First half I thought was awesome. Kerrigan was back, corrupted again and looking for revenge...it is vengeance...thats why its cool, thats what is kerrigan, thats what is dark and gritty, and thats what is starcraft. "Yes! Jims plan failed and she really is an unsavable loss." I thought. Mengsk sits there, alone, stairing at his cigar. My mind was instantly drawn to how Dugalle felt when Kerrigan was coming for him. "Ah so Mengsk is broken. I wonder if he will try to beg for his life. Maybe appeal to kerrigans now vacant humanity. Maybe a thinly vieled apology for how they ruined her. Remind her that he made her (and maybe scream this in vainity/outrage as his appeal falls on deaf ears). Kerrigan tears open the door in rage and then...
Nothing. Some things happened which my brain, having seen so many saturday morning cartoons of this sort of stuff, tuned out. I didn't feel for the characters, there was no revelation or new understanding to move the plot forward, no resolution of grand themes. Just exactly what I expected (hoping I was wrong) to happen. Mengsk fights back, raynor saves day, kerrigan becomes good.
Dark and Gritty
Because you see themes, turns and character depth are what make good writing. I know that by exclusion. Because when I was just starting out in this world I would sit down to write awesome stories. And I would start with the important parts. You know the part with the spy killing people and being awesome. You know stuff like new gadgets showing up just when needed. And heros showing up just when needed. And then the story would finish and Id go back to read it. And it was empty. Just like this ending left me.
Not so much
Depth is what SC1 and BW had in droves. Its why me as a child was so fascinated by it. This was different from my saturday morning cartoons. There was something special here. I do believe Metzen is trying. I do believe the whole of Blizzard is working their ass off on this. And in all fairness this is better than anything in WoL. But they need to listen to their fans to make this a truely epic story. Afterall listening to fans is what makes Blizzard the best damn videogame compay out there.
There was a cartoon that had a device similar to that, but it ended up being as large as the entire facility with the psionics/parapsychology/psychokinesis/personal-reality kids being affected, but mengsk would choose a handheld device that could be broken so easily...
quote " the zerg are free now, slaves to noone, not even me"... or so she can't controll the zerg in this vid, or why else would she attack the dominion alone?
The issue on the zerg being the orcs of starcraft was discussed on the lore panel scroll down to 39:48 (well sort of), seems to imply differently to what we have seen in this ending.
I dont get why blizzard would have an outside studio handle this concept vid for the ending, blizzard have always been super secretive, things dont seem to add up. Then again it does appear to be metzens voice.........
None of us can really say for sure, but its probably best we dont make assumptions that is real (or fake for that matter)
I hope it is fake though, i dont like the idea of the zerg becomming free.
For those hoping that the previs is a fake: sorry, but it just isn't. I know because I work in the game/film industries and I've done a lot of work with previs. If it is a fake, it's the most amazing fake in the history of fakes.
So... bad news. You only do previs if you've completed the story/script and you're gearing up to spend big bucks on cinematics. I wouldn't expect much to change. Not significantly, anyway.
BW Zerg = mindless killing machines that rampage and slaughter each other in the absence of psionic domination. Totally unstoppable personification of nature. SC2 Zerg = Freedom is the right of all sentient Zerg. Go free my zerglings amongst the stars! FREE!
BW Kerrigan = backstabbing manipulating bitch that played everyone to become ruler of the galaxy. Queen Bitch of the Universe. SC2 Kerrigan = This isn't vengeance, Arcturus. THIS! IS! SPARTA! JUSTICE!
I was going to list the other retcons but by this point I'm so enraged I'm mentally stuttering. Just how exactly can any professional writer, much less one that actually played SC1/BW, think this kind of nonsense could possibly be acceptable?
I thought it was way to obvious from the title that Kerrigan would have this duty to fill to make sure nothing goes 'wrong.' Not to mention, Blizzard's worst kept secret: a Starcraft MMO. Enough rehashing of old stories. Give us something new Blizzard. Gritty story lines are always better.
There's are two things that I gather from this video (apart from the obivious HotS ending):
1. This video could be the opening cinematic. Kerrigan frees the Zerg and helps them along while the "Dark Voice" tries to enslave them again.
2. It was a video and story that got scrapped, considering the numbers in the upper right hand corner of the video are 04.08.09. If these numbers are a date, it makes this video pretty old.
On December 10 2010 02:27 StarStruck wrote: I thought it was way to obvious from the title that Kerrigan would have this duty to fill to make sure nothing goes 'wrong.' Not to mention, Blizzard's worst kept secret: a Starcraft MMO. Enough rehashing of old stories. Give us something new Blizzard. Gritty story lines are always better.
starcraft mmo? if ur referring to the unannounced next-gen mmo. its already been confirmed to not be based on a current blizzard franchise.
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I hope its fake 
