these arent made out of passion, they're made as a cheap attention and money grab, they make this while knowing that "wow2" is a meme and will never happen while also knowing it will never and should never look like this
I know that we'll probably never see something like this from Blizzard, not even close, but at least you brought us joy and faith in future developers sharing this amazing showcase of art and talent. Thank you!! I hope you can build your own MMO some day, I sure as hell will play it if it looks as good as that showcase.
@@pepsikthelegend8367 Yeah, it's like people still haven't learned that these "in engine" what are effectively just cinematics are never what we actually get when the game comes out because it's not actually viable. You can get to that level of quality in an isolated in engine render, but it's not actually practical for the real game. I bet if WoW looked like this in actual gameplay, there'd be huge complaints about how large portion of the player base can't run the game over 40 FPS.
If WoW 2 comes out like this I will sell my kids, divorce my wife and buy all the mounts to show all players I am still unable to raid with real gamers and achieve anything, but man, I will be enjoying the game.
One of those you think you do but you don't moments, wow 2 would be awesome but lets be real it would still be made by the blizzard we have today not the blizzard we had 20 years ago. 4 battle passes a year with a giant shop would be the first thing they dev for it.
Ya not really sure why people are asking for this. The best your going to get is private servers, some of which do a far better job than blizz has since late wrath imo
you are not wrong, but you also have to look at the INSANE level of buy in to play WOW today you have literly 20 years of content to go through (not all of it good) and let be honest here, an archaic gameloop/engine. although blizzard has done wonders in updating the game for mordern audiances. It's just old. And also no matter the quality of the game itself. A WOW2 would bring in a HUGE level of new players as the wow brand does still have pedigry.
@@crassletter1437 wow 2 would be a complet restart, what is not bad if u wanna start "new". but ppl seems to not know what time and effort a MMO needs to get made. if they would announce wow 2 on the blizzcon 2024, it would not be rdy before 2040. and most likly scrapped.
The reason this looks so good isn't just the fact that the graphics have a huge improvement. It's the fact that it still manages to capture WoW's style and vibe which are core to its visual appeal. Sure, there are plenty of graphically impressive fantasy worlds, but they often look very generic. Vanilla WoW always maintained a very distinct charm to it. This manages to not only highlight it, but carry it into the updated visuals.
As someone who think WoW asthaetics in general are disgusting I agree. The art style is something unique and those thing are precious, even to a "hater".
@bryanm498 I'm not sure what's to hate about it but okay I guess. My only complaint was that the scale of a lot of structures is completely incorrect. Like you go into a house and it seems like a gnome is supposed to live there but it's not a gnome house. It's a human house.
The issues is, you can use most modern graphics as you like, but that doesn't mean that all your playerbase will be able to enjoy it, as many WoW players probably don't have the hardware to play a game with such graphics. One of the biggest advantages of older MMOs is that you don't need a top-tier computer to enjoy it to the fullest. So yea, you can make WoW2 on Unreal 5, but that cuts off a large portion of your existing fanbase.
there are games with good graphics that work on decent computers, i don't think anyone is using computers from 2000's and if they are then they probably shouldn't be playing it for a subscription model at the least. If they cant optimize the performance then hire better developers, than asking ppl to pay tips (most stupid joke i heard from blizzard). when i am paying money 100 euro per year for something then i expect it to look and feel good, they can make a separate game for that low-end users as u said. but it no way justifies ur logic of it needs to accommodate most users (low-end computers). I play ff14 (not a fan, just started playing it) on a low-end comp and even that is 10x better than what wow looks like and it has the same number of player base with good performance optimization (never seen a problem there).
Even ff14 is making a graphic update in dawntrail, they are doing justice for the amount we are paying them for the game. I dont see the same coming out of wow. No one care if u give a lot of content that is unappealing. sure there can be few that enjoy it bc they are fanboys but the majority wont.
there is SOME truth to what youre saying, however, Final Fantasy 14 has looked incredible for over a decade without any graphical overhall and it can run just fine on lower end pcs. The key is in the dev team optimizing the finished product. most standard tech can run good graphics now. what slows it down is the post rendering and lighting - the assets loading super far back. all these usually have toggles in the settings. the overall graphics in this video would run just find with a lower shadow render and shorter view distance, and ray tracing turned off (this wouldnt affect the overall upgrade).
@@HiveofIndustry well all I am asking is do justice for what we pay, nothing more. It seems people are taking our hard earned money for granted and returning nothing se expect in return. Give us a product we enjoy and everyone ja happy. Wow has so many servers, for different user bases. Focus more is what I am asking. :)
If only they had made billions of dollars over 20 years. They might have had the means to develop the game from scratch with a modern engine. But oh well.
What is WoW 2. Explain what you think it'd be. Would it be an MMORPG? Okay, then, you've played it. There's only so many ways to skin a cat and they've all been done by the genre.
