BlizzCon 2023 REACTION Opening Ceremony FULL

[@TheMrFilipin]

1:20:00 No this cinematic was made by guy Hurricane. He made some cinematics for Lich King classic.

[@The_TylrG]

The Cataclysm trailer was made by a youtuber. He was so good at making these, Blizzard hired him to make their official Classic trailers.

[@Marco_Fornazari]

I'm very happy with Chris Metzen's return, the guy is almost the creator of WoW. With it, WoW can become great again if the game is 19 years old and is still going strong with its more than 1 million active players. It's great to see this guy giving his voice to Thrall and I feel like the sun can shine brightly for WoW with him back on the game's team.

[@kenzieduckmoo]

As a little aside, Chris Metzen is essentially Warcraft's Yoshi P. He's been responsible for most of WoW's development until a few years ago, when he retired. It was huge news a few months back when he came back to Blizzard to take over creative control of the whole of Warcraft. He's also Thrall. As in literally, the reason Thrall left the game was because Metzen left the company. Also, if you want to know what happened to Anduin, its in the story of Shadowlands. It's a bit much.

[@GalaxyAUS]

Yeah! I’ve heard he’s like the dad of Warcraft. Explains why he’s so good at saying FOR THE HOOOORRRDDDEEE!

[@YoungClarke]

Not just WoW either, he’s been with the series since all the way back to Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. Warcraft IS Metzen for a lot of fans. Plus, the guy just has so much charisma, he sells the whole package like nobody else.

[@TheEternalElir]

Chris Metzen's charisma is off the charts. Makes me want to follow him into battle, sword raised high while screaming at the top of my lungs

[@itztehendd]

He's just such a charismatic peoples person, he could steal my car and convince me to buy it off him lmao

[@GentlemenMonkey]

Happy to see Metzen return and hopeful season of discovery will be the classic+ we've all been wanting.

[@GalaxyAUS]

I'm hearing lots of positive feedback about Metzen's return so I'm gonna make sure I'm up to date when The War Within comes out!

[@mattgraham2835]

they are very good at cut scenes and cinematics and get better and better

[@tarrker]

I love Warcraft Rumble and now I love their executive producer too. ^_^

[@austinsebben1402]

To specify just a little bit, the character Holly mentioned meeting in Legion is only met by priests

[@GalaxyAUS]

Oooh so make a priest when I get up to Legion in my journey?

[@austinsebben1402]

@@GalaxyAUS Without spoiling too much, in Legion, each class has its own storyline, kinda like XIV, but MORE, and "class fantasy" was a very strong element of that expansion's story and systems. Priests are about BOTH the Light and the Shadow, and I've heard their Legion story is great! (The name of the character Holly mentioned is spelled Xal'atath)

[@CarlosHuiskens]

It's highly unlikely that there ever will be a World of Warcraft II. Also the way WoW looks has become part of their art style. It will never been designed in a more cinematic way similar to Diablo IV for example.

[@90Rush]

For the expansion with the best story in maps (WoW does not really have an MSQ that you need to follow in order, but each map has its own story, the chain of events are like some major maps stories that you need to piece together + raids) I'd say maybe ... Cataclysm is good? The raid ending of this expansion is really bad though. MOP has a controversial setting because ... Pandas, but the map story is not bad. The controversial stuff is in the final raid tier, and that chain of event is unfortunately orchestrated by Metzen. WOD also has a controversial setting and decent map story which can feel out of place and make raid story pretty bad. Metzen is gone mid-way, but he made sure that a certain character who is the favorite character of his successor Furor, dies before Furor can do anything. Furor, is as excepted, Furious and this feud kinda destroyed the story of WoW. Furor is a piece of shit garbage (sexual assault/rape), but Metzen is not entirely faultless.

[@90Rush]

I'd say the best overall experience (not counting Dragonflight, which is the current expansion and therefore only becomes available at max-10 levels) ... combined with story and exploration and such, the top three are probably: Legion (mediocre story, but cool artifact and story branches), WOD (story is okay, stronghold is convenient) and Cataclysm with the Indiana Jones vibes.