To sum everything in conclusion in StarCraft 2, Zerg have continued with their usual goals of evolution while avoiding inhabited worlds, Raynor and Kerrigan are never to be seen again, The protoss have set aside their differences and has became a United faction minus the Tal'Darim. Dominion has better days ahead with Valerian as emperor, and Nova has became an outlaw. So now the Dominion has lost all of their top field operatives and knowing for certain they will be dealing with the Tal'Darim in the future.
After the events of Starcraft: Evolution, Valerian forms an alliance with Overqueen Zagara and has a joint Dominion/Swarm "Compliance Initiative" in order to monitor the new lifeforms on the formerly barren worlds. This occurs after Zagara gets enraged and tears Abathur apart to the brink of death for trying to start a war between the Protoss, Zerg, and Dominion. In the current "Shadow Wars" comic, Niadra, the broodmother who infested the Protoss ship on Kaldur, is still following her last orders from Kerrigan.
@@SynneDennis I know right we need to see more of her why can't blizzard make a campaign for her they made one for nova and Nidra for zerg and protoss maybe alarak or vorzun
at 1:27:20 That somber music... "My Dearest Helena, Alexi did not die gloriously.. I killed him. My Pride killed him, and now my pride has consumed me as well, tell our children that I died protecting them, you will not hear from me again Helena, " Admiral Gerald Dugalle, right before Kerrigan's Swarm arrived and finished off the rest of the UED Fleet.
1:40:36-1:41:40 Everything about this is extremely well executed and portrayed. It also gets across the size of these *_absolute units_* as they're meant to appear. I think.
Anybody else think Nova Covert Ops's had the best storyline out of StarCraft II? The rest of StarCraft II felt so cliched, but this one's writing felt much more on par with the original game. Betrayal, manipulation, civil war, etc. If they ever make a 3rd game hopefully the writing will be good!
Really wish there would be a sc3 one day. Nova's fate, Valerian's rule, Raynor and Kerrigans relationship, Tal'darim's revenge on the dominion etc... but that wouldn't be too hyped if the story is the continuation of this dlc and it seems the zerg's story would be kinda out of place. We all can hope since the story for now is very open-ended!
Not really, I mean not as far as stories go. Jim, Kerrigan, Artanis, all 3 faction minus one splinter faction, it's all wrapped up pretty nicely. I think what you mean is that the universe has much more to expand on and other stories to be told. SC1 and SC2 were specifically about James Eugine Raynor, with a heavy emphasis on the 3 factions as a whole. He's the first character you meet in both games and you're aligned with him 75%+ of the time. The only time you aren't is when you're exploring someone important to James Raynors life, be it friendly or hostile. While the story jumps you into Kerrigan and her interaction with the Zerg, it's from Jim's perspective you sympathize with. Artanis's story is specifically about the state of the Protoss and when that was put to bed, they cleaned the story up with James leaving forever. Now, if they expanded the universe and made an entire game, it would have to be all new factions or the current factions are old and stagnant. As much as we like these characters, you're not going to be as connected with any of them as you are with James Raynor. Like I said, he's your first in game character met, your first friend, and you control his army through his eyes. You simply can't have that with existing characters. Nova was intriguing and they showed so little of her in the game, so a DLC featuring her made sense, but an entire game? That's a lot less when we were controlling species wide dominions or leaders and going to a small sub faction within 1 major faction. Good DLC, bad full game. The only story thread that I would be excited to play is if it was set hundreds of years in the future and the whole Korpulu Sector knows of the Great Emperor Mengsk Jr. who was a man of the people and united humanity like no one else. The renegade James Raynor who would sacrifice everything to keep evil from prevailing and how he went from a lowly backwater Marshall to the Malitia leader known to boldly aid the Dominion on pushing the Zerg fleets back. Kerrigan, the powerful Zerg Queen turned God to save every life in the sector. All of these are legends that give inspiration to a new host of main characters and their struggle from a boring, beuracratic, stagnant mess that has fallen all 3 races as something happens to spark the sector into full war. Anything else would feel like a half story or offshoot of what we've already done.
