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Something I have always thought about is why Alarak didn't show up in the epilogue because his whole goal was to destroy Amon and this would be his chance. My only guess is that Artanis didn't tell him

alarak's 3rd passive gives you a permenant deathfleet in co op and Oh good lord it ANNHILATES STUFF

Great video

John De'Lancie also voiced Discord, and he played Colonel Frank Simmons in Stargate SG1. He also had a role in Charmed.

That Hades animation was awesome! :O

Gameplay-wise, Amon (and Kerrigan) broke much of the campaign. WC2, WC3, and Starcraft had you try to gut an opponent that worked similar to you. That anatomy made it fun. Kerrigan made her missions into inferior WC3 levels. If anything, they should’ve copied the idea of extra races from WC3 (like the Naga). A super-powered custom race would be more fun to contend with than clouds and rocks.

Regarding the "show don't tell" - imagine if in the initial missions of liberating Aiur you play with corrupted Artanis and hear Amon's whispers and commands. You hear the way he thinks what his coming goals are and the tactics he will achieve them through. This way we can grasp the character's overall psyche. While the Main Objective is to kill Zeratul. Also the hybrids can be a combination of different personalities of protoss and zerg, a much higher level of an abomination which doesn't just tell you how the "End is nigh", but at times asks you to kill it. Man this could have been such a better story line for Amon and Co. than what we got :(

What about Age of empires 2 feudalism challenge, play any of the campaigns with feudal age units only with the exception of those missions that require grabbing a relic where a Monk is needed and you can go to imperial age but will still be limited in options (Man at arms, Spearman, Archer, Skirmisher, Fire galley, Demo raft, Galley and Scout cavalry/Eagle scout only as military units). Economy, Armor, attack and any other research available but can't get the improved version of those units nor any unit unlocked in castle or imperial age

GORGUTZ SPOTTED PLEEEEASE TALK ABOUT HEADHUNTRR

13:10 That Hades strip was awesome.

I think having your despotical ruler be flustered when ambush with a recording he knows is true by a presenter from a station he thought he had in his pocket is pretty good writing

The Hades animation was 😙👌

In the immortal words of Palpatine: "[...] he's a Sith Lord."

14:49 man, I hate when that happens. Same hotkey as "select larva", very easy to do.

Ok you got me with "Silence Heretic!"

"Wait, is that... Discord from My Little Pony!?" Man was I surprised to hear a MLP character in the Protoss campaign... and I cannot unhear it!

I like Alarak as a character, but I don't like the Tal'darim as a concept and their execution. SC1 and BW had such a huge focus of the Protoss' conflict around how the Khalai and the Nerazim made them a split people, and how huge a deal it was to reunify this people. And then SC2 just pulls out the Tal'darim out of nowhere, and no one treats it like a big deal. Also, if one of the Tal'darim's major traits is they don't make their own technology and just repurpose existing technology, why do their units, in some examples, seem more technologically advanced than standard Protoss units? Wouldn't it make more sense if their units seemed more retro technologically, and/or relied more on the backs of slaves to function like their caste system should suggest? In fact, the story, in several instances, demonstrates the Nerazim as pretty weak compared to the Tal'darim. I think we could have had a more effective origin for the Tal'darim if it was revealed Amon was manipulating the Khala for longer than anyone realized, by taking groups of Khalai over time without anyone within the Khala noticing, and brainwashing them into Tal'darim. It would kind of demonstrate Amon's insidiousness better and raise the ethical of question of how to deal with a new faction of Protoss that only exists because of Amon's manipulation. Some Protoss might be in favor of eradicating them because they're corrupted Protoss, but then some would question "well aren't all Protoss like they are because of Amon's manipulation?" Such a setting would still allow for Alarak as a character to exist too. Idk, just my 2 cents.

Alarak was a piece of shit, just like the rest of the LoTV characters. Bland and shallow, no imagination, no flavor, just your usual overly ambitious "cull the weak, climb the pyramid" Disney villain. His rhetoric has been used so many times, you might listen to his quotes while falling asleep. The only "interesting" part about him is that he is forced into a position where he must work with the stereotypical "good guys" in order to get what he wants, so that changes the dynamic a bit. Otherwise, he would have been a bigger snoozefest than Amon.

For some reason Each SC2 campaign has a side character that is just extremely great and arguably a more entertaining and interesting character than the protagonist Tosh for WOL Stukov for HOTS And Alarak for LOTV

i also gotta give props to Alarak's VA, John de Lancie. also known as Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation

One think that’s somewhat interesting is that Void Thrashers are NOT listed as hybrids. They are some other void entities that Amon and Narud enlisted their cause

- You think us fools? - Yes. But that is irrelevant Gets me every time Easily the best quote from all the LOTV And a perfect introduction to the character

Can you do zeratul next?

I like that he is a professional shit talker

The reason Nova's "I guess Alarak won't dight his own battles" insult works is because the Tal'darim value strength in their leaders, which they define as Combat prowess. It wouldn't make sense against Valerian, because the Dominion values strong leadership, not strong marksmanship, in their leaders.

Only on tenth minute I get what run rules actually is - don't use SC1 units as much as possible.

