By John Walker on August 16th, 2012 at 2:30 pm.
Blizzard have spent thirteenty-billion dollars on an opening cinematic for their forthcoming Mists Of Pandaria expansion, so I suppose it’s only fair that we all watch it. Then go, “Huh.” And then think, “Wouldn’t it be great if the game looked like that?” And then go back to picking our nails.
It’s very pretty.
I think in future it should the law that all developers are forced to develop their April Fool’s nonsense into multi-million dollar projects. The expansion is out on the 25th September, and will cost a whopping £30.
16/08/2012 at 14:35 Uglycat says:
Looks like some shark-jumping fridge-work right there.
16/08/2012 at 15:01 Wreckdum says:
I’d like to give a shout out to Blizzard for making me realize what a truly superior game Guild Wars 2 is in every single aspect.
This trailer actually made me laugh at how ridiculous it is.
P.S. Hasn’t every WoW xpac since TBC featured the new mega villain in the cinematic trailer? Did they not make one up yet? Seems to me that’s been the trend on WoW lore over the past few years. Let’s just think of some ludicrous crap and make some content on it.
16/08/2012 at 15:17 Obc says:
“I’d like to give a shout out to Blizzard for making me realize what a truly superior game Guild Wars 2 is in every single aspect.”
How can you say that but ask why there is no big bady at the same time? o.O
MoP has no real big huge villain. MoP is about adventures and mysteries of Pandria, some of which are new threats (Mogu, Klaxxi and the worst being the Sha’s) but the main focus is on Faction War. Alliance and Horde go on a full scale war with each other and it culminates on Pandaria. The first patch is about discovery of Pandaria, the second new settlements by both faction and the escalating of the war, the 3rd goes full on bonkers and devestates Pandaria and by desposing Garrosh for something horrible he is about to do, the war will come to an end.
That is the reason why the cinematic is awesome: it shows orcs and human fighting each other relentless but its the pandaren who open their eyes and clear the haze. (though ingame this will happen once both faction wreck pandaria to pieces).
I played both GW2 and MoP Beta and both are great but so very different. (though i am gonna play GW2 fully before i start with MoP)
16/08/2012 at 16:56 Zepp says:
How is it fair that Garrosh is the evil one while Alliance are free of responsibilty as always? Ridiculous plot.
16/08/2012 at 17:25 MrKay says:
Firsly, could we get over this whole Alliance vs Horde thing. It doesn’t make sense. A story won’t be any good if everything is exactly equal.
On the other hand, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen Blizzard say that they’re rethinking the last patch, so lets just wait and see.
16/08/2012 at 17:57 Obc says:
alliance isn’t free of war-mongering. both faction will commit atrocities in MoP right from the beginning . (e.g.: alliance make pandaren kids into slaves!). the further the game moves on the more absurd and ugly both factions get. wrathion, jaina, thrall and anduin will try to calm the war and bring peace. Varian will at some point get a bit sane and go on quest of herculas like tasks to gain favor with his faction and prove that he has come to his senses while Garrosh (for some reason not known yet) will commit somthing truley horrible that even a lot of his own people will desert him.
though what the exact reasons for garrosh’s insanity and varians change of mind are remains to be seen and only then shall i judge wether or not it was “fair”. i think it has something to do with the sha or the teasing of the burning legion that will make garrosh goes full retard.
16/08/2012 at 15:20 ahac says:
How is Guild Wars any less ridiculous? Look at their races. They have anime gnomes and some plant people. The furries even used to be the evil bad beasts in GW1 but totally got nice and developed a culture since then. Oh, and GW1 already had an asian themed expansion.
You almost sound like a scientologist calling other religions ridiculous…
16/08/2012 at 15:27 Nevard says:
I wonder what this post would have been like if Blizzard had gone down the route they intended and added pandas in TBC
16/08/2012 at 15:35 tetracycloide says:
It’s less ridiculous because it didn’t take an Easter Egg/April Fool’s joke and turn it into a playable race? Is this some kind of trick question?
16/08/2012 at 16:19 Dana says:
There were pandas in Warcraft 3. Your argument is invalid.
