Behold the Final Fall of Warcraft's Lich King

[Cargando]

"This video is no longer available due to copyright claims by Blizzard Inc."

Heh, I chuckled. I really need to get back onto WoW... I'm missing so much.

 

[Jaebird]

I was kinda hoping there would have been more to the patch to make me want to play again, but I guess I'll just have to wait until the next one =/

 

[Simalacrum]

Great, will this become my generations equivalent of the Normandy landings then?

Ah well, I'm sure WoW players are over the moon, and good for them. Now can we have another MMORPG? PLEASE?

Nope, sorry. Cataclysm, bro.

...we'll never be free of WoW, will we?

Well Everquest has 16 expansions so.....

I see you when we're both 60. We'll start making bets then.

I say it ends in the year 2095.

I bet that it won't be gone before I'm dead! £50!

[sub]Wait a minute...[/sub]

 

[Chipperz]

Great, will this become my generations equivalent of the Normandy landings then?

Ah well, I'm sure WoW players are over the moon, and good for them. Now can we have another MMORPG? PLEASE?

Nope, sorry. Cataclysm, bro.

...we'll never be free of WoW, will we?

It always amazes me just how much World of Warcraft has negatively affected gamers. From the sheer ammount of hate it gets bleated in it's direction, you'd think that it'd killed people's families instead of just being a good game.

OT - Yup, the video's been taken down. This makes me a sad panda, 'cos I'm never, ever, ever gonna be good enough to see it myself

EDIT - it's back again. ...Wow. just... Wow.

Spoiler

If the new Lich King hasn't ever actually used Frostmourne, wouldn't that mean he has a human soul and can fight the Lich King's influence? We might see a good guy Lich King in the years to come...

 

[oppp7]

Finally! I've been waiting for that guy to die since he killed (I thought) Illidan.
I'm actually surprised about all of this, not just Arthas dying, but that blue dragon leader, the elder gods, Lady Vashj, and Illidan. Back when I first started reading about the canon on the WoWWiki (I don't have WoW), I thought they never, ever killed anything off. They said they brought back Muridan, the 3 dwarven races, and several other races and characters that they previously said died. For this reason I stopped caring about the entire canon. But once I reread it and saw that they had actually made progress, I got interested. Still no extinctions though, but that's a great deal bigger.

 

[Wolfram23]

Wow. Lame. The video with the dragons, the Horde and Alliance, all fighting against the Lich at the gates after doing that epic quest chain was way better... I've already forgot the location name as it's been a year since I quit WoW.

Also, I thought it was the sword, Frostmourne, that basically turned Arthas into the Lich King... not that helmet. Shouldn't that fire guy have picked up the sword to become the Lich King?

 

[cieply]

Finally! I've been waiting for that guy to die since he killed (I thought) Illidan.
I'm actually surprised about all of this, not just Arthas dying, but that blue dragon leader, the elder gods, Lady Vashj, and Illidan. Back when I first started reading about the canon on the WoWWiki (I don't have WoW), I thought they never, ever killed anything off. They said they brought back Muridan, the 3 dwarven races, and several other races and characters that they previously said died. For this reason I stopped caring about the entire canon. But once I reread it and saw that they had actually made progress, I got interested. Still no extinctions though, but that's a great deal bigger.

Right now they are actually start to run out of villians ;p Still, I liked about them the fact that a lot of them were tragic characters, not just plain evil guys. It's good to see a bit of drama in the computer game.

 

[John Funk]

Wow. Lame.

Also, I thought it was the sword, Frostmourn, that basically turned Arthas into the Lich King... not that helmet. Shouldn't that fire guy have picked up the sword to become the Lich King?

Nah, Frostmourne just took Arthas' soul and turned him into the Death Knight - the Lich King was bound to the armor that was up in the Frozen Throne. Arthas only became the Lich King once he put the helmet on at the end of WC3:TFT.

 

[Wolfram23]

Wow. Lame.

Also, I thought it was the sword, Frostmourn, that basically turned Arthas into the Lich King... not that helmet. Shouldn't that fire guy have picked up the sword to become the Lich King?

