[PC Game] Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void
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I am it's just that the ai companions are near useless on the higher difficulties. I was guarding her at the end with 24 fully upgraded battle cruisers and it wasn't enough, mostly because they don't auto shoot what i want them to. If those had been carriers, this wouldn't even have been an issue.
Just beat it, overall was a fun game, but I am really disappointing that they didn't even try to spring for an ending cinematic. This was the culmination of three games, and the only cinematic it had that didn't use the in-game engine was the opening one. Seriously Blizzard, that is fucking bonkers considering you have great pre-rendered cinematics closing out the other two campaigns.
Fffffffuck
I am stuck on Last Stand. I hate these survival missions. I am so crap at managing attacks from multiple angles at once. And those hybrids are fucking strong.[DOUBLEPOST=1447819667,1447819484][/DOUBLEPOST]
I am stuck on Last Stand. I hate these survival missions. I am so crap at managing attacks from multiple angles at once. And those hybrids are fucking strong.[DOUBLEPOST=1447819667,1447819484][/DOUBLEPOST]
Wait, really? That's stupid.
Errr...I don't know what version you've played, but I'm only on the second planet and I've seen 3 videos not in-engine
Going back, you are right in that regard. I guess I was so caught up with the story I didn't even realize a whole lot of the "story scenes" were pre-rendered, like the start of the Auir invasion, Artanis and Zeratul on Auir, and what happened to Shakuras, etc. I think part of the reason I didn't notice is because the gap between the game models and the pre-rendered models is a bit less noticeable when it comes to the Protoss, (Kerrigan is like night and day, but Artanis looks almost exactly the same in-game and cinematic form) and the styling was trying very hard to feel like they fit in the game compared to what happens in the opening cinematic, which was going more for grand scale. They feel a little "cheaper", if that makes sense, compared to pre-rendered cinematics opening and closing the other two expansions, which makes sense since there is a lot more of them in this instance.Errr...I don't know what version you've played, but I'm only on the second planet and I've seen 3 videos not in-engine
So yes, I stand corrected, though I still do wish we had a bigger ending cinematic. The quick headshot leading into final epilogue and ending with a "And then they..." slideshow was a bit underwhelming.
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Well, yes, I'm not there yet, but if that's all we get, I'm a bit underwhelmed, too.
Of course, I've never been a Protoss fan anyway, I disliked having to end with them in SC, in BW, and now again....
Well the funny thing is the "ending" isn't really the Protoss ending. The Protoss have their own ending at the end of their campaign, and then you go into the epilogue missions for the real ending, which forces all the races together for the final stand, making you play each of them one after the other. You start with Protoss, then Terran, and finally end the whole thing with the Zerg.
Also, Zerg were the last campaign in BW. The Protoss were actually the first you played in that expansion. Poor Terran only got to end WoL.
Finally finished it.
I do agree LotV wasn't particularly hard - I think I actually had most problems with WoL, back in the day. I don't know what moron decided "Protoss are good at offense, Terran at defense", though. And I certainly don't understand why Artanis' base is so weak in the second-to-last mission - a couple of Kaydarin towers would've made toast of pretty much everything the computer threw at them. As is, bunkers and tanks held everything off from that side.
I still care way more for Jim/Sarah than the whole of the Protoss race, though they really tried to make them at least a little bit interesting.
I do agree LotV wasn't particularly hard - I think I actually had most problems with WoL, back in the day. I don't know what moron decided "Protoss are good at offense, Terran at defense", though. And I certainly don't understand why Artanis' base is so weak in the second-to-last mission - a couple of Kaydarin towers would've made toast of pretty much everything the computer threw at them. As is, bunkers and tanks held everything off from that side.
And since absolutely *no* Void units are detectors, and Spectres can perma-cloak, that mission was idiotically easy once you "wall off" a couple of the entrances with invisible guys just body-blocking huge alien monstrosities.
