I am so very late to this, but I feel like it's necessary to point out that the narrator of this series is Jim Cummings, aka Winnie the Pooh.
@Reycied4 ай бұрын
Aw! Didn't expect the shout-out, it was very unexpected and made my day better! Before I ruin YOUR day with another oversharing lore-dump, let me say: thanks for your reactions! If you couldn't tell, I love this game, and I rarely miss an opportunity for cringe-inducing proselytizing. The community is very warm and welcoming, and I've been part of it for over ten years. Now...on to the bullshit! Stormblood is a tale of liberation! Many years ago, the Evil Empire™ of Garlemald subdued the martial nation of Ala Mhigo after a prolonged campaign of subterfuge that saw them engineering a civil war. The Mad King Theodoric was convinced to attack the Fists of Rhalgr, a nationalist faction of monks that train their bodies into living weapons. They serve the god Rhalgr, the Destroyer, whose lightning cleanses the way for creation. It's even said that, ages ago, Rhalgr guided the diaspora of what who become the Ala Mhigans to their new homeland with a star in the sky, similar to the biblical three wise men. Once both sides were exhausted from the fighting, the XIVth Imperial legion, led by Gaius van Baelsar (the Horny Darth Vader Man from the ARR trailer) swept in to massacre the beleaguered defenders. In the times since, however, he was replaced as regent lord of Ala Mhigo by Zenos yae Galvus, prince of Garlemald and next in line for the Imperial throne. Stormblood sees your character (Meteor Survivor, nice job on remembering the name!) uniting disparate nations against the Empire to liberate two lands that are a world apart. The Japanese-style area is a city called Kugane, the only port town in the Hingashi archipelago that is open to foreign merchants. If you're a history buff, think of it as like Japan when the Dutch started showing up. Their sister nation across the Ruby Sea, a short boat ride away, is called Doma. Doma is a kingdom of noble samurai and dedicated warriors that has languished under its native viceroy, the wicked and cunning Imperial Yotsuyu goe Brutus. While Zenos technically also rules Doma, Yotsuyu acts in his stead, and the nation is ground into indignity and poverty under her (sometimes literal) heel. The protagonists engage in a two-pronged attack. Their mission: liberate the comparatively-less protected Doma and restore its prince, Hien, to the throne, which will divide Imperial attention between Doma and Ala Mhigo, hopefully allowing them to unseat Zenos and set both nations free from Imperial rule. The greatest danger, however, is the Imperial prince himself: he is one of the greatest living warriors in the world, a genius with any kind of weapon he lays his hands on (with a penchant for the Doman katana) and is also possessed of an extreme tactical acumen which makes him a terrifying force on the battlefield. He leads from the front line, but his superhuman skill with a blade and his thirst for challenge in war has led him to a place of extreme apathy and anhedonia. (Low key, he's also my favorite villain, and his voice actor KILLS IT.) Once again, we'll get into the characters! Meteor Survivor actually plays double-duty in this one: he is both the male Monk fighting atop the statue's hand, and the Samurai that slices the bullets apart. It's hard to tell the Monk is him, since he has an EXTREMELY different haircut in each scene. The woman in red playfully sparring with Meteor: She's...well. It's complicated and spoiler-y. And finally, the pair on the roof: the larger of the two is Gosetsu "Everfall" Daito, the greatest samurai in Doma, who seeks to atone for his failure in protecting the Doman prince's father, Kaien, from death by making sure the rightful ruler sits the throne. He's also extremely loud, gutsy and brash, as quick to laugh as he is quick with a blade. The shorter of the pair is a woman named Yugiri Mistwalker, a shinobi and personal retainer to prince Hien, who came to Eorzea seeking a home for Doman refugees after it was conquered by the Empire. WHEW! Lots of stuff to get to on this one! Thanks again for your work in producing reactions, and I'm looking forward to the next video, whether it's FFXIV or not!
@adamsreactionzone4 ай бұрын
Yeah no worries man. You put the effort in it's a well deserved shoutout! I knew it was Meteor lol wasn't 100% sure though. Now I know he plays multiple characters that might confuse me even more lmao. I'm surprised they haven't adopted some sort of animated series for this as clearly there's a lot of source material to lean on and they're obviously good at story telling.. not to mention the quality of their animation and soundtracks.. Thanks again for the info, always welcomed!
@reeceholmes85464 ай бұрын
thanks Adam, some cool shots in this one, great stuff
@adamsreactionzone4 ай бұрын
I know my Camera quality was a bit rough in this one but I didn't even realise until I'd watched the video on YT when I checked it uploaded okay. I think it was due to the lighting in my room. I'll have it fixed for next time!
@jenafilyaw8944 ай бұрын
I hated it when I saw it first. Talk about ugly cry. I'm Alliance. Sourfang was honorable. I hated seeing him die 😭
@adamsreactionzone4 ай бұрын
Had to watch it again just to remember the scene it's been a while... Yeah, it's awful, poor guy man. Definitely deserved better then that :o
@Reycied4 ай бұрын
Finally managed to watch this and subscribe! Loved your Heavensward video, so I'm watching in reverse order XD. As I did last time, I'll give as spoiler-lite an explanation as I can of who the players are and what's happening. The setting: Eorzea, a continent that has been subjected to successive "Astral Eras" where great progress is made, and "Umbral Eras", where that progress is snatched away by some truly catastrophic disaster. What you see is the Elder Dragon Bahamut, freed from his millennia-long prison sealed inside an artificial red moon called Dalamud, whereupon he immediately kicks off the Seventh Umbral Era by causing massive damage all across the continent. Even regional climates are forever changed by the powers he unleashes here. The Elezen (fancy word for 'elf', really) sorcerer that protects the heroes is Louisoix Leveilleur, one of the greatest mages of his era, and a prodigy of Sharlayan, a nation of scholars. Instead of teleporting our heroes to safety, he actually shunts them forward five years in time to a point where the worst of the Umbral Calamity's effects have been mitigated. Most of this video actually played at the end of FF14 1.0--a notoriously poorly-received game--and returning five years later, you really do find a 'Realm Reborn'. As for the players: I already mentioned Louisoix, and the Meteor Survivor (guy with the big axe) and his team don't have canon names, since they're meant to be a player party. As for everyone else... The three people atop the cliff watching the battle: these are the leaders of Eorzea's city-states. The man with the horned helmet is Raubahn Aldynn, who you might remember from getting his arm lopped off in the HW trailer. Not the ruler of his city-state, called Ul'dah, but rather the master of its armies and personal bodyguard and friend of the ruling Sultana. Ul'dah is a desert trading mecca, the 'Jewel of Eorzea'. The pale woman in the black coat is Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn, the admiral of the thalassocratic nation of Limsa Lominsa, home to sailors and with a fierce legacy of pirating. The woman in white with the staff is the Elder Seedseer Kan-e-Senna, ruler of Gridania. They live in harmony with nature and commune with the spirits of an enormous, magical forest called the Twelveswood. The dude in the Horny Darth Vader™ mask on the airship is Gaius van Baelsar, the Black Wolf. He is a soldier for the evil Garlean Empire, and regent of the occupied nation of Ala Mhigo. You can think of him as one of the primary villains of A Realm Reborn. The white-haired dude on the cliff: Cid Garlond, who you also saw in the HW trailer. Awesome engineer, tinkerer and all-around Skinny Kenny Rogers Impersonator. The folks praying at the shrines: Gonna skim through these, as getting to know them in-game is the fun part. Consider them the 'adventuring party' your character amasses while playing any other JRPG. If you play the game, fair warning: they WILL make you cry multiple times. The catgirl is Y'shtola Rhuul. She gives people sass. She's VERY good at it. The gray-haired man is Thancred Waters. He's sex personified. He's VERY good at it. The masked woman is Yda Hext. She punches stuff. She's VERY good at it. The little guy with the staff: Papalymo Totolymo. He blows stuff up. He's VERY good at it. Sorry for leaving a second Great American Novel in the comments section. Hope to see you in-game someday, and belated congrats on 100 subs! Add mine to the pile!~♪
@adamsreactionzone4 ай бұрын
Dude.. Seriously... the amount of stuff you know about this game is unreal lol. Again.. Thanks for the info, I definitely won't be able to remember all of it, but I will most certainly come back to this for references and refreshers lol. Thanks man!
