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I know that this has already been suggested but I’d LOVE to see titanfall 2 looking at cutscenes and some gameplay. Plus you don’t need the first game to understand it, besides for the fact that Blisk is an amazing warrior for the enemy side. If you wanted to do a separate video on the trailer here is a link to the trailer that doesn’t have copyrighted music, I know the issues with that so you can’t look at all of the trailers! Plus gamers playground has done a cinematic video with gameplay! ruclips.net/video/VqeMjHmL9eg/видео.htmlsi=TXZqUQtljcerUDyP
I would suggest the Nova covert ops campaign cutscenes. It's not as large as the main 3 campaigns but imo it's done very well and the story is quite good. Alternatively, the original StarCraft 1 and StarCraft brood war cutscenes are AMAZING, albeit much fewer and far between, and of course quite old and dated. They are still fantastic though. Alternatively alternatively, there's a StarCraft content creator who makes his own fanmade cutscenes. They are *extremely good*, possibly better than even the best blizzard sc1 and sc2 cutscenes. The channel is called 낙마 Nakma, and I would recommend his most popular 3 cutscenes. Starcraft: Judgement Cinematic (2023) Starcraft: Tassadar (2023) episode I: Eye of the storm Starcraft: Tassadar (2024) The death of the overmind.
I’m not holding out hope, but then again if EA can pull their heads out of their pockets and make an actual C&C game that is just like the older ones and not like Tiberian twilight, then maybe there might be hope for SC3
@@Caldera01 i know, the way i said it was implying that the blizzard we knew is dead, and that Blizz themselves killed the IP even before they went south
Zeratul saying "my life for Aiur" right before dying to essentially save the protoss will forever be imprinted in my brain. One of my favourite cinematics from any game.
Agreed, That scene really hits Hard, when you know the backstory - and probably doesn’t resonate as much if you dont. A dark templar (which Zeratul is) who Long time ago left/was driven from their homeworld Aiur due to conflict with the Templar, sacrifices his life on that very planet, to save a templar, because he knows it is the only Way to save the protoss as a united species (and the rest of the Universe) - and he does it with that Line “my Life for Aiur “ which is a classic iconic protoss soundbite (maybe the most iconic in the game), that is almost imprinted into the minds of StarCraft gamers. Goosebumps every freakin time!
@@Jonaskp its even more that too, being a Dark Templar, they have existed off Aiur for so long that they have their own homeworld (Shakuras), and while Aiur is still his ancestral homeland, it probably wouldn't feel that way to many dark templar as it had been quite a bit of time. He wasn't saying I die for our home, he was saying I die for your home, all in the name of unity despite their differences and infighting.
@@Jonaskpthe most important thing you forgot to mention is that despite being driven from their home, the elders and leaders of the Nerazim have always loved their home of Aiur and still see it as their true home. For that they will lay their lives for their ancestral home like the Khalai who chased them away the moment they are needed It was also that love that Vorazun chose to destroy Shakuras without a second thought if it means it could help them reclaim Aiur
@@Jonaskp Zeratul is a dark templar, the faction that was driven off aiur by the templar, and were forced to find a new homeworld. But in this line we see zeratul still does see and does everything for their homeworld, and more importantly, the PEOPLE of aiur. Not only this, but zeratul also blames himself, as does everyone for the fall of aiur to the zerg. And in this we see that through everything, he always did everything for aiur.
A fun fact i really like about the epilogue bit: Zergs and Protoss are essentially the "chosen races" while humans are just there so when they go in the void dimension the zerg's regeneration protects them, the protos's psi-shield protects them, and the terrans have to pray they can patch up their hull breaches fast enough to not all die.
Also the bad guy corrupted the destined fusion between the bug aliens and the psychic aliens to become god aliens. And then humans stumbled into their sector of the galaxy. 22:40 Fate ain't written. Kerrigan, strongest human psychic ever, got substituted in, became queen of the bug aliens... And eventually, a god.
@@jeradtelles3162 they are in the same galaxy. The original humans spent 30 years in warp jump before the devices hit critical meltdown and stopped in the korpulu sector But after like 500 years there the tech apparently saw vast improvement because the UED only took a few months to reach there from earth
@@jeradtelles3162 Different part of the galaxy. And humans are an unexpected variable, Kerrigan managed to obtain Purity of Form and Purity of Essence simply through luck and a little nudge by the Overmind.
Ending the campaign with the same words and places that it all started is absolutly amazing. 5 years to have that last little shot. It was really good. I remember playing it all night and I just couldn't get enough of that last part . It was like 3 am when I ended the campaing and it felt just so good.
@kaizammit He cut the ending cinematic to exclude all the characters we weren't introduced to because he cut all the cinematics with thier introductions. This is like 1/3-1/4 of the cinematics in Legacy of the void. Find a different video
The "Hell it is about time" in the wings of liberty was a nod for starcraft fans who have waited for nearly two decades for a sequel of the first game. The line given by Jim at the legacy of the void was a nod for the romantic story that fans have following for nearly 2 decades.
Fun fact, the reason that most protoss ships and buildings don’t have roofs is due to the fact that they are photosynthetic, they don’t exactly have mouths. The protoss are my favorite race in StarCraft auir is their homeworld and the zerg overtook it in the first StarCraft. They called zeratool (the razeal guy) a trator because he killed the dark templar monarch because she was being mind controlled by the zerg. The nerve cords are how they mainly communicate and the dark templar (like zeratool) cut theirs from a young age but because they are sacred the high templar (the base or normal guys you see) see them as fallen or dark, again in the first StarCraft there was a bit of a rivalry and war around it
Slight correction. That's why the dark templar consider Zeratul a traitor, however the rest of the Protoss consider him a traitor because his actions lead to the zerg discovering the location of and taking over their homeworld Aiur.
@@ImAmirus true but lets be honest the force field is more of a blanket over the structure/vehicle and the same tech is on the every unit so probably on everything
I’ve told others this so I might as well say it here: If the story and cutscenes interest you, pick up the game, play on casual/normal, whatever, and enjoy the ride. A lot of the storytelling involves you setting up the next cutscene or dialogue after a victory. You are very much a part of what happens before, during, and after battles. I’ve played since the original Starcraft and its Brood War expansion. You don’t need to be an rts master to enjoy it. SC II and its difficulty settings make that more flexible. People new to real time strategy games can play a more approachable difficulty, and rts veterans can face a harsher challenge aiming to check their skills constantly. Either works. Enjoy it in the way that is best for you. It’s not all tryhard competitive over 9000 apm nonsense. Starcraft is cool, and I love it. Happy to see others check it out.
at 44:18 : your question "how did she do that ?" Kerrigan has become Xel'Naga, as such, she can create a vessel of her will like tassadar was of Ouros's will, so she just created herself as the woman she was to leave with JIM Raynor at last, JIM probably know that, so he was just waiting for her to do that and come to him (he waited her 2 years i think)
Small correction, they retcon the timeline so now the three years was from the end of LotV to Into the Void, (no longer three years after Into the Void to Jimmy disappearing) and after that like a month later Kerrigan left the Swarm for Jim.
@@menderus8801 honestly, I don't think death is even a concept that applies to Jim after this event. He leaves with Kerrigan and in doing so leaves his mortal life behind, since there was nothing there for him anymore. But saying that he died is selling his story short, because we know some aspect of him went on to traverse the Universe with Kerrigan.
@@menderus8801 That theory doesn’t hold up when you consider it says “Two Years Later” just before the Epilogue cinematic. If it was really death and afterlife, that time mark wouldn’t have been shown, especially in its digital form. I mean, it is a theory, just a not well-thought out one because of several subtle aspects they put in, including the news outlet.
30:10 The really important thing here is that Rohana is a Preserver. Preservers are (were) an extremely sacred and important position - they are living libraries, using the Khala to store the knowledge, memories, and personalities of every Protoss that ever lived (assuming said Protoss had the Khala, since not all of them do - Zeratul was part of a group that ritually severed it, hence why he was able to free Artanis). Convincing Rohala is literally the equivalent of convincing their entire civilization.
The Khala basically connected the minds of every protoss, like a gigantic library, severing yourself from it meat basically to sever yourself from history, from knowledge and from the memories of your dead friends and such, its a really big thing for the protoss all on all
Technically only the preservers have access to the giant library portion. The rest just share their thoughts and emotions through the khala and can only access a tiny portion of the stored knowledge.
Что более важно - через Кхалу они эмпатически чувствуют друг друга. И она положила конец гражданской войне, в ходе которой они отправили себя чуть ли не в каменный век, вырезав друг друга
"Hell it's about time" holds so much weight for this series. Tychus says it at the end of the Wings of Liberty trailer and that specific shot was also used as the announcement trailer for the game back in 2007. At that time it's been almost 10 years since the release of the original Starcraft. The hype was insane. The line was a bookend not just for the campaign but for Starcraft 2 as a whole. Unfortunately Blizzard has stopped supporting SC2 (i.e. producing major updates and new content) since 2020. Most SC2 veterans are pinning their hopes on an upcoming RTS from a new studio comprised of staff who originally worked on SC2.
Him not losing himself in booze at the end was my favorite bit, he went from feeling guilty when thinking about her to being proud of what she had done at the end. And Jim getting his good ending was a long time coming, tough not to root for them.
Absolutely worth a playthrough. So many interactions between characters that adds loads of depth that makes you love all of them even more. Alarak, Phoenix, and the Phase Smith specifically.
The part that starts at 36:50 is a chapter of Legacy of the Void called Epilogue. It becomes available after the main game but it was always part of the game. It was not a DLC released later.
Again, just like with HotS, there are many contextual scenes in-between the cinematics that need watching to grasp what is going on. You are essentially watching the resolution without the conflict for each of the cinematics. The "DLC part" is actually the Epilogue of StarCraft released at the same time with LotV. It is a 3 missions story that meant to capped off the saga, with each mission letting you play as one of the three races, thus giving each of them equal screen time. The last scene with Kerrigan returning is meant to be ambiguous. It could be the usual magic MacGuffin where she survived somehow, it could be that it was all in Raynor's head, that he died and Kerrigan took him to the afterlife, etc... up to you. The credits have a slideshow of "where are they now" for all the characters, with the only clue for Raynor being "James Raynor was last seen in Joey Ray's bar where his badge was recovered. He was never heard from again."
It looked more like a compilation of the Artanis cutscenes, they are missinge the ones during the campaign where he is not part of, for example when Alarak shows up the first time.
Idk, I think they look kinda cool as squids, I like the many eyes. Really sells the idea of mostly indifferent gods that do not really care about much but their cycle
If you change your appearance over and over again to the one that emerged from the created races and live forever, you stop caring about what you look like.
22:20 you said you hope for a remake, not needed tbh. starcraft 2 may be "old" but it holds up as the best strategy game, visually still looks stunning and mechanically probably the best on the market. also very accessible. you can easily hop on sc2 and have a great time! would love some videos , impressions, reviews of it aswell from you
Indeed. Since the published, launched and released of Star Craft 2 (SC2), up until today, no other PC strategy game could beat it, or not even on par to it. Arguably the best PC strategy game of all time. Both visuals and gameplay mechanics are stunning and even better than most of the games in present day😊 Please download and play the whole campaign from SC2, so that you could really enjoy and appreciate all the gameplay contents, characters, dialogues/conversations, events/incidents and contexts/stories of all relevant parties involved. Then you would realized why by watching all the cinematics and cutscenes alone doesn’t make sense at all. Because all of that doesn’t inter-related from one to another. Something or a lot is missing😅
@@kaizammit The first game is completely free as well. I don't know about the other two. Will you record your playthrough? For a different channel maybe?
