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Warlords of Draenor In-Game Cinematics
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Warning: Here be spoilers!* Go no further! Turn back now before it’s too late! You have been warned!

The distant echoes of the Iron Horde’s war machine have already begun to reach the ears of Azeroth’s heroes. Soon, the journey into Draenor will begin in earnest—a journey filled with drama, tension, and momentous events that will shape the fate of this world.

To tell this tale, we’ve created more high-quality in-game cinematic footage for Warlords of Draenor than ever before—and as your story unfolds, these cinematics will illustrate some of the key moments of your adventure.

While we generally like to keep story beats like these a surprise, we know some players enjoy seeking out spoilers, and there are always plenty of people who find these files in the beta or on the PTR and share them. To help mitigate the potential for unsuspecting players to accidentally come across these and spoil their own adventure ahead of time, we’ve decided to go ahead and upload them ourselves—and provide plenty of caution and safeguards against watching them accidentally.

Of course, it goes without saying that we recommend you wait and watch these videos in-game as they were meant to be encountered—but if you choose to watch them here below, we hope you enjoy them, and only ask that you allow others to experience the story as they choose. Thank you for your continued excitement and passion for World of Warcraft, and we’ll see you in Draenor!

*What follows are the in-game cinematics that will play at various points during the Warlords of Draenor campaign. We encourage you to play the game and experience them in-context as you progress through Draenor—but if you decide to watch them now, don’t say you haven’t been warned!







This article was originally published in forum thread: Warlords of Draenor In-Game Cinematics started by chaud View original post
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  1. PuppetShowJustice's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sesto View Post
    The Garrosh one leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. They did a good job at expressing Garrosh a bit, but Thrall saying that it's all Garrosh's fault is somewhat stupid. He should have at least taken some of the blame.
    Thrall went into Garrosh's room in SoO and asked him to put down the mantle of Warchief. Garrosh refused. Did Thrall screw up by putting Garrosh in charge in the first place? Probably. But Thrall took every opportunity to try to help Garrosh and yet he refused it every single time. It would be stupid at this point for Thrall to blame himself. Garrosh sealed his own fate by turning against the people he was supposed to lead.
  1. PizzaBobRoss's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Orikon View Post
    Hold on,why exactly would they officially publish this? This is equal to releasing a game and than posting its ending on your official page.

    "While we generally like to keep story beats like these a surprise, we know some players enjoy seeking out spoilers, and there are always plenty of people who find these files in the beta or on the PTR and share them."

    Than keep them in the beta files,or at least on sites like MMO-Champion. No need to post the ending to your every zone just because "there are plenty of people who find these files in the beta".
    The Videos are unlisted, so unless the viewer gets linked to them (such as through MMO-C, thyey can NOT find them on the channel, and they gave a hefty amount of spoiler warnings on the blog post. Whoever watches them will have no excuse regarding being spoiled about anything. Plus, anyone who attempts to spoil will be suspended, and the mods are on standby for when it happens.
  1. BicycleMafioso's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ChaosWolf View Post
    Seriously hoping "Commander" and "General are actual usable titles our character get rewarded, not just something tacked on to our names in quest texts.
    I sincerely hope not; they are already titles in the game, and I got enough upset when they re-introduced them in Cataclysm after their hiatus. Adding in a tertiary source of them would be something I'd highly dislike.
  1. Sesto's Avatar
    Also, the Talador one is incredibly fucking cheesy. Blackhand talks so damn slow and has some of the most generic villain lines ever.
  1. Wildmoon's Avatar
    Holy Shit epicness overloaded.
  1. mmocb3bae280f1's Avatar
    Holy shit that Nagrand cinematic. I wanted to see a fight like this in WoW since vanilla.

