Man the cinematics were SICK! But apparently this compilation is missing a lot. Anyways be sure to LIKE or DISLIKE the video. If we get to 1K LIKES I'll do more!
the first in-game cinematic was not in this video, the cutscene is known as Wrathgate by the way, i wanted to let you know a few things; 1. Garrosh was beyond redemption, he used the Horde to commit a whole host of atrocities, including murder Cairne Bloodhoof, leader of the Horde's Tauren. as well as start a war that threatened to destroy Pandaria itself. 2. Humans are built the way they are for lore reasons, as Humans descended from Titan Watchers that were inflicted with the Curse of Flesh by the Old Gods. 3. the Warcraft movie literally was the story of WC1, hence why all you really saw were Orcs and Humans. 4. the title of Warchief is of Orc tradition, in the Horde the one who makes all the decisions in wartime is the Warchief. or at least was, they have a council nowadays, a single leader has always led to turmoil, Sylvanas was the last official Warchief.
Yeah you should really start with the warcraft 3 cinematics. They tie the whole story together and give a lot of context. This compilation probably lacks about an hours worth of smaller cinematics and in game events that really tie things together.
Blizzard's cinematic team always do a great job. you should look at the starcraft 2 or diablo 3/4 trailers. considering you have only see the movie you did great man and yh their is load's missed out. you would have to spend like 12 hours going though it all
whoever put the compilation together skipped some real important cinematics for context... varian's death, anduin on the broken shore, old soldier, for SHAME
Yeah that's my bad. I chose that compilation based on the simple fact that it was longer and had in-game cutscenes. I'm surprised they still managed to leave a lot.
@@WeAINTseenITREACTIONS Yeahhhh whoever made this compilation did the laziest, piss-poorest job at it. There's soooo much important story context that they left out. Varian's death, Sargeras' sword, the Lich King death, etc.
The two lich kings that you see in the cinematics are not the same. The one that turned Sylvanas into a banshee(his name is Arthas) is 10x more powerful than the one sylvanas defeated.
@@WeAINTseenITREACTIONS nah the armor is actually the same. When the original lich king died, everyone realized that there always has to be a lich king in order to control the undead armies. Because if they had no leader, the undead would rampage through entire world and basically go insane killing and eating anything they see. So Bolvar(the new lich king) decided to take up the burden and put on the helm.
Arthas would still likely have no chance, since (what wasn't know at that point). Sylvanas was empowered by a god, while the helmet and frostmourne were even created by him as tool to slowly forge the way for his freedom (what failed). It's unlikely that Arthas could hold against it, just like the Light was able to break Frostmourne (the real thing that killed him, the players would have had no chance indeed).
Oh man my soul breaks from the fact that they for left out the "Old Soldier" cinematic. Its hands down my favorite of the Warcraft cinematics. So much raw emotion and it also just looks stunning. It helps that Saurfang is one of the baddest around
Arthas’ story in this game is my absolute favorite. Once a prince that was blessed with holy light and became a paladin became vengeful and hate filled toward a demon lord who challenged him to find him in northrend. There he found his sword Frostmourne and sacrificed a part of his soul just to get vengeance on the demon lord for what he did to Arthas’ people. The sword eventually ate all of his soul and he later picked up the helmet he wore in the cinematic the “helm of domination” and that completely surrendered his soul to darkness
Athas' doubt and downfall actually began with the death of his horse as a child. Despite becoming a paladin, he never overcame it. In fact the first corpse he resurrected with Frostmourne was this horse....Invincible.
Thats a dwarf not an elf at the start. The dark elfes called Night Elves (or Kaldorei) here. The horny Cow like big guys are the Taurens. The tentacle beard guys with the klingon forehead are the Dreanei. You can see them in the movie at the start when Gul'dan opens the dark portal with their souls. The white skinned elf who killed the spiritual dragons and shit are the Blood Elves ( or sin’dorei)
Bruh called a dwarf a Chunky little Elf. I can't tell whether or not you were serious but that shit had me dying of laughter hahaha. Also to provide a little more context. - Fun Fact: It's called a Night Elf not a Dark Elf. There are even Void Elfs. What's interesting about this is the fact that all elves ( as far as I know ) descended from a ancient tribe of Dark Trolls. - The character at the end of the second trailer was the main antagonist Illidan Stormrage. He was a Night Elf but transformed into a Demon by the Fell energies from the Skull of Gul'dan which he holds in the trailer. - The character in the third trailer is Arthas Menethil. A Human prince that eventually became the first Death Knight in service of The Lich King and eventually became The Lich King himself. - The Dragon in the fourth trailer is Deathwing The Destroyer. Formerly called Neltharion the Earth-Warder before he was corrupted by the Old Gods. - No that isn't Thrall in the fifth trailer. He appears in a few seperate cinametics as you've seen. But as for primarily expansion cinametics he's only present in the newest one which you came out a few days ago and you haven't seen yet. - The two Orcs primarily featured in the sixth trailer is Grommash Hellscream and the one in the hood is his son Garrosh Hellscream from the prime timeline who traveled 35 years into the past to alter events to ensure that the Orcs refuse the Blood Pact which originally bound them to the service of the Demonic Burning Legion. - In the 7th trailer we primarily see Varian Wyrnn who at that time was the King of Stormwind and High King of the Alliance. The other character you saw was Sylvannas Windrunner. Formerly a High Elf that was killed by Arthas/The Lich King and raised as an undead Banshee. At the time of this expansion she was the Queen of the Forsaken A.K.A Undead and was named Warchief of the Horde. Also they weren't fighting each other but were fighting The Burning Legion that returned to Azaroth in that expansion. Also I wouldn't say Humans were designed to be very bulky. It may seem that way because of their armor but it wouldn't be surprising if they come across that way because are decended from Half-Giants. - The Eigth Cinametic trailer shows a piece of another War between the Horde ( led by Sylvannas ) and the Aliiance ( led by Anduin ). relations between the Horde and the Alliance soured since the previous expansion and because Sylvannas ordered the burning of the World Tree ( as seen in the cutscene before the cinametic ) a new War started. Also the previous King of Stormwind Varian Wyrnn died in the previous expansion which is why his son Anduin is King now. - In the Ninth trailer we see Sylvannas again but you incorrect assume a few things. 1. She isn't after territory and 2. It isn't the same person currently holding the title of The Lich King. During the third expansion Arthas was defeated but in order to keep the Scourge under control there must always be a Lich King and so Bolvar Fordragon took up the mantle. He was tought killed during the third expansion but he was resurrected by Dragon's Fire but his body scarred behind regonition. As for Sylvannas her situation is more complicated but basically after her escaping the control of Arthas she vowed to have revenge on him. After his defeat she felt she didn't have purpose anymore and commited suicide ( which is funny consider she was already dead more or less ). After commiting suicide she met Zovaal A.K.A The Jailer and she fell for his plan of changing the cycle of life and death. This drove her actions after the third expansion. She wanted to free herself and the Forsaken of an eternity of suffering by breaking this cycle and she convinced herself any price was worth paying. - In the 10 trailer we see the return of the Dragons to Azaroth. As someone pointed out that was indeed a Dragon talking. The dragon Deathwing once belonged to this collection of Dragons.