@playNsleep if enough people want it and vocalize that, blizzard would eventually do it because it's fairly easy money. For the first few years of pre and post release development.
Wow man. I didn't think I'd be impressed, but just seeing something so familiar look so realistic and stunning, it made me feel like I was there. Just imagine how gorgeous Azeroth would look. They could really make so much money. Sure it would take a long time, but the hype would be incredible, it would absolutely pay off for Blizzard.
You know you dont want to level, you want to buy a boost, then buy gold, then run gbids all weekend just to do the same with your alts all over again. - classic wow atm
When Asmon said ”this is what it looked like when i first played” you got an accurate description of what nostalgia does to you. Wow2 would have been awesome but let’s look to the future, not build hopes on what we wish for and never will enjoy due to trauma
@minuette1752 18 years ago when I was 15 it felt like I was there and still does. I met great people who felt the same way. We were all absolutely engulfed in the fantasy if it all and at the time it was something none of us had ever really experienced. Now we take it all for granted and corporations have ruined video games. Ooooo what a world.
It's not true though. I played vanilla WoW when I was also a kid (or a teenager) and it did not look like that nor did I ever think it did. I thought it looked decent and the artstyle holds up today. I think you're taking Asmon too literally.
@DriveCancelDC No. What the guy said it exactly right. Asmon was saying that when he was a kid it felt like the game looked like this. At the time and in those moments many of us were engulfed and loved it. Obviously it didn't look like this lol.
If this ever becomes actual, they should make it where the alliance and horde guilds can join with other guilds of the same faction, and then take over certain zones. Imagine having an alliance super-guild of like 300 raid members and going to raid zones. And then rebuilding the ruins in them over the time they occupy it. We could have more cities and more flight paths. And it could lead to other things, they should make it so that the player guilds can raise NPC armies, and these armies can guard these rebuilt cities while they are building/after.
The best-case scenario is we get WoW like this clip but it's solo player like Skyrim was and you can pick your race and go through the story and worlds. Mayb have a small group of friends to do dungeons with. No way you are getting these graphics in a wow scale mmo it would have to be a different experience and I'm ok with that!
Yeah i mean they would have to make an entirely new combat system. The reason wow's combat system feels good is because its very minimal. It would not work in game with graphics like this.
I am gonna tell you right now, if they rebooted wow and it looked like this. Even I would go back to wow. Like honestly that is all they need to do. Go back to regular wow on Unreal 5
They need to uses Classic Plus as a platform to overhaul the game engine and restart the entire timeline. Work their way back to WoD and actually FINISH THE EXPANSION.
imo thats what they should've done with classic + redo everything once they hit the branch that made the game worse byt statistics ( cata) destroying the world, making everything dead n gone. And have WoW 2 ready with a new engine etc by that time to transition from classic + cata . Keep old wow alive for them but push new wow instread.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind if they took a bit of a different order of how they did expansions in a potential WoW2/ true Classic +. Looking back, it kinda feels like we killed off a lot of the big names from the Warcraft games fairly quickly when you consider how long WoW's been going.
@@SheikMMO The statistics say sub growth was constant and reliable until wotlk, not cata. Wotlk turned meteoric growth into stagnation inside of one damn expansion.
@@thattigercat player base started dropping with cata, therefor think new and make something else plus the xpack was a perfect Segway for something that could be been wow 2 branch as everything got destroyed. Thats what i meant
@@thattigercat Tbf, just because the sub growth stopped in wotlk doesn't mean wotlk was a bad expansion. At some point you can't grow anymore, because all the people who may even consider buying your product already have it.
Impressive for its own thing... but absolutely NO THANKS! The best thing about the wow art style is that it not just another game chasing the "realistic" style. That's a huge part of why it has lasted as long as it has, since the art style is not instantly outdated. And that with a hand painted style they get to be more artistic with the colors/textures.
@@another_turtle The game is 20 years old and is still the most popular MMO out there. You shouldn't be asking the people who haven't seen games evolve over 2 decades, you should be asking the people who have. You can mod Wind Waker's textures to make it look like it came out yesterday. You can't do the same to something like Oblivion, despite all the mods. For MMOs, stylized is so much better for so many reasons. The lighting in realistic-looking games will look especially dated as tech progresses. There's also the matter of how many people can actually run the game. If you want a huge community, you want stylized.
@@tucci06 No one under the age of 25 plays MMO's anymore, its the only big MMO besides other niche ones. Also it has a very dedicated addicted fanbase. Objectively it looks bad and is severely outdated. Modern wow is literally just a spreadsheet simulator you could play the game just by reading text.
@@another_turtle Yea well then tell me how are the more "realistic" looking wow killers going that were supposed to overthrow wow with their fancy graphics? Spoiler most of them are either dead and gone or look like ass because realistic graphics from 2010-2018 did not age well at all.
