If I remember right the Overlords were their own sentient species called the Gargantis Proximae before they became Zerg. In addition to being capable of space flight, they were also psychic which the Zerg wanted with a passion. What’s interesting about them, is that they WILLINGLY became Zerg. Unlike many Zerg strains the Overlords joined the Zerg Swarm almost diplomatically due to being near extinct, and the Zerg promised to not just protect them but to mass produce them through saving their genetics. They’re also some of the longest living Zerg strains with some living so long as to be there when they were assimilated into the Zerg. These ancient ones are often known as Yggdrasil and are effectively flying Cerebrates and will control Zerg broods in the absence of Cerebrates or queens. Not sure if this is retcon lore though.
The reason that Hydralisks are the most iconic Zerg unit to me is because when my friends and I were in high school, we would try to mimic its spine attacks (which really, just looks and sounds like its spitting acid) by actually attempting to projectile stream spit each other. Tried scrolling through the comments for anyone else that did this. No? Just us? Ahhh, good times.
Okay, so anything under the overmind was controlled by cerebrates, and the overlords under that. Anything sentient under it would still be sentient, but unable to exert it's own will. Meanwhile Kerrigan later killed the cerebrares because eventually they will try to reform the Overmind. I don't know if the player character becomes a matriarch like the leader queens in HotS, but he's not around by WoL. During this purge we seem to lose a lot of specialist hero evolutions, along with lurkers and the whole colony family.
I somewhat remember the reason the cerebrate we played isn't present. From what I read after the cerebrate player followed Kerrigan until the end of Brood War, Kerrigan decided to kill CePl because she no longer needs it and also to avoid a possible backstab.
Zergs were always my favorite StarCraft race. Ever since I found the game on my dad's computer back in preschool I would play the first Zerg mission over and over. And replaying the game at older age I simply couldn't wait to finish the Terran missions so I could get to the zergs. And yet to this day I am horribly afraid of bugs, which makes my obsession with the zergs even more intriguing
I always loved how primal and animalistic and insectoid the Zerg were. I loved the idea that they looked so evil weren’t necessarily evil because I convinced myself they were just acting on a predetermined path they were made/evolved to follow. Like the Protoss were hyper religious traditionalist bigots. Terrans were squabbling political factions. Zerg were nature given a will.
Howdy Folks! Wow, I can't believe the amazing responses, conversations, and memories being shared. Let's start the conversation; Why are the Zerg the best race? (/s) Ahaha, seriously, I'd love to know what lore bits you think are interesting for the Zerg, what your favorite units are, and your thoughts on general StarCraft :). Wishing you all the best; connections are what make life interesting! Sincerely, Dog Dad
It's like you read my mind. Personally, I prefer Zerg from the HotS era and SC1 Toss, vut you can't beat BW era hydralisks. Double power marines, that trade stims for disappearing and having natural healing? And it turns into a stealth unit? Heck yeah! Then you got the dark swarm to support them.
I'm sorry to say it, but I almost hate the entite zerg race because of the defiler. It beats a group of carriers with a single plague, ruins a terran attack with a single dark swarm, but when I'm using it it's always for friendly fire (OK probably I'm just bad).
@@Dog.Dad.Studios One addendum, Ultralisks are not the largest unit in the zerg army, not by far. Not even top 3, overlord itself is at least twice the size..
The second Zerg mission in the first Starcraft is where you can use Hunter Killers, I believe. I don't exactly remember the name - The Jump, The Egression, The Warp... Something like that. Anyway you have to bring the chrysalis containing Kerrigan to the checkpoint so you can warp off-world. I think you get 6 of them, and they are absolute beasts and already have their 3/3 upgrades. The last thing I remember is Zsaz warning you that "Your first trip though a warp gate can be... unsettling" :P BTW love your content and your style, dude! This was the first vid of yours I've watches and I subbed halfway though. Keep up the good work!
The queen has always been my favorite, the idea of swarming in and stealing the command center only to leave and kill the rest with infested. I do like 2’s queen and her versatility, but I will always like 1/Brood War’s more.☺️
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and sharing this! I truly appreciate it! Yeah I find it interesting they didn’t just make a new unit for 2’s depiction of a queen, but we live in: ) Hope all is well!
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this. I'll be doing more StarCraft and other topics/content. The only barrier is time, but I'm truly excited to keep going. Comments like these make me want to start the next script now! Hope this finds you well, and all the best. Sincerely, Dog Dad
Ah yes, finally my favorite race. Something I always lovded since I played for the first time was that admiration and fear of the Zerg (I love insects) unlike with Terran or Protoss that we "control" them, we are aware they are sentient beings but with the Zerg since the briefing of the 1st mission in SC, the Overmind literally tells you that YOU are the one who decides what your brood will do. This gives you a much bigger sense of immersion in the game and to me, it makes you feel like an actual member of the Swarm. Also, I always loved Hydras, since the first time I saw them and something I will never forget is their growls and grunts, to this day, whenever I watch the cinematic of Fenix's fall, I feel ghosebumps of how scary and fierce Hydras can be, just right after the Psi-Blades stop working and we can hear the Hydra sounds like we are in some sort of space horror movie, knowing what the destiny of the poor Fenix will be.