@@Kitynn4u Very good point. Also another interesting point: Anduin (blonde son of Varian) is named as such as the character Lothar from the movie basically became Varian's father-figure, and his full name is Anduin Lothar. So it's a good bit of continous storytelling there. I must say I am a tad bit surprised he wanted the orcs to be Thrall throughout the reaction, as Thrall is not mentioned in the movie. But it's the name he took after being raised (by decent people as far as I remember) and later *enthralled* by humans. In the movie they give him the name Go'el, the son of Durotan and Draka. Also, later when Thrall regains his freedom and joins what's left of the horde they are lead by Orgrim Doomhammer. Durotan's friend from the movie. And after they find a mostly uninhabited land, which they name Durotar (daddy), Orgrim dies and Thrall picks up both his armor and weapon which is also seen in several scenes - called the Doomhammer. They then raise a new city for the Orcs and name it Orgrimmar (step-uncle), as it's called in these reactions.
To explain how the movie connects to the 'game', the movie takes place in what would be the "First War", which is connected the Warcraft RTS games of the 90s. Still, what happens in the movie is heavily 'rushed' compared to the three RTS games, which cover the first, second and third war. The movie squished a metric ton of lore to make it more 'watchable' for non-warcraft fans. As a result, the movie is not really 'canon' to the games, but it's like a vague precursor. Between the end of the movie and the 'start' of "World of Warcraft", it's still well over 20-30 years of in-universe time.
@kokojack Personally I think it's the best they've done. The fact is not everyone is gonna like what I say about this, the war within isn't for the people casually into wow, nor hard-core top end players, it's for people who have left, it is a call to come home. I think it's easy to make a very intriguing cinematic when it's filled with combat and epic battles, and very difficult to intrigue with an interaction, a conversation. But eh that's just my opinion.
@@marksavage8936 I left WoW during SL (and played since Vanilla) and this doesn't hype me at all to come back. I find it very bland and doesn't feel like Warcraft anymore. Sure, good conversation is something WoW is lacking, but hell, this is World of Warcraft not World of Speechcraft! Also, bringing back Sargeras' sword and Azeroth when this should have been taken care of during BfA... Best cinematic was probably WotLK, with Terenas' words over Arthas deeds, that was so good. WoD is also a very good one, thowing back to older Warcraft games, that was hyping as hell and very epic
@@kokojack I would say WotLK is also up there honestly a toss up for me they're both amazing, as someone who also left was but a lore centered person this cinematic speaks to me, and I cannot wait to return home. (also left after SL)
There's a alot of other high quality in-game cutscenes from in game that just weirdly aren't here? Especially from Warlords of Draenor onwards so i'd highly recommend reacting to those for more context same with the one you refered to as a montion painting, it's from a series leading up to Battle for Azeroth called Warbringers, Legion had a series too called Harbingers.
Yeah that's my bad. I chose that compilation based on the simple fact that it was longer and had in-game cutscenes. I'm surprised they still managed to leave a lot.
@@WeAINTseenITREACTIONS seemed a bit horde centric to me, showed the horde side broken shore cinematic in the legion expansion ( where sylvanas becomes warchief)
The warcraft movie isnt based on world of warcraft its based on Warcraft, the games that came before world of warcraft, so i think you were confusing a lot of the characters in these cinematics with the characters in the movie but for the most part a lot of the movie characters arent in the same timeline as these cinematics
Hold up. My mann we ain't even started and you calling Dwaves "Chunky Little Elves" 😂 you got me crying already. Say Less My mann say less! Hahaha love it!
I always love these reactions. And when I see someone enjoy it so much it's much more sad, that this collection of cinematics lacks so much. Maybe the whole collection is too much? It's quite okay, but there is so much more with a few more cinematics an cinematic shorts. I see this collection of videos a lot, but i really don't get it :D whoever did it, was a bit half-hearted. nvm,, great reaction, I had a lot of fun
WoTLK is still the best video game cinematic I've ever seen. The cgi is still impressive to this day, the music, the trailer itself, but the cherry on top is how perfect his fathers word are through the entire thing. Arthas will likely be my favorite video game character for the rest of my life, Shadowlands isn't cannon for me so. I don't play anymore anyway. Highly recommend watching a video on Neltharion's, aka Deathwing, lore. It is easily some of the best character development I've had the joy of the experiencing. Literal Earth-Warder turned bad guy.
