Reign of Chaos: the Series
2019-Jun-01, Saturday 22:53![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
I haven't played World of Warcraft in years, but I still occasionally keep tabs on the game because I spent so much of my life playing the game. I was recently watching Safe Haven, the latest cinematic where Varok Saurfang tracks down Thrall because it turns out that Sylvanas, the evil undead monster who has been a genocidal megalomaniac for her entire existence, is not a good choice to lead the Horde. 
It was extremely good, like Blizzard cinematics always are. Regardless of what you can say about their games, their cutscenes are top notch.
In the comments was a link to another series, though, someone using machinima to retell the plot of Warcraft III. And I watched it, and it's fantastic:
It's all quotes from the game, so the voice acting is already all done, and though sometimes it sounds weird, at least it's a familiar weird. The music and models come from World of Warcraft. It means that sometimes the action is a little stiff and the battle scenes have a bunch of shakycam to hide the rigidity of the models, but it's amazing how much the creator did with the ingredients.
Also, I forgot that the human campaign started out against orcs, not against the Scourge, and that Thrall had to rescue Grom. I guess the last time I played it was over a decade ago.
Nostalgia means it's hard for me to say what someone who didn't play Warcraft, or video games at all, would think of it, but I love it. I can't wait to see where it goes from here.
It was extremely good, like Blizzard cinematics always are. Regardless of what you can say about their games, their cutscenes are top notch.In the comments was a link to another series, though, someone using machinima to retell the plot of Warcraft III. And I watched it, and it's fantastic:
It's all quotes from the game, so the voice acting is already all done, and though sometimes it sounds weird, at least it's a familiar weird. The music and models come from World of Warcraft. It means that sometimes the action is a little stiff and the battle scenes have a bunch of shakycam to hide the rigidity of the models, but it's amazing how much the creator did with the ingredients.
Also, I forgot that the human campaign started out against orcs, not against the Scourge, and that Thrall had to rescue Grom. I guess the last time I played it was over a decade ago.
Nostalgia means it's hard for me to say what someone who didn't play Warcraft, or video games at all, would think of it, but I love it. I can't wait to see where it goes from here.
