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//: StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void |OT| My Life For Aiur
- Thread starter Corran Horn
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Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Yeah me too, I won't play it until tomorrow after work.
Unfortunately all the good casters were at Blizzcon, so I guess they just pulled whomever was available and could speak English/has some knowledge of the game.
It was a stylistic choice. If you look at the original OT for WoL all the banners include it. It was basically a concept for the start of a command line. For the OT I went with a theme of a computer relying information about Starcraft II as if it were a Terran Commander training program, kind of a role-play I guess? Kind of dorky but the //: was interesting enough that Corran kept it around. I might be the originator but Corran is the one that propogated it everywhere, lol
Ecto311
Member
Shit I forgot this was coming out. I was playing SC2 since the beta daily at least an hour. Might have to get back into this because it was a ton of fun. Haven't fired up battle.net once this year but watched some WCS matches. Just not amped for a protoss focused game since they are so boring to me. Hope zerg can hold its own this time. /Idra
What happens?
I'm just guessing, but a character we love jobs to a character we've never seen before in order to establish the new bad guy's bonafides.
UnluckyKate
Member
SC2 is downloading 4.92 gb now (EU) 
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
LEGACY OF THE VOID ENDING SPOILERS
LEGACY OF THE VOID ENDING SPOILERS
Oh my God. Are you kidding me, Blizzard? That is offensively bad. Can't believe I waited so long for THIS conclusion.
- Xel'Naga with gold eyes makes Kerrigan a glowing angel.
- Glowing angel causes Jim's mind eruption, forcing him to think of personal kiss.
- Glowing angel flies into some portal.
- Glowing angel kills Xel'Naga with red eyes
- Black screen.
- We are back to first post-intro cinematic of WoL, Raynor in bar, watching TV, missing old times.
- Then actual human Kerrigan returns, and Raynor gets up to greet her, leaving his badge on the table.
- Then... The End.
- Glowing angel causes Jim's mind eruption, forcing him to think of personal kiss.
- Glowing angel flies into some portal.
- Glowing angel kills Xel'Naga with red eyes
- Black screen.
- We are back to first post-intro cinematic of WoL, Raynor in bar, watching TV, missing old times.
- Then actual human Kerrigan returns, and Raynor gets up to greet her, leaving his badge on the table.
- Then... The End.
Oh my God. Are you kidding me, Blizzard? That is offensively bad. Can't believe I waited so long for THIS conclusion.
Clearly not as bad. At least here it is for something :lol:
Dragoon_lantz
Member
I was able to pick up my collectors preorder but I didn't see anything on the floor, maybe give them a call.
Wyndstryker
Member
Completely forgot about this!
I'll pick up my copy after work tomorrow
I'll pick up my copy after work tomorrow
Lol wow. Blizzard really need to hire a couple writers. Still excited to play the campaign.
I always think Blizzard can never disappoint me when it comes to a story after every single thing they make.
But wow.
Atraveller
Banned
Is it me, or the cutscenes in LotV is even more badly compressed than in HotS?
Orochinagis
Member
Woot?
Considering blizzard is recycling the same history all over again in all their games now, those spoilers are just too dumb to believe it
evil solrac v3.0
Member
I'm a bit confused. I thought ravagers and Lurkers were old units?
Atraveller
Banned
To be honest, I was expecting something as stupid as Fallout 4 ending, this one is more tame.
//ARCANUM
Member
yep. i bought my collector's edition from them today. they might not have it in the shelf but it's in their system as releasing today. (both the CE and standard)
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
The typical diminishing returns of an expansion pack - along with SC2 not being popular at all lately (for various reasons).
Uh, is anyone else limited to 60fps?
Why? Saw tons of it.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
i sold a second copy of Terran SC2 CE sealed last year for like $400. made a profit already.
Still... avoiding the spoilers. But I will say this: anyone who didn't have unrealistic expectations or somehow liked the SCII story until this point knew—deep in their hearts—that this conclusion would be a mess.
I don't like going into a game expecting it to be that way, but there's really no reason for me to think otherwise. Hope the campaign's just as fun as the previous two. Looking forward to the opinions tomorrow.
I don't like going into a game expecting it to be that way, but there's really no reason for me to think otherwise. Hope the campaign's just as fun as the previous two. Looking forward to the opinions tomorrow.
Sometime ago, i said to my brother "Well, it can't be really any worse than WoL or HotS, with some luck it will be better actually".
Not sure how i will tell him i'm retracting that statement
(that is, if the spoilers are as bad as they look).I ordered from Best Buy and I received it today in the mail.
phoenix296
Member
There was no returning from the train wreck that was WoL and HotS story's. I'll have fun with the great mission design and try to ignore the ridiculousness as best as I can.
A multimillion dollar company but can't get a team of competent writers to write a decent, generic story in the setting?
What happened to Warcraft III writing, that shit was great.
Or original Starcraft+Brood War.
Sure, both games have some problems but man, overall they're probably among the best (or best told if not most original) video game stories.
Thankfully Blizzard's good with the gameplay side at least, still.
EDIT Speaking of gameplay, i thought i would hate the Protoss Adept.
But no, i really like the unit actually. The Shade power is really fun to use. It is like one-protoss two-pronged attacker. Really fun.
EDIT and the Purifier or Disruptor or whatever it is called is pretty neat as well.
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
WC3 had Didier, Pardo, and Metzen doing the story.
Recently, Blizzard games have pretty much only had Metzen.
phoenix296
Member
Blizzard relies too much on Metzen. After voicing every character in WoW I think he started to become his characters.
Metzen? Not in case of Starcraft 2. James Waugh (or something like that) is the main writer of this new expansion (with Metzen providing major story beats apparently).
Polygon had an interesting article about SC2 writing... lemme find it.
Here: http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/6/9670176/starcraft-2-future-history-dlc-blizzard
Very interesting read.
Fatal Futanari
Member
How else would you get the code out?
I initially passed on this expansion because of how bad the last one was. But I am suddenly getting the itch to get it lol