While it lacks in story and narrative, Battuta, you cant argue at the level of quality of the CGI. Blizzard do make some of the highest quality cinematics, even if they lack in narrative.
Could anyone please tell me, constructively, why SC2 was bad/SC1 was good? I played 2. The campaign missions were fun and the story was meh. Anything I'm missing?
I do give Blizzard praise for making each mission have it's own gimmick so they aren't mind bogglingly repetitive.
I do give Blizzard praise for making each mission have it's own gimmick so they aren't mind bogglingly repetitive.
The only units that I found big uses for outside of their intro missions were Banshees and Battlecruisers. Goliaths were occasionally of use as first-wave shocktroopers for the infantry swarm, but it was rare to hit defenses heavy enough to justify that. The Vikings weren't even good during their intro mission unless I gave a damn about saving the colonies, which I admittedly did, but the heavy lifting base assaults for that mission were still handled by the Marine/Marauder/Medic swarm. The mission that introduced Wraiths, the Odin mission? Yeah. Didn't even use the Wraiths. Don't think I ever built one in the entire campaign. Thors likewise. Goliaths were more cost-effective and less prone to lolfail as they were naturally redundant; kill one Thor and that's it, kill one Goliath and there are still three others shooting you up. But again, infantry swarm was more cost-effective and redundant yet.
...Also, I failed to describe how all the writing was terrible because IT'S TIME TO KICK THIS REVOLUTION
INTO OVERDRIVE
Seeing the siege tanks deploy and having vikings transform looks incredibly badass.
But yeah, what the **** was that viking pilot thinking? "Lemme just land infront of this ultralisk and stop his rampage single han-HURK", especially wierd when you see this defensive line not more then 1 kilometer away from that place. Couldn't he just... ya know, landed over there? And shoot his massive miniguns from the relative safety of that defensive line?
Eh well, its 2 minutes of pretty explosions and stuff. Let's not try to think too much about it.
Hahaha :lol:Seeing the siege tanks deploy and having vikings transform looks incredibly badass.
But yeah, what the **** was that viking pilot thinking? "Lemme just land infront of this ultralisk and stop his rampage single han-HURK", especially wierd when you see this defensive line not more then 1 kilometer away from that place. Couldn't he just... ya know, landed over there? And shoot his massive miniguns from the relative safety of that defensive line?
Eh well, its 2 minutes of pretty explosions and stuff. Let's not try to think too much about it.
Terran player was trying to free up supply
Yes it is! She took over the original voice artist, which did cause a huge uproar from the fans, as the original VA did an amazing job with kerrigan.
...but people are complaining about Tricia Helfer? :confused:
She's not terrible, but I don't think she's quite as good in the role either - most screen actors don't make sterling voice actors. What really hurts her is the awful script she's saddled with.
Saw the leaked ending, screw it. I'm not gonna bother. Specially since I only play RTS games offline, so good stories are a must for me.leaked? this seems to happen quite alot for some reason.
She's not terrible, but I don't think she's quite as good in the role either - most screen actors don't make sterling voice actors. What really hurts her is the awful script she's saddled with.
Yes it is! She took over the original voice artist, which did cause a huge uproar from the fans, as the original VA did an amazing job with kerrigan.
I agree that the original VA did a great job...
...but people are complaining about Tricia Helfer? :confused:
I haven't played or put my hands on 2 for a bunch of idiot reasons (I've played the first one)...
... so taking into consideration all of the above, is getting both chapters so far [and playing them nonstop-ish back to back] worth my dough or not worth it? Because if not, there's another game on my list I'm saving for.
nope
nope
Basically this. Wait for a sale. And each campaign should take a very long time, especially if you play on the hardest difficulty.
The one fault I would find with this trailer, other than the size of the Cruiser, is why are there burrowers or whatever beneath the city? Didn't they only just start the invasion? So in the time it takes those ultralisks to run down the street some burrower was put down, burrowed under everything and came up behind the tanks? Doesn't make sense. Though I realize they're just trying to show as many cool units as they can or whatnot.