I still care way more for Jim/Sarah than the whole of the Protoss race, though they really tried to make them at least a little bit interesting.
Wait... that was Q... oh man, i knew he sounded vaguely familiar...
Yeah, Alarak was really the highlight of the whole thing.
StarCraft Ending. (Spoilers)
I think Legacy of the Void was a draft or two away from being a great story - there's a lot of latent stuff there, which I can't tell whether the authors intended. I'm not even sure if it should be more *explicit* (I like the subtlety), just examined a little more.
I ended writing a crazy long review of the plot.
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I think Legacy of the Void was a draft or two away from being a great story - there's a lot of latent stuff there, which I can't tell whether the authors intended. I'm not even sure if it should be more *explicit* (I like the subtlety), just examined a little more.
I ended writing a crazy long review of the plot.
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LoV is the story of the Protoss being forced to give up everything that made up their identify. They are forced at gun-point to give up the psychic connection they share, allowing them to feel each others thoughts and emotions. They are forced to abandon their culture's caste system. There is a growing realization that, as they become more of a melting pot, a lot of their traditions will fade and change.
This all plays out more or less the way I'd expect it to. The characters start making post-hoc rationalizations as to how this is all a good thing that they're totally fine with. (Some of these rationalizations are true, others less so)
I don't think this should have been more *explicit* (I liked how subtle it was) but I wish it felt there was a little more sense of the internal conflict driving the Sour Grapes.
FREEDOM!!!
Their relationship with Freedom™ is also interesting. They give up the hyper-strict traditions/literal-mind-sharing that gave them their strong unity... and the result is that there is LESS civil war, more openmindedness, MORE cultures brought into the fold, which allows them to build an even stronger, galaxy-spanning melting-pot utopia.
This feels vaguely analogous to the rise of the United States. I wish it included hints of how that melting-pot-utopia hasn't always gone the way we liked.
The Caste System / Cultural Supremacy
If you've read Plato's Republic, you probably noticed that the Protoss are modeled after it. Their society has three castes - the Templar (warriors), Khalai (craftsman), and Judicator (philosopher kings).
There's a character, Karax, a crafstman, working to build new tools to help his leaders. There's a really great scene where Shit Hits the Fan, and his leader Artanis suddenly puts him in command of a battalion and given a crucially important military task, and told by his leader "I believe in you. You got this."
The expression on Karax's face is great there - Protoss basically don't even have faces, but he manages to convey how much fear he has of this. "I can't do this. I'm going to fail and my friend/mentor/leader is going to be so disappointed in me and my people are going to be destroyed." But after giving himself a moment to feel scared and sorry for himself, he gets to work.
He does a great job. He returns to the base and receives an impromptu ceremony recognizing him as a Templar Warrior.
Then Artanis (the leader) says something gloriously Trying-To-Be-Progressive-But-CHRIST. "The age of the Caste system is over. Now, we are all Templar."
Artanis is a Templar. They are in the middle of a war, so Templar-skills ARE pretty relevant. But I thought it was great - accurate - how casually Artanis assumes that eliminating the Caste system will mean HIS people remain culturally supreme.
In particular, at the end of the game, the age of the Templar seems mostly-over. They aren't at war. They're building a peaceful society now. It's Karax's skills, not Artanis', which are going to define the future.
If this had been briefly addressed in the final Protoss cinematic - if Karax had narrated instead of Artanis, or if we had gotten a relationship-culminating scene where Artanis tries to do something but sort of stumbles and it's Karax who helps him, that would have made this genuinely poignant.
The Writers?
As is, I can't tell if any of this was intentional, or if the writers honestly believe the speeches they wrote for Artanis.
Jim/Kerrigan
After the Protoss Campaign is an epilogue. All the races work together to defeat a Negative Utilitarian God. Kerrigan ascends to Godhood herself.