There are a couple of potential story threads left to explore: The UED sending out a proper invasion force into the Koprulu sector. The expeditionary force we saw in Brood War was a pretty bare bones exploratory mission that mostly used local tech to supplement their forces. The Tal'Darim under Alarak doing... whatever Alarak does. Honestly, the Tal'Darim as a faction don't really make much sense in the first place and are all Edgelords but w/e. Broodmother Niadra is still following Kerrigans last command, which means she's slaughtering Protoss left and right (possible Zerg antagonist). Abathur has been put in his place by Zagara but probably doesn't like it and Stukov left Zagaras Brood since his loyalty was only to Kerrigan. Zagara and the Dominion are working together to reseed the devastated planets using a species of psionic creatures mixed with Xel'Naga essence. She is also working in reintegrating the lost parts of Kerrigans brood into the Swarm. The Daelaam are experiencing internal strife because many Khalai feel lost and without purpose after loosing their access to the Khala, there are Nerazim who object the inclusion of the Khalai into their society and want to go back to the old ways and the Purifiers are exploring their own existence. And then there's the Tal'Darim who decided to join the Daelaam before Alarak left who are getting a bit of a culture shock. Basically the Daelaam are a powder keg waiting to blow unless handled very skillfully. In one of the stories outside of the Game, a mysterious figure who has been confirmed not to be Amon was directing the dark Archon Ulrezaj to create creatures that might be a different sort of Hybrid. There might be more, but that's all I can think of for now. The potential for StarCraft 3 might be there, I don't know how it would work though.
@@Salted_Fysh I'm not saying there aren't stories to be told, but does it fit within the entire arc of the 2 games? The first game was about establishing the players and their strife within the sector. The second game was a larger story blossoming from the current conflicts established in the first. Anything they did with a specific faction, or combination of factions isn't going to worthy of the title "StarCraft 3". Maybe StarCraft 2: Daelaam Strife or StarCraft 2: UED Invasion, but nothing they can realistically do would he worthy of the title. It has to continue the epic, but the epic is over. Amon is dead, Kerrigan and Jim are gone, all 3 are at peace. THAT story is over. Much like Red Alert: Tiberium Sun, it would have to be a different branch. It could include the same characters, but the story they were telling in SC1 & 2 is over. I don't see how they can go bigger than having an established character fuse with a God to destroy an evil threat to all of creation. That's pretty much as big as it gets and they topped it off pretty finally. Think about the Diablo universe. There is an eternal struggle happening meaning there can be many games to come and they would all fit nicely within the Diablo story. You wouldn't all the sudden focus on the Barbarians of Arriat and call it a full Diablo game. Let's say they somehow resurrected Anu and Tethemat and they returned to a single being and left Sanctuaty forever. That would be the end for the Diablo story as a whole, but that doesn't mean there wouldn't be more storied they COULD tell with lingering demonic lords or whatnot. It just wouldn't be worthy of a full installment or a continuation to the "Diablo" game line. It would be its own entity.
@@snodog00 mh... I don't think raising the scale of epicness is always the answer. Let's take Dragon Ball Z as an example. The show is caught in a loop of having to make the villains become ever more epic and powerful, blowing the previous villain out of the water with each arc so much so that it just becomes really ridiculous very early on. It's hard to care about the progression of the story if everything is always epic and even more epic. Escalation is not always the way forward. The story threads I mentioned are enough to potentially serve as a set-up for conflicts with each race, ranging from Terran against Terran (Dominion - UED) to Zerg vs Zerg (Zagara - Niadra/Abathur) to Protoss vs Protoss (Daelaam vs Tal'Darim and potential civil war). Similarly all these can be used for cross-species conflict. That way, even if there is already an understanding between Dominion, Daelaam and Swarm, you can still set up antagonists from all three sides. You also have the potential for a behind the scenes threat (mysterious manipulator - though to be fair, that one has already been done with Narud) and you have Zeratul-like independent actors who can drive a potentially threatening side-plot forward with Stukov, Nova and Mira Han. (And keep in mind that prior to the appearance of aliens, from the perspective of the UED, the Koprulu sector and all it's conflicts is the boonies, a couple of backwards colonies that aren't important enough to even bother with. If they come in full force, that's no joke.) I'm not saying it's an easy thing to do, but the material is there.
