I like how this story doesn't have any victor. Every faction lost the war: - The Protoss were crushed militarily, and the Matriarch is dead. - The Dominion was crushed. - The UED taskforce was wiped out. - The Zerg have it even worse. They seemingly won on the battlefield, but have the worst outcome. Their Overmind is dead, and they are controlled by an infested Terran who doesn't have any loyalty for the Swarm. Because of their hive mind, they can't even try to overthrow her, or to reform an Overmind. They have no hope of ever becoming true Zerg again. - Finally, Kerrigan "won". And what did she win exactly? She is neither human nor Zerg, and she has no one left to betray, nor to wage war against. She can spend eternity in solitude and boredom, ruling over purposeless creatures. Give it a few years, and she'll probably regret the Zerg didn't kill her on Tarsonis.
This would be gold, if you don't consider SC2 inside of the storyline. However, if you did play ALL brood war the secret mission leaves the cliffhanger of the hybrid topic. With that in mind, then the comment is a little off even though the part of everyone else is completely accurate but Kerrigan's
Kerrigan will still have enemies to fight. She said she would give her "allies" a reprieve. Some time to recover, before she begins another war against the Dominion and the Protoss
The UED was so confident in the beginning of the campaign, and in the end not a single ship made it back to Earth. Complete and utter defeat at the hands of the Zerg is a brutal thing.
Well they were very close to winning, just Raynor, Artanis, Fenix and Zeratul held idiot balls to allow Kerrigan to fuck all of them over. Aldaris saw they were holding idiot balls and got blown up for it. Dugalle trusted Duran (a traitor he despises) over his friend for little reason and paid for it with his campaign. Also the UED did not expect Xel'Naga shapeshifters..
@Moonlight Key word there: Almost. That's after one also realizes the UED is a totalitarian, imperialist, and colonialist power. Of course, similar pejoratives hold for the Overmind, Infested Kerrigan, and Arcturus Mengsk's Terran Dominion.
Keep in mind it was also an expeditionary fleet, just a fraction of the total power of Earth. If they sent a larger force I think even the sheer number of the Swarms would have a harder time taking them down.
Definitely the most masterful part of the cinematic here is 2:06: the music is reminiscent of what was played when this soldier looked up and saw the UED abandoning him. DuGalle is revisiting all the reasons he has to feel guilty.
Not only that, but the flash at 2:10 of the marine dying in the field is heart wrenching, and I'm not sure if it's the same marine as the brood war intro, because the other guy was actually surrounded by Zerglings!! So this is footage of two different Marines? Remember that In brood war intro the marine died of a Zerglings rush
Ending of Starcraft 2: Everyone unites to destroy the villain. Friendship is magic. Ending of Starcraft 1: Everyone unites to destroy the villain, but you are playing as the villain, and kill everyone else.
I feel so bad for the people who have only played SC2. I mean, sure, the graphics are last gen now, but comparing the execution of the script and the music in SC1 and SC2 is like comparing a match to the sun.
Yes! Holy fuck, i mean i love the story in sc2 but as fun as it is to light matches, it doesn't come close to as warm and comforting as the beaming sun!
I actually like it. I admit it's not as DARK, but that boy who loved Starcraft really enjoyed the two campaigns that I have played. 2 really made me appreciate the Zerg. Albeit I was kinda skeptical about Kerrigan, but it's part of her Redemption.
i'm a long time fan of both games and it's incredible how far people are willing to go to suck their own cocks to highlight how much they are biased to a game. sc2 is a match to a sun? sc1 is brilliant but that brilliance is mainly in how great the game was when it was released. just look at all the hype surrounding sc:r fueled by nostalgia only to have its popularity drop off so hard after.
@Dauren Nurakhmet You seem to misunderstand. I love this ending from the bottom of my heart. This is one of my most favorite games of all time, because of how daring and unusual it is. So I suggest you drop the ''go watch disney cartoons'' because that's what a 13 year old would say to sound edgy or cool, and it's quite frankly pathetic.
@@Slicebreader nah,story was great until heart of the swarm rolled arround,whole part where she re-infests herself was mega cringe,like bruh what was the point of wings of liberty if she is just going to re infest herself for sake of stupid revenge,not to mention legacy of the void start was trying to fix story at first,but was actually final nail in the coffin in the end when xelnaga werent technologically superior race to everyone but instead were cthulhu like with magic,and also the fact kerrigan became one of them,that was the most ridiculus part of all if sc2 ended with wings of liberty and kerrigan staying with raynor,if heart of the swarm featured abathur or some other Zerg leading instead,and if Legacy of the void ended up with them all joining forces to defeat amon instead of one of them becoming a xelnaga to kill a xelnaga so in short:story is perfect only if you never get into heart of the swarm and legacy of the void
Indeed. There were not many games or stories even back during the 90's where the villains of the story basically won. The Zerg won hardcore at the end of SC: Brood War.
What really annoyed me about SC2 is how little the UED is even mentioned. I mean they trashed the Dominion, took control of the Overmind, and the only mention of them is in one chat with Stukov ?
And not the bullshit prophecies, bullshit romance, cookie cutter dry characters without any life to them and a story so generic it can safely be assumed that it wasn't even written by people and was actually ran through an automated factory? SC2's plot and characters were so phoned in they accrued long-distance charges. Artanis is a fucking duck, and thats what he has always been. Just slapping "Hierarch" on his name and giving him Friendship Is Magic powers doesn't change that. Kerrigan is pretty fucking bold to tell DuGalle that Alexei was twice the man he was, when she currently is not classifiable as a flat character since the two-dimensionals can at least have a shot at being interesting one-notes. Oh well, atleast we got Alarak being witty out of it. So thats some worth.
It gets worse: in the canceled game SC: Ghost, one of the planets you visit, Abaddon, is partially held by UED forces. The game takes place post-Brood War (4 years after, but recently it was retconned to just 3 in 2503), so these forces are what's left of the Expeditionary Force. The mission required you retrieve a Grizzly (new Terran flying unit) and its engineer from the Korprulu Liberation Front who took over the Dominion depot holding it. Here is all the content pertaining to that planet in the game: starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Abaddon One of the merc groups in Wings of Liberty, Spartan Company, was once part of the UED fleet. By technicality, the UED is a persistent faction as the home world for it is Earth. The UED was formed from the previous Earth government, the United Powers League, so it more than likely still exists.
Honestly for a while there it seemed like Blizzards writers had entirely forgotten Brood War campaigns actual story considering how they wrote Kerrigan. It's like after they saw complaints they went back an actually played BW for reference. That's why Stukov shows up in HOTS, and they reference the sad song record player thing like twice. It even plays on the main menu now sometimes lol.
I really hoped that in the Nova DLC missions, the Defenders of Man were actually UED remnants, and they caused chaos in the Dominion to send a signal back to Earth. Turned out they were just another renegade-ish Dominion faction.