I'm surprised they totally skipped over the implications there (rather, the implications are all there, but StarCraft is usually NOT subtle about this sort of thing). This whole time, we've been told that a race with Purity of Form (and psionic power), and a race with a Purity of Essence (capable of great change in the face of adversity) will combine to become the perfect creation. The Protoss and Zerg were created to be those races.
Except, apparently, it's an essential part of the cycle that the races NOT be created artificially, which the Zerg and Protoss were.
It's Kerrigan who is the perfect creation. And I *think* it's implied that both her psionic potential and her adaptability are purely human traits - that have nothing to do with her become Part-Zerg - that's a choice she made for herself as PART of her human adaptability.
I liked that.
I loved the scene of her ascension - of her final moments saying goodbye to Jim.
I SUPER loved the final scene, after everything is over - Negative Utilitarian God is defeated, the Protoss and Terrans are off building flourishing societies, Kerrigan has disappeared off to wherever Alien Gods go after they ascend.
...and Jim, rugged cowboy adventurer who helped save the universe, is sitting by himself in a bar, drinking. All his friends have moved on and found new ways to be useful. Jim is now irrelevant.
I love how long they lingered on this scene - I felt a strong sense that they could have ended there. The last scene from StarCraft, ever, *could* have been a happy
Galaxy with one man sitting alone by himself, because rugged-loner-cowboys don't actually have much to do when the war's over and it's pretty sad.
But after lingering on that scene long enough to showcase it COULD end there, they give us the happy ending Jim deserves. And maybe the universe doesn't really give people what they deserve... but... know what? I'm cool with that. Jim and Kerrigan have been through hell and back for each other multiple times, and at the end of the day StarCraft is an escapist power fantasy, not a depressing Oscar Bait movie, and that's fine.
"Hell, it's about time", was a perfect line to end on, and I cried.
This all plays out more or less the way I'd expect it to. The characters start making post-hoc rationalizations as to how this is all a good thing that they're totally fine with. (Some of these rationalizations are true, others less so)
I don't think this should have been more *explicit* (I liked how subtle it was) but I wish it felt there was a little more sense of the internal conflict driving the Sour Grapes.
FREEDOM!!!
Their relationship with Freedom™ is also interesting. They give up the hyper-strict traditions/literal-mind-sharing that gave them their strong unity... and the result is that there is LESS civil war, more openmindedness, MORE cultures brought into the fold, which allows them to build an even stronger, galaxy-spanning melting-pot utopia.
This feels vaguely analogous to the rise of the United States. I wish it included hints of how that melting-pot-utopia hasn't always gone the way we liked.
The Caste System / Cultural Supremacy
If you've read Plato's Republic, you probably noticed that the Protoss are modeled after it. Their society has three castes - the Templar (warriors), Khalai (craftsman), and Judicator (philosopher kings).
There's a character, Karax, a crafstman, working to build new tools to help his leaders. There's a really great scene where Shit Hits the Fan, and his leader Artanis suddenly puts him in command of a battalion and given a crucially important military task, and told by his leader "I believe in you. You got this."
The expression on Karax's face is great there - Protoss basically don't even have faces, but he manages to convey how much fear he has of this. "I can't do this. I'm going to fail and my friend/mentor/leader is going to be so disappointed in me and my people are going to be destroyed." But after giving himself a moment to feel scared and sorry for himself, he gets to work.
He does a great job. He returns to the base and receives an impromptu ceremony recognizing him as a Templar Warrior.
Then Artanis (the leader) says something gloriously Trying-To-Be-Progressive-But-CHRIST. "The age of the Caste system is over. Now, we are all Templar."
Artanis is a Templar. They are in the middle of a war, so Templar-skills ARE pretty relevant. But I thought it was great - accurate - how casually Artanis assumes that eliminating the Caste system will mean HIS people remain culturally supreme.
In particular, at the end of the game, the age of the Templar seems mostly-over. They aren't at war. They're building a peaceful society now. It's Karax's skills, not Artanis', which are going to define the future.