@@Salted_Fysh yes and DBZ has steadily gone downhill since Freeza since he was THE big bad. Then there's another one, and another one. Keep McGuffining big bads and the story suffers. That's what I'm saying. You know what else Toriyama does? Keeps bringing Goku back because without him, it's not really DBZ. That's what I'm saying. While some people may enjoy the Videl and Great Sayaman arc, it's vastly underwhelming and forgettable because Goku wasn't in it. If they continued, guarantee it would have gone to shit fast. You're not getting what I'm saying. It's not about epicness per se, it's about THAT particular epic situation. What can they do to keep that going? Nothing really is my point. If DBZ continued without Goku, it would have been better off being labeled something else, like DBZ: The Gohan Saga, effectively separating it from the original DBZ. A different story with similar people and universe, but something OTHER than just DBZ.
Set this aside after downloading it, was curious on how it would be, just finished watching it, was better than i thought, still would not justify buying it, but i am glad i was able to recover this, having never played it or seen for the past years. Thanks mate
I'm... a little confused by that ending. Nova went rogue, but she says that the Dominion still needs ghosts... so is she going to, like, dispense vigilante justice in their name (doing what needs to be done even if Valerian doesn't like it) or is she truly, fully their enemy now? (Also, I think she _may_ have gone a little too far taunting Alarak there. She should know she can't beat him in a straight-up fight.)
@@xLetalis It's okay, that happens to me a lot too! The main reason I watched this in the first place was because I remembered seeing part of Nova's missions a while back, but I'd forgotten most of the plot.
basically she is going to do Valerians dirty work from him but since she has quote on quote gon rouge she is not officially and unofficially connected to him Valerian has 100% deniability and his reign is intact regardless of what Nova does
Essentially Nova changed from spec ops to black ops. She's cleaning up the trash of the Dominion and dealing with threats that arise but without official sanction from the Emperor since he has to focus on diplomacy and not being his father. As Nova states multiple times: She will always be loyal to the Dominion.
pity they haven't made any more mission packs, I'm also hoping for them to add sub faction choice like that of LOTV with the 3 races with auir protoss version, dark templar version, taldarim version & purifier for protoss, current swarm, stokov's, abathur, dahaka, elite terren of the dominion, raynors raiders, pirates & Umoja. also like them to allow co-op commanders for PVP
Agree, i wasn´t interesed with this mission pack but now with the quarantine i´m playing it, it´s damn good, i have to say that i´m enjoying it more than the 3 main games.
yeah for real. what a shame but at least it happened i guess. unlike the other starcraft project that was scrapped. the one that was gonna be like star wars battle front.
It was first person, but it was originally. Starcraft: Ghost started development for then next gen consoles(PS3, XB360) and PC, was announced, then almost immediately shelved. I'm glad we got some incarnation but never forget what could have been.
Yo what did evil general mean by “you could have prevented this, if you listened.”? It seems like it could just be evil “if I was in power you wouldn’t have to deal with this” type deal, but it seems like it was supposed to have more significance than that. Did she plan to have evil space rocks come down and murderize everyone if she was ever found out? Did she have some other kind of contingency plan for if the space rocks showed up? It seemed like the only reason they survived was because of assassin lady and prince pretty boy. Edit: ok I now see it was supposed to be a part of her human supremacy plan. Still, the line seems like it’s implying more, and it’s a stupid plan.