It baffles me that after so many years we haven't had ONE, just ONE game with graphics like this in the WOW universe. A singleplayer game or a coop game where you just follow and awesome storyline and bosses, that's it. Really.
When the camera stopped at the Orc, I knew that was how gameplay would look like. I wish there was more footage! A big well done to all involved in creating it
you guys ever wonder...what if they came out with a deal that's like: double your subscription so like 30-40$ per month but you get all the mounts/cosmetics whatever. i wonder how many people'd do that.
So, how do you want your camera? The off center 3rd person camera has grown on me since GoW, where the camera moves the character to the side a wee bit. BUT, I so want to play WoW2 in 1st person. To hold the Warcraft weapons rendered in a realistic fashion from a 1st person HUD, especially with the variety, from warrior to warlock. Gimmie.
If wow2 is ever made, it is very likely they will move away from their current MMO style with 40 different abilities and click to cast system, and instead move in a direction closer to what we see in plunder storm with fewer abilities and the added mechanic of aiming your abilities. I can guarantee however that it will not be first person. Wow tried first person, that is why you can zoom in so far in game and no one uses it, and it is horrible to play with. There are very few games who have made first person melee combat work well and even then it is not very good and would definitely not work in a setting like this, so very likely they would stay with the third person camera. There are however currently addons that shifts your camera to the right or left in game, so an option such as that would still be possible.
On November 23th, WoW will turn 20 years old. The fascination WoW once had is long gone. But seeing stuff like this... gives me hope that a visual overhaul might give me similar feelings when I first played this game.
Honestly, WoW should have ended with WOTLK. That was the completion of Arthas story-ark. They could have just created WoW from there and things might have been different. In reality, I guess it's hard for any company to just flat out refuse millions of dollars of a steady income. It could have been something special. I was naive to think they would do this back then.
There is a few reaons we wont see wow 2. But I think the biggest is most people first say "They can make it if I get to keep everything I collected from wow 1" and thats the biggest killer. It would need to be a new start all together. The time they would have to put into making old armors, pets, mounts, etc just to keep up to current would be years work. If anything offer something for players based on their ach pt total maybe. I would even love to see Warcraft 4 (or even keep it simple and do it as a DLC for WC3) after the World Soul Saga to set the stage and new lore characters and then WoW 2.
I really feel if they did or are creating a WOW2, with current day tech - along with going back to what made WOW so special in the first place - they would literally make a killing.
WoW's unique art style is one of it's defining characteristics and what makes the game stand out from the rest. That doesn't need to be changed. It's not supposed to look realistic.
When I first played WoW, my laptop couldn’t run it properly. The edges of each polygon would stretch forever and the game would only look okay when inside caves.
This is incredible. I would do anything for a entire remake of WoW looking like this, Classic era, full populated pvp server of casual players. No mods allowed. Pure OG WoW with graphics like this...... fuck. Just upload my conscience into it and ill live there.
Dude this isn't even possible. People can't play WoW with a million abilities being casted by everyone with those graphics. Dragonflight proved that it's only getting worse. People can't even raid with decent computers anymore because they get below 30 fps.
Blizzard have the capability to do this... and as someone who have been there from the start, I really think they should. Take learnings from the past two decades and just make something completely new IMO. Doesn't necessarily need to be the same quests and the exact same locations.
Man, this is just a reminder that we could have had a Warcraft show or proper series of movies, but because the Legendary film didn't do as well as it could it's never going to happen, which is a legit shame. Someone needs to take the Warcraft IP from Blizzard so it can actually be used for something epic.
When some one moved a chair in the past. Blizzard would still be the studio we knew and loved. And they introduced WoW 2 with upgraded graphic and up to date gameplay!
What might be kind of cool would be the exact story and timeframe of WoW 1 but you play as a character from one of the “evil” factions you were trying to stop in WoW and you fight against the Horde and Alliance. Like you could be one of the Scourge, something from the Burning Legion, a Naga, etc…. You are tasked with stopping the alliance and Horde. Stormwind, Orgrimmar, etc could be raids. Various other smaller cities and important Horde/Alliance places could be 5 man “dungeons”. Basically you just live the story again from the opposite perspective. Keep in mind that most “evil” factions don’t view themselves as “evil”. So your actions would still feel like you were doing “good” for your and your kinds survival.
I have been playing classic HC 8 hours a day lately and tbh, the graphics don't bother me one bit. I'd still love to see a version of wow with this level of graphics, also, with full voice acted quests. The voice over addon really makes classic pop.
I love when fans go all out with amazing attention to detail in trailers like this, only to fuck it up at the end with flames caught in a gust of wind, except they forgot about the smoke billowing straight up.
