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SC2 Trilogy in a nutshell: Great fun gameplay, absolutely poo poo story.
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PurpleXVI posted:The Protoss not being as smart or competent as they think they are is completely in character and also the reason for why a lot of things in Starcraft 1 and Brood War happened the way they did. Yeah, the Protoss Conclave was a big reason why poo poo went badly for a while, those guys were pretty dumb.
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Jun 10, 2023 15:59
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So i'm guessing that Matt Horner is supposed to be the Magistate stand-in from SC1 since they can't have the player character be a person?
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Jun 11, 2023 12:22
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They should have upped the damage their fire does to biological targets by *a lot* if they want people to actually use these things.
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Jun 24, 2023 13:20
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So how *could* you fix the Firebats? Make them attack in a giant 90 degree angle representing them just waving their arms around unleashing a wave of fire at anything in front?
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Jun 25, 2023 01:21
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I'm guessing they're *far* more useful in a Bunker than actually running around on the field? At least against Zerg.
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Jun 25, 2023 03:05
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evilmiera posted:Bit late, but that line was so badass to young me and really got me hyped for the continuation of the story, and what Raynor was eventually going to have to give up to achieve his revenge.  Same.
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Jul 8, 2023 23:49
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By popular demand posted:It is not a subtle plotline. He's also a character that showed up in a comic that came out to retcon the cancelled game Starcraft Ghost's story into the normal story. I personally dislike adding characters from comics unless it's done well since most people will not have read it and will confuse the story, like how Assassin's Creed also did with a few of it's characters.
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Jul 9, 2023 16:35
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Cythereal posted:
Having the plot be more advanced than just what we got might be too much for the Blizzard writing team though, they're not very good at making plots that make sense.
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Jul 9, 2023 16:52
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I feel like the Goliath is just way too squishy for a "frontliner", it's only got as much HP as a upgraded Marauder for about 50% more cost to build as well as an extra supply. I suppose these upgrades makes it more likely to be in the back now which might make it better for an AA role and thus less likely to just die. The Spectre/Ghost debate I can't say much about although It's really stupid for Raynor to just go "oh ok, sure I'll do that" to Nova's request when you remember that Ghosts are all mentally indoctrinated by the ones that use them, be they the Confederates or the Dominion to be as loyal as possible.
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Jul 16, 2023 15:43
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SIGSEGV posted:The real reason he's suspicious is because voodoo dolls are not actually related to voodoo and that's how you know he's an infiltrator or other less than recommendable personage. Apparently the reason why he's all into voodoo is because his grandma thought his psionic abilities were voodoo-related and then they got tossed out of his hometown because people got afraid of his "weirdness".
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Jul 16, 2023 23:31
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I like the dong-gun that's just there for flavor.
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Jul 18, 2023 23:48
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They really did completely fumble the ball here with the story, this "prophecy" nonsense makes everything a mess. They *really* should have just kept the ideas and aesthetics of the first game than going for this tripe, IMO.
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Jul 29, 2023 10:05
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BisbyWorl posted:Valerian Mengsk is... well... Mengsk's son. He was introduced in the Dark Templar Saga series of novels, and is literally the only thing to really carry over into SC2 despite the Saga being written specifically to give story hooks for SC2. His entire thing is comprised of being a Not rear end in a top hat Mengsk and being an archeology fan, and the latter rarely comes up here. One thing to note here is that his mother was a Umojan, they're a bit more technologically advanced than the rest of the Terrans and we'll see them later on. Lt. Danger posted:no, it was pretty obviously xel'naga Duran was referencing. it was always gonna be the xel'naga returning That makes me wonder about a storyline about Duran and the return of all the rear end in a top hat Xel'nagas and them getting their asses kicked for the last time by an united front of all the races tired of their poo poo would have fared instead of what we got in this trilogy. Koorisch fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Jul 30, 2023 |
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Jul 30, 2023 10:03
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Lt. Danger posted:big ol' spoilers for all SC2 campaigns: that is what happens I meant in a way that doesn't *suck*.
