Thread 716395075

why are sc1 sprites so weird

In what sense weird?

It's called "soul"

Do you think she was a femcel?

>>716395573
why would i think that

>>716395573
I'm waiting on (you)!

>>716395075 (OP)
Has she been confected?

I was always wondering about difference between infested Kerrigan icon and her appearance in cinematics/menu. Like how OP have her wearing some leopard patterned suit or something and clearly human face coming out of more Zerg-like carpace. Meanwhile cinematics shows no such distinction, plus having her dressed in rags of her former Terrain clothes (how they survived being placed in chrysalis for so long?).

>>716395573
Funny how they dropped ugly Kerrigan from 1.

>>716396058
what do you mean ugly???

>>716396173
NTA but SC1 Kerrigan looks like some plastic chick, especially with those huge lips. SC2 one looks much better.

>>716395075 (OP)
Wait till you see warcraft's sprites and icons, and that was after they'd gotten budget.

>>716396253

Fuck off zoomer

>>716396253
Clearly you don't have what it takes to graduate from the ghost academy. DSL is like #2 mandatory required trait.

SC1 on the whole has a weird negative aura, remember the Terran Academy?

>>716395075 (OP)
just seeing this makes me hard. sc1 kerrigan must be responsible for the start of my evil woman enjoyment

>>716396058
>ugly
??

>>716396253
SC1 kerrigan sprite feels like it's inspired by 90s Angelina Jolie.

>>716395573
>hot 4chud bimbo
>>716396058
>reddit-approved safe horny

Did the Zerg impregnate her?

>>716395075 (OP)
because sc1 is wierd. it's basically warhammer 40k.
this was old blizzard before everything got dumbed down and turned into a disney themepark ride for kids.

Your wife? HIRED.

>>716395573
>this is a 10/10 in Koprulu

Imagine if in SC2 you have to hunt and kill the bitch.

>>716401965
Why did Metzen do that?

>>716401965
>it's basically warhammer 40k.
It's anything but Warhammer40k.
Starcraft rip-offs Alien, Predator, Starship Troopers, Dune, Judge Dredd... and plays it straight
Warhammer 40k rip-offs Alien, Predator, Starship Troopers, Dune, Judge Dredd.... but it paints it all in European 90s comics aesthetics to avoid lawsuits.
It's why other European games look more or less identical but American sci-fi is something else.
Check out Black Moon Chronicles, for instance. You've got it all there.

>>716395573
She reloaded many guns

>>716398850
aaaaaaaaaagh!

>>716395075 (OP)
she monke

they did like shadowed faces with glowing eyes

>>716395573
was she a redhead or is she wearing a shoal?

>>716395075 (OP)
its not a sprite retard its an animated icon

>>716408238
shes a redhead with dreadlocks.

>>716409431
I always thought they were spines

>>716395075 (OP)
How are they weird? They are digitized 3d models, and look pretty typical for cgi of the time, with a slight Blizzard flair.

>>716408186
YOU THINK AS I DO
man, the Templars in BW were scary, threatening motherfuckers
SC2 completely assraped the Protoss

>>716409631
SC2 ruined all of the races

>>716395075 (OP)
256 colors and low resolution on pre-rendered videos.

>>716395075 (OP)
StarCraft was originally envisioned as a gritty 90s sci-fi universe. The humans were a bunch of unwanted castaways, the dregs of human society that were sent into space Australia-style just to get them off of Earth and they turned into a bunch of ugly dysgenic hillbillies. It's in the manual for the first game. By the time SC2 came around they had completely dropped that grimy aesthetic so SC1 ends up looking weird by comparison.

>>716395075 (OP)
>GHHHHNH
>Yes, Cerebrate?
>ALRIGHT!

>>716409996
>StarCraft was originally envisioned as a gritty 90s sci-fi universe

no, it was a copy of Warhammer.

>>716410103
>no, it was a copy of a gritty sci-fi universe
Brilliant contribution, americano.

>>716395075 (OP)
>>716398974
This look was better than her SC2 look for sure.

>>716410103
GW paypigs are delusional. You can look at the earliest builds for SC1 (that run on the warcraft 2 engine) and they look distinctively like their own thing.

>>716410103
see >>716406965
Warhammer was always derivative of the same exact things that Blizzard games are. That goes for both fantasy and space Warhammer.

>>716410253
>(that run on the warcraft 2 engine)
Which is a copy of C&C and Dune.

what was up with sc2 story, Kerigen was human became zerg, became human but jokes on you became zerg again.

>>716410103
>I just learned about Warhammer and need to tell everyone about it all the time
I really wish you would kill yourself.

>>716395075 (OP)
SC1 sprites were AWESOME

>>716410343
the story actually ruined the game. The MP is fun, the campaign mission set up is good, the missions themselves are hit and miss but mostly good. The story is fucking retarded and contradicts brood war though.

>>716410103
>warhammer isnt a gritty scifi universe
Ok retard.

>>716395075 (OP)
WHAT IS IT NOW?

>>716409483
They become tendrils/spines once shes a zerg.

>>716410694
Warhammer wasn't very gritty at all when Starcraft was in production. Warhammer shifted back to a gritty aesthetic shortly before Y2K.
You can't "ripoff" something that is entirely references to other properties, though.

>>716410909
That's a man.

>>716397663
I'm 35 years old you fuck.

>>716395075 (OP)
The sprites we meant to be experienced through a CRT at SVGA resolutions.

>I see /v/, gotta go sir!
>Orange, captain?

>I read you
>
>
>
> """""""""""sir""""""""""""
what the fuck was his problem? did he want me to fix up his bike or not?

>>716410850
warhammer fluff was a lot grittier in the 90s than it is today. even if the models looked like clowns.

>>716410103
Really because I saw more influence from Heinlein's Starship Troopers, with the humans called Terrans and their conflict with an insect race of aliens.

>>716411416
You wanna piece of meat, boy?

