need a good sci-fi game with a story to play, pls recommend
Starcraft 1,2
I kinda like it regardless, but Starcraft 2 is closer to Dragon Ball than it is to a good sf story. Similar thing happened to Warcraft 3 - it's as though someone was giving out free lobotomies at Blizzard in the early 00s, specifically in the writing department. Wing of Liberty is an OK rehash of all the space western tropes you're probably tired of, but the rest goes off the rails with power levels over 9000 and all that idiocy.
Stacraft 2 is weak compared to Starcraft 1 (and Brood War).
Wacraft 3 was pretty good though, because they managed to evolve the series - you got 4 unique races instead of 2 copy-pasta ones, the story went beyond "Good Humans vs Evil Orcs" and the characters taking part were much more involved in the events (Arthas, Illidan, Muradin, Uther, etc.), also heroes actually became the heroes; the most important units on the battlefield.
I think Starcraft 2's problem was that Warcraft 3's formula didn't fit Starcraft and the writing wasn't good enough to carry it entirely on its own (especially for Starcraft 1 veterans, whose obviously had much higher standard than the casual crowd). It has its moments, sure, but overall there are just too many holes for the ship not to sink.