There is a 4th set of Starcraft missions and cutscenes with the Nova Covert Ops missions For a bit of context for this expansion, It was broken into 3 parts and released a couple months apart, the part with Zeratul until the 3:55 mark, than the main game until 35:27 cutscene with the last bit being the end which most of the community felt was rushed. The ending cutscene with Kerrigan most people believe that since she's Xel'naga and has control over the "Purity of Form and Purity of Essence" which allow the Xel'Naga to change form and Dna in beings she transformed and took Jim away for their endless honeymoon, or as a joke it was all a dream when Jim passed out at the bar in the first game and Kerrigan came to pick him up after the day Most of the contexts for the cutscenes in this game are mostly in gameplay and the hub through conversations and a couple of cutscenes I didn't see in this video about the other legions and them uniting with the Daelaam
Something I noticed: the first and the last words spoken by a character on screen were the same (hell, it's about time), so for me it adds additional feeling of ending where it started. And yes, the last part is left ambiguous - some believe it was in his head, some don't. But the ending slides (not shown in this video) tell us that previously uninhabitable worlds became green, and jim disappeared, with only his Marshal's badge found in the bar. Also, you watched not only the LOTV cutscenes, but also epilogue cutscenes, that's why you felt as if it was "tacked on".
Well, technically you were a nameless executor and in the broodwar campaign Artanis was introduced as a praetor. It was later retconned into Artanis being the executor.
Yes, Amon is the "force of nature" villain. Yeah, the best part about Raynor is that he's just some hick, backwater sheriff who ended up in the right place at the right time to be important. I like your comment on the redemption. As Tolkien said "Every story is, in some way, a reflection of the Great Story." The fun part is that there's actually another epilogue that kind of sums up the larger story, but it's all in text an no voice over. So that it begins and ends with the spoken line "Hell, it's about time." The thing I'd have to disagree with is that you think it should have given the vision for Jim and Kerrigan more time. That would on one hand be nice, but on the other it would undercut the "we only have this moment" message.
23:04 When I was taught how to shake hands I was told that extending your hand palm up was a 'Submissive/Inviting' handshake, hand extended palm sideways was an 'Equal/Join' handshake & a hand extended with the palm down was a 'Dominant/Comply' handshake. All were a way of showing authority or position to the other so that handske was Artanis inviting Raynor to join him as an equal. 31:30 'Today we must come together', this is a message that humanity must hear & embrace because our divisions are destroying both our planet & our species. Just as the Protos with their different Glans are one race so are we & we must work as one race if we are to evolve beyond what we are now.
Nope, it was Raynor who turned Artanis' arm, cos he noticed Zeratul's psi blade. He wasn't aware Zeratul was dead atm. It's not about a handshake philosophy, it's much simpler: it shown him, that Artanis embraced Zeratul's legacy.
Who tf needs to be taught how to shake hands? Also I call BS on that whole thing. Those meanings only exist if everyone involved is aware of them and agree to them, else it means nothing.
@@-Devy- there are a bunch of things that can be thaught that are only caught at a subconscious level before you even learn of it. Learning things allow you to expand the way you think, and to be prepared for whatever comes your way. :>
@@-Devy- Back in the day (& some still do) Elite schools did give classes on how to be a Proper Gentleman/Woman where students were taught proper edicate like handshakes, cutlery usage, how to dress & for girls how to sit or stand up while wearing short dresses, even how to stand in line while waiting to be introduced to someone & how to talk respectfully to your superiors, (a class I see you could use). There is a lot edicate that is lost due to it not being taught anymore so people don't know or don't care about it anymore. But I guess you do know enough to know why we shake hands
I would say i want more of the IP but I also don't. Blizzard owns it but everyone who's worked on this (and the spin-off games that didn't end up coming out) have moved on and don't work there anymore. And I'd rather it stay as it is, a very solid recommendation to anybody interested in the genre, instead of some half baked crap coming out and ruining it. I'm not against the idea of something new, but the company culture we can see from outside seem to indicate they wouldn't produce something good.
dude when you said they needed to do a slow zoom in at 42:15 to make it "more powerful" i just laughed. as a long time fan of starcraft, having played from the original to legacy of the void I can tell you. this was already one of the most powerful scenes in the game
About Sarah, the Xel'naga (massive creatures in the end and that were all read in that big room that Sarah and Artanis visited). Story-spoiler so, skip if you actually plan on playing and want to learn things InGame instead! . . . . . So it is revealed that the Xel'naga are these massive creatures that "seed" worlds and universes with life. Some worlds prosper while other worlds end up destroying themselves. Like the "why haven't we encountered alien life yet?" theory that not all civilisations live past a certain point because they end up going nuclear or for some other reason end up destroying their own planet and species. Maybe a comet hit them and wiped them out. But at some point the Xel'naga find some prominent species and imbue them with "Essence of Purity" and Essence of Form". After that the species are no longer able to fully develop as they want but they are instead on a path set by the Xel'naga. If things go as planned, those two species will eventually merge together and become new Xel'naga, and this is how those creatures reproduce. The Great Cycle must continue, as the guy says at the end. New worlds must be seeded with life, new species "blessed" with "Essence of Life" and "Essence of Form" and new Xel'naga will form. Amon saw this as bad. For the Xel'naga to basically adops and forge species according to their will instead of letting life develop on its own. So Amon decided to try to find a way to break this cycle the Xel'naga were doing, and along the way he became more and more drastic and wanted to reshape the world as he saw fit and as he saw as the best world. Basically becoming what he accused the other Xel'naga of. The others banished him into the Void where he learned to harness the power. He used the power to take over the Zerg (he created an Overmind that controlled all Zerg and the Overmind was aware of how it was used for evil so grabbing and converting Kerrigan into Queen of Blades in StarCraft1 was its way to try to maybe break free of its programming by Amon. So in a way maybe Amon's goals and views were altruistic at the beginning, but it went downhill from there..
My favorite cinematic has to be the one on Korhal where Artanis is talking to Raynor. Artanis speaks with the authority he has but with such tenderness, which just feels like a nice hug when mixed with that telepathic reverb effect they put on. And of course the detail of Raynor turning Artanis's hand to show Zeratul's blade, in that moment realizing a close mutual friend was yet another casualty in this war. Now that I think about it... the cinematic starts with the local losses with the bodies and graves everywhere, then they start talking about the more general destruction and death on other worlds, they decide on their next course of action and move to make it happen, and then that fucking handshake, without a word Raynor gets on the same page as Artanis, and now it's personal. "Did you know this warrior?" "No, but I knew THAT one."
There's an animated cinematic that was revealed outside the game, in preparation to the release of them, as a trailer. In it, there's a summary of Protoss history and lore, especially the importance of Aiur, the Kala, and the unity of Protoss in the darkness of losing Aiur to the Zerg. I would recommend it because it prepares you well for the very for the initial in-game scenes. Also, very emotional.
The detail at the end of the story was essentially god Kerrigan taking Jim with her to heaven/void/wherever. No one ever sees Jim again and I think that's super poetic that Jim and Kerrigan leave their lives behind to live in eternity with each other. Also there's another story called Nova Ops which is some more story taking place after.
Wow, yeah. This Gamer's Playground guy missed a whole bunch of cutscenes. Not even just in engine ones either there's some of the big pre-rendered ones missing. Completely misses out everything involving Fenix and his arc and Alarak never even gets to speak, that's crazy. Shame, too. I was really looking forward to this one.
I think that a sort of important part is missing. At the end, after she shows up at the door there is a title saying that no one has ever seen Jim again. It’s a small thing, but I love it and what it implies.
So I love the video, but good heavens whoever edited the video you were watching did a hatchet job of the cinematics, cutting out scenes that give you more context about the characters and setting. Like, y'know, Alarak (big red and black Protoss dude) voiced by John De Lancie, or more on Kharax, or on Vorazun...or Rohana...or freaking Fenix...
Also, if you played Brood War, Artanis was there as a regular ol Templar during the scourging of Shakuris and ultimately it's end which was a huge plot point in the older games. Of course at the time you were following a different set of characters, but he was there and named. So when he came up later it was like, THATS THE GUY
honestly if gonna watch the in game stuff you may as well just grab the game and give it a play ;) first campaign is free and all! Every time I see your vids on it I have to go play some >< Yeah the last bit is an "epilogue" because people wanted an actual ending. its probably the weakest part of the story overall (even with some nice moments). Jim quits drinking in one of the Wings of Liberty in-engine cutscenes which was missing in the WoL vid :( but yeah kerrigan basically becomes a space god so she can transform and teleport and all sorts of things, just took time to deal with the rest of amons stuff in the void I guess >
Having played all of Starcraft 2, the only thing that bothers me is that much of the context and details are given through in-game "scripted sequence", where dialogue fills in much of the details in events. Specially Heart of the Swarm has a lot of this, because it's mainly about Kerrigan's inner turmoil. There are some videos that portray the story, not just the cinematics, and though it's about 60% more runtime I think it greatly enhances the experience if playing the full game is totally out of the table.
A bit sad that it skipped the Reclemation short. It really gives a good story of the Protoss in a short amount of time, and takes place right before Artanis starts the invasion. ruclips.net/video/uQnmfEka3vw/видео.html
33:42 these braids are sort of magical nerves that connect their entire minds together, but they have also been the cause of conflict within the protoss species. Some Protoss rejected these nerfs and became Dark Templars (like Zeratul, the self-sacrificing one with the green blade) and left their home planet to live elsewhere. But now that their magical bond has been corrupted, they must all separate themselves from it, which indirectly forces them to unite again as one nation.
I have a feeling that the video you're reacting to might have been played on lower graphic settings because the graphics in game especially in-game cutscenes look amazing. Probably lower frame rate as well.
Pls react to the purifier arc and taldarim arc.... The video skipped them both their impact to the story is good Especially the dynamic of alarac and artanis And the meaning of fenix/talandar
I'm not actually sure I want more starcraft. It's cool but at this point it really feels like everything is wrapped up with little to no loose ends remaining. In recent years I've definitely started to come to appreciate ending something when it's done. They should make something if they have a story to tell, not because they have another game to make.
unfortunately you picked a video with about half the context missing eg.. missing in-game cutscenes that would of made things better or make more sense and have more emotional reactions :/
Heya Kai! I really really do hope, either on your own time, or on the channel, you review all starcraft lore with the actual videos recapping the first game and expanding on the 2nd game's cinematics. The context is crucial, not necessary, but, it does add a lot. A fair warning, each "episode" of the 2nd game is significantly longer with each cutscene, but I promise if you loved starcraft so far, you won't regret it. :3 Even if you don't do it, that's fine, i'm just a huge fan of starcraft. I grew up with Zeratul and Raynor. Zeratul's death and Raynor's happy ending are two things i'll hold close to my heart forever. they feel like old friends..
