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Limelights
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States219 Posts
February 22 2011 03:03 GMT
#581
That was stupid. Kerrigan and the Zerg NEED to be powerful and evil beyond belief. That was stupid how some old man can just control such a powerful being with such a small device, it just doesn't feel right.

Raynor and (Infested) Kerrigan can't get along, it just isn't right. Once your a zerg, that should be it...every scrap of love and kindness should be replaced with rage.

What sappy shit...
nalgene
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada2153 Posts
February 22 2011 03:06 GMT
#582
On February 06 2011 14:18 Aknazer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2011 15:34 Spawkuring wrote:
It almost seems like Blizzard is going to create a plot hole like they did with Wrath of the Lich King.

WotLK has a similar plot in that killing Arthas means that the undead go on a mindless rampage. However, this was contradicted by the fact that the Forsaken were released from control and never did anything of the sort. The Forsaken aren't good, but they aren't mindless either.

Now Blizzard seems to be making the same plot hole with SC2, only in reverse this time. Now, releasing the Zerg will apparently make them not so evil, which is contradicted by the fact that zerg who become "free" in SC1 become mindless killing machines.



Not all undead retained their higher brain functions once turned. There have been several stories of people being turned and just being mindless zombies that attack the living. Also several people who were turned were naturally evil and did what they could to increase their undead powers. The forsaken are simply a specific UD group that maintained their higher brain functions, broke free of the the LK, and banded together. If you want to make an SC to WC comparison, think of the forsaken as cerebrates, and then imagine the cerebrates breaking free of the overmind's (arthas) control. But SC isn't WC and so that's enough about that.

In regards to SC, it all depends on what the overmind said. The dark one forced a "single over-riding drive" on them to kill everything. Remove that one factor and who knows what would happen. Some could be fine while others might still want to kill everything. As for people talking about the BW level where you take control of zerg, that likely has to do with game limitations. Realistically those zerg would probably have attacked you w/o the psi emitter, but the SC1 game doesn't have the tech to make a hostile turn friendly (as far as I know). Only neutral units could become friendly, so they had to make the units neutral in order for the level to properly work. And they were likely gray to show that no brood had actual control over them.

Also it appears that when the zerg don't have a unified controller they revert back to more of a pack mentatility. They would roam in packs and attack anything not of their packs (it generally wasn't just a massive FFA).

But as for the video, I just don't think thats how HotS will end. I can see it being a concept that was rejected (hence why blizz would want it removed), but the reinfested kerrigan doesn't make sense, nor does the thing Mengsk put inside of her. Remember back to SC1. When you get Infested Kerrigan you also end up getting Psi Storm on her because the infestation process removed all of the terran devices that are installed in ghosts for control reasons. So how did this one device magically make it through a process that altered her DNA and removed all other devices?

The swarm will need to be freed in order to prevent the end of the universe, but I don't think that video is how it will come about. And even then they could still be sadistic killers.
map editor has triggers for that


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Limelights
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States219 Posts
February 22 2011 03:27 GMT
#583
And where the hell is Duran? LOL!
OminouS
Profile Joined February 2010
Sweden1343 Posts
February 22 2011 06:23 GMT
#584
This ending feels very legit. Now I'm a bit sad I actually watched it, but the feel of the SCstory isn't really there for me anymore. The greatness of SC2 is the MP and what it has done and will probably keep doing for eSport. With that said, I will enjoy playing the following expansions as well, even if it has been done before, I feel that the SP part of SC2 holds a pretty high standard for SP RTS.
On the 6th day JF made Reavers and on the 7th day JF put his opponent to rest
Membrain
Profile Joined February 2011
Philippines2 Posts
March 05 2011 20:56 GMT
#585
it's not cool at all.... i'm so saaadddd... she should go rampaging or some crazy thing like that... not have zerg become good! ARGHHSDKSJDFKJASD FAILLLL!!!
Kommatiazo
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States579 Posts
March 05 2011 22:37 GMT
#586
I dunno, the whole "Zerg are good now" thing does seem a little weird to me, maybe just because they've been the bad guys for so long, but there's still one more expansion after this. IF this clip is actually a direct reflection of how the story will progress, there's still a whole other game after this supposed ending to resolve the plot fully.

So yeah, of course the Zerg being freed and such feels unfinished and awkward a little bit... The story isn't over.