He's witnessed me! Holy moly, I'm shacking. Uhh firstly thank you for taking the time to comment on my video. Secondly, what tournament are you most looking forward to? I've been getting back into watching and feel a little lost. Hope this finds you well and wishing you all the best. Thank you so much for all the content you make!! All the best, Dog Dad
Thank you for taking the time to write this, it means a lot. Hope you're doing well, and I would love to hear about what you mean by the homebrew stuff for star wars!
Imagine how much muscle Ultralisk need to have and how strong it is to be to support all those bone armor structure. If I stand there and saw it i would shit my power armor and run for sure even though we all would be overrun and die for sure with swarm that big.
Bro you wouldn’t catch me 1000 systems away if I knew Zerg were coming. Hell I’d go back to the UED… ehh maybe not ( project purification intensifies). Hope all is well! Thanks for taking the time to watch the video and comment : )
IT's funny how the lore needed to be remade when Blizzard didn't get the Warhammer 40k licence and so all this needed to be re-lored. Yes, the game was at one stage intended to be under the Warhammer 40K licence and Zerg were the Tyranids, Protoss were the Aeldari, and the Terran( Empire)s were the (Terran) Empire.
Absolutely! But first the retrospective on them : ) Only thing that’s troublesome is time and being a one person team. But with patience from myself and this amazing community we’ve got going, the sky is the limit! Hope all is well : )
Yes please on the video on Zerg buildings. Like, can someone walk into those? Or is the building just a giant organism that is sentient? Does it need to eat? How does it poop? So many questions
What became of the Daelaam empire after the Fall of Aiur? Did they just keep it and leverage its power in the final war? Why do the Protoss always seem on the backfoot afterwards? Also, where do they produce their spaceships? Do they have gigantic sheepyards like the Terran? For some reason it feels weird to imagine the Protoss working in construction crews... Is all their industry automated?
Your comment about drawing a hydralisk reminded me that I made a one out of clay and painted it in highschool art class. Before I was able to get a picture of it some jerk ripped its head off and messed up the internal rigging. I was so bummed.
You mentioned the Geneva Convention. I've been thinking about requesting that another YT createt Giant Grant Games does a "Geneva Convention Challenge" I think my concept is kinda weak, but basically non combat units can't be killed, no nukes, and restricting flamethrower weapons.
Would this be for StarCraft? I think it’s a great idea! I’ll keep it in mind : ) like top 10 video game villains that break the Geneva convention or something.. wait that’s brilliant! ( at least my primordial oozed mind thinks so). Thank you for taking the time to write this! I truly appreciate it!
Pistol shrimp have a plasma attack. They snap their claw, it creates a cavity in the water in which some of the aur reaches the 4th state of matter, plasma. Unless that info has been updated since i was in high school
@@Dog.Dad.Studios It was in the lore primer in the Battlechest. It also had some of the names of the species the base SC zerg units came from. Some of the lore I brought up in the other videos also comes from that same book.
I appreciate it! Ahahah I need AI to get to the point where they'll be in the room with me when saying stuff, and go, "Dog Dad.. that's not the way you pronounce that word." Hope all is well!
This is a good question, and something I've wondered about before. My assumption is it'd be hand-waved with a little "Something something, super special DNA is stored/developed in this tech building" gobbledygook. Maybe there's a different lore explanation I just haven't come across, though.
It’s the fact that Zerg need time to manipulate the DNA or genetics of what they produce. Zerglings are the most “common” so they’re up first with drones and overlords. I think it’s a gameplay mechanic mainly, but from my research, it goes back to gestation periods.
I take it that they need the tech buildign to edit the more complex genetic codes: they are here, just not useable until the related tech building is here. Likewise, upgrades would be non-standard genetic improvements to the base genetic template. Makes more sense in any case than the protoss needing tech buildings to bring units through an already built and functional teleporter if you ask me
@@Dog.Dad.Studios I loved the evolution of the baneling in the novel, but even that felt too unscientific. Maybe I should just read the Wiki, or you try it out with one 20-30 minutes video for one unit and see how the responses go.
5:27 a plant named after "arachnid" because it looks like an arachnid doesn't make the word "arachnis" meaning "orchid" e.g. "spider flower" is indeed a flower, but that doesn't mean that English word "spider" means plant.
Most of evolution units or morphed units are from Daggoth he's the cerebrate whose love to experimenting on Zerg evolution and adaptation when put into extreme living conditions or environmental hazard. The sunken colony and spore colony are his design, for zerg unit we have the lurker and hunter killer (Hydralisk on steroid). Also Lurker are better than Sunken Colony in two ways first they can be used as a defense against large swarm of enemies like infantry units because they have a very far range and can hit multiple target, second they can be used as a offensive by creating a trap and lure the enemies ground units into it and then you just created a carnage there's a variant of Lurker that can fire their spike like a normal Hydralisk and used their mouth to bite like Zergling. And you forgot about the Torrasque which is the most fearsome Ultralisk variant ever existed.
