Official WotLK trailer released!Follow

Maybe I'm just tired of Arthas this and Arthas that.

With the silvery hair and the whole badass attitude, I'm fearing the Sephiroth fans with join forces with the Legolas fans and ruin the game completely. Can you imagine the amount of Blood Elf Death Knights with silvery hair there'll be once the expansion is up and running?

*shudder*

Graphically impressive, gets bonus badass points for the frostwyrm and the legion of Scourge.

However, I liked the TBC intro a lot more. The TBC intro is all about Illidan throwing down the gauntlet to me, and you as players. He's offering the challenge to us, we're the heroes. We are the story "You are not prepared!" is awesome.

WotLK intro on the other hand is all about Arthas. It makes it seem as though WotLK is Arthas' story. He's the main guy and if we're lucky, the players might be allowed in the supporting cast. I realise the expac bears his name, and so he will have a strong focus, but the TBC intro made me think I was going to be part of something, the original WoW intro had the same feeling. The WotLK trailer doesn't. It's an entirely passive experience.

That's not to say I'm not chomping at the bit for this expansion!

Edited, Aug 23rd 2008 7:59am by Rasen

Ok, so this is totally offtopic...but what caused you to drag up that old conversation in your sig, Maz?

Just says eh's waiting for us. And yes, we are supporting cast right now.

we've had a couple of sugar rush intros before. nough of that for now.

Well it’s better than nothing. As for those people who think this trailer was shorter than the others it's really the other way around. Thought the trailer seems to focus on the main reason of this expansion...the Lich King it does seem to stray off from what the other previous trailers have done, it still does seem fantastic. Regardless of you think this was bad or good they put a lot of time and effort into it, so that’s got to count for something. Ironically he is doing everything his father is saying though taking it the wrong way. As for the Frost Wyrm it’s just a plain old Frost Wyrm and not Sapphiron as far as the trailer goes.

As far in the game when this expansion comes out you can maybe get tattoos, new hairstyles, new changeable skin variants (post-creation and pre-creation), and new dance moves. As for the mounts you will be possibly getting a dragon mount. Though I don’t know if it is a dragon mount or a proto-dragon (first dragons made). You will be able to use flying mounts in Northerend at level 77 and will be slightly faster.

When the Lich King when he plants his Frostmourne into the ground and all the snow blows away is that a Death Knight spell or just something for show?

Edited, Aug 23rd 2008 12:32pm by TheUnsungChampion

See, I actually liked this trailer even MORE than the other two.

Think about it, why did the other two NEED to showcase non-plot classes and races?

Well, for the first one, they had to sell the game to every person who saw it before buying the game. They needed people to see that Tauren with the giant log beating up the bear. They needed to get people excited by a scantily-clad Night Elf shape shifting into a leapord.

Imagine you have been a big fan of the WC games since the beginning. When you hear that the next one is a MMO and not a RTS like the previous ones were, you get a little apprehensive and buy the game (with or without seeing the trailer).

However, the first thing you see after installation is a trailer full of your favorite races and beasts duking it out. Yeah, you're excited.

(Note, the original game didn't need a direct plotline. It was an extension of the Alliance V. Horde story).


The second trailer was a mixture of story-line and game-play. As this was an expansion, it is generally less of a selling point to a new player (but it will be seen by non-players). This trailer was meant to showcase Outland and the two new races, and introduce the new main plot arc, Illidan. They did bring back some of the less relevent imagery just to tickle some players and showcase other aspects of the game.


Now, we are at the 2nd expansion and 3rd introduction. Everyone and their mother knows about WoW, and half those mothers play it. They don't need to get NEW players involved (at this point, it has such a name that they wiggle their pinky and get 11 new subscriptions). What they want is to keep the old players interested and get those that have quit back in the game.

So how can they showcase the three big developments in a way that is enticing to the player that has left or is getting bored? They need Northrend. They need Arthas and his legions. They need the Death Knight.

Done, done and done. Arthas (the Lich King, but Death Knight none-the-less) does some fancy shenanigans with his sword, releasing a giant undead Frost Wyrm that inspires his giant undead army stationed in the frozen valley below. They then threw in his father's monologue for some emotional connection.

I haven't been able to play for the past 2-3 months (this area has had a lot of construction lately and the internet goes out 3-4 times a day, convienently right when I have time to log on). I have finally (mostly) beaten the addiction. A trailer of an Orc smashing things wouldn't bring me back at this point. But, you know what would? That stupid f***ing trailer I just watched...

I will be playing again soon. /sigh

saw this loved it, but disappointed that it didn't show much of the in game content, but then again they already have us hooked

but then: one of my children saw me watching it and wanted to see it for themselves...
then the next child saw it and wanted to see it
then another child walked in and wanted to watch it

so i got to watch it 4 or 5 times then the children started in on the 'but they saw it more times then I did, i want to watch it again....'

sigh