This incredibly scuffed cutscene, despite having some of the worst, cheap animation rigging I have ever seen in a modern video game, has invoked far more emotions and positive reception than a single thing that has been done for World of Sylvanas.
What happened? Why is this so good? Why was he even in this expansion?
There’s something oddly refreshing about a character pulling a “NO REGRETS”. That might have something to do with it.
They should have included a bonus scene where Rosie the robot from the Jetsons comes by and vacuums up all the dust 
It was a better than expected send off to my favorite character.
Very biased opinion, but despite all he did in MoP and he did some pretty horrible things. Thrall essentially handed the mantle of War chief to an “orc supremacist” and said good luck and walked away. And then bad things started to happen. Weird, right?
He even asked for assistance and was basically ignored. The path could have been avoidable,
I would have loved to see Garrosh mature - not to become another Thrall or Saurfang (wouldn’t mind that though). For him to realize, that despite his honest intentions to strengthen the Horde - he was wrong.
Sadly, we won’t get that but at least he died like a Warchief should (kind of).
I’d also like to say that maybe Blizzard should take not of the direction we’ve been heading and maybe a reason for this is kind of crappy storytelling. Stop having these world ending threats where we must destroy those doing the threats. You are running out of villains.
We still have no real clue on the Jailer’s motivations/intentions. I don’t care about him. There’s no reason to. You’ve sent us to the land of the dead and we’re fighting BOTH KTs again. BOTH.
Imagine if you didn’t always kill off your characters, giving players characters they connect with.
Bald bad guy with a hole in his chest is now a bald bad guy with his WHOLE chest. Oh no! Watch out guys.
Seemed objectively pointless to me.
Instead of pulling on a story thread that could be used for something interesting, they just cut it off.
Fantastic. Now we’re stuck with a confused Sylvanas because our heroes inevitably pathetic notions of morality in a world where we’re suppose to be butchering each other gets in the way.
It’s encoded in horde players - when someone scream FOR THE HORDE we instantly love that
But our faction identity died on the bedrock of Sylvanases ascension.
Which amounted to nothing.
How are our identities so reduced to slag that we get joy from an otherwise disgraced and beaten down, insane Warchief?
Characters aren’t good eternally.
That’s a large part of why Sylvanas sucks so much as a character. She’s lasted long past her use-by date because the writers couldn’t stand the idea of Sylvanas achieving her initial vengeance and not being eternally relevant to the story anymore.
Bringing back Garrosh would have been a terrible idea for the exact reasons of why his final appearance was so compelling.
To bring him back would to have admitted he made mistakes and reconcile with Thrall at the very least, or force him to serve the Jailer.
And just like how Sylvanas with her “good half of her soul” isn’t really Sylvanas, as the audience has never actually known the “good” Sylvanas except for before she rocked up in WC3 only to immediately get killed by Arthas, a “redeemed” Garrosh would lack all the motivations and personality traits that made Garrosh a compelling character in the first place.
I mean you could still bring him back and keep his identity, you’d just to confine his soul to a war machine.
Because Garrosh is actually a good character.
lmao.
Hrnnnh Star Fox.
I knew we’d cross paths eventually.
Its because Garrosh did nothing wrong and we all know it to be true
What would be the purpose of such a character?
Garrosh choosing and the choice being the important part here, obliteration over admitting he was wrong is exactly why his ending was so compelling.
As Sylvanas shows, a compelling death is significantly better for a character than to run them past their prime just because of name value.
Like your suggestion is to make someone whose identity is like 99% being an Orc Warrior into something that ISN’T an Orc Warrior.
Think about that for a second.
“Lok-Tar ogar!”
A soul as hate filled as Garroshes would make a potent weapon for one willing to wield it.
And what would that do for the character of Garrosh?
Humble him to a degree I suppose, depending on how tight a leash can be kept on him.
Garrosh was never a compelling character. His storyline in Nagrand was compelling because he was supposed to make the jump from Emo to Hero.
Instead he seems to come out of his Emo phase… and then the next time we see him he’s doucheymcdoushedgelord arguing with Saurfang (who the writers always make be correct) in Borean Tundra. He is set against an actually compelling character (Saurfang), to prove why his point of view is wrong.
He never got the chance to be a compelling good guy, because the writers “needed” an excuse to justify PVP after Vanilla and BC had basically removed any and all remaining justification for it.
Which sucks.
Yep.
He owns what he did. Liked what he did and why he did it. I can respect that.
Would a humbled Garrosh be Garrosh though?
Like that’s the exact thing I’m talking about. Writers doing everything they can, including ruining the character because they’re too afraid of killing them off or letting them fade into obscurity even if that’s the absolute best thing they could do for that character.
Compelling character != hero.