When I was a kid, playing the Zerg was the last thing I wanted to play especially alone lmfao. I was too freaked out by the creatures and thr sounds they make
Howdy Metalwolf! I don’t know what you mean, but thank you for taking the time to comment! It’s great to see some familiar names : ) Edit: ah you’re the best! I get it : )!
Man I love these Starcraft videos and I hope for more. I never liked the Zerg, they used to creep me out as a kid. They're just too disgusting, slimy and nauseating. I bet they smell really bad. Probably like the still warm insides of a pig when you cut him open.
Zerg are the most important race in starcraft design wise, story wise and gameplay wise. They give a unique feeling of despair and dread when fighting them. The game would be un-metal without them. They're the Heath Ledger's Joker to protoss and terran's Christian Bale Batman . Terran are just starship troopers clones and Protoss are mary sues without them.
Same… I love the Hydralisk…. that Nightmarish Zerg Creature at the Box Art of Starcraft. Swapped some picture of a saint in the altar with a Hydralisk caused great uproar in our School Chapel and everyone thought the Chapel was Haunted and the picture was the personification of the Devil. They will never know that I was the haunt. I turned my School Chapel into Tristam
I believe that it's the sound design. SC1 sound design has this raw edge that makes it so much better than sc2. The sound of Sc1 seige tanks transforming is epic. The shock cannon even more so. Like a pair of tombstones slamming together. You expect epid destruction and are rewarded with it. Sc2 seige tanks don't sound powerful. Marines voices were hard-core. They sounded bad ass and ready to scrap with impossible monsters. The disrespect in their voices reminding you they were ex cons and didn't respect your rank. The base in their weapon fire really pointing at high calibre weapons. Big explosive charges launching those u238 rounds. The goliaths auto cannons were even bassier. The zealots sounded more bloodthirsty than the marines. They sounded ready to rip your guts out with their bare hands when they half screamed, half growled "my life for auir". Their psi blades clashing with explosive force when they attacked. The hydrolisks attack! Sounded like they were hocking a loogie into orbit. I thought as a child they were spitting spikes and it was completely believable that it could shred armour plated vehicles. In sc2 they sound like someone slid a knitting needle across a stack of papers. Flick flick flick. You just don't hear power. It doesn't sound even remotely dangerous. I really believe the sound design is the biggest weakness in sc2. Sc2 sounds lame. Sc1 sounds hard-core.
@@Dog.Dad.Studios their look is awesome, very spider like and razor sharp edges, they are like a buff Hydralisk 💪🏼 They launch attacks from burrowed, which is the only unit that does that so it’s OP when there’s no detectors around. They make great defense units, have AOE damage, (kind of like a Siege Tank), and are great for crowd control, doing extra damage to light units. They are also invincible under Dark Swarm, one Lurker under DS can hold off 100 Siege Tank Siege Mode fire and still murder. Lurker/Ling/Defilier is considered to be the most powerful unit composition in the game and crushes both Protoss and Terran in late-game strategy. Also… “Hold Position Lurkers”🙌🏼🙏🏼💕 Not paying attention? Your whole army is dead lol. But seriously tho, Great Video, keep up the excellent work 🙏🏼
SC2 player here, I hate zerg cuz I aint you. I just hate the game play style, the spore crawler style, cover map with defense and winning through turtling and camping more than fighting and pushing. I got to a point I would instantly leave any 1v1 vs zerg, and when playing 4v4 if mostly enemy is zerg id leave too. I respect zerg players, and admit they are better macro and micro players than I, and I don't mean disrespect to them when I leave, I just do not have fun playing against the race... Fav Zerg units are Hydralisk %100
Howdy! Thank you so much for taking the time to write this! I’m excited to cover StarCraft 2 soon : ) a game very close to my heart, and one that I will share my achievements hehe.. Ahahah I understand not liking a matchup, and at the end of the day, time is our most finite resource. Hope all is well! And talk soon! All the best, Dog dad P.S. Hydra homies
I didn’t like zerg due to no battlecruisers or carriers just units that are meant for quality over quantity. Also the zerg campaign as the final campaign in brood war was a messed up mistake due to fighting powerful Protoss units and terran units especially carriers and battlecruisers and the zerg takeover the galaxy.
I hate how some franchises became Judeo-Christian humancentric and make everything about human: Xenomorph created by a rogue human android, Locust is mutated human affected with Rustlung, Borg Queen. Why cannot they just leave mysterious force of nature as force of nature like Dead Space's Brethren Moons
Queen spawn broodling should be 125 energy so you can cast 2! Irradiate is 75 and decimates many units! And maybe dragoons should have an ability where if many are together their shield increases slightly so they csn break terran seiges
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If I remember right the Overlords were their own sentient species called the Gargantis Proximae before they became Zerg. In addition to being capable of space flight, they were also psychic which the Zerg wanted with a passion. What’s interesting about them, is that they WILLINGLY became Zerg.