Okay, now that you've seen some of this, check out the Reclamation video posted on the main Starcraft channel for a taste of what you missed by watching this very shortened version of the events of the game. It's a full-on 5 minute animated cinematic that goes between the guy flying through on a spaceship and the invasion of Aiur where they did the final stand.
There is a bit of text in the original final cutscene, explaining the aftermath and what happened to Raynor. Also some bits you might have missed due to missing context: Before Zeratul (a Dark Templar) finally charges at corrupted Artanis to sever his nerve cords, he says: "For Aiur", homeworld of the protoss. But the Dark Templar where exiled to another world (Shakuras) ages ago, which they call their home. At this point you know, Zeratul will sacrifice himself for all the good of all Protoss. The final Protoss scene implies that both groups have reunited again. Rohana, the Protoss advisor girl, was the oldest living Protoss when awakened by Tassadar. She was kind of a librarian/living archive. Her connection to the Khala was therefore much stronger. Hence her being able to tap into Amons thoughts but also struggling the most to let go of millenia of thopughts and memories.
The thing that sucks about only doing the actual cutscenes in the LotV campaign is you've missed MASSIVE parts of the story. Rohana for example is a preserver she has all the knowledge and history of the entire Protoss race from before she was put in stasis so severing her nerve cords is quite literally killing off her peoples history. You miss the recruitment and reconciliation of the purifiers a race of sentient mechanical Protoss. You also miss the alliance with the Taldarim death fleet. and those are just a fraction of the small bits that are explored in the actual in game portion of this campaign
Whenever I see Jim and Kerrigan on screen together, I just get hit with nostalgia. Love the content as always, maybe you can check out the Total War: Warhammer 3 cinematics as well such as the Immortal Empires one or all the cutscenes.
Thank you so much for following my recommendation and watch all the scenes of SC2! Means the world! Can't wait know to see you play StarCraft 1, BroodWar (SC1 expension) then SC2 so you can understand the whole story! Unfortunatly, no plans for any StarCraft game heard so far... Glad I took you into this!
As one might guess, the Terrans/Protoss/Zerg are basically the Imperium/Eldar/Tyranids (though diverged more after the first game) Amon (and I imagine the other Xelnaga as they created the Zerg/Protoss) can basically control Protoss via their connection with the Khala. The dark templar already severed that connection (which is one reason they're got exiled in the first place) so when it happened they were basically the only ones that could still function. All of the campaigns let you choose between different paths (though you could go back and do all of them in the same playthrough) with a certain number required for the main story (at least in WoL, never tried speedrunning the others). The room where Artanis was holding off the zerg by the crystal. Basically to dent the numbers of zerg (and because Shakuras, the planet of the dark templar was lost anyway), they detonated it after holding as long as possible to lure as many zerg as possible there. The (zerg/protoss) hybrid are overpowered to put it mildly. Game's worth booting up and isn't even especially long relatively speaking. The Purifiers (the mech guy's faction) and the Taldarim (from WoL and that the edgy looking guy's from)'s storylines didn't even show up. En Taro Adun -> En Taro Tassadar -> En Taro Artanis, from the past to the future. They killed the body Amon was going to use, not him. There is an epilogue campaign in LotV (the part after the talk of rebuilding) that deals with him a bit more permanently. It does feel a bit rushed in both story and mission design. Raynor finishes on the line that Tychus began WoL with. While I want more with this IP (even though the story wrapped up), I'm not sure I trust current Blizzard with it.
If you ever do a playthrough of starcraft 2, I don't blame you if you go on casual difficulty. RTSs are very cruel to casual players and some are near-unbeatable if you're not that great like me. That said, there are a ton of cutscenes, both rendered and ingame that are missing from these videos. It's a lot of exposition dialogue and mission briefing, but still worth a look.
It's a great reaction to the starcraft game and I thank you for completing it, but let me give you a tip that you seem to have confused in your first reaction about the WoL cinematics. Starcraft and Warcraft were not going to be GW games because of any contract, that is a lie since neither had an agreement or contract to develop them and the similarities between the factions between 40k and starcraft are given because both companies were inspired by previous works to them being DUNE, Starshiptroopers, Alien Xenomorph among others for their universes so they share basic concepts of science fiction races. Do not pay attention to the comments that say that blizzard copied since 80% of the wh fandom believes in a fake old forum that started the lie and did not investigate on their own. Pd: Warhammer 40k was born as a parody of everything famous in the 80s and even copied and pasted several fantasy elements to space to make more money.
Thank you fella! Awesome to hear, sometimes it's difficult for me as an outsider looking in to know if the comments are legit or not. Some people really believe it, this rumour. Thank you for hanging out with me and watching the videos, I appreciate it.
From what I know, the Xel'Naga are sorta in the same vein with Halo's Precursors or 40k's Old Ones in that they seed life, and are ancient god-like beings except seemingly not as powerful, or omniscient rather. They run with the cycle where they foster life until a race that can take essence (Zerg) and a race that have psionic capabilities (Protoss, or Terrans/Humans) merge into one and the Xel'Nagas of that cycle would give their essence to the new race of Xel'Naga and pass on, and the new Xel'Naga will continue the cycle.
You should 100% play the games man this is only like half the story of the games... so much exposition happens in game that explains the details. After the ending scene with Kerrigan coming back to the Bar, she and Jim and never seen again. The game implies that they both become Xel'naga and go about restoring/breathing life into the planets across the sector together. I love Starcraft because Jim finally does get a happy ending, and so does Kerrigan, they get to spend eternity making the world a better place together.
@@kaizammit I was watching a lot of LOTR’s, d&d and I stumbled across your Warhammer review. Yeah school was a crazy time lol I am good m8 hope you are too 🍻🔥
Wish Hollywood or any other would concentrate their budget into making CGI movies. They look really good and you're not restrained on what you can or cant do like in live action movies.
The ending that you are referring to was an epilogue as series of 3 final missions. Legacy of the Void was the Protoss arc, and then you go into the epilogue (which came attached to the end of Legacy of the Void) which has you play one mission as Protoss (Fighting your way into the void) one as Terran (Protecting Kerrigan as she powers up after receiving the power of the Xel'Naga), and then finally one as Zerg (Where you finally defeat Amon, and get to use Kerrigan in her new super powered form). I've always felt the ending cinematic of Amon's defeat was really lackluster, but I think it's in part due to the fact that the mission you play has you struggling against Amon and weakening him to a point that he can finally be defeated. The ending hits so hard when Jim finally leaves with Sarah, and in case you missed it, his final words, "Hell, it's about time," is the same phrase that Tychus uses in the very first cinematic back at the beginning of Wings of Liberty to kick off the trilogy.
So that final set of missions, where all the factions enter the Void together was meant to be the full culmination of the games' stories converging for the player. In each of the games, Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm, and Legacy of the Void, the player gets to make unchangeable decisions, both with the various story paths and technology/unit upgrade paths. In the final set of missions, all of those choices (assuming you have the save data for all the games on the same computer) show through as you take control of each faction's army one final time in each of the 3 missions that precede each of those cutscenes after you enter the Void. So in Legacy of the Void, if you chose to upgrade your Zealot units to Centurions, then those are the units that will be available to you in the first mission. For Wings of Liberty, if you decided to upgrade your Bunker buildings with Auto-Turret tech, that's the tech that will be attached to your army's Bunkers when you build them in the second mission. And in Heart of the Swarm, if you decided to give all your Zerglings the wing mutation, then it'll be those type of Zerglings that you'll be spawning en masse in the third and final mission. Watching just the cutscenes, you don't get that portion of the storytelling, just like you mentioned in your Mini-Review section. So that's likely why that final set of cutscenes felt so "rushed" or "crammed in." For the player, they lead into the final chapter of our decades-long space opera, then give us nice little lore breathers in between some of the most difficult missions that any of the games have *ever* thrown our way. Fighting a literal uphill battle in order to reach the unknown Voice as Artanis and the united Protoss? Defending an essentially helpless Kerrigan against waves of enemies as Jim and the Terran military as she absorbs the xel'naga's essence? Then protecting her again as Zagara and the Swarm and taking the fight to Amon's corrupted armies while she goes toe-to-toe with the being trying to destroy your entire dimension? Words just aren't enough to aptly describe the emotions you feel as the player that has fought their way through Starcraft, Brood Wars, Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm, and Legacy of the Void... It truly is something that has to be experienced for yourself.
i know im late but i just realised that he is doing the "henry cavaille arm reload" at 6:11 :D knowing that caville is a huge 40k fan, maybe he likes sc2 aswell and got inspired by this ? :P
To watch Zeratul, a Nerazim, cry: "My life for Aiur" after so much strife between the Daelaam and the Nerazim is so powerful, so moving... damn... I tear up just watching the amazing Zeratul voice actor deliver this line perfectly.
A few notes: 1) Like lots of other people have been saying, there's a lot of kinda.... sub-cutscenes, mission briefs/debriefs, etc. that make it VERY worth playing the game to get the lore. They're typically less cinematic, but it may still be worth playing for fun and interest if you want more lore and characterization and such. I would say that it's worth reacting to/doing a let's play of from a story telling and cinematography standpoint, but I'm a fan of the games and wildly biased. XD 2) Part of the reason why, beyond the cinematic storytelling reasons, the protoss tend to have a lot of upward angle is to constantly remind us that they're 2-2.5m tall proud warrior badass types as a culture. They are, in fact, kinda big and have a LOT of presence as just a species trait. 3) Agreed that having Kerrigan rip that hybrid apart was important to maintain her characterization (for now ignoring how scattered her characterization can get, ugh), and also, once you're in the mission briefing segment itself, she mentions that she's been fighting big nasty creatures like that for DAYS. She got tossed around the way she did because she's exhausted and was kinda distracted snarking with Artanis. 4) The spear of Adun, that big ship the protoss are on in the campaign, is extremely cool. Also, 74 km long. It's AWESOME! 5) How can she do that? Weird cosmic thingamajig powers go brrrrr. It's ambiguous if she actually manifested, showed up, and them she and Jim zoomed off to wherever or if it's implying that she raptured him or various other theories, but there's a post-cinematic slideshow that says that Jim was "never seen again," so yeah 6) I... can tell you that that last bit sure wasn't in the game! No idea what it was. Looks like a TF2 animation? Very weird bit to toss into the compilation...