The emotion in his words" the creatures we were sent here to tame are untamable, and the colonies we were sent to reclaim have proven to be stronger than we had anticipated.."Thats what every single human feels that he can be in control of anything, and blinded by the pride we fail to notice the defeat cloaked as a victory.
It took me two decades to realize why Starcrafts story left so much more of an impact as the stories of other games or even SC2. The (at the time) flashy cinematics and the battle scenes might have been what have drawn my inner child in, but it was what was happening to the characters, and this voice that made it stand out from just another dazzling display. You can feel the despair, the resignation at accepting ones fate, the loss as Dougalle is about to end it, unable to face his failure and his own guilt at having been duped to betray his friend.
I find it a bit strange how he listened to Duran even though it was established he distrusted him. All the while they also established Alexei was among his personal friends. What is more he could've resolved this much more easily by just asking Alexei proper.
Xirius The Soulwatcher I was wondering that myself. Apparently the UED had some weird HICOM mistakes, because their HICOM is sh!t, as in the trust factor.
I hated how they made me play Zerg at the end and cause this result. I also remember the profound emotion associated with these stories as I played. I thought it was because I was young, but no. It really was that compelling.
I was the same. I'm 31 now so was originally playing Starcraft as a child. I wished the last mission could have ended another way. I was relieved the story allowed Raynor to live though.
1:49 I just love that few seconds of UED and Dominion marine standing side by side. Even if the 3 factions had united to defeat Kerrigan in the last mission, there would've been a rigid tension between all of them. Hell, in Dominion's eyes, UED were bombarding and invading their very capitol planet only like a few weeks ago (with tons of civilian casualties occurring as all wars do) while Protoss who've battled both Dominion and UED would've doubted both Terran forces, knowing how very few humans can be trusted. Gameplaywise, all 3 factions' bases are located with some distance from each other too. Yet, the threat of the zerg swarm was so great that all order and tension between them must've broke down and forced them to truly unite just for survival. All of this conveyed in 4 seconds!!!
While I can’t disagree with that as I love the old games too, I appreciate the newer games for giving the heroes a break and chance to shine with an optimistic tone.
@@blubberblase1012 That's true, somehow the lackluster graphics helped in making the story much more compelling, like it fits into the grim and dark tone of the narrative. They pretty much nailed it on making do with what they had back then.
Ironic as well since the Protoss have the most tragic losses (Tassadar, Aldaris, Fenix, and Raszagal) while the Terran characters have borderline cockroach-tier refusal to die.
The news of the defeat would have reached the UED. After all, the UED knew about the events that preceded their fleet's arrival. In the lore, the reason given for the UED never responding is they were simply too busy. The UED was a fascist dictatorship that emerged from a particularly turbulent period in Earth's history. It was never the epitome of stable governance. So in the time since the Expeditionary Fleet was deployed, internal squabbles had taken priority. But yeah, his touching final farewell and revelation about Stukov very likely never reached Earth.
Its disappointing that we never get to see the UED again, DuGalles fleet was very strong since they were able to take on the dominion but lets not forget that it wasnt the entirety of the earths fleet, DuGalles fleet might be one of the hundreds of fleet the earth has, i also read something saying that DuGalles fleet was just an expeditionary force but they were still able to have many accomplishments and victories. I know im not the only one who wants to see the UED return
If I recall correctly, the UED has 10 fleets under its command. The Expeditionary Fleet was maybe a 10th of the size of one of those fleets. They also stripped the fleet of a lot of their most advanced technology to both make the journey to the Koprulu Sector easier and to prevent the Dominion from being able to reverse engineer their technology should the worst happen. And yet that fleet was able to subjugate the Zerg, conquer the Dominion, and even send the Protoss packing. They stripped the fleet down because the UED was utterly paranoid. Its a fascist, xenophobic dictatorship. Everything they did was about protecting Earth from even the most remote of perceived threats. In this case, their concern was that the Dominion was so utterly mismanaging the Zerg threat that it would inevitably snowball out of control and threaten Earth itself. That propaganda video at the end of the UED campaign seems to pretty accurately reflect UED mindsets about the situation. The Brood War opening cinematic also shows that the Zerg are the real motivation for getting out there, and that they are afraid of the Zerg's aggressiveness.
@@jarynn8156 Another interesting thing about the UED is that very few of their units have actually been seen and all of them were absolutely cracked asf with long-lasting legacies and influences in Korprulu Terran warfare technology. Medics, Spartan Company Goliaths, and Valkyries would lead to pseudo reverse engineering to eventually lead to the Medivac, Viking, and Liberator. We've never seen the UED's combat infantry, heavy vehicle, specialist, or flagship units. Even the battlecruisers used in Brood War were all stolen since the Alexander was the only heavy air unit present which never even fought.
I mean, the UED guy (Du Gaulle?) sending a suicide note to his wife and kids, guilt over killing his best friend consuming him. And the honor thing about failing the mission... don't know... that's pretty adult in my opinion... SC2 story so far is only cliché over cliché. I hope they put one or two interesting turns in it in the expansions.
@@ifound15min35 growing up sometimes mean losing the spark of creativity and fantasy that drives you. In some cases it means to become empty and grey. Work becomes a routine chore as you're slowly worn down. It's why you should never grow up inside.
Man sucks that modern games are no longer this dark and well written-sure you have the good graphics of the Starcraft 2 and many cinematics-but truly is a better looking thing better even if it's story is pathetic to the original?
Simply amazing. Had me dreaming of a continuation of the campaign for eleven years. Then StarCraft II happened and turned a fantastic sci-fi into a dull fantasy love story :( That said, StarCraft II is still one of the best multiplayer games of all time. Possibly THE best multiplayer game of all times. But I'll never forgive Blizzard for firing all writers and replacing them with the team from My Little Pony...
@Zoomer Stasi your name is homosexual, your opinion has no value, please raise your testosterone levels before having an opinion on starcraft, thanks :)
This was amazing!!! Just played both SC 1 Original and the broodwar completed. Ready to go for SC 2 campaign. Hots and Lotw has to be bought but I guess it's worth it.
Completely worth. It has more pathos I can say, especially HOTS, but still a great sequel. Hope there will be Starcraft 3 in a couple of years - this game is immortal, and it needs at least one more sequel! Third breath I would say )
@@From_The_Shadow_I_Come Dearest Dmytro: By then, Microsoft would've had acquired Activision-Blizzard. The way they ended SC2 seemed very... final to me. Sure, the gameplay was fun and engaging but the story always seemed like it was rolling down the hill towards its end. Blizzard, well it rolled down the hill years ago. For any consumer that has tasted the olden products, they may believe in that company no longer. All they stand for now is the greed they inherited from the publisher Acitivision that acquired them... Though, know this, I still bear some shred of hope. They retconned and remade the Modern Warfare series. Change opens new doors for opportunities, and with how the kids these days gobble up anything these game companies push out it doesn't matter anyway. Maybe, they will retcon and remake Starcraft as well. Hopefully just the parts right after WoL. I just am not a fan of how the story turned out. It feels like it proceeded in its own bubble. The UED was clearly a force to be reckoned with, even with the downfall of their expeditionary fleet. The universe within the franchise, should be expansive. Think 40k. So many chapters of the legendary Space Marines, so many groups, and factions, and lore. You could even make your own. I hope the RTS genre comes back into the mainstream. Not just in the form of MOBAs and other stuff. I feel it would teach the kids from these days to learn teamwork and cooperation, by making them manage units, seeing the consequences of their actions. Anyway, this is very long and I do not know why I did this, but I will go shoot myself with optimisim now. Au revoir.