@reeceholmes85464 ай бұрын
thanks Adam, like you said, very short but looked cool, great stuff
@jenafilyaw8945 ай бұрын
They need to just buckle down and make a damn movie like this. They could do each expansion as a movie and make bank if they looked like this. I know I would buy all of them!!!
@adamsreactionzone5 ай бұрын
Yeah fr... I even think the Warcraft movie for it's time looked good so they're definitely capable of doing a good job!
@Reycied5 ай бұрын
Dude with the big axe that dons the blue armor at the end: The stand-in for your player character. He has many names, but much of the fandom calls him Meteor Survivor, on account of him surviving the 'meteor' from the trailer of A Realm Reborn. Little lady that drank poison: Nanamo Ul Namo, Sultana (monarch) of the city-state of Ul'dah. Guy that got his arm cut off and stuck in prison: Raubahn Aldynn, the Sultana's bodyguard and closest confidant. When he found out the Sultana had been poisoned, he snapped and bisected the guy who had committed the deed. It was Lolorito's bodyguard--an old friend of Raubahn;s--that took his arm. Smirking little prick in the mask: Lord Lolorito Nanarito, who sits on the Syndicate, the more powerful corporate entities that keep the Sultana's power in check. Raubahn also bought a seat in the Syndicate. The silhouette standing on the tower after the dragon is driven off: Likely Estinian Varlineau, the Azure Dragoon, and EVERYONE'S favorite character. Dragoons are knights trained in air-to-air combat, utilizing powerful jumps and lances to reach and slay their hated foes, the dragons. The Azure Dragoon is the de facto leader of the Dragoons. The guy flying the airship: Cid Garlond, founder and engineer for Garlond Ironworks. He's a defector from the enemy empire of Garlemald, fleeing when he became sick of his inventions leading to death and suffering rather than a brighter future. I think that's all the important ones in this trailer! Stormblood is up next, and I hope you enjoy it!
@adamsreactionzone5 ай бұрын
Damn, that was a lot to digest haha. But I really do apprectiate the detail and time you put into this. It's a lot of names to try and remember lmao. I'll most likely use this comment as a reference point if I want to know who someone is from now on! Yes Stormblood is next, no doubt I'll enjoy it they've been great watches so far:)
@VampireNoblesse5 ай бұрын
imo watch the trailers, when you reach them in the game (without context, they hit less hard)
@adamsreactionzone5 ай бұрын
I'm not sure I'll ever play the game, but there's always a chance, If I do I'll re-watch the cinematics for sure just so it's fresh in my memory
@OverworkedITGuy6 ай бұрын
The cinematic is Kindred hunting through time. The whole thing is basically a Kindred cinematic. The Past when they come to try to take Aatrox but obviously can't because his soul is in the sword and not the body Kayle and Morg killed. This is before Morg bound her wings and had the full falling out with Kayle. It's a VERY old Demacia before the surrounding forest was turned into Petricite. You can see Lamb's outline in Kayle's flames as it transitions to Yasuo's scene Then in Yasuo's scene, it's the Future with an old Yas. The rain of arrows coming to kill him (great callback to The Climb btw), the first arrow is Lamb's. But also, you can see Wolf's outline and eyes in the darkness ahead of him. And in the Present, we have Tryndamere. He's on the verge of dying at the hands of the presumed enemy clan attacking him. The fight with Kindred is only happening spiritually/in his head. You can see that the snow has stopped actually falling and is hovering still in mid-air. Obviously my mans too angry to die XD. And Lamb lowers her bow in the end, because Ashe shows up to save him, so Lamb knows that it isn't yet Tryn's time to die. And the realization hits that he was actually fighting and taking out the guys who took him down at the beginning. At the start there was 1 or 2 bodies on the ground, but once Ashe shows up and Tryn "wakes up" from his berserker rage, he's surrounded by more bodies than the original 2 and also more than the 2 Ashe took out when she showed up. He wasn't physically fighting Lamb and Wolf, he was fighting the people. I watched Necrit's reaction and almost choked laughing when he was like "I have so much to break down in this! NOOOOOOOO!" XD
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
Amazing breakdown. tysm, I also was patiently refreshing KZread waiting for Necrit to watch it cause I KNEW his mind would also be blown by the old Yasuo hahaha
@anthara906 ай бұрын
The cinematic is about the Past, Future and Present The Past, is of Kayle and Morgana, before they decided to go their separate ways of dealing with justice. It also explains how Aatrox already knows them despite not knowing Demacia itself, simply cuz at the time this happened Demacia wasn't Demacia yet The Future is of Yasuo, finghting one last time before accepting the arrow of the Lamb The Present is of Tryndamere, and his non acceptance of death, both by the Wolf and the Lamb, due to his partial "anger fueled blood magic"
@melsukie6 ай бұрын
this cinematic was so gooooood it's oozing with so much lore, my nerd brain is HAPPY
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
I could barely contain my excitement when watching it lmao. It's so epic, loved every second of it :p
@blanklate0736 ай бұрын
Kayle, Morgana and Attrox is Past Event also If you look at kayle when morg ult you can see the ick and disgust on her face, Yasuo is in Future Event where he accept death which you can see the arrow and the sillohoutte of wolf, the Tryndamere is in Present Event where Ashe save him from death which is Kindred.
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
Yeah you can tell Kayle is displeased with Morgana using her dark magic (Not sure of it's actual name) I hope that's not the end for Yasuo though!
@blanklate0736 ай бұрын
@@adamsreactionzone yeah, i think kayle's follower influenced kayle to hate magic.
@user-xc3dv8cs4i6 ай бұрын
not yasuo, he's sensei of yasuo **edit... Yes. He's old yasuo 🤣🤣
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
Is that confirmed? Is it just a coincidence they both have the scar on their nose? Interesting.
@K_Petar6 ай бұрын
@@adamsreactionzone No its Yasuo. His sensei didnt have the scar and had a bit diffrent hair style. Its also confirmed by the caption of the cinematic talking about the past future and present. We saw kayle and morgana in the past, Trynd in present and lastly the future so it has to be Yasuo.
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
@@K_Petar My thoughts exactly. Just don't want to shut down peoples opinions without first knowing the facts :D
@Edrahilo6 ай бұрын
@@K_Petar I agree that it's Yasuo because of the scar, but did we ever see a picture of his master to confirm the hair style is different?
@reeceholmes85466 ай бұрын
that was damn cool, thanks Adam
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
Was patiently waiting for it, was not disappointed haha
@adriankuban31346 ай бұрын
#TheBoredBoarPlays: @Necrit lore The whole theme is "StillHere", referencing Kindred who is DeathIncarnate. Whether it's the Past (Morgana &Kayle), Present (Tryndamere), and Future (OldMan Yasuo). Death is "Still Here" no matter whattime it is. You can see Kindred in the Fires of thePast destroying Aatrox, Facing Tryndamere, andShooting a Fatal Arrow at Old Man Yasuo in thehead.@@adamsreactionzone
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
@@adriankuban3134 Yeah after re-watching it a few... maybe 10 times I noticed a lot more details. So cool.
