I enjoyed this cinematic. I haven't been watching the alphas/betas so I'm not familiar with any of the characters other than xalatath - but I like this concept behind the Arathi and this Faerin individual.I'm hoping that if we do get Harronir as a playable race, that they re-do the existing models I've seen so far. The one in the cinematic looks really cool and interesting, whereas the model available in the dressing room just looks like a Kul'tiran cosplaying as Dargrul. Not really troll, not really elf, mostly just human with some additions...
As low-effort as it is unsettling.
Male jaw lines - CheckDisabilities - CheckDiversity casting - CheckNo direction in the cinematic at all.See, this is why you do not hire anyone from California.
Gotta love people trying to deflect legitimate criticism and concerns with cries of 'Racist!', 'Sexist!', 'Bigot!'Yeah, that will totally convince people that the issues they perceive and worry about are unfounded, and won't at all convince them that maybe it IS the fault of these groups they're being told they hate that are the problem.From everything I've read about the beta, Faerin is fine so far. I'll need to hear her voiced lines to get a proper feel, but as of now she's grokkable and understandable and NOT annoying.
"Mom, can we get a story about a powerful female leader kowtowing to a malevolence bent on the world's destruction because she wants to preserve her people, but some of her subjects disagree and lead a rebellion--which we join--to usurp her power?""No, we have Suramar at home."That's what I'm getting from Ansurek's synopsis, anyways. I assume we'll kill her in the first raid (unless they're really copy-pasting Elisande's story), so it may not be a multi-patch narrative. I doubt the Nerubians are going to disappear entirely, but the nature of their involvement should change throughout the course of TWW.Since this is the first in a narrative trilogy, TWW has to introduce compelling new faces and plot threads. I care more about the ultimate fate of Azeroth and the cosmic war than I do about individual characters, but ideally, that grand narrative is told through the use of good characters. The ones I'm seeing here are... not promising, but I'll reserve judgment until I play through the quests. As long as we get interesting developments and progress on three main storylines--what the Titans are doing, the War Between Light and Void, and whatever Azeroth's trying to tell us or guide us to do--I'll probably be satisfied.
It was Xal'atath who did ALL that, in the form of a .... Dagger! ๐ฎBest... Storytelling... EVER! ๐๐
for the people complaining how the trailer didn't have a story, I wonder what they thought of the vanilla wow and TBC trailers..? the vibe of this trailer felt similar to those for me - just vignettes of characters in the world. I guess the key difference is some of them actually matter to the plot this time