@@CommissarChaotic I don’t make special expectations, any new stuff on StarCraft would be a fresh breath for franchise. I like StarCraft 2 as well, because it has more dynamic and convenient gameplay. If they release StarCraft 3 - I suppose it will be either some completely new stuff, or some spin off where UED has a major role. Any option looks at least interesting. I love the old series, sometimes play Brood War, but still as a game engine I like StarCraft 2 better. They have BILLIONS of money - do you still think that they will f**ck the release up? I do 🙂but still, I don’t leave my optimism as they at least have capabilities to make a really great game. So my hope is alive. Everything dies, but StarCraft is not dead yet, and must not be, because this game has fans like us
I’m a divorced man. My wife was from Ukraine. As soon as the divorce was finalized, I spent the entire day writing a letter to her family over there explaining my side of the story. A friend of my mother’s that speaks Russian translated it for me. Him writing the letter to his wife to say goodbye, is painfully reminiscent of the letter I wrote.
Well, by Starcraft 2, I think Stukov or rather entire sector finally managed to finish what he started even if he's infested. - Emperor Mengsk is finally killed by Stukov's aid, but the successor Valerian happened to be reasonable enough to make the Terran Dominion a better place. - Zerg finally retreated except for splinter cells, excluding butt load of civilians killed along the way. All worlds of Koprulu became fertile and lush worlds as Kerrigan ascended to a higher plane. - Protoss finally united and stopped the dark one.
Strongest part is the text in the end. It would've been just a text without the cinematic and the soundtrack. But combined together it leaves the viewer with thought of what happened to the fleet.
I remember at 15 when I finally beat the campaigns legitimately. And I was invested in the story. I essentially threw my hands up and said, "it'll never top this." Sure, games would be graphically more superiour, but by my thinking, developers by now KNEW how to do narratives. Starcraft wasn't flawless, but by god it was a measuring stick for others on how to invest their players in narratives. 25 years (?) later, I'm still only rarely as invested as this. It still happens, gaming isn't "dead" or anything, but this stuff will not be amongst the AAA developers any longer. Sadly.
at least the magistrate (Raynor's Terran commander) is still alive. He's still refered in StarCraft 2 and the comics and he apparently left once Mengsk became Emperor, probably out of guilt for helping him rise (if it weren't for the player, Mengsk would have no support). Such a shame SC2 went more for a characterized story. Even the battle of new Gettysburg shows how different the series became, instead of showing an entire Terran army fighting for its life after being abandoned, it only shows Kerringan and no sign whatsoever of the forces she deployed with.
@StarCraftGameplays "None shall ever dispute my rule, again." Basically, UED tried to control 'her' zerg and she took offence I assume. Kerrigan is not one to piss off.
You really see in this just how bad things were going, UED and Terran Dominion troops working together, 2 sworn enamys together trying to fight off the Zerg. And The Protoss were along side them as well. And they all lost. Not even the 3 armys working together could win.
Blizzard has made the best RTS ever, i don't care if graphics are better StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War were the best things i've ever played. The stories are flawless and perfect, and led perfect cliffhangers. StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty was the hardest thing a SC player would deal with, if it sucked then it would've ended up like CnC4. But it wasn't it was another epic part of the saga of the Koprulu Sector, once again Blizzard inspires Sci-Fi like Tolkien inspires fantasy.
2:03/2:11 *"My Pride killed him... And now my Pride has consumed me, as well, 'Helna' You will never see me again."* Curse you Sarah Kerrigan! Oh Zerg Queen of Blades!
I like how the DUT was more menacing for the Kuprulu sector than Amon itself lol, yes Amon corrupted the Khala but the DUT also put in great danger the protoss, yes Amon has his own Swarm, but at least Kerrigan's is more numerous and powerful, the DUT almost destroyed the Swarm and finally Amon has the Moebious Corps but the DUT literally crushed the dominion, in the last only the human pride was the worst and last error of Stukov and DuGalle
Asumo que eres de españa o jugastes starcraft en castellano por llamar a esa faccion así. DUT [Directorado Unido de la Tierra] Castellano UED [United Earth directorate] ENG JTU [Junta de la Tierra Unida] Latino
One interquel campaign I would like to make would involve the Captain stepping in to save as many of the UED remnant forces as possible, as Kerrigan slaughters the fleet. With his ragtag forces, beaten and exhausted, the Captain forges alliances with various mercenaries, in an effort to survive as Kerrigan’s cerebrate pursues them.
I am both interested and dissapointed to find out that the UED never bothered to check on their lost expedition,moreover that stukov never bothered to phone home. admittedly the latter may result in them treating him like a lab rat so fair enough on his end. but i have no such excused for earth...maybe they couldnt be assed? i dont know
I wonder why no message ever got back to the UED. I mean, did they not send any subspace communications? If the people on Earth can detect the Protoss and Zerg from their home planet, couldn't they have communicated with the UED? Seems weird. Also, couldn't the remaining UED fleet go into warp speed to escape?
Message of the defeat actually reached earth. The thing is that the UED started having internal problems so they just lost interest in the koprulu sector.
i liked both sc1 and sc2 stories,tho it's pretty obvious that writters have changed,sc2 was more focused on raynor and kerrigan love story than the other serious plot points,and altho he obviously did have a relationship with her in brood war,after killing milions to just forgive her like that seems unbelievable,it makes no sense that in brood war duran hid his aliegence to amon from kerrigan if she too was controlled by him as it was shown in the bonus missoon of brood war when zeratul discovers duran and his hybrids,also xelnaga are technologically superior race to anything in the universe and are multiversal beings,they are not suppose to actually be gods with magic,they were worshiped by the protoss as such only because in their early days they didn't understand what technology is until they did.
It’s definitely playable. A lot of the gameplay is very much like the original, but some elements were taken away, and some elements were added or changed. Unit pathing is vastly improved (in the original, I’d wonder what the hell my Vulture was doing way off on the other side of the map from my army). The campaign play isn’t very challenging, though-I mean, I of all people can finish several missions on Brutal (hardest) with no problem. That’s just not right.
So true that it's so true. When you play sc1, watch its cinematic videos or just listen to the music, you feel different emotions (usually a little depressing, mysterious and sad). To bad that they don't have much of that in sc2. Even though the gameplay is mostly improved, I find that there's still something big missing...
