On March 15 2013 01:55 Osmoses wrote:
Gameplay-wize I thought HOTS was much better than WoL. Storywise it started strong and then went to shit somewhere in the middle. There is a long list of problems with the plot, and I can't believe they kept the leaked end cinematic, but overall it was a pretty good time.
I'll have to disagree. I found WoL's mission structure to be stronger than HOTS. The RPG-like elements in HOTS was okay but I prefer the aspect of using money and upgrading your units, having to pick and choose what you need. Also? HOTS was pretty damn easy, even on Brutal Mode. I started out on Normal, then bumped it to Hard, then bumped it to Brutal. It all felt pretty natural to me and even though there's a few close calls thanks to lack of minerals, it was just too macro-oriented. WoL did a helluva lot better job with not allowing you to just macro your way to victory, and feeling pressured to go out an explore and take advantage of grabbing mineral/gas packs.
On March 15 2013 03:57 Rabiator wrote:Show nested quote +On March 15 2013 02:57 ProbeEtPylon wrote:I've never played the SC1 campaign. Why exactly did she want her vengeance? Because he is the reason she became a Zerg? Because he supposedly killed Raynor? So in HotS Kerrigan (who regained some of her human consciousness) kills thousands of men, zerg and protoss in order to repay Mengks, who brought stability to the human race during a time of chaos, for her own pitiful fate? AND RADIANT KNIGHT RAYNOR HELPED HER? For love? Killing life for love and vengeance? Either I missed something in the SC1 story or this story is just pathetic.
I like the Multiplayer though
Mengsk left Kerrigan on a planet that was being overrun by the Zerg. She was left to die (and you can see that moment in the WoL cinematics) but captured instead and turned into a "monster" by the Overmind. I'd be pretty pissed too at someone who could have prevented that and didnt ... after all the Zerg - and Mengsk's deluded belief that he could control them - caused a few planets to "die".
Also a lot of people don't realize this, but the Zerg in general are naturally driven to kill, which is what possessed Kerrigan to kill many lives back in SC1/BW: she found pleasure in it. This seems to not exist with the Primal Zerg though, as they show a much stronger form of intelligence.
That said I found HOTS' story to pretty bad. If people thought SC/BW's story was bad I'd say "It's your opinion", and I'd say the same for WoL as well, but HOTS... was just bad. It's not the cliches that made it bad (which, by the way, doesn't make a story bad by itself), it just felt uninspired, very run-of-the-mill, and doesn't make any sense.
Why is Kerrigan 100% in love with Raynor? (There's some good educated assumptions looking back on SC/BW, but none of them are cited in the game)
Why did Nova NOT kill Raynor? Seriously, why? Why would Mengsk want Raynor alive? To use him as a bargaining chip vs Kerrigan? If so...
Why did Kerrigan flip the fuck out when Mengsk said Raynor is dead, when Kerrigan knew Mengsk is a scheming liar?
Why is Zeratul such a bitch? (Seriously, he got his ass straight canned in that scene)
There are just things in this game that doesn't make sense and contradict not only their former BW personalities but also their level of intelligence.
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