I don't know if you guys are being entirely fair here. While the story was admittedly lacking, and I certainly wouldn't pay full price for SC2 (I didn't even on launch day, thank you Air Miles gift certs), the singleplayer campaign was entertaining, particularly if you go for the achievement-whore route (which I did). I wouldn't necessarily play on Brutal, but on Hard you unlock all the mission-specific achievements and its quite the challenge.
The one fault I would find with this trailer, other than the size of the Cruiser, is why are there burrowers or whatever beneath the city? Didn't they only just start the invasion? So in the time it takes those ultralisks to run down the street some burrower was put down, burrowed under everything and came up behind the tanks? Doesn't make sense. Though I realize they're just trying to show as many cool units as they can or whatnot.
While i agree the wings of Liberty campaign wasn't groundbreaking i still had fun playing it and to me that is one of the key important things about a game, fun and i had fun. I mean i cant stand Call of Duty, i think they are stale games, with rubbish storylines and pretty much each game these days is the same. At the end of the day it comes down to personal choice and the players preference of the type of games they like.
While i agree the wings of Liberty campaign wasn't groundbreaking i still had fun playing it and to me that is one of the key important things about a game, fun and i had fun. I mean i cant stand Call of Duty, i think they are stale games, with rubbish storylines and pretty much each game these days is the same. At the end of the day it comes down to personal choice and the players preference of the type of games they like.
It doesn't all come down to this - there were a lot of things about SC2 that were just awful no matter what your preferences are. It was bad craft.
The mission design, however, was generally pretty strong and well varied.
Ok i may regret asking this, but what was so awful in SC2? Honestly hand on my heart, i didn't anything awful about, like i said the storyline wasn't groundbreaking but wasn't awful in my opinion. I couldn't find anything awful about.
Battuta, I respect you and your decision that you don't like SC2, thats fine with me, not everybody likes the same games, but come on you have to respect mine for liking it and finding it fun.
Well The size of the battlecruisers has always been up for speculation, but in a Q&A with Blizzard the question about battlecruisers sizes came up, They have officially said the battlecruiser crew ranges from 5000-7000 and here's the statistics for Mengsk flagship
BUCEPHALUS TD Imperial Flagship
was Alexander the Great's horse and one of the most famous actual horses of antiquity.
Ok i may regret asking this, but what was so awful in SC2? Honestly hand on my heart, i didn't anything awful about, like i said the storyline wasn't groundbreaking but wasn't awful in my opinion. I couldn't find anything awful about.
Battuta, I respect you and your decision that you don't like SC2, thats fine with me, not everybody likes the same games, but come on you have to respect mine for liking it and finding it fun.
I don't have a problem with you for finding it fun - I thought the SP mission design was really quite remarkably strong. It was the story that was a total mess.
I have successfully had 24 hour+ LAN games on it (paused, saved, and played over the course of 4 days, I don't like this "round is over in 15 mins" crap, I like long, good games, be it SC, EE, SWFoC, whatever) that I have hit the actual unit cap (as in, nothing can be made anymore, and not due to supply) on.Have you looked into Supreme Commander?
Now Kerrigan's effectively ruined....I couldn't care less as i've always rooted for the Zerg :(
Maybe the UEF will somehow warp in and OWN everything.../me crosses fingers
I was thinking UED
The acronyms are similar and it's late
UED was broodwar, UEF was Starcraft history section from the intro section of the manual..... and Supreme Commander :nervous:
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Not only was a poorly rendered vid on youtube the actual ending.****ing knew it.
Story Director: Chris MetzenSo?
Is the single player campaign as bad as wings of liberty or worse?
Not only was a poorly rendered vid on youtube the actual ending.****ing knew it.
EVEN WORSE?!?!Not only was a poorly rendered vid on youtube the actual ending.****ing knew it.
to be fair, it wasn't the actual ending 1 to 1 ...
the pathetic "now the zerg are free"-part was replaced by something even worse and more in line with whole Zeratul's Prophecy nonsense ...