My official 📄 _Starcraft Stories Playlist:_ bit.ly/cjakestarcraft (135 videos). Have fun. PS. I decided to reformat this video to 1080p Full HD ratio (that is 16:9). Originally video was 1920:818 (that is 2,35:1, close to the movie widescreen ratio of 2,39:1). But if you don't have the monitor with that aspect ratio (and I very doubt that you do), you'll get "black lines" above and below video that I personally don't like. But I didn't simply "rescaled" the video - thus you would miss many important details, because in some frames the meaningful part is located not at the very center but on the left or right side of the frame. So, I cut the original video into 21 piece defined by the scene and keyframes and imposed different scaling, spatial interpolation, i.e. transitions, to each of the pieces. Thus almost nothing notable material from the video was lost.
@@MooshroomGaming511 He is basically saying he seperated the video into different parts/ segments, so that he could use keyframes and manipulate what is seen on the screen and tried to focus on the important parts as a result of changing the aspect ratio.
This was one of the defining points of the original game, back in 97. The fact they they made this badass cinematic so faithfully true to this original story's key moments - even down to the exact lines spoken by these characters, within that mission that we all remember - shows how truly fan-friendly Blizzard used to be.
was thinking something similar. I remember those key moments very well - but Blizzard was already less 'adequate' back then... Internal struggles had already begun - even in diablo II. Starcraft II wasn't as good as starcraft/broodwar. WoW would soon suck most of the life out of Blizzard (overplaying its hand) which left them in bad financial shape. Paving the way for investors - and down the drain it went. Blizzard North was always a big factor in the creativity department/success (scenarios, music, visuals, lore) of a lot of their games. A part of Blizzard, but basically already something that was being mismanaged. It just took a while before all the people with heart for their product abandoned ship...
@@corbeau-_- Starcraft 2 might not have been as iconic as Brood war, but it's incredibly well made. It's even better than Brood war in some ways, particularly in being fun to watch. LOTV in particular is a Hell of a game. But like you said there were small signs about their demise here and there. I noticed it primarily with customer service and the way they dealt with performance issues.
@@LightLegion in the last mission where Raynor attemptedto escape from Korhal/Tarsonis, he convinced the commander(player) to fight with him, and the commander agreed. And more likely Admiral Matt in SC2 might be the 'commander' of SC1 as the character out of nowhere to be side with Raynor.
The irony was that the Overmind never intended to want to harm Kerrigan. Infact if Kerrigan negotiated with the Overmind and the Cerebates then she may had been given a small chance to remain human while serving the Overmind. The Overmind wanted to assimilate her since her Psy energy was so powerful that it would had been a great advantage for the Zerg to adapt it to their doings.
"Belay that order, we're moving out." Delivered with such cold and calculating cruelty, with no regards to her humanity or even his own, only seeing chess pieces to move around and sacrifice on the battlefield. Great lines, and wonderful voice actors.
i'm sorry, but have we forgotten that it was kerrigan that started this thing between her and mengsk? when she killed her parents and her sister. i would have made absolutely certain she died on gettysburg. carpet nuking the place, starting with her position, sounds like the ultimate in just desserts
@@jackadams3878 To be fair her killing her parents was by accident upon discovering her powers and she had an abusive upbringing. Yes she did kill Mengsk's father but it was when she was still heavily drugged up and used as an assassin by the confederacy. He could have saved her and had both her and Jim as generals of his new dominion. The Zerg would have been leaderless after the Overmind's death and he would have had a stronger position when the UED came along, and probably could have survived against the Protoss possibly even established peaceful relations. He also could have put a bullet in her at any time and her life would be in his hands. But instead he choose to betray her and deal with her in the most lazy way possible.
the sniper(Kerrigan's weapon)looks so cool and smooth and futuristic, the sound effect for it is pretty awesome too. the cinematic does a good job of showing how devastating it is, where part of the hydra's body explode after getting shot and zerglings can't take more than one shot and I just love how cool the weapon itself looks, it looks like it's made out of a very high quality metal.
@@AKcedricdu06 as i have never played the 1992 warhammer game and the only warhammer game I found that was quite similar was warhammer 40k: chaos gate which warhammer are you referencing?
Omg you're right. I hadn't noticed that before. I was too focused on how Mengsk left his people on Korhal just like Joe Biden left ours in Afghanistan. The parallels continue.
It's the inevitable result of corporate super mergers destroying the originality of smaller game companies. It's only going to get worse under the Microsoft umbrella.
@@mnomadvfx Activision Blizzard was doing nothing worth anything with the ip anyway. Microsoft might finish them off or they might force them to get their heads outa their asses. Only time will tell.
There is an irony in everything in starcraft, let's take a look: Amon - Wants to break the infinite cycle, with Narud sets the hybrid program in motion. Amon - "Creates Protoss and Zerg" for that purpose. Protoss - Grows beyond his control, turns on him and his followers killing hundreds, separates into 3 factions. Overmind - Figures out Amon's plan, turns on him and kills millions of his followers, basically eradicating almost all Xel'Nagas following him. Overmind - Cannot escape the overriding directive of Amon, sets out to find the Protoss to destroy them. Narud - Continues the hybrid program to ressurrect Amon after his death some millenia ago. Protoss - At war with Zerg, Terrans caught in between. Mengsk - Destroys The Confederancy, uses Zerg for his own purpose. Mengsk - Abandons Kerrigan on Tarsonis. Overmind - Finds a way to go against Amon in Kerrigan. Tassadar - Kills the Overmind Kerrigan - Becomes the Queen of Blades, beginning of the Overmind's plan to save the Zerg. Narud - The Paradox, Kerrigan speeds up his hybrid program, UED - Almost succesfully takes over the Zerg, jeopardizing the Overmind's plan. Mengsk - With Raynor and Fenix, helps Kerrigan defeat the UED, giving salvation a chance again unknowingly. Kerrigan - Defeats Mengsk, UED and the remaining Protoss main forces, becoming the most poweful faction in the Koprulu sector. Narud - Uses the Moebius Foundation to find the artifact pieces. Raynor - Succesfully finds them, uses it to cleanse Kerrigan, allowing Amon to be revived by the psionic energies being absorbed by the artifact to revive Amon. Kerrigan - Thnks Raynor is dead, becomes Primal Zerg, again salvation at hand without her knowing it. Primal Zerg - Kerrigan is free from Amon's corruption 100%. Narud - Fights Kerrigan, dies but succesfully revived Amon. Mengsk - Almost kills Kerrigan with the artifact. Kerrigan - With Raynor kills Mengsk, setting off to find Amon. Artanis - The Khala becomes their enslavement, the invasion of Aiur is a trap set by Amon. Zeratul - Narud becomes a link to find Amon, finds the final piece of the prophecy set by Ouros. Zeratul - The Dark Templar, the other side of salvation, frees Artanis, dies in process. Artanis - Defeats Amon. Amon - Plans his return. Kerrigan - Kills Narud with Stukov and Co. Ouros - Pretended to be Tassadar to guide Zeratul, giving them all a chance. Kerrigan - Kills Amon Infinite Cycle starts anew. So to summarize, every step they took, also made Amon's plan take one step further.
Heisenberg, as he described himself, is a blowfish. Creating an illusion of being large by sucking up air. A weak man hiding behind a cloud of ego and empty threats. Kerrigan, on the other hand, is the real deal. She's a fckn Great White Shark.
