The StarCraft II thread

[Fate]

shit...

I rely on MS for deals and info like this

We even have a thread just begging for it to be posted in

WHY DO YOU FAIL ME NOW

[Gammagooey]

Considered not buying this until I actually buy+make my new computer buuuut this is one of the only games I've been looking forward to in a while so screw that. Plus taking 5 minutes to load something will PROBABLY motivate me to hurry up with choosing parts for it.

if anyone wants to play then bug me by PM or with the ingame messaging, I'll probably be just playing through the campaign for a while.

[Fate]

Apparently I got to gold with teams two years ago...


Who the hell helped me with that?

Don't tell me it was the goddamn Buttonmen

[borkjerfkin]

really on the fence about getting this. I figure I'll prolly play through the single player, suck at multiplayer for like a month, then quit.

[Iecerint]

I bought it tonight after seeing some positive comments about the campaign. Enjoying it so far. I like Kerrigan's cute zerg friends.

[Klazam]

im not good, but i extremely enjoy this game.

the single player campigan is really awesome.

also...

Spoiler: very minor spoiler that doesnt give anything important away

A FUCKING AWESOME SPACE BATTLE MISSION!

[Knight of Cydonia]

I didn't really enjoy the campaign that much, it felt very Mass Effect 2-ish in that

none of the major plot strands from the first game apart from Kerrigan's revenge on Mengsk were really dealt with and it seemed to be more about powering up the Swarm (again) and removing Amon's influence/the Hybrids that Duran/Nurad was creating while telling a really shitty 'love' story.

[Iecerint]

Yeah, the entire internet is annoyed at the dumb, retconned love story. They do lampshade this near the end of the game from what I understand, though, which made me feel a little better about it. And we also get a neat twist involving Raynor from what I understand.

The only plot-related thing that annoyed me was

Spoiler:

the death of Narud. Big anti-climax, since Duran was one of my favorite Brood War characters. I was over-the-moon about Alexei showing up, though. But there's probably still space for them to full a fast one in Legacy of the Void.

[GuyInFreezer]

Oh. I need to get HotS.

Player ID is Dominion. (US)

[Knight of Cydonia]

Yeah, the entire internet is annoyed at the dumb, retconned love story. They do lampshade this near the end of the game from what I understand, though, which made me feel a little better about it. And we also get a neat twist involving Raynor from what I understand.

The only plot-related thing that annoyed me was

Spoiler:

the death of Narud. Big anti-climax, since Duran was one of my favorite Brood War characters. I was over-the-moon about Alexei showing up, though. But there's probably still space for them to full a fast one in Legacy of the Void.

The way I read it was that Narud/Duran is just an avatar of the Dark Voice/Void/whatever; and so he'll more than likely return under another name in LotV.
Also I felt that the Raynor "twist" really isn't that big a twist, Blizzard not having the guts to kill off such a major character for good is hardly a surprise.

[Iecerint]

Oh, I didn't mean that twist. That one was obvious from the beginning.

I was talking about how

Spoiler:

reawakening Kerrigan rebirthed Amon

.

[Iecerint]

My hope is that

Spoiler:

Duran can create copies/aspects of himself, which is what Emil was, and Duran himself is the servant of Amon.

[Claus]

Yeah, the entire internet is annoyed at the dumb, retconned love story. They do lampshade this near the end of the game from what I understand, though, which made me feel a little better about it. And we also get a neat twist involving Raynor from what I understand.

The only plot-related thing that annoyed me was

Spoiler:

the death of Narud. Big anti-climax, since Duran was one of my favorite Brood War characters. I was over-the-moon about Alexei showing up, though. But there's probably still space for them to full a fast one in Legacy of the Void.

Yeah, I also feel that

the death of Duran/Narud was a bit rushed and anti-climatic - he was much more resourceful in BW. I hope that this is not the last we've seen of him.

On another note, although I liked the campaign, I think it did a pretty poor job at showing the abilities of the new MP units. You are kinda made to use the swarm host a bit in the

primal missions

, but the only real appearance of the Viper is on an evolution mission, which is not even mandatory. It would be nice to have the protoss and terran enemies use the new units with a bit more of a spotlight. I felt that the WoL campaign did a much better job in this regard.

[Iecerint]

Yeah, I'm basically just massing hydras every mission.

[Iecerint]

I'm happy that my favorite UED character not named Duran made an appearance.

[xRECKONERx]

Maybe I'm actually gonna get this and try it out again.

[AGar]

I want this game.

But I'm not excited about paying $60 for me to just play campaign.

Although my computer can actually handle it now so...

Hrmmm.

[Iecerint]

You can also download the fan-made Starcraft Classic legacy missions, if you're a player who goes back and plays the original SC campaign regularly. It's done very well.

[Ellibereth]

masters wol
gold hots
lel

[tanstalas]

I want this game.

But I'm not excited about paying $60 for me to just play campaign.

Although my computer can actually handle it now so...

Hrmmm.

It's not $60.

[Iecerint]

$20 for WoL, $40 for HotS.

[AGar]

You can also download the fan-made Starcraft Classic legacy missions, if you're a player who goes back and plays the original SC campaign regularly. It's done very well.

I have the original SC still sooooo

I want this game.

But I'm not excited about paying $60 for me to just play campaign.

Although my computer can actually handle it now so...

Hrmmm.

It's not $60.

Still.

[Iecerint]

I have the original Starcraft, too, but the SC2-version of it is worth playing through if you're a fan. Team Liquid did a good job.

[Iecerint]

Finished the campaign today. The ending is similar to the leaked version from 2010, but not terrible. I was pretty OK with it.

I would have LIKED to have gotten a post-credits scene with the villains and maybe a Protoss scene to lead-into LotV, but meh.

[Klazam]

That was one of the things I wish it had

The final mission was much too easy compared to wol's final mission.