Well I’m new to StarCraft. Never picked it up when I was younger, I guess because Age of Empires and Total War gave me enough strategy. But I picked it up a few months ago, played a few matches, got into co-op which is fun and then finally I tried out the campaign.
Now I never played the first game but I heard great things about StarCraft as a franchise and lore in general and I was looking forward to experience the friend advertised gritty and tactical world where you thrive only to survive.
Well that didn’t happen. WoL was mostly like an ill-aged sci-fi action movie from the early 2000s. The story is kiddy stuff, the characters are black and white and of course there has to be a prophecy. And there was nothing gritty or hard or tactical about it, each mission grants you the best tool for said mission and leads you from A to B. Now I’m a bit of a Columbus and by that I mean I run around with my army like an idiot to explore and I was amazed how simple the maps were.
HotS was even easier because on top of all this you have a super-duper powerhouse hero.
And the story is like a redemption story with a revenge-massacre and a prophecy? Oh please. Here’s hopin’ the LotV and the Nova campaigns will be better. Take care y’all.
As a Broodwar fanatic, the entire SC 2 is heretic. All the magic and uniqueness of SC 1 are gone. Dialogues are painfully clichè, lacking characteristics without depth.
Except for some characters that are initially interesting, the rest are like a super heroes franchise.
I know they dump down a lot of thing for the sake of a wider audience but this is not my taste. We got more than enough of those trashes in the market already.
Nothing wrong with that, I’m glad you did. Since I personally loved Tychus the most, I am a bit upset about him. Not that I thought it could work out any other way.
Zeratul just got shanked by an Amon controlled Artanis. I think my objective in the next mission will be to protect Karax while he fires up the Spear of Adun, so at the very beginning.
Actually relatively difficult on Brutal. You don’t have OP stuff yet and you have only Zealots, Stalkers and defensive structures, so you can’t make up for bad macro/micro.
LotV’s main story is usually considered the most coherent campaign of the three main installments. Artanis also faces more adversity than Raynor or Kerrigan.
It stars fan favorite Alarak or my favorite Protoss - Vorazun. Artanis is consistent with his SC1/BW portrayal.
Amon is still weakest character.
It is beneficial for you to read short stories that were published freely around the release.
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You have played, Prologue. I have desribed main body, but…
Here is the thing. Epilogue is… so bad, we don’t really talk about it here. For reasons.
Okay, as a follow-up I’m almost done with LotV and while it had some good dialogue and cinematics, overall I think it was pretty bad. All the missions were just about either defending a structure or taking out a few scattered structures. Pretty crappy so far with all this big bad eeeeevil fighting against all of life.