In reality, this scene has Kerrigan sitting far away from any action surrounded by a huge impenetrable Terran fortification full of bunkers, marines, turrets, siege tanks and battle cruisers.
That is impossible, i build at least 12-16 battle cruisers and a dedicated shuttle for Kerrigan, she should able to leave with no problem ;P Seriously though, we should not be able to build starport in that mission, as it makes no sense!
@C M IIRC, I first eliminated the nearest Zerg anti-aircraft units, then when the wave hit, the siege tanks and bunkers (including Kerrigan) wiped them out. After that, 2 fighter squadrons camped on the spawn spot, and all was well. 😁
I always thought that was an odd aspect of SC2. You are supposed to become attached to these characters through cinematics. But in game play they are just units among thousands that have no personification at all. They generate with a click and then are consumed. A more typical way to handle it would be to make them more like Arcturas. The characters would strategize and control faceless forces. Not knocking the game, I love it. But it is really weird to expect the player to be horrified by sending troops to their death for strategic reasons.
It depends, because Sarah is a named character and the person whose story is being told. Most marines are expendable in SC lore, so if you live long enough to have a name that makes you valuable also because Jim loves Sarah and they had a cute love story in the first game. Also Sarah is worth more than any other Ghost she has way more hp, energy and her rifle shots deal nearly double the damage as a unit. So she is worth 3 Ghosts and you get her for free.
@@elhior23 it was a mistake for him since it started the chain of events that resulted in a whole zerg swarm being led by a being that wanted nothing more than to kill him no matter what it took. For the universe though it was a great thing since, while millions died during the journey, the final destination was the saving of the universe from the evil Xel'naga devil lol
In certain point of view... yes, he "doomed" it at first by "helping" Zerg Oermind to unleash the entire might of the Swarm with Kerrigan's "help"... BUT... unintentionally he started as well the chain of events which at the end lead to Amon's destruction.
@@asheer9114 Zeratul reading a scroll: The Xel'naga fortold of this giant douche taint, one they call...Mengsk. It is said that his assholery would bring forth the events that would save the Universe and bring rise to a new Xel'naga.
@@B.Scruby "the Xel'naga didn't even have a word for taint. Look, they just wrote it in Terran, because their language was inadequate for describing how great a tool Mengsk would be"
They missed opportunity to involve some other terrans in there. Because in actual mission you had some outpost, with some marines, even tanks, - it might’ve been much more epic cutscene, knowing how many people died in there. They shown up only Kerrigan, like she was literally alone there. Still cool cinematic though
@@sabin97 yeah for sure but they're saying it would be cool to show the Terrans being massacred. The scale of destruction would show ow how much she truly mattered.
@@sabin97 are you incapable of reading? Nobody is talking about expendable or not. Kerrigan wasnt all alone. A whole Unit was left behind. Heck even in this Scene Jim talks about THEM.
What the fuck? You do know, that there is an entire BOOK called "StarCraft: Nova" which is about how Nova became a ghost, right? And I think she would have been the main character in Starcraft:Ghost if it ever came to be.
This reminds me that stuff done to people out of spite/anger/betrayal usually comes back to haunt the one who made the action against that person in the first place. Morale of the Story - Be careful with your actions to someone they might live through what you put them through and become something and someone that haunts you or seeks vengeance or revenge for the rest of your days.
Not only are you extremely unlikely to ever encounter the double-crossed person ever in your life (provided it's none of your close relatives), but it's also probable they wouldn't even be bothered with seeking retribution. Most of us just don't have the balls to go pursue something that's pretty much pointless from the start. We are psychologically hard-wired for compassion because that's the only safety mechanism against the whole tribe collapsing upon itself in an every man for himself kind of melee. Evolution simply teaches us we're doomed if we go it alone. But once you realize it's little beyond your communal instincts thousands of years in the making, you are really quite likely to get away scot-free.
@@bohanxu6125 considering she didn't even properly aim, rather take three shots while swinging his AC-10 rifle all in less than 0.3 secs (aprox)... it is still an amazing aim for a reaction born of pure fear and survival insctinct.
Starcraft is still my all time favourite game and I still play it every couple of years. Have not played the second one yet even though I bought it as soon as it came out.
I really wished they could have pulled through with StarCraft Ghost. Even now with the next generation of consoles and PCs. The game would look absolutely amazing.
I can understand Mengsk wanting revenge for the murder of his family but he mislaid the blame. Kerrigan wasn't in control of her actions when she did it and Mengsk knew that. She was little more than a weapon at that point, no more to blame than her rifle. The ones who ordered the assassination were responsible. Besides, Mengsk was nothing if not pragmatic and Kerrigan was an extremely useful ally. Why destroy one of your best assets just for revenge? It's like shooting through your own foot just to hit someone else. Even if she hadn't come back as a superpowered Zerg queen hell-bent on revenge, it still would've been a stupid move.
And Mengsk gets revenge on both those people and Kerrigan right here. Remember in this mission the entire planet of Tarsonis becomes a huge ass Zerg rave party.
But saving Kerrigan would also risk the attention of the zerg forces to swtich to Mengsk's force instead, he cannot afford to do that when his empire is just starting out. It would make sense for him to abandon her in the battlefield. To him, that is a necessary loss to make.
He never wanted to save her also the zerg knew about him and his forces but they were like thanks for the free super powered ghost we can use to make the future zerg queen out of lol.
There's more to it than this. Kerrigan was starting to doubt and even question Mengsk's orders. She realized he wasn't out to save humanity; he was out to conquer it. She was a risk to his plans and he cut her loose as a result. He figured the Zerg would kill her and he could use her as a martyr.
Ultimately Mengsk saved the universe by setting Sarah on a path of becoming a goddess. Without this moment, there wouldn't have been a Goddess Kerrigan and thus Amon would've destroyed everyone.
doubtful, it would have just been nova instead of kerrigan. overmind wasnt looking for sarah specifically, beyond her psionic potential. which was by no means unique
@@jackadams3878 It was unique by Ghosts statistics, Kerrigan had the most powerful Psi powers before being limited by Ghost programming, she was the only one that killed her own family by discovering her Psi powers. Nova was said to have better combat experience and feats than Kerrigan but in no way was she a match in terms of Psi, in fact Nova doesn't rely on it and is reluctant to use it in the Ghosts storyline. Besides the Overmind was planning to invade Aiur and thanks to the Terrans using Psi emitters they managed to destroy most of the defensive fleets that were keeping the planet hidden from it. It did not forsee its own death so it likely would have went ahead of its plan with or without a replacement for the Swarm. Which would have left the Zerg leaderless.