Aww! They cut out Alarak's parts. He was the Black/Red Protoss voiced by John Delancey.... I guess you will have to play the game! If you need and gameplay tips, don't hesitate to ask! 😅
If you do want more Starcraft, I did find "Starcraft Remastered All Briefing Room Dialogues & Cinematics", which of course is the original story of SC1 and Brood War, before SC2. A less cinematic but more compelling story I think. Just a suggestion lol
I know I'm a month late but had to throw this in about why we follow Raynor, Kerrigan, Zeratul and Artanis specifically and it's all due to SC1's method of storytelling. These were characters we met and literally worked along side with throughout SC1 and Brood War. Your role in the game and universe is to command forces with these characters either fighting along with you on missions or advising you via pre-mission dialogue. They talk to you the player directly and make you a part of their world. In SC1 Episode 1: you led the forces side by side with Raynor and Kerrigan. You brought Arcturus Mengsk to power. When Mengsk ordered the retreat from Tarsonis not only did he betray Kerrigan and Raynor but you as well. The "commander" that Kerrigan calls for in the New Gettysburg cutscene back in WoL is you. In Episode 2: you lead the Zerg forces that protected Kerrigan as she mutated into a Terran Zerg hybrid. You led the invasion of Aiur and brought the Overmind to carry out Amon's will. Episode 3: you led the Protoss force that was tasked with finding Tassadar. You were the one that sided with him to search for Zeratul. You led the battle to destroy the Overmind and halting Amon's plans commanding both the Protoss and Raynor's forces (Granted this was retconned to be Artanis so you pretty much were Artanis before he was actually introduced in the Brood War expansion)
Now that you mention it, it is a bit weird to players (and watchers) of just StarCraft 2 to introduce Artanis here, but all of them: Raynor, Kerrigan, Zeratul, Artanis, and Arcturus were in the original game from 1998, as well as some other characters that didn't make large appearances in these cut-scenes but made their mark in the games' missions (Samir Duran, Fenix, Alexi Stukov).
When they are gonna remake this stuff? I smell HERESY!!! No but seriously, if you are interested in playing Starcraft 2 just go for it. It still looks and playes amazing. On top of that Blizzard remakes ... let's not start with that. Oh and why they are just sitting on that IP: Rumors have it that a Mount Microtransaction for their MMO made more money than the entirety of Starcraft 2.
Kerigan went from spec-op solo sniper/assassin to part of Jims group rebels to part of Overminds zerg Swarm, to Queen of Swarm, to one of leaders of multi-species alliance, to The Only Xel'naga that remains - essentially THE most potent entity in Starcraft universe. Xel'naga Amon created zerg, (don't remember which) Xel'naga created protoss, and i think that some Xel'naga created that universe or atleast that galaxy.
Here's hoping they'll at some point make a StarCraft RPG. I like the RTS games, but it's not a genre I can lose myself in. Could you imagine a StarCraft RPG in Unreal 5? Goodbye social life.
41:23 *why* would Artanis *not* go down to his knees if he is present at birth of the next *GOD* of universe? there is nothing *more* scared than being present at birth of Xel'Naga . Well, creation of universe by Xel'Naga would be second most sacred event to witness, but obviously there ware no mortals to be witnesses back then.
As someone who's played this game to completion, I agree with you that the epilogue feels very rushed. Also, I'd rather have Heart Of The Swarm Kerrigan in the final battle against Amon than Xel'Naga Kerrigan; simply because HotS Kerrigan can basically solo most of the campaign, whereas Epilogue Kerrigan NEEDS a supporting army or she gets absolutely shwrecked in the final mission.
Unfortunately, this is it for StarCraft. As for that final part you were unsure about, it is a so-called 'Epilogue' to Legacy of the Void. The writers wanted to give closure to every possible line of the story, knowing that there won't be a StarCraft 3. Then of course, they went ahead and made the Nova Covert Ops because Blizzard wanted more money off the IP.
Fun Fact: That female protoss with the giant RIng behind her head, that was, possessed, is voiced by Claudia Christian, aka Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5.
@kaizammit The ingame briefings and debriefings, all the small cutsceens, side characters and optional dialogs. I know it's a commitment to play or even watch the whole game (30-50 hours for all 3 campaigns) but as I wrote here once, it is one of the best Sci-Fi series and its breathtaking to watch/play. And the game did not age a bit during these 10 years. I'm playing it regularly and it has better graphics/sound is better than in some current RTSes. I can see you liked it even seeing small part of the overall content. Even if you can't make YT content out of it, just watch or play it for yourself. Even if you not good at RTSes, the easy mode is accessible for the most casual people. It may take away some of the dramatism (on hard/brutal you can really feel ingame the fury of the swarm) but it is enjoyable nonetheless. Ya know, some people watch tv shows, you can watch SC2 playthrough one meal-one mission at a time. I guarantee you will love it
Context for 'post credit' cutscenes. The game was released as a triology - one for each race. I think they ended the main protoss campaign at Amon's banishment because they want the 'final' battle against amon to be 'experienced' as all three races. Otherwise story would've ended with the protoss as the world saviour. The 'Epiologue' had three missions and you play as one race each mission Protoss (to kill duran in void), Terran (to protect kerrigan while she transforms, then Zerg with Xel'naga kerrigan to kill Amon. Could they have extended the epilogue? Maybe - but might've felt redundant as we've just gone through the main story missions fighting Amon - only for extra content ...to fight amon. They did come out with DLC called nova covert ops with a continuation of the story and which was still interesting and fun to play. TLDR; Epilogue was added so other races are playable against Amon (and get involved in the plot more)
So the “religion” isn’t super complicated. The khala is a sort of unified mind that all Protoss with nerve chords are synced into, shares EVERYTHING with each other. The dark Templar refused this “gift” from the Xel’Naga (which was actually amon plotting for what you saw in game) because they wanted to keep individualism, so the Templar mass murdered them. Adun was a Templar that “won” against the dark Templar but actually secretly helped them escape and live away from Aiur, it’s why the various factions say en taro adun/may adun hide you. The names tend to be some venerated Protoss, not a god, in praise. The en taro tassadar being a hero from the first game, and en taro artanis effectively celebrating him. Something missed in the video version here is the various Protoss factions, and caste system. In Templar society, your born into a tribe and caste, and can’t change those normally. A phase-smith is a crafter, never a Templar, and so on. Artanis dispels this caste system after karax leads a battle, proving any Protoss can do anything. Then there’s the factions, above named high Templar and dark Templar being two. There is also the purifiers (the full metal masked Protoss you saw) which are actually…ai robots? I guess. They are near perfect replicas of deceased Protoss in a robot body, essentially, and were originally built to serve the Templar as guards and soldiers, but they rebeled and were locked away. Artanis frees them, and brings them back as equals to living Protoss, unheard of. Then tal’darim (tall Protoss with red on him, only seen once in this video) which originally served Amon and are BRUTAL. Lot more to them not going here but unheard of to ally with them as well. Artanis is the epitome of “to hell with anything other than we are all 100% equal” of any protagonist ever.
So. Samir Duran was a (no real) human, who fought against the newly established Dominion. When a force from earth(The UED) came to the Kopruli sector, he helped them establish a good starting position and gave them a lot of intel. But in reality he undermined their efforts and killed the armadas vice admiral, on the admirals wishes. A mistake the admiral admitted to and regretted. In truth he didn't kill the Vice Admiral Stukov, but transported him into a facility, in which he would make him into a powerful infested Terran in a similar fashion as the old Queen of Blades.. After "killing" Stukov, he left the UED Armada and joined Kerrigan, pretending to be an infested servant of the queen. Probably to harvest Zerg biomass. When he had enough, he vanished and wasn't heard of again, until Zeratul found one of the first hybridisation facilities, where Duran combined Protoss and Zerg. Zeratul killed the hybrid, that were beinf bred there and fled to find answers. From that point on Samir Duran only appears as Dr. Emil Narud, the leader of Moebius. Still breeding hybrid, while pretending to work for the greater good of humankind. Helping the Terrans to uninfest Kerrigan so he could pour her energy into the void to restore Amon (probably also the reason why he infested Stukov, as a backup plan). Narud is killed by Kerrigan and thrust back into the void, where he is killed fully by Stukov.
First game not that outdated, in fact, Blizzard recently made remastered, so textures nice and sharp. Cinematics unfortunately just upscaled. But to be fair, i like SC1 cinematics and story a lot more. It is way more brutal, and targeted for more adult storytelling. For example, some cinematics are HEAVILY inspired by first Alien movie, it is so fn good!
I played the hell out of the first game but never got to play Starcraft 2. I always wanted to, but i never had a PC. These cinematics make me want to play it so badly again. Maybe I'll have to pick it up, finally. Also, i agree. What the hell was that clip at the end??? 😂😂😂😂 had me howling. Was so unexpected
Basicaly protosse's "hair" is psionic wi-fi reciever, they live is kinda terminal-online. There is also a fraction of tark-templars who decide to touch grass and not be connected to wi-fi. Amon is old god that plant RCE-exploit into the protoss and Zerd Wi-fi connection. When we killed Hivemind in SC1 we drop Zerg's wi-fi connection. but Protoss keep their one. This why during intial cutscenes them got hacked via their connection.
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I know that this has already been suggested but I’d LOVE to see titanfall 2 looking at cutscenes and some gameplay. Plus you don’t need the first game to understand it, besides for the fact that Blisk is an amazing warrior for the enemy side.
If you wanted to do a separate video on the trailer here is a link to the trailer that doesn’t have copyrighted music, I know the issues with that so you can’t look at all of the trailers! Plus gamers playground has done a cinematic video with gameplay!
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I would suggest both the Homeworld series and the Command & Conquer franchise
I would suggest the Nova covert ops campaign cutscenes. It's not as large as the main 3 campaigns but imo it's done very well and the story is quite good.
Alternatively, the original StarCraft 1 and StarCraft brood war cutscenes are AMAZING, albeit much fewer and far between, and of course quite old and dated. They are still fantastic though.
Alternatively alternatively, there's a StarCraft content creator who makes his own fanmade cutscenes. They are *extremely good*, possibly better than even the best blizzard sc1 and sc2 cutscenes. The channel is called 낙마 Nakma, and I would recommend his most popular 3 cutscenes.
Starcraft: Judgement Cinematic (2023)
Starcraft: Tassadar (2023) episode I: Eye of the storm
Starcraft: Tassadar (2024) The death of the overmind.
Telltales The Walking Dead and also the first and second Homeworld games, the storytelling is amazing for those
@@vapouriz3rr hey don’t forget about Deserts of Kharak bud
"There must be something in the works, they cant be sitting on this IP" man i wish that was true
Well now that Microsoft owns them… maybe
Yeah maybe for the best, with the new blizzard sc3 might have been abysmal.
I’m not holding out hope, but then again if EA can pull their heads out of their pockets and make an actual C&C game that is just like the older ones and not like Tiberian twilight, then maybe there might be hope for SC3
With how Blizzard is right now; man I wish it isn't.
@@Caldera01 i know, the way i said it was implying that the blizzard we knew is dead, and that Blizz themselves killed the IP even before they went south
there are so many cutscenes missing here, there are some good dialogs and moments that he didnt see because of that
Alarak, my favourite character!
Yeahhhh its a shame just how many aren't in here.
@@ImAmirus Still, they're key understanding. Some get added so why not all ?? That's stupid in my opinion
yeah hope he goes back and rewatches the ones he missed.
@@ImAmirus A bold move to imply anyone who disagrees with you on a random youtube comment to be irrational lol.
Zeratul saying "my life for Aiur" right before dying to essentially save the protoss will forever be imprinted in my brain. One of my favourite cinematics from any game.
Agreed, That scene really hits Hard, when you know the backstory - and probably doesn’t resonate as much if you dont.
A dark templar (which Zeratul is) who Long time ago left/was driven from their homeworld Aiur due to conflict with the Templar, sacrifices his life on that very planet, to save a templar, because he knows it is the only Way to save the protoss as a united species (and the rest of the Universe) - and he does it with that Line “my Life for Aiur “ which is a classic iconic protoss soundbite (maybe the most iconic in the game), that is almost imprinted into the minds of StarCraft gamers.