@AvinGE28 i agree.. i want old voice so much... her voice was unique to kerrigan.. now tricia helfer's voice is kerrigan's voice.. i like it , but still i miss old voice
Fucking hell SC nailed it. WC3 had some hopeful beats, for which I love it too, but SC is by far the darker approach. I hope FrostGiant games doesn't forget its roots.
I got the StarCraft and StarCraft Broodwar so I'll try to help. Terran are more like galaxy exploration and Military for the Earth. But the Terran got in the midden of Zerg and Protoss war. Zerg are like Bacteria they makaing more and take over planets. Terran have no idea what going on. But in the Broodwar the UED is trying to save Earth from the Zerg. but now i don't know what happen the Eath and Terran.
SC2 has better graphics, and better voice-acting for dialogue although the unit voices suck. But better plot? Please. Does he even know what the word means? SC1 was down-to-Earth, cerebral. Much detail went into the lore, detail that SC2 hasn't managed to deliver with its own story despite the great potential of the between-mission Hyperion/Leviathan scenes. And stuff like a doomsday prophecy? Please. It's dramatic and immersive in its own way, but it's not Starcraft, not as it was before.
I actually think SC1 has better graphics. Despite the lower resolution, SC1's graphics look sharper and more well-defined; more realistic. Everything in SC2 somehow looks soft and cartoony.
I'm also gonna say that bw actually had the better voice acting. Sometimes in SC2 you can tell the lines are read from a script with little investment by the actors. Kerrigan's stuffers the most from this. In bw we had great moments for the voice actors like the death of Stukov, the reveal of the hybrids by Duran, every dialogue between Tassadar and Aldaris, Kerrigan's mockery of Zeratul when he killed Raszagal, etc.
a bajillion scourges that kamikaze themselves, of course. In SC1 vanilla, a small group of scourges (or was it jus 1) took down General Duke's battlecruiser
@StarCraftGameplays If the UED Fleet was allowed to reach full strength again, who knows what they would have done in Starcraft 2. For all we know, they would have built their own Psi-Disruptor and this time had it heavily guarded, making it near to impossible for the Zerg to be freed from UED control.
the marine in the bunker was like... ya ya ya shooting ya!, damn stimpack! a infested guy is coming directly but i dont care and i shoot to the fog!...
Dugalle's expeditionary force probably went father than what Earth could monitor, and so Earth was probably kept updated through reports sent from the force. after the Dugalle's force was destroyed they stopped sending reports, thus no one knows what happened to them.
Many say.... the UED will not return and if they do, Valerian and Sarah with Stukov will deal with it...... That massive fleet was an expeditionary force..... It was a small portion. What would a Fleet be like?
Thank you, for supporting Starcraft-Brood war, i never played the SC2, but i didn't wanted, to cause i see it's not old school at all :) hope it's still playable?
I like how this story doesn't have any victor. Every faction lost the war:
- The Protoss were crushed militarily, and the Matriarch is dead.
- The Dominion was crushed.
- The UED taskforce was wiped out.
- The Zerg have it even worse. They seemingly won on the battlefield, but have the worst outcome. Their Overmind is dead, and they are controlled by an infested Terran who doesn't have any loyalty for the Swarm. Because of their hive mind, they can't even try to overthrow her, or to reform an Overmind. They have no hope of ever becoming true Zerg again.
- Finally, Kerrigan "won". And what did she win exactly? She is neither human nor Zerg, and she has no one left to betray, nor to wage war against. She can spend eternity in solitude and boredom, ruling over purposeless creatures. Give it a few years, and she'll probably regret the Zerg didn't kill her on Tarsonis.
very touching comment
Like the old days emotion in total despair
Well said. I agree with this commentary.
This would be gold, if you don't consider SC2 inside of the storyline. However, if you did play ALL brood war the secret mission leaves the cliffhanger of the hybrid topic. With that in mind, then the comment is a little off even though the part of everyone else is completely accurate but Kerrigan's
Kerrigan will still have enemies to fight. She said she would give her "allies" a reprieve. Some time to recover, before she begins another war against the Dominion and the Protoss
If they went with this and we don't consider SC2, then Kerrigan winning is fine by me lol. She's the GOAT.
The UED was so confident in the beginning of the campaign, and in the end not a single ship made it back to Earth. Complete and utter defeat at the hands of the Zerg is a brutal thing.
Well they were very close to winning, just Raynor, Artanis, Fenix and Zeratul held idiot balls to allow Kerrigan to fuck all of them over. Aldaris saw they were holding idiot balls and got blown up for it. Dugalle trusted Duran (a traitor he despises) over his friend for little reason and paid for it with his campaign. Also the UED did not expect Xel'Naga shapeshifters..
@Moonlight Key word there: Almost. That's after one also realizes the UED is a totalitarian, imperialist, and colonialist power. Of course, similar pejoratives hold for the Overmind, Infested Kerrigan, and Arcturus Mengsk's Terran Dominion.
@@stephen1340cThe UED ia based
Keep in mind it was also an expeditionary fleet, just a fraction of the total power of Earth. If they sent a larger force I think even the sheer number of the Swarms would have a harder time taking them down.
Definitely the most masterful part of the cinematic here is 2:06: the music is reminiscent of what was played when this soldier looked up and saw the UED abandoning him. DuGalle is revisiting all the reasons he has to feel guilty.
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Sometimes I randomly remember that scene and rewatch it. Poetically similar fates have befallen many men.
Not only that, but the flash at 2:10 of the marine dying in the field is heart wrenching, and I'm not sure if it's the same marine as the brood war intro, because the other guy was actually surrounded by Zerglings!! So this is footage of two different Marines? Remember that In brood war intro the marine died of a Zerglings rush
@@raiden72 look at 1:49. those are marines from BW intro defending each other afterwards
Ending of Starcraft 2: Everyone unites to destroy the villain. Friendship is magic.
Ending of Starcraft 1: Everyone unites to destroy the villain, but you are playing as the villain, and kill everyone else.
Ending of StarCraft 1 you are Amon. All hope is lost
Ending of StarCraft 2 You defeat Amon Hope has been restored
it would have been way better if Kerrigan's not under the influence of Amon, otherwise why would Duran go AWOL half way through the zerg campaign
You fucking wits dont you ever dare to mention amin ever again, worst villain ever, its tarnishes sc1 legacy
Starcraft 1 es una obra trágica.
To be fair the ending of vanilla SC1 was: everyone unites to destroy the villain. Friendship is magic.
Tell our children that I love them, and their father died in the defense of their future. That line is so good and it sends chills to this day.
I feel so bad for the people who have only played SC2. I mean, sure, the graphics are last gen now, but comparing the execution of the script and the music in SC1 and SC2 is like comparing a match to the sun.
Yes! Holy fuck, i mean i love the story in sc2 but as fun as it is to light matches, it doesn't come close to as warm and comforting as the beaming sun!