16/08/2012 at 17:14 togaman5000 says:
What Dana said – the April Fool’s joke came later, but you’d never know it with how often that bit of ‘information’ is trotted out
16/08/2012 at 17:42 Vorphalack says:
The Pandas in W3 were also a joke, just like the hidden Hydralisk in the Night Elf campaign was also a joke. Really odd how that fact seems to have been mysteriously forgotten, but then again to be a Panda apologist you must be prepared to justify anything.
16/08/2012 at 17:55 tetracycloide says:
The first time you run into them was a secret ‘pandaran relaxation spot’ on one of the campaign maps… as an easter egg. Hence “Easter Egg/April Fool’s joke.” So that thing about the argument’s validity is invalid.
16/08/2012 at 18:00 Obc says:
chen stormstout was a real character in the story not just some guy with a few one-liners standing some place hidden. he is also mentioned in vanilla wow and even before wow samwise did a lot of pandaren drawing and they are mentioned in the rpg books.
so yeah not completely april joke/easter egg.
a lot of players have been clamoring for pandaren from the get go. i still know that some magazine here in germany had the pandaren as one of the possible new races for the alliance before the launch of TBC.
16/08/2012 at 18:11 mbr says:
wat. They’re the same bland, Everquest derivative, pardon my French, shit. You and countless others are getting yourselves WAAAAY over-hyped about this game.
16/08/2012 at 16:09 DiTH says:
I dont recall Pandaren Brewmaster being like that from WC universe.I guess they got a bit influenced by Kung Fu Panda with all the Kung Fu clumsiness.
16/08/2012 at 17:59 Spengbab says:
Let’s be fair, it looks great, especially the part where he puts back the thingy and corrects the angle slightly with his stick.
Of course the game is nothing like this (Actually, I do wonder how the panda’s kung fu stuff works in the game, though I guess its just hand to hand combat and no Jade Empire style combos. IS there even kung fu in the game and not just the trailer? QUESTIONS!), but the trailer looks nice and is a great watch. Just wish they’d flash “WARNING – TRAILER DOES NOT REPRESENT ACTUAL GAMEPLAY” in 10-second intervals across the screen.
16/08/2012 at 18:05 Obc says:
monks have various kung fu moves like spinning crane kick, fists of fury, flying dash kick, the flying high-kick from ken (street fighter), rolls, punches. other spells have some kung-fu influenced moves.
from the pandaren the monks have attacks liking dousing alcohol on the target which dazes them and the debuff is prerequisit to put them in flames.
monks also have lots of avoidance.
of course it isnt nowhere near as awesome as in the cinematic but i did get a “street fighting” vibe playing them (though i only played the melee dps spec).
16/08/2012 at 19:24 chewbaccasdad says:
Stupid Toy Story expansion.
16/08/2012 at 14:36 Ultra Superior says:
Cookies for Kung Fu Panda !
16/08/2012 at 14:39 Mr_Day says:
I like to think WoW and Kung Fu Panda are the same world and canon.
16/08/2012 at 15:19 RedFaust says:
For teddy bear *
16/08/2012 at 16:26 Hmm-Hmm. says:
for pony?
16/08/2012 at 17:43 Vorphalack says:
If Warcraft leaves one good legacy behind, it’s that page.
16/08/2012 at 14:37 Astalnar says:
I think it is great.
It is interesting to see how much Horde and Alliance hate each other. But as soon as someone else comes into fight, the newcomer is the only enemy for those two mortal enemies. It shows some kind of mutual respect for an old grizzled enemy from each side.
16/08/2012 at 14:44 Swabbleflange says:
Reminds me a bit of the intro to Warcraft 3, where the Orc and Human fight but then turn their attention towards the demon that crashes down nearby.
16/08/2012 at 17:27 MrKay says:
Yeah, I was having a bit of a WC3 vibe too. I quite enjoyed it.
16/08/2012 at 16:11 John Brindle says:
Or, if you’re more cynical, it shows that the most dangerous possible enemy for both the Horde and Alliance is the enemy that would prevent them from fighting each other. No force must impede the grinding of the wheels of Empire!