@@yammoto148 the overmind went to auir to die. he had to obey his programming, but becoming physically manifest was unnecessary, and the only difference it made was to make him vulnerable. he still controlled the entirety of the swarm, and being physically manifest didnt allow him to overcome the dark templars' ability to halt his resurrection powers. so why, unless he meant to paint a target on his head? kerrigan may have been the one to lead the zerg to salvation, but as long as the overmind lived, that wasn't happening. but i still say any ghost would have sufficed, or the psi emitters wouldnt have worked, as kerrigan's power would have blinded him to all others
@@jackadams3878 Yet he was rather savagely rambling on about the perfection of the zerg and how their evolution would ultimately lead to their victory over the Protoss. It was made clear from the Protoss storyline that the Dark Templar could only destroy the Cerebrates not the overmind. It was created by Amon himself if it was that easy that could have assassinated it on Char long ago. The overmind literally thought by going to Auir that his victory over the protoss would be complete. He did not think that the Protoss even had Xel'Naga energies to destroy him with. Kerrigan's power specifically suited the overmind's purposes because upon her capture the Overmind noted that she had Psi potential greater than even the Protoss and they could form Archons. Most Ghosts are programmed to suppress most of their abilities. So of course none of them are going to be louder than a Psi emitter. But Kerrigan by the overmind's command needed to undo the programming on her mind to realize her full potential. Because in her he saw a way to free himself from Amon's will, which is why he spent all this time on her and not on other Ghosts. The moment she undid her programming she started acting more cocky able to retort the cerebrates with her own thoughts. She was still under the Overmind's control but it was clear that he was barely holding her in check at that point.
Yeah, no. I honestly felt like Raynor's memory of what happened during Starcraft 2 is really bad. Bro didn't seem to really bat an eye or stop Arcturus from genociding Tarsonis, but abandoning a former Confederate ghost (Why Arcturus did that I don't even know really. I mean, yeah she killed his family, but shit, she was basically a tool for him to use beyond that.) made him mad enough to put the entire galaxy and universe in peril. In fact, he could have sent forces down to extract her himself. Raynor held some position of power in the SoK, so why didn't he mount his own rescue operation? All in all, this just leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
Incredible cut-scenes like these are representative of what Blizzard used to be. A studio which designed games based on what they knew the player would enjoy, not what could squeeze the most money out of them.
This shot would have been sweeter if she just held her gaze above, fixed in confusion and rage. The swam enveloping her while she holds it, signaling what is to come.
Anyone here save Kerrigan? I remember setting up seige tanks, Battlecruisers and blocking buildings. Then I destroyed the last protos structure which commenced the Zerg All Out Attack! After a while the attack slows to just zerglings until the match is at a stalemate basically keeping Sarah from being captured. I was so proud when I figured it out. Of course now with hindsight we know she had to be captured to eventually hold back the darkness.
One thing I really hate about the new game is that they keep victimizing Kerrigan. I admit that she was betrayed but she is no hero, she was a trained assassin who specializes in killing people. She wasn't a clean white angel. And when she became the queen of the Zerg she wasn't a victim either, she accepted her role and was a badass at it. No time for tears or drama just wars and battles. She was just very intimidating, in the new game, she was too victimized. That is all my gripes, I miss that snarky, confident person she was.
So the fact that Queen of Blades Kerrigan was all too willing to accept Amon's control as opposed to Primal Kerrigan outright fighting him doesn't give you the sense that the first time around Sarah wasn't in total control of her faculties? Now, I'm not in any way trying to say she's an angel myself, and actually, the Starcraft 2 book Flashpoint does emphasize this fact.
@@RyuGabriev It doesn't really. I bought into the fact that the Overmind had some kind of psychic control over her even though he let her do as she pleased. I thought that Kerrigan was his special creation and it viewed her as some kind of special zerg. Maybe the first of many. I do not believe that Amon was an intended creation in the original game. And I have some evidence: when Zeratul's essence touched the Overmind's, why didn't he notice that the Overmind had no will of it's own? That it was controlled by an outside force? He specifically said that the Overmind's target was Aiur and to eradicate the Protoss. This applies only to the first game. I realize that Brood Wars had a plan by then.
Little known lore: Kerrigan was a Confederate sleeper agent programmed to kill Mengsk all along. Mengsk left her to die deliberately and not out of callousness. Learned this from reading the books and stuff. So, in conclusion, glorious Mengsk was hero all along.
That's not it at all. Kerrigan was the one who murdered Mengsk's family when she was still working for the Confederacy. Though she was heavily brainwashed and hadn't real control over her actions, Mengsk never forgot and never forgave.
@@gamepad3173 he could have been safely sit on his throne, but no he had to capture raynor and broadcast that raynor was KILLED to kerrigan. He does know how to create powerful enemies.
This cutscene hit me so hard. This is just so similar to what happened to the 44 police commandos that were abandoned by the central government in the Philippines back in 2015 after they have been engaged by a large terrorist forces in the combat area. It sparked a huge outrage in the Filipino communities all over the world.
The zerg could have mauled her pretty bad, the infestation would still succeed. She was completely remade by Abathur. At any rate all the zerg there probably had a total block against killing her, since no zerg can override order given from higher on the hiearchy.
If you haven't read the novels, Mengsk left her not just because she spoke out but because she was the one responsible for killing his dad. He had his long overdue revenge after using her.
I just realized that Mengsk left Kerrigan behind because she was the one who assassinated Mengsk's father when she was a Confederate ghost (before Mengsk "rescued" her). It was an act of revenge against the assassin who killed and beheaded his father.
That's how you do it the thing you couldn't with your woke culture. Strong female figure to be remembered forever. That commander she was trying to reach was us, players. And she had.
…. And the conversation at the start of the mission was Jim begging her to get out before Mensk screwed her over too. … and she said “Mensk will come around, I know he will”…
Which is why Raynor and a small group of soldiers turned traitor. They saw that he didn't care for his top operatives so they decided to get out before the bastard put a target on their backs
The cinematic looks incredible no doubt about it, but in the first game not only does Arcturus’ decision come off as more cruel, it’s more impactful on the player, it almost makes more sense Arcturus would want to just leave instead of save a single soldier who might not even have time to be evacuated, in the original game you’d built an entire army by this point and watching the Zerg break through your defenses and hear Kerrigan ask for evac is so much more impactful because he isn’t just leaving Kerrigan to die, he’s leaving all the troops you just trained and used on the Protoss to die too, not to mention New Gettysburg looks incredible sure, but it’s nothing like how it looked in the first game, it’s pretty but it’s unfaithful and makes Mengsk look almost better? Like if he left one person behind that’s bad sure but you could argue there’s no time to save her anyways, but an entire army holding out agains the Zerg who just accomplished an important mission? It’s just cruel and makes him being exposed for it in Star Craft 2 getting such a vitriolic reaction make more sense, he denied using the Zerg yes but he also left behind his own troops deliberately while using the zerg, it’s an amazing cutscene but it just doesn’t capture the real moment in Star Craft 1 which makes it more jarring that they use the exact dialogue, it’d make more sense if it was showing Kerrigan’s holdout after they lost contact
+Klaital1 Yes, but in this cinematic they are showing the perspective of Kerrigan. In SC1 they don't show you her in action. Same scene, different "camera"
Remember the unknown commanders and nameless players we played as in SC I. Those were the days man; when our identity was displayed through game and the game characters referred to us as someone significant to their survival. Still wished they had that aspect in Blizzard games but alas good writing died to give rise to esport.
Bullshit, they didn't stick with it even in SC1. For Terran campaign they couldn't decide if the Magister and Raynor are the same person or not, and hell, the Executor from SC1 became Artanis in Brood War.