I actually like it. I admit it's not as DARK, but that boy who loved Starcraft really enjoyed the two campaigns that I have played. 2 really made me appreciate the Zerg. Albeit I was kinda skeptical about Kerrigan, but it's part of her Redemption.
i'm a long time fan of both games and it's incredible how far people are willing to go to suck their own cocks to highlight how much they are biased to a game. sc2 is a match to a sun? sc1 is brilliant but that brilliance is mainly in how great the game was when it was released. just look at all the hype surrounding sc:r fueled by nostalgia only to have its popularity drop off so hard after.
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Well said.
One of the ballsiest endings in a game.
It's a brutal ending. It's really grim. Fundamentally, the evil bitch wins and the few good guys that there are left are very weakened.
@Dauren Nurakhmet You seem to misunderstand. I love this ending from the bottom of my heart. This is one of my most favorite games of all time, because of how daring and unusual it is. So I suggest you drop the ''go watch disney cartoons'' because that's what a 13 year old would say to sound edgy or cool, and it's quite frankly pathetic.
Then they went and retconned it out of happening with Starcraft 2 =(
@@Daftanemone wait all of it what the fuck?!
@@Daftanemone They didn’t really retcon it, they just continued the story in a more optimistic tone, depending on which option missions you pick
Starcraft Broodwar's story, filled with passion and originality. Its writers had a heart.
Starcraft 2's story.... Hollywood, and nothing else.
truuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Nah. SC2 was great.
@@bolg892expect the story
@@Slicebreader Story was great too Idk wym lol
@@Slicebreader nah,story was great until heart of the swarm rolled arround,whole part where she re-infests herself was mega cringe,like bruh what was the point of wings of liberty if she is just going to re infest herself for sake of stupid revenge,not to mention legacy of the void start was trying to fix story at first,but was actually final nail in the coffin in the end when xelnaga werent technologically superior race to everyone but instead were cthulhu like with magic,and also the fact kerrigan became one of them,that was the most ridiculus part of all
if sc2 ended with wings of liberty and kerrigan staying with raynor,if heart of the swarm featured abathur or some other Zerg leading instead,and if Legacy of the void ended up with them all joining forces to defeat amon instead of one of them becoming a xelnaga to kill a xelnaga
so in short:story is perfect only if you never get into heart of the swarm and legacy of the void
Such a shocking conclusion. I remember being stunned when I realized what he was going to do.
Indeed. There were not many games or stories even back during the 90's where the villains of the story basically won. The Zerg won hardcore at the end of SC: Brood War.
I cried when I had to defeat Raynor and kill Fenix...
I've only ever played the last campaign in Brood War once. Too traumatic to do again.
i wish the ued won
the story in SC1 is one of the best, betrayals, aliances, traitors, thriller, damn so good.
What really annoyed me about SC2 is how little the UED is even mentioned. I mean they trashed the Dominion, took control of the Overmind, and the only mention of them is in one chat with Stukov ?
And not the bullshit prophecies, bullshit romance, cookie cutter dry characters without any life to them and a story so generic it can safely be assumed that it wasn't even written by people and was actually ran through an automated factory? SC2's plot and characters were so phoned in they accrued long-distance charges. Artanis is a fucking duck, and thats what he has always been. Just slapping "Hierarch" on his name and giving him Friendship Is Magic powers doesn't change that.
Kerrigan is pretty fucking bold to tell DuGalle that Alexei was twice the man he was, when she currently is not classifiable as a flat character since the two-dimensionals can at least have a shot at being interesting one-notes.
Oh well, atleast we got Alarak being witty out of it. So thats some worth.
It gets worse: in the canceled game SC: Ghost, one of the planets you visit, Abaddon, is partially held by UED forces. The game takes place post-Brood War (4 years after, but recently it was retconned to just 3 in 2503), so these forces are what's left of the Expeditionary Force.
The mission required you retrieve a Grizzly (new Terran flying unit) and its engineer from the Korprulu Liberation Front who took over the Dominion depot holding it.
Here is all the content pertaining to that planet in the game:
starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Abaddon
One of the merc groups in Wings of Liberty, Spartan Company, was once part of the UED fleet.
By technicality, the UED is a persistent faction as the home world for it is Earth. The UED was formed from the previous Earth government, the United Powers League, so it more than likely still exists.
and that was just a tiny expedition force of the UED.
Honestly for a while there it seemed like Blizzards writers had entirely forgotten Brood War campaigns actual story considering how they wrote Kerrigan. It's like after they saw complaints they went back an actually played BW for reference. That's why Stukov shows up in HOTS, and they reference the sad song record player thing like twice. It even plays on the main menu now sometimes lol.
I really hoped that in the Nova DLC missions, the Defenders of Man were actually UED remnants, and they caused chaos in the Dominion to send a signal back to Earth. Turned out they were just another renegade-ish Dominion faction.
The emotion in his words" the creatures we were sent here to tame are untamable, and the colonies we were sent to reclaim have proven to be stronger than we had anticipated.."Thats what every single human feels that he can be in control of anything, and blinded by the pride we fail to notice the defeat cloaked as a victory.
2:10 Having that marine drop his weapon when he sees the nuclear explosion was a great touch.
Yes like the falling apart feeling and lost all hope, he realizes he was betrayed, and about to die.
It took me two decades to realize why Starcrafts story left so much more of an impact as the stories of other games or even SC2. The (at the time) flashy cinematics and the battle scenes might have been what have drawn my inner child in, but it was what was happening to the characters, and this voice that made it stand out from just another dazzling display. You can feel the despair, the resignation at accepting ones fate, the loss as Dougalle is about to end it, unable to face his failure and his own guilt at having been duped to betray his friend.
Only if Admiral DuGalle hasn't listened to Duran, this entire thing would have been avoided, why, just why Duran...
+Freddy FuseBear I dont know, perhaps because he is in league with Amon? Being a Xelnaga and all...
Yeah, but nobody knew anything until it was too late though.
Because some men just want to watch the world burn...
I find it a bit strange how he listened to Duran even though it was established he distrusted him. All the while they also established Alexei was among his personal friends. What is more he could've resolved this much more easily by just asking Alexei proper.
Xirius The Soulwatcher I was wondering that myself. Apparently the UED had some weird HICOM mistakes, because their HICOM is sh!t, as in the trust factor.
Now this is a level of story telling that all games should aspire to.
I hated how they made me play Zerg at the end and cause this result.
I also remember the profound emotion associated with these stories as I played. I thought it was because I was young, but no. It really was that compelling.
I was the same. I'm 31 now so was originally playing Starcraft as a child. I wished the last mission could have ended another way. I was relieved the story allowed Raynor to live though.
1:49 I just love that few seconds of UED and Dominion marine standing side by side.
Even if the 3 factions had united to defeat Kerrigan in the last mission, there would've been a rigid tension between all of them.