The Dominion have seen better days under Valerian Mengsk’s rule. However, Davis managed to cause some damage to the Dominion. She was loyal only to Arcturus and she swore to avenge him by trying to make ppl see Valerian as a fatuous emperor. Valerian though he was trying to fight to reform the Dominion under his father’s corrupt rule but he has his dark secret that may hinder him. That dark secret was when he gained his power and ascended the throne, the people who supported and fought along with him were all his father’s enemies so there will be certainty of a backlash. This is linked to the Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm where he alleged himself to the Raiders, teaming up and befriending Terran outcast Jim Raynor and Matt Horner, and later the Zerg Queen of Blades Sarah Kerrigan. He willingly allowed the latter bring her Primal Swarm with support from Raynor to lay siege to Korhal resulting in the elimination and death of Arcturus at the hands of Raynor and Kerrigan. So Valerian actually has allies from the Terran outcasts, the Zerg Swarm that followed Kerrigan and Zagara and the Protoss under Altanis to a lesser extent in Legacy of the Void in addition to the Dominion force he took with him in Wings of Liberty.
I like Alarak but... why is Artanis allowing him to just attack terran forces like that? Aren't they supposed to be having a truce or something after Legacy of the Void?
No, the truce is between the Tel'Darim and the Daelaam. The Terrans were not involved in this pact - therefore Alarak is technically allowed to attack Terrans.
None of those answers are correct. After the war, some of the Tal'darim chose to stay with the unified protoss in command of Artanis: the Daelaam. The rest of them are still in charge of Alarak and he has no connections to the Daelaam anymore. They're on different paths and agendas.
Alarak standing next to Nova looks so weird, You don't really realize how big the dude is during LOTV. But when standing next to terrans without trooper armor, Dude is like 8ft tall or something.
Question one missions were apart of which packs? Just curious, I feel the first one ended when she killed the technician correct? I'm probably wrong on that though.
Imagine if Starcraft games done in arcade shooting games like Contra, Metal Slug, Aero Fighters, R Type etc. Blizzard still owing Starcraft Ghost and I wish they restart the project in next gen consoles.
Well the UED is what they need to worry about unless it split apart if its still united then you can expect that they will be back and be a greater threat to the protoss, zerg, and the dominion cause the UED still wants to put the terrans in the dominion under tere control and kill the protoss and zerg ause they see both as a threat. I would like to see a starcraft were it deals with the UED.
@@krystof5271 That was only a small expeditionary force using barebones tech supplemented with Dominion resources. Keep in mind that the Koprulu sector is considered to be a bunch of fringe colonies in the eyes of the UED. The UED is a major militaristic government back on earth. In the words of one of the people involved behind the scenes: The loss of the expeditionary force is an annoyance but hardly puts a dent in the UED's military might. But they got interested once they found out that there are alien races in the sector so they might come stopping by.
@@xLetalis I think they said that Tosh surviving was canon as Raynor felt like he had more in common with Tosh in how to get things done. Also quoted from the wiki "During Raynor's expedition into the Void in 2506, spectres were still in service of Raynor's Raiders"
They brainwashed her but did not expect that old Nova left a message on her Visor. I suppose when this message popped up new Novas instincts kicked in.
The cloak is already intact because she is a ghost, the only thing they did to her is to erase her memories, nothing added, nothing removed (Her memories is removed but that doesn't count).
So did you take all the tech equipment for Nova? Cuz when you were doing the mission with the Reapers with fending off the waves of Zerg you didn't picked it up to show you got it, you just skipped and just went back to the fight. At least you shown you took the equipment in the other one where Swann calls Nova an "Ace"
I thoroughly enjoyed the gameplay in this pack. But, fuck me, after, what, an in game DECADE of folks trying to drive the zerg into doing what they want and it absolutely backfiring spectacularly, you'd think they'd have learned the lesson xD
She's nearly in Kerrigan's record as a Ghost, all Ghosts are well trained assassins, pretty sure she used judo in that. Heavy yes, but maybe because of her training.
The marine suits are designed to be survive space and be prisons first, protection is not their priority. And ghosts have several drugs as well as their psionics which greatly enhance them physically, with Nova being the most powerful ghost besides Kerrigan.
37:35 "We have to stop this, now!" - you literally could have if you weren't just crouched there overhearing him blatantly state he is finalising the plan, while doing nothing except ensure you are far enough away to not get to him in time. God blizzard does shit cliched cinematics
Iam not saying like WHY DIDN'T you do that i was just figuring you put all this time and effort into it but there are plenty of walk through s out there maybe some just wanna watch the story line : ) i give u a like for your time and effort
I really wish they out time into this game but it's too painful to play or watch. Legit only like looking at her. Other than that it's bad/lazy writing and just no context or content. But that's people today. Hallow idiots. Blizzard was ahead of the spread.
