Terrible campaign

[userstupidname]

I meant sc2 WOL is far superior to sc1 in mission variety and gameplay.

Ah ye my mistake I agree on what you say

sc2 did pull trough on the missions keeping up to story while being various



Not like red alert 2 compared with red alert 3 where red alert 3 like many agrees on that it just takes you to recognizable and various locations giving no real sense of a frontline

[Bisso]

I know one game

Starcraft 1

There aren't many strategy games out there shooting for a serious campaign
(like red alert/cnc series)
Or they don't have such a campaign (total war games etc)

Starcraft 2 just didn't cut the cake

StarCraft 1? Wait... ahah... hum... You are kidding right?

I think nostalgia is hitting ur brain really hard. SC1 story was great. But the way the campaign were going was TERRIBLE. Mengks/Dugal/Duke/Zerathul wre just PLAIN DUMB in SC1 campaign. Being fooled over by some kids that couldnt hide their plan for ?%/.

At least this time people were not completly retarded. I must admit on people opinion about the UNN casts that it was too much. I think Blizz wanted to make it part funny. But ya, was overdone. After a few casts you kind of get the idea.

Also for the ending. I think it's the best that I could have wanted. Yes people want her dead but it's only the 1/3 of the whole story we have seen. I am sure they wont let Sarah end up being a good girl living a great life with Jimmy anytime soon.

I was also suspecting Tychus to do something at the end, but not like this, so I was kind of happy to see this happen.

I feel like im the only one who enjoyed the game, and i think it's a shame. Because after all, any StarCraft fan should have anticipated that result. Im not fanboy who wouldn't want to admit the game suck. It's just that it is exactly how this was meant to be and what Blizz promessed us. Were u guys looking for another game?

[userstupidname]

StarCraft 1? Wait... ahah... hum... You are kidding right?

I think nostalgia is hitting ur brain really hard. SC1 story was great. But the way the campaign were going was TERRIBLE. Mengks/Dugal/Duke/Zerathul wre just PLAIN DUMB in SC1 campaign. Being fooled over by some kids that couldnt hide their plan for ?%/.

At least this time people were not completly retarded. I must admit on people opinion about the UNN casts that it was too much. I think Blizz wanted to make it part funny. But ya, was overdone. After a few casts you kind of get the idea.

Also for the ending. I think it's the best that I could have wanted. Yes people want her dead but it's only the 1/3 of the whole story we have seen. I am sure they wont let Sarah end up being a good girl living a great life with Jimmy anytime soon.

I was also suspecting Tychus to do something at the end, but not like this, so I was kind of happy to see this happen.

I feel like im the only one who enjoyed the game, and i think it's a shame. Because after all, any StarCraft fan should have anticipated that result. Im not fanboy who wouldn't want to admit the game suck. It's just that it is exactly how this was meant to be and what Blizz promessed us. Were u guys looking for another game?

Everyone foresaw starcraft 2 ending and story etc.
I think you have seen the ''duran/mengsk and such are really stupid'' thread



Also now now, we don't all hate starcraft 2 it was an incredible ride, the campaign as well, but in writing it is hard to point out the wrong problems without sounding over dramatic compared to an oral discussion

[Gurluash]

True that but this thread makes it sound over-dramatic..."Terrible" even, for me it was a blast and I'm not even done yet.

[Zigurd]

Its not that its bad. Its that we waited 12 years, the game is not revolutionary nor great.
Sc1 was both for its time.

And again, the cinematics were terrible... that was one of the things I was waiting the most.

[ilcane87]

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.

[deadlyhazard]

Worst campaign Blizzard has made yet, and I thought SC1's was pretty bad. Ugh, so disappointed. Liked maybe two missions, everything else was generic and totally done before. Bad VA for the most part, poor storyline, horribly written dialogue.....okay missions in terms of fun. It felt like a chore after the first few missions.

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.

Sure, it's on par with SC1.....an extremely archaic game in an industry that moves very rapidly. By today's story telling standards, it really is poorly done. They could have taken a hint from Pixar, with Toy Story's trilogy (as funny as that sounds). You can make a complete story and wrap up the loose ends in each section of a trilogy, and they showed us how. I wish WoL was more fleshed out rather than spread with random side missions for the sake of it, that don't contribute to the main story arc in any way. I'd say 80% of the campaign isn't even related to the main mission.

[Gurluash]

Worst campaign Blizzard has made yet, and I thought SC1's was pretty bad. Ugh, so disappointed. Liked maybe two missions, everything else was generic and totally done before. Bad VA for the most part, poor storyline, horribly written dialogue.....okay missions in terms of fun. It felt like a chore after the first few missions.




Sure, it's on par with SC1.....an extremely archaic game in an industry that moves very rapidly. By today's story telling standards, it really is poorly done. They could have taken a hint from Pixar, with Toy Story's trilogy (as funny as that sounds). You can make a complete story and wrap up the loose ends in each section of a trilogy, and they showed us how. I wish WoL was more fleshed out rather than spread with random side missions for the sake of it, that don't contribute to the main story arc in any way. I'd say 80% of the campaign isn't even related to the main mission.

Thats is one of the pluses. You can take breaks from the main plot and pursue something else in the interests of Raynor or someone else.

[Drake Clawfang]

They could have taken a hint from Pixar, with Toy Story's trilogy (as funny as that sounds). You can make a complete story and wrap up the loose ends in each section of a trilogy, and they showed us how.

Inapt comparison, Toy Story's films were all conceptualized as individual films. SC2 is meant to be a trilogy. A better comparison would be SC2 to the Lord of the Ring films. And really, their endings weren't all that great either.

[Aldrius]

Thats is one of the pluses. You can take breaks from the main plot and pursue something else in the interests of Raynor or someone else.

It's a plus to an extent, but then they wind up blowing past actual major plot points later on.

Like they RUSH past the Tychus revelation in about 5 seconds. While we spent a crap-ton of time on completely incidental things that had little to do with anything except stretching the plot. I mean really, only Tychus, Zeratul and Matt Horner's missions had ANYTHING to do with the plot. And even then they had a ton of filler.

Having said that, I really enjoyed the campaign until the ending. I thought it was flawed, but well done. The structure and presentation were a lot better than the actual plot, though. (A lot of style, little substance you might say) Which was kind of all over the place. And the ending was total BS. (I thought the cinematics were pretty good, though. Except the Kerrigan vs. Zeratul one. That was just stupid. They didn't even really fight. They just had a conversation about prophecies and the future. Which is really out of character for Kerrigan anyway.)

I'm not sure what you guys mean by horrible voice acting. Honestly, if you want to see horrible voice acting, I'll show you horrible voice acting. I thought the voice acting was really well done. Tricia was better as Kerrigan than I thought she was going to be, though she played the character REALLY differently than Glynnis did. (More carefree nihilist, less wily bastard.) But I thought everyone else was really good in their parts.

I was kinda weirded out by the fact that they had Michael Dorn playing Tassadar. I'm not sure I agree with that casting choice. Though I'm not sure I agree with Tassadar's ghost appearing at all, so I guess it's a moot point. The prophecy stuff worked better than I thought it would. (Though the nuts and bolts of it were silly. The prophecy being "Kerrigan saves the Universe" is just a cheap excuse for characters to behave illogically.) I thought the final Zeratul mission was really affecting, though. The goal basically being: "Go out in a blaze of glory."

Otherwise I thought it was pretty good, though. Certainly much bigger and louder. There was less of that alien-esque horror element to be sure, but I thought it was pretty good. Certainly not terrible.