My beef with the SC2:WoL ending
Fine. I've accepted the fact that I'll probably be purchasing all of the SC2 expansion packs, even though I said multiple times that I wouldn't. But after completing the first in the series, I'm left wondering just how much Terran content is going to be found in the other two.
Let me break here to say that if you haven't figured it out already, this post is going to contain MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SC2. So if you haven't completed it, I suggest you stop reading here.
Now, after completing the final mission last weekend not only did I find it to be completety anti-climatic, but I'm simply left with more questions than answers. So here are my issues:
- Wasn't the entire point of the whole encounter with Zeratul about not killing Kerrigan? Sure, we didn't kill her, but she sure as hell isn't the Queen of Blades anymore. Seems to me we just completely fucked over the universe by undoing what the Overmind set out to do in creating her. Unless through some ridiculous plot device she still has control over the Zerg.
- Why the fuck does she still have that Zerg hair? Please tell me it's not for the reason mentioned above
- What about Tychus? Who actually "had the gun to his head"? Was it really Mobius? Were they acting outside of Valerian's goals?
- What happened to Arcturus Mengsk? We spent a whole lot of time trying to fuck him over, only to have that entire storyline forgotten the minute we stepped on Char.
- Was Valerian being upfront with us with his goals on Char? Was he using us for some other larger goal, besides one-upping his father?
I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting. But even if it's just those five, the only thing answered by the end of the game was the question "Can Kerrigan be cured?". And even still, it's not entirely certain. After all, she's still got those killer Zerg dreads going on.
So, are they going to dedicate time in the next two games to answering these questions? Seems like a whole lot of time to spend on Terran content in what is supposed to be the Protoss and Zerg expansions.
StarCraft 2 Initial Impression
So last night as I was pooping I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. As I wasn't going anywhere any time soon, I checked it out, and turns out, it was my acceptance email to the SC2 beta. Cool.
Now let me start by saying I was never really a fan of SC multiplayer games. I could never stand the rush mentality, it just was never fun for me. I want to build an army, not build 4 zerglings and slowly scratch away at my helpless opponents base. Boring. I did enjoy the single player campaigns though. They were all very deep, and kept me wanting to get to the next mission.
That said, SC2 so far just seems like more of the same as far as multiplayer games go. The rush mentality is still there, and I still hate it. After playing a couple games against other people, I decided to do a couple private games against the AI just so I could build more than a couple marines before taking out my opponent.
There are a good number of new units. I've always been a Terran guy, and giant robots are awesome, so I was very happy to see the Thor. The new battle battlecruisers are much cooler than the ones in the original, firing multiple lasers at once. And the units that can transform from air to ground are awesome.
But beyond the new units and graphical updates, the game seems to be almost identical to the original. Which really is fine, because the first one was as close to balanced as it could be. But for someone looking for anything really ground breaking, I don't see it here.
Unfortunately the single player campaigns are not included in the beta, which is what I really wanted to see. So I'll probably be putting this on the side until it's released.