For crying out loud, who the hell writes those scripts and who voice-acts this? The dialogues are terrible at best. Since when do Protoss (any Protoss) say things like "imbeciles" or "what is this"?
True, the history and dialogues are not that good since Heart of the Swarm, i wouldn´t call them bad but average at best. However i love the missions of this pack.
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To sum everything in conclusion in StarCraft 2, Zerg have continued with their usual goals of evolution while avoiding inhabited worlds, Raynor and Kerrigan are never to be seen again, The protoss have set aside their differences and has became a United faction minus the Tal'Darim. Dominion has better days ahead with Valerian as emperor, and Nova has became an outlaw. So now the Dominion has lost all of their top field operatives and knowing for certain they will be dealing with the Tal'Darim in the future.
After the events of Starcraft: Evolution, Valerian forms an alliance with Overqueen Zagara and has a joint Dominion/Swarm "Compliance Initiative" in order to monitor the new lifeforms on the formerly barren worlds. This occurs after Zagara gets enraged and tears Abathur apart to the brink of death for trying to start a war between the Protoss, Zerg, and Dominion. In the current "Shadow Wars" comic, Niadra, the broodmother who infested the Protoss ship on Kaldur, is still following her last orders from Kerrigan.
@@davidhfranz YES! I loved Niadra. It was a little heartbreaking to see Kerrigan abandon her.
@@SynneDennis what happened with Isha?
Sorry if I didn't write her name well.
@@SynneDennis I know right we need to see more of her why can't blizzard make a campaign for her they made one for nova and Nidra for zerg and protoss maybe alarak or vorzun
I really hope the UED comes back. I loved them in Starcraft 1 and 2 almost completely forgot about them (besides stukov)
> Covert Ops
> About Spec Ops agent
> Who use a force so large that a supply limit is reached
Okay, looks legit.
at 1:27:20 That somber music... "My Dearest Helena, Alexi did not die gloriously.. I killed him. My Pride killed him, and now my pride has consumed me as well, tell our children that I died protecting them, you will not hear from me again Helena, " Admiral Gerald Dugalle, right before Kerrigan's Swarm arrived and finished off the rest of the UED Fleet.
Nova is like Azula of the Dominion, because they shared the same VA.
1:40:36-1:41:40
Everything about this is extremely well executed and portrayed.
It also gets across the size of these *_absolute units_* as they're meant to appear. I think.
In fact those ships are still smaller than they are supposed to be. A mothership is 3x3x1 km in size. Thing's massive.
Watching this makes me imagine if Nova could be a freedom fighter or peacekeeper like Jim Raynor in Starcraft 3.
With the current state of Blizzard, I'd rather they leave the Starcraft storyline be. We don't need it butchered like how they did to Warcraft.
Anybody else think Nova Covert Ops's had the best storyline out of StarCraft II? The rest of StarCraft II felt so cliched, but this one's writing felt much more on par with the original game. Betrayal, manipulation, civil war, etc. If they ever make a 3rd game hopefully the writing will be good!
writing is always easier if the scope is small, Starcraft 2 storyline is huge, what can you expect?
I wish I knew, but I never known where to buy this game DLC!
I think the wings of liberty was hella good. The rest was kinda meh
The thing, the betrayal was so damn obvious it was a weak storyline
1:08:03 WTF!!!?
Really wish there would be a sc3 one day. Nova's fate, Valerian's rule, Raynor and Kerrigans relationship, Tal'darim's revenge on the dominion etc... but that wouldn't be too hyped if the story is the continuation of this dlc and it seems the zerg's story would be kinda out of place. We all can hope since the story for now is very open-ended!
