FFXIV Player Reacts to WoW The War Within Announce Cinematic BlizzCon2023

[@GalaxyAUS]

I have LOTS of WoW story to catch up on - good thing I'm working on that! Are you excited for this new chapter? Let me know! You can follow my WoW journey here: kzbin.info/aero/PLshGWRt2dyXdopmKTrYNYYRAEy5cK8W0l&si=0aYgDKaI5k0VlxIK

[@charlayned]

I worked up a linear quick story list for the main points, following Anduin from the beginning of Legion to now. It's a look at how he's grown and changed and the basics of things. The Shadowlands story is basically a possession of Anduin by the Jailer, who controlled him through the expansion. I’m giving the title, the name of the channel that has it, and the length of each. Where needed, I also give a quick name to the characters involved. These are not totally in order, there is a change in the in-game order for the Battle for Azeroth cinematics because Old Soldier actually comes before the announcement cinematic in chronology. World of Warcraft Legion Cinematic Trailer-World of Warcraft 4:05 (photo of Anduin as a child in the compass of his father. The big gray worgen is the King of Gilneas, Genn Greymane) Death of Varian Wrynn: World of Warcraft Legion-Tom’s Hardware 4:07 (the man at the end is Genn) Patch 7.2 In-Game Cinematic: A Found Memento: Raising a King-World of Warcraft 2:51 (Anduin is seeing the memories of his father’s death) Sargeras Impales Azeroth Sword Cinematic/Illidan’s Sacrifice-Athelarius 3:35 (how the sword happened-the Titans deal with Sargeras) Cinematic: Old Soldier-World of Warcraft 6:21 (set-up for the war and Anduin’s friendship with Varok Sarfang, the troll is Zekhan) World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Cinematic Trailer 4:39 (Sylvanas, Genn, Anduin using his priest powers) Cinematic: “Lost Honor” World of Warcraft 3:18 (Anduin, Genn, and Sarfang) Cinematic: “Reckoning” (spoiler) World of Warcraft 4:12 (Sarfang and Thrall. Thrall is a shaman and the retired Warchief of the Horde) Anduin Finale Cinematic/Shadowlands Patch 9.2 Eternity’s End-LeystTV 3:52 (the end of the raid where Anduin finally breaks the Jailer’s hold on him) Sylvanas Windrunner & Anduin Epilogue Cutscene World of Warcraft Patch 9.25 LeystTV 2:45 (Anduin has to go find himself) Which is then connected to this one, the War Within Announce Cinematic

[@BT-BobbY]

pls not

[@GalaxyAUS]

@@BT-BobbY lol go away then? 😂

[@eodyn7]

It's so great to have Chris Metzen back with WoW.

[@GalaxyAUS]

His excitement was infectious. You can't help but feel hyped!

[@Gikaser]

FACTS

[@tronam]

@@GalaxyAUSHe’s also the voice of Thrall. 😉

[@90Rush]

Yeah, and the Green Jesus is back too. It's unfortunately boring because Thrall and Anduin can do like really nothing wrong.

[@CrystalPrelude]

Anduin here is awesome. And so real. If you've seen people after they've survived a battle, or a tragedy, that's the look they have in their eyes. That's the expression they have. It was once called Shell Shock. Now it's PTSD. That thousand yard stare... It's one of the heart stopping, blood chilling things you'll ever (hopefully) see. The only time it can be more horrible is when you look in the mirror and you see it there.

[@publicguy1664]

Yeah, but he was also staring at the sword, contemplating it's consequences.

[@charlayned]

My little brother's a former Marine who has it. I've seen that look, the whole time they were doing that story in Shadowlands, I kept saying he was going to be having it and sure enough, it was there, in his eyes and reaction. Just broke my heart.

[@mestupkid211986]

Anduin is the Arthas we deserved.

[@Kriddle1229]

Oof, looking at your phone during the most important part during a reaction. ouch.

[@GalaxyAUS]

I was checking that it was Thralllll! 😅

[@CarolinaPride95]

Yeah I was hoping she'd look up in time but ended up just barely missing it 😅

[@GalaxyAUS]

@@CarolinaPride95 I forgot to pause 😭 forgive me, I’d been up at 4:30am to watch 😂

[@CarolinaPride95]

@@GalaxyAUS Hahah, it's all good! Still a good reactor :P

[@GalaxyAUS]

@@CarolinaPride95 thank you 🙏🏼 😭

[@publicguy1664]

Cannonically, The Hoard and Alliance are at peace now, but Anduin has always been friends with several Hoard leaders. I think he holds out his sword to show he's traumatized, and Thrall stepping forward to stabilize his trembling means he's there for Anduin, of course Anduin wasn't going to actually hurt Thrall, they're kinda buddies. Anduin is a priest (even though he wears plate), they use holy or "light" magic, after what he was mind controlled to do in Shadowlands, he doesn't feel worthy of the light, what awesome is Thrall has been a mentor to him, and has gone thru the same thing, with his connection being to the earth and the elements and doubting himself.