There were some missing parts here first lichj king death and the other guy crowning , Varians(king) old soldier ( talks about saurfang not agreeing with Sylvanas pretty epic) and a lot of other ones for shadowlands
Yeah that's my bad. I chose that compilation based on the simple fact that it was longer and had in-game cutscenes. I'm surprised they still managed to leave a lot.
Also, the characters in the cutscene at 19:18 are Varian Wrynn(son of Llane Wrynn) Anduin Wrynn(son of Varian) Jaina Proudmore(the white haired lady) Taran Zhu(the Pandaren) Thrall(the green skinned orc in robes with the big red beads around his neck(Son of Durotan)) Garrosh Hellscream(son of Grom/Grommash Hellscream) Baine Bloodhoof(the cow guy/Tauren) Sylvanas Windrunner and Lor’themar Theron(the two elves(Sylvanas specifically is undead) Tradeprince Gallywix(the goblin)
I am a solo player in WoW and have been for years. Started playing when BC released. You would have fun and you do not need anyone to help for the most part.
"I'm a fan of the movie" Hoooo man, you're in for an *awakening* to what Warcraft is actually about. The movie was expected to tell us the story of Arthas, from start to finish. And what we got was some mid about the First War
No bro, that lich king isn't the one you first seen, the first and the true lich king Arthas would kill Sylvanas like he did when she was human. This is another lich king named Bolvar, the real one was Arthas
A lot of context is missing from within the WoW cinematics, but also the cinematics from Warcraft 3/The Frozen Throne expansion. For Warlords of Draenor (Guldan, Grom Hellscream, the weird demon thing named Mannoroth) has a nice little nod to one of the WC3 cinematics. Grom in that timeline also killed Mannoroth, but much later after drinking the cup from Gul'Dan (there is some wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff going on in this expansion). Grom dies as Mannoroth explodes into that fiery nova at 24:20 . This time, as if to say "expect us to rewrite history", they show Grom being saved from the explosion instead of succumbing to it. 36:30 Yeah, the Ice King guy from the Wrath of the Lich King cinematic, Arthas, struck her down, but instead of letting her die he turned her into a banshee, then had her kill her people. She had an amazing arc rivaled only by Arthas himself throughout WC3/Frozen Throne expansion. After Wrath and her vengeance against Arthas and his Scourge as complete as it can be, the writers had to give her a new story to continue on, but at least for me personally, they missed the mark heavily (I wanna live. You can see how awesome she is in the later cinematics (fighting-wise), but like her motivations seem so much different than they were originally and it's hard to reconcile the two. I hope that the last cinematic with her at war with herself was them trying to reconcile her character again. Someone who played Shadowlands, please let me know what happened because I'm curious but do not have the time or energy to play the story myself.
TL;DR for each warcraft thing. Warcraft the film kinda sorta covers Warcraft (the strategy games) but does some things different. Warcraft 2: the second war between orcs and humans, they invade the human kingdom of Lordaeron but Gul'dan has his demon masters' agenda to attend to, leaves and fails. Because of this the Horde loses. Warcraft 3: an adult Thrall reforms a horde (a less evil one this time) to make an exodus with a number of orcs to Kalimdor, across the seas and unsettled (mostly) by humans. Orcs make a few allies with the local trolls and tauren. Meanwhile, events conspire as planned by demons for Lordaeron's prince Arthas to fall to darkness and become the Lich King. He goes to Northrend to get that evil sword, comes back, unleashes undeath across Lordaeron, and invades the capital of the high elves to revive a really strong necromancer. He then brings The Biggest Demon to Azeroth, who just barely gets stopped, then weakens and goes back to Northrend to rest. World of Warcraft: In the time since Warcraft 3, the Horde and Alliance have begun stabilizing. The alliance consists of the humans and dwarves, longtime allies, the gnomes who had their own issues this whole time, and the night elves who lost their world tree in that demon invasion. The Horde has started growing and includes orcs, trolls, tauren, and a contingent of undead left behind when Arthas left. Since he weakened, they regained their free will and call themselves the Forsaken, led by Sylvanas. They live in what's left of Lordaeron. Some evil dwarves start causing trouble when they summon the Elemental Lord of fire, we deal with that. An evil black dragon with a flair for magic and science is backing a bunch of (other) orcs in the same mountain and is a threat so we kill him. A race of bug monsters breaks out of an ancient seal and threatens the world, so we go there and kill their dark god. A contingent of the lich king's undead (they're called the scourge) show up again and they're pushed back to Northrend. Burning Crusade: What's left of the draenei, after escaping the orcs on draenor, crashland on Azeroth and join the alliance because the orcs aren't in it. The former high elves, now called blood elves due to the loss of the Sunwell (big supermagic pool) and their capital in the scourge invasion, have rebuilt and join the horde, as humans did them pretty dirty in Warcraft 3. The dark portal opens and demons start jumping through, so we take the fight through there and onto the former Draenor, now called Outland. Allied to a couple of demon factions are some of the orcs left behind when the portal last closed, a number of blood elves following the former leader, a number of naga, and Illidan who was a big guy in WC3. We take out a ton of them, the demons try to access the Sunwell to summon one of their big leaders but we shove him back last minute. Lich King: Arthas wakes up, starts doing stuff. We gotta do something, and luckily a few of his soldiers called death knights regain their free will and join either the horde or alliance, depending on their race. We head to Northrend to kill a lot of this scourge. Dragons are here and are our allies, but some blue dragons went a little crazy and tried to take all the magic for themselves. We take out the floating necropolis of Naxxramas. There are some rumblings in a Titan prison facility that could ruin this invasion so we go there and silence the imprisoned Thing there. We storm the Lich King's citadel, kill him, and shatter the sword. There has to be someone to control the remaining mindless scourge so a practically-dead paladin puts the helmet on himself to pacify them. Cataclysm: The biggest and strongest black dragon is this guy