one and is missing several
Someone liked this comment so I have to said I did it 🤣 it's almost 3h 😅
Anduin is a character we watched grow from a boy to the king. His mother was written to be extremely gentle and caring human and died very young while trying to broker peace in the kingdom. I feel Anduin is written to reflect his mother. He looks scared because he isn't a bloodthirsty warrior. Anduin even taught Varian that peace was the most honorable goal. He is gentle, caring, and intelligent, much like his mother. Instead of reacting to his fear with violence, or control, Anduin only wants peace and justice.
Out of all the characters Chris Metzen and the wow team made, I think Anduin is the one they have made to represent the purest parts of humanity. Note that before Saurfang and Varian sacrifice themselves they both shout "For Azeroth". They were both convinced by Anduin that peace and the world are more important than the grudges and wars. They both became martyrs for Azeroth wielding the same ancient sword which Anduin now wields.
wait what!? it took them THIS LONG to address the GIANT SWORD STABBED INTO AZEROTH from legion?
technically it was addressed at the end of Legion when the artifact weapons we'd spent the whole expansion powering up were used to turn it off, and then in BfA when we went around the world collecting the blood of the planet to put back in. At this point it's just landscape.
They skipped the wrath gate and ending cinematic from WotLK. :(
It doesn't matter how many times I see the lick king trailer or frankly shadowlands trailer too ... chills literal chills. Every - freaking - time!
Voxy, I was waiting for your reaction to Battle for Azeroth! I was so excited to see you have the same same reaction i did to it. I love d it so much, I told my kids to play cut scene that at my Funeral.
fyi will edit this comment a lot
5:23 mana wyrms
8:08 you should see it (the cinematic) in 8k ai remastered , its fucking sublime 😇
39:06 still have tears of awesomeness about his ult hes about to pop , aka a mass resurrect spell .
1:18:17 the war within will take place within the earth of the planet with subterranean diverse ecobiology locations . look up blizzcon war within features and youll know the details of what they plan to do within that expansion 🙂
the wrath of the lich king trailer has to be one the best trailers ever. ive never even played wow but that trailer make me hyped
watched the whole thing and love the vid
These still give me shivers. I was in high school when this came out and burning crusade. It was incredible. We went from this, to this skeleton of blizzard we have now. I used to love their games. How the mighty have fallen.
Btw why it missed cinematic about WHY Sylvanas burned Teldrassil, that Genn when was peace attacked Sylvanas and destroyed future for the Forsaken. And Fun fact Saurfang was the one who made plan about Attack on Teldrassil which than tried to sabotage. (and beacuse of his mistakes aka can't end life of Malfurion, all went for plan B - If you can't kill leader, kill his people)
it missed quite a few, the night before battle for lorderon as well
The music in these trailers are always so well done.
so allow me to clarify a few things for the confused or those who dont know
cataclysm trailer: the damage deathwing did to stormwind actually persisted until legion i believe you would actually see giant dragon claws and destroyed statues at the entrance and deathwings coming into azeroth completely warped the world around it
siege of ogrimmar ending: the lady whispering to varian is infact jaina the mage hero from hearthstone
nagrand ending: the fight between garrosh and thrall is known as a mak'gora wich is an orcish battle to the DEATH and many ppl believe what thrall did to garrosh using the elements was considered cheating also thrall DID make garrosh warchief so that is a factual statement during said mak'gora
during the opening of legion the alliance and horde fought side by side against the legion however voljin got stabbed from behind during the assault wich prompted sylvanas to call for the retreat this led a misguided message to the alliance making them believe the horde left them for dead wich ultimately costed varian wrynn anduins dad his life
the animation that played during the burning of the teldrassil tree is usually used when in direct references to the warcraft novel warbringers
during the battle for azeroth cinematic the troll slinging lightning everywhere and who charged anduin is NOT a known character in the game...that is until the community rallied behind him harder then ever dubbing him the iconic "zappi boi" meme
following into the next cinematic the horde were pushed back into lorderon but the area outside was so badly plagued that it was uninhabitable even by the undead varok saurfang was captured by the alliance and sylvanas actions really started causing ppl to second guess her as warchief
it was when sylvanas killed saurfang and screamed the horde is nothing that everyone gave up on her espically since saurfang is EVERYTHING it means to be horde he lives breathes and bleeds for the horde and he proudly died for it as well
also being able to split shalamayne the sword varok used against sylvanas is not something just anyone can do
as for what happened to sylvanas and how she suddenly ended up passed out there are several cinematics that were skipped that will fill the empty questions so maybe a part 2
Thrall: "But that sword..." Voxy: *shocked Pikachu face* I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I will just say Jesse Cox's reaction to the "that sword" moment is amazing
Loved it! Let's watch more things
the Shadowlands cinematic will always give me the chills. so ffin cool, Sylvanas is such a badass.
