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this is an ending cinematic...there is a whole games worth of time for something to happen to cause re-infestation
also, there would be no need for activision-blizz to go nuts shutting down the vids if this was all a scrapped idea for WoL
also, Kerrigan mentions something about a "deal" that she has to keep, referring to her leaving humanity to its fate to stay with the zerg
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On December 09 2010 11:50 Guustaaf wrote:Who first came up with the idea that this is a the HoS cinematic? This is (was) a clip posted on the channel of a guy doing graphical design for Blizzard, over 3 months ago (Google cache). The BW voices are used, and there are some major inconsistencies, the biggest one being that Kerrigan is still fully infected of course. Isn't it more likely that this is a WoL clip (probably the ending) that was scrapped? You're probably right, but it's still disappointing to think that anyone at Blizzard came up with this.
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NO. NO WAIT. I GOT A BETTER IDEA.
Okay, okay. Turns out Diablo was once a peaceful and caring steward of the lands, then he was corrupted by the ancient alien evil that wants to KILL EVERYONE and turned into such a horrible demon.
As random adventurers, you must assemble the Xel'Naga Horadric artifact so that you can deinfest uncorrupt Diablo, who will still have some control over the Zerg demons, who will become your allies in the next game, where you'll have DEMON CLASSES. Final act of the series - Tyrael, Diablo, and you and your party defend this artifact for 30 minutes while the demons ancient alien evil tries to kill you, and then after 30 minutes it explodes and turns all demons on Sanctuary back to normal.
But all is not well, for a hastily drawn peace is established between the humans, and the hellspawn, thus leading to... + Show Spoiler +
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The BW voices are used, er what? same voices as WoL as far as I can tell...
and there are some major inconsistencies, the biggest one being that Kerrigan is still fully infected of course. Isn't it more likely that this is a WoL clip (probably the ending) that was scrapped?
Well, given the point of HoTS is kerrigan controlling the zerg sort of, and it's been suggested the customization of kerrigan herself provides the research/upgrade mechanic that such upgrades will be physically indicated. Thus at the end of WoL she will likely be all zerg-blinged out again. Makes sense to me at any rate.
Still, you might be right. It could be a scrapped ending, which is why it has been leaked (in the sense that the guy doesn't care so much about it any more). I really, really hope so, and that the replacement is better, but I somehow doubt it. Believe me, Blizzard has been working on HoTS for at least three years already, and this is beyond the time where they can be making any major story changes in the development cycle
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Kinda strange , but well i liked the viking part at the begining :p
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nothing would make me happy then to be proven this is not the real ending but.
artist seems to have uploaded it to vimeo probably as private to either show someone at blizzard or show a friend and accidently made it public without realising.
Activision Games is shutting the video down everywhere as quickly as possible. seriously they caught onto it DAMN FAST. if it was a scrapped ending for WoL why would they care.
it fits with the ongoing storyline. kerrigan being re-infested as she re-takes control of the swarm and helps raynor kill mengsk to overthrow the dominion and avenge her betrayel.
but. it's awful. it couldn't be worse. the entire dark voice. big baddie whose evil for the sake of being evil is retarded and doesn't fit at all. bad guys were always the zerg. who were always had motivation for what they were doing. dark voice is just "PURE EVUL HUR DUR" sigh. now we have nice cuddly zerg who wont attack terrans anymore. fantastic. starcraft universe just became 1000x more boring.
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On December 09 2010 11:59 Thereisnosaurus wrote:er what? same voices as WoL as far as I can tell...
one of the voices is chris metzen. they are placeholder voices.
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SC1/BW storylines were about epic struggles for power and survival
SC1 Terran ending: Arcturus takes control of the Terran Dominion SC1 Zerg ending: Overmind establishes itself on the Protoss home planet, Aiur SC1 Protoss ending: Tassadar kamikaze pilots a Carrier into the Overmind and destroys it
BW Protoss ending: Zeratul and Artanis activate a Xel'Naga temple to wipe all Zerg off of Shakuras BW Terran ending: the United Earth Directorate takes control of the Overmind and thus, any Zerg under the Overmind's control BW Zerg ending: Kerrigan gains control of the Swarm and defeats the invading Dominion, UED, and protoss (Artanis's) fleet on Char
SC2 storylines have become too character focused
WoL ending: Raynor saves a back to human transformed Kerrigan HotS ending: Raynor/Kerrigan defeat Arcturus face to face
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On December 09 2010 11:50 Guustaaf wrote:Who first came up with the idea that this is a the HoS cinematic? This is (was) a clip posted on the channel of a guy doing graphical design for Blizzard, over 3 months ago (Google cache). The BW voices are used, and there are some major inconsistencies, the biggest one being that Kerrigan is still fully infected of course. Isn't it more likely that this is a WoL clip (probably the ending) that was scrapped?