Unlike many Zerg strains the Overlords joined the Zerg Swarm almost diplomatically due to being near extinct, and the Zerg promised to not just protect them but to mass produce them through saving their genetics.
They’re also some of the longest living Zerg strains with some living so long as to be there when they were assimilated into the Zerg. These ancient ones are often known as Yggdrasil and are effectively flying Cerebrates and will control Zerg broods in the absence of Cerebrates or queens.
Not sure if this is retcon lore though.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this and so well! I truly appreciate your knowledge and you sharing it with us!
Hope all is well!
I liked the Zerg best when they were a hyperevolutionary superorganism with an Overmind instead of being Kerrigan's personal army.
100%, even though I love my Queen Bee, the Zerg lore is cooler with the overmind.
@@Dog.Dad.Studios I would have liked Kerrigan as a 'rogue cerebrate' subfaction leader.
Same. For me, the Overmind wil always be the REAL boss of the swarm
Personal army used for personal vendettas, reduces their intimidation factor by quite a lot.
Everyone did
The Hunter Killers from The Amerigo mission! "Take these celebrate, the deadliest of my minions." The StarCraft manual was my bible as a teen.
The reason that Hydralisks are the most iconic Zerg unit to me is because when my friends and I were in high school, we would try to mimic its spine attacks (which really, just looks and sounds like its spitting acid) by actually attempting to projectile stream spit each other. Tried scrolling through the comments for anyone else that did this. No? Just us? Ahhh, good times.
Thank you for sharing this : )! I laughed at the end! I think I ran around the house sometimes pretending to be a zergling
Me and my brother did this once 😂
The boys thirsting on Kerrigan are the same boys thirsting on Slenesh....Y'ALL NASTY!😂
I mean.. *gulp*
those spines tho
Ya'll need Jesus🤣
It was genuinely surprising to me that it's a thing, I had zero inclination to even think about it 😂
Heretics!
Okay, so anything under the overmind was controlled by cerebrates, and the overlords under that. Anything sentient under it would still be sentient, but unable to exert it's own will.
Meanwhile Kerrigan later killed the cerebrares because eventually they will try to reform the Overmind. I don't know if the player character becomes a matriarch like the leader queens in HotS, but he's not around by WoL. During this purge we seem to lose a lot of specialist hero evolutions, along with lurkers and the whole colony family.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us!!
I somewhat remember the reason the cerebrate we played isn't present. From what I read after the cerebrate player followed Kerrigan until the end of Brood War, Kerrigan decided to kill CePl because she no longer needs it and also to avoid a possible backstab.
when i was a kiddo i just thought: daggoth is so good at his job that his hydrias look even meaner and have double hp
Ahahahah I love this.
This video could have been 4 hours and I would still watch it. I need you to explain every single thing about Starcraft lore.
Time is the only thing stopping us from this mutual goal! Thanks for stopping by : ) hope all is well
Zergs were always my favorite StarCraft race. Ever since I found the game on my dad's computer back in preschool I would play the first Zerg mission over and over. And replaying the game at older age I simply couldn't wait to finish the Terran missions so I could get to the zergs. And yet to this day I am horribly afraid of bugs, which makes my obsession with the zergs even more intriguing
Thank you for sharing this : )
I always loved how primal and animalistic and insectoid the Zerg were. I loved the idea that they looked so evil weren’t necessarily evil because I convinced myself they were just acting on a predetermined path they were made/evolved to follow. Like the Protoss were hyper religious traditionalist bigots. Terrans were squabbling political factions. Zerg were nature given a will.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts : ), that’s a very interesting way of viewing each race and I’m with you!
Hope all is well!
Howdy Folks! Wow, I can't believe the amazing responses, conversations, and memories being shared. Let's start the conversation; Why are the Zerg the best race? (/s) Ahaha, seriously, I'd love to know what lore bits you think are interesting for the Zerg, what your favorite units are, and your thoughts on general StarCraft :). Wishing you all the best; connections are what make life interesting!
Sincerely,
Dog Dad
It's like you read my mind. Personally, I prefer Zerg from the HotS era and SC1 Toss, vut you can't beat BW era hydralisks. Double power marines, that trade stims for disappearing and having natural healing? And it turns into a stealth unit? Heck yeah!
Then you got the dark swarm to support them.
I'm sorry to say it, but I almost hate the entite zerg race because of the defiler. It beats a group of carriers with a single plague, ruins a terran attack with a single dark swarm, but when I'm using it it's always for friendly fire (OK probably I'm just bad).
@@elekviz7685 As someone mentioned already, if you look at my defiler gameplay, we can commiserate together in being not the best at the game : )
@@Dog.Dad.Studios One addendum, Ultralisks are not the largest unit in the zerg army, not by far. Not even top 3, overlord itself is at least twice the size..
