Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Cheezits]

I love you, Blizzard, but your dialog is trash-tier. I wanted to die from cringe - please for the love of all that is holy, stop with the saccharine turbo exposition. My four-year-old watches less hugbox stuff than this.

One more year of this btw (unless Tyr kills someone)

[Cosmic Janitor]

So what is frosty the aspect of? Also, I will never be able to take her - and her flight - seriously with those pathetic teeny-tiny tinsy-winsy stubby arms.

[Reive]

I love you team 2, but your dialog is trash-tier. I wanted to die from cringe - please for the love of all that is holy, stop with the saccharine turbo exposition. My four-year-old watches less hugbox stuff than this.

it's actually incredible how off the vibe of the game has been this expansion. dragonflight was made by people with high estrogen levels

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Why are random mid-expansion cinematics like the ones featuring the Incarnates always long and pretty engaging, while the ones at the end are either short, uninteresting, or both?

There's this thing called production schedules and pipelines. Basically when you get to the tail-end of a current product less resources are allocated to the existing product as people are moving over to produce and deliver content for the next product.

What we're seeing here with 10.2 has basically been the last fart of the old structure where there weren't 3 Teams dancing in tact and this was the last time we'll see such a messy conclusion.

At least that is what the cope is about this circumstance.

[Gurahk]

There's this thing called production schedules and pipelines. Basically when you get to the tail-end of a current product less resources are allocated to the existing product as people are moving over to produce and deliver content.

What we're seeing here with 10.2 has basically been the last fart of the old structure where there weren't 3 Teams dancing in tact and this was the last time we'll see such a messy conclusion.

At least that is what the cope is about this circumstance.

I envy your optimism. But regardless of execution in the future, I fear the writing will stay the same.

[Raetary]

Well, it was meh.
The initial cinematic was pretty, but the dialogue in the second ruined it.

I was flat out expecting Alex to go "the real blessings were the friends we made along the way".

[Nymrohd]

Lovely so Azeroth is a baby first one imprisoned by the Titans now seems like a reasonable bet.

[Reive]

There's this thing called production schedules and pipelines. Basically when you get to the tail-end of a current product less resources are allocated to the existing product as people are moving over to produce and deliver content for the next product.

What we're seeing here with 10.2 has basically been the last fart of the old structure where there weren't 3 Teams dancing in tact and this was the last time we'll see such a messy conclusion.

At least that is what the cope is about this circumstance.

yeah this is just a cope. this is the third expansion in a row with bad writing and low quality cinematics. those who made this are just not good at their job.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Well, it was meh.
The initial cinematic was pretty, but the dialogue in the second ruined it.

I was flat out expecting Alex to go "the real blessings were the friends we made along the way".

Not that her line was any better. I also get the feeling there is supposed to be some form rejection of the titans between the lines of her dialog, which given the story direction feels a bit forced, though maybe that is just me because I simply can't trust Blizzard in such regards.

[Zers Editor]

Not that her line was any better. I also get the feeling there is supposed to be some form rejection of the titans between the lines of her dialog, which given the story direction feels a bit forced, though maybe that is just me because I simply can't trust Blizzard in such regards.

They never really "followed" them. They only cared about keeping Azeroth safe (which is essentially what they were asked to do/how they interpreted it).

[Thomir]

Not that her line was any better. I also get the feeling there is supposed to be some form rejection of the titans between the lines of her dialog, which given the story direction feels a bit forced, though maybe that is just me because I simply can't trust Blizzard in such regards.

I'm tired ...

[Cheezits]

I really do not understand why they made an unencrypted, easily dataminable and spoilery spell effect for the aspects getting blessed by the tree... if it happens in a CUTSCENE.

Like, why? It ruined the whole surprise. What was the idea?

[Thomir]

The cinematic should've been the tree bleeding into reality.

[Marlamin]

I really do not understand why they made an unencrypted, easily dataminable and spoilery spell effect for the aspects getting blessed by the tree... if it happens in a CUTSCENE.

Like, why? It ruined the whole surprise. What was the idea?

Simple, it was missed in the encryption pass.

So...

Any update on Amirdrassil as a whole yet?

Literally waiting for someone with a kill to go outside to check if it's playable, but it is definitely decrypted.

[Cheezits]

Simple, it was missed in the encryption pass.

Why does it exist at all is my question. It isn't an ability used in the fight. It happens in the cutscene.

Did they really need an ability for the tree turning yellow for a split second beforehand?

[Marlamin]

Why does it exist at all is my question. It isn't an ability used in the fight.

Probably an aura to apply the visual effect to the eyes for the NPCs.

[Reive]

when was the last cool non cringe cinematic? probably denathrius vs renathal, right?

[Houle]

Wow, this....was incredibly boring. Fyrakk is the most shafted xpac final boss of them all so far, he feels and is presented like an afterthought. The aspects get their powers back,but this time from Azeroth, not the titans (sounds more and more like Azeroth or all world souls are not naturally meant to be titans), woooow. How long ago in the lore was Cata, when Alexstrasza declared the "age of mortals"? But oh well, at least watching the Cata finale and this back to back makes it somewhat funny in its stupidity.

Also lol at Odyn just getting frozen into an ice block by Vyranoth snapping her fingers. This is the dude who went to war with the OGs and played a large part in destroying the Black Empire? This chump is the Prime Designate the titans left behind to watch over the world in their name?

[Raetary]

I don't get why they felt they needed to even make cinematic 2.

Why not spend the resources that went into that, into a cinematic that's actually exciting to watch and leave the dialogue as just a cutscene or a simple stay awhile and listen/prompted dialogue?

The Aspects turning into dragons and just reveling in their magic again (even if nothing of actual note was to happen), would've been a lot more exciting to watch than having Alex explain the plot to us.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

I don't get why they felt they needed to even make cinematic 2.

Why not spend the resources that went into that into a cinematic that's actually exciting to watch and leave the dialogue as just a cutscene or a simple stay awhile and listen?

The Aspects turning into dragons and just reveling in their magic again (even if nothing of actual note was to happen), would've been a lot more exciting to watch than having Alex explain the plot to us.

It is expensive, they do not have the budget to do such things anymore. The Saurfang Cinematics in BFA probably blew all the budget for such cinematics endeavours.

Supplementary material would be cheaper to sustain the narrative at this point with outsourced work because at least they could keep everything a bit more cohesive and glued together but even that they refuse to do these days beyond releasing a prequel book at the end of the expansion it is supposed to be for.