If this had been briefly addressed in the final Protoss cinematic - if Karax had narrated instead of Artanis, or if we had gotten a relationship-culminating scene where Artanis tries to do something but sort of stumbles and it's Karax who helps him, that would have made this genuinely poignant.
The Writers?
As is, I can't tell if any of this was intentional, or if the writers honestly believe the speeches they wrote for Artanis.
Jim/Kerrigan
After the Protoss Campaign is an epilogue. All the races work together to defeat a Negative Utilitarian God. Kerrigan ascends to Godhood herself.
I'm surprised they totally skipped over the implications there (rather, the implications are all there, but StarCraft is usually NOT subtle about this sort of thing). This whole time, we've been told that a race with Purity of Form (and psionic power), and a race with a Purity of Essence (capable of great change in the face of adversity) will combine to become the perfect creation. The Protoss and Zerg were created to be those races.
Except, apparently, it's an essential part of the cycle that the races NOT be created artificially, which the Zerg and Protoss were.
It's Kerrigan who is the perfect creation. And I *think* it's implied that both her psionic potential and her adaptability are purely human traits - that have nothing to do with her become Part-Zerg - that's a choice she made for herself as PART of her human adaptability.
I liked that.
I loved the scene of her ascension - of her final moments saying goodbye to Jim.
I SUPER loved the final scene, after everything is over - Negative Utilitarian God is defeated, the Protoss and Terrans are off building flourishing societies, Kerrigan has disappeared off to wherever Alien Gods go after they ascend.
...and Jim, rugged cowboy adventurer who helped save the universe, is sitting by himself in a bar, drinking. All his friends have moved on and found new ways to be useful. Jim is now irrelevant.
I love how long they lingered on this scene - I felt a strong sense that they could have ended there. The last scene from StarCraft, ever, *could* have been a happy
Galaxy with one man sitting alone by himself, because rugged-loner-cowboys don't actually have much to do when the war's over and it's pretty sad.
But after lingering on that scene long enough to showcase it COULD end there, they give us the happy ending Jim deserves. And maybe the universe doesn't really give people what they deserve... but... know what? I'm cool with that. Jim and Kerrigan have been through hell and back for each other multiple times, and at the end of the day StarCraft is an escapist power fantasy, not a depressing Oscar Bait movie, and that's fine.
"Hell, it's about time", was a perfect line to end on, and I cried.
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Regarding Kerrigan:
I -hate hate hate- that she was redeemed, became a hero, and then got back together with Jim for a happily ever after. This is not the character that was in the original Starcraft games. She was Kerrigan motherfucking Queen of Blades, Queen Bitch of the Universe. Jim's love of her wasn't even real, he barely knew her, and she certainly didn't return the affection. His feelings for here were a product of his outdated cowboy beliefs, and he was forced to confront those throughout Starcraft and Brood War. Brood War has him remeeting with Kerrigan, the source of all of his guilt because he couldn't save her, and discovers that she's no longer being controlled and is free now. He thinks he can trust her, he thinks they can have a happy ending, but then she reveals her true plans, her true nature, and makes a choice to choose power and betray him. Brood War ends with Jim being forced to acknowledge that he was wrong, his misguided love turning into hate, and vowing that he will hunt down Kerrigan to the ends of the galaxy.
And then SC2 goes back to him pining over her, and they make her a hero-god and everyone lives happily ever after. Bleck.
And then SC2 goes back to him pining over her, and they make her a hero-god and everyone lives happily ever after. Bleck.
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I actually DO totally agree that her/Jim's character (starting from beginning of Wings of Liberty) is totally offbase what they did in Brood War. By the time we got to the end of Legacy of the Void, I had accepted that as a RetCon. I think they did a reasonable ending IF you accept the RetCon at face value. If you don't accept the RetCon, then yes the entire plot of StarCraft II is pretty silly.
