Tychus Findlay in HOTS

[hyde]

How about I go back in time and to LOTR Virgins waiting in line and show them Gandalf falling off the bridge.
Oh it's a vague picture guys, nobody could've guessed what it was?! /sarcasm.
Yah it doesn't give out that a Balrog smokes Gandalf into the abyss, but it sure does as hell tell you one thing : GANDALF FALLS INTO A BLACK PIT SOMEWHERE ALONG IN THE MOVIE!
It detracts the viewer/gamer from the moment. Why else does any respective game company say explicitly "NO SPOILERS" in their game discussion forums? They don't want the experience ruined for the viewer/gamer.


Now let's look at SC2.

Kerrigan is laying on the ground with no carapace on.
Kerrigan has zerg nerve tendril dreadlock hair.
We can conclude that something has happened to Kerrigan's physical form.
SOMETHING HAPPENS TO KERRIGAN IN SC2!!

Adding that notion with the fact that infestation/deinfestation is possible in StarCraft, we can induce that she gets uninfested. Now this is still vague from a Pre SC2 release, but it certainly "ruins" it.
It's even worse when it's true. So when the crystal is formed and they inform it will nuke the zerg - the entire ending sequence is formed in your head. Honestly at the end cinematic, I almost wanted to just get up and go take a piss so I wouldn't have to bare the horrible truth that I knew.. Blizzard leaked out the ending. It just leaves a sour taste at the end. Instead of enjoying the ending, you're just thinking "Wtf, they were serious...?"

Do you get what I mean? They ruined the "moment" of the ending, sure the ending was not completely ruined - but it was similiar to someone ruining the ending for LOTR Trilogy for me. Despite how ridiculous it sounded, I couldn't help but just think about it during the final moments of LOTR.


P.S. At the Halo thing, well shoot me. That's two games that give out their endings then. Thankfully both won't be remembered as classic moments in gaming history for their respective genres.

[pure.Wasted]

Do you get what I mean? They ruined the "moment" of the ending, sure the ending was not completely ruined - but it was similiar to someone ruining the ending for LOTR Trilogy for me. Despite how ridiculous it sounded, I couldn't help but just think about it during the final moments of LOTR.

That's actually a pretty terrible example, because just off the top of my head I can remember the controversy surrounding The Two Towers' trailers which all showed Gandalf returning. You might say that in this day and age it's pretty hard to mask the fact that a big-name actor is in a movie, but they didn't JUST show Gandalf re-appearing, they show the exact scene in which he reappears and then go on to play that scene as a tense moment in the movie.

So yeah. Pretty much every single movie ever has spoiled things like this. And as games get more cinematic and more dramatic, you're gonna get more spoilers there, too. It happens.

[mr. peasant]

How about I go back in time and to LOTR Virgins waiting in line and show them Gandalf falling off the bridge.
Oh it's a vague picture guys, nobody could've guessed what it was?! /sarcasm.
Yah it doesn't give out that a Balrog smokes Gandalf into the abyss, but it sure does as hell tell you one thing : GANDALF FALLS INTO A BLACK PIT SOMEWHERE ALONG IN THE MOVIE!
It detracts the viewer/gamer from the moment. Why else does any respective game company say explicitly "NO SPOILERS" in their game discussion forums? They don't want the experience ruined for the viewer/gamer.


Now let's look at SC2.

Kerrigan is laying on the ground with no carapace on.
Kerrigan has zerg nerve tendril dreadlock hair.
We can conclude that something has happened to Kerrigan's physical form.
SOMETHING HAPPENS TO KERRIGAN IN SC2!!

Adding that notion with the fact that infestation/deinfestation is possible in StarCraft, we can induce that she gets uninfested. Now this is still vague from a Pre SC2 release, but it certainly "ruins" it.
It's even worse when it's true. So when the crystal is formed and they inform it will nuke the zerg - the entire ending sequence is formed in your head. Honestly at the end cinematic, I almost wanted to just get up and go take a piss so I wouldn't have to bare the horrible truth that I knew.. Blizzard leaked out the ending. It just leaves a sour taste at the end. Instead of enjoying the ending, you're just thinking "Wtf, they were serious...?"

Do you get what I mean? They ruined the "moment" of the ending, sure the ending was not completely ruined - but it was similiar to someone ruining the ending for LOTR Trilogy for me. Despite how ridiculous it sounded, I couldn't help but just think about it during the final moments of LOTR.


P.S. At the Halo thing, well shoot me. That's two games that give out their endings then. Thankfully both won't be remembered as classic moments in gaming history for their respective genres.

