Poll: Starcraft 2 Expansion Heart Of Swarm, are you excited and do you think it will deliver?
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Wait... people buy these games for their story? WoL had a pretty awful one IMO. Cutscenes are great but if that's all you care about, just watch them on youtube. I know that's what I'm gonna do. I've completely lost faith in Blizzard so I will not be purchasing this game. It really is just a cash grab.
I don't know, that trailer made me pretty excited for what's going to happen storywise. The only part I'm confused about is where we see Kerrigan in Queen of Blades form again. If she goes back to that wouldn't that make all that was done in WoL all for nothing? Then again I'm pretty sure we get a glimpse of human Kerrigan too. I just hope it turns out to be worth it and with as few asspulls as possiblegibboss28 said:
Oh I know, I just figured there were at least a few MP/esports folks around, since that's basically the core of Starcraft's appeal and has been for over a decade. The WOL campaign was pretty much rubbish, so I'm a little shocked to see people are clamoring for more of it.Tanakh said:
I basically view the campaign as a necessary evil to get me up to speed for MP.
I'm mixed on Heart of the Swarm.
Multiplayer-wise, I think it's made a lot of improvements. Bnet 2.0 is now far less godawful than what we had to work with for Brood War. I love that protoss robo-tech and zerg infestors have been deemphasized somewhat. But I hate that Blizzard has not only refused to go into some of the more deep-seated issues like the clumpy pathfinding and the mechanics of mineral gathering disincentivizing expanding, but they act intentionally obtuse whenever asked about those things.
The campaign is another mixed bag. In terms of gameplay, Wings of Liberty shit all over the campaigns of vanilla SC and Brood War. They took those "turtle to 200/200 BCs/carriers/guardians" missions and they made things that were fun and dynamic. Yeah, a lot of them were just "do your regular thing (that is, build a shitload of marines) but also there's this one gimmick that makes you do it faster", but the gimmicks worked, dammit. Unfortunately, they paired that improved gameplay with inexplicably wretched dialogue, storytelling, and characters. The writing in SC1 and Brood War ranged from generic to memorable, but Wings struggled to surpass cringe-inducing.
So I shall wait and see and maybe play a bit of Brood War.
Multiplayer-wise, I think it's made a lot of improvements. Bnet 2.0 is now far less godawful than what we had to work with for Brood War. I love that protoss robo-tech and zerg infestors have been deemphasized somewhat. But I hate that Blizzard has not only refused to go into some of the more deep-seated issues like the clumpy pathfinding and the mechanics of mineral gathering disincentivizing expanding, but they act intentionally obtuse whenever asked about those things.
The campaign is another mixed bag. In terms of gameplay, Wings of Liberty shit all over the campaigns of vanilla SC and Brood War. They took those "turtle to 200/200 BCs/carriers/guardians" missions and they made things that were fun and dynamic. Yeah, a lot of them were just "do your regular thing (that is, build a shitload of marines) but also there's this one gimmick that makes you do it faster", but the gimmicks worked, dammit. Unfortunately, they paired that improved gameplay with inexplicably wretched dialogue, storytelling, and characters. The writing in SC1 and Brood War ranged from generic to memorable, but Wings struggled to surpass cringe-inducing.
So I shall wait and see and maybe play a bit of Brood War.
Speculation incomin!Kyrinn said:
Its pretty obvious from that trailer that she realizes, at some point in the story, that the Swarm is needed to fight the returned Xel'Naga. In essence, yes it does somewhat undermine the last missions on Char, but it also does add a nice bit of tragedy to the whole thing.
She regains her humanity (mostly) and has a chance to live a normal life. I assume Mengsk fucks it up first which makes her want to kill him, again, for the billionth time, then somewhere down the line either after she gets revenge or beforehand that there's more important stuff than her own personal vendetta.
Should be pretty excitin.
On topic! Totally stoked. I have a collectors edition preordered on Amazon that will arrive launch day. Only cost me an extra 4 bucks for the 2 day shippin for that which was...surprisin, but awesome. I can not wait to see what people do with those map editor improvements and new units.
Also, to the people who bring up the multiplayer. How many of you have checked out the SC2 Arcade? Tons and tons of maps on there ranging from third person shooters, to card games, to rpgs, to survival maps, to side scrolling beat-em-ups, to a really fun but strange version of bejeweled, to my favorite right now of Dodgeball. If the regular RTS stuff isn't your cup of tea you can almost always find somethin more to your likin on there.
What stood out to me about sc2 was the soundtrack, it really made the game unique and playable to me.
Nothing about the game makes me want to play more of it, especially without more Terran music, a whole campaign of Zerg bwaaaaa zrrrrrrrr bowowow, nah.
Multiplayer doesn't interest me, story doesn't interest me, especially now that the cool cigar guy is gone.
Nothing about the game makes me want to play more of it, especially without more Terran music, a whole campaign of Zerg bwaaaaa zrrrrrrrr bowowow, nah.
Multiplayer doesn't interest me, story doesn't interest me, especially now that the cool cigar guy is gone.
I bought Starcraft II on release, played through the campaign then completely forgot about it. When I saw Heart of the Swarm was out the same week I have off work (use holiday entitlement or lose it!) I decided to replay WoL to see if I liked it enough to buy this and god dammit I'm gonna be buying. I just hope Blizzard manage to make the missions as varied as they did in WoL.
This is my only issue with it. I HATE!!! the Zerg. Never been a fan of zerg like aliens on an aesthetic level in anything and I think I tried 3 skirmishes before giving up on them.Gizmo1990 said:
Well, I was excited for it about a year ago when I still played SC2 on occasion and even watched some pro matches. But too many good games have come out in the meantime, and especially with my disappointment with Diablo 3 (and the corresponding drop in respect for Blizzard), I'm not looking forward to it at all. I might pick it up in 6 months or a year whenever the price comes down, or if I get really bored with whatever games I'm playing.
Gonna get it at midnight release.. whiskey, lawn chairs, and girlfriends/wives being forced to go on timmys runs. also free stuff
kinda pissed about ultralisk charge and carriers... two funnest units taken out >.<
also kerragan still being in control of zerg even tho shes human (what im assuming), but.. who plays starcraft for the plot? xD
kinda pissed about ultralisk charge and carriers... two funnest units taken out >.<
also kerragan still being in control of zerg even tho shes human (what im assuming), but.. who plays starcraft for the plot? xD
I 3rd the hate seeing as how I'm more a fan of metallic units and Alien typed that aren't a complete monster like Zerg which is also why I don't ever play as the Scrin on C&C 3 and Kane's Wrath.Plinglebob said:
Protoss and Terran all the way and I'm probably not going to pre order it but then again my £500 reabte says otherwise.