I have a sort of complex decision-tree-of-reactions to StarCraft II. How I feel about it depends on how I choose to think about various decisions throughout the entire saga, and some retcons they've made. Overall, the StarCraft II plot is not good, and overall the Classic/Brood War plots were better, but there are elements of Brood War I never liked anyway.
I actually thought it was Brood War that took her character in a weird direction.
I didn't like that she became "bitchily evil." I think they should have either let her have some human emotion (which would make her pissed/angry at Mengsk, but still have some remnants of human decency), or they should have made her extremely alien (her old personality subsumed by a new desire to grow/evolve/learn), and her killing of Fenix and even Mengsk's armies should have been very dispassionate, a logical necessity --- not something she did to be "Queen Bitch of the Universe."
Of those, the alien-dispassionate-murder option is more interesting to me, but either's a solid story.
So I didn't like her character in either Brood War or Wings of Liberty. In WoL, seemed like she was still Queen Bitch O' Universe, and didn't make sense for Jim to be pining after her. I decided to just roll with the story they were telling, and assume a Brood War retcon of some sort where Jim believed she had to be destroyed but was still sad about it.
I have a sort of complex decision-tree-of-reactions to StarCraft II. How I feel about it depends on how I choose to think about various decisions throughout the entire saga, and some retcons they've made. Overall, the StarCraft II plot is not good, and overall the Classic/Brood War plots were better, but there are elements of Brood War I never liked anyway.
I actually thought it was Brood War that took her character in a weird direction.
I didn't like that she became "bitchily evil." I think they should have either let her have some human emotion (which would make her pissed/angry at Mengsk, but still have some remnants of human decency), or they should have made her extremely alien (her old personality subsumed by a new desire to grow/evolve/learn), and her killing of Fenix and even Mengsk's armies should have been very dispassionate, a logical necessity --- not something she did to be "Queen Bitch of the Universe."
Of those, the alien-dispassionate-murder option is more interesting to me, but either's a solid story.
So I didn't like her character in either Brood War or Wings of Liberty. In WoL, seemed like she was still Queen Bitch O' Universe, and didn't make sense for Jim to be pining after her. I decided to just roll with the story they were telling, and assume a Brood War retcon of some sort where Jim believed she had to be destroyed but was still sad about it.
You can argue that and it's a reasonable interpretation, but it always seemed to me that the history books (and, the manual for the game, which is rooted in warfare) were written by Templar who had their own biases about this.
To be fair, I don't think the French Revolution or the communists or pretty much anyone else ever said "we'll all be equal! We'll all be poor peasants!". "We'll all live like kings/royalty/nobility/free men" is slightly more rousing.
Heh, fair. I didn't actually mean it as a criticism (of the game, or even of Artanis), more of a neat little subtlety that I thought made it a deeper story.
About Kerrigan
I don't think any of that can really totally count as a "retcon" though. It was hinted at a lot in the novels that Kerrigan and Raynor had a "thing" going on between them before she was taken by the Zerg, it was just never presented very heavily in the game campaign since it was a pretty basic form of storytelling. You have to realize when Jim said he would find her and kill her (which was actually referenced in SC2 between the two characters) it was just after Fenix was killed, and likely said under anger and duress. He had a lot of time to cool off since then once Kerrigan went dark.
Anyone remember that one mission when she becomes the Queen of Blades? She corners and defeats Jim, and Jim makes mention that he was having dreams about her. She confirms that she was telepathically sending messages to him (and Mengsk) before she emerged from the chrysalis as a complete Zerg. She then had every chance to kill him at that point, but instead claims he isn't a threat and lets him go free. The subtext there is that she still had some sort of positive feeling towards Jim, since it would have been easy to just kill him and move on with her new life, but she didn't. He had to mean something to her for him to be let go like that (and technically she did the same thing in Brood War)
Going back to SC2, it was revealed very early on in WoL that her will was being influenced by Amon. Similar to how he took over the Protoss through the Khala, feeding them negative rage and emotions, turning them into sadistic and brutal killers, so too was he doing through Kerrigan and the hive mind. All of her hate and "evilness" was being fed to her by Amon's own will, and that was what turned her into the Queen of Blades we all saw in Brood War. The act of being purged from the Zerg restored her to her original pre-zerg personality, and later she reclaimed her power as a "free-willed" Primal Zerg.
