Is This the Leaked Ending of the Next StarCraft 2?
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Watched the first minute, then turned away to avoid potential spoilers. Having seen what these things look like early on, it seems plausible that's real, and I don't want to spoil what is likely intended to be the most dramatic moment of the game.
Hopefully someone from Blizzard will come and say it's fake so I can watch it without worrying about spoilers though. Seems odd how quickly they came up with this, considering at Blizzcon they were saying that they were still writing the story for Heart of the Swarm.
Hopefully someone from Blizzard will come and say it's fake so I can watch it without worrying about spoilers though. Seems odd how quickly they came up with this, considering at Blizzcon they were saying that they were still writing the story for Heart of the Swarm.
Yeah...they're pulling the same bullshit cycle in Starcraft that they did in Warcraft.Exort said:
They already retconned the fuck out of the Zerg's original story as presented in the manual.
Like how the Overmind KILLED THE XEL' NAGA of his own free accord. This "enslaved to another force" bullshit is incredibly weak justification. All they needed to do was eliminate/cure Kerrigan, have the Protoss-Zerg hybrids fill the void, fight the Xel Naga.
But Blizzard forced themselves to do the games out of order; the Zerg campaign would have to come first, then the Terran, then the Protoss.
There are valid reasons to do them in this order. Namely, the Terran are the easiest/most familar/relateable faction for the players. The Zerg are generally the most difficult to learn for the average player, and their unique style of play would require more effort to be put into the campaign if they want to retain the same excellent level of variety as Wings of Liberty's campaign.
Even so, they are following the same exact plot twist that they pulled in Warcraft 3.
While it did work, the trick's effectiveness is diminished considerably. We know what to expect now.
But Blizzard forced themselves to do the games out of order; the Zerg campaign would have to come first, then the Terran, then the Protoss.
There are valid reasons to do them in this order. Namely, the Terran are the easiest/most familar/relateable faction for the players. The Zerg are generally the most difficult to learn for the average player, and their unique style of play would require more effort to be put into the campaign if they want to retain the same excellent level of variety as Wings of Liberty's campaign.
Even so, they are following the same exact plot twist that they pulled in Warcraft 3.
While it did work, the trick's effectiveness is diminished considerably. We know what to expect now.
I'm only hoping it doesn't lead to "Universe of Starcraft". Because the last thing we need is another great universe getting pumped in the arse by the greed-n-grind stick.
About the use of the Tranformer's music, in film it's often referred to as temp score. It's not uncommon for an editor to grab music that they think mirrors the feelings they are trying to evoke. This let's them show off what final product might look like sooner and sync up with their composers.
Okay, just listen to everything Kerrigan says after 3:20. She's talking about the Zerg, the hideous bug monsters that devour entire species and live only to consume and destroy. They are mindless beasts. They were made that way intentionally, so that the cerebrates and overmind could control and influence their thoughts. They're not a sapient species. They are feral animals.
HOW THE FUCK DOES ANY OF THAT MAKE ANY GOD DAMN SENSE?!?!
This is some of the worst retconing I've ever seen. This better not be the real ending.
It's a good thing Blizzard games have great game play, because my god are they fucking this story up. I wonder what things are like over on the Blizzard forums.
HOW THE FUCK DOES ANY OF THAT MAKE ANY GOD DAMN SENSE?!?!
This is some of the worst retconing I've ever seen. This better not be the real ending.
It's a good thing Blizzard games have great game play, because my god are they fucking this story up. I wonder what things are like over on the Blizzard forums.
now that ive watched it, i shall buy heart of the swarm out of respect for blizzard.
That is the real ending. It seems like nothing can be protected these days. The U.S government had a major intelligence leak, un realeased music is all over the place and now this....
Well its a shame, and I hope it doesnt damage the game in the long run ( though it probably is already having a huge effect on the dev team )
That is the real ending. It seems like nothing can be protected these days. The U.S government had a major intelligence leak, un realeased music is all over the place and now this....
Well its a shame, and I hope it doesnt damage the game in the long run ( though it probably is already having a huge effect on the dev team )
Overmind didn't killed the Xel'naga of his own free accord. I remember it wasAtmos Duality said:
"The Overmind realized that to continue growing the zerg would need to leave Zerus,[1] and assimilated the behemoths,[2] enabling its forces to travel into space. It had since detected the xel'naga worldships in orbit and these made a logical first target for new material."