[@hobosnake1]

Cool little parallel between thrall and anduin in that sense. I also need to ask, is Thrall back with the elements? Do they answer to him? Is he at all shamanic anymore? I've even leveled through all the xpacs, I just can't recall. A lot of the story happens outside of the game too, as I'm aware, I just haven't consumed all the non-game media.

[@Dirantasy]

Yes he can again. @@hobosnake1

[@MrRednexus]

" that's a big sword and very big sword.." Me: that's what she said too

[@JennFaeAge]

TL;DR: Anduin was corrupted by Sylvanas, and nearly helped the villain win, but his dad's spirit helped brink him back from the edge and he temporarily abdicated so he could go off and...basically find himself. Also...yeah, it's been sort of a running joke that Blizz have been pretending that sword didn't exist. Also also, is it just me or does the CGI in their trailers keep getting better?

[@GalaxyAUS]

THE CGI IS SO GOOD! They showed a Classic Cataclysm trailer just before and the DIFFERENCE! Thank you for explaining the Anduin thing. I have a LOT to catch up on. Maybe I should watch/upload more? haha

[@JennFaeAge]

@@GalaxyAUS I was saying to my Mum (I showed her it cos why tf not lol) and we were both saying there are full-length Hollywood movies who can't make CGI that realistic. I mean, I won't complain about more content, I was going to say I'd love more YT streams but I know those can be a bit of a pain in the butt compared to Twitch

[@GalaxyAUS]

Yeah the CGI is SO GOOOD. Have you seen the Warcraft movie? I'm looking in to streaming here, too! I can multistream now with Twitch so I might do that. I play variety games so it won't all be WoW though!

[@Evilshtt353]

@@GalaxyAUS Well, the Classic Cata trailer is done by a guy on youtube named Hurricane. He's been doing these kinds of cinematics for awhile now and then Blizzard snatched him up so now hes making these kinds of cinematics for them. Hes very good at what he does.

[@GalaxyAUS]

Oh they're definitely still amazing for sure! Only meant to highlight the realism in the War Within trailer 😊

[@RangerJames93]

That was epic. Like you i have no idea what has happened to that point but that Cinematic is pulling me back in to wanting to try WoW again.

[@GalaxyAUS]

RIGHT?! I don't know why I was feeling sad for Anduin or Thrall cause I don't have the "I've played for 20 years" connection.. AND YET! True craftmanship. Let's play WoW together!

[@RangerJames93]

@@GalaxyAUS 100% true craftmanship. We will have to play together at some point for sure!!

[@zerothelightbringer8874]

Short version, he was kind of turned into Arthas, not literally turned into Arthas but he was mind controlled & did some shit. So now he is living with that guilt of what he has done. He has been MIA for like 2-3 in WoW time.

[@TehLucario]

@@GalaxyAUS Cause in these 5 minutes through dialogue and animation you got the key things about what these characters are, what they are going through, and what is important that's about to come. You don't have the details, like Anduin's time under the domination of the Jailer or Thrall's struggles with the elements after killing Garrosh, but you know Anduin's been through some shit, he needed time to figure himself out, but that time is coming to an end as something more important looms on the horizon.

[@unholysaviour9533]

Sword context a god who fell to madness out of fear has been searching for the planet were on (azeroth). In legion due to some events we brought him right to it, however at the last minute after helping his brothers/sisters (named the pantheon) he gets forced away and prisoned with them. In a last ditch effort he stabs the planet with his sword in hopes to kill the being slumbering in azeroth.

[@unholysaviour9533]

There's a lot more too it but that's really just the gist of it

[@rikumatsumoto7176]

As both a ff14 player and former wow player i am excited for both dawntrail and this new wow expansion

[@GalaxyAUS]

YAY! Lover of both games! I'm playing through WoW for the STORY at the moment (I know - it's a hefty project) so I've taken a break since main EW story with FFXIV but keen to jump back in with Dawntrail maybe?

[@rikumatsumoto7176]

@@GalaxyAUS I hope you're enjoying yourself so far!

[@GalaxyAUS]

I am! I just started TBC. Couldn't do lots of Classic because of Cataclysm so I'll have to go play Classic at some point

[@thecasualauthor]

I can’t stop playing either game 😅 so I’m straddling in both worlds

[@TehLucario]

@@GalaxyAUS Story goes all over the place. There's a lot of ups and downs. I do strongly belive that even the worst expansion stories have good to them

[@ShaunRoe]

Great video, as a big WoW nerd, I love seeing non-wow players react to the Cinematics. One small note (no shade, take with a grain of sand): it was a little distracting watching you look at your phone from 2:08-2:30 (and missing a pretty key moment). I know you were looking up if it was Thrall or not, but (and I might be alone here) I find react videos are always a bit better when the person is hyper-focused on the actual content.

[@Dayv018]

"who is calling to us...?" Hydaelyn?

[@GalaxyAUS]

Hear. Feel. Think.