16/08/2012 at 17:05 Mr. Mister says:
This.
16/08/2012 at 14:40 Fincher says:
Strong Kung Fu Panda 3 vibes going on.
16/08/2012 at 14:43 Turin Turambar says:
Damn, I came too late to make the Kung Fu Panda reference…
16/08/2012 at 15:36 Hoaxfish says:
yea, I mist that opportunity too
16/08/2012 at 15:57 caddyB says:
Blizzard should stop pandaring to the casuals.
16/08/2012 at 14:43 Cameron says:
It should indeed the law, it should indeed ;P (Engrish tribute there, RPS?)
I presume laughter was the desired effect when the spinning panda came out? Shame.
16/08/2012 at 14:47 HisMastersVoice says:
Damn, those Pandaren are going to be so OP until the nerf….
16/08/2012 at 14:48 BurningPet says:
If this expansion succeeds, i will lose faith in humanity.
But then again, most of humanity are chinese, so perhaps i could brush it off as a cultural thing.
16/08/2012 at 14:56 Mayjori says:
last time i checked, chinese were about 1/6th of humanity.
16/08/2012 at 15:06 ninjapirate says:
They actually make up nearly 1/5th of the world’s population by now.
16/08/2012 at 16:59 BurningPet says:
Not too sure about, but doesn’t majority also apply to the largest group even if it isn’t more than half the total of the rest of the groups?
16/08/2012 at 17:11 wcanyon says:
I think you’re confusing majority with mode. Perhaps my statistics is terrible, but I think the most common value in the set (Chinese in this case) is called the mode.
16/08/2012 at 17:47 Eddy9000 says:
The largest group has the ‘ plurality’, it only has the ‘majority’ if it has over 50% of the total. I only found this out recently and it makes me feel cleverer to know so thought I would share the stats love!
17/08/2012 at 10:44 Syra says:
Welcome to primary school pandas everybody. Today we are learning vocabulary and maths: Majority – the largest segment. Mean – The mathematical average. Median – The statistical middle. Mode – The most common value.
No but really. Primary school.
16/08/2012 at 14:53 RedViv says:
Great, now we have to bear even more puns.
16/08/2012 at 15:24 jd says:
That’s a paw choice of words.
16/08/2012 at 15:26 spacedyemeerkat says:
Well, that’s bamboozled my response.
16/08/2012 at 15:38 thegooseking says:
It’s a good job we don’t have pun critics, otherwise the contents of this thread would be universally pandas far as wordplay goes.
17/08/2012 at 10:45 Syra says:
I must have mist the pun in the above comment.
16/08/2012 at 14:53 Mayjori says:
Best WoW cinematic thus far imo, very entertaining. As for those worried about “canon” the pandarians have been in Warcraft since BEFORE WoW (believe it or not, there were other Warcraft games).
16/08/2012 at 15:01 viverravid says:
I don’t care about the “cannon”, but I did have some affection for the Warcraft canon.
16/08/2012 at 15:28 Nevard says:
I don’t know if he edited it but there’s no “this was edited” timestamp and it says “canon” pretty clearly in his post
16/08/2012 at 16:07 viverravid says:
I don’t think they have “this was edited” timestamps.
16/08/2012 at 16:16 Arglebargle says:
Yeah, apparantly as a joke…
16/08/2012 at 16:59 Zepp says:
Warcraft 1 & 2 are canon for me. Thrall’s Horde is where everything went shit.
16/08/2012 at 14:54 Enkinan says:
Was totally picking my nails when I read that -_-
16/08/2012 at 17:25 Leetables says:
And I suddenly became very aware of the unsavory state of mine upon reading it.
16/08/2012 at 14:54 deke913 says:
One good full length movie with this caliber of CG entirely and ActiBlizz would gain another 2 million plus subs.
Almost makes me want to resub…and that is just wrong.
16/08/2012 at 15:10 ninjapirate says:
I was thinking the same thing. I’d pay to see a full length movie of that quality. The trailer was lovely, but it will never lure me onto Blizzard’s sinking WoW-ship.