LOL I remember when I tried SC Wings of Potatoe multiplayer. This one guy I matched up against wanted someone to be his teammate so badly that he was practically FORCING it on me. Throughout the whole 20-30 minutes matched I had with him, I tried to explain it to him I wasn't good (and CLEARLY I wasn't good hahaha) meaning I was utterly (moo) slow to make moves, and I overthink things (which is why I prefer to play singleplayer mode with cheats so it'll help someone as BAD as me still able to get my money's worth from such a well known game, and so very enjoyable). Anyways, I was so slow and bad he literally gave me time to build up my camp (STILL 10 minutes into the match and with like 2 troops lmao) and he was STILL begging for me to be his partner. By the end of this game, if I remember it correctly, he had built enough army to surround my tiny little base (STILL), and it took for him at that point that I was not good at this game at all. Years later that gameplay still cracks me up. I get it, when someone is so lonely or whatever to the point of desperation of wanting to find a partner, but how many time does someone have to repeat themselves that they're not good at a certain video game for it to freaking sink iin
if it was in warhammer 40k she would have take her chain sword and Cry For Papa oups For The Emperor and Die With Proud to stand faithful to papa oups again For The Emperor against the Xenos
Vengeance, Mensk's father was a senator from Korhal opposing the Confederacy, and one of the leader of it's short lived rebellion. The Confederacy sent 3 ghosts to kill his familly, Kerrigan was among them. When she deserted later, mensk sent her on suicide missions hoping she would die. Since she kept surviving, he used her as his attack dog until he though his victory was certain against the Confederacy.
Shame that the Magistrate/Commander was scrubbed out for Raynor to be the "player character" in SC2. You no longer felt like you were part of the story anymore.
how many trips does it take with a blackraven or a whitehawk? how many trips with a chinook to resupply kerrigan's nighthawk S,quad with C rounds and P rounds and maybe odd[ly] S rounds as well?
Prepare all ships to leave the place, Me: Sir I can't hear you, could I repeat, I think he said to rescue everyone we can, sir I can't hear you properly, we must be going through a space tunnel, but we heard your last order leave no one behind
Solid lesson to be learned here. Betray somebody here and now, in whatever way, and they might become your very worst nightmare or society's very worst nightmare.
My take on this is that she was so fueled with hatred against mankind, the Zerg pretty much felt she was their ally/their own. And we all know what happened next.
Could they have even saved her if they wanted to? I mean, they are in orbit and have at most 2 minutes to get there... seems like she was doomed either way.
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PS. I decided to reformat this video to 1080p Full HD ratio (that is 16:9). Originally video was 1920:818 (that is 2,35:1, close to the movie widescreen ratio of 2,39:1). But if you don't have the monitor with that aspect ratio (and I very doubt that you do), you'll get "black lines" above and below video that I personally don't like. But I didn't simply "rescaled" the video - thus you would miss many important details, because in some frames the meaningful part is located not at the very center but on the left or right side of the frame. So, I cut the original video into 21 piece defined by the scene and keyframes and imposed different scaling, spatial interpolation, i.e. transitions, to each of the pieces. Thus almost nothing notable material from the video was lost.
CJake3 i didn't understand a thing but well done i guess
@@MooshroomGaming511 He is basically saying he seperated the video into different parts/ segments, so that he could use keyframes and manipulate what is seen on the screen and tried to focus on the important parts as a result of changing the aspect ratio.
@@1337kakash1 he's basically bragging on himself bc no one asked him all that 😂
Hazan the next tomorrow
*just like how americans treat their brothers and sisters in arms, betray them*
This was one of the defining points of the original game, back in 97. The fact they they made this badass cinematic so faithfully true to this original story's key moments - even down to the exact lines spoken by these characters, within that mission that we all remember - shows how truly fan-friendly Blizzard used to be.
used to be....
And never will be again
was thinking something similar. I remember those key moments very well - but Blizzard was already less 'adequate' back then... Internal struggles had already begun - even in diablo II.
Starcraft II wasn't as good as starcraft/broodwar. WoW would soon suck most of the life out of Blizzard (overplaying its hand) which left them in bad financial shape. Paving the way for investors - and down the drain it went. Blizzard North was always a big factor in the creativity department/success (scenarios, music, visuals, lore) of a lot of their games. A part of Blizzard, but basically already something that was being mismanaged. It just took a while before all the people with heart for their product abandoned ship...
there's still some creativity, but the chemistry that once was has been cancelled by the almighty dollar ;)
@@corbeau-_- Starcraft 2 might not have been as iconic as Brood war, but it's incredibly well made. It's even better than Brood war in some ways, particularly in being fun to watch. LOTV in particular is a Hell of a game. But like you said there were small signs about their demise here and there. I noticed it primarily with customer service and the way they dealt with performance issues.
Ah damn, i just remember this.
When she said "Commander" she was trying to reach out to us, the player.
I was so sad about this back in the day.
Did you retire after escaping Tarsonis? XD
@@LightLegion the commander joined Raynor's force later on
didn't know that, now that's just dad af
@@hrs.ai2018 no he completely disappeared off the lore
@@LightLegion in the last mission where Raynor attemptedto escape from Korhal/Tarsonis, he convinced the commander(player) to fight with him, and the commander agreed.
And more likely Admiral Matt in SC2 might be the 'commander' of SC1 as the character out of nowhere to be side with Raynor.
"I am 100% positive this decision will not come back to haunt me"
Arcturus Mengsk
- the pple that died
He really expected her to die. I'm glad she got her revenge.
@@umbraemilitos
There was no reason to assume she would live.
One soldier with a finite ammo supply against millions of murder bugs.
The irony was that the Overmind never intended to want to harm Kerrigan. Infact if Kerrigan negotiated with the Overmind and the Cerebates then she may had been given a small chance to remain human while serving the Overmind. The Overmind wanted to assimilate her since her Psy energy was so powerful that it would had been a great advantage for the Zerg to adapt it to their doings.
Not a decision, only one very angry woman.
"Belay that order, we're moving out."
Delivered with such cold and calculating cruelty, with no regards to her humanity or even his own, only seeing chess pieces to move around and sacrifice on the battlefield. Great lines, and wonderful voice actors.
Just like in Brood war.
i'm sorry, but have we forgotten that it was kerrigan that started this thing between her and mengsk? when she killed her parents and her sister.
i would have made absolutely certain she died on gettysburg. carpet nuking the place, starting with her position, sounds like the ultimate in just desserts
@@jackadams3878 To be fair her killing her parents was by accident upon discovering her powers and she had an abusive upbringing. Yes she did kill Mengsk's father but it was when she was still heavily drugged up and used as an assassin by the confederacy. He could have saved her and had both her and Jim as generals of his new dominion. The Zerg would have been leaderless after the Overmind's death and he would have had a stronger position when the UED came along, and probably could have survived against the Protoss possibly even established peaceful relations. He also could have put a bullet in her at any time and her life would be in his hands. But instead he choose to betray her and deal with her in the most lazy way possible.
I had so many tanks and bunkers holding the rear no way zerg was breaking through. The strategy guide warned me well ahead of the zerg invasion.
I did the same as well, and massacred the Zerg wave lol. But the plot demands Zerg winning, despite I actually won in the game.
What happens when Zhuge Liang gets transported to the laye 25th century Keprolu Sector.
Realistically, they would just keep sending overwhelming waves relentlessly against you and your defenses would fall.
@@Xpwnxage Realistically, the Terran and Protoss would ally and wipe out the Zerg, like Starcraft WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT.
@@ParleLeVu No it wasn't about that. And news flash, war never changes.
the sniper(Kerrigan's weapon)looks so cool and smooth and futuristic, the sound effect for it is pretty awesome too.
the cinematic does a good job of showing how devastating it is, where part of the hydra's body explode after getting shot and zerglings can't take more than one shot and I just love how cool the weapon itself looks, it looks like it's made out of a very high quality metal.
