Remember guys. Kung-Fu Panda invented Pandas, Kung-Fu, and ancient Chinese culture. That movie alone influenced China to follow in its footsteps exactly.
Remember guys. Kung-Fu Panda invented Pandas, Kung-Fu, and ancient Chinese culture. That movie alone influenced China to follow in its footsteps exactly.
It's all liable to change. Look at the Worgen for example, they were changed heavily between the initial preview and release.I will say that what they showed at Blizzcon looked more Kung Fu Pandaish then previous concept art would have indicated. I was hoping for something "darker".
If you want to nitpick, Spyro: Year of the Dragon had anthropomorphic pandas in it, and it was released in 2000.
I think it's pretty obvious what Blizzard is doing here, and I'm kind of surprised it's not as obvious to everyone else. KFP came out after the Pandarens were first described publicly. That gives Blizzard a tremendous amount of freedom to make Pandarens very KFP-like and cash in on their popularity without fear of retaliation in court...
So why wouldn't they do so? It's basically free money.
Jesus , you guys ok? Might need prescription meds after all the wrong doings of blizzard. LOL.
Doesn't matter. You show 99.999% of people who own a TV or have been to a movie theatre in the last 5 years a clip of a video game in which an anthropomorphic panda does karate and ask them what they think it is, they'll tell you "Looks like a Kung-Fu Panda video game."
WoW is now the Kung-Fu Panda MMO.
"The sun is in the same location?" Do you know a goddamn thing about photography? All of that is related to aesthetic quality, and there's only so many ways to skin the cat, so to speak.
Otherwise, I was surprised how dissimilar I actually saw those two pictures. I thought for sure that this time there would be some reasonable argument.
Do you know anything about Pandaren? Stormstout was gluttonous, and he came waaay before KFP.2. Racial traits remove any doubt
Gourmand/Epicurean: Po loved food and ate in excess (which is the exact definition of Gourmand). He was also a cook. There's really no argument here. Blizzard did not pull those traits out of thin air and just happen to have them match KFP exactly while having nothing to do with the WC3 Brewmaster.
Inner Peace: Inner Peace plays a large, mentioned-by-name role in KFP, with Po told that if he finds it, it will lead to a drastic improvement in the speed of his training. Herp derp, rested exp. Again, exact reference to KFP, yet has absolutely nothing to do with the WC3 Pandaren Brewmaster. Unless you consider a drunken haze to be Inner Peace.
Bouncy: Some may have initially thought that this was some sort of reference to cuddly bears or something, but think back to how much bouncing around Po did and the actual source of the name becomes clear. This also has nothing to do with the hardy, drunken-brawling, never-falling WC3 Brewmaster.
Inner peace is a common Eastern Asian theme. So no shit you can find it in both
Nobody said Pandaren would be bouncing around like Jack Black in KFP, they simply take less falling damage because they are big and fat. Pandaren are considered big and fat because PANDAS are considered big and fat. You will never see a skinny anthropomorphized panda, and that I fucking guarantee.
I don't see enough evidence to convict.Merely having a Panda-like creature in WC3 does not get Blizz off the hook for the similarities, especially not when the Pandaren revealed have much more in common with KFP than the WC3 Brewmaster. Again, this thread is not meant to be criticism of that fact, just to point out how the similarities are blatant, and too many + too exact to be coincidence. I don't know if it's a marketing tactic (pop culture reference = instant wider appeal) or if they were just looking for inspiration to flesh out the idea, but it's there and it's undeniable.
Please stop saying that the comparison isn't valid unless you can explain the above similarities without arguing that they are a series of big, logic-defying coincidences that Blizzard's legal and PR departments mysteriously missed.
A hate post filled with derp, nothing new.
It could have been worse, they could have tapped the Twilight demographic - yuk
Movie divided by Game=Some people will play it+Some people won't.....hmm that sounds about right......you're welcome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaq62VCcnew
Nevar 4get Exarch Cyn.
The Horde and The Alliance haven't changed since Warcraft 2. Pandaren are the first true change to either faction for 12 years.
Why would there have to be something wrong with it? What Blizzard is doing is creating some "hari puttar" or whatever the Indian Harry Potter was called. These things usually suck and suck hard unless they're parodies. Point is, it's bad either way, Uldum bad. If it's serious, it's some lame bootleg ripoff, if not it turns WoW into a complete comedy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaq62VCcnew
Nevar 4get Exarch Cyn.
The Horde and The Alliance haven't changed since Warcraft 2. Pandaren are the first true change to either faction for 12 years.
Because Blizzard is the king of pop culture ripoffs since Cata(Uldum and most of the new "old" quests). If you had read what I wrote then there is only 2 options with it. 1) It's serious - then it's a really lame Kung Fu panda ripoff (although KFP itself was good) and those are usually painfully bad and embarrassing or 2) It's a parody, which means WoW will be turned into another Uldum-like pop culture reference mess.