RIP Starcraft 2015

[Nissa]

We are gathered here today to celebrate the short but impactful life of what was once the best RPG in gaming. Starcraft was a franchise that sparked the imagination of millions and nearly single-handedly created the eSports craze. However, after a long, lingering illness, Starcraft has finally bit the dust.

"For dust you are, and to dust you will return." Amen.

Let us share the great stories of our past, and fond memories of the time we spent playing the game, or hanging out with fellow fans of this franchise. Also, please, let us not speak ill of the dead. Please save your righteous negativity for other threads.

I first encountered Starcraft fourteen years ago when my brother's friend was explaining it to him. Curious about all things my brother did back then, I investigated the game, and found a story that I absolutely loved. I was immediately taken with the characters, and Mengsk's monologue in the last mission briefing of SC blew my mind I had so many ideas of what happened between the missions and behind the scenes, and eventually decided to write them down. This became my first foray into writing, and I haven't stopped since, though now I've gone on to original fiction.

Also, it was because Starcraft I found Blizzforums, a beloved community of messed up people. Ah, the days of the pie wars and JAD comics will always remain blissful, gilded memories. Speculation on the eventual sequel was rampant, and well, there will always be a glorious sequel in our imaginations.

As is appropriate for a wake, I brought beer.

[RODTHEGOD]

The original Starcraft is something I will always cherish. I remember the first time I encountered it. It was at my cousins. My cousin had previously exposed me to the original command and conquer (another great game that has fallen in it's sequels) and he showed me starcraft. I was instantly mesmerized. I was immediately comparing it to command and conquer. Except there were THREE races. And not only that but they were each even MORE unique then the BHN and the GDI. I originally thought the campaigns were similar to CNC where each campaign was independent of each other. It was only much later when I finally got the game that I learned otherwise. At my cousins, he showed me a magazine article on Brood War and the cool new units they were going to have. OMG they were cool.

I don't remember when I finally got the game for myself but I went through several CD's. I didn't take very good care of it despite my love for it.

I eventually introduced a few of my friends to it and soon began... the battle.net and the LAN parties. Those were so much fun. Often enough, our connections didn't work too well over battle.net so we would try to use hamachi. Sometimes it would work. Sometimes we would spend hours a night trying to get it to work and fail. But we always wanted more. We had some great games. We stopped playing it as much because we finished high school.

In college, I found another group of friends who were into starcraft. I still have a bunch of the replays from those games I think. We would often just pick a random map that none of us had played on before and do teams or free for alls. Six of the maps we had the most fun on were
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Bridge_to_Bridge_'98
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Expedition
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Flooded_Plains
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Predators
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Killing_Fields
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Power_Lines
Dam we had fun. I think we continued to play starcraft even after SC2 came out but then we finished college and went off to university. I miss starcraft.

[KaiserStratosTygo]

*Having watched someone play the missions)

Arbiters are available near the end.

...

Welp, I can accept the terrible story, since the missions were actually surprisingly decent (as far as I've seen), Alarak is the best fucking character in SC2, and Arbiters are usable.

All is forgiven.

I'm serious. that is literally all I need, is Arbiters and a bunch of mostly decent non-timed missions, story is still shit, but Arbiters, man.

[Nissa]

*snorts*

And I thought Econ was joking about the Arbiter hentai.

[KaiserStratosTygo]

*snorts*

And I thought Econ was joking about the Arbiter hentai.

He was VERY serious.

But seriously, They even got a decent model and everything, same with the Goons, Reavers and Sairs.

I'm going to be making maps with dat shit, and I can't way to see better creators do the same.

[TheEconomist]

*sits in corner, glasses on nose, licking finger tops to easily slide pages, while flipping through a science fiction novel, occassionally looking up to see reactions*

[Drake Clawfang]

I thought the story was pretty good, a vast improvement over the first two games... up until the Epilogue. Then it nosedived back into crap. Still, for a finale, Epilogue aside, it was satisfying. Epicness was had, the potential to keep the story going is present, and Alarak is a bloodthirsty troll.

[KaiserStratosTygo]

I thought the story was pretty good, a vast improvement over the first two games... up until the Epilogue. Then it nosedived back into crap. Still, for a finale, Epilogue aside, it was satisfying. Epicness was had, the potential to keep the story going is present, and Alarak is a bloodthirsty troll.

-The protoss focused parts were fairly decent usually.

-Alarak was great 100% of the time

-Arbiters cannot fail ever.

-The epilogue was absolute trash and that alone was worse than HotS

-The epilogue ending cards were better than the mission/cutscenes (except that last one was just silly)

[ragnarok]

-The protoss focused parts were fairly decent usually.

-Alarak was great 100% of the time

-Arbiters cannot fail ever.

-The epilogue was absolute trash and that alone was worse than HotS

-The epilogue ending cards were better than the mission/cutscenes (except that last one was just silly)

I found it better than BW's ending, Stratos. You don't make a game only for the ending to be "it was all for nothing."

[Nissa]

I found it better than BW's ending, Stratos. You don't make a game only for the ending to be "it was all for nothing."

The only reason that exists is because BW's ending wasn't really an ending. You can tell that advances in technology made making a sequel all the more difficult. BW's ending is a lot like The Empire Strikes Back, where that's not really an ending either, and doesn't make a lot of sense without an immediate sequel.

That, and technically it's not "it was all for nothing" because you play as Kerrigan, and her goal is to take over things. That's something.