called Deathwing, formerly Neltharion. Some dark, powerful thing of shadow called an old god (killed one in classic and Lich King) started whispering in his ear a few thousands of years ago. He caused trouble then, but the other dragon types stopped him. He's back and here to break the world with elemental allies. The Bilgewater Cartel of goblins join the horde because Deathwing blew up their island. The isolated Gilnean humans are afflicted with a werewolf curse but kept sane by night elf magic so they join the alliance (we call them worgen). We kill the elemental lords of air and fire and help the lords of earth and water. Thrall names this war hero orc Garrosh warchief because this elemental stuff has him too busy as a shaman. The black dragon from classic didn't die and has done WAY more terrible things so we kill him for real this time. With the help of all the other dragons we take out Deathwing. Pandaria: We find the lost land of Pandaria where the Pandaren live. Most remain neutral, but a few join the alliance or the horde. While we do deal with a number of native more contained issues, we also bring war to their shores which wakes up what remains of a dead Old God. Garrosh gets a bit too power hungry, finds the heart of this dead old god, and takes its power for himself, basically declaring war on everybody alongside his inner circle of loyalists. We beat him and take him into custody to stand trial. Warlords of Draenor: Garrosh escaped. Back in time. To Draenor. No paradoxes, this is an alternate Draenor now, a branched timeline. He builds his own IRON horde (how many of those have we had) with the orcs there and future goblin tech, stopping the orcs from being manipulated by demons in this timeline and unites most orc clans under them. He uses alternate Gul'dan as a battery to make a new dark portal connecting to our Azeroth, so we take the fight to them. We stop the portal but unfortunately alt Gul'dan escapes. We dismantle the iron horde, Gul'dan gets some alternate orcs to work for demons out of desperation, we stop that from coming to a head and kill a demon general but alternate Gul'dan escapes. Legion: Alternate Gul'dan brings the demons right to Azeroth and they're full-on invading. Alliance's king dies, his son Anduin takes over. The horde's warchief Vol'jin dies from wounds sustained, Sylvanas takes the mantle. Heroes get mindblowingly strong historical weapons to fight them back properly. We beat them off Azeroth, and go to their seat of power, the Draenei's original homeworld. Their leader is a Titan, Sargeras, who betrayed the others in order to beat back a vague threat known as the void lords. Old Gods are servants of the void lords, we know. Basically, if all worlds are dead like Outland and under his thumb he can stop it from gaining influence. With the help of the Titans' spirits, we imprison him, but not before he stabs a MASSIVE sword into Azeroth. Battle for Azeroth: So turns out that Azeroth has the soul of what could be a titan inside of it, and a strong one at that. Explains why the void and Sargeras are so enamored with it. That sword wound is causing a powerful magical substance called azerite to spring out. Horde and Alliance get back to war because of the new resource, mistrust, and old and new grudges. And Sylvanas burning down the Night Elves' capital and its surrounding land. She's been sus since Cataclysm, ramping up in Legion. Anyway don't worry about the big sword in the planet, instead worry about the remaining living old god making itself known and exerting its power. It's intensely hard fought but we take him down, though with the help of this void-y sentient knife Xal'latath. Oh yeah and we oust Sylvanas for her to... Shadowlands: For her to almost ruin existence itself. She beats the current lich king and breaks his helmet, opening a portal to The Afterlife. People don't like this one's story and neither do I, so. The shadowlands has a few different afterlives for different types of people to go to. The worst and most unforgiveable go to The Maw. In the maw there's this guy called the Jailer, and he's the one who gave demons the lich king's helmet and sword in order to manipulate the living world. Sylvanas breaking the helmet means that every soul now goes to the Maw. The Jailer's going to use this to in some way alter reality to his design because of some vague threat he knows about. Anduin is kidnapped and dominated, we free him but he gets super-PTSD from it. We beat The Jailer and set things as they should be, but Sylvanas has to find everyone's soul in the Maw that got sent there due to her bullshit and get them in the right place. Dragonflight: The dragons' ancestral homeland, the Dragon Isles, have been hidden magically for a long. Long time. Now they aren't, and primal Proto-Dragons who broke out of their prison in the interim aren't happy that dragons are returning. Deal with that, the leftovers of forgotten Dragon plot threads, and some baggage that other dragons have there from the past. The War Within: Not out yet, but... Hey, remember that whole thing about Azeroth having a soul, and getting stabbed with a big sword? And that obviously evil void being Xal'latath that just sort of disappeared? Yeah, we should probably address all of those, huh? Yeah, let's do something with those. Geez, even a TL;DR is too long, imagined that would be a lot shorter.
Whoever put this compilation of cinematics together made a huge mistake. They left out so many equally or more important ones than the ones they chose to show, giving you more questions than answers and missing important moments. Loving your reaction anyways, though. Been playing this game for some 15 years or so at this point.
Yeah that's my bad. I chose that compilation based on the simple fact that it was longer and had in-game cutscenes. I'm surprised they still managed to leave out a lot.
@@WeAINTseenITREACTIONS Yeah, but it left out the more important in-game cutscenes in favour of some less important ones, funnily enough. And also left out some of the pre-rendered CGI ones that would've been really good and helpful :D I'm sure you'll get to see the rest soon enough! Would love to see the reaction to it.
sounds like you saw the movie! Fun fact, the orc who is pulled out of hiding to lead the horde (Thrall) is the baby orc in the basket that got sent down the river in the movie
Not even 2 minutes in and I just wanted to comment that I'm so happy to hear you like the Warcraft movie! I'm an older WoW fan (quit for the later expacs, as I'm sure you've gotten many comments saying the same) and it's so nice to hear that a non-dedicated fan enjoyed the movie. It's a mess if you're a hardcore WoW-fan but as a fantasy movie it really is SO much fun!