16/08/2012 at 15:36 Moraven says:
With the SC2 collector’s disc it has all the videos strung together in order. It almost feels like you are watching a short movie.
But I guess they do not want to pull a Square and do something horrible like FF movie. (Spirit Within, FF7 fan service video was decent).
16/08/2012 at 16:17 Arglebargle says:
As always, I would rather watch the movie than play the game.
16/08/2012 at 19:39 socrate says:
doesn’t make me want to resub at all…what are you guys taking to make you so easy to fall for this when now there is actually other option.
Oh and there as been CG movie but you actually have to have a good storyline with it….and WoW doesn’t have one…every damn epic build up as just been a huge failure and disappointment (lich king,deathwing)…and in a weird way yogg saron is worth 100x these fight and conclusion
this CG did look nice…but paying for a sub now just feel like a relic of the past that should have never been there in the first place and what i saw in this CG is yet another return to not only a system that never worked but to go back to the same old same War between the alliance that just keep going back in forth with stupid idea just so they can keep calling it Warcraft,if war was so simple /rolleye but then again this game isn’t really aiming at smart people anymore.
16/08/2012 at 15:00 viverravid says:
So when they got out of the financials meeting that concluded that the Chinese market was the key to the ongoing profitability of WoW, and after the problems with WotLK (which was never approved by Chinese censors) they needed to keep this in mind for future expansions…. did it occur to no-one that they could have made the China-pandering it a little less obvious?
(hehe. Panda-ing. heh)
EDIT: fail, article title beat me to it
16/08/2012 at 15:47 Moraven says:
Seeing how China got Wrath of the Lich King in August 2010 and Cataclysm in June 2011…
16/08/2012 at 16:04 viverravid says:
Well that shows how much attention I’ve paid to WoW in the last few years.
Looks like it turned out a bit different
16/08/2012 at 15:09 Chris D says:
Honestly, what’s the point in bothering to carve a point on a bit of wood if you’re not even going to try to point it in the direction of an orc trying to jump on top of you?
16/08/2012 at 15:45 tetracycloide says:
I’ll answer your question with a question:
What’s the point of waiting in ambush if you’re going to yell and then jump out to ambush?
16/08/2012 at 16:09 Chris D says:
Good point. I think perhaps everyone should have put a bit more thought into the “Why are we fighting?” question.
17/08/2012 at 00:09 Azradesh says:
Watch it again. The rocks he was standing on made a sound and then the human turned around. THEN he yelled and jumped the human. You know, after he’d been seen.
16/08/2012 at 18:37 Salt says:
I’ll answer your question with another, another question:
Why use a rough pointed stick as your main weapon when you’re carrying a sword?
To answer my own question: Maybe the human is playing as a class that can use staves but not swords.
17/08/2012 at 00:10 Azradesh says:
Because the sword is broken.
16/08/2012 at 15:15 aliksy says:
Is that what people see when they play WoW? That makes things make more sense.
16/08/2012 at 16:02 Brigand says:
Yeah you should see some of the fan art of places compared to what they look like in-game. It actually made me understand the appeal.
16/08/2012 at 15:21 neolith says:
Blizzard still makes really nice trailers. I have zero interest in the game though.
16/08/2012 at 15:26 Adekan says:
I will echo your thoughts. Always been a fan of Blizzard’s cinematics, but I’ve no further interest in World of Warcraft.
16/08/2012 at 15:26 Rovac says:
The only reason I like Warcraft is it’s lore. Blizzard have done a wonderful job creating all the stories, including the tiny bits. I even used to enjoy reading all the wiki’s pages.
On related note, I never play WoW. only the RTS Warcraft
16/08/2012 at 17:36 AlphaCentauri says:
You’re the best kind of person.
16/08/2012 at 15:42 Nevard says:
I wish they’d put a Sha in this trailer, it was a mistake to pass up the opportunity to create a full cinematic quality 12 storey tall monochrome betentacled eldritch abomination
Other than that is was pretty good, very impressed by the environmental work at the end
16/08/2012 at 15:43 Trithne says:
It’s a very nice cinematic, but it doesn’t really reflect the game at all. I liked the suggestion of actually returning to inter-faction warfare, but we know that in-game warfare is restricted to the designated battlefield zones and pan-dimensional Battlegrounds.
