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The StarCraft story is mediocre at best. I'm reading The Vang: The Military Form by Christopher B. Rowley, and it is clearly superior in every imaginable way. Unlike the laughable has-been zerg, the...

Ultra-violent gameplay and an anti-violence narrative fundamentally don’t mix. In other news: the sky is blue.

Pretentious nonsense like this is why I prefer satire and black comedy.

Anyway, do we have any suggestions for specific plots?

The UED secretly spying on Koprulu for centuries is a silly retcon. You might as well say that Earth and Koprulu reestablished contact after the nazis were overthrown and engaged in trade.

That was actually the case back in the 1996 pitch for the story.

Alternately, maybe the terrans present greater challenge than the zerg and protoss expected. If you're willing to diverge even...

Okay, I will start.

I think the Confederacy was sadly underutilized. The Dominion was the same thing, except with Mengsk's face tacked on. I think the Old Families offer far more opportunity for...

Thank you for correcting me.

Anyway, does anyone want to take me up on that offer? It still stands.

I’m on the unofficial SCLegacy discord if anybody wants to real time chat: https://discord.gg/CyUvEBy

I can agree with that. Any suggestions on what plots we would tell? I’m tired of criticizing Starcraft and would like to do some constructive brainstorming or something.

Honestly, I don’t expect great writing from video games in general. The RTS format in particular is difficult to tell stories with because it is so different from the more popular first- and...

That’s really besides the point. The WC3 retcons completely reimagined the universe until its themes were unrecognizable. The WC1/WC2 universes were fairly vague and mysterious, but as a result felt...

That’s Blizzard for you. Sargeras was originally a random demon lord who failed to invade Azeroth, then he got promoted to evil titan.

Anyway, I think you could have removed the xel’naga and had...

Are the xel’naga even necessary in the first place?

The inconsistencies are due to Blizzard making things up as they went. This is normal behavior for them.

I wish Starcraft hadn’t tried to be space opera. I wish it had tried military scifi and...

The story recaps typically omit nonsensical events and generally reinterpret the story to make more sense than it actually does. For example, the recap from the old SC2 site and WoL manual entirely...

Back in April!

It succinctly explains the plot, including retcons.

https://starcraft2.com/en-us/news/23331587

Are you sure that’s the logic you want to use? Turalyon and I already explained at length that key plot points break down once you start forcing the story to be realistic. The protoss have fleets of...

Ditto. I can’t stress this enough. Gameplay is not realistic!

I do love good art, but I despise Blizzard.

How much experience do you have with writing military fiction in general?

New update:

The official D&D blog made a post about this: https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/diversity-and-dnd

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1213210/Command__Conquer_Remastered_Collection/

I’m playing it now and it’s fun!

I’m watching He-Man 2002 and I’m astonished by how fun it is. There’s a lot of positive masculinity in it, totally opposite from what I see people saying about He-Man being toxic. I think I’m...

I do have to admit that I have a much greater fondness for cartoons from before the last decade, even though the queer rep in Western cartoons is terrible.

Nowadays there is queer rep but it’s...

Pretty much every media discussion I’ve tried to have in the past month has been so stressful that it gives me diarrhea daily.

EDIT: Sorry, I meant every media discussion I've tried to have since...