Even I was surprised when I looked at the release date

I think they’re even better

@@Finis.Terrae That is not true at all, they have advanced greatly since then. Had you seen those trailers in full HD on todays monitors you'd see flaws. That being said its all about the creation, lights, angles, filters and how they are used. Any CGI from any decade will look bad if its in the wrong hands

@@DNSGaming well, even the cinematics of WarCraft 3 (2002) or Armies of Exigo (2004) are worthy challengers to this list. Blizzard and Black Hole are both very talented in this cathegory on their own right.

There has not been much improvement in graphics over the last 5-10 years, not to be confused with playing on larger resolutions and/or higher frame rates.

the most incredible scene ever created, hands down.

And then the Emperor look at him in apathy with dith eyes.

I still think the game is pretty good.

@@backupaccount5784 masochist

Game is fire what are you talking about

It’s a great game still man !

The game is still amazing

I agree the Force Unleashed series really could have used more games.

@@MrBishop077 thank disney they cancelled the third game and every other star wars project when they bought lucasfilm

they are somwhere between 12-8 years old now. Blizzard cinematics have always been incredible tbh.

@@WimukthiBandara except the ones far Dragonflight, they were all kinda meh

Godlike tier

ye eyyey eyeyeyyeeyye YEET!

Check out some of the 4k upscaled vids using AI. Incredible how much more detail all the vids can get, when in the original there were just blurs or smudged details.

Yeah, it's so great that Game of Thrones copied it! It belongs here for sure

blizzard cinematics always top tier

I partly agree with you in alot of aspects The World of Warcraft - Lich king Cinematics is on a shelf with a few others that has seen no peers. The Video that is in this list (dreanor) aint even in the same league. WOTLK is for me even better than the Burning crusade that i held close for a long time and is at breaking point of Diablo II cinematics (for instance the best of em : Act III). Conclusion is simple, Blizzard / Blizzard North before Activision bought our future and killed it was ALWAYS the best.

Arthas My Son is the best video game song ever created.

@@aniruddhbhatkal1834 How did GoT copied it??

no king rules forever my son

I agree, though I do like Cataclysm's cinematic. Deathwing just looks really cool.

Absolutely

In-game when you finally reach the cinimatic in Northrend blew my freakin mind. Yeah it didn't look super great, but story wise it was awesome.

Gives me goosebumps everytime I watch it.

it's trash compared to legacy of the void intro

@@ulosen Dude really just said HotS trailer is Trash lmao

it is total bullshit if you compare it to shadow of war or to assassins creed

@@furkannarin2844 Youre the most Sarcastic Person ever, i like it!

too bad the game isnt to scale like the cinematic

Disney could redeem themself by making a whole Star Wars Old Republic moive using CG cinematic artwork.

@@rdnowlin1206 doubt disney actually made the game... and i have further doubt that the company that made the game made the cinematic for it though they prabably did

That is a piece of ART down to the smallest details. The brothers hold hands the same way over and over, helping up each other, until the last time, that last moment together. This short cinematic holds more passion and a more tragic story than all of the trash Hollywood produced in the last 10 years.

So sad

They need to make a series tv 📺

Hopefully they will wait till all this woke BS has crawled back under its rock before trying.

Good luck with that one. I'm still waiting for a new Onimusha, or at least another Ninja Gaiden.

i thought the exact same thing the first 15 seconds of the trailer - you could honestly make legendary movies out of the lore

This is a thing about Activition Blizzard. They have been wanting to create a cinematic series of movies from most of their work, but the sheer cost of the production and distribution is off-putting to say the least. The movie Warcraft the Beginning is just an example of how off-putting the price tag on Blizzard's movie can be as they were forced to use actors and adapt the scenario to a simpler setup than they wanted due to the production cost skyrocketing through the sky. As one of my friend in movie production said: Activision Blizzard has a lot of talents in creating original stories and designs, but they don't have what it takes to make a commercially good movie. It's not about the talent to render stuff or the story or how cool looking stuff is looks, but about how you can make the content flow in a great way from start to finish, but while staying within the length desired and all that with as little change to the environment as possible because, in movies, changes is the costing bit.

This. Years later, I still get chills and tear up the way I did when I first saw that trailer all those years ago.

that story was one of the worst stories in all of video gaming history

@@ifeelmetal What's wrong with you?

I was hurt too but the WOD cinematic had alot of action but Wrath was more about lore and the Lich king being badass.

@@Bluegocrazy it's just that for me Wrath of the Lich King felt like the Freeza Saga of of DBZ. And Warlords felt like the bullshit story ass pulls Buu Saga had.