Problem with these types of videos is that they are made by people with passion. Something that current blizzard despises
Which makes you wonder, do they despise passion itself? Or the fact that they still have it and blizzard doesn't?
something that quarterly reports despise cuz its destroying everything for short term profit
They made a canned 60 second blip of nothing ... there is no game it's just a short movie.
you cant have passion while you work at a corporation
these arent made out of passion, they're made as a cheap attention and money grab, they make this while knowing that "wow2" is a meme and will never happen while also knowing it will never and should never look like this
Thanks guys, happy you liked it!
You fucking legend!!
You da man.
Stunning job! Thank you
Really amazing job! Just awesome
I know that we'll probably never see something like this from Blizzard, not even close, but at least you brought us joy and faith in future developers sharing this amazing showcase of art and talent. Thank you!! I hope you can build your own MMO some day, I sure as hell will play it if it looks as good as that showcase.
Hire this guy ?
Blizzard: No, sorry - no professionals.
?_? What would he be used for doe? cause that's just one nice render of a scene, like my dude, that's useless :D for a full project.
@@pepsikthelegend8367 how do you think the game was made? everybody worked on one piece, it wasnt just one dude who made the full project idiot
@@pepsikthelegend8367 no more text emoticons for you! Bad!
@@pepsikthelegend8367 Yeah, it's like people still haven't learned that these "in engine" what are effectively just cinematics are never what we actually get when the game comes out because it's not actually viable. You can get to that level of quality in an isolated in engine render, but it's not actually practical for the real game. I bet if WoW looked like this in actual gameplay, there'd be huge complaints about how large portion of the player base can't run the game over 40 FPS.
LOL
If WoW 2 comes out like this I will sell my kids, divorce my wife and buy all the mounts to show all players I am still unable to raid with real gamers and achieve anything, but man, I will be enjoying the game.
Jesus man
@@KenWu-pl3or All in!
Is that a Straight Kris Tyson reference?! WHAT IS FATHERLESS BEHAVIOR?!
😂😂😂😂😂
Wuahahahahahaha, SAME HERE! They can have room in my house only if they are playing too.... 🤣🤣🤣
One of those you think you do but you don't moments, wow 2 would be awesome but lets be real it would still be made by the blizzard we have today not the blizzard we had 20 years ago.
4 battle passes a year with a giant shop would be the first thing they dev for it.
Ya not really sure why people are asking for this. The best your going to get is private servers, some of which do a far better job than blizz has since late wrath imo
@@tylerk9455 yeah, turtle.
you are not wrong, but you also have to look at the INSANE level of buy in to play WOW today you have literly 20 years of content to go through (not all of it good) and let be honest here, an archaic gameloop/engine. although blizzard has done wonders in updating the game for mordern audiances. It's just old.
And also no matter the quality of the game itself. A WOW2 would bring in a HUGE level of new players as the wow brand does still have pedigry.
you sound like a guy who doesn't have a phone
@@crassletter1437 wow 2 would be a complet restart, what is not bad if u wanna start "new". but ppl seems to not know what time and effort a MMO needs to get made. if they would announce wow 2 on the blizzcon 2024, it would not be rdy before 2040. and most likly scrapped.
How it looked in my mind back in the day.
Somehow both nostalgic and futuristic, but hit right in the feels all the same.
The reason this looks so good isn't just the fact that the graphics have a huge improvement. It's the fact that it still manages to capture WoW's style and vibe which are core to its visual appeal. Sure, there are plenty of graphically impressive fantasy worlds, but they often look very generic. Vanilla WoW always maintained a very distinct charm to it. This manages to not only highlight it, but carry it into the updated visuals.
Warcraft is an absolutely amazing universe. It hurts my very soul that current day "Blizzard" holds the rights to it.
As someone who think WoW asthaetics in general are disgusting I agree. The art style is something unique and those thing are precious, even to a "hater".
@bryanm498 I'm not sure what's to hate about it but okay I guess. My only complaint was that the scale of a lot of structures is completely incorrect. Like you go into a house and it seems like a gnome is supposed to live there but it's not a gnome house. It's a human house.
Wow is drawn, this isn't.
WoW didn't even look "good" when it originally came out, I kinda hated the super cartoony cell shaded look.
I wouldn't even imagine what places like the enchanted forest would look like with this type of remattering.
The narrator of the intros is what is missing RIP he was the magic
can be replaced with AI.
@@vincentwolf1456 Even your comment can be replaced with AI, even my comment can be, even us as people can be, let's go!!!!!!
There's no way of kicking off a fantasy adventure quite like having a wise old person giving you a heart-felt speech in a deep yet mystical voice.
