StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Teaser Trailer Leaked

[Nouw]

Underwhelmed greatly.

You need more overlords!

 

[Raineheart]

My thoughts: Nova is under command to capture and test do whatever on Kerrigan.

Raynor is trying to save Kerrigan, yada yada.

Raynor teams up with Kerrigan and Kerrigan goes bio with the zerg, probably having some amount of control over them.

Raynore has a conflict of interest because he's been fighting the zerg a long time and to see Kerrigan controlling them and using them for his benefit has him shittin' the bed a little bit.

 

[LandoCristo]

Gotta handle it to Mr. Kotick - he sure knows how to cut development costs.
Hell, that Activision/Blizzard merge was so successful: no more thoughtful stories, less gorgeous CGIs, shit ass region locks, 3x60$ for what should've been one damn MIND BLOWING experience etc.

OH you. It's funny because you think that Activision is in charge of any Blizzard products. That's amusing. The most Activision does is publish them (which is what they do) after Blizzard finishes developing it( which they do as developers.)

 

[Snotnarok]

Call me a braindead FPS moron but I wish they had put out Starcraft: Ghost or tried again. I just don't dig the SC games that much but I love the style.

 

[Grey_Focks]

I swear to god if I see one more person complain about the story, I'm going to be quite unhappy. It's BLIZZARD, people, they don't tell stories, they make games that put gameplay first, and I for one, along with their millions of fans, prefer it that way. They have NEVER cared about telling good stories, why do you expect them to start now?

So yea, I don't really care about this teaser, just let me know when we see some new gameplay footage and I'll be happy. Or hell, just let me see some new units.

 

[Exort]

Gotta handle it to Mr. Kotick - he sure knows how to cut development costs.
Hell, that Activision/Blizzard merge was so successful: no more thoughtful stories, less gorgeous CGIs, shit ass region locks, 3x60$ for what should've been one damn MIND BLOWING experience etc.

OH you. It's funny because you think that Activision is in charge of any Blizzard products. That's amusing. The most Activision does is publish them (which is what they do) after Blizzard finishes developing it( which they do as developers.)

Actually Blizzard have been self publishing since the 1990s.
Also, Blizzard('s owner) owns Activision not the other way around as the name might imply.
Blizzard is owned by Vivendi subdivision called Vivendi games which merge with Activision, the result was Vivendi becoming the major stockholder of the resulting company with 52% share (which means the company is under their control).
It is weird that they decide to put Activision in front of the name since Blizzard was a larger company than Activision. Blizzard was the second largest third party publisher right behind EA, while Activision was the 4th or 5th I think. But since the company as a whole is now owned by Vivendi, I guess they it is their way to compensate Activision.
Also, if I remember correctly Activision actually paid Vivendi for this merger. Weird eh? It possibly have sometime to do with the 52% share. If Blizzard merge with Activision, Vivendi should have way more then 52% share because Blizzard worth more, so Activison pay for the rest of the stock until Vivendi owns only 52% of the share. That is my theory anyways.

Anyhow, I think calling the company ActivisionBlizzard not BlizzardActivision is the biggest PR mistake Vivendi games/Blizzard ever made.

 

[Ilyak1986]

I swear to god if I see one more person complain about the story, I'm going to be quite unhappy. It's BLIZZARD, people, they don't tell stories, they make games that put gameplay first, and I for one, along with their millions of fans, prefer it that way. They have NEVER cared about telling good stories, why do you expect them to start now?

So yea, I don't really care about this teaser, just let me know when we see some new gameplay footage and I'll be happy. Or hell, just let me see some new units.

Bullcrap. SC and SCBW had an absolutely amazing story. But then notice how Diablo 2 was very similar? Noble hero fights evil, succumbs to evil, takes place of old evil? And then Warcraft 3 follows the SAME PATH? EG Arthas fights evil, turns evil, takes place of old evil?

I believe in one interview, Metzen said he didn't know many good stories, but really liked the one about the hero falling from grace, and finding redemption again.

