Oh come on, I've never played a starcraft game in my life, but I got it perfectly fine. It works if you've just about ever played a game with cutscenes in it.McMarbles said:
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I don't get it. Am I meant to have read Stolen Pixels to get the joke?DriveByLawsuit said:
(lol, jking)
It's based off the trailer (shown several time in this thread already), which shows a Marine getting ready for battle. It makes him look incredibly bad ass and powerful and the 'hell, it's about time' line is an inside joke related to the fact that it took 12 years for the sequal to come around.Galad said:
However, in the game itself, Marines are extremely fragile units which die off in matters of seconds in any serious fight. They aren't Warhammer 40k's Marine. They aren't uber bad asses... unlike what the trailer seems to tell us.
So when 'Mr. Badass' come out of the base, he gets killed by a bunch of Zerg before he even finishes his line. It's making fun of the difference between the promotional material and the actual gameplay.
Picture a movie trailer where we see Jason Statham (or another hollywood tough guy) looking incredibly bad ass and doing some crazy stunts... and than in the movie, he dies like a ***** in the first 5 minutes...
That video is the building of a terran marine (The most basic unit of the humans), which are made from the barracks. The comic shows one being suited up ready to kick ass, followed by him 'in game' coming out of the barracks in the middle of a zerg rush. Zergling rushes are an infamous tactic (Which I'm amazed if you don't know about them) which consist of loads of little critter aliens called zerglings just rushing at the enemy base and overwhelming them at the start of the game.Straying Bullet said:
Basically it's showing how that over the top looking trailer of kick ass clashes with the actual power level of the in-game unit. The jokes a pretty good one but obviously, not knowing starcraft, it'll have been utterly lost on you and this explanation has totally killed the funny in it. Sorry about that.
XD O the truth hurts, in a gruesome flesh rending kinda hurt!
yes but remember your typical marine is a resocialized criminal earmarked for death anyways
yes but remember your typical marine is a resocialized criminal earmarked for death anyways
A single barracks? That player is insane! You need at least 4 to keep a steady flow a Gauss Rifle rounds flowing. This was very funny, I like the obvious moment of "Oh crap" he has after exiting the barracks. I'd say keep it up, but you'll do that regardless.
That was actually funnier than the comic, but mainly because of the ending - the epicness of the music as it begins to build another lone marineJonluw said:
Alas, that's not unusual at all. Zealots are fairly OP against Zerg. Well, so is Terran. By the Swarm, Zerg sucks...DynamicPenguin said:
OT: I'm afraid that I use that tactic more than I'd like to admit when playing Zerg... I can't help it that Zerglings are so damned effective once you get the wall down!