Hell, in Dominion's eyes, UED were bombarding and invading their very capitol planet only like a few weeks ago (with tons of civilian casualties occurring as all wars do) while Protoss who've battled both Dominion and UED would've doubted both Terran forces, knowing how very few humans can be trusted.
Gameplaywise, all 3 factions' bases are located with some distance from each other too. Yet, the threat of the zerg swarm was so great that all order and tension between them must've broke down and forced them to truly unite just for survival.
All of this conveyed in 4 seconds!!!
I love the old Blizzard games. Evil always wins, in the most badass way.
While I can’t disagree with that as I love the old games too, I appreciate the newer games for giving the heroes a break and chance to shine with an optimistic tone.
Agreed, with both of these comments.
Let's watch this cinematic, compare it to LotV's ending cinematic, and then kill ourselves in despair.What happened, Blizzard?
activision happened. Look what triple A companies like NaughtyDog/BioWare/EA turned into along with Blizzard
@@simunator It just got worse..
@@blubberblase1012 That's true, somehow the lackluster graphics helped in making the story much more compelling, like it fits into the grim and dark tone of the narrative. They pretty much nailed it on making do with what they had back then.
Best comment I have read my friend. Truly disgusting what transpired here. Greetings from Central Europe I still cannot believe that this happened.
I like that all Terran endings are kinda fake victories, the Zerg ones are devastating, and Protoss endings are heroic.
Ironic as well since the Protoss have the most tragic losses (Tassadar, Aldaris, Fenix, and Raszagal) while the Terran characters have borderline cockroach-tier refusal to die.
I love these 90's FMVs. Character models look like shit, but something about the lighting and the colors is very appealing to me.
Brood War had depth and class. SC2 is comparable to a high school freshman's work -- watered down and derivative.
The sad part is that his message or any of the news of the defeat never reached the UED as the fleet was destroyed by pursuing Zerg.
The news of the defeat would have reached the UED. After all, the UED knew about the events that preceded their fleet's arrival. In the lore, the reason given for the UED never responding is they were simply too busy. The UED was a fascist dictatorship that emerged from a particularly turbulent period in Earth's history. It was never the epitome of stable governance. So in the time since the Expeditionary Fleet was deployed, internal squabbles had taken priority.
But yeah, his touching final farewell and revelation about Stukov very likely never reached Earth.
Its disappointing that we never get to see the UED again, DuGalles fleet was very strong since they were able to take on the dominion but lets not forget that it wasnt the entirety of the earths fleet, DuGalles fleet might be one of the hundreds of fleet the earth has, i also read something saying that DuGalles fleet was just an expeditionary force but they were still able to have many accomplishments and victories. I know im not the only one who wants to see the UED return
If I recall correctly, the UED has 10 fleets under its command. The Expeditionary Fleet was maybe a 10th of the size of one of those fleets. They also stripped the fleet of a lot of their most advanced technology to both make the journey to the Koprulu Sector easier and to prevent the Dominion from being able to reverse engineer their technology should the worst happen. And yet that fleet was able to subjugate the Zerg, conquer the Dominion, and even send the Protoss packing.
They stripped the fleet down because the UED was utterly paranoid. Its a fascist, xenophobic dictatorship. Everything they did was about protecting Earth from even the most remote of perceived threats. In this case, their concern was that the Dominion was so utterly mismanaging the Zerg threat that it would inevitably snowball out of control and threaten Earth itself. That propaganda video at the end of the UED campaign seems to pretty accurately reflect UED mindsets about the situation. The Brood War opening cinematic also shows that the Zerg are the real motivation for getting out there, and that they are afraid of the Zerg's aggressiveness.
@@jarynn8156
Another interesting thing about the UED is that very few of their units have actually been seen and all of them were absolutely cracked asf with long-lasting legacies and influences in Korprulu Terran warfare technology.
Medics, Spartan Company Goliaths, and Valkyries would lead to pseudo reverse engineering to eventually lead to the Medivac, Viking, and Liberator.
We've never seen the UED's combat infantry, heavy vehicle, specialist, or flagship units. Even the battlecruisers used in Brood War were all stolen since the Alexander was the only heavy air unit present which never even fought.
I finally beat the full StarCraft campaign for the first time like ten minutes ago, and this cutscenes really blew my mind 🤯🤯🤯
This almost made me cry the first time I saw it. No joke =(.
I think that’s the point! Truly a sad ending!
I mean, the UED guy (Du Gaulle?) sending a suicide note to his wife and kids, guilt over killing his best friend consuming him. And the honor thing about failing the mission... don't know... that's pretty adult in my opinion... SC2 story so far is only cliché over cliché.
I hope they put one or two interesting turns in it in the expansions.
but chris metzen himself said that he "grew up" between sc1 and 2 so how could the first game be more adult????
@@ifound15min35 growing up sometimes mean losing the spark of creativity and fantasy that drives you. In some cases it means to become empty and grey. Work becomes a routine chore as you're slowly worn down.
It's why you should never grow up inside.
"Au revior" indeed my good admiral. Au revior. (pause at his email screen to his wife)
just noticed, dugalle says "alexei did not die gloriously in battle" while the computer screen says " alexei did not die a hero"
lol xD
There's also a typo: "...proven to be stronger thatn we anticipated."
I like the typos.. it makes it more realistic... you guys missed "Au revior"
Man sucks that modern games are no longer this dark and well written-sure you have the good graphics of the Starcraft 2 and many cinematics-but truly is a better looking thing better even if it's story is pathetic to the original?
Shivers down my spine despite having seen this so many times before
And after this high point, it became a comedic anime
The storyline is so complex, you would think it came from a novel.
such a sick ending! Dugalle was the fucking man. I wanna see UED come back and just fuck shit up in sc2. LOL
Hello 10 years later. It did not happen. Have a nice day.
Simply amazing. Had me dreaming of a continuation of the campaign for eleven years. Then StarCraft II happened and turned a fantastic sci-fi into a dull fantasy love story :(
That said, StarCraft II is still one of the best multiplayer games of all time. Possibly THE best multiplayer game of all times. But I'll never forgive Blizzard for firing all writers and replacing them with the team from My Little Pony...
Wait what? Did they really fucking do that? What the fuck.
@Zoomer Stasi Still as true as the day I said it. If can't handle it, your loss :)
@@PappaTor You overdosed on nostalgia, instead of being a whiny neckbeard, go play starcraft 1.
@Zoomer Stasi your name is homosexual, your opinion has no value, please raise your testosterone levels before having an opinion on starcraft, thanks :)
This was amazing!!!
Just played both SC 1 Original and the broodwar completed.
Ready to go for SC 2 campaign.
Hots and Lotw has to be bought but I guess it's worth it.
Completely worth. It has more pathos I can say, especially HOTS, but still a great sequel.
