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Man, WoW's intro still reigns supreme

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Borys

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SOME DIABLO 2 MOVIES!

http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/demos/movies/

TO ALL WHO HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET - DOWNLOAD HERE:
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I can't wait to see Burning Crusade's; WoW's is top of the line CG - the fur on the bear, the snow, dwarf's bears is absolutely amazing not to mention the adrenaline pumping music and animation.

My favourite intro of all time. Beats the shit out of Square's intros (I've almost all of them on my HD BTW), Dawn of War's animation and even the amazing Arthras Betrayal from WarCraft 3.

This part is really impressive. I can't stress how much detail is on this dwarf and his fella bear. The fur is almost lifelike :O
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The Night Elf & the Burning Legion part are the weakest:
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Tauren, so awesome:
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Fire BOOM!:
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Ice BOOM!:
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This part (the animation) is simply mindblowing. So hard to capture in stills :(
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When the bear rushes that Tauren you just want to grab a sword and help him, lol.

I can't wait for next Blizz CG. They are simply second to none.
 
Heh I don't have WoW and I've never even played it.

I just can tell a superb animation when I see it.
 
While I agree 100% that the CG quality is above and beyond anything else out there (music is great also), I don't think the actually intro is the best every. Soul Blade/Edge intro is still more kick ass. Again, not CG quality but the content. Man, Vagrant Stories short ass belly dancing opening is still more fun to watch.
 
Ah, sorry for the stupid assumption then. :P Yeah, I was impressed when I saw this last year. I especially liked how those golems (?) glowed in the dark with all the green. FFX is still great too... especially at the end when Tidus falls down.
 
Haklong said:
While I agree 100% that the CG quality is above and beyond anything else out there (music is great also), I don't think the actually intro is the best every. Soul Blade/Edge intro is still more kick ass. Again, not CG quality but the content. Man, Vagrant Stories short ass belly dancing opening is still more fun to watch.
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That's it, that's it I just couldn't word it that way.

From a strictly tech POV they cannot be touched.

Yeah, I have also Soul Blade's intro in the same folder :)
 
All of Blizzard's CG is so kickass. Even Starcraft's are cool. Warcraft III's is just awesome. I've only seen the WoW intro once, but it was amazing as well.
 
Doesn't this sort of thing just depress you when it comes to the actual game and it doesn't even look close? I always hated CG/FMV movies for that reason, I celebrate their seeming gradual death.
 
Mama Smurf said:
Doesn't this sort of thing just depress you when it comes to the actual game and it doesn't even look close? I always hated CG/FMV movies for that reason, I celebrate their seeming gradual death.
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I guess now I could start feeling that way, but back when Starcraft came out or something, it didn't depress me. I just thought, HOLY SHIT THAT WAS SWEET! I knew the game wasn't going to look anything like that.

I still remember the first time I saw the intro to Soul Calibur. It was pretty much the coolest thing ever, because it looked awesome, and that's how the game looked. I couldn't believe it.
 
I really would like to download all the movies from Diablo II, but I can't find them. :(
"To the east, always.. to the east"
 
Mama Smurf said:
Doesn't this sort of thing just depress you when it comes to the actual game and it doesn't even look close?
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Nope, why should it?

I always hated CG/FMV movies for that reason, I celebrate their seeming gradual death.
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Your loss. Show me a real-time game or tech demo that looks close to this intro. You won't, have fun waiting.
 
Borys said:
Nope, why should it?
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Because you're shown how good a game could look (eventually) and then it's snatched away from you. It makes games that look perfectly good suddenly seem crap in comparison.

Your loss. Show me a real-time game or tech demo that looks close to this intro. You won't, have fun waiting.
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What's my loss? That there seem to be less and less around? Isn't that your loss?

I never claimed there's anything that looks as good as this. I have no problem with your description of this as the best game CG around. Your point doesn't even respond to anything I said, it could be CG from 5 years ago and it wouldn't make a difference for me as it'll still make the main game graphics seem crap in comparison.
 
TS is só right.

Have watched it a lot when the beta was about to open. It's really outstanding.
The action keeps on, the music is wonderful...