@@vincentwolf1456AI voice overs sucks
RIP Tony Jay
The issues is, you can use most modern graphics as you like, but that doesn't mean that all your playerbase will be able to enjoy it, as many WoW players probably don't have the hardware to play a game with such graphics. One of the biggest advantages of older MMOs is that you don't need a top-tier computer to enjoy it to the fullest. So yea, you can make WoW2 on Unreal 5, but that cuts off a large portion of your existing fanbase.
there are games with good graphics that work on decent computers, i don't think anyone is using computers from 2000's and if they are then they probably shouldn't be playing it for a subscription model at the least. If they cant optimize the performance then hire better developers, than asking ppl to pay tips (most stupid joke i heard from blizzard).
when i am paying money 100 euro per year for something then i expect it to look and feel good, they can make a separate game for that low-end users as u said. but it no way justifies ur logic of it needs to accommodate most users (low-end computers). I play ff14 (not a fan, just started playing it) on a low-end comp and even that is 10x better than what wow looks like and it has the same number of player base with good performance optimization (never seen a problem there).
Even ff14 is making a graphic update in dawntrail, they are doing justice for the amount we are paying them for the game. I dont see the same coming out of wow. No one care if u give a lot of content that is unappealing. sure there can be few that enjoy it bc they are fanboys but the majority wont.
there is SOME truth to what youre saying, however, Final Fantasy 14 has looked incredible for over a decade without any graphical overhall and it can run just fine on lower end pcs. The key is in the dev team optimizing the finished product. most standard tech can run good graphics now. what slows it down is the post rendering and lighting - the assets loading super far back. all these usually have toggles in the settings. the overall graphics in this video would run just find with a lower shadow render and shorter view distance, and ray tracing turned off (this wouldnt affect the overall upgrade).
@@HiveofIndustry well all I am asking is do justice for what we pay, nothing more. It seems people are taking our hard earned money for granted and returning nothing se expect in return. Give us a product we enjoy and everyone ja happy. Wow has so many servers, for different user bases. Focus more is what I am asking. :)
ppl would buy new rigs to play this
I friggin love how graphics need to be updates, clearly, but the audio is timeless!
If only they had made billions of dollars over 20 years. They might have had the means to develop the game from scratch with a modern engine. But oh well.
Could easily be done by blizzard, its designed to run low pc specs for a reason. Not everyone has a pc like Asmond lol
@@Generalkillamanretail WoW doesn't give a Sh*t about out dated PC anymore , I should know my PC gets Nuke in "Valdrakken"
exploring wow with next gen graphics will be my epic journey in mmorpg
ya im not playing until it happens, blizzard is scummy shit
@@whitebwoi It won't happen tho :(
A WoW 2 has been LONG overdue IMO.
"wow2" is literally a meme, stop expecting it to come, it never will
What is WoW 2. Explain what you think it'd be. Would it be an MMORPG? Okay, then, you've played it. There's only so many ways to skin a cat and they've all been done by the genre.
wow2 would start with microtransactions bro
@playNsleep if enough people want it and vocalize that, blizzard would eventually do it because it's fairly easy money. For the first few years of pre and post release development.
@@TheBulge WoW2 is Burning Crusade.
Wow man. I didn't think I'd be impressed, but just seeing something so familiar look so realistic and stunning, it made me feel like I was there. Just imagine how gorgeous Azeroth would look. They could really make so much money. Sure it would take a long time, but the hype would be incredible, it would absolutely pay off for Blizzard.
goddamn I wanna lvl that warrior right the fuck now
Blizzard - you think you want, but you dont 😂
You know you dont want to level, you want to buy a boost, then buy gold, then run gbids all weekend just to do the same with your alts all over again. - classic wow atm
Blood and Thunder my Troll rouge would wait as well
Shaman for me! Druid Tauren as well :D
@@MsWergo Wow 2 = Wow mobile
I mean this is how the game looked like when we first played it right?!
no xD the game always looked bad
When Asmon said ”this is what it looked like when i first played” you got an accurate description of what nostalgia does to you.
Wow2 would have been awesome but let’s look to the future, not build hopes on what we wish for and never will enjoy due to trauma
I mean at the time the graphics looked great.
@minuette1752 18 years ago when I was 15 it felt like I was there and still does. I met great people who felt the same way. We were all absolutely engulfed in the fantasy if it all and at the time it was something none of us had ever really experienced. Now we take it all for granted and corporations have ruined video games. Ooooo what a world.
It's not true though. I played vanilla WoW when I was also a kid (or a teenager) and it did not look like that nor did I ever think it did. I thought it looked decent and the artstyle holds up today. I think you're taking Asmon too literally.
@DriveCancelDC No. What the guy said it exactly right. Asmon was saying that when he was a kid it felt like the game looked like this. At the time and in those moments many of us were engulfed and loved it. Obviously it didn't look like this lol.
There is no future for WoW bro, Blizzard is incapable of it.
In WoW 2 you can rent this cutscene for a month with instore credits after you sign a loyalty oath.
10 year subscription minimum or no intro for you.
With the number of time times Orgrimmar has been remade in a different engine, wow2 could have been released.
I didn't know WoW2 would only contain Orgrimmar or Durotar as a full game
@@Szabysvk it would and now you know
is it technical possible to update the engine of the wow we have ?
@@LegitOoter nope
Did anyone notice the like button shines at 1:27 when Asmon says "like" ?