@@naoway336 I believe I say strongest, but if I'm not right on that, apologies. So where does the Devourer fall between Ultralisk and Overlord?
The Defiler's face reminds me so much of The Violater from Spawn
100%
in still remember how cool it was to see hunter killers for the first time as a kid
They're so badass!
Well I think now we need a heros lore video.
The back stories of Kerrigan? Jimmy? Tasadar?
@@Dog.Dad.Studios yea something like that.
@@brendenmccoy4129 I got you : ), it might be some time, but that's a great idea. Thank you so much!
Agreed. Tassadar is one of the best hero characters ever created.
Oh that would be a great one
So much interesting lore in these games. I remember flipping through the booklets while my brother would play
Thank you for sharing this : )
The second Zerg mission in the first Starcraft is where you can use Hunter Killers, I believe. I don't exactly remember the name - The Jump, The Egression, The Warp... Something like that.
Anyway you have to bring the chrysalis containing Kerrigan to the checkpoint so you can warp off-world. I think you get 6 of them, and they are absolute beasts and already have their 3/3 upgrades.
The last thing I remember is Zsaz warning you that "Your first trip though a warp gate can be... unsettling" :P
BTW love your content and your style, dude! This was the first vid of yours I've watches and I subbed halfway though. Keep up the good work!
I appreciate you taking the time to write all this and for the kind words : ) truly thank you!
*Eggression
@@TheRogueminator That's it! Thanks!
The queen has always been my favorite, the idea of swarming in and stealing the command center only to leave and kill the rest with infested. I do like 2’s queen and her versatility, but I will always like 1/Brood War’s more.☺️
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and sharing this! I truly appreciate it! Yeah I find it interesting they didn’t just make a new unit for 2’s depiction of a queen, but we live in: )
Hope all is well!
Please continue making videos like this you keep me really interested in starcraft
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this. I'll be doing more StarCraft and other topics/content. The only barrier is time, but I'm truly excited to keep going. Comments like these make me want to start the next script now! Hope this finds you well, and all the best.
Sincerely,
Dog Dad
My favorite race of any RTS ever yay! Thx for the video
Thank you for taking the time to comment! Hope all is well!
Shut up you traitor. We are Terren, Terren forever ✋🏻✋🏻✋🏻
There was a cerebrate, Kaloth, dedicated for infested terran studies. He controlled most of the infested terrans.
Ah yes, finally my favorite race. Something I always lovded since I played for the first time was that admiration and fear of the Zerg (I love insects) unlike with Terran or Protoss that we "control" them, we are aware they are sentient beings but with the Zerg since the briefing of the 1st mission in SC, the Overmind literally tells you that YOU are the one who decides what your brood will do. This gives you a much bigger sense of immersion in the game and to me, it makes you feel like an actual member of the Swarm. Also, I always loved Hydras, since the first time I saw them and something I will never forget is their growls and grunts, to this day, whenever I watch the cinematic of Fenix's fall, I feel ghosebumps of how scary and fierce Hydras can be, just right after the Psi-Blades stop working and we can hear the Hydra sounds like we are in some sort of space horror movie, knowing what the destiny of the poor Fenix will be.
Thank you so much for sharing this : ) I truly appreciate it!! Hope all is well!
Gotta love visiting the Kor-POO-loo Sector from time to time 😉
In all seriousness, I really enjoy vids like this. Cool stuff.
I appreciate you taking the time to write this!
The hydralisk is one of my favoirt aliens out there and im always happy when I see them. I got even more excited when I saw SCII Hydralisks
Thanks for sharing this : ) hope all is well!
I've been hoping for a warhammer level of in-depth unit lore of starcraft on RUclips. Keep it up!!
More to come : ) thanks for taking the time to comment!
Hahaha fantastic use of that clip! Nice rundown; I agree that the hydralisk is the bestalisk!
He's witnessed me!
Holy moly, I'm shacking. Uhh firstly thank you for taking the time to comment on my video. Secondly, what tournament are you most looking forward to? I've been getting back into watching and feel a little lost. Hope this finds you well and wishing you all the best. Thank you so much for all the content you make!!
All the best,
Dog Dad
These videos are awesome, especially as I homebrew starcraft into star wars Armada.
Thank you for taking the time to write this, it means a lot. Hope you're doing well, and I would love to hear about what you mean by the homebrew stuff for star wars!
Imagine how much muscle Ultralisk need to have and how strong it is to be to support all those bone armor structure. If I stand there and saw it i would shit my power armor and run for sure even though we all would be overrun and die for sure with swarm that big.
Bro you wouldn’t catch me 1000 systems away if I knew Zerg were coming. Hell I’d go back to the UED… ehh maybe not ( project purification intensifies).
Hope all is well! Thanks for taking the time to watch the video and comment : )
It's done. Helmsman, signal the fleet and bring us out of orbit.
Such a great scene especially with the music changing
As somebody who used to play zerg in 1v1, I loved listening to this Lore video.
