It may not be the top of the news anymore, but the World of Warcraft is still one of the most popular online RPG’s around.
The cinematic trailer for their latest expansion pack, Mists of Pandaria, was published only ten days ago, and since then has been viewed more than 7 million times.
Any veteran nerd Internet user will remember the classic Leroy Jenkins World Of Warcraft viral video from the dawn of YouTube when an over-zealous Leroy ran into battle before his gild was fully prepared.
Now, nearly six years later (wow time flies on the Internet when you’re having fun) director Finn O’Hara has re-made the classic scene into a heist style action short.
The two week old video published by CFCWSFF already has over 200,000 views, and is shared by IHeartChaos, YouTubeTrends, and io9.
I have no idea what he’s talking about even though I did consider myself a nerd. This guy in the red shirt is a true Jedi nerd master. He asks some WOW designers a question at BlizzCon and they can’t answer him. The crowd cheers. I think Blizzard should hire him.
The now dubbed, ‘Red Shirt Guy’, responds to some questions over his famous BlizzCon 2010 clip.
This truck driver has amazing skills. One wrong move and it would all be over. He’d be a splattered mess off the edge of the cliff. Instead, he pulls the hardest three point turn in world’s history with perfection.