Nah, Frostmourne just took Arthas' soul and turned him into the Death Knight - the Lich King was bound to the armor that was up in the Frozen Throne. Arthas only became the Lich King once he put the helmet on at the end of WC3:TFT.

Oh ok. I didn't get that far in WC3 lol. I bought the battlechest leading up to WoW release with the intent to get a grip on the whole story, but yea, didn't happen...

 

[Jared]

I am sure this must be awesome for all the WoW players

Congrats~

 

[oppp7]

Finally! I've been waiting for that guy to die since he killed (I thought) Illidan.
I'm actually surprised about all of this, not just Arthas dying, but that blue dragon leader, the elder gods, Lady Vashj, and Illidan. Back when I first started reading about the canon on the WoWWiki (I don't have WoW), I thought they never, ever killed anything off. They said they brought back Muridan, the 3 dwarven races, and several other races and characters that they previously said died. For this reason I stopped caring about the entire canon. But once I reread it and saw that they had actually made progress, I got interested. Still no extinctions though, but that's a great deal bigger.

Right now they are actually start to run out of villians ;p Still, I liked about them the fact that a lot of them were tragic characters, not just plain evil guys. It's good to see a bit of drama in the computer game.

They still have Deathwing, but they'll probably kill him in Cataclysm (which sucks, because he was one of my favorite characters in the second one). Also, Sargeras, Kiljaedan (maybe?), a bunch of Elder Gods, and probably a few small people I forgot about.
And ya, I always thought that the Warcraft characters were deeper than people gave them credit for. Who was that character that people keep saying Arthas is a ripoff of?

 

[Wayno]

Great, will this become my generations equivalent of the Normandy landings then?

Ah well, I'm sure WoW players are over the moon, and good for them. Now can we have another MMORPG? PLEASE?

Guild Wars 2 is soon to be here.

 

[Amnestic]

They still have Deathwing, but they'll probably kill him in Cataclysm (which sucks, because he was one of my favorite characters in the second one). Also, Sargeras, Kiljaedan (maybe?), a bunch of Elder Gods, and probably a few small people I forgot about.
And ya, I always thought that the Warcraft characters were deeper than people gave them credit for. Who was that character that people keep saying Arthas is a ripoff of?

Kil'Jaeden's not dead, we just kicked him back through the portal, so he's still on the table. Also Queen Azshara. Plus they can just make up new characters.

Kael'thas needs to come back again. Death was merely a setback.

 

[Rhade]

So it's Bolvar. Cool.

I mean the possibility was super, duper obvious to anyone that follows the story of WoW somewhat (crazy and futile, yes, I know) since Wrathgate. Then seeing his new model around 3.2, then seeing that he wasn't going to be a boss in 3.3...

I mean, I guess nothing's ever a surprise if you datamine enough but did anyone honestly think, when the Halls of Reflection thing said "there must always be a Lich King" that it would be someone other than a living or fallen Paladin?

 

[Kuchinawa212]

dark prince (as in the prince of persia Two thrones dark prince) has come again Noooooooooo

>=[ I thought I already killed him

 

[benbenthegamerman]

I might not know anything about the lore in Warcraft, but I can see giving a crown to a guy with flaming eyes as being a very problematic solution...

Well, the fact that you dont know WoW lore is a given that you probably arent right, because Fordragon (who was a palidan and regent king of stormwind for a while) was kept alive by the red dragonflight's (the dragonflight of life) flame and his devoutness for the light. Tirion gave him the crown because Fordragon is a very good guy, and since the lich king represents death but fordragon is life, then the struggle for dominance of the true lich king could go on until the end of time.

 

[Scrythe]

I don't get that last minute "there must always be a Lich King". I mean, there is no reason, now that the Burning Legion wants nothing to do with him. He was only made as a "lieutenant" on Azeroth for the invasion, who ended up getting way too powerful to control.

But hell, I guess Blizz just wants the easy way out. Four years from now, we're all going to have to fight this guy, who doesn't have much recognition in the series, other than Wrynn Jr's babysitter.

EDIT: HOLY SHIT! They got the old voice actors for Arthas and his father!