Not really, I mean not as far as stories go. Jim, Kerrigan, Artanis, all 3 faction minus one splinter faction, it's all wrapped up pretty nicely. I think what you mean is that the universe has much more to expand on and other stories to be told. SC1 and SC2 were specifically about James Eugine Raynor, with a heavy emphasis on the 3 factions as a whole. He's the first character you meet in both games and you're aligned with him 75%+ of the time. The only time you aren't is when you're exploring someone important to James Raynors life, be it friendly or hostile. While the story jumps you into Kerrigan and her interaction with the Zerg, it's from Jim's perspective you sympathize with. Artanis's story is specifically about the state of the Protoss and when that was put to bed, they cleaned the story up with James leaving forever.
Now, if they expanded the universe and made an entire game, it would have to be all new factions or the current factions are old and stagnant. As much as we like these characters, you're not going to be as connected with any of them as you are with James Raynor. Like I said, he's your first in game character met, your first friend, and you control his army through his eyes. You simply can't have that with existing characters. Nova was intriguing and they showed so little of her in the game, so a DLC featuring her made sense, but an entire game? That's a lot less when we were controlling species wide dominions or leaders and going to a small sub faction within 1 major faction. Good DLC, bad full game.
The only story thread that I would be excited to play is if it was set hundreds of years in the future and the whole Korpulu Sector knows of the Great Emperor Mengsk Jr. who was a man of the people and united humanity like no one else. The renegade James Raynor who would sacrifice everything to keep evil from prevailing and how he went from a lowly backwater Marshall to the Malitia leader known to boldly aid the Dominion on pushing the Zerg fleets back. Kerrigan, the powerful Zerg Queen turned God to save every life in the sector. All of these are legends that give inspiration to a new host of main characters and their struggle from a boring, beuracratic, stagnant mess that has fallen all 3 races as something happens to spark the sector into full war. Anything else would feel like a half story or offshoot of what we've already done.
There are a couple of potential story threads left to explore:
The UED sending out a proper invasion force into the Koprulu sector. The expeditionary force we saw in Brood War was a pretty bare bones exploratory mission that mostly used local tech to supplement their forces.
The Tal'Darim under Alarak doing... whatever Alarak does. Honestly, the Tal'Darim as a faction don't really make much sense in the first place and are all Edgelords but w/e.
Broodmother Niadra is still following Kerrigans last command, which means she's slaughtering Protoss left and right (possible Zerg antagonist). Abathur has been put in his place by Zagara but probably doesn't like it and Stukov left Zagaras Brood since his loyalty was only to Kerrigan.
Zagara and the Dominion are working together to reseed the devastated planets using a species of psionic creatures mixed with Xel'Naga essence. She is also working in reintegrating the lost parts of Kerrigans brood into the Swarm.
The Daelaam are experiencing internal strife because many Khalai feel lost and without purpose after loosing their access to the Khala, there are Nerazim who object the inclusion of the Khalai into their society and want to go back to the old ways and the Purifiers are exploring their own existence. And then there's the Tal'Darim who decided to join the Daelaam before Alarak left who are getting a bit of a culture shock.
Basically the Daelaam are a powder keg waiting to blow unless handled very skillfully.
In one of the stories outside of the Game, a mysterious figure who has been confirmed not to be Amon was directing the dark Archon Ulrezaj to create creatures that might be a different sort of Hybrid.
There might be more, but that's all I can think of for now. The potential for StarCraft 3 might be there, I don't know how it would work though.
@@Salted_Fysh I'm not saying there aren't stories to be told, but does it fit within the entire arc of the 2 games? The first game was about establishing the players and their strife within the sector. The second game was a larger story blossoming from the current conflicts established in the first. Anything they did with a specific faction, or combination of factions isn't going to worthy of the title "StarCraft 3". Maybe StarCraft 2: Daelaam Strife or StarCraft 2: UED Invasion, but nothing they can realistically do would he worthy of the title. It has to continue the epic, but the epic is over. Amon is dead, Kerrigan and Jim are gone, all 3 are at peace. THAT story is over. Much like Red Alert: Tiberium Sun, it would have to be a different branch. It could include the same characters, but the story they were telling in SC1 & 2 is over. I don't see how they can go bigger than having an established character fuse with a God to destroy an evil threat to all of creation. That's pretty much as big as it gets and they topped it off pretty finally.
