This forum is full of professional story critics

Discuss.

If you mean "the audience" than yes.

What do you mean? Is there any writers here? Earning ones?

I just learned theories and methodologies, nothing more. And with regards to starcraft, never read the books. Though it's not really smart to send audiences to books in order to justify and/or create the needed coherence of a certain episode.

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Or forums for that matter. And if your fan-base from previous episodes kinda gets suddenly violent over your new ones, maybe it's no longer an issue of "who's the writer" right? But what the hell. We give our honest opinion, in the spirit of trying to help out, for no charge, and get dissed? I don't even care anymore.

I'm sorry but it hurts. And we're not even talking about structure here, but the Lore, themes, and such content. Are we not?

/GrabsMoreBeer

lol no idea wat u are trying to say @ above

this thread is obviously just sarcasticly throwing a shot at all the ppl who are giving sc2 so much shit for what they have shown so far.

I have the same feeling, or that Graduis' account has been hacked.

I'm sorry, but I've read some fan revisions and wishes on the battlenet forums before and most of them either fail at supporting why their own version is better than Blizzards, or are just plain bad. This, coming from someone who has never even written a fan fiction. I did like some of what I've seen around here from spychi and wasted. Anyone her familar with the game to movie adaption of wing commander? Remember how the story of the game was so so good, and the movie was so so bad? Well it turns out that the very same director of the good game had full control of the direction of the movie. I believe that the message here is quite obviously that there is a huge difference between having a few good ideas and actually creating something from scratch.

Lol, he edited his first post.

I think it's just full of fanboy nerdrage.

lol..i love how gradius' post made people turn up their wut the hell factor :D that dude has a good sense of humor

@twilice agreed :D

To me I don't really play games for the story. A good story that immerses you is a bonus but the gameplay is everything. A game with a perfect story but boring and crappy gameplay is not that great a game.

With a book, TV series or movie the story is everything. It's what sells it and makes people love it. With a crappy story no one wants to spend money on it. But with a game it's an interactive experience. I am sure we can think of games with the corniest and stupidest stories that still sold well just because it was so fun to play.

So yeah I never really expected much from SC2's story. So i wasn't disappointed. A lot of people though (the story critics on this forum) were expecting an epic tale. But it's a game. Blizzard's main focus is always gonna be on the gameplay. If they manage to get good writers who come up with something spectacular then that's a bonus. Obviously SC2 did not get that bonus but it's still got amazing gameplay.:P

EDIT: And in terms of being a professional story critic. We're obviously not professional. But just by being consumers we can be critics. We've watched enough movies, TV series and read enough books and played enough games to know what a good story is and take parts from other stories to suggest improvements to SC2's story. Or course it's all subjective and based on taste.:P

They hired a Bioware writer. Not exactly cream of the crop, even in the gaming industry, but the fact that Brian from Bioware (Jack, Samara) wa slead writer and came up with this for WoL makes me wonder.