[@WindAlchemistJen]

I play both WoW and FFXIV. The ginormous sword is the Sword of Sargeras that was stabbed into the planet by Sargeras, who is a Titan(larger than the planet) and has been imprisoned since the end of the Legion expansion. The Sword is sort of a dropped storyline(part of Battle for Azeroth dealt with the results of the sword) and became a meme ( "What sword?" ). It looks like we're finally doing something about it...maybe...I can't wait to find out!

[@xxDrain]

Jesus, has Thrall not lived though enough already? :D

[@Rehlik0]

I feel like if you say you're a Blizzard cinematics artist, you could literally get any job you want...

[@GalaxyAUS]

They’re just SO GOOD 🤩

[@AndehX]

damn, you were looking at your phone through most of the video. You should leave stuff like that till afterwards, otherwise what's the point of "reacting" ?

[@wichard1994]

Looks like Warcraft are going to face the Titans.

[@Gupanski]

That's a big sword. What sword?

[@XenosFFBE]

The saga will being me back I think. Depends if my FC in FFXIV goes or not lol.

[@GalaxyAUS]

I am definitely on a mission to catch up and be ready for War Within 😤 very excited!

[@tekagen_irande]

I'm so hyped for this! It's a bit weird how everything was clearly aimed at people who are already very familiar with the story, but I'm happy they did it this way, because instead of a generic hype trailer we got a really meaningful, slow and dramatic character moment. Hopefully the story will give newer players a bit of context once the expansion comes out... 🙂

[@GalaxyAUS]

I have found that they're not really NEW player friendly so much? At least not in terms of understanding the game's story and things haha. Only because I'm trying to play through all the expacs now for story and it is SO TRICKY and learning to play is a little convoluted. They're definitely targeting old school players and people that have maybe taken a break for an expac or two.

[@tekagen_irande]

@@GalaxyAUS Yeah, I get you, I have a couple of friends who just started and I noticed they're really struggling with the lore. It's very confusing. Partly it's because the new player experience could use a more focus and clarity, I'm not a fan of the current leveling system. It has its pros but it fails to establish the world in a coherent way. But I believe to an extent it can't be avoided, because WoW always had a non-linear approach to quests: even in a single expansion, it's mostly a bunch of stories about the world and characters, often times skippable or barely related to each other, rather than a focused linear campaign. It's part of the game's identity, but it takes a long time to really get up to speed and get used to all the bits of lore or the unexplained/abandoned systems. My advice would be to take it slow and enjoy it moment by moment, you'll get there eventually. 😊👍

[@GalaxyAUS]

Yeah it is just in the way the game is designed. BUT there are some lovely gems I've already experienced so far. I've been making short vlog-style videos of my journey so maybe your friend might like that as a 'this is what happened' It's not LORE HEAVY but it is my journey as I experience it put into bite-sized pieces!

[@tekagen_irande]

@@GalaxyAUS Thanks, I'll check them out! And thanks for your reaction videos, I've really enjoyed them ☺

[@GalaxyAUS]

@@tekagen_irande hope you like the new series! And thank you 🙏🏼 💜

[@marekmarbbydzovsky6516]

Well Anduin grows up and he is now blonde zac effron :)

[@demonpride1975]

what did he do, well he nearly destroyed all of creation, while under the control of the jailer.

[@ResistofDoom]

Can u watch the trailer and not google stuff. Lmao

[@BANTHAxFODDER]

Had to close it when she Googled it at the speed of a boomer in 2012 missing it all😂

[@jeramiahcox6976]

You have to have played Shadowlands to truely understand how broken he is. What he's seen... what he's done...

[@donimmortal7692]

"What did he do?" This cinematic is better if you don't know the context behind it.

[@mulixo1970]

That sword belong to sargers

[@4toetroll]

Yes it's Thrall

[@GalaxyAUS]

I thought so and then I second guessed myself and man he is looking old poor guy :(

[@4toetroll]

@@GalaxyAUS lol glad you can't see me I played from day 1.. And you think he's old? lol thanks for the video's and replying to fans

[@Sebotag]

​@@GalaxyAUSGREEN JESUS 🙏

[@GalaxyAUS]

He just looks like he's been through a LOT which I am sure he has. So has Anduin by the looks of it. And no need to thank me! I like chatting about games :D

[@GalaxyAUS]

PRAISE THRALL

[@yantocopling]

Nice sword

[@blacksteedofdeath5808]

thx for the reaction

[@GalaxyAUS]

thanks for watching! :)

[@yatsuketa]

ANDUIN! YOU HAVE FAILED THIS CITY! xD hehe... had to

[@GalaxyAUS]

DAMNduin!

[@eddieeagle111]

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[@zebusm0089]

I came here for something and i get nothing 😂

[@NOMIKKWOW]

I clicked off the second i knew u were typing on ur phone, react to the video or dont upload u troll

[@extragood330]

It's not that big of a sword. Besides it's all about how you use it, not the size 😒😒

[@OriginalPuro]

Well, that was lame.

[@eggchin22x78]

Way to react to something you know nothing about. Nice job leaching though.

[@GalaxyAUS]

I'm learning though. That is the point. If you don't like it go watch something else :) thanks for the view and engagement 😊