>>716411370
because to him you're like a backseat driver constantly telling him to drive in circles like a retard

>Blast I serve!
>Gee, Aus!
>Wot now, ghost?
>Ola, daj mi!

I swear one of the zealot's protoss gibberish sounds like
>That's a sperm

what the actual fuck were they thinking

I remember how I was a kid back then and my older cousins was essentially trolling me that protoss are actually dead humans equipped with cybernetic implants and revived, hence their lack of mouth and overall weird look. Or how Starship Troopers was actually official Starcraft Movie.

>>716411825
Try talking without a mouth and you will see.

>>716412143
Giantess is actually popular fetish.

>>716412143
Huh? What's this? There was a secret ending to LoTV? We nuked Amon back to the Void and that was it, no?

>>716395573
You pig!

>>716412143
I can't believe of badly SC2 ruined the entire aesthetic of Starcraft. Trying to create some ultimate cosmological villain is so fucking cringe. It was fine as a progenitor race that fucked off story.

Grimdark is where StarCraft should have stayed.

>>716411806
>>716411825
>Gawr Gura
how did they know?

>>716410367
You're a fucking moron

>>716412143
I don't think that anyone involved in the story aspect of SC2 spent even a second actually thinking.

>>716412413
>>>/vt/ranny

>>716412449
I think ChatGPT would have done a better job
and that is a fucking low bar

NEEDA SLORA DA SLORRAAA

>>716412420
took you half an hour to think up that comeback, fag? lmao

>>716411075
>marines are nutjobs resocialized into obedient soldiers
>medics are nutjobs resocialized into healsluts

Plausible

>>716412494
protoss browsed 2020s 4chan?

>>716412281
Yeah, epilogue missions. Kerrigan absorb "essence" of last surviving XelNaga, kick Amon ass once and for all as you support her with all three armies, step on Raynor and disappears. Zagara take control of Zerg and is now all peaceful with everyone, Protoss rebuild some colonies and try to repopulate, that nerd guy from WoL gets crazy and build cyber-swarm with robot Zergs, Arthur or how he was called from HotS try to make another war to keep Zergs evolving and is kicked within less than 24h and few other small shits. Oh and Nova gets rid of brainwashing.

Earth is still out there but everyone forgot about it.

>>716395075 (OP)
>>716395573
>>716396058
>>716398974
You know what I reserve the right to be mad about forever?
The girl that originally voiced Kerrigan was fantastic, she was one of the best voiced characters of the 90s (not a high bar considering competition like DIE MONSTER YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS WORLD)

They hired her back for Starcraft 2. Then shortly before Wings of Liberty they fired her and replaced her with the meme Battlestar girl.

Why?

>>716412683
The joke ------>

(You)

>>716412592
>resocialized into healsluts

Are you also talking about... the other services?

every time I see a starcraft thread I feel like installing it to play some ums maps but then remember they're probably 90% the same shit I don't want to play

>>716411713
>Got any questions about propane?
>Or...propane accessories?
sovl

>>716412143
They spent so much time on WoW that they couldn't do anything else anymore. We lived long enough to actually see StarCraft become WarCraft in space.

I absolutely love how SC1 feels so grim, grimy, and gritty. The Zerg actually look terrifying and disgusting, /our boys/' tech looks cheap, jury-rigged, and mass produced, and the protoss actually come across as threatening and mysterious.
And then those themes are all thrown away to make SC2 campy sci-fi. I had my fun with Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm to a lesser extent, but it really doesn't feel like the same series.
I also love when Blizzard ends a game with the bad guy winning. Kerrigan/Arthas is a great character formula.

Nova > Kerrigan

>>716412592
>resocialized
That's a pleasant way to put it

>it's a zerglin' Lester. Smaller typ'a zerg

You are now remember the cutscenes manually

>>716395891
When I first played SC2 I thought Kerrigan's human face was basically stapled onto the bug body like Robocop

>>716413007
But it wouldn't be all the way out here unless- oh shit....

>>716412683
I just beat LotV yesterday and don't remember seeing
>that nerd guy from WoL gets crazy and build cyber-swarm with robot Zergs, Arthur or how he was called from HotS try to make another war to keep Zergs evolving and is kicked within less than 24h and few other small shits
Where does it show that

The Starcraft universe is my favorite Sci Fi setting in games. I know it's kitchen sink grim sci fi setting, but Samwise's character designs and the music just capture that 90s feeling so well. Somehow, by being a generic blend of the creator's favorite sci fi tropes, it stands above all the sci fi game worlds that have come after it.

It absolutely destroys Starfield's bland Tesla x Apple future. It's way better than Mass Effect's sleek and safe space opera. It's better than Warhammer 40K which turned itself into a tongue in cheek joke. It's better than the colorful retro futurism goofiness of Outer Worlds and No Man's Sky.

I so badly want to play something in the Starcraft universe other than an RTS. I want to play a first or third person shooter or something like Fallout 3. I just want to be able to explore the universe up close and personal and see more of the worldbuilding.

>>716413108
I love you Sarge!

>>716413007
THANK GOD FOR COLD FUSION

>>716413145
Huh?

>>716413152
I GOT YOUR ZERG RIGHT HERE HEHEHEHEHEHE

You will kiss the bugs
You will fuck the bugs
You will marry the bugs
And you will be happy

>>716413243
>Raynor canonically tapped this
that zussy got him acting unwise

>>716413126
>>716412907
I agree with both of these while heartedly
SC1/BW always lives rent free in my even after all these years and I want more always and it's such a damn shame where the series went after 2
I wish Ghost wasn't cancelled but honestly Ghost doesn't seem like the right direction either from the leaks
I wish we could get a true SC1/BW game with the ideas of ghost but keeping the aesthetics of the cinematics

>LIVE FOR THE SWARM
>Ready to kill
>Sacrifice me
>For the Overmind
Damn, these guys sounded cool

>>716413126
>>716412920
Starcraft Ghost has to be like the second most complete game ever canceled behind Starfox 2 (games with Star in them cursed)

I wonder what drove Blizzard to look at the entire near finished game they put so much time and money into and go
>nope, lock that shit in a vault

SERVE THE HIVE
I CONTROL
THE WAY YOU MOVE
HOW DO YOU LIKE MY GROOVE DAGGOTH?