Well if anything we have been hearing from blizzard is true, HoTS will have some RPG elements revolving around kerrigan, (think of the research etc in the hyperion) so during the game kerrigan will regain her abilities (in game you would get more zerg units and abilities). By the end of the game kerrigian could be back to her fully infested self.
But yeah thats just a theory, it could be a scrapped WOL ending.
Edit: Thereisnosaurus beat me to it and said it better than i did
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so the ending of an expansion coming in about 2 year's time is revealed and y'all are believing? SC2 was worked on for YEARS before we even saw the 1st image of it. Blizzard are the KINGS of keeping shit airtight. any other company and i'd say maybe, but blizzard dont leak stuff. Especially not the ending to the game.
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i would pay money equivalent to what a blizzcon ticket costs to just sit around a conference table and watch D3 and SC2 cinematics with the creators.
*pauses video, swivels chair back around*
"ok guys, let's stop there. now, what parts of that video weren't shitty to you?"
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On December 09 2010 12:17 PlaGuE_R wrote: so the ending of an expansion coming in about 2 year's time is revealed and y'all are believing? SC2 was worked on for YEARS before we even saw the 1st image of it. Blizzard are the KINGS of keeping shit airtight. any other company and i'd say maybe, but blizzard dont leak stuff. Especially not the ending to the game.
except blizzard didn't leak it. another studio they seemed to have outsourced to did.
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On December 09 2010 12:17 PlaGuE_R wrote: so the ending of an expansion coming in about 2 year's time is revealed and y'all are believing? SC2 was worked on for YEARS before we even saw the 1st image of it. Blizzard are the KINGS of keeping shit airtight. any other company and i'd say maybe, but blizzard dont leak stuff. Especially not the ending to the game. This wasnt done internally by blizzard.
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IIRC there was a timestamp with the year 2009 on it, so it's more likely IMO that it's a deleted ending from WoL than the Heart of the Swarm ending. Still, I'd say it's clear that Blizzard was involved in it and that aspects from this video will likely be in Heart of the Swarm.
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On December 09 2010 11:23 Jibba wrote:Show nested quote +On December 09 2010 11:12 Krigwin wrote: As a side note, I am now more pessimistic about D3 than I have ever been. For some reason this hadn't dawned on me until reading this post. FUCK. 
I didn't know that that the SC and Diablo writing teams were the same.
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On December 09 2010 11:59 Krigwin wrote:
But all is not well, for a hastily drawn peace is established between the humans, and the hellspawn, thus leading to... World of Diablocraft
Fixed that a bit for you there
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On December 09 2010 11:44 Jibba wrote:Show nested quote +On December 09 2010 11:38 Chicane wrote: Wow this is really bad... we should make a thread of all our 5 second ideas of how the story could be better. I am literally making this up as I type it so if it is even on par with their story... that's pretty damn bad...
I think it would be cool if after Kerrigan is saved that she would help Raynor kill Mengsk, but she would die at Mengsk's hand as he would finally finish the job therefore putting everyone in jeopardy as Dark Voice would not have any powerful enemies to have to take down...
At this point the story could take so many turns but either of these would be good (well... at least BETTER) for me... -We would find out not all of the Xel'Naga have died and they would hold the secrets to stopping Dark Voice. -Someone (Possibly Jim Raynor though I don't know how well he would fit with no psionic capabilities) could have to make the sacrifice of becoming infested to control the zerg and all of their power in order to fight off Dark Voice since the Zerg need a leader to be organized.
Tell me what you think, whether my ideas also suck bad... are better than the leaked video but still bad... passable or good. Keep in mind I just came up with these now so if these are at least decent, a professional story writer who spends all his time thinking about the story and reading into the lore would do a much better job.
We could have one of those threads where everyone gets to write 3 words, and it'd probably end up with a better/more coherent story line.
The sad part is it actually might end up better than what they have. ;-(
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On December 09 2010 12:24 Billy_ wrote:Show nested quote +On December 09 2010 11:23 Jibba wrote:On December 09 2010 11:12 Krigwin wrote: As a side note, I am now more pessimistic about D3 than I have ever been. For some reason this hadn't dawned on me until reading this post. FUCK.  I didn't know that that the SC and Diablo writing teams were the same. http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Chris_Vincent_Metzen
He may have started strong, but two of the three franchise story arcs have since been driven into the ground.
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How do i get permission to watch these?
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some reason the videos say I do not have permission? even though I made an account
are they removed or something?
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