Now That's An Epic Raid

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Scott Jennings| 28 Comments

Think this is the best WoW machinima I’ve ever seen.

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  • http://www.crymore.de EpicSquirt

    Old but very good one.

    Just don’t make the same mistake like me and watch the original video to the music.

  • Trife

    I saw this before and I loved it, great for WoW machinima. I slightly wonder all the stuff they did outside of the WoW engine itself to achieve alot of the unique stuff.

  • Delmaniaa

    Since I really only played WoW post TBC, is this supposed to be blood elf assassin trying to kill Onyxia in her human disguise?

  • http://dsob.wordpress.com geldonyetich

    I look forward to the day when MMORPGs can actually have confrontations like that. It may never happen, of course, on the grounds that there’s such a mob mentality about the general playerbase.

  • Drey

    @Del: that’s what it looks like, yes.

  • sidereal

    Is it really machinima if they’re just horking the meshes and textures out of the WoW client and composing the whole thing in 3dsmax or whatever? I thought one of the key elements of machinima was that you had to do it in realtime in the provided client. Otherwise you’re just making a 3d movie with someone else’s resources.

  • http://emergentfuture.com Arrakiv

    I have to echo sidereal on that one. Some of that could have certainly been done in WoW… but, not much after the first few minutes.

  • http://bdadv.blogspot.com Bonedead

    I thought I saw this a month ago here. Guess not!

    Tales of the Past 1-3 (3 being the best quality) is some good WoW machinima. It was also done with real people on real servers (not to mention dialogue and non ghey music).

    If you liked this I recommend watching Tales of the Past 3.

  • xzzy

    I spent the whole time watching it wishing one of the city guards would man up and offer a decent fight. But after years of getting stunlocked by rogues, I admit some bias. Watching a rogue get worked is about as good as it gets.

  • Viz

    Now I have to say that I’ve never liked Amuro Namie, but I felt that the rhythm on that song felt… out of sync with the video. I thought it was distracting. Otherwise, it was a good video (though that was some sloppy body-hiding).

  • Walter Yarbrough

    Iain and Brynn say ‘My character can’t jump that high in game’

  • http://www.brokentoys.org/ Scott Jennings

    The music doesn’t bother me. I have a secret weakness for J-Pop.

  • Jeremy Preacher

    OK that was freakin awesome. AWESOME. And I don’t even like belfs.

  • http://www.brokentoys.org/ Scott Jennings

    xzzy :
    I spent the whole time watching it wishing one of the city guards would man up and offer a decent fight. But after years of getting stunlocked by rogues, I admit some bias. Watching a rogue get worked is about as good as it gets.

    I think Katrina Prestor owned the protagonist pretty effectively. And she’s a priest!

  • Merkwurdigliebe

    Forgive my ignorance, but who makes these things? Doesn’t look like something a twelve-year-old can cough up during home-room. Look pretty damn professional.

  • Viz

    Scott Jennings :The music doesn’t bother me. I have a secret weakness for J-Pop.

    I like J-Pop too man, I just don’t like Amuro.

  • Cedia

    You’re behind the times, Lum. :) After watching that video for like the millionth time, I begged my husband to roll a human rogue, just because that guy is so sexy. To no avail, he rolled a squidgoat instead. Oh well.

  • http://bdadv.blogspot.com Bonedead

    If I recall correctly the guy who made this said the song was the center piece in which he made the movie around.

  • http://www.crymore.de EpicSquirt

    The song is nice and the arrangement of the movie around it is perfect.

  • xzzy

    And she’s a priest!

    And a dragon.

  • Drey

    @Merk: The author of that piece worked for a game studio but was laid off a few months before he released it. There’s some info about him at http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/29/percula-reveals-future-of-blind/

  • VPellen

    I like how authentic it all is.

    Yes, yes, I know, latency internet blah blah blah. I’m still bitter.

  • Merkwurdigliebe

    I look forward to and fear the days when average schmoes like me can hack awesome shit like this out with ease.

  • Gonzo

    It’s awesome, but I have to agree that it’s not Machinima (though many people are referring to it that way). Machinima, by definition, is using a game’s real-time 3D engine and specifically NOT 3D animation software.

    I don’t want to take away from the guy’s obvious talent. The video is amazing. But calling it Machinima is like calling a professionally model jet the best paper airplane you’ve ever seen. =)

  • Trife

    @Gonzo
    I do have to agree with you. (Never really delved into machinima much myself to think of it classified as such) It does extent outside of the game itself, and by far. It’s still a good video, but not (at least fully) with the WoW client.

  • Kemor

    @xzzy
    Aha! Same here to be honest…Always about some ninja rogues jumping everywhere like monkeys.
    Good video though but I agree, just not real machinima.

  • Athryn

    A good half of Wow’s machinima wouldn’t qualify for you purists then, as many of the “good” videos are done using the model viewer instead of the in game client. ^_^

  • Sjofn

    The music is REALLY distracting to me, it just doesn’t fit at all. In my opinion. ;)