Thursday, August 16, 2012

Mists of Pandaria Cinematic

So here's the cinematic for Mists of Pandaria.

These are, of course, fun, but ultimately not the biggest impact on the game. Blizzard wants to re-focus on Orcs and Humans (even as they add Pandaren) and the conflict between the Alliance (with a focus on humans) and Horde (with a focus on orcs.)

Honestly, I actually think they could afford to give the other races more screentime. Not that they are wanting for it, but I always thought the Forsaken should have been the main Horde force in Northrend.

There's also a huge amount of interesting lore with some of the lesser-seen races, like the Draenei, so I wouldn't mind seeing a bit more of them.

In a way, this cinematic brought back the old tradition of "player characters fighting," that was the main focus of the Vanilla and Burning Crusade cinematics. That said, I think that if you want people to feel like they're seeing their characters, you should spread out the races you see.

We still have not seen a slick, pre-rendered gnome, worgen, or goblin, and we never got more than a super-brief, in-motion shot of a troll.

But, the major theme of Mists is the endless hostilities between Alliance and Horde. One moment I found both very funny and very telling was when the human hands the orc his sharpened stick - once again, when there is a big enough threat, the Alliance and Horde will learn to help each other - if only briefly.

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