Overmind just want to grow. Nothing has changed there it was like that before Starcrft 2.
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Xel%27naga
By the way all sign point toward Xel'naga are good before Starcraft 2. (since you said Terran and protoss have to fight Xel'naga)
"The xel'naga cherished all life and refused to kill anything, not even the entity at KL-2."
from the same link.
That doesn't sound evil to me, and why would Terran and protoss have to fight them if they "cherished all life".
I know it is widely thought that Duran is working for Xel'Naga, but he might be working for Dark Voice or Voice in the Darkness all along.
I agree, I definitely think thatFreechoice said:
No really, DON'T READ THIS!
Both Arcturus and Jimmy's voice is done by Metzen. It makes sense, as he is present in all VA recording sessions to give a background on what is happening - it would make sense that he would do an 'example' movie to show the inflections of speech and emotions to be portrayed.
Still, interesting.
Still, interesting.
Yes, that was another hideously stupid retcon on the part of Blizzard. Making the Overmind into a good guy was ridiculous. But let's not get into that, since it doesn't actually change anything I said. The zerg don't have morality. They aren't intelligent creatures, they're wild animals. As evidenced by the zerg outside the influence of a controlling power being mindless beasts.Exort said:
Throughout both Starcraft games, the zerg have been controlled by various different people. Ranging from the overmind to the Union of Earth (or whatever they were called). The zerg were never portrayed as intelligent. They were always shown as tools to be used by the person controlling them. They were designed that way. So suddenly saying they have free will makes no god damn sense and contradicts how they have been portrayed in the rest of the series.
Someone finally picked this up! Seriously! I can swear they used it in the last trailer for Starcraft II!thelonewolf266 said:
Why did they leak this? It's an excuse to delay the bloody game for probably 2 years! I saw it and it's probably real but one thing irks me.
Where's the story for Legacy of the Void? Zerg are free? Weren't they under the command of Kerrigan and it sounds like she's in the shoes of the Dark Voice. And especially the Dark Voice just fucks things up. He saw the future and Kerrigan is dead, and this might be one of those assassination attempts. So the Zerg are free? So no Dark Voice? 'In Utter Darkness' piss-poor excuse to fuck things up and end game with battle even more intense than 'All In?'
Plus what bargain is this? Leave humanity to it's fate? MIND FUCK!
Plus what bargain is this? Leave humanity to it's fate? MIND FUCK!
For those who don't know how to do it, wrap spoilers in the
tag, with a /spoiler (in square brackets) to close things off and return to normal text. (I can't put the [ ] around the /spoiler part or else I'd end up with spoiler tags and you wouldn't be able to see what I was talking about. There's probably a better way to handle it but I have no idea how.)
The Overmind still attacked them of his own free will. There is absolutely no mention or even hint of implanting an agenda into it other than "Grow, spread". Its modus operandi as presented in Starcraft 2 has completely changed now from willing conqueror to unwilling perpetrator/victim.Exort said:
Consider this: The very nature of the Zerg make them the perfect faceless killers; giving the Protoss and Terrans a logical common enemy. This isn't even justifiable like the Orcs in Warcraft. The Zerg have no culture, and no will prior to the Overmind. The Zerg is Legion, "Many as One".
Furthermore, the Swarm doesn't have real intelligence; most Zerg require orders from higher up, and a specific chain of command is present. When that chain fails they go berserk, even on each other (Two missions in Starcraft 1 and Brood War prove this).
All of that points to a race whose job was to be nothing more than a living apocalypse (ala Starship Troopers). Now we're supposed to feel pity for them?
CONTRADICTORY WRITING, BLIZZARD.
Duran is definitely working for this new "evil" threat. If he isn't, well, that just means the writers wanted to completely destroy what was established in the secret mission in Brood War.
There are several points in Starcraft 2 where the Xel'Naga's benevolent attitude is being directly contradicted. All of these hybrids are always aggressive towards the player in the missions. They are firmly established as being evil.
And now, they're being lead by some Xel'Naga, or if not, something directly related to the Xel'Naga.
I'm guessing that there is one "Satan Xel'Naga/Fallen One" that's causing all of this, but fuck me if Blizzard wasn't being confusing and vague in trying to explain that.
Whatever. As long as the gameplay is good, why should I complain?