Hope there will be Starcraft 3 in a couple of years - this game is immortal, and it needs at least one more sequel! Third breath I would say )
@@From_The_Shadow_I_Come Dearest Dmytro: By then, Microsoft would've had acquired Activision-Blizzard. The way they ended SC2 seemed very... final to me. Sure, the gameplay was fun and engaging but the story always seemed like it was rolling down the hill towards its end. Blizzard, well it rolled down the hill years ago. For any consumer that has tasted the olden products, they may believe in that company no longer. All they stand for now is the greed they inherited from the publisher Acitivision that acquired them... Though, know this, I still bear some shred of hope. They retconned and remade the Modern Warfare series. Change opens new doors for opportunities, and with how the kids these days gobble up anything these game companies push out it doesn't matter anyway. Maybe, they will retcon and remake Starcraft as well. Hopefully just the parts right after WoL. I just am not a fan of how the story turned out. It feels like it proceeded in its own bubble. The UED was clearly a force to be reckoned with, even with the downfall of their expeditionary fleet. The universe within the franchise, should be expansive. Think 40k. So many chapters of the legendary Space Marines, so many groups, and factions, and lore. You could even make your own. I hope the RTS genre comes back into the mainstream. Not just in the form of MOBAs and other stuff. I feel it would teach the kids from these days to learn teamwork and cooperation, by making them manage units, seeing the consequences of their actions. Anyway, this is very long and I do not know why I did this, but I will go shoot myself with optimisim now. Au revoir.
@@CommissarChaotic I don’t make special expectations, any new stuff on StarCraft would be a fresh breath for franchise.
I like StarCraft 2 as well, because it has more dynamic and convenient gameplay.
If they release StarCraft 3 - I suppose it will be either some completely new stuff, or some spin off where UED has a major role.
Any option looks at least interesting. I love the old series, sometimes play Brood War, but still as a game engine I like StarCraft 2 better.
They have BILLIONS of money - do you still think that they will f**ck the release up? I do 🙂but still, I don’t leave my optimism as they at least have capabilities to make a really great game. So my hope is alive. Everything dies, but StarCraft is not dead yet, and must not be, because this game has fans like us
@@From_The_Shadow_I_Come you mentally challenged? Sc2 is hot garbage
@@kbjosekiller google translate?
UED: Mission Failed,the Zerg have won the War
I’m a divorced man. My wife was from Ukraine. As soon as the divorce was finalized, I spent the entire day writing a letter to her family over there explaining my side of the story. A friend of my mother’s that speaks Russian translated it for me. Him writing the letter to his wife to say goodbye, is painfully reminiscent of the letter I wrote.
Back when the Zerg queen ruled. Evil winning for a change in those sci-fi stories.
Let's put it simple. The Writing of Starcraft 1 was absolutely superior to anything put out in the last decade. It doesn't even come close.
Cough Warcraft 3
@@Dawnyy warcraft 3 is cliche as fuck fantasy story, with writing as bad as the biggest rip off of lotr, good game tho
@@ifound15min35 Well you got no eye for quality then... Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne expansion is a master class in great storytelling.
Eso paso por que blizzard queria matar estarcraft para darle apoyo a age impires
@@fosphor8920 No, not even close.
You just overdosed on nostalgia.
Oh UED, to this day their loss is still such a regret. Only Earth must be in charge of the universe, no one else!!!!
Well, by Starcraft 2, I think Stukov or rather entire sector finally managed to finish what he started even if he's infested.
- Emperor Mengsk is finally killed by Stukov's aid, but the successor Valerian happened to be reasonable enough to make the Terran Dominion a better place.
- Zerg finally retreated except for splinter cells, excluding butt load of civilians killed along the way. All worlds of Koprulu became fertile and lush worlds as Kerrigan ascended to a higher plane.
- Protoss finally united and stopped the dark one.
Strongest part is the text in the end. It would've been just a text without the cinematic and the soundtrack. But combined together it leaves the viewer with thought of what happened to the fleet.
Poor dude making a typo for the very last word of his farewell message.
any similitude with actual happenings is mere coincidence
The soldier drops his gun at 2:07 seeing the base....I mean...
Since I experienced more of StarCraft 2 before one I didn’t really mind the story
But knowing now I have some issues
Thanks for the Video.
You're welcome :)
I remember at 15 when I finally beat the campaigns legitimately. And I was invested in the story. I essentially threw my hands up and said, "it'll never top this." Sure, games would be graphically more superiour, but by my thinking, developers by now KNEW how to do narratives. Starcraft wasn't flawless, but by god it was a measuring stick for others on how to invest their players in narratives.
25 years (?) later, I'm still only rarely as invested as this. It still happens, gaming isn't "dead" or anything, but this stuff will not be amongst the AAA developers any longer. Sadly.
Looks like the fate of the commander character you play in the UED Terran campaign is sealed. Not a single UED ship made it back to Earth..
at least the magistrate (Raynor's Terran commander) is still alive. He's still refered in StarCraft 2 and the comics and he apparently left once Mengsk became Emperor, probably out of guilt for helping him rise (if it weren't for the player, Mengsk would have no support). Such a shame SC2 went more for a characterized story. Even the battle of new Gettysburg shows how different the series became, instead of showing an entire Terran army fighting for its life after being abandoned, it only shows Kerringan and no sign whatsoever of the forces she deployed with.
blizzard entretainment elevates videogames to something much bigger than entretainment.
I for one welcome our new Zerg overlords.
@StarCraftGameplays "None shall ever dispute my rule, again."
Basically, UED tried to control 'her' zerg and she took offence I assume.
Kerrigan is not one to piss off.
"Why listen to sad 'classical' music when you have an option to listen to Radio Free Zerg."
The song in this clip plays occasionally in the SC2 menu screen, nice touch if you ask me.
You really see in this just how bad things were going, UED and Terran Dominion troops working together, 2 sworn enamys together trying to fight off the Zerg. And The Protoss were along side them as well. And they all lost. Not even the 3 armys working together could win.
Blizzard has made the best RTS ever, i don't care if graphics are better StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War were the best things i've ever played. The stories are flawless and perfect, and led perfect cliffhangers. StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty was the hardest thing a SC player would deal with, if it sucked then it would've ended up like CnC4. But it wasn't it was another epic part of the saga of the Koprulu Sector, once again Blizzard inspires Sci-Fi like Tolkien inspires fantasy.
2:03/2:11 *"My Pride killed him... And now my Pride has consumed me, as well, 'Helna' You will never see me again."* Curse you Sarah Kerrigan! Oh Zerg Queen of Blades!
I like how the DUT was more menacing for the Kuprulu sector than Amon itself lol, yes Amon corrupted the Khala but the DUT also put in great danger the protoss, yes Amon has his own Swarm, but at least Kerrigan's is more numerous and powerful, the DUT almost destroyed the Swarm and finally Amon has the Moebious Corps but the DUT literally crushed the dominion, in the last only the human pride was the worst and last error of Stukov and DuGalle
Asumo que eres de españa o jugastes starcraft en castellano por llamar a esa faccion así.
