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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:10:50 PM No.714210938
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Why was Starcraft 2 less cool than Starcraft 1? Not the gameplay, just the atmosphere and coolness.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:14:47 PM No.714211292
>>714210938 (OP)
No, the gameplay too
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:16:52 PM No.714211495
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>>714210938 (OP)
SC2's aesthetic just feels a lot more generic, even SC Remastered feels more visually distinct of a game
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:18:30 PM No.714211646
>>714210938 (OP)
Worse writing, Metzen stopped being edgy around 2006 because he was rich.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:21:27 PM No.714211906
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>>714210938 (OP)
Because it lost the core aesthetics the OG game had. It became cleaner, brighter and, for the lack of the better word, more "fantastical" than the original game was.
It is honestly best exemplified by comparing the look of the protoss and the zerg in SC1 to their SC2 counterparts. They became just far more cartoony and less down to earth/realistic/grimy.

Terrans suffered slightly less of this aesthetic devolution but they too became more cartoony just not to the extent as the other races did.

The storytelling also became just worse in general.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:24:02 PM No.714212172
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>>714211906
I feel like the Protoss in particular really suffer from looking (and sounding) much more samey compared to SC1 as well
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:27:39 PM No.714212491
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>>714212172
Yeah, they lost a lot of their aesthetic variety. The way SC2 handled their lore in the legacy of the void expansion was also fucking abysmal. The additional protoss factions were unnecessary, especially the fucking gay ass fuck purifiers (Tal'Darim get a pass by the virtue of Alarak just carrying the entire faction with his smugg asshole attitude) but what I especially fucking hated is how the entire story basically shat all over the most unique aspect of the Protoss culture which is the Khala and by the end of it reduced them into what boils down to modern calfiornian disphits in the guise of aliens regarding their social and cultural attitudes. It is fucking gay as shit. No more khala, no more protoss tribes, no more caste system, just everyone being equal and tolerant and diverse. It is so unbelievably fucking gay I couldn't fucking believe it when I was playing it.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:34:54 PM No.714213154
The over mind was a cooler leader for the zerg.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:49:42 PM No.714214461
>>714210938 (OP)
polygons ruined everything
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:55:56 PM No.714214992
>>714211495
SC2 looks too soft and rounded. Toyetic.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:56:40 PM No.714215059
Now i have to think of the few SC2 maps people made that are sc1 maps.
The style is noticeably different even in the newer game engine.
Not sure how to verbalize it though
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:59:47 PM No.714215315
>>714210938 (OP)
a cool character was sacrificed on the altar of wahmenism. former human protag turned into a cuck simp, a complete retcon of Broodwar. Zeratul get killed also. recycled prophecy shit from WHoreCraft 3.
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:01:40 AM No.714215479
>>714210938 (OP)
Too clean, and full of waifuism
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:02:32 AM No.714215543
>>714212491
sums it up perfectly, i was cringing when they went "lmao fuck traditions, fuck classes, we are all equal and wholesome", Alarak has the best lines in HOTS too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQQJSo6e7YU
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:02:48 AM No.714215571
>>714210938 (OP)
koreans still play Broodwar over SC2
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:08:02 AM No.714216003
>>714212491
The need for basedlennials to turn every fantasy universe into downtown L.A. needs to he studied.
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:11:56 AM No.714216317
>>714210938 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Ihy4wsTQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7OzgW64uVQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTLv8Uzczno
I dunno what it is but Starcraft 2's music in comparison is so unmemorable
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:18:27 AM No.714216846
Terran went from space rednecks waving confederate flags, to space cowboys acting like fags.
I played SC2 just long enough to see nu-Jim Raynor and then closed the game and uninstalled it. Never learned the new lore and never will.
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:41:37 AM No.714218715
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>>714210938 (OP)
Remember Command & Conquer? You know, that "other" RTS series that was always inferior to Starcraft? Well, Blizzard decided it would be a good idea to hire the Command & Conquer guy to direct SC2, and then they wondered why it failed to surpass Brood War
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Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:49:01 AM No.714219331
>>714218715
this.
>hiring your competitor to make the sequel to your best game
lmao