Sniper rifle* the sniper is the operator
The cinematic that actually got me interested in even trying to play Starcraft at all...and still one of my favorites.
OH MY GOD. I never realized it, she did the same thing as the Marine from Brood War did when he watched DuGalle/Stukov leave atmosphere.
starcraft is full plagia so its obvious, everything in starcraft come from warhammer.
@@AKcedricdu06 as i have never played the 1992 warhammer game and the only warhammer game I found that was quite similar was warhammer 40k: chaos gate which warhammer are you referencing?
Omg you're right. I hadn't noticed that before. I was too focused on how Mengsk left his people on Korhal just like Joe Biden left ours in Afghanistan. The parallels continue.
@@mattk6719
Taliban are not zerg, they are still humans...
@@urkern988 Clearly, you don't understand metaphor.
This was an amazing game. So sad how far Blizzard has fallen.
Nothing lasts forever.
@Johnathan Lee he means new content
It's the inevitable result of corporate super mergers destroying the originality of smaller game companies.
It's only going to get worse under the Microsoft umbrella.
@Johnathan Lee I still play WoW, SC2 and Overwatch. It may be dead for some, but I still see a lot of people playing them.
@@mnomadvfx Activision Blizzard was doing nothing worth anything with the ip anyway. Microsoft might finish them off or they might force them to get their heads outa their asses. Only time will tell.
biggest mistake of mengsk's life xD
Yup Mengsk made a big Mistake guys!
but he accidentally saved the universe, ironic
kerrigan gets revenge on mengsk at the end of the zerg campaign
There is an irony in everything in starcraft, let's take a look:
Amon - Wants to break the infinite cycle, with Narud sets the hybrid program in motion.
Amon - "Creates Protoss and Zerg" for that purpose.
Protoss - Grows beyond his control, turns on him and his followers killing hundreds, separates into 3 factions.
Overmind - Figures out Amon's plan, turns on him and kills millions of his followers, basically eradicating almost all Xel'Nagas following him.
Overmind - Cannot escape the overriding directive of Amon, sets out to find the Protoss to destroy them.
Narud - Continues the hybrid program to ressurrect Amon after his death some millenia ago.
Protoss - At war with Zerg, Terrans caught in between.
Mengsk - Destroys The Confederancy, uses Zerg for his own purpose.
Mengsk - Abandons Kerrigan on Tarsonis.
Overmind - Finds a way to go against Amon in Kerrigan.
Tassadar - Kills the Overmind
Kerrigan - Becomes the Queen of Blades, beginning of the Overmind's plan to save the Zerg.
Narud - The Paradox, Kerrigan speeds up his hybrid program,
UED - Almost succesfully takes over the Zerg, jeopardizing the Overmind's plan.
Mengsk - With Raynor and Fenix, helps Kerrigan defeat the UED, giving salvation a chance again unknowingly.
Kerrigan - Defeats Mengsk, UED and the remaining Protoss main forces, becoming the most poweful faction in the Koprulu sector.
Narud - Uses the Moebius Foundation to find the artifact pieces.
Raynor - Succesfully finds them, uses it to cleanse Kerrigan, allowing Amon to be revived by the psionic energies being absorbed by the artifact to revive Amon.
Kerrigan - Thnks Raynor is dead, becomes Primal Zerg, again salvation at hand without her knowing it.
Primal Zerg - Kerrigan is free from Amon's corruption 100%.
Narud - Fights Kerrigan, dies but succesfully revived Amon.
Mengsk - Almost kills Kerrigan with the artifact.
Kerrigan - With Raynor kills Mengsk, setting off to find Amon.
Artanis - The Khala becomes their enslavement, the invasion of Aiur is a trap set by Amon.
Zeratul - Narud becomes a link to find Amon, finds the final piece of the prophecy set by Ouros.
Zeratul - The Dark Templar, the other side of salvation, frees Artanis, dies in process.
Artanis - Defeats Amon.
Amon - Plans his return.
Kerrigan - Kills Narud with Stukov and Co.
Ouros - Pretended to be Tassadar to guide Zeratul, giving them all a chance.
Kerrigan - Kills Amon
Infinite Cycle starts anew.
So to summarize, every step they took, also made Amon's plan take one step further.
Arcturus Mengsk did not Save the galaxy!
This was the moment that Kerrigan became Heisenberg
Kerriberg
Never fuck with SIX !
Heisenberg, as he described himself, is a blowfish. Creating an illusion of being large by sucking up air. A weak man hiding behind a cloud of ego and empty threats.
Kerrigan, on the other hand, is the real deal. She's a fckn Great White Shark.
@@louieg7676 more like no
@@rando2284 Glad to know you're capable of typing words other than "cyk@ bl@t" and the F-word. Nice progress typing 3 words tho.
Probably in the top 10 most epic scenes in gaming history...the feels. damn.
In reality, this scene has Kerrigan sitting far away from any action surrounded by a huge impenetrable Terran fortification full of bunkers, marines, turrets, siege tanks and battle cruisers.
wait, didnt sarah's base near zerg base in reality?
@@laserdice thats not what "effable" means lmao
@@laserdice yo you mad? 😂
He mad he can't f@$# a animated woman who is far out of his league even if she isn't "effable" 🤣
Op is telling the mission in sc 1 where the zerg overwhelmed your base, not just kerrigan. They showed it like she was alone.
That is impossible, i build at least 12-16 battle cruisers and a dedicated shuttle for Kerrigan, she should able to leave with no problem ;P Seriously though, we should not be able to build starport in that mission, as it makes no sense!
@@OkashiiAmerican But I had so many units escort Kerrigan D:
Hold up you can't build BCs on that level
I placed Kerrigan far away from the base
I destroyed the whole wave back then. Kerrigan stood behind an army and was fine.
@C M IIRC, I first eliminated the nearest Zerg anti-aircraft units, then when the wave hit, the siege tanks and bunkers (including Kerrigan) wiped them out. After that, 2 fighter squadrons camped on the spawn spot, and all was well. 😁
To be fair, in Mengsk's POV, Kerrigan was just a unit that costs... probably 150 minerals.
I always thought that was an odd aspect of SC2. You are supposed to become attached to these characters through cinematics. But in game play they are just units among thousands that have no personification at all. They generate with a click and then are consumed. A more typical way to handle it would be to make them more like Arcturas. The characters would strategize and control faceless forces. Not knocking the game, I love it. But it is really weird to expect the player to be horrified by sending troops to their death for strategic reasons.
It depends, because Sarah is a named character and the person whose story is being told. Most marines are expendable in SC lore, so if you live long enough to have a name that makes you valuable also because Jim loves Sarah and they had a cute love story in the first game.
Also Sarah is worth more than any other Ghost she has way more hp, energy and her rifle shots deal nearly double the damage as a unit. So she is worth 3 Ghosts and you get her for free.
Biggest mistake Mengsk ever made.
how so? he saved the universe.
@@elhior23 it was a mistake for him since it started the chain of events that resulted in a whole zerg swarm being led by a being that wanted nothing more than to kill him no matter what it took.
