The Frozen Throne Ending Cinematic Warcraft III Reforged 8K 60 FPS (Remastered with ML AI)

[@motsybattlebot]

It's amazing when after all of these years, this ending still gives me the chills and sends me right back on the feelz train I received when I was so young. I miss the old blizzard, amazing job BTW!

[@kahlikohkat8264]

They were brilliant.

[@Abelhawk]

Ha ha, "chills." :D I see what you did there.

[@AgoxGaming]

Blizzard should have released Warcraft 4 in proper manner... :L We still have many Stories unfinished

[@zextax2680]

There is a reason why WOTLK had the most subscribers in the whole WOW history

[@joeyaube1087]

When Upscale did a better job alone than the entire Warcraft 3 Reforged team.......RIP Blizzard

[@damaskv8736]

Worddd

[@diomes695]

Blizzard created this cinematic. if he so cool why not remake this cinematic? beacuse little bit harder. this just a simple upscale

[@diomes695]

and this high quality unnatural. the original is better.

[@sentionlight1000]

@@diomes695, it's an old cinematic, and blizz just upscaled it too for reforget but did it bad

[@danielgalvez7953]

I don't think Blizzard's upscale was bad. The cinematic was grainy cuz it left more to the imagination and therefore we imagined more detail. The upscale takes away all of the imagined detail and makes it look worse tbh. Blizzard should have just remade the cinematic, Blizzard makes such good cinematics.

[@IudiciumInfernalum]

The zoom out where you see Arthas sitting on The Frozen Throne gives me chills to this day. Warcraft 3 and the build up to this scene plus WoW vanilla through WotLK were Blizzard at it's finest. Back when they could still tell a story. Best villain of the franchise too in my opinion, precisely because in spite of all his power whether as Paladin or Lich King. He got to where he was precisely because of being a human with human faults.

[@MarcosAlexandre-no3qx]

Even his death was fitting, a human death, afraid, understanding what he had done. He fall because of his humanity and die as a human but now they made the expansion for wow and changed everything

[@jamalsaghar9652]

Don't forget illidan. Both of these guys were badass villains.

[@MrJustinArt]

The upscaled shot of Arthas on the throne looks pretty untextured. I guess keeping it blurred benefited this cinematic after all.

[@sqly3129]

Yeah the textures sadly didnt have a chance agisnt time. But it still looks great ngl

[@ZethHolyblade]

It's so beautiful to finally enjoy a truly clear image.

[@fveS]

You did it better than Blizzard....

[@doctorshtein4719]

Don't call this piece of shit Blizzard , they don't deserve to be called that.

[@mooscrew]

That's amazing. Sad a billion dollar company like Activision blizzard can't (wouldn't) do this quality.

[@furydeath]

blizzard was probably like you 10 people get this game done in 5 months or you're fired

[@Evencane]

multi dollar company

[@lx5705]

it looks like you are member of BLM(black lives matter)

[@kinggarithos888]

@@furydeath No excuse.

[@eleomusic5329]

This cinematic was Made with the latest edition software what they got at those times, now it could be better than this cuz all the advances

[@AmericanZergling]

I miss Ner'zhul. People didn't seem to realize, but the OG Lich King was actually subtle. The only non undead/demon character who knew about him was Illidan, and only after he was manipulated. He was the final key to defeating the Legion, by manipulating Illidan to remove the skull of Gul'dan, and (more importantly) kill Tichondrious, who was the most paranoid and intelligent of the Dreadlords. From there he subtly sabotaged the Legion's efforts through their own minions, giving the other races a chance on Mount Hyjal. He even pulled out of Kalimdor after the Legion's defeat because he had no interest over there, leaving the Night Elves and Orcs no real reason to care about the undead after their victory. In TFT he was mostly just trying to hold his forces together as Kil'jaeden (through Illidan) continued to try and kill him. Arthas was his ace in the hole and freedom (Again, subtly. Nobody knew or cared about Arthas outside of the undead cast). In WotLK he just becomes a big evil bad guy who wants to kill all life... because reasons... And now it's revealed that it wasn't Arthas or Ner'zhul all along, and just some new big evil bad guy who wants to kill all life... WoW's story isn't just bad, it's lame. I doubt we'll see Ner'zhul again, maybe a cameo at best. He definitely won't be doing anything important if he ever does show up.

