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He didn't come to an agreement with Sylvanas.
She's the appointed leader of the Horde.
Saurfang is all about honor, there's only one way to go against the Warchief and that's to challenge them to Mak'gora, a dual of/for honor.
And that's what he does in a later cinematic.
@philipHarts After this cinematic came out a lot of player that wasn't okay with Sylvanas's chocies removes their shoulderpads in the game for MONTHS to protest just like Saurfang.
You maybe missed the moment the troll hands in his son's necklace and the way Saurfang puts his hand on his chest the same way as he put it on his son. Brilliant.
This is how you do heartfelt, strong emotional storytelling. I won't rant about the state of the way they do narrate feelings after that, it's not the place for it. But I'll say in terms of both production and writing, this is one of my favorites to date, even if the expansion itself, BFA, was a really mixed bag, to put it positively.
6:43 What a fantastic warcry! Lok'tar ogar!
Bravo.
2:22:38 He had training as either a priest or a paladin before he became king. He felt the holy light through his weapon and in his moment of desperation reached out for it and hoped for the best. I doubt he expected a mass-ressurection, but he wore it pretty well.
3:21:53 I'd say she's on-par with the arch-mage at this point. i.e. Possibly the greatest mage alive.
That moment when the character Blizzard wrote had more honor than the authors in Blizzard. Giving Saurfang such a shameful death with Sylvanas cheating her win. Sourfang should have walked into that honorable death with Alliance soldiers!
It's incredible how you understand the story better and what they wanted to convey in these cinematics than many people who have been playing for more than 15 years.
Varok has always been a sympathetic character, a hero with honor. Even the Alliance had a hint of it when we granted him the space to care for his son's corpse—again—after we defeated his son as raised by Arthas to be one of our raid bosses in the Icecrown Citadel. This particular cinematic establishes his role as core NPC to the franchise for Horde and Alliance alike, with flashbacks to put everybody on the same page (as much of half of the player base really only plays one faction or the other). This cinematic provides a prologue, albeit in medias res, for the xpac's storytelling series. Amazing as it is alone, this cinematic installment belongs in sequence with the others; for his story proves one of the most compelling arcs in the franchise, absolutely critical as foil to both Anduiin's and Sylvanas' stories, as well. Varok Saurfang mirrors the honor and conscience that Sylvanas as lacks, which in the following xpac proves all too literal (poorly told, no shortage of bitterness among the players for it). Varok bridged the chasm between Alliance and Horde. He eventually gets the reward he has desired for so long, in one of the most emotional and pivotal scenes in WoW history.
Mind you the storytelling in BfA, for the most part, was a tour de force; but it was scattered to different spaces: several high-quality cinematics, several exclusively in-game cinematics and cutscenes, a lot of game play that varied dramatically between Horde and Alliance experiences, and even a book and additional free publications. So following the whole arc without playing means finding a collection assembled by a player YouTube channel like, say, Nobbel, for running commentary and conciseness, or any number of others that can run upwards of nearly two hours. Have fun with that. As a moviemaker, it would be an interesting, if time-consuming, journey, as well as an opportunity to express your critiques on decisions Blizz made where to place each storytelling element.
Its amazing how far warcrafts cinematics have come too
He challenges Sylvanas in another cinematic called "Reckoning".
its like I'm watching a serious Weird Al
Oh, the troll noob, here, shows up here and there later. He's exactly the character role vis-à-vis Saurfang you describe; and serves to connect Varok's son by surrogate. I haven't played my Horde toons much the last few years (not for any particular reason), so I keep forgetting his name; but the player base turned him into a meme as Zappy Boy. 🙂
Incidentally, Sylvanas KNEW elves she burned in that tree, including the woman who tells her she can't kill hope, whose head Sylvanas turns to watch it and responds, "Can't I?" None of this is pleasure for Sylvanas. She has a plan that nobody can fathom and extremely few agree with as they learn about it. As I said, Varok is her conscience, her honor; and what she does to him henceforth symbolizes her own dispossession of those facets of herself. And the hope she kills… is her own. Immediately after the Sylvanas scene insert, by the way, that is, right after the actual burning of Teldrassil, Horde players make one of those rare decisions offered in games, a taking of sides, that determines a bit of the character's experience in this element of the story arc. It's pretty cool, because it's so hard to program that variability into such a game.
damn i waited for you to watch this one. i love this one so much
i always shed a tear watching this one. Saurfang shows us true honor of an orc
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Saurfang should have been Warchief throughout Legion… the battle for Azeroth would never have happened. Sylvannas is a traitor to life, itself.
That hand gesture towards Zekhan's heart when he returns the necklace, same as the gesture towards Saurfang's dead son… I don't have any kids of my own, but I'm old enough to understand that kind of kinship. Hits the feels.
I can't wait for you to review tyrande vs sylvanas! Best fight scene in all of WoW!
I love how this cinematic can be understood even with no context. The themes that shows can be acknowledge by anyone, even bystanders
Do the Burdens of Shaohao next!
when this came out, horde players payed tribute to saurfang by unequipping their shoulders, to show they didnt agree with the burning of teldrassil. And blizzard painting the horde as bad guys yet again. These cinematics were amazing
I love that Anduin brought back Saurfang's 'What I've SEEN? What I've DONE!?' in the war within cinematic.
I think after watching all the wow cinematics you should revisit The War Within cinematic. Hit will hit harder and have more meaning.
the next one please do it ASAP !!!