Goosebumps every freakin time!
@@Jonaskp its even more that too, being a Dark Templar, they have existed off Aiur for so long that they have their own homeworld (Shakuras), and while Aiur is still his ancestral homeland, it probably wouldn't feel that way to many dark templar as it had been quite a bit of time. He wasn't saying I die for our home, he was saying I die for your home, all in the name of unity despite their differences and infighting.
@@Jonaskpthe most important thing you forgot to mention is that despite being driven from their home, the elders and leaders of the Nerazim have always loved their home of Aiur and still see it as their true home. For that they will lay their lives for their ancestral home like the Khalai who chased them away the moment they are needed
It was also that love that Vorazun chose to destroy Shakuras without a second thought if it means it could help them reclaim Aiur
@@Jonaskp Zeratul is a dark templar, the faction that was driven off aiur by the templar, and were forced to find a new homeworld. But in this line we see zeratul still does see and does everything for their homeworld, and more importantly, the PEOPLE of aiur.
Not only this, but zeratul also blames himself, as does everyone for the fall of aiur to the zerg. And in this we see that through everything, he always did everything for aiur.
it's a pity he never got to see Alarak(the best boi) conversation with the others in StarCraft 2.
Ah, "Not" Q-From-Star-Trek
Alarak the High Edgelord is awesome, lol. Made some good or normal conversations into amazing conversations.
The best dialogue of the LotV:
“You think us fools?”
“Yes, but that is irrelevant”
True haha, noone beats his sassiness
Alarak is so dope.
Some dark eldar vibes.
A fun fact i really like about the epilogue bit: Zergs and Protoss are essentially the "chosen races" while humans are just there so when they go in the void dimension the zerg's regeneration protects them, the protos's psi-shield protects them, and the terrans have to pray they can patch up their hull breaches fast enough to not all die.
Also the bad guy corrupted the destined fusion between the bug aliens and the psychic aliens to become god aliens.
And then humans stumbled into their sector of the galaxy. 22:40 Fate ain't written.
Kerrigan, strongest human psychic ever, got substituted in, became queen of the bug aliens...
And eventually, a god.
What no Gellar Field does to you when you travel to hell
Humans came from a different galaxy. Thats why they dont have purity of form or essence.
@@jeradtelles3162 they are in the same galaxy. The original humans spent 30 years in warp jump before the devices hit critical meltdown and stopped in the korpulu sector
But after like 500 years there the tech apparently saw vast improvement because the UED only took a few months to reach there from earth
@@jeradtelles3162 Different part of the galaxy. And humans are an unexpected variable, Kerrigan managed to obtain Purity of Form and Purity of Essence simply through luck and a little nudge by the Overmind.
Ending the campaign with the same words and places that it all started is absolutly amazing. 5 years to have that last little shot. It was really good. I remember playing it all night and I just couldn't get enough of that last part . It was like 3 am when I ended the campaing and it felt just so good.
Love those moments. You go to bed with a smile on your face.
@@kaizammit Exactly!
@kaizammit He cut the ending cinematic to exclude all the characters we weren't introduced to because he cut all the cinematics with thier introductions. This is like 1/3-1/4 of the cinematics in Legacy of the void. Find a different video
The "Hell it is about time" in the wings of liberty was a nod for starcraft fans who have waited for nearly two decades for a sequel of the first game. The line given by Jim at the legacy of the void was a nod for the romantic story that fans have following for nearly 2 decades.
@@slayerboi7008 12 years
Fun fact, the reason that most protoss ships and buildings don’t have roofs is due to the fact that they are photosynthetic, they don’t exactly have mouths. The protoss are my favorite race in StarCraft auir is their homeworld and the zerg overtook it in the first StarCraft. They called zeratool (the razeal guy) a trator because he killed the dark templar monarch because she was being mind controlled by the zerg. The nerve cords are how they mainly communicate and the dark templar (like zeratool) cut theirs from a young age but because they are sacred the high templar (the base or normal guys you see) see them as fallen or dark, again in the first StarCraft there was a bit of a rivalry and war around it
Yup, that would do it. 😆
Slight correction. That's why the dark templar consider Zeratul a traitor, however the rest of the Protoss consider him a traitor because his actions lead to the zerg discovering the location of and taking over their homeworld Aiur.
@@ImAmirus true but lets be honest the force field is more of a blanket over the structure/vehicle and the same tech is on the every unit so probably on everything
Zeratul*
I’ve told others this so I might as well say it here:
If the story and cutscenes interest you, pick up the game, play on casual/normal, whatever, and enjoy the ride. A lot of the storytelling involves you setting up the next cutscene or dialogue after a victory. You are very much a part of what happens before, during, and after battles.
I’ve played since the original Starcraft and its Brood War expansion. You don’t need to be an rts master to enjoy it. SC II and its difficulty settings make that more flexible. People new to real time strategy games can play a more approachable difficulty, and rts veterans can face a harsher challenge aiming to check their skills constantly. Either works. Enjoy it in the way that is best for you.
It’s not all tryhard competitive over 9000 apm nonsense. Starcraft is cool, and I love it. Happy to see others check it out.
at 44:18 : your question "how did she do that ?"
Kerrigan has become Xel'Naga, as such, she can create a vessel of her will like tassadar was of Ouros's will, so she just created herself as the woman she was to leave with JIM Raynor at last, JIM probably know that, so he was just waiting for her to do that and come to him (he waited her 2 years i think)
Nice! Thank you for telling me.
Small correction, they retcon the timeline so now the three years was from the end of LotV to Into the Void, (no longer three years after Into the Void to Jimmy disappearing) and after that like a month later Kerrigan left the Swarm for Jim.
There is also theory's that Jim dies and that is him going into the light.
@@menderus8801 honestly, I don't think death is even a concept that applies to Jim after this event. He leaves with Kerrigan and in doing so leaves his mortal life behind, since there was nothing there for him anymore. But saying that he died is selling his story short, because we know some aspect of him went on to traverse the Universe with Kerrigan.
@@menderus8801 That theory doesn’t hold up when you consider it says “Two Years Later” just before the Epilogue cinematic.
If it was really death and afterlife, that time mark wouldn’t have been shown, especially in its digital form.
I mean, it is a theory, just a not well-thought out one because of several subtle aspects they put in, including the news outlet.
30:10 The really important thing here is that Rohana is a Preserver. Preservers are (were) an extremely sacred and important position - they are living libraries, using the Khala to store the knowledge, memories, and personalities of every Protoss that ever lived (assuming said Protoss had the Khala, since not all of them do - Zeratul was part of a group that ritually severed it, hence why he was able to free Artanis). Convincing Rohala is literally the equivalent of convincing their entire civilization.
Trying to convince their entire history.
Fun Fact: Rohana, with the giant RIng behind her head, that was possessed, is voiced by Claudia Christian, aka Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5.
The Khala basically connected the minds of every protoss, like a gigantic library, severing yourself from it meat basically to sever yourself from history, from knowledge and from the memories of your dead friends and such, its a really big thing for the protoss all on all
Technically only the preservers have access to the giant library portion. The rest just share their thoughts and emotions through the khala and can only access a tiny portion of the stored knowledge.
no, it's more like deleting their fb, ig, and twitter accounts
Что более важно - через Кхалу они эмпатически чувствуют друг друга.
И она положила конец гражданской войне, в ходе которой они отправили себя чуть ли не в каменный век, вырезав друг друга
23:30 you dont need to wait for it to be remade. The game stands the test of time admirably.
Plus the first campaign is free to play
Yeah, absolutely worth the download to play. The interactions you can have with all the characters in game builds the lore and story so much!
"Hell it's about time" holds so much weight for this series. Tychus says it at the end of the Wings of Liberty trailer and that specific shot was also used as the announcement trailer for the game back in 2007. At that time it's been almost 10 years since the release of the original Starcraft. The hype was insane. The line was a bookend not just for the campaign but for Starcraft 2 as a whole.
Unfortunately Blizzard has stopped supporting SC2 (i.e. producing major updates and new content) since 2020. Most SC2 veterans are pinning their hopes on an upcoming RTS from a new studio comprised of staff who originally worked on SC2.
This isn't "All" the cinematics. You don't have Alarak's introduction, Purifier missions, or Karax's ascension to Templar.
Him not losing himself in booze at the end was my favorite bit, he went from feeling guilty when thinking about her to being proud of what she had done at the end.
And Jim getting his good ending was a long time coming, tough not to root for them.
Naaah, my Headcannon is that Jim is out there, dead, rotting in the middle of nowhere in the wastelands of Mar Sara.
Absolutely worth a playthrough. So many interactions between characters that adds loads of depth that makes you love all of them even more. Alarak, Phoenix, and the Phase Smith specifically.
It's Fenix.
The part that starts at 36:50 is a chapter of Legacy of the Void called Epilogue. It becomes available after the main game but it was always part of the game. It was not a DLC released later.
god i waited for this. Legacy has the most Quality IMO and im enjoying it as much as you do hopefully!
Again, just like with HotS, there are many contextual scenes in-between the cinematics that need watching to grasp what is going on.
You are essentially watching the resolution without the conflict for each of the cinematics.
The "DLC part" is actually the Epilogue of StarCraft released at the same time with LotV. It is a 3 missions story that meant to capped off the saga, with each mission letting you play as one of the three races, thus giving each of them equal screen time.
The last scene with Kerrigan returning is meant to be ambiguous. It could be the usual magic MacGuffin where she survived somehow, it could be that it was all in Raynor's head, that he died and Kerrigan took him to the afterlife, etc... up to you. The credits have a slideshow of "where are they now" for all the characters, with the only clue for Raynor being "James Raynor was last seen in Joey Ray's bar where his badge was recovered. He was never heard from again."
What's the point of being a god if you can't do a miracle every now and again?
Ah man you haven't gotten the _highlord_ cinematics... I love Alarak!
wow, whoever did the "All" cutscene did a bad job, there are so many missing, some are very epic.
It looked more like a compilation of the Artanis cutscenes, they are missinge the ones during the campaign where he is not part of, for example when Alarak shows up the first time.
@@Dzharek The other one was exactly the same. I found these same videos a few years ago and it really does neuter the whole story.
Xel'Naga can shapeshift. I have no idea why they choose the squid form. But yeah kerrigan can return to her original human form whenever she wants.
Idk, I think they look kinda cool as squids, I like the many eyes. Really sells the idea of mostly indifferent gods that do not really care about much but their cycle
If you change your appearance over and over again to the one that emerged from the created races and live forever, you stop caring about what you look like.
it's their natural form, which I'd assume would be the most comfortable form for them to be in.
22:20 you said you hope for a remake, not needed tbh. starcraft 2 may be "old" but it holds up as the best strategy game, visually still looks stunning and mechanically probably the best on the market. also very accessible. you can easily hop on sc2 and have a great time! would love some videos , impressions, reviews of it aswell from you
Oh really? Right then, I better download it!
Only the multiplayer is a bit hard to get into, since its a very demanding game. Campaign on the other hand is very beginner friendly.
