Dimensius Contained Cinematic - Patch 11.2 Ghosts of K'aresh

Boy I sure do love the writers turning characters into blithering idiots to advance the plot.

"Lets work with Xal" -Literally no sane person

WOW
What a surprising outcome bro.
Top tier story writing continues.

Another dumb cinematic
*teleports behind you*
"Nothing personal kid!"
*drops epic one-liner and teleports away*
Somebody got paid to do this

To much of both Alleria and Xalathat out there at this point. They should wrap it up already gets a bit stale.

Better than DF and SL but that's a very low bar, very much tired of Xal'atath being smug and teleporting away but we knew this was gonna happen, end raid cinematics don't seem to actually conclude anything anymore the way they used to

Alleria continuing the proud Windrunner tradition of fucking things up

Originally Posted by Maljinwo

Alleria continuing the proud Windrunner tradition of fucking things up

Well, to be fair, Alleria wasn't the one that fucked up this time, it was Locus Walker.

All the people bitching about "Xal'atath redemption arc, Xal'atath gonna be Kerrigan 4.0" now are gonna whine about her betrayal being obvious. WoW "fans" are never gonna be happy with the story if they look at it through such a cynical lens.

Everyone is fing immortal and no one can't do shit about anything. Smug villain gets away from dumbo highlighting how clever smug and powerful she is for the 1000th time this year. All the suspense for character is gone at this point. If i'll see Alleria's haircut one more time im gonna throw up.

Originally Posted by Maljinwo

Alleria continuing the proud Windrunner tradition of fucking things up

Locus Walker did the fucking up this time. Not Alleria.

So I assume the "I can't believe they're making Xal'atath a good guy! Writing bad!" outrage crowd is immediately going to pivot to "Well OF COURSE she was going to pull a traitor it was so obvious! Writing bad!" as if the deal being extremely temporary wasn't drilled into our skulls for the entire campaign.

Originally Posted by Mendzia

WOW
What a surprising outcome bro.
Top tier story writing continues.

I actually liked it. Blizzard wasn't playing us, but instead they made it pretty clear during the campaign that she will immediately betray us.

Like what else was gonna happen? Xal screaming "Karesh is free!!!" or what?

I hate to say it but Blizzard really only knows how to write two kinds of female character don't they

- Fucking up at every turn and learning nothing until an unearned victory
- 4d chess smarter than everyone and somehow everyone keeps dropping their guard

Originally Posted by Bwgmon

So I assume the "I can't believe they're making Xal'atath a good guy! Writing bad!" outrage crowd is immediately going to pivot to "Well OF COURSE she was going to pull a traitor it was so obvious! Writing bad!" as if the deal being extremely temporary wasn't drilled into our skulls for the entire campaign.

Yeah I guess people just enjoy being upset.

Originally Posted by EntertainmentNihilist

All the people bitching about "Xal'atath redemption arc, Xal'atath gonna be Kerrigan 4.0" now are gonna whine about her betrayal being obvious. WoW "fans" are never gonna be happy with the story if they look at it through such a cynical lens.

You're missing that blizzard promised to uplift wow story telling in the WSS, to quote Metzen "we ain't messing around" - does anyone truly believe that has been delivered so far? Because so far we've had exactly the same tropes, cliches and predictable plot beats that we've had for years, not to mention one of the worst storylines in recent years with legacy of the arathi; now in fairness who knows exactly how much of war within was already written and made, so I think some amnesty should be granted, but 11.2.x story and Midnight NEEDS to be better than this or they are not living up to their promises, it is that simple

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Originally Posted by RobertMugabe

I actually liked it. Blizzard wasn't playing us, but instead they made it pretty clear during the campaign that she will immediately betray us.

Like what else was gonna happen? Xal screaming "Karesh is free!!!" or what?

Something we didn't all guess would happen last week would have been good

Bland characters make for bland cinematics.

I would've preferred if Wrappy Boy was to have chosen instrumentality and returned all NPCs on Azeroth back into Kool Aid.

But this'll do.

Kinda lame we don't see Dimensius at any point in a cinematic as well, is that the first time that's ever been the case with an endboss?

Originally Posted by Dezolacer

Another dumb cinematic
*teleports behind you*
"Nothing personal kid!"
*drops epic one-liner and teleports away*
Somebody got paid to do this

It was definitely generic. It's basically your average generic WoW cinematic, where the vague dialogue is virtually the same but the faces are different. While it wasn't as bad as the end raid cinematic of Ny'alotha, it's not much better either. Feels more like the team was obligated to put in a cinematic rather than that the situation demanded it.

Originally Posted by vindicator782

Kinda lame we don't see Dimensius at any point in a cinematic as well, is that the first time that's ever been the case with an endboss?

Vanilla and TBC where bosses did this weird thing and just fucking died.

For all of his wisdoms and years of experience and him knowing Xal for a very long time AND YET he didnt fucking see that coming?

Hell I am 40 years old and if I spend few years with someone I would have known most of their traits and stuff already! Locus had many years! for fuck sake..