@adriankuban31346 ай бұрын
@@adamsreactionzone The Awaken, The Call, Still Here Cinematic are canon to Arcane Universe. Just like Riot Forge Games: Song of Nunu;.... Riot Games Lore Universes 1# Arcane_Legends of Runeterra_Riot Forge_League of legends Universe Site_Full Canon Skins. 2# Non Canon lore Skins like: Project, Star Guardians,.. 3# Valorant
@jeremiahaxlgonzales48056 ай бұрын
They say that it is the past the future and the present
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
You know as I was editing I kind of clocked that, Kayle & Morgana being the past, Yasuo the future, Tryndamere/Ashe and Kindred being the present.. It's SO cool. There's no doubt imma watch this like 50 times lol
@90bubbel606 ай бұрын
@@adamsreactionzone there is also discussions about if thats yasuos master and not yasuo himself
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
@@90bubbel60 I believe it's Yasuo due to the Scar on his face that he got from Yone
@pyroteknikk31276 ай бұрын
@@90bubbel60his elder died helping Riven with her blade dilema
@90bubbel606 ай бұрын
@@adamsreactionzone fair point
@originalninjah79166 ай бұрын
bruv why you cut the hair
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
It had to go man, was waking me up through the night getting in my mouth and stuff, wasn't worth it hahaha
@32ryu6 ай бұрын
Sheeeesh
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
It's SOOO good though :D
@sophiastorm86166 ай бұрын
No name for that character 🙂 that one represents the player's character so, whatever name you give him/her is fine You can also say it's the Warrior of light😃
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
Someone mentioned that there's a kind of community given name of 'Meteor' :o
@sophiastorm86166 ай бұрын
@@adamsreactionzone yep, some players call him that😃 Yoshi P calls him the "Derplander"😁 but our warrior of light is older now and more handsome in the newest trailers so we gotta find the man a new name 😃
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
@@sophiastorm8616 He is devilishly handsome I stated that while watching it hahaha. I'm sure the fanbase already have some names cooking xD
@reeceholmes85466 ай бұрын
nice to have you back, epic score and visuals, can't help with any info though, thanks Adam have a great 2024!
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
All the best for 2024!
@frankishe73176 ай бұрын
So the main character here is the representation of the player character, and you will see him in all the trailers. He really doesn't have a name but some call him meteor ive heard
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
Meteor huh, I like it. Usually if a community gives a character a name that's usually nameless it'll stick, so I think Meteor is probably his name now lol
@christianhagel68356 ай бұрын
@@adamsreactionzoneAnother Alias is "Derplander"
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
@@christianhagel6835 So far he's called 'meteor' Derplander' and 'Warrior of Light' haha. Many names I see :p
@tylerbaker24056 ай бұрын
"Meteor" is the dev name for the main character stand-in. For the longest time the most popular fan nickname was "Derplander" (the model's race is a "Highlander")
@tylerbaker24056 ай бұрын
Additionally he will typically take on the iconic job for the expansion the trailer is for. In A Realm Reborn, he was a Warrior and starts this video as one. At the end of the trailer he switches to Dragoon. In the Stormblood trailer he will be both a monk and a samurai. For Shadowbringers, he starts as an Archer (1.0 trailer) and progresses through the classes he has already been until he ends the trailer as a Dark Knight. For Endwalker, he is a Paladin.
@LinksRoyal6 ай бұрын
warhammer darktide Class trailers please! they have 4
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
I'll put them on the list and check them out sometime!
@disturbed1726 ай бұрын
Also if you're not too worried about spoiling the story in the game. The "surely it's not that easy" when he was trying to contain the dragon. That spell was calling upon the power of "the twelve", the deities that they worship. The locations the spikes/spears arise from, I believe, are the sights of the 12 shires around the continent. It takes a ton of power, and iirc sacrifices the caster's life if successful.
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
I probably won't play the game tbh. So feel free to spoil anything game related :D That's pretty cool/gnarly at the same time, we all love a good sacrifice story always makes it sad when it doesn't quite work as intended though D:
@sjsr10676 ай бұрын
YOU ARE doing great ❤❤❤
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
Thank you! Trying my boomer best! lol <3
@ninjafoxgamesgeekery7 ай бұрын
Great reaction. If you're not worried about spoiling the story for yourself, here's the full run down: Final Fantasy 1.0 trailer (go back and watch this, it's worth it and is referenced again later) Final Fantasy A Realm Reborn is actually two videos in one. The first half up to the old man's sacrifice was the video that played when the servers were shut down at the end of 1.0 and the part from "Square Enix" onward is the actual "Realm Reborn" launch trailer, but they were made into one video for the full trailer. Final Fantasy A Realm Reborn: The Flames of Truth was a video that played during the final raid of A Realm Reborn and reveals the full truth of what happened after the heroes were teleported away. Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward is the next trailer and contains spoilers for the end of A Realm Reborn's story Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers (this one is why it's worth having watched the previous all the way to 1.0 as there are nice call backs) Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker (I can't describe how impactful this expansion's story was and how meaningful it is at its fundamental level) Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail (we will see the full trailer in January. We have the first two iterations released so far. Each fan festival this year/Jan 2024 reveals a little more each time) Obviously some things will make more sense if you've played the game as there are characters and story elements that hit harder in the trailers (along with utter confusion as they didn't make sense at time of trailer release). If you've any inclination to play an MMO, or a Final Fantasy game, though, I highly recommend playing XIV. A Realm Reborn through Stormblood are all free to play and the entire story from A Realm Reborn to Endwalker (the full arc of the "Hydaelyn/Zodiark Saga") can be played about 90% as a single player RPG experience. People will tell you A Realm Reborn is slow, but it's like the first book of a series. It has a lot of work to do world building, establishing lore, introducing characters and concepts that make the world function, various factions. And it's very VERY much like a book series. Nothing is wasted content, nothing is wasted story. You'll do a quest at level 30 thinking it's just a filler sidetrack and it comes back in a HUGE way at the end of the following expansion at level 60. Side content all have stories around them and you can never be certain what will be coming back up as a crucial element to the story later on. Everything is treated as a part of your story.
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
I appreciate that long comment but I do kinda wanna learn it myself as I go through the cinematics and such, but I promise you once I'm done I will read this comment fully:)
@ninjafoxgamesgeekery6 ай бұрын
@@adamsreactionzone OH, the comment doesn't spoil it as much as the trailers will. I meant if you don't mind spoiling it a bit by watching trailers in order rather than playing the game for the complete story. My comment was giving the full order of all trailers vids.
@adamsreactionzone6 ай бұрын
Oh right. I see now haha. That's insanely informative buddy tysm! I'll definitely use this going forward 🤣
@apljack7 ай бұрын
This cinematic at least up to the point where the old man (Louisoix) teleports the 5 away(the stand ins for the player characters of Final Fantasy 14) was actually created as a literal world ending event. 1.0 was a horrible release and a generally poor game overall, and so they decided to pull the plug on it quite literally to rebuild it. When the time came to shut the servers down to do this, this was the cinematic that played for all the players. The 'egg' is the Red Moon of Dalamud, which was created a log time ago to entrap an elder primal, a god like being, which the Empire brought down and released. This ushers in the 8th Umbral Calamity which does kill many people, leaves the world scarred and forever changed. The part where everyone comes back in is meant to represent the players returning to a reborn game, hence the title, "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn." Version 2.0 is now the base level of the game, where every new character starts. If you have a 1.0 character, you can restart them with a special in-game nod to them teleporting in like in the cinematic, rather than just the normal intro scenes. Someone below pointed out another scene 'Flames of Truth' which you can get at the end of the 2.x raid series 'Coils of Bahamut.' It shows what happens immediately after Louisoix teleports the players away, and how Bahamut was stopped from rampaging.
@ShadeOnTheUtube7 ай бұрын
That was a Nathrezim. An agent of subterfuge, that manipulates people and events to further their master plan. Also about the subtitles, those errors are par for the course for machine learning translation software.
@flavioromano87547 ай бұрын
Watch flames of truth. It starts the same but the ending is different, kinda like showing two perspectives
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
Ooo sounds interesting, I'll definitely check it out! Thanks man:)
@reeceholmes85467 ай бұрын
thanks Adam even though I had to watch it in 360p because of my terrible Internet speeds it was good, great stuff
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
Nothing worse than bad internet. Hopefully it gets better soon!
