The voice they are hearing call to them is the voice of Azeroth itself. The planet is basically a living thing. We know this as players of the game but the characters are just starting to learn this information from a crazy dwarf man named Magni Bronzebeard.
I knew someone would know haha. Oh so it's like something that the player base knows but the characters themselves are just learning in the lore? That's pretty cool, to know about something for so long to then watch the characters you've grown with start to recognise it.. Class.
@@andrexbeta2575 I guess now all the WoW player's will get to see the reaction from the in game characters view, different characters in different places all reacting to it in their own ways, sounds like fun times ahead:P
Loved seeing your reaction. I've seen this cinematic so many times, and I get emotional and chills each time. I made sure to hit that subscribe button for ya too, haha.
Thank you!! I'm with you on that one I couldn't stop replaying it at one point just because I kept seeing different little things that just made me say wow out loud! Thanks for subscribing:)
The bigass sword was put their by Sargeras to kill Azeroth cause he had a temper tantrum before the other titans pulled their shenanigans to put him in space jail.
I'm a proper sucker for any sort of epic music. I remember a few year back I went through a phase of just non stop Epic Orchestral music playlists for hours on end xD
@@adamsreactionzoneI got this ridiculous image of the lead guitarist from the Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain band (in-game story) standing just out of shot from Thrall and Anduin - and as they pan out to the sword and Thrall decalres his bit, the guitarist just rips off that massive riff. He couldnt help himself LOLOL
They need to just buckle down and make a damn movie like this. They could do each expansion as a movie and make bank if they looked like this. I know I would buy all of them!!!
One thing about Blizzard is, they ALWAYS been amazing at those cinematics. Back in 2004 when the classic Cinematic came out,, they where far ahead than most game studios at that time. They always been the pioneers when it comes to game cinematics. Imagine how everything looks like in 5-10 years! With this cinematic they skipped the uncanny valley feeling when seeing a CGI human. The trailers before where they had humans in, you could easy see that its CGI, they had always a bit of that comic style in the CGI model. But now they went with Anduin into the 'real' road and it's very hard to get not an uncanny valley feeling when looking at 'try hard to look real' humans without feel that something is wrong. With this trailer I don't have this feeling at all. I even feel more sympathy than ever with Anduin. Sure you miss a lot of context and story by just watching these cinematics. There is so much more, also with ingame cinematics. But you have some nice reactions and doing well!
Yeah I remember when I watched the old cinematics and I was even saying then for their time they were definitely still amazing, hold up ok even against modern average trailer cinematics! Yeah I'm a sucker for cinematics so I'll always like them, I can imagine if I know the lore a lot more I would enjoy them even more but even still I got so excited when I found out there was a new WoW cinematic, I'm basically a fan without the lore knowledge haha. Thanks for the compliments really means a lot!
@@adamsreactionzone Jaina clearly, she is Anduin's adopted AUnt after all - but as others have commented, she had her own terrible PTSD and such over Theramore among other things. Thrall was clearly the best person for the job, considering he himself got his soul splintered in 4 in Cataclysm, but also filled in as Earthwarder when empowering and using the Dragon Soul to blast down Deathwing. Like Magni, he has a deep tie to Azeroth herself.
I went to see it at the cinema, not knowing anything about WoW, I thought it was ok. I re-watched it again recently after learning a bit about WoW, I did appreciate it a little more, knowing some of the characters and lore, but for the time it came out I genuinely didn't think it looked too shabby.. Definitely would look 100% better if they used their CGI team that did the cinematics though, I agree.
Making a human realistic these days is one thing, but thrall in comparison isn't holding up. Take for example Anduin's lips. They look dry, cracked in some places, and some dirt/blood. Thralls massive lower lip which is much more exposed to the air doesn't have these details. The lip itself looks like it's even got low resolution UV mapping. The armor as well looks way too cartoon. WOW is stylized for sure, but the metal materials on both Anduin and Thrall still hold this pce back. It's why sometimes it's risky to have one person in the shot look soo realistic, you have to make everything around them to that quality or it will show. Regardless, always enjoy these.
