By Jim Rossignol on August 22nd, 2009 at 8:44 am.
Enormo-trailer ahoy for World Of Warcraft. We’ve got the full thing posted below, along with two fly-through trailers for the zones of Gilneas and The Lost Isles. We get a look at some of the changes to existing zones that have taken place during the cataclysm, as well as some of the new features and classes. Gobbos, and wolf-dudes, obviously, but also some of the new monsters, dungeons, and progression stuff. Oh, and Deathwing the ebil dragon. He’s not happy.
I have never seen WoW, but me and my folks believe that we go there when we die.
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Everything I’ve seen of this so far is looking good. I was concerned about the level cap being raised to 85, but given there’s going to be a reason to re-explore old world (and not just because the zones are changing, because of the “Path of the Titans” thing) then it might not be a problem.
Also hoping they can live up to their claims of Goblin and Worgen starting areas living up to the Death Knight one.
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Well, damn
Now I have to resub as soon as I get re-jobbed.
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It’s great that they decided to go back to the mainland. It was so horribly unused for a while now.
But the only feeling I get from this is been there done that. Nothing really new, and turning into a milked product only good for beginning players and all that.
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It’s funny, after Burning Crusade came out and Wrath o’ Mr. Lich King was announced, I foretold with grave surety that the next expansion would ostensibly involve blowing up Azeroth. Everyone I knew poo-pooed that notion, but THEY WERE NOT PREPARED!
By the way, I find moderately deadpan female voiceovers in trailers to be more compelling than RUMBLING, SOMEWHAT ANGRY MALE VOICEOVERS. Something about sci-fi games seems to appeal to this notion, since I believe both EVE and Homeworld had the right tone.
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BUT THERE CAN BE NO PEACE . . . FOR ARBITRARY AND STATUS-QUO PRESERVING REASONS.
OH AND WE”VE GOT ANOTHER ANCIENT EVIL AS WELL. IT’S THE BIGGEST ONE YET SERIOUSLY GUYS. I MEAN LOOK AT IT, ITS PUTTING HUGE FRIGGING CRACKS CREVASSES FISSURES EVERYWHERE. WITH LAVA AND SHIT.
PRETTY EPIC AMIRITE? SERIOUSLY, THIS GUY IS THE SHIT.
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I like more the cinematic trailers. You know, these that look like a incredible high quality CGI movie. This thing is “mod group” level of quality.
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making deslolace pretty is a good idea
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Tei: This is the ‘let’s show people what we’re working on’ trailer. The Hollywood level epic drool inducing wallet emptying trailer will come just before the expansion is released.
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@Noc
Um, this is pretty much the opposite of the status quo. Hell, if the rumors are true, which they have been so far, Garrosh is taking over the horde and killing Cairne.
Although, if they *do* do that, they need to make some kind of way to leave Horde without re-rolling. No way in hell is my Undead serving that warmongering prick.
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I’d love to just be able to walk and look around in WoW but the sheer time involved to get to that point just puts me off. I’ll be sticking with TF2 thanks, grinding away for a hat.
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Noc: Yes. Having escalating levels of badness is totally out of keeping with the fantasy genre.
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“Noc: Yes. Having escalating levels of badness is totally out of keeping stories in general.”
Fixed that for you.
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So, towards the end of WoW, you’ll be fighting some sort of deity! What is more epic than a deity? Society!?
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@Klaus
COMING 2010:
World of Warcraft: ASBO WARNING
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Haven’t played WoW for 2 years but this looks… interesting :)
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So, what’s this WoW about? Is it like SimCity?
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@monkeyface
It’s more like Robotron.
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@Psychopomp:
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Fair point. :-P
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Deathwing? *shudders*
I think he should be angry. I killed his son Nefarian and his daughter Onyxia, uh, several times!
/em hides behind rock.
Bad jokes aside I’m feeling the old itch. Flying in the old world? Whoa!
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If WoW were more like Robotron, I think I’d actually play it. A lot.
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“ebil dragon”? I’m just glad its not an enil dragon. Thats even further along the keyboard of doom.
I’m not a mmorpger but WOW seems to keep on delivering the goods.
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“ebil dragon”? Just glad its not and enil dragon thats even further along the keyboard of doom.
I’m not a mmorpger(?) but WOW does seem to keep on delivering the goods.
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Sorry, double post idiocy.
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The voice-over guy makes me cringe.
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Don’t think I’ll get this then. I hate Robotron! At least in SimCity, you can save your game!