I always dreamt of a WoW where you fought over territory and sought to control the world, laying siege to cities and building fortifications. Basically, GW2 WvWvW, but in the world.
16/08/2012 at 15:59 Moraven says:
It is the same as DAoC RvR. A difference instanced world where you try to take over each other’s territory.
Shadowbane did this where what you controlled existed in the actual world, not some separate instance special PvP zone. Unfortunately that game had a load of other problems.
WoW tried some zone PvP Objectives, but only really half implemented it. It had potential but what they decided was to do the single zone World PvP event every 3 hours (WinterGrasp, Tol Barad) that gave your faction access to a raid (free loot) and special pvp vendors. Tol Barad had more in offering additional daily quests to the faction holder.
I have not lay MoP much in the beta to see what they offer now for World PvP. Not until patch 5.1 is when the story and lore moves to chaos and fighting between the two factions.
16/08/2012 at 16:08 Obc says:
i only play on a pve realm in the beta, but i saw so much potential for world pvp. especially because you can’t fly till level 90.
the thing is though, its the players fault for not doing world pvp. no one told us to do world pvp back in vanilla, there was no incentive given by blizzard, but even before the honor system (which in its first incarnation wasn’t anything special just a tally of how many enemy faction players you killed) we still went out of our way and laid siege on barrens or tarrens mill. so if someone says he wants a reason to world pvp, tell them to move their asses and just do it.
but what was counter intuitive to world pvp was dungeon finder system in cata. up to wotlk, i still fought a lot of enemy faction players in front of dungeons/raids all day long, but with the LFG tool and the dungeons being in very remote places it gets hard to do this. (though still very much possible).
16/08/2012 at 15:59 Obc says:
this does happen in MoP. The War starts in Jade Forest at the beginng of the expansion. Taylor and Nazgrim fight brutally with each other and take pandaren slaves and the players help their faction to destroy the other (like destroying the alliance skyship), thanks to the phasing technique of WoW zones change with along with player questing. watch some new videos of the jade forest revamp, its bloody war in open areas.
but not only this, with each new Patch Pandaria will look more and more devestated. the war sweeps from jade forest to the other zones (e.g. 5.1 new settelements in the zones left of jade forest) . as each new content patch is releasedm a lot of areas will have stuff broken and/or laid to waster (e.g.: in jade forest the players cause a holy serpent statue to be destroyed, a really huge pretty statue which is pretty much a damn sacrilege on pandaria).
the last raid is Siege of Orgrimmar and Garrosh being the final boss. so yeah war is all up in this bitch while wrathion, jaina, thrall and anduin and some pandaran (taran zhu/chen stormstout) try to stop it.
16/08/2012 at 15:52 kael13 says:
It’s true, that is a pretty cinematic, but I no longer have any interest in playing. Especially at that price, cor!
I suppose at least WoW doesn’t really try to take itself too seriously, whereas Diablo 3 was all about being dark and serious and yet failed miserably in its utter cheese.
Oh and the trailer reminded me of that of Warcraft 3, so I nostalgia’d rather hard.
16/08/2012 at 15:54 Marijn says:
Simul-pun: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-16-blizzards-lavish-cinematic-unveiled-for-world-of-warcraft-expansion-mists-of-pandaria Purchese’s version is better (sorry John).
16/08/2012 at 16:02 Red_Avatar says:
Dear lord the whole vid made me shake my head. The start was actually pretty decent until the shark-jumping panda came in. It looked wrong, it felt wrong, and it reeks of desperation. Also, why make a CGI movie that makes the actual game sound incredibly dull and repetitive (which isn’t hard considering IT IS)? That’s like going to a job interview, showing a CGI vid of you being a brilliant mastermind and then failing to count to 10 in real life.
16/08/2012 at 16:14 Sarog says:
I laughed so much at this. If I was still playing wow I’d be ragepalming, but it is just hilarious. That entire fight scene was awfully goofy, and I can just imagine Metzen with his earrings and his sunglasses saying “You know what would be totally GNARLY? If the panda chewed some grass like a chilled out cowboy like he ain’t even give a damn! Cowabunga dude!”
