I enjoyed the Alliance cinematic, with Jaina being all steely and Gelbin getting a Big Damn Hero moment.
Must be nice to get those.
Blizzard, can you change the story so the Horde players can feel good about their faction, please? When was the last time a Horde player got to feel good after a cinematic?
Instead, ours always begin with the ominous music and we get ready for another swing of the villain bat. Or possibly we get sad music and someone dying or quitting.
i sympatize with the sentiment.
It would be nice if they stop wasting money with the CGI cinematics on saurfang and make more ingame cinematics with a big moment where at least you can feel heroic, like i don’t know after defeating g’thun.
Closest we got was Old Soldier which was basically “we know you guys feel terribad for burning down the tree like the senseless monsters you are, but hey there might be hope!”
Then the rest of bfa so far has been “jk, the horde is completely and utterly hopeless”
If they would have built on that hope that the Old Soldier gave us just a little bit, it wouldnt be so bad. Like, you can keep pounding the horde into the dirt like you are, but give us a LITTLE bit of a silver lining to make us believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Maybe you can share with us what kind of imagery you had in mind?
I dont think having an epic and heroic music would help if you are seeing horde commit acts of villainy.
The BFA intro cinema allowed Horde players to be proud of themselves.
But that was written by Metzen, 2 years ago, and he’s no longer with the company…
If we actually HAD heroes left on our faction, we probably could.
Which is also funny considering that intro cinema is not even canon.
The BfA intro scenario was like the horde defending their ground saurfang getting hyped by sylvanas after an apparently unprovoked attack by the alliance and anduin putting his big boi pants and attacking the horde.
but that was until we find out that the alliance was retaliating the genocide on the nelfs who were attacked unprovoked by the horde.
that isn’t heroic isn’t it?
The Intro made it sound like the Alliance were the aggressors with the whole “we have paid the price for sharing this world and forgotten what has made us strong”
apparently what made them strong is genocide.
what a great message blizz.
To be fair, it worked for the Scourge.
Do these not count btw?
What would you like that would make you feel like a hero?
Old Soldier could have been great if it wasn’t immediately followed by Saurfang trying to kill himself again and then sulking in a jail cell where he refuses to come back to the Horde with the PC. Don’t @ me treng.
Could she not have been referring to Stormheim?
And when did they put out that the cinematic isn’t canon?
Pretty much this, she contradicts herself about “paying the price for sharing this world”, when she’s the cause for the Alliance retaliation.
She isn’t neccesarily talking about the battle that is going on in the cinematic though. I operate on the assumption that if something doesn’t make sense, it’s because I’m wrong… not that it always works that way.
But if Sylvanas is talking about Stormheim, which was the last time she paid a price for something, it makes sense. The Horde and Alliance were working together at the time (sharing this world). That makes sense to me.
“Ours is a cycle of hatred, alliances forged and broken”
“We have paid the price for sharing this world”
This describes what happened at Stormheim pretty accurately. Genn and Rogers reignite the cycle of hatred, and the cooperation between the Alliance and Horde was over. Genn foiled her plans there and made her pay the price for letting her guard down against them.
It also leads up to the discussion between her and Saurfang in “A good war” which the short stories were the next thing to come out after the video.
This patch is suppose to be an “Alliance get payback” moment and make the alliance players feel a bit better about themselves. I won’t shed tears if there are no pro-Horde cinematics this time around.
Right now we can only wait and hope they’ve got better things in store for us in future patches.
I don’t think Blizzard has said anything about it. There was a long thread on the old board where some people said it was not canon, so maybe that is what Atreis is talking about.
More that what happened in the intro does not line up whatsoever with the siege. Horde never surged forward and counterattacked, Slyvanus never destroyed a tower, Anduin did not mass rez. There was no “for the Horde” moment in the entire siege, with suarfang yelling at us not to abandon our honor