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WoW: Mists of Pandaria cinematic

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Ante

Ante

I know not many here play it, but Blizzard's cinematic work is always top fucking notch so I thought I'd share this here.



Make sure you watch it in 1080p

chunckylover53



I always enjoy watching their work. Every time i see something wow related it makes me want to start playing again Sad damn you ante.

Shinma

Shinma

I've been looking forward to seeing the cinematic actually. Now to watch the old ones all over again.









Doubt I'm gonna go back though.

Ron Swanson

Ron Swanson

I see a lawsuit against Disney for the right of Kung Foo Panda coming up soon....

Shinma

Shinma

Terry Corp. wrote:I see a lawsuit against Disney for the right of Kung Foo Panda coming up soon....

Nah, the Pandaren race came way before Kung-Fu Panda did.

Ante

Ante

Shinma wrote:
Terry Corp. wrote:I see a lawsuit against Disney for the right of Kung Foo Panda coming up soon....

Nah, the Pandaren race came way before Kung-Fu Panda did.

Yep. The Pandaren have been around since what.. 2002?

Grey

Grey

Games Workshop could and should have sued them for plagerism. WoW is a direct copy of Warhammer Fantasy.

Ante

Ante

Grey wrote:Games Workshop could and should have sued them for plagerism. WoW is a direct copy of Warhammer Fantasy.


Warhammer is a direct copy of Tolkien works. Tolkien works are a direct copy of Norse mythology. This "x copied y" shit is garbage. You name one IP ever that is 100% original. Do it. Everything was inspired by something.

Warcraft has heavy influences from Warhammer (pro tip: the first Warcraft game was originally planned to be a Warhammer game,) but the similarities sharply drop off after you dive any deeper than Orcs vs. Humans.

Jesus. Shit like this really grinds my gears.

Shinma

Shinma

Ante wrote:You name one IP ever that is 100% original.

Call of Duty. /endtopic

Artimise Flare

Artimise Flare

I always enjoyed Blizzards cinematic creations, though I doubt I'll ever go back to WoW unless they completely revamp the system. FTP? Maybe, just maybe, but seeing as how I can't invest crazy amounts of time to raid and such, it makes no difference for me since I'd never be able to enjoy the end game content.

Ante

Ante

Artimise Flare wrote:I always enjoyed Blizzards cinematic creations, though I doubt I'll ever go back to WoW unless they completely revamp the system. FTP? Maybe, just maybe, but seeing as how I can't invest crazy amounts of time to raid and such, it makes no difference for me since I'd never be able to enjoy the end game content.


Check out the raid finder feature, man. All you have to do to raid nowadays is click a button, put yourself in a queue, wait 5-10 minutes and poof! you're in a full 25 man raid. Raids in RF mode are tuned easier to compensate for "randie syndrome." It's really simple and good fun if you're on a tight schedule.

Shinma

Shinma

Although convenient and all that, dungeon/raid finders were part of the reason I stopped enjoying WoW. It was fun gathering people and then swarming to the dungeon entrances. Now it's all about hovering in one spot on my drake in Org and waiting for queues.

Guest


Guest

I dunno the Nintendo IP's are pretty damn original.

Artimise Flare

Artimise Flare

Kirby Epic yarn comes to mind for originality.

Also Ante, it's been a long as time since I played, I think I gave my account to my brother. I had at least 3 level 85' at the time, and chances are, the account has been canceled. I don't feel like grinding all the way back up, GW2 is coming out real soon, and that will most likely be my new MMO for the foreseeable future.

As much as I loved WoW, it's a dieing franchise I think. Blizzard needs to move onto a new engine, and will have to re-invent the wheel to bring me back I think.

Guest


Guest

Who here is going to play GW2?

Artimise Flare

Artimise Flare

Me, Crystal Sands is the server I'll be on.

Guest


Guest

Ive had mine pre ordered forever

Only a few more weeks

Ante

Ante

Shinma wrote:Although convenient and all that, dungeon/raid finders were part of the reason I stopped enjoying WoW. It was fun gathering people and then swarming to the dungeon entrances. Now it's all about hovering in one spot on my drake in Org and waiting for queues.


Yep. While it's nice and convenient, it's also got it's downsides. And I agree, WoW is definitely in the latter half of it's life. The fact that WoW has stayed popular for so long is quite the achievement.

Artimise Flare

Artimise Flare

It's lore locked, that's the problem I think. With Arthas dead, how many truly bad ass villains do they have left? They've already killed Death Wing, what's next? Taking down a Titan?

The thing I like about GW is that it doesn't have a history per say. They are free to take the game in which ever direction they see fit without upsetting the fans for not being canon.

Blizzard has to tread carefully with WoW, but in light of the recent expansions and the changes to the game has rendered WoW a shadow of what it used to be IMO. Like I said, unless they completely re do the game and move onto other things, I doubt WoW has much life left in it.

The only other franchise I can see Blizzard whoring out next is Star Craft *shudders*

Ante

Ante

Artimise Flare wrote:It's lore locked, that's the problem I think. With Arthas dead, how many truly bad ass villains do they have left? They've already killed Death Wing, what's next? Taking down a Titan?

The thing I like about GW is that it doesn't have a history per say. They are free to take the game in which ever direction they see fit without upsetting the fans for not being canon.