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Jul 30, 2023 23:15
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As it turns out, brain rot does not in fact stop but progress until there's only rot left.
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Jul 31, 2023 08:56
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Calax posted:It didn't help that right as Esports began to take off, and popularity of Starcraft 2 was at it's absolute peak... a vast network of corruption was uncovered in the main (South Korean) scene that murdered it. Oh wow, i hadn't heard of that, what exactly happened?
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Aug 1, 2023 06:00
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PurpleXVI posted:Like... if you were a competent writer, and you were dealing with a Super Spooky Monsterman that had been hinted at like... over ten years ago in a much-beloved expansion and was otherwise largely undetailed... I feel like what you'd do would be to have it pop up briefly in a cutscene or maybe a single mission without getting blasted wide open, just to scare the player a bit and drive up some sense of urgency and worry. Yeah, this wasn't a great showing of the Hybrid.
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Aug 5, 2023 23:14
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Poil posted:The predator is fermenting garbage. The only things not crushing it are groups of lightly armed and unarmored targets. It seems more like the Dominion developed it as "crowd control" to mow down riots and protests rather than something intended for a battlefield. Does makes sense, they do love killing civilians from what we've seen.
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Aug 6, 2023 12:01
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Xarn posted:By making the outcome change so that your choice was always the correct one, you get around that, even if it is lovely writing. I feel that's just a massive cop-out though.
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Aug 8, 2023 17:52
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Me too buddy, me too.
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Aug 12, 2023 10:40
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BisbyWorl posted:
It's called "Bad Blizzard Story Writing", Jimmy.
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Aug 13, 2023 03:41
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It's all gone wrong. Everything's... twisted, and there's something out there that's set to destroy us all.
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One thing to note is that there's actually a small "secret" with the Ghost gear in the Armory, if you look at it long enough a thing happens.
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Sep 3, 2023 11:50
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I remember Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries had different paths if you failed some of the main missions, one mission it's actually *good* to fail since that leads to you getting some good gear.
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Sep 6, 2023 13:01
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I like the spider-mines in the Armory, they sometimes have a little leg duel for dominance.
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Sep 18, 2023 09:40
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Poil posted:He'd need to snort a big load of solarite to deal with that. He's all about that Solarite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sdWlqkrTd8 Koorisch fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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Oct 10, 2023 23:35
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It probably would have done a lot better had they not done that for some godawful reason. I mean, what did they *expect* would happen when they announce a new XCOM game and it's a shooter?
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Oct 23, 2023 21:46
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PurpleXVI posted:It kind of strikes me as odd that Kerrigan calls up Raynor on the Space Hologram Phone. You'd figure she'd do some spooky telepathy or a giant psionic illusion or something, or maybe send a letter via mutalisk pigeon or whatever the Zerg do for long distance calls. Well, she has all these Infested Command Centers around so might as well use them? PurpleXVI posted:The Overmind had its biological imperatives on behalf of the Swarm, SC1/BW Kerrigan had a whole lot of spite and scores to settle, SC2 Kerrigan has her scores largely settled and it feels has been established as being a different thinker than the Overmind, so where are her goddamn motivations, Blizzard? Probably in a side-mission/comic/book, like several of the other people we've seen so far.
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Nov 18, 2023 11:58
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painedforever posted:Evil's good. Evil's fun. Evil gets poo poo done. This is why I like the Dungeon Keeper games.
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Jan 14, 2024 22:14
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Going after Raptor zerglings seems a lot better when you consider it also makes them lunge at enemies, getting that extra movement into melee range is invaluable.
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Jan 21, 2024 11:57
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SIGSEGV posted:I'm sure multiple people out there are convinced that putting half the plot in EU novels and comics makes them sell like hot cakes despite all the existing evidence that they absolutely do not sell anything like the main games or movie tickets do. I don't like when they do that, that makes it so the story *assumes* you have read those and if you haven't even heard that they existed then you will be confused.
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Apr 30, 2024 11:11
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