[@MarcosAlexandre-no3qx]

Well he probably wanted some vengeance in wrath as he took his time to get his force back but yeah the jailer is Just Dumb lore retcon because you need to sell content

[@Regunes]

he didnt entirely "forsake" Kalimdor. He has a lich doing some nasty magic with a old god and the most widespread race of the barrens at the time (quilboar). I agree tho Ner'zhul is a very good character, and the Illidan bits shows he isn't infaillible either.

[@zaer-ezart]

It wasn't Ner'zhul in WOTLK, Arthas was the one in full control

[@AmericanZergling]

@@zaer-ezart Yes, I acknowledged this, but no, Arthas was not the one in full control. "Lich King Arthas" was a combined personality of Death Knight Arthas and Ner'zhul who rejected Arthas and Ner'zhul's domination. i.e. a third personality formed and overpowered the first two. Now this is of course inconsistent because WotLK contradicts itself a couple of times with this (sometimes treating Ner'zhul as a genuine part of the Lich King's personality, and other times claiming Ner'zhul's gone and it's just Arthas) and modern wow has only muddied it further with Jailer nonsense, which I think most people can agree to ignore. And this is the heart of my critique. Lich King Arthas doesn't act like Arthas or Ner'zhul, at least in their portrayals in WC3. He became BBEG who wanted to take over the world... for no real reason other than to fight the players.

[@salehryan2906]

@@AmericanZergling They started contradicting Lich King's personality in the game and books cause they don't give a fuck about it. They just care that people are paying a shit ton of money for WOW

[@Jormaukko]

At 2:14 the 7.1 headset rarely goes shaking from bass, but this is one exception, magnificent work Upscale! My ultimate favorite video game ending!

[@Jinny-Wa]

Mine aswell :D

[@abdullahsheik11]

Watching this as kid was epic and then continue the journey in World of Warcraft.

[@Seb_An_Art]

I cant believe this... a single person againts a company. Im spechless, congratulations. pleeeeeaaaase... do the cinematic of the destruction of dalaran.

[@eldo7124]

2:20 This is real last scene that Jon Snow deserve.

[@jasonalcala7235]

Bruh when Ner’zhul says his line it always gives me chills

[@kitosjek9541]

That desperation

[@edwardnashton2182]

Pure enthusiasm vs large company with lots of resources. And guess who did a better job? Blizzard should hire people like you.

[@coshvjicujmlqef6047]

No use. You do not change the system. The system changes you. The top 1% won't allow this for happening.

[@TheRealDarthias]

In the old days...they might have. Now...no chance. Or they'd get Upscale in to do the job a full-contracted employee yet pay him the salary as a for-hire external contractor.

[@ironic4910]

Omg it's here thank you Glorious

[@Voidward]

This just makes me sad that I'll never see that end scene in the UI when I load up the game.

[@zerotankor]

There was a time when this was the best graphics the world had ever seen.

[@quervo151]

Yep, I remember saying that

[@Nkzjr]

The "Now we are one" always just gets me goosebumps all over my body... jesus this was so epic

[@ragael1024]

Masterfully done. This is what i paid for. Again. And this cinematic made me so hyped for a Warcraft IV... instead we got this money milking machine named WoW.

[@DavisJermacans]

Goddammit Blizzard ... Hire this man! This is what I expected from REFORGED

[@sacredcz]

The comparison reforged vs upscale is just making me feel sad. On the other hand you did really amazing job.

[@amano6979]

around 15 years ago I use that song when Arthas sit on the frozen throne as my ringtone. I still love the song😁

[@Jatjr]

What is the song name? love it

[@amano6979]

@@Jatjr O thanagor if I'm not mistaken.

[@MattDoesLife539]

The definition of "I won but at what cost."

[@luisangel7014]

So impressive what you did with the old cinematic. thank you por share it.

[@huntman1412]

It looks very good, but some parts of it arguable look better with lower fidelity.

[@Arpin_Lusene]

True. I'm sure back then they purposefully cut corners and leave some parts "less polished" because in the final render, the low res actually made that parts actually looked a bit realistic because it blends with the surrounding. Still looks good. Seeing the closeup details like in 1:19 really made me appreciate how this was made in 2003.

[@CuddleCuttlefish]

'8K' yet the video's highest quality is 1080 🤔 (all jokes aside, these are all amazing. I am flabbergasted at how you do this. You earned a new sub)

[@IThinkHigh]

The video quality is restricted by your device/screen, rofl. i.imgur.com/kOiMcZr.png

[@Ratimir101]

You need to have screen which can show it to have such option to choose on KZbin

[@jeje4131]

Chill down the spine. How could actiblizz dare to ruin this char/storyline with their retconning is beyond me.