Man there is so many important cutscenes missing :/ you would actually be able to kinda peace the story meaningfully if whoever who was making that compilation knew what they were doing. It's much more of a shame than you could imagine.
so the King of Stormwind in the movie is Lane Wrynn, the 2 kings you see in the World of warcraft cinematics are his son Varian Wrynn and grandson Anduin Wrynn. the movie takes place in the first war, also known as the original Warcraft game, World of Warcraft started 35 years after the time of the movie and 4 years after the 3rd war or Warcraft III. Prince Arthas was a character in Warcraft 3 who started off as a Paladin of the Silver hand and Heir to the throne of the kingdom of Lorderon (another human kingdom)......during Warcraft 3 Arthas become corrupted and eventually kills his own father and leads an army of undead to destroy the kingdom of Lorderon. he later goes north to the land of Northrend and takes the Crown of the Lich king at The Frozen Throne. Arthas was defeated at the end of the Wrath of the Lich King DLC and another guy named Bolvar had to take his place to keep the army of the undead scourge from spreading out and killing everything without a king to control them, that is who Sylvanas fought in the Shadowlands trailer, not Arthas.
Aight so as someone who's been there since WarCraft: Orcs vs Humans, you sinned as soon as you called the Warcraft Movie a ''cinematic masterpiece''. TRUTHFULY, if it wasn't branded as a Warcraft product, yes it would be a decent movie. But as a Warcraft franchise movie it is NOT good. @5:02 that is not a ''chunky little elf'' my friend, that is a Dwarf. @5:22 this is the WarCraft reveal Cinematic from 2004. It' snot the oldest of the Blizzard cinematics but it is DEFINITELY one of the most iconic. @5:46 she's a night elf, and can transform because she's a Druid. Also, in the movie those are High Elves. @6:00 that's an undead Warlock, he's controlling an Infernal, which is basically a ''hell fire'' golem (in the movie it's the thing Khadgar fights while Lothar deals with Medivh). He's the same class as Gul'Dan. @6:15 that is a Tauren, staple Horde race introduced in WarCraft III. @6:40 that's just a generic human mage. @8:10 that is a Dranei, the race that the Orcs dominated and used to fuel the Fel Magics seen in the movie. That one in particular is a lore character named Vindicator Maraad. @8:40 that is a BLOOD elf (so many elves), they're the descendants of the High Elves, so you did kinda see them in the movie. Their race is HEAVILY dependant on magic to live and she pulls all of the magic out of the Mana Wyrm in that scene to sustain herself. They're actually addicted to Fel Magic as a result of their faction leaders decisions. @9:15 that's a mage casting polymorph, it renders a target harmless until it wears off. @9:34 That is Illidan Stormrage. He's one of the most loved lore characters. He does the intro VO to that section of the cinematics, and is seen holding the skull of Gul'Dan. He used the power of Fel Magic to transform himself into a demon, in order to defeat the demons invading Azeroth during WarCraft III, which is why he was ''banished from his homeland''. The 10,000 years of imprisonment was due to his involvement with the War of the Ancients when the Burning Legion invaded the first time. He is the ''big bad'' for the Burning Crusade expansion, but he is a ''misunderstood good guy''. @10:12 ABSOLUTELY one of the high points in WoWs history. ARGUABLY the best 2 years of it's lifetime thus far. @10:51 Long voyage is ONE way to put it... Tired is another. Arthas is one of the most tragic lore characters, classic ''good guy becomes bad guy through corruption'' scenario but the writing behind it and how the character feels everything he did was right and for the better of the world is incredibly heartfelt and expressed so well. One of the BEST eras of Blizzards writing. @11:06, he's the first ''new'' Death Knight, and the Lich King manifest. @11:42 Absolutely not lol, he even kills his own father, usurping the throne of Lordaeron. 12:00 Sindragosa, mother of the Frost Brood. Another rather tragic lore character but very minor outside of her life as an undead abomination. @12:38 Those are all undead thralls. @13:44 He kinda can't... TLDR he's sorta exploded and it's the only way for him to retain his form. @14:21 TLDR he betrays his kin (other dragons) in a bid for power to sell the world out to cosmic horror entities after falling to their corruption and almost causes the apocalypse. During this expansion, he tries again. @15:00 Azeroth is the (main) planet WarCraft takes place on, when he says ''the whole of Azeroth will break'', he's talking about destroying the world. @15:16 the city he lands on is Stormwind. He doesn't outright destroy it like the Orcs did in the first war (canon, in the movie they're stopped) but he damages it enough that they have to repair the whole city just about. @16:15 No, that is not Thrall. Though if you play through the original Goblin starter zone you do assist him on the open seas. @17:11 Good, Lok'Tar Ogar, For the Horde! @17:38 Chen Stormstout (the panda character in the cinematic) would crush Po, if he was in the mood. @19:18 You can, and you can play the Pandaren as a race too. They're technically neutral, but you have to choose a faction at some point in their original starting zone. They were the first with access to the Monk Class, which is that the Pandaren in the cinematic's class was. @19:28 Garrosh is Grom Hellscream's son. Thrall appointed him Warchief of the Horde in his absence when Thrall left to seek more wisdom in the Shamanistic studies. Things didn't go too well under his reign. @19:13 These are the in-game graphics after the first sweep of graphical upgrades. The game looks better now, but it's still no AAA eye-candy. Within and without the cinematics, Warcraft has a very unique art style. @20:11 The human with the fancy sword and armor is Varian Wrynn. Anduin Lothar is long dead at this point, slain at the end of the second war (the end of the warcraft movie itself is the end of the second war, the movie combines the first two games into one kinda haphazardly and changes a lot of things). Llane Wrynn is the kind of Stormwind who dies at the climax of the movie, and Anduin Lothar never actually meets the leadership role in stormwind because it is in canon sacked by the Orcs. The humans of Stormwind flee north by sea to Lordaeron and are aided in reclaiming the city by their allies there. @20:50 That is Vol'jin, another long time fan favorite. He is the racial leader of the Trolls, and Thrall names him Warchief after Garrosh is deposed. The Horde in World of Warcraft's time is a band of misfit races, really. More of the ''tribal'' and rough edged races of Azeroth. The Alliance is a lot more high-fantasy with the humans, dwarves, night elves, etc. @21:58 God I wish. World of Warcraft ran, and I think still does run, on a HEAVILY modified WarCraft III Engine. It would have to be completely revamped to reach