What can I say besides that I’m about to throw up?
This must’ve been the least effort they ever put into a cutscene, not even a pre rendered cinematic, guess this just isn’t as important as Anduin talking to Sylvanas. And no, I’m not talking about the lack of a dialogue.
To give you an idea how little effort they put into this, let me show you this Ashenvale cutscene they created as a bug fix for the Kodo getting stuck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_zFCpSHbcc
Atleast the quality and effort of this cutscene matches with the effort put into the Night Elf story as a whole. Guess this is the final middle finger and their way of showing that they don’t care, and that they aren’t willing to put any ressources or effort into Night Elf content that isn’t negative for them.
Colour me surprised (not). And no, there isn’t another cutscene coming after that, because why the hell would they make half of the ritual like this, and then give the other half a cinematic? That doesn’t make sense.
I have noticed that the night warrior arc ends the same way it started. With no effort, no love and no ressources wasted:
It’s not really looking so good so far, all that being said, and while I would like to give the benefit of the doubt in most situations, those involving Blizzard are not among them. I’ve been let down too many times and for too long.
I suppose they do have gaps to fill, but it confuses me that this is a standalone cinematic that wasn’t released as a part of the supposed larger one.
Are we collectively missing the huge “WORK IN PROGRESS” and fact there’s a rendered cutscene after??? Are we just collectively deciding to ignore it???
Feedback is often the most useful when something is in draft - that means you can get your suggestions in before it goes through the governance and finalization process.
This kind of thing is obvious in every setting except apparently this one.
Which is not itself evidence that the event takes place in a cinematic, or even onscreen. I respect that you have basis for a prediction, however again, we are lacking a metadata element or the cinematic itself that would get us from “prediction” to “proof”.
It’s more that I’m not giving Blizzard the benefit of the doubt having been an eleven-year observer of their more recent trends with Night Elves. Might there be a cinematic? Sure, but will I presume without that evidence that it must necessarily exist? No.
If there is no cutscene after this in-game cinematic, its not like, “Oh the scene would still work.”
No, it wouldn’t. It would make absolutely no sense. Literally incomprehensible. You’d be standing there going, “Wait…what?” Like how everybody was when the dialogue was datamined before knowing the whole context.
Even for as bad as Blizzard has been about the story, which is very, this is ridiculous on its face. I donno why I’m even trying with you but yeah, when the cutscene comes out, make sure to come back with all the fervor you are in here admitting how wrong you are.
There’s nothing to be wrong about here. I’m not the one making a prediction, you are. If information comes out to validate that prediction tomorrow, I could agree with you that at that point in time evidence exists to back your assertion, however that does not change that at this point in time that evidence is not adequate. In the meantime, I am not stating one way or the other that there will or won’t be a cinematic. My assertion is that I don’t know, and that we don’t have enough information yet to know.
As for something not making sense being an impediment, I disagree that it would be. Blizzard historically has not been constrained by things like that.