[@fveS]

YES.... YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

[@NODplaythroughs]

This is the true ending of Warcraft. Don't get me wrong, I really do love WoW up to Wrath of the Lich King, and after that the rest of the expansions are pretty decent aswell (especially the music and art), but to me WoW as a game is basically fanfiction with self-insert characters (the player controlled characters) about a time that COULD have been, if Arthas didn't become the Lich King and eventually conquered the world.

[@Taijifufu]

The upscale is far more crisp but oversharpened and it did muddy a lot of granularity in the background. Pros and cons. This cinematic is one of the saddest things now because it really was the end of an era. My whole WC3 community broke up after WoW, going to different servers to play. And Blizz did Arthas very dirty after Wrath of the Lich King. Things will never be the same, and I'll always wonder what could have been.

[@youngimprovingman7700]

O' cher tunnal bellinus.. O' ros lavel mu.. Lor'na rasjas Thanu nal.. Seh, thu erne nu.. Ren'no..

[@Juel92]

I was kinda pissed off when they killed of Arthas in WoW instead of a WC3 sequel but with the way Blizzard is going nowadays I don't really give a dren about WC4.

[@snitox]

How Game of Thrones really ended. Jon took the frozen throne.

[@billm1234]

This looks way more clear than Warcraft reforged it's amazing

[@brandonlewis3379]

Still coming back to this and boy do I miss the old Blizzard really miss those guys.

[@Zundmagneto]

Снова плакать в конце от этой шедевральной музыки..

[@bog572]

blizard 1080p KEKW you 8 k KEKW

[@youtubeuser6317]

This is the last nail in the lid of the Blizzard coffin

[@XanathosZero]

Beautiful. Nice work, Upscale. I will say it a 1000 times, Nerzhul is still the best WC antagonist I have ever srrn. If only Arthas would have joined forces equally... Anyway...

[@benfordrin6978]

Just thank you!

[@brandonlewis3379]

To this day with Shadow lands I still think they did Arthas wrong RIP young prince you'll be missed by many.

[@bobbytang9924]

Holy shit this is so good. I subscribed! You deserve more subscribers and viewers.

[@NorthstriderGaming]

Nerzhul: "Now, we are one!" Arthas: "Well yes, but actually no. Now get out of my crown, fucker"

[@gyranos716]

00:45 damn he looks kinda tired from walking all those stairs with armor

[@funtimegaming2508]

My legs would be killing me if I walked up those steps

[@TheMaxCloud]

And they managed to fuck all of this up

[@ODST_SSGT]

i like how they didn't really mess w/ the aesthetics of this just gave it a polish.

[@83rl1nCr1m3]

love all your work, Thank You

[@eldo7124]

To that you begin the game as a standard hero to end like this. 3.07 It end like the story of Arthas Menetil, in a tragedy.

[@TheBradPeet]

Warcraft Cinematic Gameplay Storyline actually need all new from the last 25yrs while maintaining all the characters

[@IkarosVonVoid]

My eyes hurt when i see the blizzard reforged version.

[@niwatorijack5274]

I hate when Blizzard released the Shadowland CG, I know something is off, and it's all about aesthetics and atmosphere. I hate when I see Sylvanas fight Bolvar my first reaction is "wow she's like magically lvl up to beat the Lich King, she capped". I hate nowadays you need to pull out a fancy fight scene to show how your product is attractive. Our world is becoming shitter every second, and good times never last.

[@TaldrenMGMoonGuard]

Ya did it way better! And for those who weren't forced to learn Latin. The song in the end of this basically laments "Long live the king. May his reign last forever"

[@SkripachGameR]

Даже лучше чем в Рифордж! 🔥👍

[@nickcorbacho1545]

it can't be more annoying that blizzard didnt make new cinematics ….

[@poluxmontanez626]

This Ending song Would be perfect for game of thrones Ending when the dragon burns the throne and at the end no one sits in it

[@bonefetcherbrimley7740]

0:01 Oh that sound takes me back.

[@A.76-v4z]

We wanted all of this remasterd and what we got was not the thing we wanted

[@beastheart120]

This looks crazy good, holy shit

[@judgeees]

So does the ML AI (program) have to scan the entire video and then determine what changes it can/will make and re-render? How long does the re-rendering take and what program do you use? It looks glorious, and I guess the main bottleneck to increase the quality further is textures? Great work.