@originalninjah79167 ай бұрын
good video adam - very good reaction. 10/10
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
Cheers mate <3
@Cruel11117 ай бұрын
One thing about Blizzard is, they ALWAYS been amazing at those cinematics. Back in 2004 when the classic Cinematic came out,, they where far ahead than most game studios at that time. They always been the pioneers when it comes to game cinematics. Imagine how everything looks like in 5-10 years! With this cinematic they skipped the uncanny valley feeling when seeing a CGI human. The trailers before where they had humans in, you could easy see that its CGI, they had always a bit of that comic style in the CGI model. But now they went with Anduin into the 'real' road and it's very hard to get not an uncanny valley feeling when looking at 'try hard to look real' humans without feel that something is wrong. With this trailer I don't have this feeling at all. I even feel more sympathy than ever with Anduin. Sure you miss a lot of context and story by just watching these cinematics. There is so much more, also with ingame cinematics. But you have some nice reactions and doing well!
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
Yeah I remember when I watched the old cinematics and I was even saying then for their time they were definitely still amazing, hold up ok even against modern average trailer cinematics! Yeah I'm a sucker for cinematics so I'll always like them, I can imagine if I know the lore a lot more I would enjoy them even more but even still I got so excited when I found out there was a new WoW cinematic, I'm basically a fan without the lore knowledge haha. Thanks for the compliments really means a lot!
@4toetroll7 ай бұрын
next video move yourself to lower corner to not block video
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
Yeah I learned to move myself to a corner lol. Im still fairly new to this so learning as I go, thanks though :)
@4toetroll7 ай бұрын
@@adamsreactionzone Still enjoyed the video did you do the new cinematic?
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
I did quite a few wow stuff, up until the point of not really having any cinematics left to watch haha. They're all on my channel in a WoW playlist :)
@RavenTheBlackheart7 ай бұрын
If they would have just handed the warcraft movie to the CGI department I dont think it would have flopped too much O.o
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
I went to see it at the cinema, not knowing anything about WoW, I thought it was ok. I re-watched it again recently after learning a bit about WoW, I did appreciate it a little more, knowing some of the characters and lore, but for the time it came out I genuinely didn't think it looked too shabby.. Definitely would look 100% better if they used their CGI team that did the cinematics though, I agree.
@RavenTheBlackheart7 ай бұрын
@@adamsreactionzone CGI quality aside, dont think live action was the best choice .
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
Yeah, I know it had the wow community massively divided over it with some loving it and some hating it. Maybe we'll get something new in the future!
@Quanahtorri77 ай бұрын
Best cinematics for me, apart from WoW, are definitely the Diablo 4 trailer and Witcher 3 trailers.
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
Definitely not out of the realm of possibility for those to show up on this channel sometime :D
@joeevett90077 ай бұрын
Not evil, just pissed.
@Sandlund937 ай бұрын
Sure, it's a decently made video. But what does it matter if the gameplay sucks? This is the same syndrome that befell SWTOR.
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
Sadly I don't play the game.. However I do play League of Legends, so I completely understand where you're coming from in regards to Cinematics/music all that stuff being god tier for the game to be so sucky.... It's a sad reality that some of these game companies would genuinely be considered animation companies in comparison to their respective games these days. On a side note though, I do play Hearthstone and even in that, I saw a decline in quality!
@1988corvao7 ай бұрын
Game does not suck. People play other games and that is ok. Blizzard is like Disney nowadays, People hatting bcs of changing..
@DarthFr0gg7 ай бұрын
Wow is in the best state it’s been in for a long time at the moment and the gameplay certainly doesn’t suck. For an MMORPG it’s king and will always be. Raiding is great, mythics are awesome, pvp is pvp. Blizzard has done a great job making the game more digestible in a briefer format, because their player base isn’t sitting in their basements at their parents house anymore. They have kids and jobs and lives. It took a long time, but WoW is in a good spot right now.
@Pillen897 ай бұрын
@@DarthFr0gghaters will hate forever 😅
@ZakhadWOW7 ай бұрын
that rocking Guitar riff at the end dials this up to ELEVEN a scale of Ten - regardless of the rest of it.
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
I'm a proper sucker for any sort of epic music. I remember a few year back I went through a phase of just non stop Epic Orchestral music playlists for hours on end xD
@ZakhadWOW7 ай бұрын
@@adamsreactionzoneI got this ridiculous image of the lead guitarist from the Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain band (in-game story) standing just out of shot from Thrall and Anduin - and as they pan out to the sword and Thrall decalres his bit, the guitarist just rips off that massive riff. He couldnt help himself LOLOL
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
Just imagine him jumping out into the middle of the scene into a knee slide just stealing the show hahaha
@Lewis19957 ай бұрын
Get a haircut
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
You first <3
@Lewis19957 ай бұрын
@@adamsreactionzone mines falling out
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
@@Lewis1995 All of ours are tbf, rip hair
@elizabethseeburger83827 ай бұрын
Loved seeing your reaction. I've seen this cinematic so many times, and I get emotional and chills each time. I made sure to hit that subscribe button for ya too, haha.
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
Thank you!! I'm with you on that one I couldn't stop replaying it at one point just because I kept seeing different little things that just made me say wow out loud! Thanks for subscribing:)
@cheaman24547 ай бұрын
Arthas...
@fylith63787 ай бұрын
Has anyone else noticed the sword reflected in Anduin's eye at the beginning?
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
THIS!!! This is exactly what I mean, I've watched this cinematic quite a few times now.... not once did I notice that detail! It's SO good!
@ZakhadWOW7 ай бұрын
You are seeing things. I've blown this up as much as po9ssible in 40 inch screen and I dont see it
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
@@ZakhadWOW Now you've get me questioning myself cause maybe I'm also seeing things then cause I swear I can see something in the eyes reflection lol
@bryonduncan17897 ай бұрын
Who ported Thrall and did het tip?
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
That's a good point.. I wonder if someone knows haha
@ZakhadWOW7 ай бұрын
@@adamsreactionzone Jaina clearly, she is Anduin's adopted AUnt after all - but as others have commented, she had her own terrible PTSD and such over Theramore among other things. Thrall was clearly the best person for the job, considering he himself got his soul splintered in 4 in Cataclysm, but also filled in as Earthwarder when empowering and using the Dragon Soul to blast down Deathwing. Like Magni, he has a deep tie to Azeroth herself.
@nicholaswilkerson43947 ай бұрын
Man. Anduin has seen so much... top tier voice acting. So much raw emotion.
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
Yeah he definitely has that look in his eyes.. Man's been through so much yet there's a spark inside them pushing him forward still
@jamesnelson57418 ай бұрын
When the World Soul of Azeroth is asking for help, you know the shit is getting real
@adamsreactionzone7 ай бұрын
It's epic for me and I'm a lore noob, I can't imagine how cool this is for veteran's and lore experts :O
@dandrummond91548 ай бұрын
It is a peerlessly crafted cgi of two old men talking in a field. They could have done something like adding two second flashbacks of the horrible things Anduin did while possessed. We got Anduin being blue with a hand on his shoulder for two seconds instead. In Heart of the Swarm, we got siege tanks, goliaths, battlecruisers, and a full scale invasion of Korhal. In this we got...a log. What a waste. Then Thrall says "time alone heals nothing" which is incredibly bizarre. Its so bizarre that the exact opposite sentiment, "Time heals all wounds", is not only common wisdom, it is painfully cliche.
@adamsreactionzone8 ай бұрын
Yeah I can see from the point of view of big WoW fans that nothing really happened in this cinematic, but hey. it could just be a small snippet of bigger things to come, right?
@xoAyaanaox8 ай бұрын
two old men ? what are u even talking about. Anduin is around 28, maybe 30 here storywise. Ofcourse years have past but he is not old.
@adamsreactionzone8 ай бұрын
@@xoAyaanaox I do agree that Anduin looks fiiiine, hardly old haha.
