Terrible campaign

[Gurluash]

I wish the hyperion crew was more memorable. We never really got to know Stettman.
Or those guys/girls in the bar such as Annabelle

[userstupidname]

I wish the hyperion crew was more memorable. We never really got to know Stettman.
Or those guys/girls in the bar such as Annabelle

Fully agree

We didn't get any backstory on swann or matt.

What happened to the engineer upset side mission in the previews?

[Perfecttear]

Chaos Rising in Dawn of War 2 is much much better

Haha lol, now that is is realy funny.

Critics about the DoW2 and it's campaign :

From gamespot :
"Extraordinary online play makes it easy to overlook this strategy sequel's less-impressive single-player campaign. "

And we all know how biased gamespot is usualy, so for them to say that it's less impresive, actualy means that it's crap.


Also some other :

From GameTrailers :
"An interesting, but ultimately weak, single-player experience is a bit of a disappointment to be sure."

Eurogamer :
"It doesn't, however, fulfill the task of being absurdly entertaining. The failings in the campaign mean that for all its incredible fireworks and visual splendour, its not interesting enough."

[Aldrius]

Not really. You hear Findlay making a deal with Mengsk in the very first cinematic! So, you know a bckstab is coming at some point.

Even if you don't take that into account, there are several hints over the course of the campaign. Horner spots Findlay accessing Kerrigan's files aboard the Hyperion. He also discovers that Findlay's marine suit is set to kill him and Raynor wonders what his old friend had gotten himself into. Then, Tosh notes that there is a traitor aboard and also comments that Findlay is acting conflicted. Lastly, there's Findlay himself; he dropped hints throughout the campaign that he's being forced to betray Raynor, seemed awfully intent on killing Kerrigan and then, there's the drunk scene with Raynor's observations thereafter.

The event itself still happens over all of five seconds. They built up to something that took SECONDS to resolve.

[protoswarrior]

I think some of you guys hyped yourselves so much about the campaign that you would have ended up disappointed in any case.

The story, cinematics, characters and presentation were on par with the high standards set by the first Starcraft, and the missions were far more varied and interesting.
I thouroughly enjoyed it, and was often on the edge of my seat, anxiously waiting to know what happened next; it was a wonderful experience that completely absorbed me for the past couple days.

And both Zeratul's vision and the ending open up a hole lot of interesting possibilities for the expansions, and I already can't wait for them.

This is exactly what happened in this thread. Totally second that.

Over-hype = over-disappointment.
Whose fault? Your own.

There are certain scenes that are sort of predictable, but most of the campaign, you're playing the characters on the Hyperion, and you're playing the characters in the game discovering new things as you go. And, I only played 1 iteration of the campaign so far. This whole time I was doing the marathon, I felt completely immersed and didn't notice how 12 hours went by!!

My wife went to bed, and I said I'm coming honey. I just stayed up lol! All the way till 5am, then I took a short break and went back to it I was done by almost midday. That was how engaging the gameplay and story were.

I was over-hyped about 2 months into the beta after seeing the "Drill" mission and the "Terrazine" one. I thought to myself there are a lot of things I can expect. But, then, I thought about it and was like:

Well, I am really setting myself for disaster if I keep up with my ideas. Not expecting and not knowing is the best thing to do when entering a campaign or story. For people who have been speculating like crazy, they have preconceived notions which maybe do not align with the GRAND scheme of things upto Legacy of the Void.

The Zeratul campaign was the CRUX of the story, I think. The revelation of the future without Kerrigan was extremely well done, and the false sense of security created in the last Protoss mission is absolutely brilliant right before the thing goes to hell and you run out of resources.

The unknown character begs the question: "What is he?"
I suspect he is a defecting Xel'Naga, or a similar consciousness to the Overmind but on a grander scale where he can manipulate characters like Duran and Ulrezaj. The hybrid, as Zamara had said in the DT Trilogy, is an abomination of what the Xel'Naga should have been - a perversion.

