If Blizzard ever stops making games, they should make movies
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Thu, 08/16/2012 - 16:40
If Blizzard ever stops making games, they should make movies
The new cinematic for the Mists of Pandaria expansion came out today and holy crap it's good. I don't mean just from the standpoint of whipping fanboys like me into a frothing, foaming frenzy, but from a production quality standpoint.
Take the art assets and IP from Blizzard and the writers / storyboarders from Pixar, and make a movie. Screw live-action, "directed by Sam Raimi" crap, and do it as an animation.
Watch the following in fullscreen and at 1080p to see what I mean. The detail is amazaing, and a leap forward from previous Blizzard cinematics, I think. Including the stuff from Diablo3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvYXoyxLv64&feature=player_embedded
Yeah, I'd watch that movie. That was great stuff.
There are a lot of short films out now that have been produced in conjunction with video games that are much better than most of the TV shows and movies made today.
"Ghost Recon Alpha" was made to lead into the new Ghost Recon game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-wAzlqzXH0
Planetside 2 has a web series coming out in connection with it's release:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41QFL4QB3NE
343 also has an upcoming web series called "Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn" that coincides with the release of Halo 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_4skHcCpT4
totally agree plato. I usually HATE their movies, but they seriously went all out with this one. It's like they knew how shitty Cata was and are now scared shitless with Guild Wars 2 around the corner. It actually got me excited for fucking PANDAS.... Guess it worked.
If Blizzard made movies you'd have to watch them for 100 hours before you found a single relivant plot point .
That's why I said Pixar should write it - Chris Metzen and team write some really bad dialogue in their cutscenes and questlines. It Blizzard wrote and directed it, it would be cheezy. Spider-man 3 cheezy, and who wants that?
@Doodi: I know, right?! Pandas look cool; almost cool enough to race-change every toon I have...almost.
Didn't someone say this about Squaresoft once?
I can't play WoW. My arthitis gets the best of me.