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Timelog
Profile Joined May 2015
Netherlands57 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-03 07:34:43
December 03 2015 07:31 GMT
#61
On December 03 2015 10:02 FeyFey wrote:What content is preorder paywall though ? x.x If its the bonus items then ... nvm.

The only thing locked behind the pre-order paywall is the Nova portrait. All playable content will be sold 3 mission a pack (or all 9 in the bundle) and the ghost skin will be rewarded if you own all 3 mission packs (or the bundle).
source: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/19976124/pre-purchase-nova-covert-ops™-today-12-1-2015

edit: added source.
Terrible Starcraft 2 player, SC2 EU Battle.Net MVP and overall gaming enthousiast.
NKB
Profile Joined February 2012
United Kingdom608 Posts
December 03 2015 12:22 GMT
#62
Just take my money already, I want more single player goodness
Some times you just gotta wish...
Thax
Profile Joined July 2014
Belgium1060 Posts
December 03 2015 15:14 GMT
#63
On December 03 2015 10:02 FeyFey wrote:
If it wouldn't be Nova I would probably wait for a demonstration. Multiple approach games usually end up being really short for me, as I usually just like the sneaky approach.
What content is preorder paywall though ? x.x If its the bonus items then ... nvm.

Show nested quote +
On December 03 2015 06:17 Caihead wrote:
On December 03 2015 04:55 Cricketer12 wrote:
On December 03 2015 03:49 Phaenoman wrote:
On December 03 2015 00:30 Cricketer12 wrote:
On December 03 2015 00:13 Phaenoman wrote:
On December 02 2015 22:44 -Archangel- wrote:
On December 02 2015 22:15 Shivatron wrote:
On December 02 2015 22:11 -Archangel- wrote:
This is hilarious. I just recently bought a 20+ hour newly released game that cost less than 15e. And looks as nice as SC2. And this pack will have like 3-4 hours of gameplay.
Blizzard is funny. I guess my choice of not giving them anymore money after they tricked me with DIII was good. Fool me once and all that...


How's the voice-over work or the cinematics in that game?

I don't care for that. Blizzard stories after Sc1, D2 and maybe Wc3 are cheesy and stupid anyways.

Subjective.

You seriously want to defend a blizzard story that came after that? Please go ahead so i can tear you to pieces.

If u don't like it, don't play it. I like it, I played it. Very simple. Now calm down and let subjective things be subjective. Cuz that's what it is: A matter of taste.

What is there to enjoy? They are all stories geared toward 12 year olds. Its pathetic and insulting.

Never stopped nintendo or platinum games.


Nintendo is pretty good at making a really dark plot that looks like happy happy land. So there is something for everyone in it. Blizzard does the same. In any case it will always go past someone who doesn't even want to look at it.

Best example is people that like the Sc1 story and dislike the Sc2 story. Because they are not basically the same >.> .


Eh, the original SC story was much better told though, especially the HotS campaign has some dodgy plot choices. Then again Blizzard RTS are the only RTS where I ever enjoyed and managed to complete the campaigns, because, hell, are those things usually boring.
JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17409 Posts
December 03 2015 15:56 GMT
#64
the campaign storyline of a few of the C&C games was decent.

video game storylines generally suck balls. i find it part of the fun watching these stupid plots unfold.. its like the 21st century's version of pulp fiction.
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
Phaenoman
Profile Joined February 2013
568 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-03 16:26:15
December 03 2015 16:24 GMT
#65
On December 04 2015 00:56 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
video game storylines generally suck balls.


I cannot share this exp. I really like a lot of stories that games have. And the fact that games have been picked up by the movie industry shows that they don't have to "generally suck balls". If they are doing a good job is another story.
Random is hard work dude...
MyrionSC
Profile Joined May 2015
Denmark140 Posts
December 03 2015 17:32 GMT
#66
A chance to support SC2 further AND singleplayer content? Sign me up!
lestye
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States4206 Posts
December 03 2015 17:59 GMT
#67
On December 04 2015 01:24 Phaenoman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2015 00:56 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
video game storylines generally suck balls.


I cannot share this exp. I really like a lot of stories that games have. And the fact that games have been picked up by the movie industry shows that they don't have to "generally suck balls". If they are doing a good job is another story.

Hollywood will make a movie out of anything. I don't think Angry Birds, Dead or Alive, and the Street Fighter movies proves they actually care about finding a deep story.
"You guys are just edgelords. Embrace your inner weeb desu" -Zergneedsfood
Tuczniak
Profile Joined September 2010
1561 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-03 18:21:18
December 03 2015 18:17 GMT
#68
I would say game has better potential to tell a story than a movie. But a game doesn't require good story to be successful, so most of them are bad. Being able to engage player into the world and story for long time brings a lot of advantages over movies. Especially now when many movies are butchering good book stories en masse. Main culprits are time limit and need to accommodate to viewers. On the other side with "walking simulators" and other "experiences" were are getting into game story telling, but it's very extreme.