How does the SC+Broodwar campaign hold up today? I understand there was a remaster in 2017 I never tried (and something called "StarCraft: Cartooned" which I have no desire to play. Is remastered the preferred method for playing it now, with some QoL changes, or did they fuck up the game in some way or other?
Only really interested in the campaigns since I never played them as a kid.
I don't think I've ever played the campaign mode of a RTS game, so other recs besides SC would be welcome too.l

>>716413462
>when you realize the tube is actually a centipede-thing

>>716413495
Didn't meet their quality standards

>>716413462
I still have PTSD from that protoss mission where these faggots assblast you out of fucking nowhere...

>>716406965
Impaler. Bolter. You were just proven wrong. Starcraft is very much a rip off of WH40K along with everything else, and it's cute that you think Blizzard's writers were smart enough to know what WH40K took for inspiration.

thank god for cold fusion

>>716413595
Those are just spines coming out of it.

There's a game that'll never be finished made by one fan going through school where you play as a Marine in an FPS version of SC
https://j-jlucas.github.io/PlaySCM/
It was kinda cool but just makes me wish for a full fledged big budget version

>>716412742
what was the joke?

>>716413696
that we all like to pretend that Epilogue doesn't exist because it was C&C4 levels of awful

Starcraft always felt more starship troopers than Warhammer desu

THIS ISN'T WARCRAFT IN SPACE
ITS... MUCH MORE SOPHISTICATED.
I KNOW ITS NOT 3D!

>>716395075 (OP)
I fucking hate you.

>>716408532
>Call the shots

>>716413771
i see

>ADUN SAVE ME
just how bad did Dark Archons have it?

>>716408532
Somebody call for an exterminator?

>>716414189
Ne'er know what him 'em

Prepare for a blast from the past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va1bAn1z9Tk

>Raynor pledges to kill kerrigan for all shes done
>he ends up being an emotional trainwreck simping for her

>>716412143
what do her feet smell like?

>>716414029
I won't stop with the drops pump it up till GG pops macro like lightning zealots always fighting DTs on top and my ghosts they call the shots oh
OhOhOh OhOh!

>>716414274
The first and biggest red flag

>>716408532
>You called down the thunder, now reap the whirlwind

>>716411403
It was Andy Chambers with 3rd edition that made 40k truly gritty. Trust me mate I was there.

>>716413114
>that nerd guy from WoL gets crazy and build cyber-swarm with robot Zergs
That's from co-op

>>716412713
>12 years old finding that
Holy fuck how old are some of you geezers posting here? I didn't know the retirement home had internet?

>>716412361
At this point in time Blizzard was obsessed with making everything as cosmic as possible in all of their games.
Amon should have just been some kind of rogue progenitor race who was trying to breed a perfect super-soldier race to succeed in his goals. He didn't need to be... that.

>>716413114
Co-op and supplementary material.

So who we got?
>Serral
>Classic

I think that 2022 Serral 5-0s Classic, but on 2025 i think that Classic takes it like 5-3 or so.
Hopefully im wrong.

>>716413590
It's good... if you can get used to the dated pathfinding and other idiosyncrasies.

Simple and effective story with memorable characters. The missions are largely just training you for multiplayer but they still hold up.

However, they didn't remake the cinematics for the Remaster, so it clashes with the other visuals.

Personally I prefer to play singleplayer with patch 1.16 and cnc-draw (nearest neighbour upscaling) because the vanilla mode in Remaster doesn't look good at all.

>>716413696
The Matrix was such a hit, it's weird they never made sequels to it

>>716413771
I for one agree, but I think most people like to just dismiss the entire LotV campaign altogether without distinction that there's a sharp drop in quality during the epilogue

>>716414145
Lore-wise, they are in constant pain and slowly burning out.

>>716414145
MUST...
HAVE...
ENERGY.....

>>716413612
That doesn't stop them from making shovelware now.

>>716413590
>Only really interested in the campaigns since I never played them as a kid.
I've only ever played the campaigns and never multiplayer, I must be the only one who did this. I just like playing alone.

>>716410103
It's hilarious that this still get spread around
Warcraft, the original, Orcs and Humans was at one point in development in discussion to be a Warhammer title. Not 40k, fantasy.
Starcraft was never tied to an external IP. The zerg did not look like Tyrranids, rather after the success of Starcraft the Nids got redesigned.

>>716413462
why do human turn into elephant?

>>716414645
>tfw no friends

>>716395075 (OP)
.

>>716413590
The remaster is almost perfect. Some of the portraits are pretty big downgrades, but that's really about it.

>>716414954
Wrong game, not Korea time.

>>716410343
raynor's a fag for freaking out about her being a hot alien zerg queen again but with her human mind this time

>>716412651
they picked up Earth's wifi signals centuries later

>>716413224
AUUGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

>>716415828
kek nightmare fuel for kid me

>>716415237
Warhammer and War/Starcraft have been 69ing each others ideas for decades and we still have these inane discussions.
Yes, Starcraft was inspired by 40k among other things.
Yes, 40k in turn was inspired by Starcraft.

>>716415237
>The zerg did not look like Tyrranids, rather after the success of Starcraft the Nids got redesigned.
Yeah, it's still wild to me that people believe otherwise nowadays. I was alive back then, I remember the change.
For you youngins, SC1 came out in '98. At that time, Tyranids looked like pic related. Around 2000-2001, they got redesigned into how you know them today.

>>716395573
She was a femcel for sure, but only because she was a psychic so any man she met immediately thought about fucking her mouth. I don't know how Jimmy managed to hang around her.

