Uhhh…. a little sus no? Between the Eternity’s End Cinematic and that strange orange stone… I just got a feeling…
Credit for the idea goes to @TheElviz86 ‘s comment.
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Anduin Raid Finale | Shadowlands: Eternity’s End In-game Cinematic [SPOILER] https://youtu.be/lpl8qIBq9CI
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I feel like a certain company named after a winter storm is being a sussy baka…
I am stunned at how direct that is
Anyone remembers the music played in wow version? 😛
Ngl that HW scene still makes me emotional
Blizzard: Can i copy your homework?
YoshiP: Sure but change it a little.
You’ll be happy to know about how much damage this “arthas” trailer has done to the WoW community as a whole. They have severely insulted for some the only reason to play Wrath classic or something again. To see that this is what became of him. A little puff ball while sylvanas lectures him in front of all of his beloveds. His son. Loved and mentor. Humiliating
Stomach wrenching
"Children of the land, do you hear
Echoes of truths that once rang clear?
Two souls intertwined
One true love they did find
Bringing land and heavens near"
If only Blizzard would stop copying others and even attempt to be as creative as those lyrics…
For that last part, I heard a certain scene was suspiciously similar to a very important endwalker scene as well. I saw a bunch of comparisons and then suddenly they were gone so I'm not sure.
Sylvannas gets redemption but not Arthas?… ***k this game
So this… this was their ending… this horrible, incorrigible curmudgeon… uh ugh oomph. This is really pitiful. It can't come close to how Heavensward was written in no less than two years since they remade ARR. This is just horrible 😢. Definitely not worth playing it.
Side note: I can understand Preach's sentiment when he says in an alternate timeline he would be bitching about ZM but instead he'd play FFXIV because it's a more friendly approach. This thing they call a story, it is a lot worse than an airport novel you pick up and they have some substance.
A bunch of nobodies crying. Keep at it.
At 1:52 – I still tear up over this.
This story and so many others in FFXIV, are the sort that edifies. They stick with you, remind you of truth, reinforce humanity. Heavy stuff, sometimes.
Whereas Brand B…plagiarism much? I mean, seriously–Arthas? a King Arthur rip off, and the mash-up of borrowed lore just went on from there.
😆 I totally thought about heavensward when I saw that cutscene from anduin. Great minds think alike
Literal plagiarism but then it gets worse because instead of a warm feeling Sylvannas gets redeemed.
Ballsy to steal from a game's free trial
Ah, the same basic concept and outline.
Just without any of the meaning and soul.
I was watching the cinematic on Asmons stream and immediately saw the similarities lol. WoW
Those HW moments still bring tears to my eyes.
In the words of zenos …
so spirited .. yet so empty
The scene in HW serves as a reminder that war is not always about grandeur, glory and victory, that it steeps in tragedy for the innocent that is swept along with it. The dragonsong is an echo of that, asking why do we fight despite all the losses, the family and friends we lost along the way and never to forget about them at journey's end.
Well ! Now we know why WoW devs don't play their game right ?
Obviously, they're busy playing something else~
Eh. While it is sus, it's also a very common "problem" in story telling; it's constantly borrowing from itself. Like, does anyone actually realize how often the story of robinhood is used actively in media on an average? Music also does this. Often times it's not even done on purpose for a lot of the creative process is finding inspiration around us that affects how you tell your story.
This reminds me of Final Fantasy, but to say that it copied it? Nah. It's trying to be dramatic and sappy for sure, but I mean… It's not like Final Fantasy has a patent on the concept of the dead coming back to give moral and spiritual support to drive back corruption… The problem isn't the scene, but the fact they ruined the build up. Once
that happens the climax means nothing. If they didn't butcher years of hard work of the original developers and writers, maybe this would hit differently. (On a side not, I do understand the current teams desire to branch off and do something truly built by them. They inherited a story after all. I get it. However, there are ways to make your mark without completely destroying the foundation from which you are building on. )
to be fair, I haven't played this game since Legion and haven't had the energy to keep up with it (because it's sad.. And boring… So many missed opportunities for good story telling). Point is, I think it's an unfortunate coincidence. It feels like copying, but you're just noticing a trope which are found EVERYWHERE in writing. Some are just used more than others.
just a story trope
I mean theirs more to heavensward than just that moment… Namely Locus!
You guys don't get it. It's all been planned since WC3.
"Undone by mortal will. Whiter now…?" This is what Nidhogg spoke at the end of the Heavensward scene here (the text didn't appear so I figure I'd point it out.)
I'm no WoW player and I don't want to assume I know anything about the lore but I'm a bit shocked that Arthas basically was not allowed to say anything. Sure it was implied that there was almost nothing of Arthas left besides whatever that orb or soul or whatever, but for someone who had power over death itself (to my limited knowledge) you'd think the people would want to hear at least one last thing from him before his supposed final moments of existence if it had to come to this.
So thats the end cinematic of how Anduin breaks free… just like that…? I mean, I suppose we defeated him in the raid fight before that, but still… And Arthas being reduced to a floating cotton ball, not even a vision of him… Sure, they give an explanation that there wasnt much left of him after the forges… but reducing the most iconic character in WoW to a fickle cotton ball after the hype from the introduction cinematics… … This is so sad 🙁
Man, watching that heavensward scene does bring back the feels. The WOW cutscene just doesn't resonate with me. Probably because I have no emotional attachment to anything related to the shadowlands. But also, they did not do Arthas justice. His end should have stayed in wotlk
arthas deserved better
2016? that can't be…no wait that's right…I began my adventure right before 3.3 dropped…has it really been that long?
Even after six years, I still get chills when Dragonsong kicks in and I still cry when I see Haucherfaunt.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID when i saw it
Generic trope used, must be copying FF14.
wait i saw on he-man show from netflix and there is a scene just like that, the grayskull sword breaks in 2 swords and there is a ball on energy floating too, you can see that in the trailer: Masters of the Universe: Revelation Part 1 | Official Trailer | Netflix on youtube.
Why did the guy just sound like that one dbz (abridged?) scream
This is pathetic to watch
I don’t even know WoW and this is painful