Crossroads Cinematic, Essence VFX, Mike Morhaime Interviews

So now everyone is going to hate the Forsaken and Sylvanas because Baine is a Traitor?

Remember the scrapped Barrens warfront? This stupid but likely Siege of Thunderbluff stuff may play a part in bringing that back.

Just played the war campaign and watched the cinematic myself. Got a tear in my eye now.

This story is terrible.

Written with a coat hanger.

Well, Mike Morhaime got that right.

Not doing DOTA was a huge lapse of judgement back then, and Blizz is still paying for that to this day.

wow is now some crap drama tv series

HotS was one of the only MOBAs that really got my attention. The combination of streamlined gameplay, focus on the team not the individual, and Blizzard heroes really hooked me. It was the Team Fortress of the MOBAs. I hope they continue to support it, even if it at the snail's pace they are right now.

man, this is terrible at so many levels.

I always knew how much Blizzard regretted not doing something with DotA when it was born in WC3. So much potential has been lost just because how stuck up they acted. HotS has a lot more issues than just arriving to late though.

Wow hey Alliance girl... kill the Horde!

Yah no. I’m not gonna right sylvanas for that pack of traitors

Originally Posted by Monkeymootwo

I honestly don't really see what the problem is here. WoW and Warcrafts writing has never been OMG SO AMAZING, BfA's storytelling seems absolutely on par with everything else they've done, I'd say a step ahead of Legion tbh. I dunno, I just take it for what it is.

I wonder if during Warcraft III's time people bitched about the Alliance and Horde teaming up to take down the Legion.

But anywho, nice cinematic

Nah people still had some grip on reality in Warcraft 3, it was just a good game. Now the factions are basically treated like fantasy Republicans and Democrats and everyone's a partisan.

Originally Posted by Monkeymootwo

I honestly don't really see what the problem is here. WoW and Warcrafts writing has never been OMG SO AMAZING, BfA's storytelling seems absolutely on par with everything else they've done, I'd say a step ahead of Legion tbh. I dunno, I just take it for what it is.

I wonder if during Warcraft III's time people bitched about the Alliance and Horde teaming up to take down the Legion.

But anywho, nice cinematic

Well, only a few missions involved teaming up with other races. So we didn't have much to dislike anyway. And I think finales are ok to have team-ups. I'm worried about WarCraft 4 though. I was fine with Orcs and Trolls hanging out together and Human and Dwarves/Gnomes. But I think the game would be ruined if they did Alliance/Horde. Undead and Night Elf are too unique to have their culture/design eroded by Modern WoW-like shit.

I'm going to miss being Horde

When Wrathion talked at the MoP, he said the sieging Thunderbluff was going to be horrible and will cause lots of casualties.

I wont fear a faction less wow. For me, this cinematic sets up how the faction merge will be ruined.

Sure do love how forced the story feels just to set a stage of faction merging so Blizzard can just write a solitary story of Anduin and the Anduiny Adventures starring Anduin.

Everytime i watch one of these cutscenes and see them finally talk rather than roar and run at each other i think for a moment that maybe some significant change will happen.

Then i remember i thought the same at Siege of Orgrimmar and this faction horseshit is never going away and the story will always use it as the filler plot nobody seems to care about since its never going to have a victor, only both uniting to route out a faction leader gone bad.

Did Jaina forgot Shaw in Orgrimmar or did he hid fast after the teleport? hahahah

Essenses look amazing, they really do.