DUT [Directorado Unido de la Tierra] Castellano
UED [United Earth directorate] ENG
JTU [Junta de la Tierra Unida] Latino
One interquel campaign I would like to make would involve the Captain stepping in to save as many of the UED remnant forces as possible, as Kerrigan slaughters the fleet.
With his ragtag forces, beaten and exhausted, the Captain forges alliances with various mercenaries, in an effort to survive as Kerrigan’s cerebrate pursues them.
I am both interested and dissapointed to find out that the UED never bothered to check on their lost expedition,moreover that stukov never bothered to phone home. admittedly the latter may result in them treating him like a lab rat so fair enough on his end. but i have no such excused for earth...maybe they couldnt be assed? i dont know
Who the heck thought super saiyan Kerrigan was a good idea?
Where as in SC1, it's all about showing the bad sides of the three playable races, SC2 it's all about showing the good.
I wonder why no message ever got back to the UED. I mean, did they not send any subspace communications?
If the people on Earth can detect the Protoss and Zerg from their home planet, couldn't they have communicated with the UED? Seems weird.
Also, couldn't the remaining UED fleet go into warp speed to escape?
September2004 Because they need the UED for StarCraft 3.
Message of the defeat actually reached earth. The thing is that the UED started having internal problems so they just lost interest in the koprulu sector.
i liked both sc1 and sc2 stories,tho it's pretty obvious that writters have changed,sc2 was more focused on raynor and kerrigan love story than the other serious plot points,and altho he obviously did have a relationship with her in brood war,after killing milions to just forgive her like that seems unbelievable,it makes no sense that in brood war duran hid his aliegence to amon from kerrigan if she too was controlled by him as it was shown in the bonus missoon of brood war when zeratul discovers duran and his hybrids,also xelnaga are technologically superior race to anything in the universe and are multiversal beings,they are not suppose to actually be gods with magic,they were worshiped by the protoss as such only because in their early days they didn't understand what technology is until they did.
It’s definitely playable. A lot of the gameplay is very much like the original, but some elements were taken away, and some elements were added or changed. Unit pathing is vastly improved (in the original, I’d wonder what the hell my Vulture was doing way off on the other side of the map from my army).
The campaign play isn’t very challenging, though-I mean, I of all people can finish several missions on Brutal (hardest) with no problem. That’s just not right.
So true that it's so true. When you play sc1, watch its cinematic videos or just listen to the music, you feel different emotions (usually a little depressing, mysterious and sad). To bad that they don't have much of that in sc2.
Even though the gameplay is mostly improved, I find that there's still something big missing...
Mensgk should've offered DuGalle to stay. He'd need someone to fill Duke's shoes.
It doesn't really fit DuGalle's character to switch sides. He seemed pretty loyal to Earth.
@AvinGE28 i agree.. i want old voice so much... her voice was unique to kerrigan.. now tricia helfer's voice is kerrigan's voice.. i like it , but still i miss old voice
The graphics haven't aged well, but damn if that scene doesn't still give me chills after 24 years.
Is so sad. A sad ending.
Me: you remember DuGalle.. Alexei?
Alexei: ah yes.. i do.. he was my good.. admiral
Hey raynor has his jukebox DuGalle has the record player. Both men just love there music
i like how alot of the videos mention alexei stukov cause he was my favorite character
Fucking hell SC nailed it. WC3 had some hopeful beats, for which I love it too, but SC is by far the darker approach. I hope FrostGiant games doesn't forget its roots.
I got the StarCraft and StarCraft Broodwar so I'll try to help.
Terran are more like galaxy exploration and Military for the Earth.
But the Terran got in the midden of Zerg
and Protoss war.
Zerg are like Bacteria they makaing more and take over planets.
Terran have no idea what going on.
But in the Broodwar the UED is trying to save Earth from the Zerg. but now i don't know what happen the Eath and Terran.
The message never reached Earth.
SC2 has better graphics, and better voice-acting for dialogue although the unit voices suck. But better plot? Please. Does he even know what the word means? SC1 was down-to-Earth, cerebral. Much detail went into the lore, detail that SC2 hasn't managed to deliver with its own story despite the great potential of the between-mission Hyperion/Leviathan scenes. And stuff like a doomsday prophecy? Please. It's dramatic and immersive in its own way, but it's not Starcraft, not as it was before.
I actually think SC1 has better graphics. Despite the lower resolution, SC1's graphics look sharper and more well-defined; more realistic. Everything in SC2 somehow looks soft and cartoony.
I'm also gonna say that bw actually had the better voice acting. Sometimes in SC2 you can tell the lines are read from a script with little investment by the actors. Kerrigan's stuffers the most from this. In bw we had great moments for the voice actors like the death of Stukov, the reveal of the hybrids by Duran, every dialogue between Tassadar and Aldaris, Kerrigan's mockery of Zeratul when he killed Raszagal, etc.
Still weird to think that this series started as a warhammer game
The UED was destroyed for no reason and also the UED capital flagship was infested rather than destroyed
i alaways love the back round music that plays while kerrigan is talking
a bajillion scourges that kamikaze themselves, of course. In SC1 vanilla, a small group of scourges (or was it jus 1) took down General Duke's battlecruiser
"Au revior"
DuGalle became an hero
@Gerard785 I totally agree as Chris M. already said they left most if not all of their big guns (with the exception of Valkyrie) behind
That's a Luger.
@StarCraftGameplays If the UED Fleet was allowed to reach full strength again, who knows what they would have done in Starcraft 2. For all we know, they would have built their own Psi-Disruptor and this time had it heavily guarded, making it near to impossible for the Zerg to be freed from UED control.
This was only an Earth simple Taskforce. The entire UED army can crush all life on the Kuprulu Sector!
the marine in the bunker was like... ya ya ya shooting ya!, damn stimpack! a infested guy is coming directly but i dont care and i shoot to the fog!...
Ruin has come to our fleet
Good Game.
dearest helena, i'm sorry but this defeat signalled the end of our heroic story, the universe of space warfare will nv be the same again
It's kind of funny that even in the future, the humans are using pre-2000 PCs.
Dugalle's expeditionary force probably went father than what Earth could monitor, and so Earth was probably kept updated through reports sent from the force.
after the Dugalle's force was destroyed they stopped sending reports, thus no one knows what happened to them.
Many say.... the UED will not return and if they do, Valerian and Sarah with Stukov will deal with it...... That massive fleet was an expeditionary force..... It was a small portion. What would a Fleet be like?
Thank you, for supporting Starcraft-Brood war, i never played the SC2, but i didn't wanted, to cause i see it's not old school at all :) hope it's still playable?
"Heyyyyyy stop moving all 300 of ya......heyyyyy bobby hit the stems on me again"
long live the queen of blades.... long live kiragen
the end of a nera.. before kerrigan was destroyed in sc2. ill never forgive them.