Yeah I agree Anduin looks better than Thrall in general. I guess humans can make humans easier than anything else which kinda makes sense. But yeah regardless for sure it looks amazing and we all want more 👀
That's a good point, nice catch! I'm just going to assume that's the case so I can believe this cinematic is truly a masterpiece without anything wrong with it haha.@@Stars_Re
I'm thinking live actors were used to create digital AI doubles per say. The level of detail to capture muscle and eye movements are amazing and I thought I've already seen good AI.
@@adamsreactionzone 100% agreed. The level of detail and the raw emotion that comes through on Anduin's face is remarkable. I've never seen CG faces done this well, even in blockbuster movies.
Sadly I don't play the game.. However I do play League of Legends, so I completely understand where you're coming from in regards to Cinematics/music all that stuff being god tier for the game to be so sucky.... It's a sad reality that some of these game companies would genuinely be considered animation companies in comparison to their respective games these days. On a side note though, I do play Hearthstone and even in that, I saw a decline in quality!
Wow is in the best state it’s been in for a long time at the moment and the gameplay certainly doesn’t suck. For an MMORPG it’s king and will always be. Raiding is great, mythics are awesome, pvp is pvp. Blizzard has done a great job making the game more digestible in a briefer format, because their player base isn’t sitting in their basements at their parents house anymore. They have kids and jobs and lives. It took a long time, but WoW is in a good spot right now.
It is a peerlessly crafted cgi of two old men talking in a field. They could have done something like adding two second flashbacks of the horrible things Anduin did while possessed. We got Anduin being blue with a hand on his shoulder for two seconds instead. In Heart of the Swarm, we got siege tanks, goliaths, battlecruisers, and a full scale invasion of Korhal. In this we got...a log. What a waste. Then Thrall says "time alone heals nothing" which is incredibly bizarre. Its so bizarre that the exact opposite sentiment, "Time heals all wounds", is not only common wisdom, it is painfully cliche.
Yeah I can see from the point of view of big WoW fans that nothing really happened in this cinematic, but hey. it could just be a small snippet of bigger things to come, right?
The voice they are hearing call to them is the voice of Azeroth itself. The planet is basically a living thing. We know this as players of the game but the characters are just starting to learn this information from a crazy dwarf man named Magni Bronzebeard.
I knew someone would know haha. Oh so it's like something that the player base knows but the characters themselves are just learning in the lore? That's pretty cool, to know about something for so long to then watch the characters you've grown with start to recognise it.. Class.
Really? The characters just starts to know about it? We knew that for a long time now, even in-game
@@andrexbeta2575 I guess now all the WoW player's will get to see the reaction from the in game characters view, different characters in different places all reacting to it in their own ways, sounds like fun times ahead:P
Not convinced the voice is Azeroth herself, I'm thinking it's either a Naruu or maybe the "missing" Old God and that is what Sargeras was aiming for.
i mean, the color of that strange energy seam to be that of the azerite.@@xalenthas
Man. Anduin has seen so much... top tier voice acting. So much raw emotion.
Yeah he definitely has that look in his eyes.. Man's been through so much yet there's a spark inside them pushing him forward still
thanks Adam, the attention to detail is incredible, one of many to come I hope, great stuff
Loved seeing your reaction. I've seen this cinematic so many times, and I get emotional and chills each time. I made sure to hit that subscribe button for ya too, haha.
Thank you!! I'm with you on that one I couldn't stop replaying it at one point just because I kept seeing different little things that just made me say wow out loud! Thanks for subscribing:)
When the World Soul of Azeroth is asking for help, you know the shit is getting real
It's epic for me and I'm a lore noob, I can't imagine how cool this is for veteran's and lore experts :O
Has anyone else noticed the sword reflected in Anduin's eye at the beginning?
THIS!!! This is exactly what I mean, I've watched this cinematic quite a few times now.... not once did I notice that detail! It's SO good!
