Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima - Kotaku Comments

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Collins1 — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:14:52 MST

Wow. 90 minutes of not playing a game. That's gotta be fun.

Collins1

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Ping5000 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:48:20 MST

Flipped through a couple scenes.

Questionable music, impressive animation, and man the close-ups are not pretty.

Ping5000

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

MooseMuffin — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:02:52 MST

That was pretty freaking impressive.

MooseMuffin

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

kylenalepa — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:35:29 MST

Just finished watching it. Pretty slow for the first half hour or so, but from that point on, it was pretty impressive. I've never played World of Warcraft, so from a machinima point of view, I don't know how difficult it was to make, but the shots in it were certainly more complex than I would have thought possible in the game.

kylenalepa

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Ignus — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:22:20 MST

@Ignus:
If she came back that is.

Ignus

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Ignus — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:17:36 MST

@NeoAkira:
On one of my old servers a wife left her husband and kids to live with someone she met while playing.
Not sure if she came or what though.

Ignus

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Chewbenator — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:05:34 MST

@danteix: YOU ARE NOT PREPARED! ahahah, had to do it.

Chewbenator

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

NotSoCool — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:59:38 MST

@MrSatan: Actually, I've notice quite a bit of sources using MGS music. South Park and "Dude, Where's My Mount?" both used it.

NotSoCool

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Mike Fahey — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:57:26 MST

It gets better. There is a bit of a long setup.

Mike Fahey

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

SnakeCL — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:21:38 MST

@Blind_Evil:

My ex g/f left me for a guy she met on FFXI.

SnakeCL

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

MrSatan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:14:40 MST

God what a terrible engine to make a machinima in. Not to mention the author had to go and use Metal Gear Solid music, which should never even be in the same room as World of Warcraft. I did watch a bit though, and as machinima goes it looked pretty good. Most machinima sucks though so thats not saying much.

MrSatan

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Witzbold — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:06:23 MST

@Blind_Evil: See there we go! Happy ending as a result of a gaming addiction!

Congrats! :)

Witzbold

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Blind_Evil — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:02:09 MST

@Witzbold: Over here~

Met my girlfriend in FFXI 3.5 years ago.

Blind_Evil

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Dakkonfire — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:35:45 MST

Unless I dloaded the wrong one, it's just a lot of talking.. God bless the fans, but voice actors they are not..

Dakkonfire

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Witzbold — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:26:27 MST

@NeoAkira: Then again you can think of it in the sense of how many have hooked up or gotten married due to WoW.

Witzbold

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Witzbold — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:20:59 MST

@NeoAkira: If it happened in Everquest it will happen in WoW.

Just because WoWs userbase is much larger than EQs, it ups the %age of the chance of it going down.

Witzbold

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Mienvard — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:20:49 MST

WoW machinimas can be awesome, and your short praise has gotten me very interested! Downloading nauw!

Mienvard

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

NeoAkira — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:07:14 MST

@frypandan: "I wonder how many people have left their significant (or insignificant) other, because they were addicted to WoW?"

If it's even 1 it's far too many.

NeoAkira

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

frypandan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:55:44 MST

I wonder how many people have left their significant (or insignificant) other, because they were addicted to WoW?

frypandan

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

moustachio — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:54:36 MST

am I seeing things? this thing is 2.3 gig?
oh man, that'll take me like a month to download considering how rubbish broadband is here in NZ.
Poos.

moustachio

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

sascha23 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:50:58 MST

Seriously, every single person commenting was blown away by this piece as well.

A bit shocking that a 20 year student with no ambition to get involved in the film industry made something this ambitious for fun.

My hats off to him for showing that creativity doesn't require excessive age or budget.

sascha23

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Akira_Isley — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:39:35 MST

Just watched about 5 minutes of it and I just couldn't get into. The voice acting is pretty bad, and the animation is no where near as good as that of Advent Children. For the first 5 minutes, I found the directing rather bad. But of course, this is a Machinima movie, and for that it is pretty good compared to what's out there. But still, not good enough to keep my attention for more than 5 minutes.

Akira_Isley

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

StopTheOncoming — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:36:40 MST

YOu don't really need to know much about the game to enjoy it. It is Lore-based but it still doesn't require any previous knowledge of the game to understand it.

StopTheOncoming

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Witzbold — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:29:20 MST

Ill watch this later. Got to get to cleaning asap. As with my flurry of posts Im sure you all can assume I have been procrastinating, which I have. D:

Witzbold

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Kj719 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:26:22 MST

Downloading now as well...I'll let you know what I think about it in a week when it's done downloading ;oP

Kj719

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

FanDam — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:25:40 MST

So what kind of familiarity do you need with the game to enjoy this?

FanDam

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

kylenalepa — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:24:56 MST

Downloading now. Hopefully it's as good as you say it is. :)

kylenalepa

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Pombar — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:24:55 MST

I decided after 2 years of playing it that it was just too good for me. I'm not responsible enough to play this and actually get anything else done, so I'll just stick with less addictive games for now. It's like a really awesome book that you can't put down. That goes on FOREVER.
Back on topic, downloading now. A Fahey recommendation is always to be heeded in my books.

Pombar

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

StopTheOncoming — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:19:18 MST

Glad to see this posted, really deserved it.

StopTheOncoming

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

greeneggsnsam — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:16:24 MST

@XerXer00: Nothing more interesting to say? You must be new here.

greeneggsnsam

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

yashichi8bit — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:09:14 MST

@danteix: Yep, me to. I know its a great game and I have watched quite a few friends play it. But I have made a promise to myself not to play it...ever.

So far so good.

yashichi8bit

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

Akanubon — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:07:32 MST

Downloading this now. I hope it's as good as you say it is. When someone hypes something up as much as you did, I'm always a little disappointed.

Akanubon

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

XerXer00 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:06:59 MST

Sweet

XerXer00

Tales Of The Past III - 90 Minute WoW Machinima

DanteIX — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:06:50 MST

WoW is getting out of proportion. I would play it but i know it would consume me.

DanteIX