@masterchief47078 ай бұрын
anduin aged well from the small boy too a realy good looking man
@adamsreactionzone8 ай бұрын
Someone else mentioned how he resembles Stephen Amell now I can't unsee it.. Stephen Amell is also a good looking dude, so it makes sense haha.
@marklouisspark8 ай бұрын
Making a human realistic these days is one thing, but thrall in comparison isn't holding up. Take for example Anduin's lips. They look dry, cracked in some places, and some dirt/blood. Thralls massive lower lip which is much more exposed to the air doesn't have these details. The lip itself looks like it's even got low resolution UV mapping. The armor as well looks way too cartoon. WOW is stylized for sure, but the metal materials on both Anduin and Thrall still hold this pce back. It's why sometimes it's risky to have one person in the shot look soo realistic, you have to make everything around them to that quality or it will show. Regardless, always enjoy these.
@adamsreactionzone8 ай бұрын
Yeah I agree Anduin looks better than Thrall in general. I guess humans can make humans easier than anything else which kinda makes sense. But yeah regardless for sure it looks amazing and we all want more 👀
@AlissonSantos-rl9hw8 ай бұрын
Maybe its just because Thrall teleported from another location to where Anduin's is, so he is not exposed to the same dry condition of Anduin's.
@adamsreactionzone8 ай бұрын
That's a good point, nice catch! I'm just going to assume that's the case so I can believe this cinematic is truly a masterpiece without anything wrong with it haha.@@AlissonSantos-rl9hw
@chris-bk9yg8 ай бұрын
It's amazing man pay them people like you say haha
@adamsreactionzone8 ай бұрын
I know right, I wish I was rich just to give these people all my money to make more 😂
@xalenthas8 ай бұрын
They ever so a Live version of this they have to get Stephen Amell to play Anduin!
@adamsreactionzone8 ай бұрын
Now that you mention it YES! He does look very alike and we all know Stephen can act so it would be great.
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I am so very late to this, but I feel like it's necessary to point out that the narrator of this series is Jim Cummings, aka Winnie the Pooh.
Aw! Didn't expect the shout-out, it was very unexpected and made my day better! Before I ruin YOUR day with another oversharing lore-dump, let me say: thanks for your reactions! If you couldn't tell, I love this game, and I rarely miss an opportunity for cringe-inducing proselytizing. The community is very warm and welcoming, and I've been part of it for over ten years. Now...on to the bullshit! Stormblood is a tale of liberation! Many years ago, the Evil Empire™ of Garlemald subdued the martial nation of Ala Mhigo after a prolonged campaign of subterfuge that saw them engineering a civil war. The Mad King Theodoric was convinced to attack the Fists of Rhalgr, a nationalist faction of monks that train their bodies into living weapons. They serve the god Rhalgr, the Destroyer, whose lightning cleanses the way for creation. It's even said that, ages ago, Rhalgr guided the diaspora of what who become the Ala Mhigans to their new homeland with a star in the sky, similar to the biblical three wise men. Once both sides were exhausted from the fighting, the XIVth Imperial legion, led by Gaius van Baelsar (the Horny Darth Vader Man from the ARR trailer) swept in to massacre the beleaguered defenders. In the times since, however, he was replaced as regent lord of Ala Mhigo by Zenos yae Galvus, prince of Garlemald and next in line for the Imperial throne. Stormblood sees your character (Meteor Survivor, nice job on remembering the name!) uniting disparate nations against the Empire to liberate two lands that are a world apart. The Japanese-style area is a city called Kugane, the only port town in the Hingashi archipelago that is open to foreign merchants. If you're a history buff, think of it as like Japan when the Dutch started showing up. Their sister nation across the Ruby Sea, a short boat ride away, is called Doma. Doma is a kingdom of noble samurai and dedicated warriors that has languished under its native viceroy, the wicked and cunning Imperial Yotsuyu goe Brutus. While Zenos technically also rules Doma, Yotsuyu acts in his stead, and the nation is ground into indignity and poverty under her (sometimes literal) heel. The protagonists engage in a two-pronged attack. Their mission: liberate the comparatively-less protected Doma and restore its prince, Hien, to the throne, which will divide Imperial attention between Doma and Ala Mhigo, hopefully allowing them to unseat Zenos and set both nations free from Imperial rule. The greatest danger, however, is the Imperial prince himself: he is one of the greatest living warriors in the world, a genius with any kind of weapon he lays his hands on (with a penchant for the Doman katana) and is also possessed of an extreme tactical acumen which makes him a terrifying force on the battlefield. He leads from the front line, but his superhuman skill with a blade and his thirst for challenge in war has led him to a place of extreme apathy and anhedonia. (Low key, he's also my favorite villain, and his voice actor KILLS IT.) Once again, we'll get into the characters! Meteor Survivor actually plays double-duty in this one: he is both the male Monk fighting atop the statue's hand, and the Samurai that slices the bullets apart. It's hard to tell the Monk is him, since he has an EXTREMELY different haircut in each scene. The woman in red playfully sparring with Meteor: She's...well. It's complicated and spoiler-y. And finally, the pair on the roof: the larger of the two is Gosetsu "Everfall" Daito, the greatest samurai in Doma, who seeks to atone for his failure in protecting the Doman prince's father, Kaien, from death by making sure the rightful ruler sits the throne. He's also extremely loud, gutsy and brash, as quick to laugh as he is quick with a blade. The shorter of the pair is a woman named Yugiri Mistwalker, a shinobi and personal retainer to prince Hien, who came to Eorzea seeking a home for Doman refugees after it was conquered by the Empire. WHEW! Lots of stuff to get to on this one! Thanks again for your work in producing reactions, and I'm looking forward to the next video, whether it's FFXIV or not!
Yeah no worries man. You put the effort in it's a well deserved shoutout! I knew it was Meteor lol wasn't 100% sure though. Now I know he plays multiple characters that might confuse me even more lmao. I'm surprised they haven't adopted some sort of animated series for this as clearly there's a lot of source material to lean on and they're obviously good at story telling.. not to mention the quality of their animation and soundtracks.. Thanks again for the info, always welcomed!
thanks Adam, some cool shots in this one, great stuff
I know my Camera quality was a bit rough in this one but I didn't even realise until I'd watched the video on YT when I checked it uploaded okay. I think it was due to the lighting in my room. I'll have it fixed for next time!