Their advent breaks the cycle of creation and threatens the Xel'Naga's existence, and I think HoTS will go further into that part of the story as Kerrigan, no longer being infested, will control the swarm alongside the Terrans with Raynor and Valerian - I like Valerian's character a lot btw ^_^. There is a possibility that either the zerg will be halved due to the Dark Voice taking control of half the swarm through another agent, or through Duran himself, who might make a return - since he has been conspicuously absent this time. Or, we might just see a huge plot surrounding the de-infestation of Kerrigan and her using the swarm full on against the hybrids who come in force to hit the Terran worlds and zerg-infested worlds en masse.

The section where Tassadar reveals himself, basically, as the Twilight wanderer or an avatar of it, just as Adun was, was BRILLIANTLY concocted. I did not expect it, and was pleasantly surprised that Tassadar had been able to delve into the memories of the Overmind and it's struggles. It lends a new perspective into what the zerg essence actually is.

The all-consuming "nature" attributed to them might not be accurate afterall. Kerrigan, being part Overmind and part Sarah, and the deinfestation process shows that there was a bigger drive than her personal vendetta in more subtle ways than Kerrigan could detect, as hinted to by Duran in the BW Dark Origin map.

[mr. peasant]

The event itself still happens over all of five seconds. They built up to something that took SECONDS to resolve.

Because it wasn't (and shouldn't be) a long, drawn-out hostage situation or something to that effect. It was a side plot to the main point of the cinematic, which was the recovery of Kerrigan.

[userstupidname]

Because it wasn't (and shouldn't be) a long, drawn-out hostage situation or something to that effect. It was a side plot to the main point of the cinematic, which was the recovery of Kerrigan.

It doesn't have to be 5 seconds OR a long drawn out hostage situation

It isn't black and white

[Triceron]

I blame Tricia Helfer for spoiling the ending back at Blizzcon 09.

[hyde]

The whole thing sucked except for gabriel tosh.

Agreed. Thank god I didn't side with Nova. I played her missions after I beat it. They sucked.

I agree. Cannot say more because you are going to get a flamestorm coming towards you.
Also, the cinematics were pathetic.

I am extremely sad I payed so much for the game and waited with so much anticipation.

Agreed. None of them had the Blizzard magic.
Ala seeing Mephisto form in Diablo2, the intro for StarCraft1, HELL the f-ing dialog for the dark wanderer on the Caravan from diablo2 preview.
All the cinematics in this sucked HARD. Even the part when they barge onto Valerians ship, that was WEAK.

WTF Happened to their cinematics team?!

What happened to narrative and dialog like this? Stop hiring idiots like Tricia Helfer to voice act. I bet that Metzen just wanted to stare at her in the studio -_-...why else would you replace Talken? Tricia sucks at voice acting and isn't even a good actress in general.
They just recycled the reveal cinematic and changed the audio for SC2.

Remember the cinematic in starcraft 1?

The one on the science vessels with 6 or so marines fighting?

ending in everything blowing up?

That cinematic was superior in every way to the sc2 cinematics, even graphically

The graphics used there made it look so much more serious and dark[/QUOTE]
This > StarCraft 2 Cinematics

Whats wrong with you all?
It's a 2 completely whole campaigns left if so don't you worry about the story.

Also I think it was executed extremely well being linked up so well, but you can still play it even though you have never played sc1. Also the unit introduction was great. I used everyone of the units, maybe not in every mission but I used them.

What's wrong with you? You're going to compare three games, 60+40+40=140$USD to StarCraft1 which lets assume, was 60$ Back then?
......Enough said.

[spychi]

Haha lol, now that is is realy funny.

Critics about the DoW2 and it's campaign :

From gamespot :
"Extraordinary online play makes it easy to overlook this strategy sequel's less-impressive single-player campaign. "

And we all know how biased gamespot is usualy, so for them to say that it's less impresive, actualy means that it's crap.


Also some other :

From GameTrailers :
"An interesting, but ultimately weak, single-player experience is a bit of a disappointment to be sure."

Eurogamer :
"It doesn't, however, fulfill the task of being absurdly entertaining. The failings in the campaign mean that for all its incredible fireworks and visual splendour, its not interesting enough."

well then I find Chaos Rising to be short but more intense
SC2 has it's good moments, yet I wouldn't give it a 10/10