    Shit,I officially regret quitting in MoP.
  1. Nozuka's Avatar
    i'm going to wait.
  1. bigfatdan's Avatar
    NOOOOO! MUST NOT WATCH! /puts tape over eyes!
  1. Wildmoon's Avatar
    You know watching this makes me excited for what the future holds for WoW. There will be many more awesome cutscenes in the future!.
  1. mmocb3bae280f1's Avatar
    Shit,these cinematics put the 5.4 patch trailer to shame.
  1. Mooster's Avatar
    Call me a mushy gal, but I am in tears after watching those.. very moving. Wonder why blizz released them though?
  1. Bosen's Avatar
    I enjoyed them a lot.
  1. Fablewynd's Avatar
    The atmostphere and setting of the Nagrand cinematic is so reminiscent of the Warcraft III teaser cinematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7SLY91HOhI
  1. Sesto's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by PuppetShowJustice View Post
    Thrall went into Garrosh's room in SoO and asked him to put down the mantle of Warchief. Garrosh refused. Did Thrall screw up by putting Garrosh in charge in the first place? Probably. But Thrall took every opportunity to try to help Garrosh and yet he refused it every single time. It would be stupid at this point for Thrall to blame himself. Garrosh sealed his own fate by turning against the people he was supposed to lead.
    Thrall hardly took every opportunity to help Garrosh. It was more like "oh shit, gotta go, Garrosh you can be Warchief now k" and then he expected his advisers to do the actual teaching. Thrall is a retard for putting Garrosh into the position without properly educating him on how a Warchief should lead, and he should take some blame for what he did. He already knew Garrosh suffered from emotional issues, and it should have come to no surprise that the son who grew up in the shadow of his father ended up becoming exactly like him.
  1. Wildmoon's Avatar
    Damn, Garrosh you should have known that Thrall had some tricks left and prepared accordingly.
  1. Byucknah The Red's Avatar
    Wow... Thrall in the Nagrand one, the "Noo... You choose your own destiny..."... The emotion in that line was amazing. I know I have seen several people going "Thrall took no responsibility" and it makes me wonder if they even watched the video. Just because its not said in words does not mean its not said. The emotion you could hear in Thralls voice says it all. Its better than a stupid monolog of "I failed, I was a failure, I suck, sorry guys.". It had weight to it, it was the truth but at the same time you could tell Thrall felt regret and disappointment pretty hard.

    As for Blackhand, that was just plain epic. The voice, the movements, the design, all of it truly fits Blackhand! I can not wait to fight Blackhand, he is such an awesome character.
  1. Zoldor's Avatar
    Thrall is looking more and more like Metzen. The guy just has to put himself in each game he makes.

    Videos were good. I enjoyed them all around. The Intro video was probably the weakest in my opinion. The Blackhand model is just too fucking awesome. Puts the Deathwing model to shame.
  1. TheDangerZone's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sesto View Post
    Thrall hardly took every opportunity to help Garrosh. It was more like "oh shit, gotta go, Garrosh you can be Warchief now k" and then he expected his advisers to do the actual teaching. Thrall is a retard for putting Garrosh into the position without properly educating him on how a Warchief should lead, and he should take some blame for what he did. He already knew Garrosh suffered from emotional issues, and it should have come to no surprise that the son who grew up in the shadow of his father ended up becoming exactly like him.
    Thrall is responsible to the horde for putting someone like Garrosh in charge, but he has no blame on Garrosh being a shitstain of such epic proportions. Bad move on part of Thrall, and he is on complete fault for his lack of hindsight, but Garrosh turning into a genocidal tyrant bent on ruling the world is not something Thrall has actual responsibility on. It is your own personal choices and none than your own what matter when you are put through the test and lots of pressure. That is all on Garrosh.
  1. Alayea's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by bison91 View Post
    Really? You liked Wrathgate? It is Blizzard's silliest cinematic ever . Like Hollywood American movies. Same words, same speeches, same pictures, same "on time" stuff and everything else... This is much better.
    (I cleaned up your comment for my benefit. Hope you don't mind.)

    Wrathgate was quite good for its day. Yes, the animations leave something to be desired compared to what we have now, but in my opinion it still stands on its own feet due mainly to how big an event in lore it was. (And a real shame that it was only available for the duration of WotLK. Boo.)
  1. Darknessvamp's Avatar
    I really don't get why Yrel is made out to be such a badass when a majority of WoD she's fretting over everything. Also did I really just see Velen mark Yrel with his symbol, someone who is still in training and doesn't know much about the light in SMV, before turning into a goddamn Naru? Fucking lore retcon right there... Also the Dark Portal ones are really bad considering the context they occur in (a month after we push back the Iron Horde at the portal, "It's too late!" my ass, and after re-enacting benny hill in Tanaan). Also the Nagrand one was balls with Thrall pretending he wasn't at fault when he bounced off to mess about becoming a Dragon Aspect whilst Garrosh had to deal with all the shit he left him without first informing him what was what and then completely ignored the Horde for the whole of MoP until Garrosh got sha-ed up. Also real honourable of Thrall to abide by the rules of Mag-whatever it's called... Oh wait nope he forced the elements to give him the upper hand and win.

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