I hated it when I saw it first. Talk about ugly cry. I'm Alliance. Sourfang was honorable. I hated seeing him die 😭
Had to watch it again just to remember the scene it's been a while... Yeah, it's awful, poor guy man. Definitely deserved better then that :o
Finally managed to watch this and subscribe! Loved your Heavensward video, so I'm watching in reverse order XD. As I did last time, I'll give as spoiler-lite an explanation as I can of who the players are and what's happening. The setting: Eorzea, a continent that has been subjected to successive "Astral Eras" where great progress is made, and "Umbral Eras", where that progress is snatched away by some truly catastrophic disaster. What you see is the Elder Dragon Bahamut, freed from his millennia-long prison sealed inside an artificial red moon called Dalamud, whereupon he immediately kicks off the Seventh Umbral Era by causing massive damage all across the continent. Even regional climates are forever changed by the powers he unleashes here. The Elezen (fancy word for 'elf', really) sorcerer that protects the heroes is Louisoix Leveilleur, one of the greatest mages of his era, and a prodigy of Sharlayan, a nation of scholars. Instead of teleporting our heroes to safety, he actually shunts them forward five years in time to a point where the worst of the Umbral Calamity's effects have been mitigated. Most of this video actually played at the end of FF14 1.0--a notoriously poorly-received game--and returning five years later, you really do find a 'Realm Reborn'. As for the players: I already mentioned Louisoix, and the Meteor Survivor (guy with the big axe) and his team don't have canon names, since they're meant to be a player party. As for everyone else... The three people atop the cliff watching the battle: these are the leaders of Eorzea's city-states. The man with the horned helmet is Raubahn Aldynn, who you might remember from getting his arm lopped off in the HW trailer. Not the ruler of his city-state, called Ul'dah, but rather the master of its armies and personal bodyguard and friend of the ruling Sultana. Ul'dah is a desert trading mecca, the 'Jewel of Eorzea'. The pale woman in the black coat is Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn, the admiral of the thalassocratic nation of Limsa Lominsa, home to sailors and with a fierce legacy of pirating. The woman in white with the staff is the Elder Seedseer Kan-e-Senna, ruler of Gridania. They live in harmony with nature and commune with the spirits of an enormous, magical forest called the Twelveswood. The dude in the Horny Darth Vader™ mask on the airship is Gaius van Baelsar, the Black Wolf. He is a soldier for the evil Garlean Empire, and regent of the occupied nation of Ala Mhigo. You can think of him as one of the primary villains of A Realm Reborn. The white-haired dude on the cliff: Cid Garlond, who you also saw in the HW trailer. Awesome engineer, tinkerer and all-around Skinny Kenny Rogers Impersonator. The folks praying at the shrines: Gonna skim through these, as getting to know them in-game is the fun part. Consider them the 'adventuring party' your character amasses while playing any other JRPG. If you play the game, fair warning: they WILL make you cry multiple times. The catgirl is Y'shtola Rhuul. She gives people sass. She's VERY good at it. The gray-haired man is Thancred Waters. He's sex personified. He's VERY good at it. The masked woman is Yda Hext. She punches stuff. She's VERY good at it. The little guy with the staff: Papalymo Totolymo. He blows stuff up. He's VERY good at it. Sorry for leaving a second Great American Novel in the comments section. Hope to see you in-game someday, and belated congrats on 100 subs! Add mine to the pile!~♪
Dude.. Seriously... the amount of stuff you know about this game is unreal lol. Again.. Thanks for the info, I definitely won't be able to remember all of it, but I will most certainly come back to this for references and refreshers lol. Thanks man!
thanks Adam, like you said, very short but looked cool, great stuff
They need to just buckle down and make a damn movie like this. They could do each expansion as a movie and make bank if they looked like this. I know I would buy all of them!!!
Yeah fr... I even think the Warcraft movie for it's time looked good so they're definitely capable of doing a good job!
Dude with the big axe that dons the blue armor at the end: The stand-in for your player character. He has many names, but much of the fandom calls him Meteor Survivor, on account of him surviving the 'meteor' from the trailer of A Realm Reborn. Little lady that drank poison: Nanamo Ul Namo, Sultana (monarch) of the city-state of Ul'dah. Guy that got his arm cut off and stuck in prison: Raubahn Aldynn, the Sultana's bodyguard and closest confidant. When he found out the Sultana had been poisoned, he snapped and bisected the guy who had committed the deed. It was Lolorito's bodyguard--an old friend of Raubahn;s--that took his arm. Smirking little prick in the mask: Lord Lolorito Nanarito, who sits on the Syndicate, the more powerful corporate entities that keep the Sultana's power in check. Raubahn also bought a seat in the Syndicate. The silhouette standing on the tower after the dragon is driven off: Likely Estinian Varlineau, the Azure Dragoon, and EVERYONE'S favorite character. Dragoons are knights trained in air-to-air combat, utilizing powerful jumps and lances to reach and slay their hated foes, the dragons. The Azure Dragoon is the de facto leader of the Dragoons. The guy flying the airship: Cid Garlond, founder and engineer for Garlond Ironworks. He's a defector from the enemy empire of Garlemald, fleeing when he became sick of his inventions leading to death and suffering rather than a brighter future. I think that's all the important ones in this trailer! Stormblood is up next, and I hope you enjoy it!
Damn, that was a lot to digest haha. But I really do apprectiate the detail and time you put into this. It's a lot of names to try and remember lmao. I'll most likely use this comment as a reference point if I want to know who someone is from now on! Yes Stormblood is next, no doubt I'll enjoy it they've been great watches so far:)
imo watch the trailers, when you reach them in the game (without context, they hit less hard)
I'm not sure I'll ever play the game, but there's always a chance, If I do I'll re-watch the cinematics for sure just so it's fresh in my memory
The cinematic is Kindred hunting through time. The whole thing is basically a Kindred cinematic. The Past when they come to try to take Aatrox but obviously can't because his soul is in the sword and not the body Kayle and Morg killed. This is before Morg bound her wings and had the full falling out with Kayle. It's a VERY old Demacia before the surrounding forest was turned into Petricite. You can see Lamb's outline in Kayle's flames as it transitions to Yasuo's scene Then in Yasuo's scene, it's the Future with an old Yas. The rain of arrows coming to kill him (great callback to The Climb btw), the first arrow is Lamb's. But also, you can see Wolf's outline and eyes in the darkness ahead of him. And in the Present, we have Tryndamere. He's on the verge of dying at the hands of the presumed enemy clan attacking him. The fight with Kindred is only happening spiritually/in his head. You can see that the snow has stopped actually falling and is hovering still in mid-air. Obviously my mans too angry to die XD. And Lamb lowers her bow in the end, because Ashe shows up to save him, so Lamb knows that it isn't yet Tryn's time to die. And the realization hits that he was actually fighting and taking out the guys who took him down at the beginning. At the start there was 1 or 2 bodies on the ground, but once Ashe shows up and Tryn "wakes up" from his berserker rage, he's surrounded by more bodies than the original 2 and also more than the 2 Ashe took out when she showed up. He wasn't physically fighting Lamb and Wolf, he was fighting the people. I watched Necrit's reaction and almost choked laughing when he was like "I have so much to break down in this! NOOOOOOOO!" XD
Amazing breakdown. tysm, I also was patiently refreshing KZread waiting for Necrit to watch it cause I KNEW his mind would also be blown by the old Yasuo hahaha
The cinematic is about the Past, Future and Present The Past, is of Kayle and Morgana, before they decided to go their separate ways of dealing with justice. It also explains how Aatrox already knows them despite not knowing Demacia itself, simply cuz at the time this happened Demacia wasn't Demacia yet The Future is of Yasuo, finghting one last time before accepting the arrow of the Lamb The Present is of Tryndamere, and his non acceptance of death, both by the Wolf and the Lamb, due to his partial "anger fueled blood magic"
this cinematic was so gooooood it's oozing with so much lore, my nerd brain is HAPPY
I could barely contain my excitement when watching it lmao. It's so epic, loved every second of it :p
Kayle, Morgana and Attrox is Past Event also If you look at kayle when morg ult you can see the ick and disgust on her face, Yasuo is in Future Event where he accept death which you can see the arrow and the sillohoutte of wolf, the Tryndamere is in Present Event where Ashe save him from death which is Kindred.
Yeah you can tell Kayle is displeased with Morgana using her dark magic (Not sure of it's actual name) I hope that's not the end for Yasuo though!
@@adamsreactionzone yeah, i think kayle's follower influenced kayle to hate magic.
not yasuo, he's sensei of yasuo **edit... Yes. He's old yasuo 🤣🤣
Is that confirmed? Is it just a coincidence they both have the scar on their nose? Interesting.
@@adamsreactionzone No its Yasuo. His sensei didnt have the scar and had a bit diffrent hair style. Its also confirmed by the caption of the cinematic talking about the past future and present. We saw kayle and morgana in the past, Trynd in present and lastly the future so it has to be Yasuo.