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What about his brother, Albi the Racist Dragon?
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I’d probably play WoW if Albi the Racist Dragon was in it.
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“Yes. Having escalating levels of badness is totally out of keeping with the fantasy genre.”
Yet they’re not escalating – mainly because they already killed off the biggest baddies there are in the first expansion. They rapidly running out of story to ruin, so they try to prop up minor evils into huge world-tearing monstrosities.
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Looking good- I like how the old realms will stop being completely deserted. Pretty lonely out there these days.
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Wolfmen… damn, that might be too hard to resist. And playing them on the side of good will be most amusing. Try to tame this… you weedy elf wimp.
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I’m Boycotting this game because of their support of Albi, The Racist Dragon. First they put WOW-Gayness in Diablo and now they’re being total nazi’s in their support of this racist dragon! Blizzard are sellouts!
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I’m so glad I quit playing this game years ago.
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I just have one question. Isn’t Garrosh dead? In the Wrathgate cinematic he gets raped by the Lich King, and now it says he’s alive and fine. I wonder how they’ll pull that off.
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THE REAL WOW
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Eschatos:
That was Saurfang jr.
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@ DK: Deathwing is totally a minor evil. O_o
@ Eschatos: That was Saurfang the Younger.
Garrosh is the one who keeps having handbag fights with Thrall.
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“And playing them on the side of good”
There’s something you should know…
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Shiny lookin’. Damn might resub… must find something better quickly.
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Holy shit. I am excited for this. Flying mounts in old Azeroth? Booyah!
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Fighting over the world’s limited resources?
Islanders forced from their home by environmental collapse?
New races being welcomed into established alliances?
It’s nothing but liberal propaganda. And no more than I would expect from the Irvine/Azeroth axis of evil.
They can keep their online communism – I’m not interested.
(except that I really, really am)
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Flying mounts in mainland Azeroth? That would never ever happen, said everyone I knew. “But they -should-.”, said I. Guess I win.
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@Tyranny:
Invading different parts of the world because of limited resources?
A new race with a love of money and fast cars?
Races and factions that hate each other so much they go to war over it?
It’s nothing but conservative propaganda. And no more than I would expect coming from Hollywood cultural imperialism.
They can keep their robber baron capitalism game – I’m not interested.
(except that I am too, really)
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Having trouble loading RPS recently. It’s started getting stuck in Opera but it still works in IE8.
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Having trouble loading RPS recently. It’s started getting stuck in Opera but it still works in IE8.
Plus it rarely lets me post comments, keeps giving a 405.
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American Werewolf in Azeroth.
Hearing Deathwing though just makes me want to play Space Hulk.
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I haven’t played WoW for a good few years now, but this is exciting stuff. Seeing the areas I spent so many hours exploring – particularly Desolace, which seemed to last forever – transformed so totally is fascinating.
Seems like an incredibly ballsy move to start messing with the core map, given how gamers and particularly MMOG gamers hate change so much.
If Blizzard are willing to shake things up like this, I can’t wait until they do their next MMOG and hopefully push beyond the Everquest template.
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Hey, look at me here. I’ve played on and off since the Beta, and I really have to say…’gahhhhhh’. Oh look, it’s more of the same! More endless raiding to look forward too? Hurrah! I mean the game can be fun, and there’s always that warm fuzzy feeling of accomplishment ya get when you down a really hard boss. But seriously, how can I become emotionally invested in MORE OF THE SAME crap. You grind to level cap. Then you grind gear until you can raid. Then you grind those raids until you have the gear to do harder raids. Rinse and repeat until you are at the hardest raid in the game. Then, once you’ve gotten all your BiSs… you either unsub, or you dick around until they release harder content.
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Snuffles, I believe that has already been addressed elsewhere in this thread. You might as well stop playing FPSs (shoot people… shoot more people), platformers (jump, jump, fall, jump), racing games (go around a circuit, and again, and again), in fact you might want to reconsider this whole gaming thing.
But let’s be constructive. What should they have done, then, according to you?
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At Snuffles:
Not quite sure I agree with you there… Of course I used to feel the same about WoW, but you have to look at it as entertainment. If you enjoy gaming and are looking for something that will consistently bring you hours of fun session after session, than Warcraft can offer that.
They constantly release new content, they are in touch with their fan base despite what some forum-goers might think. Blizzard puts forth the effort to create a game that provides near-limitless entertainment, and they succeed better than any developer out there.