>Hmmm we made Kerrigan a backstabbing bitch who betrayed everyone she's known and is now a completely irredeemable monster after murdering Fenix and dooming everybody
>But we can't let the player kill her so instead she will be a magical macguffin that isn't allowed to die or else the entire multiverse is DOOOOOOOMED!
Starcraft 2 is so ass.

>>716416101
>>716415237
I think the modern Tyranid aesthetic is ugly (though better than the 3rd edition designs, which are actually terrible).
I've been very slowly painting up an Epic Armageddon army using entirely vintage minis using the old look.

>>716415008
>they didn't remake the cinematics for the Remaster, so it clashes with the other visuals
well, they did pull the archived renders and entirely re-render the cinematics for the remaster
imo the way they handled the cutscenes was actual perfection, and ironically, the only true remaster, by the word's definition, in all of videogames

>>716416260
Why was Fenix important again?

>>716416397
He was just a cool guy. A bro if you will.

>>716411604
Well yeah, I paid good money for those spider mines I'm not about to lose my free bike to a stray zergling.

>>716416397
He isn't, he was just Jimmy's friend, I realize I phrased it weird.

>>716415262
It's a zerg creature attached to his face

thank god for cold fusion

>>716395075 (OP)
they're half assed model animations done up in early 3ds max or some shit so they look like they're made of clay and then exported as sprite frames. it's just how 2D was done in the latter 90s.

>>716416397
He was a good friend

I miss these dudes. I like the idea that the Overmind needed to delegate to giant maggots that acted like bitchy teenagers to each other and just saber rattled 24/7.

>>716416572
Where do you guys get that idea from? It never detaches or anything in the portrait.

>>716412696
Because muh celebrity VA. They wanted to replace Raynor's too.
SC2's audio design was incredibly shit in general, especially compared to BW. No memorable voicework, music or even sound effects whatsoever. Not one.
But while they had the money to hire Tricia "0 days without sounding like a slut" Helfer, the original VA for Arthas got dropped from WoW when they pay they offered him for WotLK wouldn't even cover his travel expenses.

>>716416829
>what makes you think it's attached when it never detaches

>>716416397
>mfw I remember the kill Fenix mission and I send a queen to spawn broodling him

>>716414743
I'm 41. You have no idea how fucking awesome this game was as a kid. Warcraft 1 and 2 *sips Monster Ultra* Fuck yeah.

>>716416397
>when they beat the dead horse even harder by bringing back fenix from the dead AGAIN in sc2
what were they THINKING

>>716417047
Apparently the protoss thought it would be cool to copy his personality and put it in a robot so it can have an existential crisis.

>>716410103
outstanding bait sir, you really riled up the tards with this literally 30 year old bait

>>716417172
>>716417047
Man I'm glad I didn't pay 2

>>716416701
I don't remember them saber rattling between eachother much. It was just Zasz bitching about Kerrigan.

>>716406965
>Warcraft started as a warhammer game that was repurposed due to copyright issues
>StarCraft is basically the same but with 40k
>They even make the "40k is just Warhammer in space" joke but with StarCraft and Warcraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUWfNKzfxVQ
If anything Warcraft and StarCraft prove that Good artists copy, great artists steal

>>716417172
my memories of lotv are so hazy outside of the big bullshit parts like robofenix and godkerrigan and kerrigan getting away with it all with it implied her and jim settle down together in the end
was there ever any payoff to the entire planet of robotosses? it wasn't just fenix right it was like every single dead protoss had a braincopy or some shit right

>>716417260
play* 2
Well, still glad to not have paid for it either

>>716416275
Fair enough, I think they should've provided both options, the remaster portraits don't look like the cinematics at all.

or.. actually made the portraits look like the original, pic related.

>>716417428
Nah, LotV was just a series of "and then this happens!" With no payoff and no resolution aside from kerrigan becoming a god and living happily ever after with Jimmy.

>be me, mid-90s kid who grew up playing stuff SC1 and BW
>entire life post-school everyday was logging onto BNet and joining custom UMS games like Cat N' Mouse, Impossible Scenarios, Protect the President, etc.
>would spends hours at a time for years scouring the early '00s internet for tidbits of StarCraft-related stuff because any sort of auxiliary media like art and lore was sparse outside of what was in the games
>go batshit insane with glee when SC2 was announced unaware of the direction the series would take
This was truly some Monkey's Paw shit- though, things were still fine for awhile. WoL did a good job of emulating that SC1 atmosphere and the game felt like it was BW but updated to modern technological sensibilities. HOTS, on the other hand, was truly the end of what we came to know and love as StarCraft.

>>716416701
I thought it was Kerrigan who was being a bitchy teenager to the cerebrates.

>>716417798
WoL was too clean, the grimy, gritty industrial scrap feeling of terran was completely gone and they flanderized the redneck aspect

>>716417798
Same, but the thing is my first ever experience with Starcraft was on the N64, had a friend come over and tell me it was on computer and it changed my life lmao

My brother and I would just co-op splitscreen against bots for days

>>716413243
She's definitely been fucked by at least one zergling, maybe even popped out some eggs from her infected coochie

>>716415135
Believe it or not there was a time when Blizzard was the largest name in PC gaming and after WoW it all went to Hell.

>>716410103
they didnt rip eachother off, they just happened to rip off the same source material

>>716416397
He was Raynor's JO partner.

>>716412143
At least she is not in charge of Zerg anymore

>>716417798
I was so excited for SC2 multiplayer custom maps and all I remember was it was dominated by Mafia.

