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Wednesday, 03 November 2010 20:59
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StarCraft II
Last week, BlizzPlanet.com posted a short exclusive interview with StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty's lead writer, Brian Kindregan. Kindregan had previously worked on AAA titles like Mass Effect 2 and Jade Empire before coming to Blizzard just a little over two years ago. He, along with Chris Metzen, Blizzard's VP of Creative Development, are the current top authority for extraneous StarCraft lore.
One of the complaints a lot of people had with StarCraft was the revelation of the Overmind not being such a terrible space beast to begin with. A lot of comparisons have actually been between the Zerg and Warcraft’s Horde now. Do you feel that is at all viable?
Actually I don’t and it’s tricky to answer this because of the big background story we have coming up. All I can say is that they are very different entities and aspects. So I definitely understand the feelings of the community about the revelation of the Overmind. I even overheard the word retcon used which is not correct. There is no reinvention of who Overmind is. We are all learning more about what was going on in the background. There is still more to learn. I can say this is not an attempt to make the zerg noble or anything like that. It’s just the beginnings of the revelation about the fact that there were a lot of background forces at work. Basically the races and factions of Starcraft have a lot more going on than what people might think. In fact, I would say that there is a much more complex and deeper and richer thing going on with them.
Check out the rest of the interview for a few more thoughts and clarifications.
Source:
BlizzPlanet.com - BlizzCon: Interview with StarCraft 2 Lead Writer Brian Kindregan
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