You can just tell that a Sylvanas simp wrote her. I think she has become absolutely arrogant, stupid and annoying with Shadowlands.
My brother and his wife are both big MTG players. I used to be into it a looong time ago, so I decided to play a couple games with decks that they had made the last time I was in the US. That shit has gotten COMPLICATED. Like wow. I was barely able to come up with a strategy with how much stuff was going on at once. I can't even imagine trying to learn how to play that game if I didn't already know the basics.
Ive seen the BFA one 100 time but still get the chills when Sylvanas shout's for the HORDE!!!
I am confused as to why so many of your chatters are hating on the animation for the Sylvanas world tree burning cinematic. There are several other cinematics in the game using the same animation that are used to provide exposition on some of the key parts of the story in said expansion. In addition, it was a part of a grouping of cinematics called "Warbringers" that all shared the same art style. The animation/art is beautiful imo.
Someone in the comments said the cinematics were older than him and now I wanna crawl in a hole and die cuz there's no fuckin way that there are WOW cinematics that are older than some people.
All of the cinematics up to MoP (not including) were the best cinematic graphics of their time. Blizzard remained on top of such things until around MoP, where they were a little too late to have accomplished having the best cinematic graphics.
@voxy you should consider a watchthrough of Taliesen's videos. He's got really good analysis/commentary about these from at least BFA onward examining the backstory and meaning in the cinematics.
After all these years, i get chills from the Lich King cinematic. What a time.
15:50 - there's even a commercial trailer for MoP that takes place after this, the two in this video get drunk at a tavern.
Alliance: "we got beat by a Panda..."
Horde: "WITH A BIG HAT!!" *passes out drunk*
Warlords of Draenor might have been an expansion of little content but it was overall a good expansion. Loved the tribal title screen music but Wrath was by far the best ever!
1:21 ok boys, you can now stop holding back the tears, we are home.
You should really do starcraft 2 as well. They are also really good
Slightly odd question considering the channel but has she done all the MTG ones? There's been some good ones over the years IMO (I particularly like the Eldritch Moon one, the Theros underworld one (specifically the one with Erebos narrating) and everyone loves the War of the Spark one).
She watched them all on stream and compared them to the hearthstone ones, but she didn’t upload it
oh wow i remember skipping school for wotlk drop. the nostalgia from these are so insane
YOU DARE ENTER MY REALM? YOU ARE NOT PREPARED ... still gives me goosebumps til this day .... lok'tar ogar
8:01 - this music is hitting so hard. Its been such a long Time ago. Love it.
I was expecting the video to include the Legion in game cinematics showing more of Illidan for Voxy to see him more AND the broken shore cinematic
The reanimation of the dragon scene in GoT was in 2017 and reanimation in WotLK was in 2007. And it STILL wayy doper than the GoT one. How is this possible ?
Warbringers jaina and ashara is a must voxy. They're both SO GOOD.
Azeroth "Hear me!"
Voxy "Scared me"
i would give everything to experience all the cinematics for the first time once again
I remember when Hearthstone was subtitled as Heroes of Warcraft.
If you started in wrath it's entirely possible that you never saw the original/BC cinematics
The farther into the expansions it gets, the more awesome the ingame cinematics. LIke the death of Varian in Legion!
i played the beta of world of warcraft cuz my brothers friend had a key, my account (that i still have) is from the second day of launsch in EU (the servers was full/crashed) when i tryed to get online, so i tryed the next morning.
Sadge the cinematic showing Anduin being freed by the jailers mindcontrol wasn't watched before the latest one :(
Cool theory about the new cinematic, the order he says it, "not after what i have seen, not after what i have done", someone pointed out that the Light is just one of the Seven cosmic powers fighting for control of Azeroth, but doing so in a very subtle way, gaining favor with the inhabitants and Anduin has seen this and does no longer want to have anything to do with the Light, since he realizes that Azeroth is the one thing to fight for, to defend xD
This was very focused on Sylvanas story tho, nothing about Guldans rise and fall, nothing about Illidan, nothing about Tyralyon, so many huge characters overlooked :(
Great video overall, was kinda daunting seeing the chat throughout tho
Not to mention Tyrande!
Voxy, don't feel too bad. I didn't start playing until Cataclysm and even then when I did start the expansion was nearly almost over.