For the universe though it was a great thing since, while millions died during the journey, the final destination was the saving of the universe from the evil Xel'naga devil lol
I assume something hentai related happens after this cut scene
@@Ultrajamz and you assumed correctly
@@elhior23 By your logic, Thanos saved the Universe by murdering half of the population first.
The irony here is that Mengsk saved the universe by killing his best operative
LORD EXTINCTION no he doomed it to hell
In certain point of view... yes, he "doomed" it at first by "helping" Zerg Oermind to unleash the entire might of the Swarm with Kerrigan's "help"... BUT... unintentionally he started as well the chain of events which at the end lead to Amon's destruction.
@@asheer9114 Zeratul reading a scroll: The Xel'naga fortold of this giant douche taint, one they call...Mengsk. It is said that his assholery would bring forth the events that would save the Universe and bring rise to a new Xel'naga.
@@B.Scruby "the Xel'naga didn't even have a word for taint. Look, they just wrote it in Terran, because their language was inadequate for describing how great a tool Mengsk would be"
@@B.Scruby haha the prophecy is fulfilled
such a legendary cutscene
They missed opportunity to involve some other terrans in there. Because in actual mission you had some outpost, with some marines, even tanks, - it might’ve been much more epic cutscene, knowing how many people died in there. They shown up only Kerrigan, like she was literally alone there. Still cool cinematic though
she's the only one that mattered.
the lives of every one else are expendable
the new gettysburg sign gave me the impression there was alot of people there at some point . i took it as she was the last one left .
@@sabin97 yeah for sure but they're saying it would be cool to show the Terrans being massacred. The scale of destruction would show ow how much she truly mattered.
@@ZC.Andrew
did you not play the game?
her life was literally the only one that mattered.
every other human was expendable
@@sabin97 are you incapable of reading? Nobody is talking about expendable or not. Kerrigan wasnt all alone. A whole Unit was left behind. Heck even in this Scene Jim talks about THEM.
i still like Kerrigan over Nova.
I think it's better stated to have Kerrigan as being original, Nova being... hollywood-ized.
What the fuck? You do know, that there is an entire BOOK called "StarCraft: Nova" which is about how Nova became a ghost, right? And I think she would have been the main character in Starcraft:Ghost if it ever came to be.
Nova was always a chick... like stretching back to 2004...
Right, that's why she looks like a supermodel, to appease feminists... lol
Nova was 16 or 17 during her story in the books if I remember correctly. And she looked however you imagined her based on her description.
So, how many people failed this mission at least once because you had so much defense that you accidentally killed a Zerg building?
yes, and once forget to save so i have to start over
Me accidentaly, because tank was shooting the building and I didnt focused on objectives
Yeah me too
Yeah, I'm guilty of that too
This reminds me that stuff done to people out of spite/anger/betrayal usually comes back to haunt the one who made the action against that person in the first place. Morale of the Story - Be careful with your actions to someone they might live through what you put them through and become something and someone that haunts you or seeks vengeance or revenge for the rest of your days.
Not only are you extremely unlikely to ever encounter the double-crossed person ever in your life (provided it's none of your close relatives), but it's also probable they wouldn't even be bothered with seeking retribution. Most of us just don't have the balls to go pursue something that's pretty much pointless from the start. We are psychologically hard-wired for compassion because that's the only safety mechanism against the whole tribe collapsing upon itself in an every man for himself kind of melee. Evolution simply teaches us we're doomed if we go it alone. But once you realize it's little beyond your communal instincts thousands of years in the making, you are really quite likely to get away scot-free.
@@yarpen26lol you must be living in some kind of fantasy world
One of the best Cinematics in game history
OMG does this bring back memories. Blizzard back then could do no wrong. How times have changed.
1:02 : 3 shots: Mandible, heart, head. That's some freaking amazing aim!
one head shot would be better aim...
@@bohanxu6125 considering she didn't even properly aim, rather take three shots while swinging his AC-10 rifle all in less than 0.3 secs (aprox)... it is still an amazing aim for a reaction born of pure fear and survival insctinct.
Pretty sure the mandible was as miss. Or maybe she just needed to shave off some of its HP 😆
Starcraft is still my all time favourite game and I still play it every couple of years. Have not played the second one yet even though I bought it as soon as it came out.
The second one can be a royal pain to install, they also changed up the controls
Looking at all the recent comments it seems like this cinematic is regaining viewer traction!
Well with it coming true in real life and all... Mengsk left his people to die on Korhal just like Joe Biden left ours to die in Afghanistan.
Never cross a hot redhead, they are all nuts.
Wish i knew that before being in relationship with one. no regrets though.
I really wished they could have pulled through with StarCraft Ghost. Even now with the next generation of consoles and PCs. The game would look absolutely amazing.
I still hope... :)
I can understand Mengsk wanting revenge for the murder of his family but he mislaid the blame. Kerrigan wasn't in control of her actions when she did it and Mengsk knew that. She was little more than a weapon at that point, no more to blame than her rifle. The ones who ordered the assassination were responsible.
Besides, Mengsk was nothing if not pragmatic and Kerrigan was an extremely useful ally. Why destroy one of your best assets just for revenge? It's like shooting through your own foot just to hit someone else. Even if she hadn't come back as a superpowered Zerg queen hell-bent on revenge, it still would've been a stupid move.
And Mengsk gets revenge on both those people and Kerrigan right here. Remember in this mission the entire planet of Tarsonis becomes a huge ass Zerg rave party.
But saving Kerrigan would also risk the attention of the zerg forces to swtich to Mengsk's force instead, he cannot afford to do that when his empire is just starting out. It would make sense for him to abandon her in the battlefield. To him, that is a necessary loss to make.
He never wanted to save her also the zerg knew about him and his forces but they were like thanks for the free super powered ghost we can use to make the future zerg queen out of lol.
There's more to it than this. Kerrigan was starting to doubt and even question Mengsk's orders. She realized he wasn't out to save humanity; he was out to conquer it. She was a risk to his plans and he cut her loose as a result. He figured the Zerg would kill her and he could use her as a martyr.
Nice shootin', Tex. 😎
Really impressive. Thanks for your work.
Redhead Kerrigan was so much more beautiful than dreadlocks version, WTF
Ultimately Mengsk saved the universe by setting Sarah on a path of becoming a goddess.
Without this moment, there wouldn't have been a Goddess Kerrigan and thus Amon would've destroyed everyone.
Yeah except 2/3s of the fanbase would like to ignore that's what happened because that storyline is crap compared to the original.
doubtful, it would have just been nova instead of kerrigan. overmind wasnt looking for sarah specifically, beyond her psionic potential. which was by no means unique
@@jackadams3878 It was unique by Ghosts statistics, Kerrigan had the most powerful Psi powers before being limited by Ghost programming, she was the only one that killed her own family by discovering her Psi powers. Nova was said to have better combat experience and feats than Kerrigan but in no way was she a match in terms of Psi, in fact Nova doesn't rely on it and is reluctant to use it in the Ghosts storyline. Besides the Overmind was planning to invade Aiur and thanks to the Terrans using Psi emitters they managed to destroy most of the defensive fleets that were keeping the planet hidden from it. It did not forsee its own death so it likely would have went ahead of its plan with or without a replacement for the Swarm. Which would have left the Zerg leaderless.