Thus it's more an evolution of the story rather then a retcon. The Queen of Blades in Brood War still exists as she was, but new information has revealed that all her motivations were not necessarily her own.
Anyone remember that one mission when she becomes the Queen of Blades? She corners and defeats Jim, and Jim makes mention that he was having dreams about her. She confirms that she was telepathically sending messages to him (and Mengsk) before she emerged from the chrysalis as a complete Zerg. She then had every chance to kill him at that point, but instead claims he isn't a threat and lets him go free. The subtext there is that she still had some sort of positive feeling towards Jim, since it would have been easy to just kill him and move on with her new life, but she didn't. He had to mean something to her for him to be let go like that (and technically she did the same thing in Brood War)
Going back to SC2, it was revealed very early on in WoL that her will was being influenced by Amon. Similar to how he took over the Protoss through the Khala, feeding them negative rage and emotions, turning them into sadistic and brutal killers, so too was he doing through Kerrigan and the hive mind. All of her hate and "evilness" was being fed to her by Amon's own will, and that was what turned her into the Queen of Blades we all saw in Brood War. The act of being purged from the Zerg restored her to her original pre-zerg personality, and later she reclaimed her power as a "free-willed" Primal Zerg.
Thus it's more an evolution of the story rather then a retcon. The Queen of Blades in Brood War still exists as she was, but new information has revealed that all her motivations were not necessarily her own.
Interesting point.
Definitely fair points with regards to how they told the story. "Evolution" as opposed to retcon makes sense.
As far as plots *I* personally dislike - if I were to get upset at sweeping changes to the plot, it's Amon's existence. We already had the story of Sargeras and the Burning Legion. We don't need to hear it again. [UNLESS this all builds up to some truly epic crossover in a Heroes of the Storm campaign that is either hilarious or somehow manages to be legitimately poignant. The groundwork is certainly there if they want to do that.]
One thing I liked very much about SC Classic is how truly alien the Overmind was presented - it was given a directive to become perfect, and it pursued that fairly dispassionately. I recall that being somewhat subverted (whether "retconned" or "Evolved" in WoL), although I can't recall the details.
I do like the idea of the Xel'Naga providing an ultimate Big Bad that everyone has to team up to fight, ending with an uneasy truce between the 3 races. But that could have made for a more interesting moral dilemma than "Evil God wants to destroy everything."
(What if the Xel'Naga have some plan that involves creating something legitimately glorious, but which happens to lay waste to a lot of the things humans/protoss/(even zerg?) want for themselves? That fits with their sort of Lovecraftian-Elder-God schtick, makes more uncaringly-neutral than evil. It'd also let the 3-races banding together be less of a heroic stand against darkness, and more of a giant Fuck You to the powers that be, with the three races taking control of their own destiny instead of being pawns in an Elder game. That fits more with what I perceived the StarCraft aesthetic to be.)
((Hell, in that case, Kerrigan could have ascended in a sort of "pretending to submit to the Xel'Naga game", but once she ascends, doublecrosses them, steals their power and uses it in the final battle. This fits with her established character, and I think Jim's as well. ))
That ship's sailed, obviously, and I can make peace with the story they told. But that's my personal beef.
As far as plots *I* personally dislike - if I were to get upset at sweeping changes to the plot, it's Amon's existence. We already had the story of Sargeras and the Burning Legion. We don't need to hear it again. [UNLESS this all builds up to some truly epic crossover in a Heroes of the Storm campaign that is either hilarious or somehow manages to be legitimately poignant. The groundwork is certainly there if they want to do that.]