You are seeing things. I've blown this up as much as po9ssible in 40 inch screen and I dont see it
@@ZakhadWOW Now you've get me questioning myself cause maybe I'm also seeing things then cause I swear I can see something in the eyes reflection lol
The bigass sword was put their by Sargeras to kill Azeroth cause he had a temper tantrum before the other titans pulled their shenanigans to put him in space jail.
Yeah I know in the video that point is super loud but I say something like 'Man I got goosebumps there' when the giant sword appeared. SO epic.
Sargeras isn't trying to kill azeroth lmfao
that rocking Guitar riff at the end dials this up to ELEVEN a scale of Ten - regardless of the rest of it.
I'm a proper sucker for any sort of epic music. I remember a few year back I went through a phase of just non stop Epic Orchestral music playlists for hours on end xD
@@adamsreactionzoneI got this ridiculous image of the lead guitarist from the Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain band (in-game story) standing just out of shot from Thrall and Anduin - and as they pan out to the sword and Thrall decalres his bit, the guitarist just rips off that massive riff. He couldnt help himself LOLOL
Just imagine him jumping out into the middle of the scene into a knee slide just stealing the show hahaha
They need to just buckle down and make a damn movie like this. They could do each expansion as a movie and make bank if they looked like this. I know I would buy all of them!!!
Yeah fr... I even think the Warcraft movie for it's time looked good so they're definitely capable of doing a good job!
Its so well.done 😊
I've watched it like 5 times now, every time I see something new that just makes my jaw drop...
One thing about Blizzard is, they ALWAYS been amazing at those cinematics. Back in 2004 when the classic Cinematic came out,, they where far ahead than most game studios at that time. They always been the pioneers when it comes to game cinematics. Imagine how everything looks like in 5-10 years! With this cinematic they skipped the uncanny valley feeling when seeing a CGI human. The trailers before where they had humans in, you could easy see that its CGI, they had always a bit of that comic style in the CGI model. But now they went with Anduin into the 'real' road and it's very hard to get not an uncanny valley feeling when looking at 'try hard to look real' humans without feel that something is wrong. With this trailer I don't have this feeling at all. I even feel more sympathy than ever with Anduin.
Sure you miss a lot of context and story by just watching these cinematics. There is so much more, also with ingame cinematics. But you have some nice reactions and doing well!
Yeah I remember when I watched the old cinematics and I was even saying then for their time they were definitely still amazing, hold up ok even against modern average trailer cinematics!
Yeah I'm a sucker for cinematics so I'll always like them, I can imagine if I know the lore a lot more I would enjoy them even more but even still I got so excited when I found out there was a new WoW cinematic, I'm basically a fan without the lore knowledge haha.
Thanks for the compliments really means a lot!
anduin aged well from the small boy too a realy good looking man
Someone else mentioned how he resembles Stephen Amell now I can't unsee it.. Stephen Amell is also a good looking dude, so it makes sense haha.
Who ported Thrall and did het tip?
That's a good point.. I wonder if someone knows haha
@@adamsreactionzone Jaina clearly, she is Anduin's adopted AUnt after all - but as others have commented, she had her own terrible PTSD and such over Theramore among other things. Thrall was clearly the best person for the job, considering he himself got his soul splintered in 4 in Cataclysm, but also filled in as Earthwarder when empowering and using the Dragon Soul to blast down Deathwing. Like Magni, he has a deep tie to Azeroth herself.
If they would have just handed the warcraft movie to the CGI department I dont think it would have flopped too much O.o
I went to see it at the cinema, not knowing anything about WoW, I thought it was ok. I re-watched it again recently after learning a bit about WoW, I did appreciate it a little more, knowing some of the characters and lore, but for the time it came out I genuinely didn't think it looked too shabby.. Definitely would look 100% better if they used their CGI team that did the cinematics though, I agree.
@@adamsreactionzone CGI quality aside, dont think live action was the best choice .
Yeah, I know it had the wow community massively divided over it with some loving it and some hating it. Maybe we'll get something new in the future!
