WoW's Credits Need Improvement

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Have you ever watched WoW’s credits all the way through?

Chances are, you probably haven’t. But if that’s the case, don’t be ashamed. I haven’t either.

You know why?

Because they are BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!

Just generic warcraft music playing as unrelated generic warcraft concept art appears behind the credits. It’s really low effort and a very small amount of people actually enjoy it.

Now why is it so low effort? Doesn’t Blizzard want people to watch it? Don’t the devs want people to see their names on the name thingie?

They should! They made the game! They should get the glory!

Boring credits like these should be a thing of the past. Credits should be enjoyable.

Let me give you some examples:

Doom 2016’s credits are absolutely packed with stuff. I won’t link them because… you know… gore. It’s Doom, after all. But you can search for it on youtube.

Each scene is fully rendered in 3D, with dynamic camera movement and every scene relates somehow to the credits on display. For instance, when they talk about concept artists you see some Demons in vats inside a lab, and when they show the credits for Multiplayer, you get a shot of two different multiplayer marines back to back. Lead Weapons Modeler? Show all the game’s weapons!

At the very end they recreate the cover of the original Doom game and it’s awesome!

This is definitely my favorite video game credits sequence ever.

I also REALLY love the Hyperdimension Neptunia game series’ tradition of creating retro-like game sprites of the game’s characters and using it in the end credits to make parodies of old school retro games. It really fits well in a game that turns real life game consoles into goddesses set in a world called Gamindustri lol

These two are my personal favorites. There are a lot more.

Finally, there are games that let you play the end credits!

My all time favorite for that is Devil May Cry 3. If you kill enough demons during the end credits you get a special cinematic at the end!

My point is: WoW is my favorite game and I wish the game’s credits were on par with the game itself.

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I’m just going to wait until I beat the game to see the credits roll. Then hopefully I can get the New Game + option to start out back at Eversong with all of my carry over stats.

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Silly Paladin!

You don’t beat WoW.

WoW beats you! :smiley:

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So, what you’re saying is, Blizz should bring back Arthas to play guitar to a Tauren Chieftains song while the credits roll?

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You might be making fun, but WC3 is a great example. Both Reign of Chaos and the Frozen Throne had enjoyable credits!

The outtakes directed by Archimonde, the “Wacraft Evolution” bit, the Football game, etc. It’s objectively entertaining lol

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I been working on a big post myself, just waiting till this toon earns TL3. On google docs it’s 3 pages but I think in the forum format it should fit like yours did lol!

ANYWAY YEAH THEY SHOULD MAKE IT FUNNY and more interesting.

I still believe some of the best credits I’ve ever witnessed, would be Zelda ocarina of time/majors mask and Twilight princess and dark souls 1-3.

LEMME EXPLAIN! In Zelda you see the world rejoice and everyone is brought together as Gannon is dead for a few hundred more years. How everyone is at Lon Lon ranch partying by a Bonfire made me go like “oh snap I DID THIS!!!”

Same with the other 2 Zelda games! Link is deemed a hero and the world is at peace everyone is happy.

Now dark souls has such a climatic ending with beautiful music, the final boss you been hearing about since you started the game. Until you find out you can cheese Gywn in dark souls 1 and beat him with 100% health.

But soul of cinder, was the most balanced dark souls fight I ever done. And when you think he’s dead, NOPE BAMBOOZLE PHASE 2 BABY!!! Where he does AOE moves and is a crazed serial killer with no chill.

Then the ending comes, your heart is pounding the trials and pain you went through, (the pain begins since you probably skipped the great DLC and skipped secret optional bosses).

But the music, you can’t hear it anywhere but the credits, it’s peaceful it’s relaxing, it’s like “rest now you did it!”

Maybe after we down the final raid boss for a expansion, we should get a in game credit cut scene, much like the George Lucas Star Wars special edition, he went back and showed Naboo cheering, courtesant partying, EWOK PARTY BABY!

Pan over all the city and shows our hero at some party gathering!

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I think my absolute favorite end credits of any game has to be Star Wars: Bounty Hunter.

The whole game is a dark, gritty, serious back story on Jango Fett, and the credits are all in game cinematic outtakes like the characters are filming it. Absolutely fantastic.

Edit: Now that I think about it, I’m not sure if those are in the credits, or just extras that you get after beating the game.

Either way, out takes and bloopers in game credits are the best.