Blizzard has to tread carefully with WoW, but in light of the recent expansions and the changes to the game has rendered WoW a shadow of what it used to be IMO. Like I said, unless they completely re do the game and move onto other things, I doubt WoW has much life left in it.

The only other franchise I can see Blizzard whoring out next is Star Craft *shudders*


Blizzard is actually working on a new IP codenamed "Project Titan." We might get a glimpse of it at the next Blizzcon.

Artimise Flare

Artimise Flare

We shall see. I honestly don't see where the hell they can go with the WoW franchise now, though I will say I miss my Paladin dearly. So much freaking fun, there really wasn't a single game out there that was on WoW' level for the longest time IMO.

Though I think GW2 is challenging that title very admirably.

Ante

Ante

Titan won't be a Warcraft (or Starcraft or Diablo for that matter) game. It's a new IP.

Duan

Duan

WoW lost me a year or 2 ago, i loved it and still look back on it well,It just lost it for me, i'm not quite sure what it was i just started to drift away

Artimise Flare

Artimise Flare

After Burning Crusade, WoW started its downward decline. Don't get me wrong, Wrath of the Lich King was great, however, it dumbed down the content too much, and when Cataclysm released, a lot of the WotLK babies had no idea who to play. After that, the introduction of that stupid "Armor rating" crap which catered to the l337 players, ruined it for the more casual players since if you didn't have "x" rating, you were instantly kicked out of the pug. My friends and my brother had almost quit all together in the game, and working 40 hours a week in the Arizona summer sun didn't leave me with much energy nor motivation to raid.

Cataclysm did have its fun points though, I loved all the pop culture references but honestly, the nerfing/buffing to the point where any class could do just about anything didn't help the game IMO.

I lost interest after it was taking an hour to two hours to complete one fricken heroic dungeon, as a tank, after one or two, I was usually done due to just brain frying and wipe after wipe after wipe because of idiots who don't know the meaning of CC.

Ante

Ante

Artimise Flare wrote:After Burning Crusade, WoW started its downward decline. Don't get me wrong, Wrath of the Lich King was great, however, it dumbed down the content too much, and when Cataclysm released, a lot of the WotLK babies had no idea who to play. After that, the introduction of that stupid "Armor rating" crap which catered to the l337 players, ruined it for the more casual players since if you didn't have "x" rating, you were instantly kicked out of the pug. My friends and my brother had almost quit all together in the game, and working 40 hours a week in the Arizona summer sun didn't leave me with much energy nor motivation to raid.

Cataclysm did have its fun points though, I loved all the pop culture references but honestly, the nerfing/buffing to the point where any class could do just about anything didn't help the game IMO.

I lost interest after it was taking an hour to two hours to complete one fricken heroic dungeon, as a tank, after one or two, I was usually done due to just brain frying and wipe after wipe after wipe because of idiots who don't know the meaning of CC.



Mmmm, Arthas pre-nerf was easily one of the hardest bosses in WoW, if not the hardest boss.

I'm assuming by "armor rating" you mean gearscore which was something modders developed, it's never been an official part of the game.

Giving the hybrid classes the ability to actually use their 3 specs effectively did no harm to the game. I honestly laughed when I read this part. You realize in vanilla and a good portion of BC, if you were a Druid, Shaman, Paladin, or Priest, you specced to heal or you didn't get to play. If you were a Warrior, you tanked or you didn't play. How is that better than giving these classes the ability to use their DPS (and tanking where applicable) specs effectively in a raid/dungeon setting?

I will give you heroics in the beginning of Cata being draining. They were waaaay too difficult and Blizz took too long in nerfing them, resulting in most of the subscriber loss they've seen this expac.


You flip-flop a bit in this argument. First you say they dumbed the game down too much, but then you say you had to be "leet" to raid.

Artimise Flare

Artimise Flare

I should clarify. I'm not saying that Hybrid is bad, but the problem is that when you make the classes feel cookie cutterish. The classes played differently but were the same at the same time if that makes any sense. I understand what they were trying to do though, it's what GW is doing right now, they were trying to break down the holy trinity (Tank, DPS, Healer). However, the way WoW is set up, it makes breaking that build very difficult. The problem with the hybrid classes at the time was that certain tanks were superior to others in many forms. At the time it was Deathknights due to their incredible damage mitigating abilities with their blood specs and still being able to dish out quite a bit of damage if memory serves.

It was a step in the right direction, but there was something about it that rubbed me the wrong way.

Mind you, I stopped fairly early in Cata, we were still in the reboot of Zul'Guurub I think at the time.

I say that they dumbed down the game (Many encounters it turned into who can dish out the most DPS in the form of AOE the fastest at least in heroics), yes, what I meant by "leet" is the community. Players that could invest the exorbitant amount of time to get the good gear kicking out players in "Heroics" and "Normal" dungeons because their "gear score" wasn't up to their standards, if not preventing players from going into heroics entirely.

Back in WotLK, if you have several friends who were in incredible gear, they could help power gear you by spamming heroics and carry you through them. When I was playing, when I tried to get into some of the higher end Heroics with friends who had good gear, I'd get a message saying "Your gear score is not high enough for this dungeon" or some garbage along those lines.

THAT is what is infuriating, for Raids, I can understand, because losing that little bit of DPS can mean the difference between beating a boss or losing, but on heroics? Please.

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