One thing I liked very much about SC Classic is how truly alien the Overmind was presented - it was given a directive to become perfect, and it pursued that fairly dispassionately. I recall that being somewhat subverted (whether "retconned" or "Evolved" in WoL), although I can't recall the details.
I do like the idea of the Xel'Naga providing an ultimate Big Bad that everyone has to team up to fight, ending with an uneasy truce between the 3 races. But that could have made for a more interesting moral dilemma than "Evil God wants to destroy everything."
(What if the Xel'Naga have some plan that involves creating something legitimately glorious, but which happens to lay waste to a lot of the things humans/protoss/(even zerg?) want for themselves? That fits with their sort of Lovecraftian-Elder-God schtick, makes more uncaringly-neutral than evil. It'd also let the 3-races banding together be less of a heroic stand against darkness, and more of a giant Fuck You to the powers that be, with the three races taking control of their own destiny instead of being pawns in an Elder game. That fits more with what I perceived the StarCraft aesthetic to be.)
((Hell, in that case, Kerrigan could have ascended in a sort of "pretending to submit to the Xel'Naga game", but once she ascends, doublecrosses them, steals their power and uses it in the final battle. This fits with her established character, and I think Jim's as well. ))
That ship's sailed, obviously, and I can make peace with the story they told. But that's my personal beef.
I realize that's the direction they took the story. I just think it's dumb.
I think the problem is that Kerrigan became the face of the franchise. No one really cares about Jim, he's just a backwoods cowboy. The protoss that people might have all cared about from the original games are all dead. Zeratul is left, but he's really best as a side character. And no one is going to give a shit about Artanis. So you get what they did, and... yeah.
Did....did anyone ever give a rat's ass about any of the Protoss? I mean, as individuals, besides Zeratul? jim was too generic a Space Cowboy/Marine, certainly in WoL. I liked Stukov, but....well....Yeah ,the half-alien-half-redhead became the face. Not surprising, really.
Tassadar and Fenix were pretty popular.
Fenix came back. Sort of. Though he didn't add much, imo. That part of the story really didn't work well for me - "we just upped the stakes - the WHOLE of the Protoss fleet is in thrall to the enemy! He's conquered our home planet, and our second! We're a small band of renegades up against overwhelming odds...oh, lucky thing we hid away this huge enormous super-powerful robot army, huh?
I can see what they were going for, also questioning computer copies, clones, AI, personality - "what makes a person?",...but to me it all fell flat.
I can see what they were going for, also questioning computer copies, clones, AI, personality - "what makes a person?",...but to me it all fell flat.
I actually remember liking Artanis is Brood War - he was the young, dynamic 200-year old Protoss in a world of conservative 900 year old fogeys.
Legacy of the Void is a fitting continuation of his character, but all the cool transitional stuff happens offscreen - him getting thrust into the position of Hierarch without wanting or feeling ready for it.
(Favorite character hands down is Matt Horner's wife, and I was deeply disappointed she wasn't in Legacy of the Void).
Legacy of the Void is a fitting continuation of his character, but all the cool transitional stuff happens offscreen - him getting thrust into the position of Hierarch without wanting or feeling ready for it.
(Favorite character hands down is Matt Horner's wife, and I was deeply disappointed she wasn't in Legacy of the Void).
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No, the problem was that they assumed her becoming the face of the franchise meant she had to be a good guy, when she because the face while being the Queen Bitch of the Universe.
Considering humans were a vector for the zerg to propagate and such, not to mention the fact that it's REALLY F-IN' HARD to get rid of a zerg infestation, that was probably the right call. I still view it as less a tactical decision than a cost/benefit analysis gone mad though.
Zerg seem to propagate just fine using just minerals and gas.
But the point was that martial solutions where preferred by at least one of the other castes.
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