@@K_Petar My thoughts exactly. Just don't want to shut down peoples opinions without first knowing the facts :D
@@K_Petar I agree that it's Yasuo because of the scar, but did we ever see a picture of his master to confirm the hair style is different?
that was damn cool, thanks Adam
Was patiently waiting for it, was not disappointed haha
#TheBoredBoarPlays: @Necrit lore The whole theme is "StillHere", referencing Kindred who is DeathIncarnate. Whether it's the Past (Morgana &Kayle), Present (Tryndamere), and Future (OldMan Yasuo). Death is "Still Here" no matter whattime it is. You can see Kindred in the Fires of thePast destroying Aatrox, Facing Tryndamere, andShooting a Fatal Arrow at Old Man Yasuo in thehead.@@adamsreactionzone
@@adriankuban3134 Yeah after re-watching it a few... maybe 10 times I noticed a lot more details. So cool.
@@adamsreactionzone The Awaken, The Call, Still Here Cinematic are canon to Arcane Universe. Just like Riot Forge Games: Song of Nunu;.... Riot Games Lore Universes 1# Arcane_Legends of Runeterra_Riot Forge_League of legends Universe Site_Full Canon Skins. 2# Non Canon lore Skins like: Project, Star Guardians,.. 3# Valorant
They say that it is the past the future and the present
You know as I was editing I kind of clocked that, Kayle & Morgana being the past, Yasuo the future, Tryndamere/Ashe and Kindred being the present.. It's SO cool. There's no doubt imma watch this like 50 times lol
@@adamsreactionzone there is also discussions about if thats yasuos master and not yasuo himself
@@90bubbel60 I believe it's Yasuo due to the Scar on his face that he got from Yone
@@90bubbel60his elder died helping Riven with her blade dilema
@@adamsreactionzone fair point
bruv why you cut the hair
It had to go man, was waking me up through the night getting in my mouth and stuff, wasn't worth it hahaha
Sheeeesh
It's SOOO good though :D
No name for that character 🙂 that one represents the player's character so, whatever name you give him/her is fine You can also say it's the Warrior of light😃
Someone mentioned that there's a kind of community given name of 'Meteor' :o
@@adamsreactionzone yep, some players call him that😃 Yoshi P calls him the "Derplander"😁 but our warrior of light is older now and more handsome in the newest trailers so we gotta find the man a new name 😃
@@sophiastorm8616 He is devilishly handsome I stated that while watching it hahaha. I'm sure the fanbase already have some names cooking xD
nice to have you back, epic score and visuals, can't help with any info though, thanks Adam have a great 2024!
All the best for 2024!
So the main character here is the representation of the player character, and you will see him in all the trailers. He really doesn't have a name but some call him meteor ive heard
Meteor huh, I like it. Usually if a community gives a character a name that's usually nameless it'll stick, so I think Meteor is probably his name now lol
@@adamsreactionzoneAnother Alias is "Derplander"
@@christianhagel6835 So far he's called 'meteor' Derplander' and 'Warrior of Light' haha. Many names I see :p
"Meteor" is the dev name for the main character stand-in. For the longest time the most popular fan nickname was "Derplander" (the model's race is a "Highlander")
Additionally he will typically take on the iconic job for the expansion the trailer is for. In A Realm Reborn, he was a Warrior and starts this video as one. At the end of the trailer he switches to Dragoon. In the Stormblood trailer he will be both a monk and a samurai. For Shadowbringers, he starts as an Archer (1.0 trailer) and progresses through the classes he has already been until he ends the trailer as a Dark Knight. For Endwalker, he is a Paladin.
warhammer darktide Class trailers please! they have 4
I'll put them on the list and check them out sometime!
Also if you're not too worried about spoiling the story in the game. The "surely it's not that easy" when he was trying to contain the dragon. That spell was calling upon the power of "the twelve", the deities that they worship. The locations the spikes/spears arise from, I believe, are the sights of the 12 shires around the continent. It takes a ton of power, and iirc sacrifices the caster's life if successful.
I probably won't play the game tbh. So feel free to spoil anything game related :D That's pretty cool/gnarly at the same time, we all love a good sacrifice story always makes it sad when it doesn't quite work as intended though D:
YOU ARE doing great ❤❤❤
Thank you! Trying my boomer best! lol <3
Great reaction. If you're not worried about spoiling the story for yourself, here's the full run down: Final Fantasy 1.0 trailer (go back and watch this, it's worth it and is referenced again later) Final Fantasy A Realm Reborn is actually two videos in one. The first half up to the old man's sacrifice was the video that played when the servers were shut down at the end of 1.0 and the part from "Square Enix" onward is the actual "Realm Reborn" launch trailer, but they were made into one video for the full trailer. Final Fantasy A Realm Reborn: The Flames of Truth was a video that played during the final raid of A Realm Reborn and reveals the full truth of what happened after the heroes were teleported away. Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward is the next trailer and contains spoilers for the end of A Realm Reborn's story Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers (this one is why it's worth having watched the previous all the way to 1.0 as there are nice call backs) Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker (I can't describe how impactful this expansion's story was and how meaningful it is at its fundamental level) Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail (we will see the full trailer in January. We have the first two iterations released so far. Each fan festival this year/Jan 2024 reveals a little more each time) Obviously some things will make more sense if you've played the game as there are characters and story elements that hit harder in the trailers (along with utter confusion as they didn't make sense at time of trailer release). If you've any inclination to play an MMO, or a Final Fantasy game, though, I highly recommend playing XIV. A Realm Reborn through Stormblood are all free to play and the entire story from A Realm Reborn to Endwalker (the full arc of the "Hydaelyn/Zodiark Saga") can be played about 90% as a single player RPG experience. People will tell you A Realm Reborn is slow, but it's like the first book of a series. It has a lot of work to do world building, establishing lore, introducing characters and concepts that make the world function, various factions. And it's very VERY much like a book series. Nothing is wasted content, nothing is wasted story. You'll do a quest at level 30 thinking it's just a filler sidetrack and it comes back in a HUGE way at the end of the following expansion at level 60. Side content all have stories around them and you can never be certain what will be coming back up as a crucial element to the story later on. Everything is treated as a part of your story.
I appreciate that long comment but I do kinda wanna learn it myself as I go through the cinematics and such, but I promise you once I'm done I will read this comment fully:)
@@adamsreactionzone OH, the comment doesn't spoil it as much as the trailers will. I meant if you don't mind spoiling it a bit by watching trailers in order rather than playing the game for the complete story. My comment was giving the full order of all trailers vids.
Oh right. I see now haha. That's insanely informative buddy tysm! I'll definitely use this going forward 🤣
This cinematic at least up to the point where the old man (Louisoix) teleports the 5 away(the stand ins for the player characters of Final Fantasy 14) was actually created as a literal world ending event. 1.0 was a horrible release and a generally poor game overall, and so they decided to pull the plug on it quite literally to rebuild it. When the time came to shut the servers down to do this, this was the cinematic that played for all the players. The 'egg' is the Red Moon of Dalamud, which was created a log time ago to entrap an elder primal, a god like being, which the Empire brought down and released. This ushers in the 8th Umbral Calamity which does kill many people, leaves the world scarred and forever changed. The part where everyone comes back in is meant to represent the players returning to a reborn game, hence the title, "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn." Version 2.0 is now the base level of the game, where every new character starts. If you have a 1.0 character, you can restart them with a special in-game nod to them teleporting in like in the cinematic, rather than just the normal intro scenes. Someone below pointed out another scene 'Flames of Truth' which you can get at the end of the 2.x raid series 'Coils of Bahamut.' It shows what happens immediately after Louisoix teleports the players away, and how Bahamut was stopped from rampaging.
That was a Nathrezim. An agent of subterfuge, that manipulates people and events to further their master plan. Also about the subtitles, those errors are par for the course for machine learning translation software.