I appreciate you taking the time to write this : )
Good sir, love the Starcraft videos. Hoping to see a Starcraft 2 Retrospective video 👌🏾
Hopefully by the end of the year : )! And more deep dives into the lore as well!
Hope all is well!
IT's funny how the lore needed to be remade when Blizzard didn't get the Warhammer 40k licence and so all this needed to be re-lored.
Yes, the game was at one stage intended to be under the Warhammer 40K licence and Zerg were the Tyranids, Protoss were the Aeldari, and the Terran( Empire)s were the (Terran) Empire.
Are you going to do videos about SC2 units?
Absolutely! But first the retrospective on them : )
Only thing that’s troublesome is time and being a one person team. But with patience from myself and this amazing community we’ve got going, the sky is the limit!
Hope all is well : )
Yes please on the video on Zerg buildings. Like, can someone walk into those? Or is the building just a giant organism that is sentient? Does it need to eat? How does it poop? So many questions
Hopefully there is enough information on them : ) the people want answers!
I love that the C&C Soundtrack is running in the background! 😊
Great ears : ), so many fantastic soundtracks from back then. We got to give them love : )
I'm with you on the hydralisk as the best unit. I love lings too though
0:36 while I am not a part of starcraft fandom, so maybe I do not know “drama”, it does seem fantastic. And it is very active.
What became of the Daelaam empire after the Fall of Aiur? Did they just keep it and leverage its power in the final war? Why do the Protoss always seem on the backfoot afterwards?
Also, where do they produce their spaceships? Do they have gigantic sheepyards like the Terran? For some reason it feels weird to imagine the Protoss working in construction crews... Is all their industry automated?
Your comment about drawing a hydralisk reminded me that I made a one out of clay and painted it in highschool art class. Before I was able to get a picture of it some jerk ripped its head off and messed up the internal rigging. I was so bummed.
Thank you for sharing this!
You mentioned the Geneva Convention. I've been thinking about requesting that another YT createt Giant Grant Games does a "Geneva Convention Challenge" I think my concept is kinda weak, but basically non combat units can't be killed, no nukes, and restricting flamethrower weapons.
Would this be for StarCraft? I think it’s a great idea! I’ll keep it in mind : ) like top 10 video game villains that break the Geneva convention or something.. wait that’s brilliant! ( at least my primordial oozed mind thinks so).
Thank you for taking the time to write this! I truly appreciate it!
Pistol shrimp have a plasma attack.
They snap their claw, it creates a cavity in the water in which some of the aur reaches the 4th state of matter, plasma.
Unless that info has been updated since i was in high school
Wasn't guardians based off the mutalisk nesting form? It also explains brood lords.
I didn’t see that piece of information, would you know where to find it?
@@Dog.Dad.Studios It was in the lore primer in the Battlechest. It also had some of the names of the species the base SC zerg units came from. Some of the lore I brought up in the other videos also comes from that same book.
that Falcon Paladin meme clip hahahaha
That intro to the zerg make them sound like the biological version of the Borg.
Brings back memories playing a rush 6 zerg vs my friends lol
The good old times
The units does not enter the overlord tummy rofl :)
They attach to his tentacles. You can see on some cinematics zerg units there.
Great vid as always, DD!
One little nitpick: it's koPRulu. :)
I appreciate it! Ahahah I need AI to get to the point where they'll be in the room with me when saying stuff, and go, "Dog Dad.. that's not the way you pronounce that word."
Hope all is well!
Oh this finds me very well
Yay : )
Why do Zerg need tech buildings? Like what about a hydralisk means a den would need to be built before a larvae can turn into one?
This is a good question, and something I've wondered about before.
My assumption is it'd be hand-waved with a little "Something something, super special DNA is stored/developed in this tech building" gobbledygook. Maybe there's a different lore explanation I just haven't come across, though.
It’s the fact that Zerg need time to manipulate the DNA or genetics of what they produce. Zerglings are the most “common” so they’re up first with drones and overlords.
I think it’s a gameplay mechanic mainly, but from my research, it goes back to gestation periods.
Pure gameplay reasons. All races gatekeep their units with structures
I take it that they need the tech buildign to edit the more complex genetic codes: they are here, just not useable until the related tech building is here. Likewise, upgrades would be non-standard genetic improvements to the base genetic template.
Makes more sense in any case than the protoss needing tech buildings to bring units through an already built and functional teleporter if you ask me
@7:28 dig the command and conquer music! Two best rts ….all I just heard was “yoshi” 💥😂😂😂😂 (disrupted comment).
This is a lore Videos for 5 year olds that never heard of starcraft. Crank that lore amount up 1000 times!
How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?
@@Dog.Dad.Studios I loved the evolution of the baneling in the novel, but even that felt too unscientific. Maybe I should just read the Wiki, or you try it out with one 20-30 minutes video for one unit and see how the responses go.
Thanks for your opinion! I truly appreciate you taking the time to write this out! Hope all is well
5:27
a plant named after "arachnid" because it looks like an arachnid doesn't make the word "arachnis" meaning "orchid"
e.g.