>>716410909
i already checked you out commander

>>716417260
2's campaigns are pretty fun gameplaywise, even though by LotV the plot is totally batshit incoherent.
the "in the far past the Protoss had an army of mechanical soldiers controlled by AI, but it was shutdown because the ethics of it were weird. Then a secret caste in the modern day had been experimenting with re-enabling them because things are pretty desperate populationwise. So now (you) need to deal with it" is fine on it's own, but it gets glossed over pretty quick like all the other fragmented protoss groups being integrated into your army. Then you get left with Artanis stuttering to excuse himself from the room whenever "Fenix" is like "hey I remember getting ganked by zerged, but this dragoon body seems different than the usual ones, is it a new model? and I've been reading records of what happened since I fell, and it mentions me fighting in battles I don't remember?" until he has to discover and accept what he is on his own offscreen.

>>716416701
>>716417325
>>716417848
Only Kerrigan acted like spoiled child rest where like adult family members or coworkers who had to deal with boss bratty kid

>>716419237
If it wasn't mafia it was also like nexus barrack war or something. That one where you have to make units to automatically send at enemies who are also sending units at you

>>716419328
The fuck is this from?

Surely there must be more than just these three alien races in the universe?

Serral's about to win $200k

you guys watching?

>>716419512
I'm sure there are but these 3 are having massive intergalactic war over the same 5 planets or something

>>716416101
Extremely cherry-picked image. This is what they looked like in 2nd edition. Genestealers and hive tyrants looked the same they do today
http://www.modernsynthesist.com/2012/02/tyranid-archive-2nd-generation.html

>>716419512
Starcraft only takes place across a small sector of the galaxy and the Terrans have no knowledge of what's outside it other than earth itself

>>716417342
why is he butt naked

>>716417642
>negro lips and a butt chin

>>716419494
4chan, saved in 2012

>>716414923
it felt like they were trying to force the concept that all their games are connected via "the void" or whatever.

What a terrible idea.

>>716395075 (OP)
im guessing drugs in the offices. wouldnt back so strange back then

Love this nigga in HotS

>>716417428
you diplomacy the other robots into joining you, but they're all brain copies of ancient warriors and just become generic units. Fenix is the only modern addition to the group and real character

>>716412696
her voice recording for her unit's death cry still has me bricked thinking about it

>>716419512
A UED expeditionary force was almost enough to conquer the Koprulu sector. If Earth actually gave a shit it would steamroll.

>>716419636
naked caste, obviously.

>>716410909
>>716419328
So if the dudes were murderers and psychopaths that are reformed into military service then wtf did these hot bitches do?

>>716419827
beat their wives

>>716419827
Fucked undesirables.

>>716419636
400iq things, you wouldn't get it

>>716419827
they're the space equivalent of the women who get posted to Mugshawties

>>716419636
Protoss don't have genitals. If anything, it's weird how they bother wearing clothes at all, and how their most sensitive and important part is the nerve bundles on their heads yet they don't protect those instead.

>>716415541
he should of banged her the second time around. missed opportunity if you ask me

>>716417047
And Stukov, somehow. I guess we're expected to believe that his chunks were scraped off the floor and were jettisoned into the vacuumed of space and were (somehow) picked up by the Zerg, who then used their (something) to reanimate his dead cellular tissue and restore all of his destroyed DNA to bring him back to life with all of his memories.

I don't like the infusion of Disney/Warcraft magic into StarCraft.

>>716419636
Why aren't you?

>>716420402
Agreed, but I still liked him in SC2. It's best to think of it as a fan campaign rather than canon. It's a neat "what if" scenario.

>>716420402
Where did Duran Duran go anyway? He was a pretty cool guy

>>716420402
Stukov beign resurrected as a zerg was from Starcraft N64's secret mission, this one isn't on 2

>>716420576
he masked off at the end of sc:bw and had to change his identity for sc2, then he died

>>716419827
exactly the same thing
they are probably sadists too and won't give you sedatives as they hack your leg off and belittle you all the time

>>716395573
Looks like Whoopi Goldberg

>>716416701
Kerrigan's queens are a downgrade. They bitch twice as much and aren't even immortal.
How the fuck isn't Abathur a cerebrate

>>716420779
Kerrigan made them weak on purpose because she didn't want anyone with anywhere near her capacity for control
it's absolute monarchy vs feudalism

>cut content from HotS where you would select planets to infest which would then alter what enemy units you'd face later on
>left in random cutscenes of Kerrigan psychically sending the swarm to wipe out planets in an instant with no apparent consequences

>that mission where Kerrigan sends a single Larva onto a Protoss ship and you have to Thing your way through the crew
>she then leaves this newborn Queen drifting toward Protoss space the order "kill them all" before losing psychic connection to it
>this has zero payoff or consequence in the Protoss campaign

what's ya got out there for me joey ray?

>>716420576
He reappears as a white scientist guy named Dr. Narud in Wings of Liberty who wants Jimmy to collect ancient xel'naga artifacts for totally not shady purposes. In Heart of the Swarm it's revealed that Narud and Duran are actually the same guy and he's actually a shape shifting xel'naga who all according to keikaku'd every single event in the series with the goal of becoming the one true god of the entire universe, but is eventually killed by the power of friendship and plot contrivances when kerrigan absorbs the essence of a friendly xel'naga who sacrificed itself to turn Kerrigan into a xel'naga too because only a space god can kill another space god or something like that.

>>716421053
I think it was a plot point in some comic

>>716418339
>Abathur watching Kerrigan waste zerg resources acting as a white woman for 4 years straight

>>716421320
sasuga blizzard

>>716420779
>>716416701
The cerebrates and the overmind were killed off way too early.
Its much cooler to have an inscrutable boss you barely speak with, and instead have these middle manager types trying to make do and solve issues with their own specialty and nature.

Then along comes Kerrigan and makes it a gay ass top down structure where she's always present for banter. Faggotry

>>716417342
>They even make the "40k is just Warhammer in space" joke but with StarCraft and Warcraft
Proving you are underage, anon.
https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/starcraft-orcs-in-space-go-down-in-flames

>>716406965
Torquemada did Nothing Wrong.

>>716417342
The early alpha version of Starcraft that got demoed at a gameshow was panned by journalists as "just warcraft 2 in space," and led to a total rehaul of the game design.
That's what the voice line is referencing.

