BlizzCon 2010 tychus findlay alive? - Page 3

On October 25 2010 05:36 Stratos_speAr wrote:


You bring up 3 things.

1) Fenix. An already well established and thoroughly explained part of the universe is involved in his "resurrection" (even though he doesn't actually die). Dragoons were explained in the original manual.

2) Zerg Cerebrates. Again, another thing already set up in the SC universe was that Cerebrates can't be killed because the Overmind resurrects them. I also don't actually see how this ties into my point at all.

3) Infested people coming back. First off, that's not even resurrecting - they're more like zombies. Second, no one said it was good writing anyway.

There was no explanation or anything going on when Tassadar came back. It went from, "I'm an extremely important character because I made the ultimate sacrifice to destroy the great evil that was threatening my people and in the process reunited them into one society"

to

"I'll just come back as a ghost because I fucking feel like it and can't actually die."

No body being recovered before death (there was no body), no pre-established Overmind that can resurrect him at will, Blizzard just randomly brought him back because they're absolutely terrible at writing stories. Did the same crap with Medivh, although that was executed a little more respectably.

On October 25 2010 04:27 TossFloss wrote:


Yes I loved Planescape Torment, I still have the original CDs =)

The plot centers on The Nameless One's curse of immortality. The audience (player) understand from the beginning that he cannot die. So without further plot development, there can be no exchange: The Nameless One cannot be sacrificed to kill or save another character because of the nature of his existence.

Resurrection by itself is okay. Here are some good examples where resurrection worked to enhance the plot: Obi Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Neo, Gandalf.

Cheating is when a writer sacrifices a character to kill or save another character as a major focus in the plot, only to to bring the former back to life. It makes the experience feel artificial, like saying in our universe 1 - 1 = 1. It makes death seem less important, so the next time a character dies the audience doesn't care as much.

On October 24 2010 22:49 Stratos_speAr wrote:
Yea, it's fine if you make ressurection happen when it's a common theme in a universe, but when Tassadar's entire character was built around him killing himself for the betterment of the Protoss race in the first two games, it's nothing but cheap and terrible writing to bring him back as a fucking ghost.

On October 25 2010 00:54 deth2munkies wrote:
The reason why this may be is because HotS is likely running cocorruent with WoL, only from the Zerg PoV, so we might see Tychus and Jimmy working together against us in the next expansion.

On October 25 2010 10:01 mierin wrote:
"I'll see you dead for this, Kerrigan..."

Apparently people in the SC universe aren't really expected to keep their promises -,-

On October 25 2010 04:54 HwangjaeTerran wrote:


What if they all have the Immortality ring ?

On October 25 2010 09:54 IamTheWhiteGuy wrote:


Tychus as pseudo-zerg / pseudo-human like Kerrigan would provide some much needed human interest to the zerg swarm (if they want to do a campaign like WoL's).

Edit: Plus WoL's totally brutal writing didn't give this very interesting character the role he deserved.

On October 24 2010 16:02 Ferrose wrote:
Tychus will appear before Raynor as a ghost and say "I was never dead."

/tassadar

On October 25 2010 10:01 mierin wrote:
"I'll see you dead for this, Kerrigan..."

Apparently people in the SC universe aren't really expected to keep their promises -,-

On October 25 2010 12:17 .Aar wrote:
If Raynor doesn't kill Kerrigan by the time this is over, I will declare the story officially trash and find a way to remove the single-player files from my hard drive.

On October 25 2010 18:42 dcemuser wrote:



This has been mentioned twice in this thread.

The question was answered at BlizzCon by Metzen.

In summary: Raynor wanted to kill the Queen of Blades version of Kerrigan because he thought it was the only option. He never gave himself the hope of saving her. He has always loved the regular old Sarah Kerrigan. Once he learned from Valerian that Kerrigan could be saved, it changed his world.
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On October 26 2010 10:38 Pokeymans wrote:
Someone needs to remind Jimmy of "Bros before Hos"