The Last of Us struck a good balance I think. Although the scope of player interaction and story telling can very widely and there is no perfect state.
ChristianS
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States3304 Posts
December 03 2015 20:04 GMT
#69
I was expecting the Nova pack to launch with Nova as a new commander in Co-op. Maybe they'll still announce that later, but I'll be a little disappointed if they don't take the opportunity to add new Co-op content
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -Robert J. Hanlon
Quakecomm
Profile Joined April 2012
United States344 Posts
December 04 2015 00:51 GMT
#70
On December 04 2015 05:04 ChristianS wrote:
I'll be a little disappointed if they don't take the opportunity to add new Co-op content

Me too, though they have said repeatedly that their definitely adding new co-op content so I'd be very surprised if they didn't take this opportunity.
gorkey island is the only good map
lestye
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States4206 Posts
December 04 2015 01:11 GMT
#71
On December 04 2015 05:04 ChristianS wrote:
I was expecting the Nova pack to launch with Nova as a new commander in Co-op. Maybe they'll still announce that later, but I'll be a little disappointed if they don't take the opportunity to add new Co-op content

I'm sure that's coming. We already have 3 commanders in the pipeline, I assume they'd do another map with that.
"You guys are just edgelords. Embrace your inner weeb desu" -Zergneedsfood
Pegas
Profile Joined April 2012
Romania211 Posts
December 04 2015 11:03 GMT
#72
On December 04 2015 02:32 MyrionSC wrote:
A chance to support SC2 further AND singleplayer content? Sign me up!


I hope this will be polished for this price, I mean in-game cuts/cinematics with voice acting (I could go to a local cinema Imax for that money) but if it is like the Prologue/Conclusion quality I think I will pass.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can
JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17409 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-04 16:47:31
December 04 2015 16:44 GMT
#73
On December 03 2015 00:30 Cricketer12 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 03 2015 00:13 Phaenoman wrote:
On December 02 2015 22:44 -Archangel- wrote:
On December 02 2015 22:15 Shivatron wrote:
On December 02 2015 22:11 -Archangel- wrote:
This is hilarious. I just recently bought a 20+ hour newly released game that cost less than 15e. And looks as nice as SC2. And this pack will have like 3-4 hours of gameplay.
Blizzard is funny. I guess my choice of not giving them anymore money after they tricked me with DIII was good. Fool me once and all that...


How's the voice-over work or the cinematics in that game?

I don't care for that. Blizzard stories after Sc1, D2 and maybe Wc3 are cheesy and stupid anyways.

Subjective.

You seriously want to defend a blizzard story that came after that? Please go ahead so i can tear you to pieces.


if you want a great story watch a movie or read a novel. do not buy a video game expecting a great story. i'm not a fiction reader or movie-goer and i can name 100 novels and 100 movies with better stories than any video game story ever made.

video game stories are merely modern day pulp fiction. judged as pulp fiction Blizzard stories have ranged from below average to great over the last 20+ years.

WoL was great... my only problem with it was the change in Raynor's appearance.
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
lestye
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States4206 Posts
December 04 2015 17:09 GMT
#74
SC1, D2, and WC3 are full of the same cheesy moments like SC2 is. I have no idea what Cricketer12 is talking about, like, these type of games, are kinda remembered for "badass moments" rather than actual story depth. We have games like Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Chrono Trigger, those games actually have excellent story lines with tons of depth. Blizzard games don't hold a candle to that, but I still enjoy them for what they are.
"You guys are just edgelords. Embrace your inner weeb desu" -Zergneedsfood
Doc Daneeka
Profile Joined March 2010
United States577 Posts
December 05 2015 05:18 GMT
#75
I will definitely be buying this cos the campaigns were loads of fun, but man for $15 some of those 9 missions better be fairly long.
payed off security
ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12702 Posts
December 05 2015 07:54 GMT
#76
On December 05 2015 02:09 lestye wrote:
SC1, D2, and WC3 are full of the same cheesy moments like SC2 is. I have no idea what Cricketer12 is talking about, like, these type of games, are kinda remembered for "badass moments" rather than actual story depth. We have games like Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Chrono Trigger, those games actually have excellent story lines with tons of depth. Blizzard games don't hold a candle to that, but I still enjoy them for what they are.

Agreed, blizzard stories have always been pretty mediocre. What they excel is building up an interesting world and very good backup materials to make it good.
Diablo with the skeleton king for example, still Damn awesome in Diablo 3 but once you fight him he is nothing but another boss.

Plus cheesy doesn't imply bad, I have been saying this for years. That epic speech in the dictator is pretty damn cheesy and I don't think anyone can deny that.
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
HellNino
Profile Joined September 2011
France156 Posts
December 05 2015 18:27 GMT
#77
Meanwhile EU getting fucked again...
1$ != 1€
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Sabu113
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States11076 Posts
December 05 2015 22:19 GMT
#78
On December 06 2015 03:27 HellNino wrote:
Meanwhile EU getting fucked again...
1$ != 1€


Don't worry by next year it'll be a discount.
Biomine is a drunken chick who is on industrial strength amphetamines and would just grab your dick and jerk it as hard and violently as she could while screaming 'OMG FUCK ME', because she saw it in a Sasha Grey video ...-Wombat_Ni
[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
December 05 2015 23:29 GMT
#79
9 missions for 15 bux?

Well HotS was 20 missions for $40. But we'll see. I'll buy it regardless, I love SC2 and it'll always be one of the very few games I pay for, but hopefully my trust isn't misplaced.
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[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
December 06 2015 03:53 GMT
#80
On December 06 2015 03:27 HellNino wrote:
Meanwhile EU getting fucked again...
1$ != 1€

15€ = $16.33.

Overseas shipping tax lmao
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