"spider flower" is indeed a flower, but that doesn't mean that English word "spider" means plant.
Most of evolution units or morphed units are from Daggoth he's the cerebrate whose love to experimenting on Zerg evolution and adaptation when put into extreme living conditions or environmental hazard. The sunken colony and spore colony are his design, for zerg unit we have the lurker and hunter killer (Hydralisk on steroid). Also Lurker are better than Sunken Colony in two ways first they can be used as a defense against large swarm of enemies like infantry units because they have a very far range and can hit multiple target, second they can be used as a offensive by creating a trap and lure the enemies ground units into it and then you just created a carnage there's a variant of Lurker that can fire their spike like a normal Hydralisk and used their mouth to bite like Zergling. And you forgot about the Torrasque which is the most fearsome Ultralisk variant ever existed.
Thank you for sharing all of this! The knowledge this community has is staggering! And to take the time to write, thank you!
NICE FALCON PALADIN CAMEO🎉
He witnessed me : ) ahahaha, I respect casters so much, baseball, basketball, starcraft.. it takes so much skill.
the background music be like "kirov reporting"
12:09 what about zergling allergic to lemon juice?
More StarCraft lore!!
Time is the only obstacle. Thank you for stopping by and talk soon : )
Hope all is well
Imagine a game where you start as a little original zerg insect and must progress in game by assimilating species and gaining abilities
I would play it!
So basically spore
You totally forgot that Hydralisk is also best WC3 Night Elf unit ;)
There has to be a StarCraft 3, with 2 new races
Egression. Where money? Do we also get them in the science vessel mission?
Money me now!!
Egression (Zerg 2), the Amerigo (Zerg 5), Reign of fire (xZerg 2 )
My favorite zerg unit by far is Jim Raynor
My insides!!
I‘d kina like to know about the SC2 units as well
Absolutely will be doing that, just will take some time.
Awesome! Will be looking forward to that! :)
@@CLuigiplayer thank you for your kind words : )
Cracklings are my favorite zerg unit
Did I just miss it, or did you skip Lurkers?
13:13 that's falcon. Right??
Yes : )
Egression? The one that also gives you mutas?
I never thought I would say this, but yes Jesus Christ, you get 10 dad dog dollars!
hydralisk is a hervibore 😳😳😅😳😳 i thought it was originally some apex predator that could rival a xenomorph 😂😂😂😂
When I was a kid, playing the Zerg was the last thing I wanted to play especially alone lmfao. I was too freaked out by the creatures and thr sounds they make
Ahahah thank you for sharing this! I had dual dell speakers I believe and that stuff was horrifying! So I understand!
Hope all is well!
When i played the hydralysk was more or less the counter to anything.
Uh, what happened to the best StarCraft BW unit, the lurker??
I would love if you actually told more about hydralisks rather than alluding they were sloths before
0:13 you get an abo just for that pic
No Lurker?
4 minutes online and no love I have to be number one to say great video
Howdy Metalwolf! I don’t know what you mean, but thank you for taking the time to comment! It’s great to see some familiar names : )
Edit: ah you’re the best! I get it : )!
15:00
They dont even make manuals anymore
CnC music goes with everything I see
Its just so freaking good!
Dumb question. UED controlls infested terrans. They are on the same team.
Best rts game of all time?!
It’s a matter of opinion : ), what’s yours?
If it wasn't a good game, it wouldn't be talked about.
3:55 Defiler? I 'ardly know 'er!
13:43 I think you mean Zone Trooper. Those unit fit the description due to being heavy infantry. Hold on, why don't the Terrans have rail guns?
I would’ve loved to seen high tech ordinance for Marines, not just the c14 rifle
Because all high tech is for spec ops, like Nova`s
Aw... Wheres the Lurker? 🥺🥺
In the ground where their sunken colony copycat body belongs! /s
Real reason is writing is hard and sometimes I cut certain things. Hope all is well!
Man I love these Starcraft videos and I hope for more. I never liked the Zerg, they used to creep me out as a kid. They're just too disgusting, slimy and nauseating. I bet they smell really bad. Probably like the still warm insides of a pig when you cut him open.
There will be more : ) only obstacle is time.
Hope all is well!
Zerg are the most important race in starcraft design wise, story wise and gameplay wise. They give a unique feeling of despair and dread when fighting them. The game would be un-metal without them. They're the Heath Ledger's Joker to protoss and terran's Christian Bale Batman . Terran are just starship troopers clones and Protoss are mary sues without them.
Well written!
1. Yes Zergs are cool.
2. Kerrgan ssucks.
Is it me that’s out of touch? No. It’s the damn Terran and Protoss!
Thanks for stoping by : )
Same… I love the Hydralisk…. that Nightmarish Zerg Creature at the Box Art of Starcraft. Swapped some picture of a saint in the altar with a Hydralisk caused great uproar in our School Chapel and everyone thought the Chapel was Haunted and the picture was the personification of the Devil. They will never know that I was the haunt. I turned my School Chapel into Tristam
History of the Xel'Naga when?
