Is the story really as bad as people say?

Is the story really as bad as people say?

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Yes.

It definitely has some strong moments, but overall it's every bit as bad as you've heard and maybe even worse.

the story is shit and nonredeemable, but some of the missions are the best out of any single player rts

Should I replay SC / BW before playing this game? It's been like five years.

No. Very edgy oldfags don’t like it who thinks there cannot be a love story in a good story. I recommend you start with the second. The first is shit full of nuances like limited unit selection and the most atrocious unit movement I ever seen in an rots game.

*RTS

>video game stories

everybody got old at blizzard and it really shows

wings of liberty was pretty alright, nothing too special though but I wasn't overly offended

heart of the swarm the story takes a sharp nosedive into lala land. nothing makes sense anymore and it comes across as if they were making it up as they went along

legacy of the void is so god damn boring I couldn't even finish it.

blizzard may be good at making short cutscenes dramatically effective and impressive looking but they're fucking terrible at story telling

Only if you want to see how out of character everyone is

Classic scifi RTS: Brood War
Classic fantasy RTS: Warcraft 3
Modern RTS: Command & Conquer 3

Everything else is irredeemable trash. No exceptions. Don't bother with this streamlined turd.

This better be pasta

What said. StarCraft ends with Jim being fueled with anger and contempt for Kerrigan and SC II begins with a scene of how broken up he is about it and how he only wishes he could save his waifu and live happily ever after with her. He saves her and she turns right back around and infects herself again because she's the chosen one and literally becomes a super saiyan so she can save the universe.

The only compelling arch was Wings of Liberty, when they were trying to find a cure for Infestation.

Consider SC and BW to be a prologue of events, as the majority of SC II could almost wholly be described without much introduction.

The writing is awful (Lotv is tolerable though outside of the epilogue) but the mission themselves are much better designed then SC1.

Shit taste detected. Oldfags are cancer.

>Is the story really as bad as people say?
No. It's worse.

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>console rts
hue

those aren't even oldfag picks, newfag

>Jim, holy fuck, don't kill Kerrigan or you'll condemn the entire universe.
>How convenient, I don't want to.
>Oh, and the humans outside of the sector? They don't matter any more; don't worry about it.

man C&C3 never got any respect

It doesn’t deserve respect.

Generals was better.

see this is what i'm talking about

no. it's fun

Red Alert 3 is shit
Tiberium Twilight is shit
Tiberium Wars were good because ea used Westwood ideas

>Red Alert 3 is shit
>Tiberium Twilight is shit
>Tiberium Wars were good

exactly

What happened? The UED is no more?

what ued

t. metzen

well raynor suddenly loves his arch enemy for no raisin, and it goes downhill from there

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The series and RTS games in general were already in decline by the time C&C3 came out, but it is by far the best game in the series. If more people had given it a chance they'd realize how awesome it is.

The United Earth Directorate was the very small splinter that was sent along with the criminals that were the initial settling of Terran space. They were very few in comparison to the rest of the Terran Dominion that Mingsk would go on to found. The majority of it was wiped out and the rest fled back to Earth (which is very, very, very far away).

The UED exists but not in Terran space anymore, however, given if they were to give any bit of a flying fuck about Terran space (only because it happens to have aliens worth studying), they could warp in their real technology and probably have their way with what they wanted.

UED tech is exceedingly more advanced than Terran tech, but unfortunately Metzen and friends forgot it existed in SC II basically.

It's possible that they get mentions that I don't remember but they have fuck all to do with anything. Metzen even said at the heart of SC2 is the love story.

>console rts
>hue
>none of these are console RTS
What are you trying to say here exactly? That any RTS with a console port is a "console RTS"?

>Raynor now loves Kerrigan and drinks because he misses old her even though they barely knew each other, she genocided fucktons of people as a zerg and he swore he'd take her down
>Tassadar is a ghost now because fuck you
>Overmind dindu nuffin he was a good boy
>Kerrigan becomes Space Jesus
Fuck everything about Starcraft 2

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it didn't help that it needed a couple of patches to unfuck itself - and the patches fucked up the campaign

>tfw you now remember that StarCraft was ported to the Nintendo

Metzen is a fucking hack.

>20 fucking years
>literally nobody is talking about it
Another franchise into the graveyard dumpster
I doubt anyone inside that den of niggers knows anything about Diablo, StarCraft or WarCraft
Soy-Blizzard is Overwatch and Hearthstone only

>and the patches fucked up the campaign
How so? Doesn't really matter anyway though. I've probably sunk 100 hours into that shit and never even touched campaign. Skirmish/multiplayer is the meat of the game.

the story was meh but the game play was fun. It was only ever popular b/c the autism fags that play it online jerking off to how many Actions Per Minute they can do.

Pretty sure Starcraft: Remastered did pretty well, and I'd bet the same team within the company is doing a Diablo 2 remaster right now

Just take solace in knowing that the Blizzard we have today isn't the same Blizzard we had in the 90s/early 2000s. Almost all of the original people are gone, it's a different company. Old Blizz was about making incredibly high quality games with a ton of replay value and large communities... modern Blizz is about squeezing as many shekels out of the consumer as possible and giving only shit gameplay and political agendas in return.

it's bad yet diablo 3's story somehow managed to be even worse

It's a Blizzard game, of course the story sucks

>Killed of Deckard Cain like a bitch
That was horseshit

>you're the chosen one
>guys let's kill off the franchise's most beloved character in the first act and in a really gay way
>lmao dude stronk female
What a fucking shit game.

starcraft 64 came out two years later, not two months later like tiberium wars

>Story was good when you were young and had no real standards
>Story is bad no that you're older and have developed standards and have more experience in the genre.
Starcraft is the same as it ever was, nostalgia is a hell of a drug to some people.

It didn't suck just because Cain died.

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>How so?

big balance changes. made some missions very hard since they were balanced around way different unit power

He got old, tired and missed his waifu.

No, the story is pretty solid throughout all 3 campaigns.

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Agreed, my only gripe is fighting the Xelnaga hybrids + random faction units got boring.

>Raynor goes from vengeful marine to pining cuck
>Kerrigan switches sides so many times it's stupid at this point
>Protoss are an afterthought and it shows
But it's okay because they force that "epic" feel on you and hold your hand through the storyline like you were an idiot

>big balance changes. made some missions very hard since they were balanced around way different unit power
Fair enough but you can probably make a similar criticism about almost any RTS. All in all, C&C3 is a great game.

>but you can probably make a similar criticism about almost any RTS

no, the sensible ones kept the campaign using a separate ruleset so they could change MP balance without worrying about it

>story is pretty solid throughout all 3 campaigns.
>The Overmind was actually a noble savage this entire time!
No way fag

>Xel'Naga are not scientists, but Void Gods
>zerg were originally talking dinosaurs
>everything the "Xel'Naga" did in Starcraft's original backstory from the manual was actually Amon, the Dark Voice
If that is really what they were aming for from the very beginning, that's a damn shame.

wings of liberty was a masterpiece
rest was kind of shit

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Yeah, WoL was the best

They used this shitty trope at least 3 times, fucking christ.

Jim commits suicide in the end

Disregard story, acquire MMR.

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The original wasn't a masterpiece, but it was fine. The second taking everything and going in a completely different direction provided no consistency and was essentially a really shitty love story

>literally nobody is talking about it
Blizzard continues to baffle me. They make the game F2P and then promote it almost exclusively to people who already own the game.