halfway through that I kept expecting him to poke a stick through the cage and start giggling "Stupid doggy .. that's right who's a stupid doggy .. *Poke poke poke*

Given his disposition towards the worgen, it seems like he's capable of doing that :p

Came off very Victorian...hmm, surprising given the WoW atmosphere.

That's because this area in particular in the gameworld has been closed off and gone on w/o being involved in the worlds events and culture basically.

Kinda like amish country in a sense

Gooootcha, kinda reminded me of the undead section but...was kinda...derr...haven't played in forever, so thanks for the update on that. :)

its a good first few levels. played through it once on each class, bliz has gotten their game down pat.

I was pretty underwhelmed by it. It follows the story, true enough, but it... lacked something. I fear the Goblin cinematic is more in my favour because that one actually showed some of the amazing things Blizzard can do with animating their models. This felt more like a Wrathgate replay which was pretty good, mind you, but most animation was in the mouth/lip movement than anything else.

Godfrey is pretty bad ass here, I have to admit, love his voice, his cloak and his top hat. I am a bit pouty about that there was no female Worgen appearance in this video which simply proves Blizzard still hasn't made up their minds about what exactly to do with the bitches.

Good video which fits perfectly, but like many many others... I expected more interesting things to be shown during this panel at Blizzcon.

Thanks for sharing!

Well, Blizzcon has been pretty underwhelming this year unless you're diehard aching for Diablo3 news. We already know Cataclysm is coming, the beta has been running for half a year, people KNOW stuff with every new beta build being released. Frankly... they screwed up by releasing that Cataclysm cinematic a week before Blizzcon. Pray tell, what was the point in doing THAT? =_=

Also, yeah, though there is the thing with the way the goblins were portrayed in the cinematic. They already had the superior facial expressions like I said since the beginning, whereas the worgen.. well, there isn't much you can do with them yet at that point in the story. Your character is feral at this point, hidden away in a dark cage.
However, now I wonder wether or not there'll be male/female variations in these worgen cinematics. The goblin cinematic didn't have the problem, since we only had no-name NPC's and Ace take the lead. Yours was nowhere to be seen. :<

I blame the TV commercial for them releasing the Cataclysm cinematic earlier than Blizzcon itself; they could have waited with that after the con. I will never be able to guess their true reason behind doing this as Wow simply is the biggest interest when it comes to Blizzard games. Even at Blizzcon it remains the main subject no matter that there are Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 panels. WoW is their biggest income and success.
But then every company makes their mistakes. I can only hope they learn from it in the future...

I was already wondering if we would see our goblin character in the cage, if the goblin calling out for help is actually your character or just an NPC that is getting a bit of the spotlight before he drowns... or the likes.
Is the Worgen in the cage actually your character or is this just a glimpse of what happened to the feral Worgen that got captured in the forest? Hard to say... If they go with 'random Worgen lol', I would be disappointed as that is an easy way out. Still, it will take quite a bit of coding from Blizzard's side to have your customized Worgen appear in such a cinematic.

They will be talking about the dances in the art panel which starts in less than 20 minutes. Maybe there we'll get to see some more of the animations and what not of both the Goblins and the Worgen. The male Worgen were actually pretty expressionate like the Goblins, or the Alpha model was. They had a lot of feeling and emotion in their faces and with their ears. Not sure if that remained the same with the updated model, I'll have to check that out in Model Viewer.

The one downside to worgen that puts me off is the fact that it's Metzen doing the voices for the worgen form, whereas the human form has a proper different voice with a British accent.
Still, I have yet to see the wide array of emotions a goblin can show on a worgen model. Though that's mostly because of the perma-snarl they have on their face.

About the goblin cinematic, it's the "best friend" character Ace who you pick up with your car early on in Kezan. (regarding picking up friends, your racial hobgoblin bank is also one of the friends you pick up during the same quests). It struck me when I wanted to check wether or not your own character appears in the cinematic, but the moment I saw Ace's clothing, hairstyle and color, even the face and hue of his skin, I knew it must've been him. ^^;

Worgen are a bit iffy with the ears right now. The males are decent enough, but the females need to have their position changed to the top of the head. Right now they're on the side like human ears, it makes them look... strange. :s

Oooh, I never really got to see Ace up close as I only seen youtube videos about the Goblins' starter areas and that doesn't show many characteristics on certain characters when watching it in fuzzy full screen. Welp, at least that gives that NPC in the cinematic a name then, my little wonder is solved XD

Yeah, speculations of the female Worgen having Goblin ear placeholders have been fluttering about, but I don't see many resemblances between those ears, thus making me believe that the ears we see are the actual ears meant for the female Worgen. At the moment, in my non-beta Model Viewer, the ear option doesn't even work, leaving the female Worgen with two holes at the sides of their head ._.
The current model for the female Worgen has more ties with humans than the male model does with her standing up straight, having human-like eyes, eyeshadow, prominent eyelashes and the ears there where a human has them. I wonder if Blizzard does this on purpose to make the females more fairer, like a Beauty and the Beast syndrome.

In my opinion, the beer belly and strangely shaped behind has to go (which I am sure they will) and the head needs many adjustments; muzzle, eyes and ears. I even went and made my own edit of what I think could be changed without overhauling the current (released) model all too much as some people were tossing out their opinions with sketches and what not. http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/.....le_myedit2.jpg

FOR GILNEAS!

silly inferior alliance race gets rain and no explosions.

while it is rather lame, it has a very, very good atmosphere.
and i'm not gonna go longer than that because then it'll just be alot of personal preference blabber about how i don't really care for worgen.

I like that the Worgen intro gave the characters a personal stake in the video, where as the goblin one didn't really have a chance to do that.

It feels like they put more effort into making the Worgen intro into a more movie type cinematic that you get drawn into the plot of, while the Goblin one wasn't quite as... attention grabbing, just didn't feel it there.

Both seem like interesting races, but I think I'm leaning more towards the Goblins myself.

I think if the goblin's intro would have been a little longer and more informative regarding what had happened up to the point they showed it would have been the superior cinematic. With a game like WoW, spiffy model animations on their own aren't enough to really capture player interest because nobody plays the game for the visuals (ignoring the scenery/landscapes who can't love those?)

The Worgen intro had a lot more back story and at least alluded to what kind of past the players character has. Even though it wasn't as visually appealing it had more story and information which is what you need in a lore-driven game.

That being said,

For the Horde! I am and will forever be Forsaken!