Wraith is better on lore, but the cinematic isn't as good. You see a guy wake up from a nap, wake a dragon from the ground, and a bunch of undead goons do a fist bump. It would have been better to incorporate some action in. WOD might be meh on lore, but the cinematic is a masterpiece

@@quinnmichaelson6793 I could get behind that sentiment. It was just exciting to see arthas again after not seeing him for so many years after Warcraft 3

And ACB over the AC2

I kinda wish they kept it possible to be within the lore, like a, "this is wild, but it doesnt contradict anything so it technically could work if want to headcanon it". They abandoned that pretty early on lol But they are hella fun.

Also the entire trailer is a banger. And the game is one of my all time favorites. Just saying. Hope they continue those games someday as an old ass 27 year old retired competitive gamer that only plays single player now 😂

Sorry but the black dude in the middle of a battle in a tolkien world just pulls me right out of the action

@pleaseclap5210 there were black men in middle earth. More so in Southern Rhûn but I believe there were still some

@@drewfrench5271 sorry but seeing a sub-Saharan in the middle of a Germanic/Nordic/Anglo-Saxon universe is just odd and out of place. That's like seeing A native American in a Greek Pantheon

@pleaseclap5210 yeah... I guess they probably wouldn't have intermingled much since the cultures were so different. Like think of all the Middle Eastern race mercenaries from Deep Harad.... I guess they would've never married or intermixed with the Numenorians

I've always liked this cinematic the most because Garrosh saves Grom at the last moment, echoing WC3's cinematic that ended with his death.

It is really really good isn't it? I like how the fight plays out too so awesome the voice work in bliz is top notch. I wish they'd make more movies.

dunno man, if compare something like sc1 cgs with something like parasite eve which released earlier, its not even fair how far ahead PE was. and if you compare the later games from square? ff viii and ix? and that's on a psx! then there was ffx and kingdom hearts 1 and 2.

I feel the same about women online Tbh

Yeah 😂

By far.

yeah if they did1 thing 100% right, it was their cinematics....

@@saschaschmitt592 and music!

@@saschaschmitt592 and concept art, character design, character voice lines/sounds, background music, battle music, ambient music. The "fuck ups" is usually 1 or 2 departments only. Like you wouldn't include the musicians an artists to the blame

@@Reddzion nah, the character design has been going downhill since 2016 imo, very hit or miss

@@orkaydk9430 that's fair :)

It’s a gate.

yup. that cinematic was absolutely legend tier.

THIS!

I was looking for this comment :)

Be sure, if a SC3 comes out, it will be absolute trash and only money milking machine

turning point for cinematics sure SC2 is garbage though. SC:BW is a fucking classic. SC2 is just a reskinned WC3

@@user-tz9jh6pv2j Did you know you can now play BW versus SC2? Of course it is not perfectly balanced, but all the units are there. Pick your race and your generation and see how learning what counters what feels like all over again, but prettier.

eso was such a crazy game when it first came out, fighting in an open field 100v100 and then third faction come running it down. Was one of the first games where it felt like a big giant war happening. Sieging keeps with 100-200 people, defending one was truly great at the time.

Absolutely true

that's what happens when stupid youtubers like DNSGaming make their own lists.

Yeah I was wondering the same. Diablo 2 Cinematic is one of the greatest ever.

Played them all, they’re epic. Where’s our movie series for both them?

Seriously badass such good graphics i don’t get why they didn’t jus remake the movie like that

@@lorddaquanofhouserastafari4177 because its very expensive

@@omnimoon3553 yeah I kinda knew that but it would have been way more epic and worth it haha 😆

@@lorddaquanofhouserastafari4177 agree but nobody will spend 300m $ on such movie especially when Warcraft didnt get much money

Blizzard is so overhyped. They sell cheap boring games that look like they belong on an IPhone.

@@homii4858 u are on some drugs or some shit

"What? you guys don't have mobile phones?"

Agreed. So OP

FF XIV is one I play just for the music and story. It brings me to tears half the time and I have never even played a FF game. Definitely one of the all time greatests.

They mentioned the name Celibrimbor. It has been a long time since I read LotR, but I think he was before the Bilbo and Frodo stories.

Mine too

Yep, that one is definitely better. Heck, in its two minutes it is better than all of Disney's sequels except maybe Rogue One.

Definitly better than any postlogie character…

@@Hunter_6601 source?

Well... they made Wonder Woman game with nemesis system

Agreed.

Shadow of War best fighting with Orcs!

I was looking for someone to point this one out.