the level of fidelity that the cinematics are capable of. @22:04 Kind of, this cinematic takes place at the canon part the movie adapted when Gul'Dan offered Demon Blood to the Orcs in order to power them up in their first attempt to take over Draenor and exterminate the Draenei. @22:12 That is Grom Hellscream. @22:46 that is the Blood of Mannaroth, a demonic Pit Lord. @22:00 And THAT is Mannaroth. His blood is what powered up the Orcs in canon, and drove them into the unending blood lust that allowed them to take over and eventually destroy Draenor. It also, for a time, made them slaves to the Burning Legion. @23:31 and this is where the timeline split happened... ESSESNTIALLY, this expansion has players time travel to an alternate past where Garrosh escaped to during his trial from the in game cinematic that played prior, and he sought to change the past so that the Horde wouldn't fall victim to the Legion's slavery, and would instead use the power of the advanced technology that he brought with him to the past to conquer Draenor, and lead the Horde down a different path that would eventually conquer Azeroth and make the Orcs the dominant race. I know this comment is getting huge now lmao.. If you wanna chat about WarCraft lore and try to get into the game, I'm sure there's plenty of other people out there that can help, but my doors are always open. Let me know if you wanna chat about it, and I'll find a way to drop you my Discord or something.
Starts with dwarf hunter then night elf druid, undead warlock, tauren shaman, orc warrior and human mage, for 2004, this video is incredible! I am a 20 year veteran of WOW and 10 year Hearthstone veteran and still loving it!
After killing Saurfang and deserting the horde, Sylvanus goes to the Frozen Throne in Icecrown to challenge the Lich King, after defeating him and destroying the helm of domination, she opens a rift to the Shadowlands, an Afterlife dimension where Valkyr collect the souls of the dead and deliver them to judgement according to their deeds.
During the Siege of Orgrimmar scenario, after recruiting Thrall, Saurfang challenges Sylvanus to single combat, even though he knows he cannot win, he is willing to die for his cause.
Cataclysm is the tale of Deathwing, an imprisoned ancient dragon, escaping to wreak vengeance on the world, destroys half of Azeroth before being defeated.
Battle for Azeroth shows the Siege of Lordaeron, Sylvanus uses her banshee scream to bolster her army, Anduin uses his holy power to mass resurrect his troops, players can participate in this epic conflict, I played both sides and it was awesome!
Legion is the only time alliance and horde combine forces against the demonic legions, Varian of the alliance and Vol'jin of the horde are both killed, due to a misunderstanding the fragile truce is shattered, Anduin succeeds his father and Sylvanus becomes warchief of the horde.
Wrath of the Lich King introduces the death knight class, 2nd only to hunter in my opinion, tragic tale of Arthas, crown prince of Lordaeron who takes up a cursed sword to save his peole only to become the Lich King and destroy all he stood for.
5:00 chonky elf.. i am dying its a dwarf and you saw them in the movie as well they were in the same place where you first get introduced to Anduin Lothar
The broken shore cinematic, the whole anduin/sylvanas storyline, old soldier, tyrande/sylvanas interactions, so many important cinematics were skipped :(
As someone who put in too much time into this game, I freakin appreciate seeing new viewers reactions to all these cinematics. I have a long winded explanation with my opinion: I completeley agree with Sylvannis overstaying her welcome, and think you nailed a lot more points on the head than what I expected. The big thing was though you acknowledging that she could take over second lich kings forces would have been 1000x better than what we ended up actually getting. But they were trying really hard to not repeat the issue of how they handled Garrosh - which the playerbase was literally divided on him as the leader of the Horde. Garrosh was really freakin cool when he was brought in imo, was really strong and was a really good set up as a war leader in Cataclysm. However in Mists of Pandaria he VERY abruptly started showing this very sudden and bold xenophobic "orcs above all else" campaign where he literally isolated everything that wasn't an orc. The Horde itself is conceived of multiple different races and factions that banded together under a mutual defense pact. This pact has Orcs, Trolls, Minotaurs, Undead, Elves and Goblins (among a couple others that would be added) where everyone equally shares their talents and gifts and helps overcome each other's short comings. Garrosh breaking this trust sorta put him on a villain arc, to which the writers chose not to have a redemption arc. The "trial" he faced in pandaria he escaped mid trial and fled to..... "Draenor 35 years ago that is also in an alternative timeline." It was convoluted. Vol'jin was appointed for an entire expansion before they literally killed him off for Sylvannis, and it appeared that they were taking her in a direction similar to Garrosh - which would be very in character of her - but they wanted to do something "that wasn't just Garrosh" all over again. So instead they had her literally break reality for some big bad evil guy nobody (The Players) knew about. It was an awkward thing where they introduced this whole new megavillain and "revealed" (bs'd) that they were responsible for everything a long eatablished character had done from and up to a certain point. Shadowlands was a huge low point in WoW, real world criminal allegations aside. AS FOR THE WEIRD BODY PROPORTIONS: Warcraft initially was an idea pitched to Games Workshop over in England as an idea for an "Orcs vs Humans" tabletop wargame. They turned them down, and so they made it into a Realtime Strategy. Wargaming figures make use of exaggerated proportions around the shoulders, head and weapons wielded because they are easier to see when standing at a table looking down at them. I imagine that this was the design choice that they decided to go with for their earlier games and just stuck with it because it was not only effective in function, but just really freakin cool in general. I only just so happened to pass by your channel. If you hadn't, you should check out both the in-game and CGI cutscenes from the realtime strategy games Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos and the expansion Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne. It tells the whole story of Arthas, and sets up so much background for World of Warcraft, and are timeless classics. They can answer the questions like "What the heck is Kalimdor" and "Who the heck is that winged dude with the skull that my body was not prepared for"
Warlords of Draenor is the continued struggle of the Azeroth races against the demonic forces out to destroy them, players get to build garrisons, shipyards and recruit followers, had a lot of fun with that.
