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Man, I love StarCraft 2, the whole trilogy is great. Yeah, it stumbles in many places story-wise, but like Sanguinia I tend to look at it more positively then most. StarCraft 1 was a huge part of my gaming teens, I remember LAN parties, custom map creation, making silly gaming clans with people at my school... Good times. By the time SC2 finally came out, life and things were different, but I still loved it overall. Excited to follow this LP! By the way, I think you've left a dangling italics tag somewhere in the first post, BisbyWorl. It looks a bit broken with everything italicized.
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Duran joins the UED first, and joins Kerrigan second. He's not ACTUALLY infested - given his shapeshifter powers, he can appear to be whatever he wants to be. He can seem completely clean to the UED and learn stuff about them, and then seem completely infested to Kerrigan, and have all kinds of useful information to share with Kerrigan to make her trust him as an ally. Then he disappears and Kerrigan is like "where the gently caress did Duran go?" She did specifically mention that he was gone and she didn't know. Rythian fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Mar 30, 2024 |
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Lt. Danger posted:he joins Kerrigan first - he coordinates with the zerg to foul up the attack on Aiur and lets them into the Psi-Disruptor after assassinating Stukov. Stukov says Duran is "infested" Sure, he's sabotaging the UED from the very beginning, but he's definitely working his own plans and not just working for Kerrigan the entire time. I sincerely doubt they had the whole Amon-wizard thing planned back in Brood War, but as evident in the secret mission, he's clearly more than "just" an infested Terran, and had the ability to fake being a clean normal human, and fake being an infested Terran. Which by the way, infested Terran probably comes in all shapes and sizes. I don't think it's quite so easy to say "we know what they look like". We've seen Dr Ariel Hanson in Wings of Liberty, for one, and I bet there's been infested characters in novels/comics and the like that don't all look and act exactly the same way. Whatever deal went down between Brood War Kerrigan and Brood War Duran, we don't know. By the time we play from her POV, they're already allied and working together - who knows how Duran introduced himself. All that said: Of course HotS's writing is lacking. All subtlety has gone out the window. I just think we don't need to poo poo on everything just because it's not obviously stated exactly how it happened. Is "he was a shapeshifter wizard" a lazy explanation for how Duran worked? Sure. But it does work, and makes sense.
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One ex-dev mentioned it in a throwaway line without any details. Don't think that quite counts as "they admitted".
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MagusofStars posted:Pretty sure that's Nynaeve from the Wheel of Time, whose signature move for the first few books (and maybe the show? fell behind on the 2nd season) is tugging on her hair as a sign of anger. Yeah. It was the thread tag for the Wheel of Time TV show around the time of season 1. I kind of tapped out of the show pretty early on, but the tag is still there from my excitement pre release.
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DeepThrobble posted:The youtube short doesn't give much detail, as one would expect from a clip that's under a minute long, but he detailed a lot more in the starcraft subreddit. quote:Hey, thanks for the reply! I double checked your numbers and found the following: Rythian fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Apr 14, 2024 |
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