Terran Gregory is an amazing person and his team does amazing work for the cinematic department. I met him at my very first BlizzCon, super chill and social dude. Literally got his job by making cinematic videos of Warcraft before they hired him to do it as his job.
I agree, he is a master at what he does as well as his whole team. The cinematic team has gotten better and better as tech has evolved, but even in that WotLK (Wrath of the Lich King) cinematic which was made most likely in 2007 the detail and story telling was great. I always get chills when I hear that first part of "Arthas my Son" play.
Actually the dragon in game of thrones looks like the dragon in The Wrath of the Lich King trailer. This came out years before GoT. I am almost 100% sure that the people behind GoT used this trailer as inspiration for that scene.
It's nothing like the dragon in GOT. The GOT dragon is a frost dragon. The WoW one is bones, but with frost powers. The only thing connecting them is frost, and that's pretty generic.
These reaction videos are so much better when you have game experts advising you. One of the best WoW cinematics reaction/comment videos I have seen so far. I'd love to see a deep dive of this man going through the series of cinematics created around Varok Saurfang in Battle for Azeroth.
Small thing to say: He mentions how the Lich King doesn't exert himself realistically when he stabs his sword in the ground. Which would be a slight oversight for a human or even vaguely mortal character, but, and correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not really into WoW, but in D&D, which I am super into, Liches don't need to breathe, nor eat, nor drink. I would argue that the Lich King not making any recognizably fallible noises like pain or exhaustion, increases his creepiness to the audience, and sets a dark fantasy tone for the game. Even so, great video, I friggin love this guy
6 months late, but yeah, basically. He's not a Lich like the actual Lich characters in the game, he's still in general human form, flesh and all. Buuuuut he is also undead (literally cut out his own heart in an attempt to kill whats left of his humanity, figuratively and literally) so he's just fueled with unholy magic, enhanced further by the sword and helm. Hell, the sword itself being of a particular kind of blade magically powered by crap I won't get into would pretty much have it pierce the ice with ease regardless of the users strength. I mean for starters its called 'Frostmourne', and they skipped over the brief moment of him holding it out right before the ground stabbing where bits of snowfall were being drawn to it and powering it up, so to speak. Metaphors surrounding how 'cold' death is, the Lich King is just a powerhouse of unholy frost magic. Stabbing into the ice is just generously for dramatic effect for viewers. In reality _(from this fantasy perspective)_ he could've made it obliterate all the ice away without even touching it. Aaaand in saying that, I never thought of it before, but I guess he just felt like waking the dragon up and that's it. Just lets it dig itself out of the ground.
He needs to come back and react to Judgment, and it's sequel Lost Judgment as this spin-off series in the Yakuza Series has some of the most gripping sequences and some of the most impactful cutscenes, and some of the most well written, well-liked characters in the series to give you an example the cutscene leading into the final boss fight of Lost Judgment "spoiler" during the cutscene the main antagonist tells lead protagonist likeable lawyer turned PI Takami Yagami that the murder he committed, and the massive cover-up to hide it was all for the greater good basically him committing these horrible acts was all in the name of justice and Takami calls him out on his BS with one of the coolest speeches that also sums up his character "You tell yourself it was all for the greater good. You try to justify it, that's why you're able to ignore and look past all the pain you caused. But she can't speak her peace and if I don't raise my voice for her THEN WHAT JUSTICE IS THERE?!"
Iirc, blizzard made a reference to GoT by calling the final frozen throne undead mission “symphony of frost and flame” (song of fire and ice). When the TV show came out, GoT referenced that scene from wrath of the lich king trailer.
I'd want to see how he reacts to games like HellBlade Senua's Sacrifice & some of the Returnal boss fights. The two games might not be good for reaction but I'd want to see it. 🤔
Hey Gamology have you considered doing Spec Ops reacting to Ghost Recon Future Soldier, one of my favourite tactical games I would absolutely love to watch that video
Blizzard has had top tier cinematics for years. They're consistently among the best in the industry. Their Diablo trailers are better than nearly anything coming out of Hollywood. As far as the green goes, I've always taken the "green vapors/liquids" to visualize corruption more than evil.
so no classic, no tbc and warlords is after shadowlands. iiiiight ngl you're talking to us like no one knows anyone in these cinematics. you aren't thinking about the fact we've been interacting with these characters for 10+ years at the point of these cinematics coming out.. lol we're really famimilar with them all. So when you're talking about how we don't know who Anduin is, we don't know if he's good or evil. We relate to him because he's a human rather than the orcs (pretty sure horde has a higher playerbase than alliance) so it's just cringe af lol These aren't 'new' characters. these are characters that have been developing for 20+ years. When you saw a new trailer for a GoT season, when there was an old character in there for the first time in that trailer, even though they were in previous seasons, do you see them as new characters? No you don't lol
Wotlk cinemaric Is good beucas IT was first cinematic WHO had the best cinematic. But from all cinematic Now. Wod Is the best.. And expansion wotlk was good? Yeah maybe but Its peak And downhill in the samé time
Wrath of the lich king cinematic is so amazing they sold it off with the perfect animations, music and graphics. But also during the scene with the greenish glowing drink, it's indeed an good way to use it for evil as a way of representing "corruption"
One of the things I'm hoping to see with MS buying Activision Blizzard is perhaps they are open to having the Blizzard games be done in a TV show format like what they are doing with Halo. Not live action, just make the CG trailers into shows.
II don't know if it would be enlightening. These games try to mimic the Cinema, purposefully limiting themselves to be akin to TV shows and movies. What is satisfying with Pre-rendered cutscenes from WoW or God of War is that they learn from Cinema. They grasp what it offers then go beyond because they only have a couple of minutes of video to create.
Their cinematics are still greatest top tier than all of the other great cinematics 5:45 Chewbacca? DOESN'T HE EVEN KNOW THE MINOTAUR? I could understand if he say "Is that minotaur?" to Tauren but Chewbacca? lmfao 7:13 Ok, he doesn't even know what an Orc is. Aren't orcs pretty famous in media? Greenskin, sharp and big tusks, those stuffs, man 7:28 Kor'kron editor DAMNNNNNN 🤣🤣🤣🤣 11:46 Kor'kron reference again lol 🤣🤣
