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Random Scenes 1.1

Comedy cinematic with a bunch of more or less random scenes, where all dialogue is made using the game's unit speech/sounds. The cinematic does not have an epic continuous story but is rather styled like a comedy sketch show. The overall atmosphere is mostly very unserious and many of the events are random and weird, so the humor of this cinematic is not supposed to be for everyone's liking.

Has 11 scenes, most of them are very short but there's a couple of longer scenes aswell.
The cinematic lasts for 8 minutes and 20 seconds.

Keywords:
Cinematic, Random, Scene, Humor, Funny, Unit, Sounds, Warcraft, Movie, Short, Speech, Stupid, Comedy, Sketch
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Random Scenes 1.1 (Map)

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19:28, 15th Jun 2010 ap0calypse: Approved (changes made)

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19:28, 15th Jun 2010
ap0calypse: Approved (changes made)
 
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Random Scenes are cinematic by MorkZe that are consists of 11 random scene that fully utilize the unit dialog to form an movies. To begin with, the humor are good and this is definitely something positive and worthy to be watch as it was done pretty well.

Unfortunately, this cinematic have lot's of negative aspect that kills the replayability values and the quality of it. To begin with, most of the camera was place at rather poor angle and have rather choppy movement. They even move way too fast, turning towards the wrong angle and even goes through wall and destructible/doodad most of the time, which is something that require fixing.

Another thing that definitely require fixing was the terrain, the terrain could be acceptable at the standard of 2/5 (Lacking). But, it definitely could use improvement on it cause it seems to be done in rather quick manners.

Infact, some of the tree that was place over the hill look as if they're floating all the time rather than their root stay on the ground. There is more to be talk about the terrain such as tiles variation issues, but I would let the other told you about it.

Next, the scene of pit lord versus the other such as blademaster, panderan and others was soo boring. What we are seeing is an dummy fight where a person was standing still to be hit by the others. If it isn't for the humor from the unit conversation, this would be the worst scene I ever watch.

On the other hand, the real quality killer of this map was sounds and music. You play an music as a sound rather than a music. This resulted into an estimate of 5-8 music plus an dialog being play at the same time, it is extremely annoying to listen to 5-8 music at the same time along with the dialog as it could drown the sounds of the dialog.

As for the submission rules, your description was lacking the proper structure despite it mention an minimal and yet sufficient detail about your map. However, I do believe description that short and lack of structure are not enough to make this map acceptable.

Overall, this cinematic have potential to be a rather good comedy cinematic that deserve 4/5 (Recommend). Unfortunately, it seems to be done in a haste and causing an downgrade in several quality on it such as the flow of camera movement, camera angle, sounds & music and so on.

In my opinion, this map have potential but it isn't ready to be approve yet as it should

1) Improve the description of this thread by using an proper structure.
2) Fix the angle, flow movement and speed of the camera.
3) Improve the terrain, it was lacking (It was close to be unacceptable as well).
4) Fix the sounds & music. Let music play as music instead as sounds.

As for now, it was 1/5 (Unacceptable) from me. I would request the staff to set this map to Rejected Till Updated. Once you have fix this map, click the button called "Update" to upload your new updated map in order to overwrite the old map and to give this thread of yours an description with proper structure.

The update button work just like how edit button work at post. Please do not delete and re-upload map by clicking the delete button and then goes to upload section to upload it again as it was against the rules, you could be punish by -rep or infraction (Especially after you been inform about the use of update button) for doing so.

Any rejected map that was updated would have it's status switch back to pending (Unless it was permanently rejected), so do not worry about it.
 
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Thanks for the feedback. This was a rushed and quickly done like you suspected and I should've spent more time on the quality.
I'll give this more time to get the issues fixed and try to improve all-around.

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Re-uploaded with the terrain and sound issues fixed (hopefully). Also improved cameras and remade the fight scene.
Improved the despcription a bit but it's hard to describe a cinematic without any specific story :p
 
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Some scenes made me laugh, but as Septimus mentioned, something misses, but I give 3/5
 
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The scene with the Pitlord King annihilating his servants was hilarious to be honest.

I'm surprised you didn't go to town with the Death Knight / Demon Hunter / Dread Lord combos with "Darkness" calling on his phone.

Otherwise, pretty entertaining and made me laugh quite a bit.

Should've been re-approved now all the supposed camera issues are gone.
4/5
 
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I bet it took you a very, very long time to sort out all those sounds.
It was really worth watching it, great job!
Maybe the scripting and timing wasn't excellent, it was funny. ;)
 
As a member of the Group Map Reviewers, I will be reviewing campaigns/cinematics :

Review - Random Scenes

A cinematic by MorkZe

Camera :

The camera needs some improvements, it should constantly move and sometimes the view wasn't so nice.

Terrain :

Well since this cinematic is "special", the terrain didn't have to be magnificent since this is supposed to be random nonsense.

Story :

There is no story, just some random scenes with warcraft 3 units talking to each other using the warcraft 3 unit sounds. It's a bit funny I guess.

Animations :

Not important for this cinematic.

Other :

No typos.

Hiveworkshop :

You have written an acceptable description.

Overall :

It's a bit funny so I guess this can be approved.

Final Rating : 2/5
 
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