that freakin' ROCKED! At the least, now i know a bit more about the lore, as probably a lot of WoW players may not have played any Warcraft games before. Thanks for this post! ^_^

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No fair, Medivh got to use flight form in Azeroth!

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I have to say watching the lore like this is really disappointing. I mean it has been a while since I have gone through the campaign and I remembered Arthas as being a bad mutha, hes the opposite, hes just a whiny little kid who has no friends and somehow managed to get sick power. Throughout the whole freaking saga he acts like a lovable little tyke with tourettes who wants revenge? Revenge for what? Revenge for who? Nobody he knows was killed by any of the undead. He obviously didn't care about the people that much. So why was he so freaking bent on revenge? His freaking motivation makes no sense. Blizzard then decided that wasn't good enough and he goes even crazier for no reason and chases after a demon to the freaking north pole of azeroth? What? Not to mention he throws all his men into the hands of death and demons so he can get his freaking 'revenge.' Oh thank you blizzard for this awesome lore. Then.. *gasp* he finally gets his awesome revenge? AND IT TAKES 1 FREAKING SLICE OF FROSTMOURNE. So that was dramatic, whats next? Well by then I didn't care anymore because the story was so stupid my brain started to hurt and so was all my motivation to do ANYTHING with the next stupid expansion.

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@4

you're a moron.

and also...you say Arthas is a whiny little kid, when all you do is cry and complain yourself.
hypocrite.

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@4 Maybe you should watch the video again. It's pretty evident that you obviously can't understand a bit of the subtle undertones to the lore presented. Or didn't watch the entire thing, anyway. Ner'zhul had it planned from near the beginning that they would meet on the Frozen Throne, which explains many of Arthas' crazy actions. Not to mention be pushed certain directions by Kel'Thuzad and Mal'Ganis, etc.

Anyway, I thought it was a great video. I'd forgotten some of the lore since I haven't played Warcraft in a very long time.

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I have never played the other warcraft games, I had no idea that WoW drew so much on the previous games! Not just lore, but also style and units. I think it's a great intro to the next expansion. The whole death knight thing makes a lot more sense now. And it was great to see some other well known characters, such as Jaina, in action.

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Awesome...I can't wait for the expansion now.

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@5 Haha yeah, well I am technically 'whining' about how horrible the lore is, it still doesn't remove the fact that the lore still stinks.

@6 Thats a cute way of getting out of crappy story/character motivation, "ooooo the guy was controlled by mystical forces from the start." If he was so hopeless why did Medivh (supposedly one of the most freaking powerful/all knowing beings at the time) bother talking to the guy.

Hey, you could be right and it was his fate to become the Lich King. But don't you think Blizzard could have done a better job of making some plot e devices besides the foreshadowing of "ooo you'll see" and then when he turns "yeah i told you so."

Maybe I'm crazy or maybe I'm just not a blizz fanboy when it comes to this lore stuff.

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Mal'ganis was downed in one hit!

Damn reckoning bomb pallies...

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I always loved the Fall of Arthas story arch. Personally, I found the story very well scripted. It started out with our pure-hearted though somewhat naive Prince, who, being naive and all, gets really peeved when his beloved country got torn apart by the Scourge and failed to see the scheming behind it all. Then, like a really angry child who is peeved at the big bully who broke his toy, he goes after Mal'ganis for revenge, and in the end, his quest for vengeance made him no better and almost as bad as the 'bully' Mal'ganis.

Ner'zhul made a wise choice to pick Arthas as his champion. Getting him to fall from grace is child's play. He would had alot more trouble trying to get other paladins to be his champion because they would be far too experienced and far wiser to realize those tricks.

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@ 4 and 11

What game lore do you actually like? pokémon?
You sound about 6 years old.

If you dont like the lore in wow, then play something else, or just ignore it.

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Really enjoyed this presentation, a creative way to depict one of the most compelling stories in warcraft lore.

Excellent stuff.

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Very good idea to put together all those cinematics. Very instructive as I never played Warcraft RTS (i hate this genre).
Then, i figured out something. All the people saying Blizzard is milking its IP, I would respond : the lore that Blizz created is so deep that it would be a pity not using it for as much video games as they can. Not so much other video game IPs can say the same.
And this would explain WOW's success over others MMOs that don't have any real background to build a complete world from it.
@Lodcid : critics are easy, art is not. Plus you seems to have not understand anything to the story, that's why your head hurts maybe. You whining little boy.

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THis was just great if you haven't played warcraft but are thrilled of hearing of WotLK ^^

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There was another video of this subject posted earlier this week. It used Warcraft III to tell the story, now I can't find it. Was it yanked? I started to watch it but then I got an error and had to reboot. When I came back to the site it was gone!

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For some reason I cannot watch the movie.
The movie box is blank :{

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