No points for the narration either. “To ask why we fight is to ask why the leaves fall. It is in their nature.” Seriously? Come on.
The animation is great and all, but the whole thing seems like pandafication of the Forbidden Kingdom and I just can’t take it seriously.
16/08/2012 at 18:10 remote says:
Best comment.
16/08/2012 at 16:26 ucfalumknight says:
Where’s Master Shifu? Is this before or after Oogway passes to the next reality? I was hoping to see mantis too. Oh well.
16/08/2012 at 17:11 Fincher says:
Mantis was the one stopping the orc and human from killing each other! Didn’t you see him?
16/08/2012 at 16:40 Koozer says:
I really wish this wouldn’t cost me another £30 + subscription if I were to play it. This looks much more interesting to me than Wrath and Cataclysm were. Hell, even Burning Crusade was a bit dull with its pantomime demons. But now…it’s been too long.
16/08/2012 at 16:51 Hardmood says:
thats what remains, when managers decide which way the lore of a huge universe goes.
obviously the way to the asian market, cos its the only remianing growing market for wow…
moneytrailer with no content in sight
16/08/2012 at 17:36 Zepp says:
Still no vanillia player model updates = no sub.
16/08/2012 at 17:39 AlphaCentauri says:
Coming in patches. IIRC, dwarf and orc would be ready close to release.
16/08/2012 at 20:43 Moraven says:
Seeing how the main NPC get model updates, would be great to see that.
Would be like how EQ did the character model update. Tho those were questionable. The NPC updates (Thrall, Jaina, Garrosh, Sylvanas) look great and would be nice to have those.
16/08/2012 at 17:46 SkittleDiddler says:
Martial arts, low fantasy, anthropomorphic pandas, and World of Warcraft. Dear God, it’s an American furry’s wet dream.
16/08/2012 at 17:46 Vorphalack says:
”To ask why we fight…… is to ask why leaves fall…..”
You fight because of gravity?
16/08/2012 at 17:53 TheMrSolaris says:
If Blizzard had gone with Honey badgers instead of pandas, I’d be pre-ordering this right now!
16/08/2012 at 17:56 Dreforian says:
I didn’t hate it.
16/08/2012 at 17:56 1stGear says:
You people who are tripping over yourselves to declare how ridiculous the cinematic is and how you only play mature MMOs for mature gamers like yourselves do realize that some of the best parts of the WoW universe are firmly tongue-in-cheek right? Two of the best zones in Cataclysm were full-on parodies of CSI: Miami and Rambo, forum memes and in-jokes regularly get referenced in game, and there are at least two dozen NPCs with pun names. Indeed, its when Blizzard starts to take itself too seriously that end up tripping over their own lackluster writing ability and fall flat on their face (see the end of Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm).
The cinematic was amazing, significantly better than the Cataclysm one, and if I still had a max-level character I’d resub.
16/08/2012 at 19:26 Fincher says:
“Two of the best zones in Cataclysm were full-on parodies of CSI: Miami and Rambo, forum memes and in-jokes regularly get referenced in game, and there are at least two dozen NPCs with pun names”
Aaah yes, thanks for reminding me why I don’t take WoW seriously!
Are you surprised that people don’t like WoW’s setting when it’s a pop culture circus?
16/08/2012 at 20:05 1stGear says:
Why would I be surprised that RPS comments don’t like fun?
16/08/2012 at 23:10 Answermancer says:
Don’t you know?
If it’s not indie, if it costs any money, if it expects you to play with other people, or if it’s not GrimDark SeriousBusiness it’s utter shit and you’re an idiot if you don’t hate it and make snide comments about it.
17/08/2012 at 08:51 jrodman says:
For my part, I find pop culture references tired, although the clever silliness like “you are a questgiver!” worked really well for me. These things were true when I was loving the game, and are still true now that I’m tired of it.