I'm not a WoW fan, I only played vanilla but Wrath of The Lich King cinematic is with Mist of Pandaria my favorite WoW cinematic. Both of them have a very cinematographic style and have something unmatchable, they tell a story that don't need to know the lore to be understood (as the opposite of WoD, Shadowlands or Dragonflight)

There's just no argument to be made that the Lich King raising Sindragosa while King Menethil speaks in the background is a cooler spectacle than Grom Hellscream attacking Mannoroth with the Blackfuse Company's gadgets. "Ohhh I cast a spell on a dead body with my scary LichSkullPowerDeathSword! Ohhhh..." Please. Such a pretty boy under that helmet.

@@keamu8580 First of all I think you and I look for very different things in cinematics, and unlike me you don't seem to be interested or invested in Arthas' story, which makes this almost a needless discussion. Anyway: I don't think you understood what I wrote either, as the WoD cinematic being a "spectacle" was my point. You got to check off more boxes than "cool" to be concidered one of the greatest cinematics. If making an impact on the viewer was just about having them go; "Ooooh, things go boom boom, hell yeah!", then sure, it's great. But I was hardly invested in that story at all, so it was nothing more than a spectacle to me, with very little impact. Grom's story ended in WC3 as far as I'm concerned, and I've disliked Garrosh from the very beginning. He was a selfish, warmongering prick with no redeeming qualities, certainly not any I'd bother go looking for. So to me it was indeed just a spectacle with very little impact. So I don't think the spectacle makes it a better cinematic at all. I am a fan of Arthas' story, and I think the WotLK cinematic was a perfect re-introduction to bring him back from WC3. Feel free to read the OP again as to why. Though the Lich King certainly has no redeeming qualities, Arthas used to, and he had a far more interesting journey than Garrosh. You may disagree 100%, and that's fine, i don't mind. But to claim that the WoD cinematic is better than the WotLK as undisputable, that's a little silly. Especially if we're going by subjective standards.

@@0That_Guy0 Sorry but due to eating too many paint chips I haven't the attention span to read your rant, however, take solace in knowing that it is very likely others WILL read it! Kudos for writing all that text. That reminds me of one time when I attended a picnic with my auntie Judith. I remember it like it was yesterday. “Here, put this in the basket.” Judith directed the children like a sergeant on D-Day. A flurry of activity centered in the kitchen as they prepared for the Annual Ladies Auxiliary picnic. She placed the container of floweret cut radishes in front of Cindy. Will was in charge of sandwiches. He opened a beautifully wrapped sandwich and took a bite. “Ew. What’s this?” Judith snatched the food from his hand. “These are cucumber sandwiches.” She placed the rest into the picnic basket. “I told you children that these are for the Ladies Auxiliary. Everything has to be perfect.” “Won’t there be hot dogs?” “I’m not sure,” she wiped down the counter with a tea towel. “I made you peanut butter and jelly just to be safe.” Cindy rolled her eyes, “What a stupid question, doofus. These are ladies, and they won’t have the yummy food like hotdogs and chips.” “But it’s a picnic.” “It’s not that kind of picnic.” She held out her pinky finger and put her nose in the air. “The hoity-toity will be there.” “That’s enough, kids.” Bill walked into the kitchen. He lifted the ice cooler and handed it to Cindy and Will. “Load this into the wagon.” The kids rushed out of the kitchen, eager to get away from their mother. Judith noticed Bill’s weary expression. She knew he worked hard, and it was because of her. Ever since her best friend Annie married a wealthy man, Judith wanted the same thing. “It looks like it might rain. Are you sure you want to go to this shindig?” Annoyance made her reply sharp. “This is a big deal, not everyone gets invited, you know.” Bill walked around the table and hugged her. “Judy, Judy, Judy,” he started his horrible Cary Grant imitation. She leaned into his hug. A shout from outside broke the moment. Bill sighed. “I got this. You finish here, and we’ll hit the road.” Judith carried the rest of the items out to the station wagon and overheard Bill talking to the kids as they cleaned up the mess. The cooler had tipped over, and everything was in the driveway. “…this is important to your mother. You two have to be on your best behavior the whole day.” “Why does she care about a bunch of old ladies?” Will ran in circles not really helping. Cindy crawled under the tailgate to retrieve a soda. “Ever since Aunt Annie joined them she’s always so mad.” “Aunt Annie used to be fun too.” He stopped spinning. “Is Mom going to stop being fun?” Cindy snorted, “She already did. And she’s not even in the club yet.” Ha ha, those were the days.

@@keamu8580 And of course he's just a troll.

I definitely don't agree, MoP's cinematic is one of the worst in terms of character appearance. It's better than Dragonflight, but that isn't setting the bar high.

War Thunder, definitely deserves to be among the best ever.

Half life opening for sure

dont forget final fantasy, chrono cross and so many other square games.

The intro to shadow of the beast 2 scared me as a kid 😅

Right!? I was looking for this comment! The last sequence is a cinematic masterpiece