I stopped playing WoW’s questlines after the first patch because I got bored. But I still farm mounts, transmogs, and other stuff from time to time. So I noticed that the new patch includes a questline about Danath Trollbane (a boring character, in my opinion), so I skipped it. I even stopped watching cinematics and ignored the goblin questline and Galligix’s cinematics.
Recently, I was watching videos from some YouTubers who talk about WoW lore and the current state of the game, and I found out that the Legacy of Arathor cinematic is apparently really bad. The character models during the fight scenes look like PNGs being dragged around with a mouse to make it look “interactive.” Is that real? Or is it just a troll fan-made cinematic?
I know Blizzard has been lazy lately, but this feels like a new level of lazy. Honestly, I think I could do a better job myself and I don’t even know how to make machinimas. I remember a guy named Percula who used to create amazing WoW cinematics in his free time. He was just a fan with a bit of machinima knowledge. Let me see if I can find that video (searching) yep, found it! It was from The Burning Crusade era, a cinematic from way back in 2008
https:// www.dailymotion. com/video/xh3uqt
Yes sorry my english is not so good, is not my native language. But you can understand me.
It’s not a cinematic. It’s a cutscene. Which uses in game models. And some of it bugged out for Asmon on his crap computer, so it suddenly became popular for people to trash a cutscene (which those have never been spectacular) and claim it’s a cinematic, when it’s not.
The cutscene played perfectly fine for me. The storyline was just bad overall.
The cutscene wasn’t bugged for me, but it was laughably bad. Assmon’s opinion is completely irrelevant in this manner, but it does suck when people get lumped in because they happen to also see the weirdness.
Well… it looks terrible. Why they release that? Is 2025 offer a little more, the game won millions the last year, just pay some more to a good designer.
It looks like every other cutscene: in game models that don’t have voice lines that match up perfectly and in game model movements. It’s just a bad story, which means the cutscene is part of the bad story.
Of course it is. It’s centered around the Humans. The generic, store brand race. The only reason the get any attention is they were on the box of Warcraft RTS, 30 years ago. It’s way past time to move the spotlight far away from them.
As stated before, in-game cutscene and not a pre-rendered cinematic. Blizz shifted into doing more of these since BfA because they think we like to have our characters be part of the scene instead of playing a pretty (and expensive) cinematic without us, the hero, onscreen.
Also, no offense, but why do you care? I’m just curious because you seem to either despise or not care about the game but suddenly a small mid-patch quest’s cutscene is the straw that broke the camel’s back
I might also be salty because I don’t like how Asmon’s vitriol twisted the discourse from the usual forum fishshow to actual trolling and overall obnoxious takes about this specific cutscene and the characters in it
I mean… it is lame and it does look pretty bad. They’ve done a better job before with other cinematics, but this one had pretty strange animations and the facial expressions of Marran are just wild. Overexaggerated and absolutely weird.
Then you maybe didn’t read their post properly. Nowhere did they imply that they “despise” the game or don’t care about it. They only said they stopped doing storylines recently because they’re boring, but play the rest of the game. You can find certain aspects of the game boring and bad and still enjoy others.
Every opinion suddenly gets “vitriolic” and “trolling” somehow as soon as Asmongold shares it. The forums and reddit hated this cutscene and storyline with a passion even before Asmongold said it looked bad.
I’ve never seen anybody talked about the cutscene being bugged.
sigh Oh Rhielle.
They also did a better job with other cutscenes, The intro to the zone of Shadowlands anybody?
Imma go a head step further to say that the basic cutscenes prior to BFA looked better because it doesn’t look like they put so much effort into making it look werid. Hot take i know, but there’s a reason why these cutscenes were never talked about then, vs BFA to now.
So person who admits to not caring about story, videos, lore etc SUDDENLY becomes interested in the Legacy of Arathor after watching a youtube grifter cough Asmongold cough told him to be angry about it.
I dont know what video hes talking about. Only Legacy of Arathor video I’ve seen wasn’t a cinematic but a video using game engine rendering.
But a guy who never watches or pays attentions to WoW videos is suddenly an expert on the quality of Blizzard’s videos? Yeah, nah.
The cut scene is bad because it gives no closure just a plain as day foreshadowing of future content. Could’ve been fleshed out better with the movements but not the worst. Definitely bad for a company who has resources to make higher quality productions. The “Shield Bash” was probably the worst part as it defies all logic and science. The scene felt rushed and forced. The writing and dialogue was empty minded. Maybe instead of letting her go give a truly great battle scene where she is forced to flee. The Arathor quest started off alright it just got bad and lazy as it went on.