@@yammoto148 the overmind went to auir to die. he had to obey his programming, but becoming physically manifest was unnecessary, and the only difference it made was to make him vulnerable. he still controlled the entirety of the swarm, and being physically manifest didnt allow him to overcome the dark templars' ability to halt his resurrection powers. so why, unless he meant to paint a target on his head? kerrigan may have been the one to lead the zerg to salvation, but as long as the overmind lived, that wasn't happening.
but i still say any ghost would have sufficed, or the psi emitters wouldnt have worked, as kerrigan's power would have blinded him to all others
@@jackadams3878 Yet he was rather savagely rambling on about the perfection of the zerg and how their evolution would ultimately lead to their victory over the Protoss. It was made clear from the Protoss storyline that the Dark Templar could only destroy the Cerebrates not the overmind. It was created by Amon himself if it was that easy that could have assassinated it on Char long ago. The overmind literally thought by going to Auir that his victory over the protoss would be complete. He did not think that the Protoss even had Xel'Naga energies to destroy him with.
Kerrigan's power specifically suited the overmind's purposes because upon her capture the Overmind noted that she had Psi potential greater than even the Protoss and they could form Archons. Most Ghosts are programmed to suppress most of their abilities. So of course none of them are going to be louder than a Psi emitter. But Kerrigan by the overmind's command needed to undo the programming on her mind to realize her full potential. Because in her he saw a way to free himself from Amon's will, which is why he spent all this time on her and not on other Ghosts. The moment she undid her programming she started acting more cocky able to retort the cerebrates with her own thoughts. She was still under the Overmind's control but it was clear that he was barely holding her in check at that point.
If this story wasn't made for cinema, I don't know what is. Cmon Hollywood, you want a slam dunk? Adapt this shit now.
Jim: Damn you, Arcturus! It's not like I can't hijack a wraith or a medivac or even a battlecruiser and evacuate her myself!
Yeah, no. I honestly felt like Raynor's memory of what happened during Starcraft 2 is really bad. Bro didn't seem to really bat an eye or stop Arcturus from genociding Tarsonis, but abandoning a former Confederate ghost (Why Arcturus did that I don't even know really. I mean, yeah she killed his family, but shit, she was basically a tool for him to use beyond that.) made him mad enough to put the entire galaxy and universe in peril. In fact, he could have sent forces down to extract her himself. Raynor held some position of power in the SoK, so why didn't he mount his own rescue operation?
All in all, this just leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
I remember this scene with the lurkers surrounding and borrowing around Kerrigan
this scene made me cry
Incredible cut-scenes like these are representative of what Blizzard used to be. A studio which designed games based on what they knew the player would enjoy, not what could squeeze the most money out of them.
What a superb game, timeless...
one of the best CGI ever
Who saw the mini Zergling crawling up to her just as the horde arrived?
Where
I would very like to see cutscenes like this in a remake or remaster in Starcraft
It's already from Starcraft 2, it doesn't need remastering.
I'm glad that in the end, there is a happy ending for Sarah and Raynor, I hope there will be an Star Craft 3 and all can know what`s happen
We can only hope
yes.
This shot would have been sweeter if she just held her gaze above, fixed in confusion and rage. The swam enveloping her while she holds it, signaling what is to come.
Anyone here save Kerrigan? I remember setting up seige tanks, Battlecruisers and blocking buildings. Then I destroyed the last protos structure which commenced the Zerg All Out Attack! After a while the attack slows to just zerglings until the match is at a stalemate basically keeping Sarah from being captured. I was so proud when I figured it out. Of course now with hindsight we know she had to be captured to eventually hold back the darkness.
One thing I really hate about the new game is that they keep victimizing Kerrigan. I admit that she was betrayed but she is no hero, she was a trained assassin who specializes in killing people. She wasn't a clean white angel. And when she became the queen of the Zerg she wasn't a victim either, she accepted her role and was a badass at it. No time for tears or drama just wars and battles. She was just very intimidating, in the new game, she was too victimized. That is all my gripes, I miss that snarky, confident person she was.
So the fact that Queen of Blades Kerrigan was all too willing to accept Amon's control as opposed to Primal Kerrigan outright fighting him doesn't give you the sense that the first time around Sarah wasn't in total control of her faculties?
Now, I'm not in any way trying to say she's an angel myself, and actually, the Starcraft 2 book Flashpoint does emphasize this fact.
@@RyuGabriev It doesn't really. I bought into the fact that the Overmind had some kind of psychic control over her even though he let her do as she pleased. I thought that Kerrigan was his special creation and it viewed her as some kind of special zerg. Maybe the first of many.
I do not believe that Amon was an intended creation in the original game. And I have some evidence: when Zeratul's essence touched the Overmind's, why didn't he notice that the Overmind had no will of it's own? That it was controlled by an outside force? He specifically said that the Overmind's target was Aiur and to eradicate the Protoss.
This applies only to the first game. I realize that Brood Wars had a plan by then.
Kerrigan will remember that...
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I just got massive Lagertha Shield Maiden vibes from this video for some reason
я в 2022 все еще пересматриваю эту круть! )
Back when Blizzard was passionate about doing Starcraft and writing science-fiction
Amen to that, brother!
Little known lore: Kerrigan was a Confederate sleeper agent programmed to kill Mengsk all along. Mengsk left her to die deliberately and not out of callousness. Learned this from reading the books and stuff.
So, in conclusion, glorious Mengsk was hero all along.
That's not it at all. Kerrigan was the one who murdered Mengsk's family when she was still working for the Confederacy. Though she was heavily brainwashed and hadn't real control over her actions, Mengsk never forgot and never forgave.
@@Tracer_Krieg Too bad it still bit him in the ass come heart of the swarm.
@@Tracer_Krieg yeah and the Confederacy left her starve to death
@@gamepad3173 he could have been safely sit on his throne, but no he had to capture raynor and broadcast that raynor was KILLED to kerrigan. He does know how to create powerful enemies.
@@phamtuan1840 too bad those enemies can bite him in the ass.
This cutscene hit me so hard. This is just so similar to what happened to the 44 police commandos that were abandoned by the central government in the Philippines back in 2015 after they have been engaged by a large terrorist forces in the combat area. It sparked a huge outrage in the Filipino communities all over the world.
1:57 what the marines see during a zerg rush
XD
if the overmind wanted her infested then why did they try to kill her here?
Notice how none of the shots even hurt her. They were just keeping her busy until the got a full surround on her.
Michael Alastair cause they havent discovered her sweet sweet butt yet.
The zerg could have mauled her pretty bad, the infestation would still succeed. She was completely remade by Abathur. At any rate all the zerg there probably had a total block against killing her, since no zerg can override order given from higher on the hiearchy.
They kill her but after revive and infest
@@roda0523 she didn't die. She was captured and infested into a crystallis and so on
If you haven't read the novels, Mengsk left her not just because she spoke out but because she was the one responsible for killing his dad. He had his long overdue revenge after using her.
I just realized that Mengsk left Kerrigan behind because she was the one who assassinated Mengsk's father when she was a Confederate ghost (before Mengsk "rescued" her). It was an act of revenge against the assassin who killed and beheaded his father.
The face of defeat and betrayal is too tragic and sad to look at.
Not defeat. It’s betrayal and vengeance in this life or the next.
Well, Mengsk thought that he punish Kerrigan for killing his family, but he made a new messiah ))
Redheads are a rarity in our fiction. And Mengsk took that from us.
He done goofed, he did.
this is why the human kind will not be advanced. we dont need an enemy. we are enemies for ourselves..