I just find the pop culture references are just *there*, like placeholders for humor without any humor. It’s not enough to just refer, you have to do something clever with it. Meanwhile, doing it too often can devalue the sense of versimilitude, and really take you out of the experience. I mean a game you play that long it’s very hard to stay bought into the world, but the references were one of the many many elements which worked against immersion.
16/08/2012 at 18:11 Rhin says:
I can’t stand the gameplay of WoW, but I fail to see how this is “Pandaring” to the Asian markets as a lot of comments are pointing out. An Asian theme appeals to the Western players just as much. It is actually a bit of a refreshing change from “Knights and Castles and Dragons” European fantasy, which no one claims is “pandering to Caucasians.” Pandering to the general player-base, yes. The Pandaren in the Warcraft universe were originally an April Fools joke that were added (in a similar vein to the Cow Level) after a lot of fan support.
16/08/2012 at 19:37 mrbeman says:
Yeah I dunno. I’ve played on and off since mid-way through TBC, and I think I’m pretty much done. I was worried watching it that I would be all “oh man I want to resub now!” but… no. It was cute, sure, but I just can’t see myself leveling up my characters (again), maxing professions (again), farming raid consumables (again), organizing raids (again), etc etc etc.
I always played WoW for the people I played with, but there still needs to be an underlying game that I’m interested in playing.
Ironically, I think the game mechanics have seen a steady improvement every single patch. The way it plays has just gotten better and better. But at this point it’s an increasingly polished, well executed model of gameplay that I’m just not interested in any more.
16/08/2012 at 20:16 herschel says:
I actually enjoyed it… made me giggle and marvell about the wonderous arts of Blizzards moving pictures…
But then… pandas?
Pandas!
Naaah…
16/08/2012 at 21:04 Tei says:
I say its a pretty video.
16/08/2012 at 21:06 archimandrite says:
Yes, Blizzard has lots of money and lots of polish. They got the money from the polish. It’s not the only way to go, but it’s what worked for them. Other studios could do well to learn from that.
As far as the GW2 versus WoW argument … like the game you like and move on, please!
17/08/2012 at 00:13 Azradesh says:
Some people…may even like and play both!!!!!
16/08/2012 at 21:07 Leetables says:
WoW was neat when it first came out, but this won’t convince me to resub. I’ve done that before. Cool new WoW thing comes out, resub and realize the game feels just the way it was when I left it – stale.
Anywhere where’s Warcraft 4?
16/08/2012 at 22:26 Carra says:
Sure it looks ridiculous but heck, never bet against Blizzard.
I’m sure I’ll enjoy it for a month or two, they haven’t disappointed me in the past (well, not being able to play Diablo 3 at launch was a bit of a put down).
16/08/2012 at 23:07 lordfrikk says:
Looks pretty but otherwise worst WoW cinematic to date, dull and the Kung Fu panda connection is not helping. It can’t even come close to WotLK’s intro.
16/08/2012 at 23:25 Subucula Tertia says:
Watching the trailer, only one thought was going through my head: this is so effing dumb.
16/08/2012 at 23:53 Ashen says:
If I went back in time to show my Warcraft 2-playing self that this is what they’ll turn the franchise into, one of us would never believe it.
Then the world would end, because hey – time/space continuum.
17/08/2012 at 02:10 ShatteredAwe says:
I like the video, but I can’t stand WoW’s stupid ass graphics anymore, so I wont be buying it.
17/08/2012 at 02:54 Solskin says:
So the Alliance and Horde are now teaming up to fight pandas? That’s baddass.
17/08/2012 at 10:34 killuminati says:
Well looks like that Blizzard is spending more time on the CGi intro than on the game itself… at least more than in the past.
And I couldn’t care less if Pandaren were “canon” or not.. even if the very mother of Morhaine is a bloody Panda!
They are still stupid and smell of kung-fu panda from 10 thousand miles.
Lost faith and stopped playing WoW several months ago, this will be the first expac I will never buy.
After 6 years of WoW and 2 Betas…
GG Blizz (oh but I managed to waste 60 Euros on that crap that is D3 so I guess I’m settled for the next couple of WoW expac I will never buy.. shame on me!)