the warcraft movie had really bad CGI imo. iirc, they let some other company handle the movie. even the very first cinematic, which was released in 2004 had better models and animations.
Some context for Warlords of Draenor: To put it simply the events in the trailer proceeded the Warcraft movie, Gul'dan offers the blood of Mannoroth (the big dude that came in) to the orcs, promising them power. What he didn't mention is this would bind them to Kil'jaeden, a powerful demon from the Burning Legion. It turned the orcs into corrupted savages. Garrosh Hellscream, with this knowledge and some help from time-travelling dragons (The Bronze Dragonflight), returns 35 years to the past to warn his father of Gul'dan's betrayal. That's why Grommash Hellscream refused to drink the blood this time. Some context for Wrath of the Lich King: Arthas was the prince of Lordaeron and was just a child during the events of Warcraft the movie. The only son of Terenas Menethil II, a wise and powerful king of Lordaeron, the strongest human kingdom. He became friends with Varian Wrynn (son of the king in the Warcraft movie) and was a notable love interest for Jaina Proudmore (blonde lady in cinematic). He would eventually become a Paladin being tutored by Uther (bearded guy at the end, who Arthas later kills). 19-20 years after the events of the movie, a cult (the cult of the damned) starts spreading a virulent plague across the lands of Lordaeron turning the inhabitants into undead. He discovers a necromancer named Kel'Thusad and a demon called Mal'ganis are behind the plague. In one city, Stratholme, he decides the only way to stop the plague is to butcher the city. Uther and Jaina abandon him for this. He follows the demon to a northern continent (seen in trailer) and discovers two things: a cursed sword corrupted him, and the helm of domination, (giving him the power over the undead). The corrupted Arthas returns to Lordaeron, kills his father, and lays waste to his kingdom and the kingdom of the high elves. Amassing a powerful army then fleeing to the northern continent. - Your shining knight falls from grace tale.
I can't believe that compilation had the Sylvanas waking up but none of the Anduin and Sylvanas scenes. Also the Anduin end of Shadowlands. Just right from Sylvanas waking up to Dragonflight.
I highly recommend and endorse the idea that you try this game for yourself. First off, it is free up to level 20. There's a lot of story un-pack and places to explore in that free experience. and Second. The game absolutely doesn't have to feel like a MMO experience. I know it sounds it's that type of game, but actually that's only about like 10% of the game. The entire game can almost be completed finished solo. So you feel like a Main character in a insanely cool story and on the side you see strangers roaming the world in their stories. The perfect RPG experience in my opinion. But then again how you experience the playthrough might be completely different. :) Ps. loved you reaction bro. keep up the quality, and I'll keep up the likes 😂
well WarCraft 1 was just Humans vs Orcs. took awhile but the corrupted Fel Orcs got stomped. During the 2nd invasion The Humans had to turn to High Elves, Gnomes and Dwarfs to rope thim into an Alliance. They stomped that back into the Blasted Lands where the dark portal rests. During the 3rd war the bosses of The Horde started up a new band called The Scourge because fail me once orcs bad on you, fail me twice bad on me. Also the enchantment of the Fel Orcs fell of after Hellscream killed the member of The Burning Legion that was powering the corruption. The Horde and The Alliance teamed up and aced the boss of The Burning Legion. If you want a more indepth of the recent history (pre-WoW) lookup a playthrough or just the cutscenes from WarCraft 3 and Frozen Throne.
Garrosh was utterly unredeemable, he was warchief from Cataclysm to MoP, and Horde players hated him for constantly pushing war and pulling off warcrimes, and for being a tyrannical racist who wanted Orcs to be above all others and only utilized the other races to exploit their strengths. Eventually, the Horde split and led a rebellion led by Vol'Jin with the assistance of the Alliance. The reason that white-haired lady(Jaina) urged Varian to dismantle the horde is because Garrosh literally nuked her settlement, and she blamed the entire Horde for it. Garrosh escapes execution and goes back in time to build a new Horde with uncorrupted orcs. Orcs are originally brown to gray complexion, with the green coming from a corrupting curse from that green blood that Hellscream refuses in the Warlords trailer.
Who's that, was that Medivh? No, that was a random player character you could be, known as "Human Mage." Human males have the best game in the game, if you like John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever." You should see the South Park episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft" To see a little bit of the game. Or maybe react to all the Warcraft dances in the game.
This video compilation is so weird. They show a bunch of the opening cinematics - then they start showing in game cutscenes and inbetween cinematics. the video quickly becomes "World of Sylvanas" because it even skipped the ACTUAL Shadowlands cinematic that has all the covenants getting actually shown off. It was cool, its lame that it was basically not in this.
