Sunday, April 23, 2006

The Blackrock Depths Shortcut

Normally, to get into one of the higher instances in the game named "Blackrock Depths", you have to go along these huge chains and make your way to a rock suspended over hot magma, down into it and then back out, across another chain to a lower level that leads to the instance entrance. In this video, I took my 60 mage "Bleoo" and made a two-parter showing how to get down to the lower level a bit quicker without having to go into the middle suspended rock. This is a well known path to many of the more seasoned players, but may help out a few folks I figured. It's essentially my first WoW movie and the start of more to come with different subject matter and things to show that I have found out in my time playing the World of Warcraft.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

WoW on G4TV

This clip is from G4's show "Cheat!" and shows a few of the more secret quests within the game including the Chicken Quest and the Zelda Link Quest. I remember catching this on TV and thought it had some pretty cool info, click play and watch it yourself; now on the internet.

World of Warcraft GM Power

The GM's of World of Warcraft (the human players that work for Blizzard and act as assistants/police in-game) get some awesome gear and can visit special places. This video, made while playing on an unofficial server, shows what gear, places, and overall commands the GM's get. He can even spawn giant bosses and kill them with a simple command as well. Impressive!

Thursday, April 20, 2006

World of Offline Gaming

What happens when players play too much World of Warcraft and it bleeds into real life - or - a great little movie showing a bit of what happens in the World of Warcraft in real life situations. Either way, it's a great, funny clip and I recommend you all click Play and enjoy!

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Fun with Bots

Like most every game, the World of Warcraft has it's fair share of people that try to cheat the system. Some use exploits, others use bots as seen in this video, but remember all that are caught get banned and Blizzard has recently banned thousands of accounts for stuff like what is seen in this video. A bot is essentially a script that runs alongside the World of Warcraft game telling your character to do certain instructions automatically, without you even needing to be at the computer. Things like attack, heal, loot, look for new monster. When two Horde fellas stumble on an Alliance bot, they decide to have some fun with it!

Monday, April 17, 2006

Return

This is one of the best, if not *the* best movie I have seen for the game in any catagory. I was saving this one for later, but it's being presented now by popular demand.

From Google Video:


"Return" is the tale of Voldigar of Stromgarde, a grizzled warrior finally returning to his beloved home and bride only to find his past in ruins.

Utilizing the World of Warcraft game engine and lore, film-makers Terran "Liadov" Gregory and Ezra "Voldigar" Ferguson take Machinima down the road of the classic cinematic fantasy epic. This short tale is hopefully only a herald of much more to come.

2005 Machinima Film Festival * Winner, Best Off The Shelf Machinima * Nominee, Best Direction * Nominee, Best Writing * Nominee, Best Editing

Blizzcon Movie Contest (2005) * Winner


Click play to watch:

GUARDS

A great parody on the COPS tv show, GUARDS details a day in the life of a Guard in the World of Warcraft. Some nice editing and great role playing work done in this clip by "ibeckman671".