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[Column] General: The Warcraft Movie - What We Learned from Comic Con
BMunchausen
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Lot’s of new information regarding the feature film Warcraft has come to light this weekend from Comic-Con in San Diego and I just couldn’t hold off on saving it for the next All Things Warcraft column - so here’s a special edition featuring the latest on the film. To arms!
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Typical guy who thinks things that are popular are bad. I think if WoW was garbage it wouldn't be the #1 MMO on the market.
Also, more people have played WoW than the original Warcraft.
I think I'll try Warlords. You seem to be going in the right direction Blizzard. Finally. Don't let us down!!!
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I assume he is talking about lore, in which case yeah... WoW Lore is garbage in comparsion. They kind of mangled it up a bit to fit into the MMO. Case in point Illidan as the biggest offender. They didn't exactly help to make the lore better.
All this Lore business, WoW happens after the RTS games so what ever happens can happen. It's an evolving story at the moment, they're not re-writing the lore cus' it's not happened yet.
As to the movie I think it will either be a huge hit a massive flop, guess we'll find out in 2016 or 2017 or 2018 it's blizzard after all.
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I like wow too.
Typical fanboy. In denial land wow didnt butcher Warcraft lore, but in real world it did.
Why Blizzard has so little respect for their own product is a mystery to me, seriously, you need to add a new playable race and all you can think of is holy aliens that used to be demons (Eredar) but the lore got changed for them being first holy (Draenei) before making them demons even if they originally were demons before lore change, and also a completely different race name wise (the original Draenei) that got a huge facelift to make them look sexy because for some reason they had to use name Draenei for this completely new race too, which then landed into Azeroth in their space ships?
And that's only one thing, there's this same crap worth a book if someone wanted to write all the stupid lore decisions down.
Oh wait, I forgot, it's supposed to be cool, Cartman cool.
WoW lore in vanilla, TBC and WotLK was very good in both presentation and telling.
This could be epic or it could be a flop sometimes when you combine CGI with real life the movies can get a bit cheesy. I wonder who the actors will be. If they stick to the story arc already developed they have enough for some sequels too. I won't be a hater on it yet. I'll reserve that judgment until I see some content. Glad that the movie is going to portray both sides and not make it a good vrs evil plot. That is so overdone in movies and one of the main draws for me in the game. Each side had their own "story" which got you thinking about their situations. Kind of like why I loved the HOMM series so much (until this last one where the butchered the gameplay to toss your biggest stack at their smallest stack and if you lose too many units you can't complete the map).
Cheaper.
Plus odds are 90% is being shot in front of a green screen... like so many others.
Look on the bright side... there won't be a second movie.
Be course fully animated film = childrens movie.
If you want to be a movie for mature audiences you have to have real actors. 'dem be da Hollywood rulez.
It might be a money issue as well. Live action is still cheaper to do.
Fixed it for you.
The biggest problem complaining about lore here is that the majority of WoW players have no idea what the Warcraft lore is supposed to be.
The RTS has never reached the numbers that WoW has. Even though the playerbase of the RTS games seeded the MMO, WoW grew on its own, especially with a younger crowd who has never played one of the RTS games.
From the sounds of it, the movie will be more of a "prequel" or origin story for WoW. Which also means using WoW lore, and not the RTS lore. For Blizzard this is a smart move. While people who loved the RTS might be disappointed, they can afford to lose those fans, while the MUCH much larger community of MMO players will enjoy seeing the lore they know and setting the stage for the MMO they have played for years.
Well... In a way Warlords of Draenor makes a lot more sense now... Because by the time this movei comes out even the WoW crowd have been force feed the more sweeping arc of early Warcraft history.
Still i think it will be a nice movie, heck by the time the summer is over i will have sat through two Michael Bay movies... It can´t be worse then those. (i have some hope for TMNT... But mostly because i am a fan of the original comic...)
Also the size of the Doomhammer gives me some nice ideas bout the size of things.
This have been a good conversation
Should of just named the movie world of warcraft then, if they are gonna follow the PoS Lore from that and not use the original material.
Because they want to make it look awsome like Lord of the Rings movies
Lots of people also played Mario, D&D, and Wing Commander. All those movies turned out to be steaming piles of crap which I suspect the WoW movie will be as well, that is in less they have kungfu pandas in it as almost everyone loves a good Jack Black cartoon.