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Personally I thought it was rather underwhelming.

Script was poor
The animation wasn’t very animated
The story was basically a bullet list of things that you might already know from the whole saga of Ghaz and yarrick

I think this would be very poorly received by someone who knew nothing about 40K and I don’t really see what it offers for 40K fans apart from some nice background drawings.

Sorry to be a downer, hopefully it was enjoyed by others

The animation surely isn't high quality, but the story telling was fine. Personally I didn't know all the story of Yarrick, so I found it interesting.

The biggest issue was that as a non native English speaker, understanding Orkish was quite difficult. I didn't find a way to activate subtitles.

I enjoyed it, but yeah if this is the norm it's not gonna be worth buying a sub for. TBH, that animation woulda been great if they had chopped it up into smaller bits and used it as part of a "introduction to the heros of warhammer 40k" series on youtube. I think the video woulda been more exciting if they had teased an upcoming thing we didn't know like "But, Ghazakul's finally had eneugh of him following and is gonna have a big fight wif him in octarious"

Spoletta wrote:
The animation surely isn't high quality, but the story telling was fine. Personally I didn't know all the story of Yarrick, so I found it interesting.

The biggest issue was that as a non native English speaker, understanding Orkish was quite difficult. I didn't find a way to activate subtitles.

That’s a good point but the Orks have always spoken broken English to make the sound like low IQ football hooligan.

I’m suprised they don’t have subtitles considering the global market GW has

Everything we've seen has been cool but wading into such a packed marketplace with comparatively little is risky. Wise to bundle the minis into an early commitment from the addicted.

Nope & not going to. I'll get better cinematics & storytelling from my regular games of 40k.

I have my issues with Warhammer+ as a whole (to the point where I think a general boycott - something that's been suggested by a few - by as many of us as possible is probably a sensible move), but I thought 'Old Bale Eye' was quite enjoyable.

The animation was somewhat low effort, but I've seen as bad, or worse, in supposedly professionally produced anime. Storytelling was fine though I thought.

I'd guess much of the initial offerings will be of a similar standard. They'll presumably want some quantity of content for the service, so frame upon frame of painstakingly hand drawn and animated art ala say 'Akira', it won't be.

The fact that If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device got cancelled while something this cringy gets GW's official seal of approval ... well, I just have to shake my head is disapproval.

It was alright, but not the kind of content I'm going to pay for.

Spoletta wrote:
The biggest issue was that as a non native English speaker, understanding Orkish was quite difficult. I didn't find a way to activate subtitles.

According to GW on Facebook, W+ will have the option for subtitles in various languages.

It was funny and I had a few laughs, I didn't know the story.

Hasn't changed my opinion on Warhammer+ one bit, I will wait for reactions on the other content. And the finished release of Angels of Blood in who knows how many months from now...

I thought the ltd models were a great value offer for a Warhammer + subscription but based on this i think they don’t have enough confidence in the product and the ltd models are their way of twisting some arms to get more subscribers

It was the nail in the coffin for me as regards Warhammer+. It felt like a long intro cut scene for a fairly mediocre game from 20 years ago. I don’t really like anime so that style just felt completely wrong for 40K. Was waiting for Yarrick to do a Dragon Punch or something as opposed to feeling like the universe we all know.

So if that’s the best they can offer to lure me in, I can only imagine what drivel they have in reserve.

I watched it,it's really poor quality.

It's barely animated, the entire things off model, voice acting was garbage.

If this is the best they can manage their platforms doomed.

That's what to expect from GW, low $€£¥ outlay low quality.

The ork perspective on Yarrick is cute.

That's it. A narrator plus some grunting and the occasional animated element in a string of stills didn't do anything for me.

Couldn't get the video to load on the website. Not sure what crappy site they hosted it from, but it does not bode well for their subscription service.

Kinda bad all around IMO. It felt like I was watching a low-fi VHS recording of an unfinished early production cut of a saturday morning cartoon from the 80s on a 1st generation color tv from the 60s.

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't expecting this to be like a high budget blockbuster anime, Im just stunned that they thought it was a good idea to showcase their new streaming service with something that has a notably poorer animation quality than the first season of The Venture Bros.

The Newman wrote:
The fact that If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device got cancelled while something this cringy gets GW's official seal of approval ... well, I just have to shake my head is disapproval.

It didn't get cancelled, Alfabusa decided to stop producing it.

I found it entertaining. It's not cutting edge animation, but it's not bottom barrel either. And we know that Hammer and Bolter will have a number of different animation styles between the various stories.

As for knowing the story, we know lots of stories we listen to. It's all in the delivery.

Meh... a mediocre ad for GW´s minis.

chaos0xomega wrote:

The Newman wrote:
The fact that If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device got cancelled while something this cringy gets GW's official seal of approval ... well, I just have to shake my head is disapproval.

It didn't get cancelled, Alfabusa decided to stop producing it.

So yes, it got cancelled.

chaos0xomega wrote:

It didn't get cancelled, Alfabusa decided to stop producing it.

So.... cancelled.

Was it just me or was the story a bit wrong anyway, Ghaz is portrayed as being in his big Mek armour, as per the new model, all through the history of his battles with yarrick, but I thought this only happened after the space wolf chopped his head off?

I really hated the portrayal of the Orks, the ones being told the story. They seemed to act more like children than any other Ork portrayals I've seen.

The scene where Yarrick defeats the warboss and makes the Orks flee felt like a GI Joe cartoon, not a proper rout of an enemy.

Meh, I enjoyed it. Animation style was more 'moving comic' than 'animated cartoon' and im actuuslly quite OK with that - stylistically it worked for me.

Story wise nothing new - its yarrick. And there's nothing wrong with that in the slightest.

Only thing that surprised me is Yarrick has a Russian accent. I always picture the more belligerent characters, (especially space wolves) as having Scottish accent.

 Flipsiders wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:

The Newman wrote:
The fact that If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device got cancelled while something this cringy gets GW's official seal of approval ... well, I just have to shake my head is disapproval.

It didn't get cancelled, Alfabusa decided to stop producing it.

So yes, it got cancelled.

I think he's trying to say GW didn't go out and shut him down, Alfabusa canceled it himself

Didn't look much worse or a lot better, then the short movies you can watch on YT. Assuming GW is doing this as cheap as possible, it isn't that bad. It sure could be a lot worse.

Plus I got to know that young orks are not very big.

I wasn’t expecting lots of content on Warhammer plus but for the price, compared to other on demand providers, I was expecting much higher quality.

I liked the animation. It was a bit rough to start with and reminded me slightly of Flash Animations, but in the end it won me over.

It reminded me of the Darkest Dungeon, the way the animation worked.