Worse cinematic, 8.3 or Shadowlands?

Darrisoc-moon-guard · January 23, 2020, 10:31am

I liked the Shadowlands cinematic, despite it being about how great and mighty sylvanas is again. It was definitely interesting.
Death of N’Zoth was just incredibly underwhelming. Not only was it way too short, but it was definitely the end of Return of the King. Like, I think we’re missing content, something we haven’t gotten to see yet, and won’t until the pre-patch events or something.

Hàlfpînt-stormrage · January 23, 2020, 10:54am

Their wuite siilar, huge characters going down very easy with no real weight to the videos…me scared

Tentaclatrix-kelthuzad · January 23, 2020, 11:02am

I’ve been normally one to defend Blizzard this Expansion, but you nailed it there buddy.

I couldn’t agree more. That cinematic could have been something spectacular. But despite how pretty it was, I still just… Don’t want to revisit it… That’s a first for a launch Cinematic.

Velsharon-drakkari · January 23, 2020, 11:16am

Shadowlands cinematic was worst in every way except for visual quality.

Velsharon-drakkari · January 23, 2020, 11:19am

She will be another Kerrigan.

Symbioserous-tanaris · January 23, 2020, 11:22am

I dunno.With how badly the shadowlands cinematic was received maybe its a good to time to cut back on them.

Sabbia-moonrunner · January 23, 2020, 11:25am

I liked the Shadowlands cinematic. I mean it was dumb but it was cool. Mostly dumb because Sylvannas is a joke character and the story leading up to that point has been nonsensical at best.

The N’Zoth ending cinematic was a LotRs rip off though and completely deflated whatever kind of villain he was supposed to be.

Lenastus-zuljin · January 23, 2020, 11:46am

8.3 by far.

People hate shadowland cinematic because " muh lich King is the strongest and coolest ever" and because of how they hate so much Sylvanas that they prefer to ignore the Jailer empowering part and just prefer to call it plote armor.

8.3 is just a remake of cata with us killing a vanila enemy with a camehameha is a one minute cinematic.

Lightwinds-proudmoore · January 23, 2020, 11:56am

this THIS!!!
How can they NOT think of this???

Lightwinds-proudmoore · January 23, 2020, 12:02pm

Yes

Nono I don’t ignore it. It just can’t explain enough. Coz I don’t know the Jailor. Do you?

Shypanda-ysera · January 23, 2020, 12:20pm

While the Shadowlands cinematic looked amazing, its content (Sylvanas one-shotting the freaking Lich King) is atrocious. So as bad as that cinematic is, it does have one redeeming quality. Everything about the N’Zoth cinematic - visuals, content, length - is a complete joke. At this point, I’m sad to admit that I fear for the future of my favorite game.

Baridorielor-malfurion · January 23, 2020, 2:46pm

8.3

In the end, i rather have entertainingly bad then an underwhelming amount of nothing.

Eichmann-moon-guard · January 23, 2020, 5:39pm

This thread is VERY interesting, way less lopsided than I thought it would be, a lot of people with different opinions

Averyx-quelthalas · January 23, 2020, 5:41pm

Shadowlands for sure.

I can shrug off with N’zoth being defeated like that. Underwhelming but had to happen so oh well.

Sylvanas being a total Mary Sue in the cinematic and a super emo edgy elf just made me cringe.

Fenshire-feathermoon · January 23, 2020, 5:43pm

Eichmann:

Throughout the history of WoW, whether the game was good or bad, the cinematics were always a high point. WoD was probably the worst expansion, and had the best cinematic in my opinion.

However lately this trend has been broken with the release of Shadowlands Cinematic at Blizzcon. That same day it became the most unliked cinematic ever on their Youtube channel. They didn’t get ratioed but you could argue the big budget intro cinematics for expansions draw a wider audience outside of the WoW playerbase who might not understand the lore as well.

However now with the release of 8.3 the cinematic for this patch it is by far the most downvoted video of a cinematic, in-game or otherwise, they have ever posted. So much so it has been delisted off of Youtube.

So in your opinions, which is the worse of the two? I personally find them both equally bad but for different reasons.

Shadowlands cinematic was great. It got downvotes because it’s cool to hate on Blizzard because of Hong Kong or whatever fake outrage is going on at the time.

N’Zoth finale was hot garbage.

Bronnix-bleeding-hollow · January 23, 2020, 5:47pm

8.3 end cinematic is so lazy and uninspired it stole the death of sauron music from Return of the King. No development no characters saying anything just pew pew laser and copyright infringement.

In the end its an insult to the biggest bad we have had in many years who deserved his own expansion set in Nyotlotha but got shoved into a single patch.

Mikowo-norgannon · January 23, 2020, 5:49pm

8.3 ending cinematic is super disappointing especially compared to the Legion ending. I liked the Shadowlands cinematic. Thought Sylvanas breaking the Helm of Domination was a great moment for her character.

Velsharon-drakkari · January 23, 2020, 5:51pm

It got downvotes because people is sick of almighty Sylvanas.

Fenshire-feathermoon · January 23, 2020, 5:52pm

People LOVED the cinematic, up until their favorite youtuber or streamer said “Mary sue”, then they convinced themselves that it was bad. Pretty normal for the WoW community tbh lol

Elae-nagrand · January 23, 2020, 5:52pm

What cinematic?

There wasn’t one lol.