[@alonzoam8354]

Nice quality man, thanks

[@Maverin1]

Arthas is Blizzard, Ner'zhul is Activision, and the devs were predicting their own downfall into villainy Ha!

[@Maesterful]

Could you do the intro to The Legend of the Dragoon? That game has a special place in my heart

[@fernandotorricourbano3041]

1:30 Crazy sound effect. RIP BLIZZARD.

[@edwards409]

Tbh, upscaled it shows the lack of detail in the original, and emphasizes it - introduces aliasing in places, lack of detail in textures is more apparent (icicles, arthas's armour when he's climbing the stairs, etc.)

[@kazenriq]

What are the musics played throughout this cinematic? They resembles Howard Shore's LOTR scoring.

[@XAfterburnerX]

Great!!!

[@Ogk10]

This is now a blizzard property

[@РафаэльУрумян]

Ohhhh myyyyyyGoooooood!!!

[@kebas239]

My 3770k can't handle the 8k version of this video...time to upgrade!

[@zetu7]

Thank you for doing what blizzard didn't...

[@TaldrenMGMoonGuard]

How did you make this so clear? I bow to you

[@nichlasp1]

Love the intro but were is the disc/ mermoty stick

[@strongerman4759]

Original is look more make sense than upscale but good work!

[@lion4611]

When he was sitting on the throne what was the song playing

[@MN35A]

The song is named "O Thanagor".

[@kamrankawishbilal6891]

that is Arthas Ascension

[@XIXERO315]

2:23 yknow what makes me sad about this scene, its a tragedy of Arthas that aligned very well with the Blizzard company. This is literally the last scene we got before Warcraft goes downhill for their shitty plot For me, this my truly canon ending. The bad guys won

[@henrikknudsen8125]

Well, I guess it looks good on a phone, oh wait we don't have phones

[@malganis3847]

Can you upload this somewhere like Dropbox for example so I could download it in it's maximum quality ? I don't think there is any KZbin Downloader out there that can download videos in 8K resolution.

[@UpscaleHD]

www.patreon.com/Upscale

[@megalibra82]

We…ARE ONE!

[@Harmytwo]

Well that's sad! But really good job.

[@RouRouJiangViolin]

太好了 坐等开头人族兽族群殴的那段！！

[@ilyaaleshin802]

Так появился Саурон))

[@vireoboss8290]

The Jailer: all planed bro

[@martinfroze8925]

Wow 😮 you did perfect job 😮 big like from my side and be continued in this job, really respect bro 👏

[@UpscaleHD]

Thank you!

[@qwiz2487]

Сделайте пожалуйста файлом это, чтобы можно было впихнуть в Warcraft 3 Classic

[@commissaryarrick6764]

Мне кажется в разришении 8K он будет весить больше чем оригинал.

[@qwiz2487]

@@commissaryarrick6764 где-то наверно гигабайт

[@commissaryarrick6764]

@@qwiz2487 как вся оригинальная игра.

[@Tonsofcraft]

reflections are rough in places but its good

[@Thefunkyrikitiki]

Lich King chose Arthas cause the helmet fits him

[@bjornjoseph]

arthas, the greatest tragedy story

[@РафаэльУрумян]

Arthas vs Illidan! Plsssssss!!!

[@antisionistns2460]

Old video ?

[@Harmytwo]

Make new video. :D

[@corneliodamianperezmedrano1136]

before The Lord of the Rings there was WarCraft, its almost sad, you could feel the dude sacrifice everything, such a good game

[@mohammedriadh4990]

Dude..... lord of the rings was older than warcraft in like 40 years

[@ms.yawhaw8831]

LEZZ GOOOO

[@nickb9342]

amazing

[@slavakolba7er]

Awesome. Goodbye Blizzard

[@dariuszz1397]

blizzard are professionals among amateurs

[@anthonyclarke021clarke6]

I love the cold

[@notstonkss9417]

2:31 it's very lonely at the top

[@ramsaysnow9196]

whats the point of becoming lichking?

[@lichsteinser]

Nice

[@mihosra6303]

looks great with 144p

[@T0mN7]

Tell them only that Warcraft reforged is dead... *And that Blizzard Entertainment died with it*

[@halldarklight2636]

Runes on a sword gone