>>716415229
>I must be the only one who did this. I just like playing alone.
>be me
>grandma had no internet connection but a pc
>play campaign SC1 and WC3 over and over when i visit
Same as me anon i played it single player mostly.

>>716419494
someone made a realistic picture of the medievac portrait.

Tell me, why, the Protoss' most renowned Zealot in Fenix got the ONE faulty set of psionic blades.

>>716419237
I saw it being dominated by ASSFAGGOTS.

>>716423549
For me in the WC2&SC days, I had Internet at my grandparents' place, but I was just scared of playing with strangers at that age since back then, people actually taught Internet safety. It wasn't until after 2000 that I started feeling more comfortable with it. Warcraft 3 took up most of my teen years, both ranked and custom.

>>716415229
>>716423549
dumb gorilla retards
that's 80-85%+ of rts players

>>716423907
Used them too hard, needed maintenance

>>716423907
Antioch was under siege by a FUGGHEUG zerg swarm for days before the cutscene. He was mentally exhausted, his equipment needed maintenance, or both.

>>716423907
He said something anti-judicatoric

>>716419237
The age of pleasure kerrigan and cops vs niggaz is over...

Anyone else notice the SC2 campaigns get progressively easier and more baby mode?
Wings of Liberty felt fine to me. Easier than Brood War, but still challenging if you crank the difficulty up. There were even some missions I had to restart after getting my ass kicked too hard, knowing I couldn't recover from it.
Then with Heart of the Swarm, no matter what upgrades you pick, you can still easily steamroll nearly every mission.
Then, in Legacy of the Void, you don't even need to build a base 90% of the time, you just press F2, A, then click in the center of the objective and go afk. Hard difficulty in LotV is easy difficulty in HotS.

>>716405535
He became a christcuck and became obsessed with redemption

>>716396253
It's 90s CG art, what did you expect?

>>716419827
In the SCBW campaign Medics and Valkyries can only be built by UED factions so they're probably UED women from Earth.

>>716425602
It's crazy how only 4 years later, they released the absolute peak of CGI. On my old CRT, it looked photorealistic.

>>716415541
>raynor's a fag for freaking out about her being a hot alien zerg queen again but with her human mind this time
He would be retard to just take her word for it after the events of Brood War.

Dumb question - how Protoss make babies?

>>716426748
they hold hands

>>716426748
how protos get pragnet??

>>716425289
I don't really remember the expansions but WoL has a lot of missions where spamming the new unit will win you the mission. Which is a downgrade from SC1 and BW where the new units didn't win you the map outside of mass BC/carriers near the end.

The campaign maps were better designed in SC 1 and BW. SC2 maps could feel too much like a multiplayer maps at times while SC1bw had situations like Ah crap this landing site doesn't have any gas.

>>716426748
very carefully

Why did they ruin her?

>>716426748
How do female protoss work?
Is there such thing as rule 34 of protoss just to see how the artists envisioned their likely non existent genitals?

>>716426748
Does everyone on the Khala shitpost network see it when a femtoss is fucking a Terran male?

>>716419827
They hit the wall

ok now be honest /v/, you're shitting on raynor for simping on kerrigan, but truly, you wouldn't wanna tap that ass queen of blades and terran mdoe kerrigan??

>>716426748
Given their only orifices are their eyes and how they're more akin to flora than fauna(they literally photosynthesize), one could assume they lay "eggs" or seeds and through psionics, combine their unique genetic codes to impart themselves upon it. Their skin looks rugged, so maybe a part just falls off and that's how a new protoss is grown. It's confirmed they have 2 sexes and produce offspring. Some are shown to have nipples and belly buttons for some reason, but I think that's just a problem of too many cooks in the kitchen.
My headcanon is psionic budding.

>>716427741
No, I'm a freak. She's too human for me to drool over. I'd let Tychus get the job done.

>>716395573
>mulatto skin
>cornrows died red
This how I always saw her

>>716427280
>How do female protoss work?
They'd instantly read your mind and start calling you slurs with a lot of M words for being horny for them and their superior and totally not tribalistic gorilla barbaric violent culture.

I don't think the artists ever bothered to detail that bit though.

>>716427769
My headcannon is that protoss are literally lying through ther flat faces about not having holes in-universe because they really really don't want none of that with humans, but they all have all the goods and even some titties (that skull implies mandibles so it's likely that their featureless faces is a recent quirk). Their first contact was with a bunch of rednecks for fucks sake.

why is she basically half naked

>>716428113
>Abathur walks in
>Queen of Blades, procreation successful?

>>716427741
I mean, im positive anyone with a Y chromosome would fuck Ghost Kerrigan.

>>716419827
Nothing, which is why they don't get Stim Packs.

>>716428112
Why is she covering her mammaries if she's not a mammal or a she even technically?

>>716428197
ask Blizzard about it.

>>716428112
well at least it's half, artanis and zeratul were fucking naked in SC1

>>716428103
What about scientists dissecting dead ones? The old field manual is written by Terrans.

>>716428334
They hid their holes

>>716428334
rigorous psionic training to create permanent psychic glamours that convince brainlets interacting with their bodies into thinking they don't have holes
>b-but photography
they're really good at it

>>716419781
The Golden Armada would slap terrans back to earth

>>716428113
>"Well, you better satisfy her too."

>>716427938
queen of blades mode then?
>>716428185
Yeah holy fuck she's the hottest there is in the game trumping even the valks. Nova is a whore

>>716412143
It was a rushed ending. The last three missions should have been the Episode IV we never got.

>>716428629
70% of the protoss's problem is that they spend most of their time squabbling among themselves and digging up their fancy toys and time capsules. A full power protoss race could, but the current protoss that struggled with australians, bugs and a schizophrenic manatee certainly would get slapped by a theoretical war fleet from earth. the thing is that we don't know exactly what earth is capable of. we don't know how large the human empire is. maybe koprulu is just some backwater shit and the real humans are fighting bigger fish out there like space demons and elves.