Watch flames of truth. It starts the same but the ending is different, kinda like showing two perspectives
Ooo sounds interesting, I'll definitely check it out! Thanks man:)
thanks Adam even though I had to watch it in 360p because of my terrible Internet speeds it was good, great stuff
Nothing worse than bad internet. Hopefully it gets better soon!
good video adam - very good reaction. 10/10
Cheers mate <3
One thing about Blizzard is, they ALWAYS been amazing at those cinematics. Back in 2004 when the classic Cinematic came out,, they where far ahead than most game studios at that time. They always been the pioneers when it comes to game cinematics. Imagine how everything looks like in 5-10 years! With this cinematic they skipped the uncanny valley feeling when seeing a CGI human. The trailers before where they had humans in, you could easy see that its CGI, they had always a bit of that comic style in the CGI model. But now they went with Anduin into the 'real' road and it's very hard to get not an uncanny valley feeling when looking at 'try hard to look real' humans without feel that something is wrong. With this trailer I don't have this feeling at all. I even feel more sympathy than ever with Anduin. Sure you miss a lot of context and story by just watching these cinematics. There is so much more, also with ingame cinematics. But you have some nice reactions and doing well!
Yeah I remember when I watched the old cinematics and I was even saying then for their time they were definitely still amazing, hold up ok even against modern average trailer cinematics! Yeah I'm a sucker for cinematics so I'll always like them, I can imagine if I know the lore a lot more I would enjoy them even more but even still I got so excited when I found out there was a new WoW cinematic, I'm basically a fan without the lore knowledge haha. Thanks for the compliments really means a lot!
next video move yourself to lower corner to not block video
Yeah I learned to move myself to a corner lol. Im still fairly new to this so learning as I go, thanks though :)
@@adamsreactionzone Still enjoyed the video did you do the new cinematic?
I did quite a few wow stuff, up until the point of not really having any cinematics left to watch haha. They're all on my channel in a WoW playlist :)
If they would have just handed the warcraft movie to the CGI department I dont think it would have flopped too much O.o
I went to see it at the cinema, not knowing anything about WoW, I thought it was ok. I re-watched it again recently after learning a bit about WoW, I did appreciate it a little more, knowing some of the characters and lore, but for the time it came out I genuinely didn't think it looked too shabby.. Definitely would look 100% better if they used their CGI team that did the cinematics though, I agree.
@@adamsreactionzone CGI quality aside, dont think live action was the best choice .
Yeah, I know it had the wow community massively divided over it with some loving it and some hating it. Maybe we'll get something new in the future!
Best cinematics for me, apart from WoW, are definitely the Diablo 4 trailer and Witcher 3 trailers.
Definitely not out of the realm of possibility for those to show up on this channel sometime :D
Not evil, just pissed.
Sure, it's a decently made video. But what does it matter if the gameplay sucks? This is the same syndrome that befell SWTOR.
Sadly I don't play the game.. However I do play League of Legends, so I completely understand where you're coming from in regards to Cinematics/music all that stuff being god tier for the game to be so sucky.... It's a sad reality that some of these game companies would genuinely be considered animation companies in comparison to their respective games these days. On a side note though, I do play Hearthstone and even in that, I saw a decline in quality!
Game does not suck. People play other games and that is ok. Blizzard is like Disney nowadays, People hatting bcs of changing..
Wow is in the best state it’s been in for a long time at the moment and the gameplay certainly doesn’t suck. For an MMORPG it’s king and will always be. Raiding is great, mythics are awesome, pvp is pvp. Blizzard has done a great job making the game more digestible in a briefer format, because their player base isn’t sitting in their basements at their parents house anymore. They have kids and jobs and lives. It took a long time, but WoW is in a good spot right now.
@@DarthFr0gghaters will hate forever 😅
that rocking Guitar riff at the end dials this up to ELEVEN a scale of Ten - regardless of the rest of it.
I'm a proper sucker for any sort of epic music. I remember a few year back I went through a phase of just non stop Epic Orchestral music playlists for hours on end xD
@@adamsreactionzoneI got this ridiculous image of the lead guitarist from the Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain band (in-game story) standing just out of shot from Thrall and Anduin - and as they pan out to the sword and Thrall decalres his bit, the guitarist just rips off that massive riff. He couldnt help himself LOLOL
Just imagine him jumping out into the middle of the scene into a knee slide just stealing the show hahaha
Get a haircut
You first <3
@@adamsreactionzone mines falling out
@@Lewis1995 All of ours are tbf, rip hair
Loved seeing your reaction. I've seen this cinematic so many times, and I get emotional and chills each time. I made sure to hit that subscribe button for ya too, haha.
Thank you!! I'm with you on that one I couldn't stop replaying it at one point just because I kept seeing different little things that just made me say wow out loud! Thanks for subscribing:)
Arthas...
Has anyone else noticed the sword reflected in Anduin's eye at the beginning?
THIS!!! This is exactly what I mean, I've watched this cinematic quite a few times now.... not once did I notice that detail! It's SO good!
You are seeing things. I've blown this up as much as po9ssible in 40 inch screen and I dont see it
@@ZakhadWOW Now you've get me questioning myself cause maybe I'm also seeing things then cause I swear I can see something in the eyes reflection lol
Who ported Thrall and did het tip?
That's a good point.. I wonder if someone knows haha
@@adamsreactionzone Jaina clearly, she is Anduin's adopted AUnt after all - but as others have commented, she had her own terrible PTSD and such over Theramore among other things. Thrall was clearly the best person for the job, considering he himself got his soul splintered in 4 in Cataclysm, but also filled in as Earthwarder when empowering and using the Dragon Soul to blast down Deathwing. Like Magni, he has a deep tie to Azeroth herself.
Man. Anduin has seen so much... top tier voice acting. So much raw emotion.
Yeah he definitely has that look in his eyes.. Man's been through so much yet there's a spark inside them pushing him forward still
When the World Soul of Azeroth is asking for help, you know the shit is getting real
It's epic for me and I'm a lore noob, I can't imagine how cool this is for veteran's and lore experts :O
It is a peerlessly crafted cgi of two old men talking in a field. They could have done something like adding two second flashbacks of the horrible things Anduin did while possessed. We got Anduin being blue with a hand on his shoulder for two seconds instead. In Heart of the Swarm, we got siege tanks, goliaths, battlecruisers, and a full scale invasion of Korhal. In this we got...a log. What a waste. Then Thrall says "time alone heals nothing" which is incredibly bizarre. Its so bizarre that the exact opposite sentiment, "Time heals all wounds", is not only common wisdom, it is painfully cliche.
Yeah I can see from the point of view of big WoW fans that nothing really happened in this cinematic, but hey. it could just be a small snippet of bigger things to come, right?
two old men ? what are u even talking about. Anduin is around 28, maybe 30 here storywise. Ofcourse years have past but he is not old.
@@xoAyaanaox I do agree that Anduin looks fiiiine, hardly old haha.
anduin aged well from the small boy too a realy good looking man
Someone else mentioned how he resembles Stephen Amell now I can't unsee it.. Stephen Amell is also a good looking dude, so it makes sense haha.
Making a human realistic these days is one thing, but thrall in comparison isn't holding up. Take for example Anduin's lips. They look dry, cracked in some places, and some dirt/blood. Thralls massive lower lip which is much more exposed to the air doesn't have these details. The lip itself looks like it's even got low resolution UV mapping. The armor as well looks way too cartoon. WOW is stylized for sure, but the metal materials on both Anduin and Thrall still hold this pce back. It's why sometimes it's risky to have one person in the shot look soo realistic, you have to make everything around them to that quality or it will show. Regardless, always enjoy these.
Yeah I agree Anduin looks better than Thrall in general. I guess humans can make humans easier than anything else which kinda makes sense. But yeah regardless for sure it looks amazing and we all want more 👀
Maybe its just because Thrall teleported from another location to where Anduin's is, so he is not exposed to the same dry condition of Anduin's.
That's a good point, nice catch! I'm just going to assume that's the case so I can believe this cinematic is truly a masterpiece without anything wrong with it haha.@@AlissonSantos-rl9hw
It's amazing man pay them people like you say haha
I know right, I wish I was rich just to give these people all my money to make more 😂
They ever so a Live version of this they have to get Stephen Amell to play Anduin!
Now that you mention it YES! He does look very alike and we all know Stephen can act so it would be great.