Chapter 108 - Chapter 107: Ten Years In Video Games, Nine Years in CG (2/2)
Medivh’s now had a disappointed tone, “I’ve once lost ain
“If you can’t solve the probleet someone else you will”
Medivh turned around and took his leave, leaving one e behind
“I’ve warned you, and the fates are in your hand”
The screen turned black, signaling the end of the cineh it was short it contained a lot of information Xue Kai didn’t pay much attention to the story of Azeroth previously, but he had gotten a lot of information from this cinematic
Humans were currently under attack by the orcs, and there was an unknown disease spreading too A mysterious person entered the palace of the hu
This short cine that was ih Xue Kai didn’t knoho Medivh was, nor did he knohat his huh that the story captured his attention
Moreover, the cinematic was really well done
In this world, China wasn’t lacking good aniood sound effects co was h money, it wasn’t the best of the best, but it wasn’t too far off either
The only proble to spend that money
These cine, and the h to ame
Why would Chen Mo spend so much money on CG?
It wasn’t kno much Blizzard spent on CG, but it was commonly accepted that the threewas around five million USD
In the parallel world, due to the improvements in animations and CG, as well as the lower pay meant that it was hest quality CG, but a slightly cheaper one, one that he was happy with
Even so, Chen Mo still spent around thirty-seven million RMB
And this was the result of it, a cinematic that summarises all the key scenes from the previous versions, minus
For exaed to when Medivh warned the king, cutting out everything before it
Chen Mo spent a huge chunk of money from I Am MT just to make this cineet had to be replaced with rengerings or pure narrations in order to save money
Truthfully, if Chen Mo wasn’t financially supported by a game like I As like these, and would’ve needed to settle for so cheaper
If Chen Mo went all out on the cineame would easily surpass hundreds of millions, there was no way he could’ve spent thatthe artwork and the like didn’t even come close to the cost of the cine behind, ‘Ten Years In Video Ga fro Aurora Studios knew about this, whereas Su Jinyu and the others were completely in the dark Su Jinyu and Qian Kun would probably die froe risk after all If Warcraft didn’t garder many players, wouldn’t Chen Mo be out tens of millions?
If he spent that ame like I Am MT, he would make so muchthat ale cineo down in history, it orth it even if it would cost double the price!
The reason Chen Mo illing to spend all this money was not because of the immediate return, but to build up the brand of Warcraft to enable future games
Moreover, thirty-seven million was only about six inal!
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Xue Kai was very impressed at this level of dedication There were very few overseas co to spend this amount of money, and even less so in China
Moreover, this cinematic wasn’t just about the quality of animations, it was also content rich!
Xue Kai was con ed a feords with Lightbringer Uther, the coa Xue Kai to left click to select, and ht click
“Huh? The controls are different coion Conquest”
Xue Kai was shocked as Legion Conquest was the gold standard for RTS gaames who even dared to deviate from that combat system
As a senior RTS player, Xue Kai didn’t start playing immediately, but chose to look deeper into the controls for Warcraft
Left click to select, right click to move, and after the unit it selected, there were a fewmove, stop, hold, attack, patrol and abilities
Moreover, all these actions had shortcut keys
“Hold? Patrol?”
Xue Kai clicked on patrol then soan to run between the two points
“The control systeion Conquest,” exclain of Hero Abilities quite refreshi+ng In LEgion Conquest, although there were a few special units, there wasn’t a ‘Hero’ class
In Warcraft, heroes were a part of the game, there was an icon of the hero on the top left, and heroes would even have special abilities that were very useful in battle
Moreover, there was an inventory in the botto, it was obvious that this ga, there are so a the objectives
During that process, Arthas kept talking, responding to Xue Kai’s colory!”
“May the Holy Light bless ion Conquest, it wasn’t perfect there, and was quite aard at times
On the other hand, the voice lines for Warcraft were inal ones as reference Xue Kai felt that these voice lines were very natural, keeping to the Western Fantasy theme without all the aard translations
It didn’t take long for Xue Kai to beat the first level
As Xue Kai had a strong background in RTS gan levels didn’t pose h the the first level, Xue Kai didn’t continue iroup chat
Kaiser: “This gaion Conquest doesn’t even come close to this!!!!”