I hope that some day, that CG will be in-game.
 
I don't play WoW so maybe that's why the intro doesn't mean anything to me. It has nice animation, but other than that, it's boring. I point to Dead or Alive 4's ending movies as examples of CG done right: funny when it has to be, and absolutely kickass otherwise.
 
SnowWolf said:
I don't play WoW so maybe that's why the intro doesn't mean anything to me. It has nice animation, but other than that, it's boring. I point to Dead or Alive 4's ending movies as examples of CG done right: funny when it has to be, and absolutely kickass otherwise.
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Only ending worth a damn in DOA 4 was Hayabusa, Hayate.

I guess Ayane was ok and the real ending.

Zack was funny but the quality was not like the first two I mentioned (seems like different CG firms handled 1 or 2 of the ending movies). I could do without any of the other ones. Besides...story sucks ass in that game. Why even bother with stories and these damn fighting games. Tekken is the same. Blah.
 
Blizzard CG has always reigned surpreme.

The Diablo 2 intro still gives me goosebumps.

"Why did I follow him? I don't know... why do things happen as they do in dreams?"

Great stuff.
 
Where's the best place to get good, high-res versions of game intros? Other than Gametrailers, cause they only have newer stuff.
 
Wow intro, while very well done, didn't have the 'feelings' of previous Blizzard movies. As in, I can watch most WC3 movies over and over, the Wow intro get's boring quickly.

Onimusha 3 intro has the best graphics and animation yet though it's not among my favorites.

Favorites include, Red Alert intro, Silent Hill 1 intro, SH2 movies, FFVIII intro/ending/boat landing, WC3 movies, Diablo 2, StarCraft and prob some more.
 
Wollan said:
Wow intro, while very well done, didn't have the 'feelings' of previous Blizzard movies. As in, I can watch most WC3 movies over and over, the Wow intro get's boring quickly.

Onimusha 3 intro has the best graphics and animation yet though it's not among my favorites.

Favorites include, Red Alert intro, Silent Hill 1 intro, SH2 movies, FFVIII intro/ending/boat landing, WC3 movies, Diablo 2, StarCraft and prob some more.
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Red Alert was awesome when it came out. I still like that heavy butt rock in the intro.

Onimusha 3 did have a really kick ass opening. More fun to watch than the WoW intro but still not as technically impressive.
 
It is awesome.

I remember in a drawing class where our teacher wanted to show us some artwork from the game, yet we ended up watching the intro like 5 times because it was so fucking cool. :lol
 
I really really want to see Blizzard make a CG Warcraft film. I mean, they shouldn't stop working on awesome games by any means, but I'd prefer any film was kept close to their chest so they have complete quality control of every aspect.
 
AndoCalrissian said:
I really really want to see Blizzard make a CG Warcraft film. I mean, they shouldn't stop working on awesome games by any means, but I'd prefer any film was kept close to their chest so they have complete quality control of every aspect.
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They could call it Warcraft: The Spirits Within
 
AndoCalrissian said:
I really really want to see Blizzard make a CG Warcraft film. I mean, they shouldn't stop working on awesome games by any means, but I'd prefer any film was kept close to their chest so they have complete quality control of every aspect.
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I was thinking the same. I'd be all over that.
 
I'd love to hear from Blizzard how long it takes to render these movies out (and how many computers they need to do it) and what program they are using to make them.

Their work is top notch and I'd imagine that they want far far far more qualified people in graphics on their cinematic team than their in-game artists.
 
I thought, by comparison to other Bliz efforts, that the WoW fucking sucked. Granted, it's high quality and beautiful, but it was the weakest effort, presentation-wise and relevancy-wise, ever.
 
I mean just look at that dwarf's hair, beard and everything. Same goes to bear's fur. Lots of hair, reacts to wind, reacts to muscles beneath, reacts to movement, snow is gluing itself to it etc.

Freaking amazing, I'm so sick of futuristic, sci-fi CG with bald (Dawn of War) or helmed guys.
 
it is technically very proficient and the framing / transitions are pretty solid ... the problem is the lack of real narrative or identifiable characters. then again, it's a mmo.
 
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