Mists of Pandaria Cinematic Trailer

Fantastically done cinematic. But still didn't feel nearly as epic as the Wrath, Cata, or BC intro.

It was great until the Pandaren showed up. The attempted 'comedy' just sort of felt out of place.

Originally Posted by Dexiefy

oh god... this is some really well made...crap...
It felt like disney movie...
How do you transition from this

and this

and this

into disney? seriously...
All previous cinematics show agression, confilct, evil lurking around or plain destruction like cata video, which i cba to link, into some fucking family comedy...

Ehm you do know theres no evil this time around? They now focus the whole Horde VS Alliance thing so ofc its lesser bad ass it the previous was

What the fuck was that, it started nicely, got me excited with ships, and then turned into some fucking comedy. Of course I laughed at it, cuz it was funny, but I thought this expansion was about war and I hoped that MoP trailer would be all grim and dark till the fucking end. I even hoped that they would animate atleast a little bit of Theramor Isle going down and with Grom and Jaina appearance, but this, this is beyond fucking bad.

Really great work.

Best parts are imho the human handing over the spear to the orc, and the pandaren placing the "hammer" back into its stand.

I'm going to quote Domitrix on the WoW forums since this person hit the nail right on the head:

"I love it.

It starts off with the iconic Orc Vs Human fight that we havn't seen since warcraft 3. Even after being shipwrecked, they're fighting in a foreign land, ignorant of it and destroying it in the process just to kill one another.

This brings the attention of Chen. So he breaks up the fight and only acts in defense while wearing them down in the process to the point that he can show the two their surroundings and make them realize where they now are.

He was pretty much saying "Hey! Quit fighting, calm down, and open your eyes to this new world instead of destroying it through blind hatred of one another!" but through combat and then bu pulling away the mists at the end.

Just brilliant. It's definitely up there with the other cinematic intros in it's own way"

Originally Posted by 4KhazModan

Pretty good cinematic. Still can't top the WotLK though, I doubt any WoW cinematic will be able to top that one.

"My son, the day you were born, the very forests of Lordaeron whispered the name... Arthas."
That phrase in the WLK cinematic still gives me chills. The best and most epic cinematic they've made so far from a storytelling point of view.

This one is quite good ...from a technical point of view ...but it failed to explain why would the alliance and horde join forces with the pandaren ...the monk was more like "leave or i'll kick your asses again" at the end. And still we are missing gnomes from a WoW cinematic! :P

Still, a very good one ...and as someone else said, it did remind me of the vanilla cinematic (which is good).

Originally Posted by rpdrichard

The trailer remind me of kung fu panda, know chen appeared before the movie but the style of the cinematic feels that way

Uh, maybe that's because both movies are inspired by Chinese culture, feature Chinese architecture, Chinese music, and Chinese martial arts?

Sigh.

It's like watching The Hobbit trailer and going "the trailer remind me of snow white"

Originally Posted by Tuuuu Drengen

Ehm you do know theres no evil this time around? They now focus the whole Horde VS Alliance thing so ofc its lesser bad ass it the previous was

Ehm you do know that mop supposedly is to be about WAR between horde and alliance?oh right, you do, you just wrote it... Im pretty sure during war people are getting killed, there is destruction everywhere, violence, all kinds of bad and evil stuff.
Here it feels like a compedy for 10 year olds, not even close to what warcraft universe was all about
Comming up next, Sargeras eating a lolipop

It was fine up to the point where the panda showed up. At first it showed the seriousness of war between the alliance and horde. Fighting for survival, ya know all the dark stuff which is really cool in WoW though not really looked into much. Then the panda showed up and it became more of a comedy and to be honest really did remind me of Kung Fu Panda. I do like a little comedy in the cinematic, but this comedy lasted way to long and felt a little childish.

Do not get me wrong I'm probably gonna play the expansion and I'm sure its gonna be good. But the cinematic I feel just didn't show what the upcoming expansion might offer, there was no defined enemy or problem. Hopefully the real content is enjoyable and a little darker than what I've been shown.

it was so awesome!

Loved it! Bravo Blizzard.

This calls for a new sig

Couldn't resist xD

I thought it was frickin awesome.

Some people will never get it. Those of you that didn't like it I say WoW is not your game anymore. Please find the nearest exit; those of us who likes this trailer and still enjoys the game don't care what you think.

Originally Posted by Dexiefy

oh god... this is some really well made...crap...
It felt like disney movie...
How do you transition from this

and this

and this

into disney? seriously...
All previous cinematics show agression, confilct, evil lurking around or plain destruction( like cata video, which i cba to link) into some fucking family comedy...

i do agree it was a little Disney, but the general thing was still good, and only a few secs of it were bad

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.
one of the best trailers ive seen from blizzard. such AMAZING animation

Originally Posted by Drunkennoodles

I'm going to quote Domitrix on the WoW forums since this person hit the nail right on the head:

"I love it.

It starts off with the iconic Orc Vs Human fight that we havn't seen since warcraft 3. Even after being shipwrecked, they're fighting in a foreign land, ignorant of it and destroying it in the process just to kill one another.

This brings the attention of Chen. So he breaks up the fight and only acts in defense while wearing them down in the process to the point that he can show the two their surroundings and make them realize where they now are.

He was pretty much saying "Hey! Quit fighting, calm down, and open your eyes to this new world instead of destroying it through blind hatred of one another!" but through combat and then bu pulling away the mists at the end.

Just brilliant. It's definitely up there with the other cinematic intros in it's own way"

well put imo =D

I think this is maybe the best cinematic: i really like the classic-cinematic, but this has story, dark at the beginning but ended bright and funny. We had 3 dark cinematics, why not one time something more funnier.

And the cinematics above; lets review of the last 3 cinematics from Blizz:

BC: Big Bad Boss screams defeat me
WotLK: Big Bad boss screams defeat me
Cata: Big Bad boss screams defeat me

i don't know if a cinematic in MoP with a Big Bad boss that screams "defeat me" would be much better.

Originally Posted by Dragoncurry

Adolescent angst is why humor and the concept of a panda doesn't work in world of warcraft

It certainly works, but I completely agree with teenage angst being the real reason for complaints. Adults just want to have fun, for adolescents it doesn't look "cool" enough.

Originally Posted by WyvernVJ

...but it failed to explain why would the alliance and horde join forces with the pandaren ...the monk was more like "leave or i'll kick your asses again" at the end.

It doesn't need to explain that. That's explained by the playable Pandaren quests on the Wandering Isle (note: NOT the Pandaren on Pandaria). I feel Chen was more like "I just got you guys to stop fighting and help each other."