Indeed. Since the published, launched and released of Star Craft 2 (SC2), up until today, no other PC strategy game could beat it, or not even on par to it. Arguably the best PC strategy game of all time. Both visuals and gameplay mechanics are stunning and even better than most of the games in present day😊
Please download and play the whole campaign from SC2, so that you could really enjoy and appreciate all the gameplay contents, characters, dialogues/conversations, events/incidents and contexts/stories of all relevant parties involved. Then you would realized why by watching all the cinematics and cutscenes alone doesn’t make sense at all. Because all of that doesn’t inter-related from one to another. Something or a lot is missing😅
@@kaizammit The first game is completely free as well. I don't know about the other two.
Will you record your playthrough? For a different channel maybe?
@@natsirtification I'd watch every single minute of that gameplay.
There is a 4th set of Starcraft missions and cutscenes with the Nova Covert Ops missions
For a bit of context for this expansion, It was broken into 3 parts and released a couple months apart, the part with Zeratul until the 3:55 mark, than the main game until 35:27 cutscene with the last bit being the end which most of the community felt was rushed.
The ending cutscene with Kerrigan most people believe that since she's Xel'naga and has control over the "Purity of Form and Purity of Essence" which allow the Xel'Naga to change form and Dna in beings she transformed and took Jim away for their endless honeymoon, or as a joke it was all a dream when Jim passed out at the bar in the first game and Kerrigan came to pick him up after the day
Most of the contexts for the cutscenes in this game are mostly in gameplay and the hub through conversations and a couple of cutscenes I didn't see in this video about the other legions and them uniting with the Daelaam
Something I noticed: the first and the last words spoken by a character on screen were the same (hell, it's about time), so for me it adds additional feeling of ending where it started.
And yes, the last part is left ambiguous - some believe it was in his head, some don't.
But the ending slides (not shown in this video) tell us that previously uninhabitable worlds became green, and jim disappeared, with only his Marshal's badge found in the bar.
Also, you watched not only the LOTV cutscenes, but also epilogue cutscenes, that's why you felt as if it was "tacked on".
In the Starcraft 1 campaign you play as Artanis in the the protoss campaigns as he was a exeutor(you as the player) controlling the units
Well, technically you were a nameless executor and in the broodwar campaign Artanis was introduced as a praetor. It was later retconned into Artanis being the executor.
Yes, Amon is the "force of nature" villain.
Yeah, the best part about Raynor is that he's just some hick, backwater sheriff who ended up in the right place at the right time to be important.
I like your comment on the redemption. As Tolkien said "Every story is, in some way, a reflection of the Great Story."
The fun part is that there's actually another epilogue that kind of sums up the larger story, but it's all in text an no voice over. So that it begins and ends with the spoken line "Hell, it's about time."
The thing I'd have to disagree with is that you think it should have given the vision for Jim and Kerrigan more time. That would on one hand be nice, but on the other it would undercut the "we only have this moment" message.
23:04 When I was taught how to shake hands I was told that extending your hand palm up was a 'Submissive/Inviting' handshake, hand extended palm sideways was an 'Equal/Join' handshake & a hand extended with the palm down was a 'Dominant/Comply' handshake. All were a way of showing authority or position to the other so that handske was Artanis inviting Raynor to join him as an equal. 31:30 'Today we must come together', this is a message that humanity must hear & embrace because our divisions are destroying both our planet & our species. Just as the Protos with their different Glans are one race so are we & we must work as one race if we are to evolve beyond what we are now.
Nope, it was Raynor who turned Artanis' arm, cos he noticed Zeratul's psi blade. He wasn't aware Zeratul was dead atm. It's not about a handshake philosophy, it's much simpler: it shown him, that Artanis embraced Zeratul's legacy.
@@DTSREOK still pretty cool knowledge to learn!
Who tf needs to be taught how to shake hands? Also I call BS on that whole thing. Those meanings only exist if everyone involved is aware of them and agree to them, else it means nothing.
@@-Devy- there are a bunch of things that can be thaught that are only caught at a subconscious level before you even learn of it. Learning things allow you to expand the way you think, and to be prepared for whatever comes your way. :>
@@-Devy- Back in the day (& some still do) Elite schools did give classes on how to be a Proper Gentleman/Woman where students were taught proper edicate like handshakes, cutlery usage, how to dress & for girls how to sit or stand up while wearing short dresses, even how to stand in line while waiting to be introduced to someone & how to talk respectfully to your superiors, (a class I see you could use). There is a lot edicate that is lost due to it not being taught anymore so people don't know or don't care about it anymore. But I guess you do know enough to know why we shake hands
I would say i want more of the IP but I also don't. Blizzard owns it but everyone who's worked on this (and the spin-off games that didn't end up coming out) have moved on and don't work there anymore.
And I'd rather it stay as it is, a very solid recommendation to anybody interested in the genre, instead of some half baked crap coming out and ruining it.
I'm not against the idea of something new, but the company culture we can see from outside seem to indicate they wouldn't produce something good.
dude when you said they needed to do a slow zoom in at 42:15 to make it "more powerful" i just laughed. as a long time fan of starcraft, having played from the original to legacy of the void I can tell you. this was already one of the most powerful scenes in the game
One of the most powerful scenes in Blizzard.
About Sarah, the Xel'naga (massive creatures in the end and that were all read in that big room that Sarah and Artanis visited).
Story-spoiler so, skip if you actually plan on playing and want to learn things InGame instead!
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So it is revealed that the Xel'naga are these massive creatures that "seed" worlds and universes with life. Some worlds prosper while other worlds end up destroying themselves. Like the "why haven't we encountered alien life yet?" theory that not all civilisations live past a certain point because they end up going nuclear or for some other reason end up destroying their own planet and species. Maybe a comet hit them and wiped them out.
But at some point the Xel'naga find some prominent species and imbue them with "Essence of Purity" and Essence of Form". After that the species are no longer able to fully develop as they want but they are instead on a path set by the Xel'naga. If things go as planned, those two species will eventually merge together and become new Xel'naga, and this is how those creatures reproduce. The Great Cycle must continue, as the guy says at the end. New worlds must be seeded with life, new species "blessed" with "Essence of Life" and "Essence of Form" and new Xel'naga will form.
Amon saw this as bad. For the Xel'naga to basically adops and forge species according to their will instead of letting life develop on its own. So Amon decided to try to find a way to break this cycle the Xel'naga were doing, and along the way he became more and more drastic and wanted to reshape the world as he saw fit and as he saw as the best world. Basically becoming what he accused the other Xel'naga of. The others banished him into the Void where he learned to harness the power. He used the power to take over the Zerg (he created an Overmind that controlled all Zerg and the Overmind was aware of how it was used for evil so grabbing and converting Kerrigan into Queen of Blades in StarCraft1 was its way to try to maybe break free of its programming by Amon.
So in a way maybe Amon's goals and views were altruistic at the beginning, but it went downhill from there..
My favorite cinematic has to be the one on Korhal where Artanis is talking to Raynor. Artanis speaks with the authority he has but with such tenderness, which just feels like a nice hug when mixed with that telepathic reverb effect they put on. And of course the detail of Raynor turning Artanis's hand to show Zeratul's blade, in that moment realizing a close mutual friend was yet another casualty in this war. Now that I think about it... the cinematic starts with the local losses with the bodies and graves everywhere, then they start talking about the more general destruction and death on other worlds, they decide on their next course of action and move to make it happen, and then that fucking handshake, without a word Raynor gets on the same page as Artanis, and now it's personal. "Did you know this warrior?" "No, but I knew THAT one."
Id love to see a playthrough as well as your choices and thoughts on the storytelling in the future! :D
Great Video-Series and great Video!
There's an animated cinematic that was revealed outside the game, in preparation to the release of them, as a trailer. In it, there's a summary of Protoss history and lore, especially the importance of Aiur, the Kala, and the unity of Protoss in the darkness of losing Aiur to the Zerg. I would recommend it because it prepares you well for the very for the initial in-game scenes. Also, very emotional.
Which one is that one?
@@dingodyno9016 StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void - Reclamation
The detail at the end of the story was essentially god Kerrigan taking Jim with her to heaven/void/wherever. No one ever sees Jim again and I think that's super poetic that Jim and Kerrigan leave their lives behind to live in eternity with each other. Also there's another story called Nova Ops which is some more story taking place after.
Wow, yeah. This Gamer's Playground guy missed a whole bunch of cutscenes. Not even just in engine ones either there's some of the big pre-rendered ones missing. Completely misses out everything involving Fenix and his arc and Alarak never even gets to speak, that's crazy.
Shame, too. I was really looking forward to this one.
I think that a sort of important part is missing. At the end, after she shows up at the door there is a title saying that no one has ever seen Jim again. It’s a small thing, but I love it and what it implies.
So I love the video, but good heavens whoever edited the video you were watching did a hatchet job of the cinematics, cutting out scenes that give you more context about the characters and setting. Like, y'know, Alarak (big red and black Protoss dude) voiced by John De Lancie, or more on Kharax, or on Vorazun...or Rohana...or freaking Fenix...
I agree, the person who did the edited video has no respect at all for the characters of the story.
24:40 that was such a gif-able reaction
You are so right! 💪🏻
Also, if you played Brood War, Artanis was there as a regular ol Templar during the scourging of Shakuris and ultimately it's end which was a huge plot point in the older games. Of course at the time you were following a different set of characters, but he was there and named. So when he came up later it was like, THATS THE GUY
honestly if gonna watch the in game stuff you may as well just grab the game and give it a play ;) first campaign is free and all!
Every time I see your vids on it I have to go play some ><
Yeah the last bit is an "epilogue" because people wanted an actual ending. its probably the weakest part of the story overall (even with some nice moments). Jim quits drinking in one of the Wings of Liberty in-engine cutscenes which was missing in the WoL vid :( but yeah kerrigan basically becomes a space god so she can transform and teleport and all sorts of things, just took time to deal with the rest of amons stuff in the void I guess >
I think you're right!
Having played all of Starcraft 2, the only thing that bothers me is that much of the context and details are given through in-game "scripted sequence", where dialogue fills in much of the details in events. Specially Heart of the Swarm has a lot of this, because it's mainly about Kerrigan's inner turmoil. There are some videos that portray the story, not just the cinematics, and though it's about 60% more runtime I think it greatly enhances the experience if playing the full game is totally out of the table.
Go back and watch a longer version. He skipped so f-ing much. This is literally the end vid for each chapter. Missing so much story and context.
You must react to the witcher 3 trailers
There is one more campaign in SC2. The Nova Covert Ops campaign is pretty cool. It would be cool to see you react to that one as well.
A bit sad that it skipped the Reclemation short. It really gives a good story of the Protoss in a short amount of time, and takes place right before Artanis starts the invasion.
ruclips.net/video/uQnmfEka3vw/видео.html
44:00 "One nice thing about being -a god- promoted; I get to do cool things like this:"
-General Jack O'Neill, about to promote his 2iC to Colonel.
33:42 these braids are sort of magical nerves that connect their entire minds together, but they have also been the cause of conflict within the protoss species.
Some Protoss rejected these nerfs and became Dark Templars (like Zeratul, the self-sacrificing one with the green blade) and left their home planet to live elsewhere.