Of course, with the wanderer from Diablo 2, nope, that wasn't the case. And with Arthas, well, you kill him in WotLK, so scratch him. However, in order for the universe to be saved as Zeratul specified, Kerrigan MUST find redemption in some way, shape, or form.

Unfortunately, Nova didn't see Zeratul's crystal--plus, she's still under ghost conditioning from the dominion. Plus, I hope Nova will become a bigger role player in HotS--because IIRC canonically, she was actually *STRONGER* than Kerrigan as a psionic back in the ghost academy. Imagine what would happen if Kerrigan were to tear Nova's ghost conditioning away. Nova would be BEASTLY

 

[Arkhangelsk]

You know, I'm sure it's full priced. Wow, I thought only EA and the Sims had the audacity to charge full price for an expansion pack.

I heard that "Heart of the Swarm" is supposed to come out next year. Now, considering that Starcraft II took what, thirteen years to come out and this one is only taking two. It's easy to tell when they're milking the good-old fan-base udder.

Blizzard takes to long for me to care.

Milking the fan-base udder? If you actually played it, you'd see that they sort of have to charge for the Zerg campaign. If you look at the original Starcraft, they had all three campaigns in one game. In this, if they put all three campaigns in one game, they wouldn't be profiting, they'd be creating between 2-3 games at the cost of one. The appeal of the Starcraft story is the angles it takes on, are you saying you'd rather want them to leave the franchise with two unfinished stories, or to compress all three so tightly you would have three loosely tied together campaigns?

 

[HK_01]

There is an awful lack of zerg in this trailer for an expansion that's supposed to be mainly about them. I do wonder how they want to present the campaign, anyway. You can hardly follow Kerrigan, since she's been turned into a human, so maybe you'll be following some zerg cerebrate (or whatever they're called) and you have to try to reorganize the zerg and such.

 

[LandoCristo]

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Actually Blizzard have been self publishing since the 1990s.
Also, Blizzard('s owner) owns Activision not the other way around as the name might imply.
Blizzard is owned by Vivendi subdivision called Vivendi games which merge with Activision, the result was Vivendi becoming the major stockholder of the resulting company with 52% share (which means the company is under their control).
It is weird that they decide to put Activision in front of the name since Blizzard was a larger company than Activision. Blizzard was the second largest third party publisher right behind EA, while Activision was the 4th or 5th I think. But since the company as a whole is now owned by Vivendi, I guess they it is their way to compensate Activision.
Also, if I remember correctly Activision actually paid Vivendi for this merger. Weird eh? It possibly have sometime to do with the 52% share. If Blizzard merge with Activision, Vivendi should have way more then 52% share because Blizzard worth more, so Activison pay for the rest of the stock until Vivendi owns only 52% of the share. That is my theory anyways.

Anyhow, I think calling the company ActivisionBlizzard not BlizzardActivision is the biggest PR mistake Vivendi games/Blizzard ever made.

Pretty much what I said. Activision is not in charge of Blizzard. I thought that since Activision was mainly a publisher, they would do that for Blizzard products, but I suppose that Blizzard is large enough to handle that on their own.

 

[LandoCristo]

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Milking the fan-base udder? If you actually played it, you'd see that they sort of have to charge for the Zerg campaign. If you look at the original Starcraft, they had all three campaigns in one game. In this, if they put all three campaigns in one game, they wouldn't be profiting, they'd be creating between 2-3 games at the cost of one. The appeal of the Starcraft story is the angles it takes on, are you saying you'd rather want them to leave the franchise with two unfinished stories, or to compress all three so tightly you would have three loosely tied together campaigns?

Dude, there's almost no story to SC2. It could easily - easily - have been condensed into one campaign.

*Twitch* *twitch*.

How can you say that there's no story to SCII? Have you divined the future, and gotten the story from WikiLeaks? Because as far as I know, only Blizzard writers have the full story even slightly planned out, and probably not even completely. What story SCII has had so far is 1/3 of the total story they're doing. So, if you don't know the story, how can you say that it could be condensed into one 8-hour game?