10:05 At first glance this trailer just looks like some random guy being frozen in ice that raises a dragon from the ice, but the lore and story behind it goes so much deeper. The story about Arthas and his downfall is without a doubt the most tragic story in the gaming industry ever created. Arthas was the prince of Lordaeron and was loved by everyone. From an early age he was trained to become a Paladin, a righteous and holy warrior fighting for the human race. Then came The Scourge threatening the very existence of the world and Arthas decided to save the world by defeating it, no matter the cost. He was forced to make lots of impossible choices, like having to kill everyone in a city that had become cursed by the plague, also known as The Culling of Stratholme. On his path to save the world Arthas lost himself and later on became the very thing he sought to destroy. This expansion was the peak of World of Warcraft and this cinematic is such a masterpiece when you know the backstory to Arthas. You can hear his fathers distant words how he wanted his son to turn out, which is the complete opposite of what actually happened. His father (the king) says: "My child, I watched with pride as you grew into a weapon of righteousness" while Arthas unsheathes the corrupted blade Frostmourne, the most evil weapon ever to exist. All he wanted was to save everyone he loved but ended up killing them all instead. Such tragedy.
Some key cinematics missing Its nice that this compilation has some of the ingame cinematics that helps fill the gaps from the CGI cinematics. But i find it weird, why show some of these and not all of them so that you get the complet story? Ha well.
Soooo something about the Movie. Mainly Horde in game is not the same Horde in movie. Movie its Orcish Horde and game is The Horde. The movie is not well received by game fans due to so many changes they did with the story. Main example is Horde supposed to win the first war with destruction of Stormwind, where Lothar escape with young Varrian. Then in Second war, Old lothar died by hands of Blackhand and at the movement a young Paladin named Turalyon make the victory for Humans. As a result the Horde was dismantled. Many years later Thrall recreated the Horde this time with various other races. Its around 50years or so since the events of the movie. Also there are also 2 Lickings, Blue one is the one killed Sylvannas, Orange one is bolvar, missing many cinematic there.
The world of warcraft movie was a decent, maybe even good, standalone movie. However, as wow players, we're all balding, nitpicking, angry nerds, and it got a bunch of things wrong/different than the games/books. I think the movie is a bit of a touchy subject, because we were excited to see it and it did a good job for "outsiders", just not for the fans.
Arthas definitely did not use restraint fighting the players back in 2009 considering he is only 1 of 2 bosses that actually kill the players before they are revived and defeat him. The only other boss to do this was Argus in Legion. Also this put siege of orgrimmar and garrosh's defeat out of order. The fact that even Nathanos ( who is forsaken) hesitated when Sylvanas demands him to burn Teldrassil shows how much the Jailor has corrupted Sylvanas.
I still say the Alliance started BfA... shouldn't have killed our Goblins to steal our Azerite. And the plan to take and hold the tree with all civilians alive was a good one. But it was ruined by Saurfang's quest for personal honor. Had he killed Malfurion like ordered, burning the tree could've been avoided.
As a long time World of Warcraft fan, I didn't even like the movie lol. Honestly the cinematics and in game cutscenes put the movie to shame. It would be nice if they tried again, maybe a movie about Arthas's path to becoming Lich King would be amazing!
Next you should hit up the FF 14 cinematics they got some bangers too. Also this is not all cinematics. some key ones missing for context for the others is the battle on the broken shore which comes right after the legion announcement one, The other warbringers there were 3 maybe 4, At least 2 of the old soldier cinematics, skipped a whole lot of well produced shadowlands cinematics surrounding Anduin and Sylvanas.
Not gonna get into the lore or anything, plenty of comments already are. But I will say, they did get REAL good at cinematics. You gotta check out the latest trailer, The War Within, even if you don't record it or upload it, it'll blow you away regardless.
The Cataclysm was a disappointment when it was time to fight Deathwing. Like you don’t even fight him, all you do is pop his back pimples while killing the tentacles and then the final fight, you are just killing more tentacles… So lame.
I enjoyed the reaction a lot. I just wanted to say something about some parts where you were critisicing Blizzard for their sexual harassment lawsuit. to be fair the company itself didnt promote doing that and they got sued, paid their 50 million and cleaned house which most companies didnt do, looking at you riot games.
Dude havent seen this intro in a minute and completely forgot how badass the og intro actually was, the warlock coming into frame got some actual creepy vibes, the whole trailer was gritty
Why the hekk those who make this video meshap skip one of the important video - Old soldier - what deeply open Saurfangs character. I'm in shock of this >_
having read most of the books, played the game 18 years + - and seeing non wow fans getting hyped, just makes me wanna start explaining lore in the comment section, but i really would never finish 😆
How many world of Warcraft players and fans go on RU-vid and watch reaction videos of the cinematics once or twice per year? At least I do 😄 Tho please make the screen bigger of the actual video
Unfortunately there will never be another warcraft movie at least not live action, there are many books and comics though with the lore. But Blizzard just isn't interested in another movie the first one was a pretty big failure compared to there expectations and it's just not profitable.
That guy you spoke of at the beginning from your dorms, he had to have been raiding or pvp’ing lol. I probably wouldn’t have gotten up in the middle of a boss fight either.
A bad compilation. Didn't include battle for orgrimmar announcing trailer but the end scene, didn't include warcraft 3 arthas return scene, didn't show Varians Fall and so on
Sylvanas is the worst written character in all of Warcraft. I still get irrationally angry when I see her shitty shadowlands cinematics and story arc. She should have died 4 expansions before that.
There is a major problem with this collection of cinematics, and that's "it leaves out most of the Alliance content." You aren't getting the whole story.
The early or older Cinematics were the best. the new ones look cartoonish and the story is weak, action is weak, they are weak. after the first 4, it started to go downhill. TBFA was the last good Cinematic for WoW.
