More trailers like they did in wrath and cataclysm. Show the extent of the villains power.
In ways to improve they should do it better like castlevania lords of shadow 2 just no narration just pure listening and getting the feels.
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Are you telling me that shadowlands trailer didn’t make the jailer look super strong
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It didn’t it just didn’t make me care. With wrath and cataclysm even though I wasn’t here for it I got the sense I NEEDED to stop deathwing and arthas. Didn’t get that feeling from Shadowlands or BFA for my main faction.
Dragonflight has an antagonist?
That’s my issue is not yet they wanted to showcase a trailer different however I have no motivation to help the dragons out take their role as protectors of Azeroth considering I’m aware of what they are capable of doing to the world in terms of deathwing. Might be a personal issue but I think dragons have no business being Azeroth protectors considering deathwing is a prime example they are no different than mortals.
I dont think DF needs a villain for the showcase.
And i think illidan did a better job then wotlk at showcasing the villain. I mean wotlk is just some dude wandering around before summoning a dragon.
Our stony boi did the same thing but managed to be much more epic and summon numerous dragons in the DF trailer…
I disagree wrath did it better precisely because you saw what he was preparing for. Illidan I will agree did good but not compared to wrath you could actually see what he was capable of. He had an army on standby. Granted this is all personal preference but dragonflight needed some sort of a hint not really a reveal of the villian but alluding to something. Maybe I missed it tbh
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Lich king is just an over hyped darth vader wannabe.
The villain doesnt need to be present to be a good trailer.
Look at mists, bfa, or even the original 2004 trailer.
But like you said its personal preference. I may think your wrong, but you can still think what you want.
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I like stuff like this, but a lot can be said for a properly built up subtle villain too. Problem is less that Blizz isn’t showcasing its villains properly, and more that they’re just not making villains properly, period.
Edit: With a few exceptions. Denathrius was fun.
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NONE ESCAPE THE MAW!
Lol.
I actaully do like when villains are hyped but, but Zovaal ain’t it, like, at all.
The nail in the coffin was him crying when he was defeated. What a flop.
I’d say greater than 80% odds the Infinite Dragonflight are the real villain of the expansion, considering assets for 10.1 have already been data-mined that point in that direction.
I mean, why wouldn’t they be the villain to begin with?
Because people whine about “knowing too much”.
Ion Hazzikostas says we will know the identity of the final boss by the end of 10.0, but people asked for a “chill” MoP-like expansion that was a bit more laid-back.
I also think that partially the reason we don’t have an overbearing villain is so that DF can serve as the leveling foundation in the future. It will likely replace BFA as the default, and they don’t want to hang a shadow over it by having this major villain you never see. The villain being hidden behind patches means if you ignore the patch content IE via leveling through, you can enjoy the leveling without feeling a lack of resolution.
Especially if, as some of us think, the leveling experience will end with us delivering a major blow against the Primalists that renders them less of a threat (a threat we finish off in the raid, but essentially akin to when we defeated Garrosh in Nagrand - that was a satisfying conclusion to the expansion if you leveled through it).
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Totally agree about DF setting up to be the new “leveling” expansion in the future.
It just has that “evergreen” pine smell to it, y’know? It just seems obvious to me. Especially if you look at the contained narrative, the remastering of a lot of older assets that are “core WoW”, the lack of the “Planeteers”, etc.
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I think the dragonflight theme (dragons obv) is probably a smokescreen to some extent, as far as the plot and lore goes at least.
Battle for Azeroth was supposed to be the big PVP expansion after all, and I think I remember an interview where they confirmed BFA was NOT going to be an old gods expansion.
I think it’s going to start with dragons, then go into something weird… and then pull the “good all along, but here’s a BIGGER threat”
Nope. Gunna be like MoP where the real antagonist is the friends we find along the way.
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Yea…he looked too strong and very powerful by showing his Great NIPPLES!!!
I think dragonflight also did not need the speech at the end I was into the cinematic right until they added the cliche now the heroes arrive.
I think context is important here! In Wrath it’s pretty obvious the big bad is going to be Arthas, so he’s shown off bringing about a resurgence of the Scourge. Same for Deathwing sundering Azeroth and scarring the landscape.
For Dragonflight, we’re going into a completely unknown landscape and the dragonflights are making a return to relevance, so there’s a lot of mystery! Keeping whatever we’re gonna be up against a mystery is the best way to go about it I think!
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That’s fair I can’t really come up with any points to refute that