>>716427280
>Is there such thing as rule 34 of protoss
I don't think I want to find out

>ask Copilot about Protoss reproduction
>it cites me some dumb Reddit speculations that don't even fit the official lore (for fuck sake, you dumb fags - Protoss live on sun/moonlight, they don't fucking consume meat and most certainly doesn't produce larvae).

Maybe it's like Archons - they actually turn into energy, merge and separate?

>>716429607
does it mean when 2 HT form an Archon they do gay sex in front of everyone?

>>716429738
>POWER OVERWHELMING

>>716419745
That fucking warcraft 3/wow style

>>716429607
>it cites me some dumb Reddit speculations
>AI learning model unironically trained on reddit
Euthanize it asap

>>716395075 (OP)
Because even pre-rendered 3d from the 90s was weird by modern standards.

>>716429849
If you ask ChatGPT, it will do the same. It's like how most web search engines somehow shows tons of Reddit links on results. It's too late.

>>716429957
Fucking God damn it that is even more grim than the setting of StarCraft itself

>>716429486
I found around 140 results when searching for Protoss Rule34 pics. Some quite hilarious.

>>716425289
I thought HotS was easier than LotV since Kerrigan can just solo most missions while Hydras/Roaches can defend the base. I only played those campaigns once, and some missions twice of HotS to see if I could get the achievements.

>>716413495
>Starcraft Ghost has to be like the second most complete game ever canceled behind Starfox 2
Does Starfox 2 count as cancelled still since Nintendo did officially release it?

>>716419745
Still love the fact they originally brought him back for a StarCraft 64 exclusive mission.
Said for years it wasn't canon and regreted doing it
Roll around to 2 and this happens

>Have an itch to paly star craft again.
>Check Blizzard's site
>Internet connection, Battle.net® Account, and Battle.net® desktop app required to play.
Wait, does this mean you need to always be connected to the internet to play the campaign?

Broodwar mogs other rts, only good thing about SC2 was CGI trailers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbeoSPqRs4

>>716395075 (OP)
why does 40Kucks fans think that everything is copied from 40k?

>>716430816
The campaigns had an offline mode last time i played, but they might have changed it.

>>716430816
I'm pretty sure you can disconnect but you don't get achievos unless they changed something in the last few years.

>>716428112
She is presenting herself for human men.

is it only me or Vorazun and Alarak had sexual tension going on between them

>>716431008
because they never realized w40k was copied from Dune

>>716429486
>>716427280
If it exists, there is porn of it, NO EXCEPTIONS.

>>716430273
This is true if you're some metagaming speedtranny who knows ahead of time how to dash through every level and win in 4 minutes but I'd agree that for the average player LotV is easier.

>>716409996
shodan if she biological instead of technological

>>716431303
Iunno about that, but Alarak was the best part about LotV for me

>>716432479
you mean the only good part

>>716430273
The thing about lotv is that every mission is essentially the same. Defeat 3 progressively stronger bases and kill a boss for the bonus objective. I think there's maybe two or three missions who don't follow this formula, and they're either hero missions or defence missions.

>>716398987
It definitely is.
those lips arent plastic, but the poor zoomer has seen too many fake lip trends from women chasing after Angelina Jolie.
>>716396173
You can be excused for this anon, because I remember how much stupid fake shit women did.
Please understand she has big lips because a female actor naturally had the perfect big lips and it made a LOT of people, knowing and unknowing, try to imitate that look.

That said Kerrigan definitely has drawn on eyebrows

I miss the Overmind, guys.

>>716433090
I miss when Starcraft was grimdark.

>>716433231
I always liked the setting more than 40k. It had it's grimdark side, sure, but a regular ass citizen was just that, not hive scum or religious fanatics, just regular people doing their jobs. Made it seem a bit more hopeful, you know?

But then, i hate chaos with a passion, worst inclusion in any setting ever.

>>716414145
Anyone else did autistic shit like kidnapping SCVs and Drones with this guy and building giant 3 faction bases.

I've never played StarCraft 2 so it's all Brood War to me.

>>716433568
Of course, I thought that was what they were for.

>>716432760
>muh zoomers
Okay nigger.

>>716433568
Yeah pretty much. It tripled the campaign time but I didn't care.

>>716432108
I don't mean speedrunning either. Kerrigan just comes back if she dies so you can treat her like a Warcraft 3 hero but stronger against enemies that don't have a hero unit with even less punishment if she dies. There's never a moment where you feel like you lose a fight with her even if you somehow lose unless there's some timed mission I'm forgetting

>>716433653
Kid, the only way you wouldn't know of Angelina Jolie's lips by this point is if you were a zoomer.
Which is fine, because most of those are so disconnected from her there is no easy way to tell.
Its just dumb women chasing trends.

>>716395134
>In what sense weird?
the lighting and shading maybe
it does have a certain vibe

>>716395764
lel

>>716433802
I knew of Angelina lips since I'm fucking 35 but I also don't find them attractive at all.

>>716433568
damn straight I did.

>>716434054
Well I was perfectly willing to assume you weren't retarded but sure, anon.

>>716419636
He was trying to lay low. Most Nerazim at the time had a low view on Khalai, thus Artanis disguised himself as one of them.

He was using some form of camouflage to hide his nerve cords and make them look severed, like the Nerazim usually do.

they had to work within rather harsh limits of size and therefore utilized heavy contrast and artistic stylization in their portraits

>>716413658
We've been over this many times. It may have started as that but it morphed into its own thing by necessity after Blizzard lost the right for their adaptation. Other than pretty vague generalizations that you could make about plenty of sci-fi that existed before 40k they're not too similar.

Also 40k isn't exactly a bastion of creativity, depth, and good writing, you should stop worshiping it like you do.