That's how you do it the thing you couldn't with your woke culture.
Strong female figure to be remembered forever.
That commander she was trying to reach was us, players. And she had.
Nice, first time I actually see who the Widowmaker skin (Overwatch) is based on. Not only that who my favourite skin is based upon
…. And the conversation at the start of the mission was Jim begging her to get out before Mensk screwed her over too.
… and she said “Mensk will come around, I know he will”…
Which is why Raynor and a small group of soldiers turned traitor.
They saw that he didn't care for his top operatives so they decided to get out before the bastard put a target on their backs
Mengsk signed his own death warrant for no reason 🤦♂️
The cinematic looks incredible no doubt about it, but in the first game not only does Arcturus’ decision come off as more cruel, it’s more impactful on the player, it almost makes more sense Arcturus would want to just leave instead of save a single soldier who might not even have time to be evacuated, in the original game you’d built an entire army by this point and watching the Zerg break through your defenses and hear Kerrigan ask for evac is so much more impactful because he isn’t just leaving Kerrigan to die, he’s leaving all the troops you just trained and used on the Protoss to die too, not to mention New Gettysburg looks incredible sure, but it’s nothing like how it looked in the first game, it’s pretty but it’s unfaithful and makes Mengsk look almost better? Like if he left one person behind that’s bad sure but you could argue there’s no time to save her anyways, but an entire army holding out agains the Zerg who just accomplished an important mission? It’s just cruel and makes him being exposed for it in Star Craft 2 getting such a vitriolic reaction make more sense, he denied using the Zerg yes but he also left behind his own troops deliberately while using the zerg, it’s an amazing cutscene but it just doesn’t capture the real moment in Star Craft 1 which makes it more jarring that they use the exact dialogue, it’d make more sense if it was showing Kerrigan’s holdout after they lost contact
Ummm, didn't this happen already in Starcraft 1? I seem to recall the Terran campaign in it ending to exactly this.
+Klaital1 Jim had a nightmare with this :)
+Klaital1 Yes, but in this cinematic they are showing the perspective of Kerrigan. In SC1 they don't show you her in action. Same scene, different "camera"
+Cheyenne Shadanbaz
Only difference is that the battle of New Gettysburg in SC1 was at a Space Platform
Callsign-YukiMizuki
Huh.. I don't think i picked up on that. Good one!
It's a flashback to the events of the first game.
Starcraft needs a fucking MOVIE for GODS SAKE
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Remember the unknown commanders and nameless players we played as in SC I. Those were the days man; when our identity was displayed through game and the game characters referred to us as someone significant to their survival. Still wished they had that aspect in Blizzard games but alas good writing died to give rise to esport.
Bullshit, they didn't stick with it even in SC1. For Terran campaign they couldn't decide if the Magister and Raynor are the same person or not, and hell, the Executor from SC1 became Artanis in Brood War.
A full length movie would be epic! Come on Blizzard! Step and do the right thing …… StarCraft Movie!
A full length movie? Animation like this is expensive. They better do a series than a single shitty movie.
this was also at the beginning of brood war right?
This was one of the last misssions of terran campaign.
I can only think of one other game mission with this vibe; Halo Reach objective, survive.
it would perfect if blizzard makes a pre-starcraft campaign about Kerrigan and Jim
this is me in competitive match
LOL I remember when I tried SC Wings of Potatoe multiplayer. This one guy I matched up against wanted someone to be his teammate so badly that he was practically FORCING it on me. Throughout the whole 20-30 minutes matched I had with him, I tried to explain it to him I wasn't good (and CLEARLY I wasn't good hahaha) meaning I was utterly (moo) slow to make moves, and I overthink things (which is why I prefer to play singleplayer mode with cheats so it'll help someone as BAD as me still able to get my money's worth from such a well known game, and so very enjoyable). Anyways, I was so slow and bad he literally gave me time to build up my camp (STILL 10 minutes into the match and with like 2 troops lmao) and he was STILL begging for me to be his partner. By the end of this game, if I remember it correctly, he had built enough army to surround my tiny little base (STILL), and it took for him at that point that I was not good at this game at all.
Years later that gameplay still cracks me up. I get it, when someone is so lonely or whatever to the point of desperation of wanting to find a partner, but how many time does someone have to repeat themselves that they're not good at a certain video game for it to freaking sink iin
Hell hath no fury like a woman betrayed
*Hell hath no fury like a woman swarmed.
if it was in warhammer 40k she would have take her chain sword and Cry For Papa oups For The Emperor and Die With Proud to stand faithful to papa oups again For The Emperor against the Xenos
Never understood this, why didn't mensk just send in a drop ship to come get her??? Yummy more plot.
Because he wanted her to die
She started to question him. Tools who starts to question thier masters have short shelf life...
Vengeance, Mensk's father was a senator from Korhal opposing the Confederacy, and one of the leader of it's short lived rebellion. The Confederacy sent 3 ghosts to kill his familly, Kerrigan was among them. When she deserted later, mensk sent her on suicide missions hoping she would die. Since she kept surviving, he used her as his attack dog until he though his victory was certain against the Confederacy.
I remember I actually raid the entire map and was crushing the zerg… not on defense but offensively
I still have original starcraft. This was one of my favorite levels.
Im in tears, nostalgia.
..and that betrayal costed the life of millions..
Shame that the Magistrate/Commander was scrubbed out for Raynor to be the "player character" in SC2. You no longer felt like you were part of the story anymore.
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When I saw my siblings play StarCraft I thought Sarah Kerrigan would help the Dominion after her transformation.
tragedy aside, the space engineer who designed her suit really got it ;)
Seen way too many hentai to see how this would end.
how many trips does it take with a blackraven or a whitehawk?
how many trips with a chinook to resupply kerrigan's nighthawk S,quad with C rounds and P rounds and maybe odd[ly] S rounds as well?
Prepare all ships to leave the place,
Me: Sir I can't hear you, could I repeat, I think he said to rescue everyone we can, sir I can't hear you properly, we must be going through a space tunnel, but we heard your last order leave no one behind
Solid lesson to be learned here. Betray somebody here and now, in whatever way, and they might become your very worst nightmare or society's very worst nightmare.
Wow, Mengsk left his people on Korhal just like Joe Biden left ours in Afghanistan... 😕
Given that I had her in a dropship with 24 battlecruisers running escort, I don’t see what could have possibly gone wrong 😂😂😂
But what did they do to her to make her change???
Wasn't New Gettysburg a space platform in the first game...?
I wonder what the song at the end of the video was, it sounds like Lisa Gerrard but I don't know the name of the song?
memories of a past. dota was really their turning point into a path of greed and abuse into a hell for players of (mobile) minigames.
My take on this is that she was so fueled with hatred against mankind, the Zerg pretty much felt she was their ally/their own. And we all know what happened next.
Did you see the full story? They spent a long time explaining in full detail why the Zerg Overmind captured and assimilated her.
Did you see the full story? They spent a long time explaining in full detail why the Zerg Overmind captured and assimilated her.
PERFECT.💋💙💛❤
Could they have even saved her if they wanted to? I mean, they are in orbit and have at most 2 minutes to get there... seems like she was doomed either way.
they could. blast off lasers or missiles where the zerg are and give her time to regroup with her strike force to head to a evac point.
The orignal sc should get a like a complete new remake like sc2