But now that their magical bond has been corrupted, they must all separate themselves from it, which indirectly forces them to unite again as one nation.
This video you watched left out so many cutscenes and conversations. Shame. But great video tho man nevertheless.
I have a feeling that the video you're reacting to might have been played on lower graphic settings because the graphics in game especially in-game cutscenes look amazing. Probably lower frame rate as well.
Pls react to the purifier arc and taldarim arc.... The video skipped them both their impact to the story is good
Especially the dynamic of alarac and artanis
And the meaning of fenix/talandar
I'm not actually sure I want more starcraft. It's cool but at this point it really feels like everything is wrapped up with little to no loose ends remaining. In recent years I've definitely started to come to appreciate ending something when it's done. They should make something if they have a story to tell, not because they have another game to make.
unfortunately you picked a video with about half the context missing eg.. missing in-game cutscenes that would of made things better or make more sense and have more emotional reactions :/
Heya Kai! I really really do hope, either on your own time, or on the channel, you review all starcraft lore with the actual videos recapping the first game and expanding on the 2nd game's cinematics. The context is crucial, not necessary, but, it does add a lot. A fair warning, each "episode" of the 2nd game is significantly longer with each cutscene, but I promise if you loved starcraft so far, you won't regret it. :3 Even if you don't do it, that's fine, i'm just a huge fan of starcraft.
I grew up with Zeratul and Raynor. Zeratul's death and Raynor's happy ending are two things i'll hold close to my heart forever. they feel like old friends..
Okay, now that you've seen some of this, check out the Reclamation video posted on the main Starcraft channel for a taste of what you missed by watching this very shortened version of the events of the game. It's a full-on 5 minute animated cinematic that goes between the guy flying through on a spaceship and the invasion of Aiur where they did the final stand.
There are a ton of missing cinematics. Rewatch a better video.
There is a bit of text in the original final cutscene, explaining the aftermath and what happened to Raynor. Also some bits you might have missed due to missing context: Before Zeratul (a Dark Templar) finally charges at corrupted Artanis to sever his nerve cords, he says: "For Aiur", homeworld of the protoss. But the Dark Templar where exiled to another world (Shakuras) ages ago, which they call their home. At this point you know, Zeratul will sacrifice himself for all the good of all Protoss. The final Protoss scene implies that both groups have reunited again.
Rohana, the Protoss advisor girl, was the oldest living Protoss when awakened by Tassadar. She was kind of a librarian/living archive. Her connection to the Khala was therefore much stronger. Hence her being able to tap into Amons thoughts but also struggling the most to let go of millenia of thopughts and memories.
The thing that sucks about only doing the actual cutscenes in the LotV campaign is you've missed MASSIVE parts of the story. Rohana for example is a preserver she has all the knowledge and history of the entire Protoss race from before she was put in stasis so severing her nerve cords is quite literally killing off her peoples history. You miss the recruitment and reconciliation of the purifiers a race of sentient mechanical Protoss. You also miss the alliance with the Taldarim death fleet. and those are just a fraction of the small bits that are explored in the actual in game portion of this campaign
One thing as well watching where this ends is after that bit in the bar there is an epilogue text that mentions Raynor is never seen again
Whenever I see Jim and Kerrigan on screen together, I just get hit with nostalgia. Love the content as always, maybe you can check out the Total War: Warhammer 3 cinematics as well such as the Immortal Empires one or all the cutscenes.
I bet you're happy
Check out the short animation "reclamation" for a quick run down on who the protoss are
They skipped a few things! Mostly the Taldarim/purifier storylines. The clensing of endion is a particularly impactful cutscene
Also the absolute sass that is Alarak, i would have loved to see him react to the cutscene where he shows up on the ship.
Yeaaaa my favourite game ❤
Thank you so much for following my recommendation and watch all the scenes of SC2! Means the world! Can't wait know to see you play StarCraft 1, BroodWar (SC1 expension) then SC2 so you can understand the whole story! Unfortunatly, no plans for any StarCraft game heard so far... Glad I took you into this!
Started with Tychus "Hell it's about time", ended with Raynor's one. God I loved that game
As one might guess, the Terrans/Protoss/Zerg are basically the Imperium/Eldar/Tyranids (though diverged more after the first game)
Amon (and I imagine the other Xelnaga as they created the Zerg/Protoss) can basically control Protoss via their connection with the Khala. The dark templar already severed that connection (which is one reason they're got exiled in the first place) so when it happened they were basically the only ones that could still function.
All of the campaigns let you choose between different paths (though you could go back and do all of them in the same playthrough) with a certain number required for the main story (at least in WoL, never tried speedrunning the others).
The room where Artanis was holding off the zerg by the crystal. Basically to dent the numbers of zerg (and because Shakuras, the planet of the dark templar was lost anyway), they detonated it after holding as long as possible to lure as many zerg as possible there.
The (zerg/protoss) hybrid are overpowered to put it mildly.
Game's worth booting up and isn't even especially long relatively speaking.
The Purifiers (the mech guy's faction) and the Taldarim (from WoL and that the edgy looking guy's from)'s storylines didn't even show up.
En Taro Adun -> En Taro Tassadar -> En Taro Artanis, from the past to the future.
They killed the body Amon was going to use, not him. There is an epilogue campaign in LotV (the part after the talk of rebuilding) that deals with him a bit more permanently. It does feel a bit rushed in both story and mission design.
Raynor finishes on the line that Tychus began WoL with.
While I want more with this IP (even though the story wrapped up), I'm not sure I trust current Blizzard with it.
If you ever do a playthrough of starcraft 2, I don't blame you if you go on casual difficulty. RTSs are very cruel to casual players and some are near-unbeatable if you're not that great like me.
That said, there are a ton of cutscenes, both rendered and ingame that are missing from these videos. It's a lot of exposition dialogue and mission briefing, but still worth a look.
Seriously, good rts players are like ascended beings to me, whereas me & friends are more like children playing real war with funny shaped sticks.
It's a great reaction to the starcraft game and I thank you for completing it, but let me give you a tip that you seem to have confused in your first reaction about the WoL cinematics. Starcraft and Warcraft were not going to be GW games because of any contract, that is a lie since neither had an agreement or contract to develop them and the similarities between the factions between 40k and starcraft are given because both companies were inspired by previous works to them being DUNE, Starshiptroopers, Alien Xenomorph among others for their universes so they share basic concepts of science fiction races. Do not pay attention to the comments that say that blizzard copied since 80% of the wh fandom believes in a fake old forum that started the lie and did not investigate on their own.
Pd: Warhammer 40k was born as a parody of everything famous in the 80s and even copied and pasted several fantasy elements to space to make more money.
Thank you fella! Awesome to hear, sometimes it's difficult for me as an outsider looking in to know if the comments are legit or not. Some people really believe it, this rumour.
Thank you for hanging out with me and watching the videos, I appreciate it.
@@kaizammit Thank you for reading it, good luck.
At 23 minutes Jim sees that's Zeratul's Bracer.
From what I know, the Xel'Naga are sorta in the same vein with Halo's Precursors or 40k's Old Ones in that they seed life, and are ancient god-like beings except seemingly not as powerful, or omniscient rather. They run with the cycle where they foster life until a race that can take essence (Zerg) and a race that have psionic capabilities (Protoss, or Terrans/Humans) merge into one and the Xel'Nagas of that cycle would give their essence to the new race of Xel'Naga and pass on, and the new Xel'Naga will continue the cycle.
You should 100% play the games man this is only like half the story of the games... so much exposition happens in game that explains the details.
After the ending scene with Kerrigan coming back to the Bar, she and Jim and never seen again. The game implies that they both become Xel'naga and go about restoring/breathing life into the planets across the sector together. I love Starcraft because Jim finally does get a happy ending, and so does Kerrigan, they get to spend eternity making the world a better place together.
Hey Kai this is Chris I was in your form class in school James cousin. This is my RUclips name. Amazing videos bro🔥
How'd you find me on here!? Sadly a lot of that time in school is a blurry mess but I can still see your face haha. Hope you're well fella!
@@kaizammit I was watching a lot of LOTR’s, d&d and I stumbled across your Warhammer review. Yeah school was a crazy time lol I am good m8 hope you are too 🍻🔥
Wish Hollywood or any other would concentrate their budget into making CGI movies. They look really good and you're not restrained on what you can or cant do like in live action movies.
A lot of cool cinematics are missing here, not having Alarak doing Alarak things is just sad
The ending that you are referring to was an epilogue as series of 3 final missions. Legacy of the Void was the Protoss arc, and then you go into the epilogue (which came attached to the end of Legacy of the Void) which has you play one mission as Protoss (Fighting your way into the void) one as Terran (Protecting Kerrigan as she powers up after receiving the power of the Xel'Naga), and then finally one as Zerg (Where you finally defeat Amon, and get to use Kerrigan in her new super powered form). I've always felt the ending cinematic of Amon's defeat was really lackluster, but I think it's in part due to the fact that the mission you play has you struggling against Amon and weakening him to a point that he can finally be defeated. The ending hits so hard when Jim finally leaves with Sarah, and in case you missed it, his final words, "Hell, it's about time," is the same phrase that Tychus uses in the very first cinematic back at the beginning of Wings of Liberty to kick off the trilogy.
He’s good looking!.!.
So that final set of missions, where all the factions enter the Void together was meant to be the full culmination of the games' stories converging for the player. In each of the games, Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm, and Legacy of the Void, the player gets to make unchangeable decisions, both with the various story paths and technology/unit upgrade paths. In the final set of missions, all of those choices (assuming you have the save data for all the games on the same computer) show through as you take control of each faction's army one final time in each of the 3 missions that precede each of those cutscenes after you enter the Void.
So in Legacy of the Void, if you chose to upgrade your Zealot units to Centurions, then those are the units that will be available to you in the first mission. For Wings of Liberty, if you decided to upgrade your Bunker buildings with Auto-Turret tech, that's the tech that will be attached to your army's Bunkers when you build them in the second mission. And in Heart of the Swarm, if you decided to give all your Zerglings the wing mutation, then it'll be those type of Zerglings that you'll be spawning en masse in the third and final mission.
Watching just the cutscenes, you don't get that portion of the storytelling, just like you mentioned in your Mini-Review section. So that's likely why that final set of cutscenes felt so "rushed" or "crammed in." For the player, they lead into the final chapter of our decades-long space opera, then give us nice little lore breathers in between some of the most difficult missions that any of the games have *ever* thrown our way. Fighting a literal uphill battle in order to reach the unknown Voice as Artanis and the united Protoss? Defending an essentially helpless Kerrigan against waves of enemies as Jim and the Terran military as she absorbs the xel'naga's essence? Then protecting her again as Zagara and the Swarm and taking the fight to Amon's corrupted armies while she goes toe-to-toe with the being trying to destroy your entire dimension?
Words just aren't enough to aptly describe the emotions you feel as the player that has fought their way through Starcraft, Brood Wars, Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm, and Legacy of the Void... It truly is something that has to be experienced for yourself.
i know im late but i just realised that he is doing the "henry cavaille arm reload" at 6:11 :D knowing that caville is a huge 40k fan, maybe he likes sc2 aswell and got inspired by this ? :P
To watch Zeratul, a Nerazim, cry: "My life for Aiur" after so much strife between the Daelaam and the Nerazim is so powerful, so moving... damn... I tear up just watching the amazing Zeratul voice actor deliver this line perfectly.