>>716422703
OFC not. He felt the vile and filthy xenos' evil firsthand. He was enslaved by pirates in his youth and his mortal enemy turned his wife against him and murdered his children. He also desecrated his family's remains and even tried to turn him into a zombie.

>>716433568
>Did anyone else do this extremely common thing that has been a well known meme in the community for 30 years?

No anon, you are very special, and since you did "autistic" shit you are beyond that. You're a super duper special boy.

>>716433594
You're missing out, WoL had a very cool campaign.

>>716428112
Fashion trends of her time.

>>716434139
That's a funny way of saying you have no argument

>>716428259
The Romans remarked that the Gauls often fought this way, and the Germans too but not as often.

What possesses people to go into battle against sharp swords with their dicks flopping around?

>>716435232
I had an argument for why you WEREN'T retarded, and you refused it.
Its more like YOU don't have an argument, because you stupidly burned it.

>>716435280
>flopping
Fight boners are a thing. Those madlads were rock hard.

>>716433568
in WC3 I would set up custom matches of me as Undead vs. multiple AIs of every other race and then use Banshees to possess their workers and do that

>>716412696
I knew Blizzard were on the ropes when this decision went public. Old Kerrigan was perfect and they replaced her to piggyback on the popularity of a TV show. Typical shitty corporate decision interfering with art. Then the game came out and was awfully written as well.

>>716433568
Every chance I got

They gave Kerrigan the fattest, most fuckable lips of all time in SC2

>>716395823
Oh yes...

>>716435280
gauls did have armor from chain mail to plated helmets. but just like the greeks at the time not every foot soldier has the luxury to be fully geared out

>>716434679
Why did contrast die?

>>716428112
why not?

>>716419827
BPD thots, Earthlings got tired of them and ejected them into space

>>716421319
>Narud
That's the lamest fucking shit ever

>>716437416
Right? It's some fucking Saturday morning cartoon type shit.

>>716411404
the protoss also somewhat inspired by the "skinny" aliens in the books

>>716438105
The Terran Federation even forms a loose alliance with the Skinnies in order to fight the bugs.

>>716437495
>>716437416
>hmmm, I have to hide
>let's slap mustache and spell previous name backwards
>I'm a genius

>>716438396
But Skinnies were weak shits that gave up after humans performed few terror raids on their cities.

>>716438649
I'd give up too if mechanical gorillas with shoulder mounted nuclear rocket launchers started falling from the sky and jumping over buildings.

>>716433090
I miss the cerebrates as well.

>>716437416
>>716438565
thank you chris metzen

>>716425484
He explained in a podcast that it's not that he became religious, he just used to be an angry militant atheist (his words) and bitter at the world in general which made his writing really cynical, but later mellowed out after getting married. This was only relevant to the Diablo franchise and how he veered more toward a heroic bent to the story with Diablo 3.

>>716395075 (OP)
Always thought she looked like a monkey

>>716409996
Could you please post a screenshot of the manual

>>716439308
https://manuals.plus/m/427fe339417b94f7ac935269b64be58544d55d49ab7ba1e90cf2552db0fd80bc

>>716395075 (OP)
If i just want to play SC1 single player without logging in into any bullshit, can i do that?

>>716413495
It is spread over 2 consoles and a lot of it is unpolished. I wouldnt be surprised if more games like this were killed really late. Everquest next for example was really far along.

Did they change the voice for the remastered version

>>716413668
SC cutscenes were kino. Even BW lost some soul by not having generic guys cutscenes. They really set the tone and made the conflict seem bigger. In later entries it was just a fight between the main characters and their armies.

>>716433705
>tripled campaign time
>there's only 2 missions they're in and both are 1v1 and one is protoss mirror match
Huh? Also I'm shit at Brood War Toss I don't think I'd be able to beat that one mission without building Devourer/Guardians

I actually like the aesthetic shift for terrans in sc2, even I also really like the crude industrial aesthetic they had in sc1. Protoss and zerg were a downgrade though, more so the former.

>>716413495
Warcraft Adventures was nearly complete, too.

I really liked that puzzle mission where you have to navigate turrets and bunkers, and later tanks, ghosts, and goliaths to take down generators.

I didn't like those missions where you're forced to restart because a gigantic rapetrain came out of the darkness at a time you couldn't have known prior.

>>716416701
I generally just miss the player being an actual "character" that is referenced and acknowledged by the game and its characters.
>the zerg missions are basically just (you) babbysitting kerrigan with daddy overmind's blessing
>Kerrigan: I am going to find more data on the ghost program!
>Cerebrate, go make sure she doesn't get herself killed

>>716419745
>Share in my torment AND my pain
Depressed lil' guy, he's literally me fr fr

>>716415135
When was Ghost canceled? 2006? 2007? There was a point in time where Blizzard was held to the absolute highest standard. At that point in time they did not believe the game reflected well on them.

>>716441162
The changes to zerg were pretty good though.
While I'm less enthusiastic about the mechanic itself, spreading creep and injecting hatcheries is a cool concept.

>>716444226
>player cerebrate dies to Zeratul
>Kerrigan kills the broodwar one
>UED one probably also died to her
While it's interesting Artanis got a glow up him being the main character makes it no longer feel like he's (you), and it more interesting to have Jimmy and Kerrigan give you mission briefings than be the pov

Will we ever get Starcraft III or Warcraft IV?

>>716445478
What if:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVGR3rddq3c

>>716445478
>SC3
what the fuck do you do after the shit they pulled in SC2?

>>716446087
New story using the same setting/races but with new characters. Have a time skip to explain why races fight each other again after having cease-fire, have Earth send another expedition, have another alien race appear, use stuff from the books (like Ulrezaj), etc.

>>716446087
>UED finally shows up

>>716446470
>ued
>protoprotoss
>zerg from the future

>>716420779
Cerebrates were 100% loyal to the overmind
Kerrigan wanted queens to be more dangerous and volatile but also less personal risk to her.