I can only enjoy alarak ironically tbh, in the same way I can only enjoy shadow the hedgehog ironically for how unrepentantly edgy and over the top both of them are. They're fun to watch but if we're actually taking the story seriously, given the kind of characters we USED to get in sc1 and BW alarak is easily one of the most absurd characters in the franchise. Feels like an OC a highschooler would come up with, and my lord his lines about how "freedom is a lie given to the weak by the strong" is all kinds of edgelord nonsense xd or that part where he's just casually getting high off of red-40 on artansis' ship xd The whole thing about the tal-darim killing each other for promotion just sounds like a rip-off of the sith from star wars

He is... Until you play him in co op and his stupid pasive kill your best units becuse you cant turn it off and almost evryone use option slect all ... I do love him in box and lore but not game xd

I think a StarCraft 3 is now possible. Before I would agree that a StarCraft 3 would be nye impossible but Microsoft has a thing for RTSs so I could see the boys behind age of empires making a StarCraft 3.

I think a StarCraft 3 is now possible. Before I would agree that a StarCraft 3 would be nye impossible but Microsoft has a thing for RTSs so I could see the boys behind age of empires making a StarCraft 3.

Wait. Alarak considers what happened to Stetmann a fate worse than death?

20:27 You lost such chance to recall about norsen berserkers eating mushrooms

I Bought Alarak Just to hear Taldarim Mothership voice and To play with Alarak And its funny to toss around enemies))

not much to say here, alarak rules. And fantastic vid too, your animations are always a joy to behold. looking forward the next vid as well as future ones like the hybrid zagara story you're (hopefully still) cooking :D

I think the reason Alarak doesn't backstab the Daelam is that it would be inconvenient for him later on to have them against him. And the whole reason he helps them is that it is the most expedient way for him to get to his goals.

i would love a video about kane, he was my goat rts villain during my childhood. seeing him prob appear in the next video got me hyped.

2 reason why i love alarak: 1. He's badass 2. Voidrays

Aside from him being a cool character he also has cool attacks and skills

The funny thing is, there is a comic that came out with Hots. It confirms and nails to your head that Kerrigan did everything out of her own volition in brood war, and faked the amnesia in an internal dialoge. She hated humanity for what they have done to her, and was willing to wipe them out in revenge but was conflicted because Raynor actually gave a single fuck. Then they completely forgot to mention this part anywhere in the campaign, especially when she is with the zerg. The closest we have gotten to it is her mentioning that amon never controlled her. It recontextualizes some of the parts of the campaign and it makes a bit more sense.

Amon is the Zovaal of the Starcraft universe. I feel like whoever wrote the Jailer in Shadowlands just tried to rip off Amon, but worse. Not that there was much to copy with to begin with, lol

Dayum, now I want a starcraft hades

- Thankfully, Void Rays. THIS IS GOLD

Lord alarak of the taldarim is my favorite starcraft 2 character

Alarak was genuinely the only character in LotV worth talking to. Everysingle other character is speaking the most basic thing in the most elaborate way. While you can say that it's a way of protoss speaking. Sure, yes. Nonetheless in Brood War they speak just as eloquently but you can actually sense their investment into the story and the plot. While in LotV their dialogue is more like "100 different ways to say "Don't give up. We can do this" to your employees" type of thing. And the protoss characters are just blunt with zero negative sides to them. Having just 1 characteristic or so to them. Artanis: always noble and optimistic (no doubts or anything that we see in a short "Reclamation"). Karax is only there to get amased and spit some exposition on us. Matriarch is basically gender-bender Artanis with dark-templar twist on top. Fenix, who's doing absolutely nothing remarkable. He could've been replaced by any new character and literally nothing would've changed. IMAGINE if they gave us some old-fart war-worn veteran (from the days of Conclave). Who would've flipping hated DT's and called matriarch heretic and/or some racial/religious slurs? THAT would've been interesting. It would've created dynamic between our characters. Instead we got constant pep-talking. In the end Fenix actually changes his name, making him actually a totally different character. Why bother with bringing him back anyways? The archive lady. More like Narud/Duran and/or Amon on a speed dial. 'miright? Alarak the only protoss who actually has some balls. Speaks his mind. Has some arrogance BASED on his past expiriences. Instead of pathetic pep-talks tells people to "git gud". That's what makes him so good. He's like a breath of fresh air in a stale office job. Where everyone is named John Smith. And all they do is talking about weather and pep-talking one another.

Using the idra vs huk hallucinated void rays is real sc2 culture 😂

I like how Alarak is self conscious enough to know that Artanis would not betray him and thus he sorta mellows out a bit around him. Artanis also knowe the deal, Alarak will only follow him as long as he's the strongest giving him a push towards bring excellent.

Before watching: Because everyone else so boooooring! Why is it that only Terrans are allowed to have personalities in SC2?

StarCraft’s Vegeta

What made Alarak so enjoyable to me went a bit beyond Starcraft. Because Starcraft 2 came out around the start of the hypersensitive, ultra-political messeging we see today, Blizzard (and many other companies) were making all their plots and characters "safe" and politically correct. Heck, even Kerrigan in HotS (who was _intended_ to be a ruthless anti-hero) kept moaning about how conflicted she was, which just came across as hypocritical about her values and lacking in conviction. It was _such_ a relief to find an unapologetically cool character who didn't stop to extol his virtue every five minutes; TLDR Alarak exuded the vibes that made Kerrigan so interesting in Brood War.

the colour scheme of the tal'darim in WoL is much better then the one in legacy of the void. black in red is some much less interesting then black, blue and silver