And besides if you weren’t a fan of raynor or mengsk, there was the UED campaign from brood war that gave exactly what Raggie wants: a glorious crusade to reclaim the wayward colonies and kick the butt of any xenos filth that threatened humanity.
Unfortunately that idiot Metzen squandered that too because he was horny for Kerry.
As I said, I feel the ideal plot is “UED, Overmind, and Conclave duke it out for control of space.” From there, individual campaigns could focus on small scale self contained stories.
I don’t like Kerry, Raynor, or Mengsk as the main characters of the universe. I think they squandered the franchise. Mengsk is a boring generic dictator. Kerry shat on the zerg by turning them from an intimidating galactic space monster into a plot device the human characters fight over.
The protoss and zerg suck ass in their present characterization. I think they need some rewriting. The protoss should be intimidating galactic space police, not generic dying space elves always on the run chasing prophecies and plot devices. The zerg should be inhuman alien monsters seeking evolution that don’t value inferior human personalities, not slaves to stupid shortsighted inferior humans.
I think SC lore is fucked forever now and I had so many arguments with SC fandom that I hate the fandom now. So I decided to make my own scifi rather than deal with that shit anymore. It’s coming along very slowly and I wish I had like-minded people to bounce ideas off.
Well, seeing as how the Protoss were only invading in order to keep the Zerg from reaching Aiur and the Zerg did reach Aiur anyway, the combat theatre just lost meaning for both sides. The Zerg got psi powers from assimilating Kerrigan, which was the Overmind's stated goal, and the location of Aiur, which was an unexpected bonus. The Protoss failed badly at their containment strategy and then had to pull back to defend their homeworld.
Makes sense.
That doesn’t match what the manual says but fuck this shit writing. I want to throttle Metzen.
What I mean is, After Mengsk takes over the zerg just up and fuck off to Char because it would be inconvenient for them to keep attacking and kill Mengsk, so Metzen made up some bullshit about Kerry being a snowflake so that the zerg would leave.
The zerg are a lazy plot device here. Against the arachnids from Starship Troopers, Mengsk would’ve gotten eaten.
I am so fucking tired of trying to explain why Metzen is a shit writer who ruined SC with his horniness. That’s why I decided to make my own scifi.
Again, sorry I sound unhinged. I just hate what Blizz did to their 40k ripoff. There were some interesting ideas, but those idiots squandered it. I’m glad ActiBlizz is bleeding money now. I want them to die and their franchises to be forgotten