I just saw it, what the hell is that?!?
@@skorp265if I had to guess, it’s a built in notification for creators when they say “like and subscribe”
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Never gonna Happen even If you fast Forward to the end of time. Blizzard isnt capable of doing great stuff for a Long Time.
So hardcore classic and Season of Discovery Season 1 and maybe 2 is not great stuff? You kiddin' me?
@@BeyondDaXcan't tell if ur trolling, it's hot garbage
@@BeyondDaX season of discovery is poop incarnet
Wait, people were praising SoD, what happened? (I didn't check on the game in a long time)
@@turbotrup96 A few vtubers were at the time
If this ever becomes actual, they should make it where the alliance and horde guilds can join with other guilds of the same faction, and then take over certain zones. Imagine having an alliance super-guild of like 300 raid members and going to raid zones. And then rebuilding the ruins in them over the time they occupy it. We could have more cities and more flight paths. And it could lead to other things, they should make it so that the player guilds can raise NPC armies, and these armies can guard these rebuilt cities while they are building/after.
So you wanne turn it into a pvp game again which would cut out 90% of the playerbase
Only circumstance i'd play wow again tbh, never gonna happen though so there we go
Cool Story tho
blizzard has cinematics with much better quality tho? just play it then if you are true to your word.
Youd come back for a graphics update when the gameplay is still dogshit? 🤡moment
@@kek651 you didnt even read what he said
@@deabogg he said he would play WoW again if it looked like that, and that thing is just a cinematic which blizzard already makes
Better graphics won't make you feel the same as you did back in 2004.
Those graphics would
Last generation kids don't want a game with graphics from 2004 lol.
The best-case scenario is we get WoW like this clip but it's solo player like Skyrim was and you can pick your race and go through the story and worlds. Mayb have a small group of friends to do dungeons with.
No way you are getting these graphics in a wow scale mmo it would have to be a different experience and I'm ok with that!
I'm superior to trashmongold lol
Yeah i mean they would have to make an entirely new combat system. The reason wow's combat system feels good is because its very minimal. It would not work in game with graphics like this.
Could easily be done by blizzard, its designed to run low pc specs for a reason. Not everyone has a pc like Asmond lol
"Harsh wastelands of Durotar" 'ROAR'
"BASED in the Warrior city of Orgrimmar" 'GRUNT'
These adlibs go HARD!
I am gonna tell you right now, if they rebooted wow and it looked like this. Even I would go back to wow. Like honestly that is all they need to do. Go back to regular wow on Unreal 5
rebooted? its still going strong my dude
Would play female undead rogue for the insane backflip animations and stuff.
@@playNsleep I know, I am saying if they rebooted it, meaning starting over in a new engine
@@confusedashell020 …it would be so wild! All those Outland locations would be amazing!
@@playNsleepSo there is still 12 million players like when I played????
Blizzard today: Shoving LGHDTV+ content through DEI hires > producing quality content and listening to the playerbase.
Glad someone mentions the DEI hires messing things up
They need to uses Classic Plus as a platform to overhaul the game engine and restart the entire timeline. Work their way back to WoD and actually FINISH THE EXPANSION.
imo thats what they should've done with classic + redo everything once they hit the branch that made the game worse byt statistics ( cata) destroying the world, making everything dead n gone. And have WoW 2 ready with a new engine etc by that time to transition from classic + cata . Keep old wow alive for them but push new wow instread.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind if they took a bit of a different order of how they did expansions in a potential WoW2/ true Classic +.
Looking back, it kinda feels like we killed off a lot of the big names from the Warcraft games fairly quickly when you consider how long WoW's been going.
@@SheikMMO The statistics say sub growth was constant and reliable until wotlk, not cata. Wotlk turned meteoric growth into stagnation inside of one damn expansion.
@@thattigercat player base started dropping with cata, therefor think new and make something else plus the xpack was a perfect Segway for something that could be been wow 2 branch as everything got destroyed. Thats what i meant
@@thattigercat Tbf, just because the sub growth stopped in wotlk doesn't mean wotlk was a bad expansion. At some point you can't grow anymore, because all the people who may even consider buying your product already have it.
Was half expecting a store popup to jumpscare me as soon as the character was going to be controllable.
Chills dude. Makes me to want play classic again
The music still gives me goosebumps
0:19 why does this look like the plains of eidolon from warframe lol
It's the lighting and color tone
Same engine
This terrain looks like the official Unreal Engine 5 Demos that were shown
the pan out from razor hill to the orc starting zone was pretty great. amazing work
I'm superior to trashmongold lol
I prefer video games to look like video games, embracing their unique style rather than aiming for realism
Fire blazing like there's hurricane coming but the tree's aren't moving at all. It is amazing.
If wow had graphics like this, I would even play it for the first time. 😂
Whoever made this put in more effort than Blizzard did in the last 3 expansions.