Cataclysm is just more WoW, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
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How incredibly unfair and nefarious of you, Blizzard. I was never interested in your game, and you knew that … oh yes, you knew.
I was put off by your napkin-borne writing (of which better quality is seen in the kind of books one might purloin at an airport gift shop), the fear of Azeroth’s semen seas, and the knowledge that every aspect of the lore contradicts every other bloody aspect if one stops to think about it for even but a second.
You knew, you callous fiends, you miscreants, you … you scheming blackguards!
So you had to go and add the one thing I simply can’t resist, something I’m crazy about: sapient, cultured werewolves. Fuzzy serial-killers bore me, it’s just cheap monster mash material for the braindead goggle boxists, and thus a huge turn off. But a reasoning, rational race of werewolves?
Worgens can even take on a cosmetic human form, and their transformation to from human to Worgen is surprisingly well done and visually pleasing. So I concede, I’m beaten, and I’m interested…
ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
Damn you Blizzard, damn you to hell.
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Might have to blow the dust off my priest when this comes out and regroup with my mates, make or join a casual guild for a few months until, like always, we get fed up again. That’s not a bad thing, actually, given how demanding the game can be and it has always been fun while it lasted. I hope they get more out of PvP this time, the possibilities are endless and i’m somewhat disappointed about what they have come up with so far.
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Not to mention their awesome Victorian-styled starting area, Wulf!
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I thought Alliance were the bad guys…
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@Stupoider
*whine.* Don’t remind me.
I’m actually amazed at how wonderful the Worgen appear to be as a whole, and how very unlike Blizzard (a good thing) the whole Worgen scenario is. I’m actually rather looking forward to having a romp around a night-time Victorian setting as a werewolf.
And I got to see their mounts today and they look pretty nifty, and their mounts imply that the Worgen gift/curse is actually not limited to humans, and that it’s capable of spreading to animals too. I won’t spoil too much, though.
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I’m still holding out for Pandaren someday.
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Lovely. If they’d bothered to include even half of this stuff in the last expansion instead of just pulling our pricks with the same tired ass gimmicks for an easy cash-in, I might still give a flaming fuck.
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Another fantastic trailer again from Blizz as usual! Playing a worgen druid sounds crazy awesome and would actually get me to play Alliance, and I hope wow gold farming will be a lot less tedious this time, do you think those flying mounts would help?
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yah,yeah,yeah ….. we’ve heard the sales pitch …… grind to level 85 for 40 days of your existence ….. and then play the game
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Very excited about the new WoW expansion. I think it’s gonna be a huge. Revamping the original content is a stroke of genius by Blizzard and I’d love to see other MMOs do the same thing.
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Might want to delete the thinly veiled gold farming site advertisement from mr. billyandrews there.
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I hate to admit that this is actually a really cool expansion and changing of the game.
I will never admit that Burning Crusade wasn’t a piece of shit though.
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I resubbed for BC and WotLK, so I’ll probably resub for this one too. I usually just stay for a few months though, because for some reason I get bored with the end-game content. Maybe it’s because of the packed schedules of the average raiding.
I think I’d prefer to have 5-man instances with approximately the same escalation of gear and difficulty as (and in place of) raid instances.
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*of the average raiding guild.
Oops.
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@billyandrews
Sod off.
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Goblins don’t look as cool as the WAR ones ;) and no squigs! pff no point.
I’m waiting for an MMO to get away from the “go to town, find lots of people with quests, do quests for people, ding” which has become almost as passe as the “get a group, find a camp of monsters, grind them till you ding” that the last generation did. It’s so bad I even have issues playing games like GTA4 which have a superb sandbox but still put the plot as “go to hideout, do missions for people, change hideout, do more missions” with little time to enjoy the sandboxyness of the game.
Maybe I’ve just gotten too cynical to see it as a story instead of just a list of tasks thinly strung together.
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Uh, that starting area for the new Alliance race looks pretty much identical to the Victorian art style in Fable 2. :(
Ah well. Must be tough to constantly churn out new areas for the grinder.
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So…if they’re fighting over limited resources, does that mean they’re putting a bigger emphasis on PvP? If only WoW PvP was just like warhammer (*sigh). Now, the only way to get into a battleground is to wait hours in queue and PLUS, you hardly get any experience out of it. Another thing, a horde and alliance character on the SAME server?! That only promotes traitorism! Worse yet, is the amount of camping in quest areas. That was why I quit WoW. No good PvP and other players (on both factions btw) were just MEAN! In a game that has two opposing factions, there has to be more fighting between enemies and not between allies!
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