Besides, there's no REAL proof that this is anything more than a totally trashed concept, so the story may be worlds different.
"You must enemy don't know, and very good micro" - Bosstoss #Wet4Ret
Kevlar622
Profile Joined August 2010
United States49 Posts
March 06 2011 08:06 GMT
#587
Cliche Cliche Cliche Cliche.....omg the rain of cliches might actually kill me...
I dont drink. I dont smoke. I dont do drugs. I play video games, which i beleive is a far superior addiction to any of those other ones.
Herper
Profile Joined January 2011
501 Posts
March 06 2011 10:04 GMT
#588
But just becoz the zerg are free doesn't mean they are good... they could just trash the other races again
Euronyme
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden3804 Posts
March 06 2011 10:45 GMT
#589
If I know blizzard, they immidiately changed the ending as soon as it got leeked ^^
On a serious note though, it's a rather small chance of this being the actual ending of SC HotS.
As a protoss player I'm very interesting in seeing what Legacy of the Void will bring. Maybe a prequel kind of thing, considering I'm still getting a feeling that HotS will be the end of the WoL storyline.
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jester-
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Canada547 Posts
March 06 2011 19:38 GMT
#590
Eh, I don't think they would change the ending even if it did get leaked... The cost/benefit just wouldn't make any sense.
Arise, chicken sandwich.
ghostunit
Profile Joined August 2010
61 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-06 20:53:26
March 06 2011 20:52 GMT
#591
Even if it was the real thing that got leaked why would they change it? after seeing WoL, do you think they care that much about the story?

They're just going to feed us this pig-slop, knowing they can sell it through marketing and fanboyism.
Xiphiass
Profile Joined July 2010
Latvia144 Posts
March 07 2011 00:51 GMT
#592
Terrible, terrible ending. After butchering WoL story, I find no surprises.


I find only a missed opportunity.
Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?
lazerwizz
Profile Joined July 2010
Hungary53 Posts
March 07 2011 13:27 GMT
#593
And people ask: WHY those soulless torrenterz download games to play it (then maybe buying it later) instead of buying it blindly because the company has a good reputation?
"Apparently a product doesn't need to be perfect just good enough."
lowercase
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada1047 Posts
March 07 2011 15:17 GMT
#594
I'm fairly certain that in HotS the Zerg are going to be romanticized in some way. No more evil space bugs, they will be portrayed as some noble incarnation of the power of nature.
That is not dead which can eternal lie...
hitthat
Profile Joined January 2010
Poland2349 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-07 16:26:06
March 07 2011 16:25 GMT
#595
On March 08 2011 00:17 lowercase wrote:
I'm fairly certain that in HotS the Zerg are going to be romanticized in some way. No more evil space bugs, they will be portrayed as some noble incarnation of the power of nature.


That would be horrible. Zerg in BW WERE the incarnation of nature. A brutal, mercyless incarnation of natural selection.
Shameless BroodWar separatistic, elitist, fanaticaly devoted puritan fanboy.
FinestHour
Profile Joined August 2010
United States18466 Posts
March 08 2011 06:59 GMT
#596
On February 22 2011 12:27 Displace77 wrote:
And where the hell is Duran? LOL!


I don't know if I'm the only one...but I've been simply dying for any ounce of new info that can be related to him too..Is all the speculation that he is Dr. Narud true? Or is he the Dark Voice? I just wanna knowww
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GrimMage
Profile Joined March 2011
United States3 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-18 23:05:04
March 18 2011 22:58 GMT
#597
This is most likely legit. Its a cinematic done in Maya using Blizzards assets. Hence why certain maps arent loaded in, like spec, normal, parallax, emissive , etc.

These arent really done to test out if the story will work or not. These are made to flesh out the timings of shots and to see if certain camera angles "work". So, if this is truly legit we wont see much change in the 'story' being told in the scene. Rather, we would scene different cameras, lights, backdrops etc.

So, assuming this is the real deal. It leads us to question why did Kerrigan go from being cured to being Zergified again? Of course, they may simply be using her old Wings of Liberty in-game "zergy" asset for the sake of time (her "cured" in-game model may not be finished yet).
TurnThePhage
Profile Joined February 2011
United States2 Posts
March 19 2011 00:47 GMT
#598
I sincerely doubt that. Kerrigan uses her Zerg wings to pin Mengsk to the wall; that and many other parts of the scene don't pan out correctly if she's the human we see at the end of WoL.

And there's absolutely no motivation for her to be re-infested. I'm unconvinced this is Heart of the Swarm.
GertHeart
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States631 Posts
March 19 2011 01:56 GMT
#599
Kerrigan sacrificed herself to become Zerg again so that the Hybrid would be defeated. I actually think that this was leaked because it was actually thought of to be a very bad ending. Now blizzard has to try harder ftw >.>
He who conquers the past rules the future, He who conquers the future rules the past. - C&C Red Alert
Baeras
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States140 Posts
March 19 2011 02:15 GMT
#600
Maybe she was never truly cured from the infestations just kinda disrupted the process and then she uses Jim Raynor as a pawn to take out mengsk who apparently had some control over kerrigan. which is off because somehow he has her body in a tube yet she was left for dead.....
Bet on it!
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