I would, because one is claiming to be something that it isn’t…the WW cinematic is claiming to be something that it should have been called a launch cinematic not an official one…
Honestly, probably the worst one.
Even though I commend the team at Blizzard for the originality and the clearly amazing graphics, that’s all there is to it. It doesn’t provide us as players any insight about anything to do with the expansion. There’s no story thread of any kind. It feels empty and soulless, like just a flex on how far they’ve come with animation.
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I guess you’re suggesting they made a typo in the video’s title, sure hope so.
Totally agree with this. so many movies/games come out now-a-days with only good graphics and visuals but empty of soul, guess wow cinematics are following that trend too, sadly.
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I like it. But I would feel more hype for the game of it wasn’t such a hot mess at the moment.
This kinds smells a tiny bit like damage control.
I liked it. It was darker. Reminded me of Diablo.
It reminded me of the vanilla/tbc trailers as its just bits here and there showing the game’s expanion visuals but not related to any one story.
I quite liked it. Especially the part where they showed the spider city and the dancing troll interacting with the tree and the shield lady activating her light eye and shield
Here’s my thought. They throw 90% of the budget on the cinematics because they know it gets people hyped and will order the new expansion. The 10% remaining goes into changing systems that were working just fine without anyone ever asking for a change and breaking the rest of the game.
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I don’t love how the music shifts with the scenes–the flow is way off. Some cool moments, but nothing that really drew me in. If comparing to the BfA cinematic, this was complete garbage.
It has a certain vibe to it–and it does hype me up a bit. Not something that I’ll be rewatching in anticipation, though.
If comparing to the DF cinematic–I like the WW theme much more.
It’s great! I love it’s darker vibes and I hope the music is in the game.
I don’t think it can compare to the others. It’s just a teaser.
The best game promotion cinematics were WotLK, Cataclysm, WoD, and MoP. Those made me anticipate the expansions and when they dropped I hit the game on all cylinders firing.
BFA I bought 1 year after launch. Shadowlands was purchased 6 months after launch, played 1 month. Dragonflight I bought a month and a half ago maybe 2 months.
My enthusiasm waned in part based on the on screen trailers.
All comments of Faerin looking like a man (she does) and jokes aside, the cinematic really hyped me up for the expansion. I personally thought it was really cool. I’m feeling the new robot dwarves a lot more after seeing their customizations and them in the trailer, but I LOVED the Na’vi ripoff half-troll-half-elf woman.
A lot of it was because of Warcraft 3 but WotLK’s cinematic was peak hype train.
No she doesn’t clearly never see a Woman in your life 
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Hard to tell if I have or not. No one will tell me what a woman is. But you’re probably right and I haven’t.
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Technically and visually impressive, S+, as always.
In terms of content… well…
It should be a crime to waste expensive CGI on empty scenes with no plot or tension.
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Bro, the dwarf was just awesome. Freaken one dude heaving a giant anvil to crush the meal. I was absolutely hyped about the earthen.
The elf women? I dunno, she looked alright at least. Id ont really get way everyone are so unhinged about it from this trailer but she was probably the low point of it until it reveals the soldiers behind her.
The nature women, kinda cool. THe spiders looked dope as well.
All and all, an awesome teaser. I dont get the negativity about it. If youre saying there is no story in it then you must be obtuse or something.
Oh so your one of those people got it
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Dude, come on. Saying there was no story is just flat out wrong. I mean, if you need someone to spoon feed you the story, then okay, but there is a lot of context given for what is going on within the trailer. It is light on story but there is clearly this theme of gearing up and drawing lines between two factions, then you have more nativists with the plant girl dancing and the one earthen guy building some sort of massive thing.
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I think it was interesting. It showed us a lot about the different people we’re going to be interacting with. I don’t know their names off hand besides Earthen, but we do get a good sense of their identity. The Elf-Troll seems to be practicing some form of Shamanism or Druidism and passion rather than balance seems to be a driving force. The Human being war torn and getting ready for battle, her facial expression was pretty spot on. The Earthen crafting in a giant forge was very dwarf like and I thought that was interesting.
I do think some of the shots felt AI generated, like odd close ups of faces. But that could be me thinking everything is AI now.
I would like to see, at some point, another cinematic which showcases the classes, like we saw in Vanilla and TBC. If Blizzard wanted to show us what the different classes would be doing in relation to what ever expansion specific plot character or element, that’d be fine, but I genuinely want more player-character driven cinematics.