[Black_Yoshi1230]

The other thing is basically everything done in Wings gets undone in Heart as fast as someone does a table flip on a [recently] fully loaded dinner table.

But unlike Wings, Heart pretty much encourages a full-offense approach. (I've beaten both campaigns on Normal, and Heart was basically "how much could you just go nuts and max out with." I picked the "free recycled Zerglings" perk for most missions because why not.)

Story-wise, I found Heart slightly worse than Wings, but gameplay wise, it was much more fun. Plus, um... boss fights.

[X3N0-Life-Form]

I think one of the biggest convenience factor in the HotS campaign is the ability to select everyone (everyone!) at once and send them places to beat the crap out of everybody.

[0rph3u5]

(no opening a new topic for a teaser)

"You must construct additional Pylons"

[Mongoose]

If nothing else Blizzard has always churned out some really kickass CGI.

[General Battuta]

It's technically solid but it has a very limited sense of style or direction. The SC1/Brood War cinematics are all far more memorable despite being incredibly primitive — they have something to say, visually, beyond 'gloss' and 'shine'.

[Scotty]

Yeah that didn't do anything for me at all.  "Cool fight scene" is something Blizzard can animate well enough, but it's incredibly shallow and doesn't actually tell you anything about the game beyond vague rumblings of Protoss patriotism, which is effectively telling you nothing at all.

[crizza]

Preordered it anyway

[rubixcube]

Preordered it anyway

Pre-ordering is usually pointless dude

[Spoon]

I thought that was a really cool trailer!

It's technically solid but it has a very limited sense of style or direction. The SC1/Brood War cinematics are all far more memorable despite being incredibly primitive — they have something to say, visually, beyond 'gloss' and 'shine'.

"I love you sarge"

[crizza]

Preordered it anyway

Pre-ordering is usually pointless dude

And?
I preordered the first two parts of SC2, this one I prordered because I wanted the prologue missions and the HotS character... dunno but I hope this means I get Artanis for free

[Spoon]

Please don't support the horrible preorder culture that the AAA games industry has created

[General Battuta]

"I love you sarge"

Thank God for cold fusion.

[0rph3u5]

Please don't support the horrible preorder culture that the AAA games industry has created

... but the artbooks!

Yeah that didn't do anything for me at all.  "Cool fight scene" is something Blizzard can animate well enough, but it's incredibly shallow and doesn't actually tell you anything about the game beyond vague rumblings of Protoss patriotism, which is effectively telling you nothing at all.

Well, it has a nice little visual metaphor with the activation of the shields and psi-blades; but yeah doesn't turn it deep

It's technically solid but it has a very limited sense of style or direction. The SC1/Brood War cinematics are all far more memorable despite being incredibly primitive — they have something to say, visually, beyond 'gloss' and 'shine'.

Well, clearly you have better memories of those cutscenes then I have .... but then again, I agree on the point but would cite the original Diablo 2 cutscenes as reference. Diablo 2's structure was quite textbook and predictable but the cutscenes made a nice play with it (and then the audio direction in the Epilogue)

EDIT: but then again in Diablo III someone showed that they can still do it, sadly only in a single flawed instance ... strike Azomdan's last line from the Act III cutscene and it's near perferct (that last line pulls Azomdan from meanacing to comically evil)

[Aesaar]

The Brood War intro remains one of the best intro cinematics ever.  Nothing Blizzard has made since has been worthy of even being compared to it.

[Scotty]

The Brood War intro remains one of the best intro cinematics ever.  Nothing Blizzard has made since has been worthy of even being compared to it.

Take us into orbit, Mr. Malmsteen.

[General Battuta]

Take us into orbit, Mr. Malmsteen.

Are you prepared to go all the way with this, Alexei?

Yes I am prepared to be betrayed, killed, resurrected in some mini-expansion nobody played, and brought back in HotS even though they like to pretend Brood War never happened

[crizza]

And all the while he served Amon, became a shapeshifter and was head of the Moebius fundation

[StarSlayer]

The Brood War intro remains one of the best intro cinematics ever.  Nothing Blizzard has made since has been worthy of even being compared to it.

Take us into orbit, Mr. Malmsteen.

Certainly has a little Do Long Bridge scene in it as well.

[Mika]

(no opening a new topic for a teaser)

"You must construct additional Pylons"

Dunno, seems to be lacking that something. Couldn't they have added a bit more lightning in to it?

Or is it lack of explosions?  ;)

[Snarks]

This is really strange, but I'm actually looking forward to LotV because HotS's story was so ridiculously terrible. When HotS came out, I bought it and played it while streaming for my friend, and we mocked everything about it. We have inside jokes just from that campaign. I have gotten more laughter out of playing HotS than I have from most comedies. For some perverse reason, I get a real kick out of criticizing the poorly written narrative; I go out and look for reviews/summaries such as the one posted by Battuta to read for fun. This is the only game that I've played and treated in such a manner. For all of its flaws, SC2 is boatload of fun for all the wrong reasons.