They skipped ALOT of cinematics and details in this. I would go back and rewatch this.
There's were some GREAT characters and moment's missed.
A few notes:
1) Like lots of other people have been saying, there's a lot of kinda.... sub-cutscenes, mission briefs/debriefs, etc. that make it VERY worth playing the game to get the lore. They're typically less cinematic, but it may still be worth playing for fun and interest if you want more lore and characterization and such. I would say that it's worth reacting to/doing a let's play of from a story telling and cinematography standpoint, but I'm a fan of the games and wildly biased. XD
2) Part of the reason why, beyond the cinematic storytelling reasons, the protoss tend to have a lot of upward angle is to constantly remind us that they're 2-2.5m tall proud warrior badass types as a culture. They are, in fact, kinda big and have a LOT of presence as just a species trait.
3) Agreed that having Kerrigan rip that hybrid apart was important to maintain her characterization (for now ignoring how scattered her characterization can get, ugh), and also, once you're in the mission briefing segment itself, she mentions that she's been fighting big nasty creatures like that for DAYS. She got tossed around the way she did because she's exhausted and was kinda distracted snarking with Artanis.
4) The spear of Adun, that big ship the protoss are on in the campaign, is extremely cool. Also, 74 km long. It's AWESOME!
5) How can she do that? Weird cosmic thingamajig powers go brrrrr. It's ambiguous if she actually manifested, showed up, and them she and Jim zoomed off to wherever or if it's implying that she raptured him or various other theories, but there's a post-cinematic slideshow that says that Jim was "never seen again," so yeah
6) I... can tell you that that last bit sure wasn't in the game! No idea what it was. Looks like a TF2 animation? Very weird bit to toss into the compilation...
Aww! They cut out Alarak's parts. He was the Black/Red Protoss voiced by John Delancey.... I guess you will have to play the game! If you need and gameplay tips, don't hesitate to ask! 😅
If you do want more Starcraft, I did find "Starcraft Remastered All Briefing Room Dialogues & Cinematics", which of course is the original story of SC1 and Brood War, before SC2. A less cinematic but more compelling story I think. Just a suggestion lol
I know I'm a month late but had to throw this in about why we follow Raynor, Kerrigan, Zeratul and Artanis specifically and it's all due to SC1's method of storytelling. These were characters we met and literally worked along side with throughout SC1 and Brood War. Your role in the game and universe is to command forces with these characters either fighting along with you on missions or advising you via pre-mission dialogue. They talk to you the player directly and make you a part of their world.
In SC1 Episode 1: you led the forces side by side with Raynor and Kerrigan. You brought Arcturus Mengsk to power. When Mengsk ordered the retreat from Tarsonis not only did he betray Kerrigan and Raynor but you as well. The "commander" that Kerrigan calls for in the New Gettysburg cutscene back in WoL is you.
In Episode 2: you lead the Zerg forces that protected Kerrigan as she mutated into a Terran Zerg hybrid. You led the invasion of Aiur and brought the Overmind to carry out Amon's will.
Episode 3: you led the Protoss force that was tasked with finding Tassadar. You were the one that sided with him to search for Zeratul. You led the battle to destroy the Overmind and halting Amon's plans commanding both the Protoss and Raynor's forces (Granted this was retconned to be Artanis so you pretty much were Artanis before he was actually introduced in the Brood War expansion)
Now that you mention it, it is a bit weird to players (and watchers) of just StarCraft 2 to introduce Artanis here, but all of them: Raynor, Kerrigan, Zeratul, Artanis, and Arcturus were in the original game from 1998, as well as some other characters that didn't make large appearances in these cut-scenes but made their mark in the games' missions (Samir Duran, Fenix, Alexi Stukov).
When they are gonna remake this stuff? I smell HERESY!!!
No but seriously, if you are interested in playing Starcraft 2 just go for it. It still looks and playes amazing. On top of that Blizzard remakes ... let's not start with that.
Oh and why they are just sitting on that IP: Rumors have it that a Mount Microtransaction for their MMO made more money than the entirety of Starcraft 2.
Kerigan went from spec-op solo sniper/assassin
to part of Jims group rebels
to part of Overminds zerg Swarm,
to Queen of Swarm,
to one of leaders of multi-species alliance,
to The Only Xel'naga that remains - essentially THE most potent entity in Starcraft universe. Xel'naga Amon created zerg, (don't remember which) Xel'naga created protoss, and i think that some Xel'naga created that universe or atleast that galaxy.
Here's hoping they'll at some point make a StarCraft RPG. I like the RTS games, but it's not a genre I can lose myself in. Could you imagine a StarCraft RPG in Unreal 5? Goodbye social life.
41:23 *why* would Artanis *not* go down to his knees if he is present at birth of the next *GOD* of universe? there is nothing *more* scared than being present at birth of Xel'Naga . Well, creation of universe by Xel'Naga would be second most sacred event to witness, but obviously there ware no mortals to be witnesses back then.
As someone who's played this game to completion, I agree with you that the epilogue feels very rushed. Also, I'd rather have Heart Of The Swarm Kerrigan in the final battle against Amon than Xel'Naga Kerrigan; simply because HotS Kerrigan can basically solo most of the campaign, whereas Epilogue Kerrigan NEEDS a supporting army or she gets absolutely shwrecked in the final mission.
Unfortunately, this is it for StarCraft. As for that final part you were unsure about, it is a so-called 'Epilogue' to Legacy of the Void. The writers wanted to give closure to every possible line of the story, knowing that there won't be a StarCraft 3.
Then of course, they went ahead and made the Nova Covert Ops because Blizzard wanted more money off the IP.
A fucking 15$ horse for World of Warcraft made Blizzard more money that Starcraft 2.
We live in a fucking dystopia.
Fun Fact: That female protoss with the giant RIng behind her head, that was, possessed, is voiced by Claudia Christian, aka Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5.
@kaizammit The ingame briefings and debriefings, all the small cutsceens, side characters and optional dialogs. I know it's a commitment to play or even watch the whole game (30-50 hours for all 3 campaigns) but as I wrote here once, it is one of the best Sci-Fi series and its breathtaking to watch/play. And the game did not age a bit during these 10 years. I'm playing it regularly and it has better graphics/sound is better than in some current RTSes. I can see you liked it even seeing small part of the overall content. Even if you can't make YT content out of it, just watch or play it for yourself. Even if you not good at RTSes, the easy mode is accessible for the most casual people. It may take away some of the dramatism (on hard/brutal you can really feel ingame the fury of the swarm) but it is enjoyable nonetheless.
Ya know, some people watch tv shows, you can watch SC2 playthrough one meal-one mission at a time. I guarantee you will love it
Context for 'post credit' cutscenes. The game was released as a triology - one for each race. I think they ended the main protoss campaign at Amon's banishment because they want the 'final' battle against amon to be 'experienced' as all three races. Otherwise story would've ended with the protoss as the world saviour.
The 'Epiologue' had three missions and you play as one race each mission Protoss (to kill duran in void), Terran (to protect kerrigan while she transforms, then Zerg with Xel'naga kerrigan to kill Amon.
Could they have extended the epilogue? Maybe - but might've felt redundant as we've just gone through the main story missions fighting Amon - only for extra content ...to fight amon.
They did come out with DLC called nova covert ops with a continuation of the story and which was still interesting and fun to play.
TLDR; Epilogue was added so other races are playable against Amon (and get involved in the plot more)
So the “religion” isn’t super complicated. The khala is a sort of unified mind that all Protoss with nerve chords are synced into, shares EVERYTHING with each other. The dark Templar refused this “gift” from the Xel’Naga (which was actually amon plotting for what you saw in game) because they wanted to keep individualism, so the Templar mass murdered them. Adun was a Templar that “won” against the dark Templar but actually secretly helped them escape and live away from Aiur, it’s why the various factions say en taro adun/may adun hide you. The names tend to be some venerated Protoss, not a god, in praise. The en taro tassadar being a hero from the first game, and en taro artanis effectively celebrating him.
Something missed in the video version here is the various Protoss factions, and caste system. In Templar society, your born into a tribe and caste, and can’t change those normally. A phase-smith is a crafter, never a Templar, and so on. Artanis dispels this caste system after karax leads a battle, proving any Protoss can do anything. Then there’s the factions, above named high Templar and dark Templar being two. There is also the purifiers (the full metal masked Protoss you saw) which are actually…ai robots? I guess. They are near perfect replicas of deceased Protoss in a robot body, essentially, and were originally built to serve the Templar as guards and soldiers, but they rebeled and were locked away. Artanis frees them, and brings them back as equals to living Protoss, unheard of. Then tal’darim (tall Protoss with red on him, only seen once in this video) which originally served Amon and are BRUTAL. Lot more to them not going here but unheard of to ally with them as well.
Artanis is the epitome of “to hell with anything other than we are all 100% equal” of any protagonist ever.
So.
Samir Duran was a (no real) human, who fought against the newly established Dominion. When a force from earth(The UED) came to the Kopruli sector, he helped them establish a good starting position and gave them a lot of intel.
But in reality he undermined their efforts and killed the armadas vice admiral, on the admirals wishes. A mistake the admiral admitted to and regretted.
In truth he didn't kill the Vice Admiral Stukov, but transported him into a facility, in which he would make him into a powerful infested Terran in a similar fashion as the old Queen of Blades..
After "killing" Stukov, he left the UED Armada and joined Kerrigan, pretending to be an infested servant of the queen. Probably to harvest Zerg biomass. When he had enough, he vanished and wasn't heard of again, until Zeratul found one of the first hybridisation facilities, where Duran combined Protoss and Zerg. Zeratul killed the hybrid, that were beinf bred there and fled to find answers.
From that point on Samir Duran only appears as Dr. Emil Narud, the leader of Moebius. Still breeding hybrid, while pretending to work for the greater good of humankind. Helping the Terrans to uninfest Kerrigan so he could pour her energy into the void to restore Amon (probably also the reason why he infested Stukov, as a backup plan).
Narud is killed by Kerrigan and thrust back into the void, where he is killed fully by Stukov.
First game not that outdated, in fact, Blizzard recently made remastered, so textures nice and sharp. Cinematics unfortunately just upscaled. But to be fair, i like SC1 cinematics and story a lot more. It is way more brutal, and targeted for more adult storytelling. For example, some cinematics are HEAVILY inspired by first Alien movie, it is so fn good!
I played the hell out of the first game but never got to play Starcraft 2. I always wanted to, but i never had a PC. These cinematics make me want to play it so badly again. Maybe I'll have to pick it up, finally.
Also, i agree. What the hell was that clip at the end??? 😂😂😂😂 had me howling. Was so unexpected
Basicaly protosse's "hair" is psionic wi-fi reciever, they live is kinda terminal-online. There is also a fraction of tark-templars who decide to touch grass and not be connected to wi-fi. Amon is old god that plant RCE-exploit into the protoss and Zerd Wi-fi connection. When we killed Hivemind in SC1 we drop Zerg's wi-fi connection. but Protoss keep their one. This why during intial cutscenes them got hacked via their connection.