Making a human realistic these days is one thing, but thrall in comparison isn't holding up. Take for example Anduin's lips. They look dry, cracked in some places, and some dirt/blood. Thralls massive lower lip which is much more exposed to the air doesn't have these details. The lip itself looks like it's even got low resolution UV mapping. The armor as well looks way too cartoon. WOW is stylized for sure, but the metal materials on both Anduin and Thrall still hold this pce back. It's why sometimes it's risky to have one person in the shot look soo realistic, you have to make everything around them to that quality or it will show.
Regardless, always enjoy these.
Yeah I agree Anduin looks better than Thrall in general. I guess humans can make humans easier than anything else which kinda makes sense. But yeah regardless for sure it looks amazing and we all want more 👀
Maybe its just because Thrall teleported from another location to where Anduin's is, so he is not exposed to the same dry condition of Anduin's.
That's a good point, nice catch! I'm just going to assume that's the case so I can believe this cinematic is truly a masterpiece without anything wrong with it haha.@@Stars_Re
Best cinematics for me, apart from WoW, are definitely the Diablo 4 trailer and Witcher 3 trailers.
Definitely not out of the realm of possibility for those to show up on this channel sometime :D
They ever so a Live version of this they have to get Stephen Amell to play Anduin!
Now that you mention it YES! He does look very alike and we all know Stephen can act so it would be great.
I'm thinking live actors were used to create digital AI doubles per say. The level of detail to capture muscle and eye movements are amazing and I thought I've already seen good AI.
some avatar level animation here. The acting is incredible !!!
@@momenteimlicht Right?? It's so good. It's the work of people that have for sure perfected their craft. Amazing.
Unless something has changed, their cinematics are hand-animated. They've always focused on highly detailed visuals in these.
@@KodyCQYep It's definitely possible to hand make something this good these days, either way though i wish I could shake the hand of the animators :')
@@adamsreactionzone 100% agreed. The level of detail and the raw emotion that comes through on Anduin's face is remarkable. I've never seen CG faces done this well, even in blockbuster movies.
Arthas...
Sure, it's a decently made video. But what does it matter if the gameplay sucks? This is the same syndrome that befell SWTOR.
Sadly I don't play the game.. However I do play League of Legends, so I completely understand where you're coming from in regards to Cinematics/music all that stuff being god tier for the game to be so sucky....
It's a sad reality that some of these game companies would genuinely be considered animation companies in comparison to their respective games these days.
On a side note though, I do play Hearthstone and even in that, I saw a decline in quality!
Game does not suck. People play other games and that is ok. Blizzard is like Disney nowadays, People hatting bcs of changing..
Wow is in the best state it’s been in for a long time at the moment and the gameplay certainly doesn’t suck. For an MMORPG it’s king and will always be. Raiding is great, mythics are awesome, pvp is pvp. Blizzard has done a great job making the game more digestible in a briefer format, because their player base isn’t sitting in their basements at their parents house anymore. They have kids and jobs and lives. It took a long time, but WoW is in a good spot right now.
@@DarthFr0gghaters will hate forever 😅
Get a haircut
You first
@@adamsreactionzone mines falling out
@@Lewis1995 All of ours are tbf, rip hair
It is a peerlessly crafted cgi of two old men talking in a field. They could have done something like adding two second flashbacks of the horrible things Anduin did while possessed. We got Anduin being blue with a hand on his shoulder for two seconds instead. In Heart of the Swarm, we got siege tanks, goliaths, battlecruisers, and a full scale invasion of Korhal. In this we got...a log. What a waste. Then Thrall says "time alone heals nothing" which is incredibly bizarre. Its so bizarre that the exact opposite sentiment, "Time heals all wounds", is not only common wisdom, it is painfully cliche.
Yeah I can see from the point of view of big WoW fans that nothing really happened in this cinematic, but hey. it could just be a small snippet of bigger things to come, right?
two old men ? what are u even talking about. Anduin is around 28, maybe 30 here storywise. Ofcourse years have past but he is not old.
@@xoAyaanaox I do agree that Anduin looks fiiiine, hardly old haha.
It's amazing man pay them people like you say haha
I know right, I wish I was rich just to give these people all my money to make more 😂