Absolutely! Lots of ideas in the bank for more videos : )
SC1 hydras are more intimidating, spewing *acid* in the game. SC2 hydras look like wimps when spewing their spikes.
I believe that it's the sound design. SC1 sound design has this raw edge that makes it so much better than sc2.
The sound of Sc1 seige tanks transforming is epic. The shock cannon even more so. Like a pair of tombstones slamming together. You expect epid destruction and are rewarded with it. Sc2 seige tanks don't sound powerful.
Marines voices were hard-core. They sounded bad ass and ready to scrap with impossible monsters. The disrespect in their voices reminding you they were ex cons and didn't respect your rank. The base in their weapon fire really pointing at high calibre weapons. Big explosive charges launching those u238 rounds. The goliaths auto cannons were even bassier.
The zealots sounded more bloodthirsty than the marines. They sounded ready to rip your guts out with their bare hands when they half screamed, half growled "my life for auir". Their psi blades clashing with explosive force when they attacked.
The hydrolisks attack! Sounded like they were hocking a loogie into orbit. I thought as a child they were spitting spikes and it was completely believable that it could shred armour plated vehicles. In sc2 they sound like someone slid a knitting needle across a stack of papers. Flick flick flick. You just don't hear power. It doesn't sound even remotely dangerous.
I really believe the sound design is the biggest weakness in sc2. Sc2 sounds lame. Sc1 sounds hard-core.
@@michaelkeegan9260 everything you said is true. SC1 sound effects are very nostalgic
So the zerg were just the larvae all along? Everything else were stolen "shells?" Cool. Cool to know.
It gives them even more “grandeur,” I think
The C&C music just feels wrong here.
My favorite unit is the Lurker but nah just go ahead and gloss right over them 👍🏼 😥
What makes them your favorite?
@@Dog.Dad.Studios their look is awesome, very spider like and razor sharp edges, they are like a buff Hydralisk 💪🏼 They launch attacks from burrowed, which is the only unit that does that so it’s OP when there’s no detectors around. They make great defense units, have AOE damage, (kind of like a Siege Tank), and are great for crowd control, doing extra damage to light units. They are also invincible under Dark Swarm, one Lurker under DS can hold off 100 Siege Tank Siege Mode fire and still murder. Lurker/Ling/Defilier is considered to be the most powerful unit composition in the game and crushes both Protoss and Terran in late-game strategy. Also… “Hold Position Lurkers”🙌🏼🙏🏼💕 Not paying attention? Your whole army is dead lol.
But seriously tho, Great Video, keep up the excellent work 🙏🏼
@@skyvipers thank you so much for taking the time to write all this and the kind words. I truly appreciate it!
Hope all is well!
You look like ihsahn from the black metal band Emperor
Ah this is very cool! Thank you!
Poor broodlings are forgotten...
Ahh hell! Sorry about that! As the queen says, “shhhhhzzhe raar!”
@@Dog.Dad.Studios any chance you'll cover Starcraft 2 Zerg units?
@@vinsonli302 yeah, only thing that’s hard is time to work on many projects
SC2 player here, I hate zerg cuz I aint you. I just hate the game play style, the spore crawler style, cover map with defense and winning through turtling and camping more than fighting and pushing. I got to a point I would instantly leave any 1v1 vs zerg, and when playing 4v4 if mostly enemy is zerg id leave too. I respect zerg players, and admit they are better macro and micro players than I, and I don't mean disrespect to them when I leave, I just do not have fun playing against the race...
Fav Zerg units are Hydralisk %100
Howdy! Thank you so much for taking the time to write this! I’m excited to cover StarCraft 2 soon : ) a game very close to my heart, and one that I will share my achievements hehe..
Ahahah I understand not liking a matchup, and at the end of the day, time is our most finite resource.
Hope all is well! And talk soon!
All the best,
Dog dad
P.S.
Hydra homies
I only liked for Thrall.
More work? Ahah thanks for taking the time to comment : )
I didn’t like zerg due to no battlecruisers or carriers just units that are meant for quality over quantity. Also the zerg campaign as the final campaign in brood war was a messed up mistake due to fighting powerful Protoss units and terran units especially carriers and battlecruisers and the zerg takeover the galaxy.
I hate how some franchises became Judeo-Christian humancentric and make everything about human: Xenomorph created by a rogue human android, Locust is mutated human affected with Rustlung, Borg Queen. Why cannot they just leave mysterious force of nature as force of nature like Dead Space's Brethren Moons
SC1 rostet > SC2 roster.
I hate how SC2 ruined everyone and everything.
Zerg, Protoss, Kerrigan...I hate this so damn much how Blizzard fouled it up.
Queen spawn broodling should be 125 energy so you can cast 2! Irradiate is 75 and decimates many units! And maybe dragoons should have an ability where if many are together their shield increases slightly so they csn break terran seiges
What was that defiler gameplay man lmao
I recorded last night and might have been inhaling some primordial ooze, do not recommend!