Impressive for its own thing... but absolutely NO THANKS! The best thing about the wow art style is that it not just another game chasing the "realistic" style. That's a huge part of why it has lasted as long as it has, since the art style is not instantly outdated. And that with a hand painted style they get to be more artistic with the colors/textures.
Yeah, I wish more people understood this. It's also far less fatiguing, has much more clarity and is much easier to run than a "realistic" style.
Ask anyone under the age of 25 what they think of WoW. You guys are so much cope thinking the artstyle held up it looks like wizard 101.
@@another_turtle The game is 20 years old and is still the most popular MMO out there. You shouldn't be asking the people who haven't seen games evolve over 2 decades, you should be asking the people who have. You can mod Wind Waker's textures to make it look like it came out yesterday. You can't do the same to something like Oblivion, despite all the mods. For MMOs, stylized is so much better for so many reasons. The lighting in realistic-looking games will look especially dated as tech progresses. There's also the matter of how many people can actually run the game. If you want a huge community, you want stylized.
@@tucci06 No one under the age of 25 plays MMO's anymore, its the only big MMO besides other niche ones. Also it has a very dedicated addicted fanbase. Objectively it looks bad and is severely outdated. Modern wow is literally just a spreadsheet simulator you could play the game just by reading text.
@@another_turtle Yea well then tell me how are the more "realistic" looking wow killers going that were supposed to overthrow wow with their fancy graphics?
Spoiler most of them are either dead and gone or look like ass because realistic graphics from 2010-2018 did not age well at all.
As Asmon said, this is how I looked the game the first time I played almost 20 years ago (played a NE Druid but Teldrassil felt immense and epic!)
It baffles me that after so many years we haven't had ONE, just ONE game with graphics like this in the WOW universe. A singleplayer game or a coop game where you just follow and awesome storyline and bosses, that's it. Really.
They could just do a souls like game where you can be a cleaving orc or a ranger night elf or whatever and run around soloing bosses
Why does it baffle you? Honestly? Because blizzard has never made those types of games.
@@pointlessmanateenot everything needs to be a souls game.
When the camera stopped at the Orc, I knew that was how gameplay would look like. I wish there was more footage! A big well done to all involved in creating it
If something like this ever gets released, idk man, incredible
you guys ever wonder...what if they came out with a deal that's like: double your subscription so like 30-40$ per month but you get all the mounts/cosmetics whatever. i wonder how many people'd do that.
I don't know what is so special about it. It looked exactly like this in my head since the begining.
Asmons smile says all, the glimmer in his eyes spells nostalgia and hope!
Wow 2 will come out during the height of VR. It will be the pinnacle of MMO gaming. Just imagine.
To be honest. At the end I wanted to see how the UI would look like 🧐
Rip old school. never will it feel the same.
WoW looking like that is the ONLY thing that would make me come back to it.
So, how do you want your camera? The off center 3rd person camera has grown on me since GoW, where the camera moves the character to the side a wee bit. BUT, I so want to play WoW2 in 1st person. To hold the Warcraft weapons rendered in a realistic fashion from a 1st person HUD, especially with the variety, from warrior to warlock. Gimmie.
If wow2 is ever made, it is very likely they will move away from their current MMO style with 40 different abilities and click to cast system, and instead move in a direction closer to what we see in plunder storm with fewer abilities and the added mechanic of aiming your abilities. I can guarantee however that it will not be first person. Wow tried first person, that is why you can zoom in so far in game and no one uses it, and it is horrible to play with. There are very few games who have made first person melee combat work well and even then it is not very good and would definitely not work in a setting like this, so very likely they would stay with the third person camera. There are however currently addons that shifts your camera to the right or left in game, so an option such as that would still be possible.
Blizz Legal department : "no no no to real to handle" 😱
Highschool just slapped me in the face, for a second there.
This video: how much MEGAscans of rocks and mountaints at 8k from Grand Canyon do you need. This guy: YES!
On November 23th, WoW will turn 20 years old. The fascination WoW once had is long gone. But seeing stuff like this... gives me hope that a visual overhaul might give me similar feelings when I first played this game.
"This is exactly how I remember it playing for the 1st time".
Exactly!
Honestly, WoW should have ended with WOTLK. That was the completion of Arthas story-ark. They could have just created WoW from there and things might have been different. In reality, I guess it's hard for any company to just flat out refuse millions of dollars of a steady income. It could have been something special. I was naive to think they would do this back then.
The yallabla of gugugaka was at war with the roftubata from the lands of magabubu. Grade A lore right here.
DUDE this looks sick!
HOLY SHIT WHY CAN'T THIS BE A THING
oh cmon the fire looks like something from their warcraft 2 cinematics ..
"...in seven hundred years" LMAO
My sense of humor, exactly: "This is what WoW is gonna look like... in 700 years."