As I said before, I believe that at the time the image was released to the public, all three campaigns were in a single game; in which case, the fact of Kerrigan's de-infestation would have become apparent once more details of the Zerg and Protoss campaigns were revealed. Hence, Blizzard probably then decided not to treat it as an ultra-secret event.

Moreover, the real puzzler here is that if you are so averse to spoilers (or even this singular spoiler), why were you checking out spoilers in the first place? It's like a person with a nut allergy complaining about having a reaction after knowingly eating a pecan pie. Ultimately, it's your own responsibility not to expose yourself to things you don't want to be exposed to. The best Blizzard can do is put up a 'Warning! Spoiler alert!' sign which is a given whenever the topics of concept art, cinematics and single-player come up.

[Articorse]

How about I go back in time and to LOTR Virgins waiting in line and show them Gandalf falling off the bridge.
Oh it's a vague picture guys, nobody could've guessed what it was?! /sarcasm.
Yah it doesn't give out that a Balrog smokes Gandalf into the abyss, but it sure does as hell tell you one thing : GANDALF FALLS INTO A BLACK PIT SOMEWHERE ALONG IN THE MOVIE!
It detracts the viewer/gamer from the moment. Why else does any respective game company say explicitly "NO SPOILERS" in their game discussion forums? They don't want the experience ruined for the viewer/gamer.

Honestly? Seeing a picture of Gandalf falling into a nondescript black pit before seeing the movie would've ruined the moment for you? Dude, if stories are so easily spoiled for you, what were you doing hanging out in forums and looking up info on SC2 in the first place? I steered clear of spoilers, hence my game was not spoiled. And it's not like I had to turn off my internet connection to get away from the spoilers, I just didn't go into places that said 'SPOILER ALERT' - problem solved. The one time I did go into such an area, I saw the Kerrigan concept art. And guess what? I figured it could be deinfestation, along with a bajillion other things, and it didn't ruin the story for me.

Kerrigan is laying on the ground with no carapace on.
Kerrigan has zerg nerve tendril dreadlock hair.
We can conclude that something has happened to Kerrigan's physical form.
SOMETHING HAPPENS TO KERRIGAN IN SC2!!

No, you cannot conclude that. Ever hear of a flashback? This could've easily been Kerrigan just coming out of the chrysalis. Not to mention that, if I recall correctly, in the books it was stated that Kerrigan was let out of the chrysalis a few times before she actually matured. This could've easily been that. Hell, it could've been her INSIDE the chrysalis, for all we knew, the background is so vague and nondescript. This is just off the top of my head, I don't feel like making a list of all the possibilities.

[Norfindel]

The first thing i thinked when i saw the Kerrigan image was "she's going to be de-infested". That was confirmed when they made a lame attempt to hide it by replacing it with another picture, and leaved most, if not all the others there.

That's actually a pretty terrible example, because just off the top of my head I can remember the controversy surrounding The Two Towers' trailers which all showed Gandalf returning. You might say that in this day and age it's pretty hard to mask the fact that a big-name actor is in a movie, but they didn't JUST show Gandalf re-appearing, they show the exact scene in which he reappears and then go on to play that scene as a tense moment in the movie.

IIRC, you don't see his face, right? That means, that you should think it's Saruman, as it's white. Unless of course, you already knew. Still, many parts that were epic in the book were poorly handled in the movies. The extended version of the first movie was for the most part good, but then the next movies were going constantly down. The third movie is crap next to the book. Horrible adaptation deformation.

[Tassadar1284]

I finished sc2 campaign in 2 days.I am still angry at blizzard.Because I did not play the other races. -_-'

[Jabber Wookie]

I finished sc2 campaign in 2 days.I am still angry at blizzard.Because I did not play the other races. -_-'

Lol... Incredibly belated and irrelevant post/thread resurrection ftw!

[Xarthat]

If the thread was necroed, at least it wasn't me, so I can post in it now, can I?

I checked "infested" option - mainly because I think there's hardly enough Zerg characters to fill HoS's equivalent of Hyperion.

[spychi]

the last post is not at least a month old so go ahead post

[Jabber Wookie]

If the thread was necroed, at least it wasn't me, so I can post in it now, can I?

I checked "infested" option - mainly because I think there's hardly enough Zerg characters to fill HoS's equivalent of Hyperion.

Of course you can post in a necroed thread if it's relevant, which your comment was regarding the thread topic. That other guy just made a simplistic, poorly worded irrelevant post so I thought I'd make fun of him.