Maybe you're right, maybe the Zerg and Protoss campaigns will have terrible, shitty stories. But I can't for the life of me figure out how you would have knowledge of that now.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

You know, I'm sure it's full priced. Wow, I thought only EA and the Sims had the audacity to charge full price for an expansion pack.

I heard that "Heart of the Swarm" is supposed to come out next year. Now, considering that Starcraft II took what, thirteen years to come out and this one is only taking two. It's easy to tell when they're milking the good-old fan-base udder.

Blizzard takes to long for me to care.

Milking the fan-base udder? If you actually played it, you'd see that they sort of have to charge for the Zerg campaign. If you look at the original Starcraft, they had all three campaigns in one game. In this, if they put all three campaigns in one game, they wouldn't be profiting, they'd be creating between 2-3 games at the cost of one. The appeal of the Starcraft story is the angles it takes on, are you saying you'd rather want them to leave the franchise with two unfinished stories, or to compress all three so tightly you would have three loosely tied together campaigns?

Dude, there's almost no story to SC2. It could easily - easily - have been condensed into one campaign.

I beg to differ. I enjoyed the campaign and thought the story was quite awesome.

 

[Realitycrash]

She BETTER be returned to the zerg, blade-arms and all. She was the most awesome female villain of all time, and they ruined it in the end of Liberty.

 

[Realitycrash]

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Milking the fan-base udder? If you actually played it, you'd see that they sort of have to charge for the Zerg campaign. If you look at the original Starcraft, they had all three campaigns in one game. In this, if they put all three campaigns in one game, they wouldn't be profiting, they'd be creating between 2-3 games at the cost of one. The appeal of the Starcraft story is the angles it takes on, are you saying you'd rather want them to leave the franchise with two unfinished stories, or to compress all three so tightly you would have three loosely tied together campaigns?

Dude, there's almost no story to SC2. It could easily - easily - have been condensed into one campaign.

*Twitch* *twitch*.

How can you say that there's no story to SCII? Have you divined the future, and gotten the story from WikiLeaks? Because as far as I know, only Blizzard writers have the full story even slightly planned out, and probably not even completely. What story SCII has had so far is 1/3 of the total story they're doing. So, if you don't know the story, how can you say that it could be condensed into one 8-hour game?

Maybe you're right, maybe the Zerg and Protoss campaigns will have terrible, shitty stories. But I can't for the life of me figure out how you would have knowledge of that now.

Yes, there's a story. Sow hat? We got what-.Twenty four missions? Compared to what in Starcraft? Three times as many?
I paid full money for something I played through in pretty much two days, i.e Starcraft with one only one campaign and a decent graphics upgrade. Fuck, I'd rather see this game with Starcraft graphics but full campaign-mode, i.e ALL OF THE RACES.

 

[GooBeyond]

im pretty sure tychus (or however his name is spelled) will come back , maybe with tentacles hanging from his nipples ...

 

[Elosandi]

Call me a braindead FPS moron but I wish they had put out Starcraft: Ghost or tried again. I just don't dig the SC games that much but I love the style.

I wish they had as well, but I like the RTS games as well. From the experience I had with C&C Renegade, it was actually kind of nice seeing the units I'd been using from a more personal viewpoint.

Now, taking down ultralisks, collosi or thors with a single infantry unit would be interesting. Carriers and battlecruisers even more so.

 

[Mathak]

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Yes, there's a story. Sow hat? We got what-.Twenty four missions? Compared to what in Starcraft? Three times as many?
I paid full money for something I played through in pretty much two days, i.e Starcraft with one only one campaign and a decent graphics upgrade. Fuck, I'd rather see this game with Starcraft graphics but full campaign-mode, i.e ALL OF THE RACES.

SC2 has 26 missions if you do not count to double ones (Breakout/Ghost of a Chance, etc). If you do, there's 29, not including the whole tutorial. The original SC had 30 missions, including the tutorial.

29 x 3 = 30? K then.