There is a few reaons we wont see wow 2. But I think the biggest is most people first say "They can make it if I get to keep everything I collected from wow 1" and thats the biggest killer. It would need to be a new start all together.
The time they would have to put into making old armors, pets, mounts, etc just to keep up to current would be years work.
If anything offer something for players based on their ach pt total maybe.
I would even love to see Warcraft 4 (or even keep it simple and do it as a DLC for WC3) after the World Soul Saga to set the stage and new lore characters and then WoW 2.
“This is what it looked like the first time” most agreeable thing asmon has ever said.
I really feel if they did or are creating a WOW2, with current day tech - along with going back to what made WOW so special in the first place - they would literally make a killing.
WoW's unique art style is one of it's defining characteristics and what makes the game stand out from the rest. That doesn't need to be changed. It's not supposed to look realistic.
Exactly! I love how wow looks, I could see improving the existing textures but I love how cartoonish it looks
Oh my gosh. While I wouldnt want a reboot in lore, if something like this was to ever come out, it would be so dangerous for me lol.
When I first played WoW, my laptop couldn’t run it properly. The edges of each polygon would stretch forever and the game would only look okay when inside caves.
This is incredible. I would do anything for a entire remake of WoW looking like this, Classic era, full populated pvp server of casual players. No mods allowed. Pure OG WoW with graphics like this...... fuck. Just upload my conscience into it and ill live there.
and this is the 1 to 1 redesign. Imagine having the upscaled world with the bigger villages and huge cities
1:10 his bum must be so warm standing so close to the flame
Now this is art. Can you imagine what Ashenvale or Elywynn forest would be like? Transcendental.
Forgot to have the giant ad billboards and the shop permanently in the UI with one click purchases to catch those misclicks
Me: Holy crap! WOW 2 looks awesome!
My grandkid: Ok grandapa time take your pills.
Dude this isn't even possible. People can't play WoW with a million abilities being casted by everyone with those graphics. Dragonflight proved that it's only getting worse. People can't even raid with decent computers anymore because they get below 30 fps.
Graphics are good, but the supporting audio of wind, riders and tree branches are what make it complete
AXCEL doing great things too with Project Grunt.
this tickled my belly like i was a child again, not in the pastor kinda way, but fun kinda way
Bring a tear to my eye...out of sadness, cause we'll never see this happen
Istg if they do full reset in WoW 2, going from vanilla to whatever now, perhaps with an alternate timeline? I would jump in.
this is the only way i would came back to wow, if they remastered the entire vanilla TBC and wotlk in this kinda of graphics would be sick
Blizzard have the capability to do this... and as someone who have been there from the start, I really think they should. Take learnings from the past two decades and just make something completely new IMO. Doesn't necessarily need to be the same quests and the exact same locations.
I'd love to bring my kids into WoW 2 like this.
"In 700 years" more accurate words have never been spoken
Man, this is just a reminder that we could have had a Warcraft show or proper series of movies, but because the Legendary film didn't do as well as it could it's never going to happen, which is a legit shame.
Someone needs to take the Warcraft IP from Blizzard so it can actually be used for something epic.
When some one moved a chair in the past. Blizzard would still be the studio we knew and loved. And they introduced WoW 2 with upgraded graphic and up to date gameplay!
00:56 most true words asmongold said
What might be kind of cool would be the exact story and timeframe of WoW 1 but you play as a character from one of the “evil” factions you were trying to stop in WoW and you fight against the Horde and Alliance. Like you could be one of the Scourge, something from the Burning Legion, a Naga, etc…. You are tasked with stopping the alliance and Horde. Stormwind, Orgrimmar, etc could be raids. Various other smaller cities and important Horde/Alliance places could be 5 man “dungeons”. Basically you just live the story again from the opposite perspective. Keep in mind that most “evil” factions don’t view themselves as “evil”. So your actions would still feel like you were doing “good” for your and your kinds survival.
imagine wow 2 looking like that and action based combat no tab targetting, just smashing through hordes of ennemies! Epic game!
I would definitely jump back into world of Warcraft if it looked like this.
Imagine someone that never made a game, never played WoW, never looked at the storyline once, and then creating a netflix series
I have been playing classic HC 8 hours a day lately and tbh, the graphics don't bother me one bit. I'd still love to see a version of wow with this level of graphics, also, with full voice acted quests. The voice over addon really makes classic pop.
The grunt after he said Orgrimmar 🔥🔥
Nah, if they go with a realistic design then it will age like milk.
I love when fans go all out with amazing attention to detail in trailers like this, only to fuck it up at the end with flames caught in a gust of wind, except they forgot about the smoke billowing straight up.
Hits you right in the nostalgias
They miss on basic regular game mechanics. I just quit SoD as phase 3 was clearly not play tested and has tons of issues.
At the rate games were progressing in graphics from 2000-2010 I thought we'd have this but in VR by now
Looks like the WarCraft3 Reforged Trailer...