Think about the Diablo universe. There is an eternal struggle happening meaning there can be many games to come and they would all fit nicely within the Diablo story. You wouldn't all the sudden focus on the Barbarians of Arriat and call it a full Diablo game. Let's say they somehow resurrected Anu and Tethemat and they returned to a single being and left Sanctuaty forever. That would be the end for the Diablo story as a whole, but that doesn't mean there wouldn't be more storied they COULD tell with lingering demonic lords or whatnot. It just wouldn't be worthy of a full installment or a continuation to the "Diablo" game line. It would be its own entity.
@@snodog00 mh...
I don't think raising the scale of epicness is always the answer.
Let's take Dragon Ball Z as an example. The show is caught in a loop of having to make the villains become ever more epic and powerful, blowing the previous villain out of the water with each arc so much so that it just becomes really ridiculous very early on. It's hard to care about the progression of the story if everything is always epic and even more epic. Escalation is not always the way forward.
The story threads I mentioned are enough to potentially serve as a set-up for conflicts with each race, ranging from Terran against Terran (Dominion - UED) to Zerg vs Zerg (Zagara - Niadra/Abathur) to Protoss vs Protoss (Daelaam vs Tal'Darim and potential civil war). Similarly all these can be used for cross-species conflict.
That way, even if there is already an understanding between Dominion, Daelaam and Swarm, you can still set up antagonists from all three sides.
You also have the potential for a behind the scenes threat (mysterious manipulator - though to be fair, that one has already been done with Narud) and you have Zeratul-like independent actors who can drive a potentially threatening side-plot forward with Stukov, Nova and Mira Han.
(And keep in mind that prior to the appearance of aliens, from the perspective of the UED, the Koprulu sector and all it's conflicts is the boonies, a couple of backwards colonies that aren't important enough to even bother with. If they come in full force, that's no joke.)
I'm not saying it's an easy thing to do, but the material is there.
@@Salted_Fysh yes and DBZ has steadily gone downhill since Freeza since he was THE big bad. Then there's another one, and another one. Keep McGuffining big bads and the story suffers. That's what I'm saying. You know what else Toriyama does? Keeps bringing Goku back because without him, it's not really DBZ. That's what I'm saying. While some people may enjoy the Videl and Great Sayaman arc, it's vastly underwhelming and forgettable because Goku wasn't in it. If they continued, guarantee it would have gone to shit fast.
You're not getting what I'm saying. It's not about epicness per se, it's about THAT particular epic situation. What can they do to keep that going? Nothing really is my point. If DBZ continued without Goku, it would have been better off being labeled something else, like DBZ: The Gohan Saga, effectively separating it from the original DBZ. A different story with similar people and universe, but something OTHER than just DBZ.
Set this aside after downloading it, was curious on how it would be, just finished watching it, was better than i thought, still would not justify buying it, but i am glad i was able to recover this, having never played it or seen for the past years. Thanks mate
now I dont have to buy the mission packs thank youu
for a ghost you'd think she'd use her psionic powers to get info out of people knowing that people most likely answer her questions
Thanks mate. My videos arent working for some reason. So i played a mission than quit to watch your vid. Repeat
1:29:26 that attitude 😂😂
Reigel Sounds Like Cyborg From Teen Titans Go & Wasabi From Big Hero Six Animated.
I'm... a little confused by that ending. Nova went rogue, but she says that the Dominion still needs ghosts... so is she going to, like, dispense vigilante justice in their name (doing what needs to be done even if Valerian doesn't like it) or is she truly, fully their enemy now?
(Also, I think she _may_ have gone a little too far taunting Alarak there. She should know she can't beat him in a straight-up fight.)
damn I don't remember the content that well anymore to give an accurate answer :)
@@xLetalis It's okay, that happens to me a lot too! The main reason I watched this in the first place was because I remembered seeing part of Nova's missions a while back, but I'd forgotten most of the plot.
basically she is going to do Valerians dirty work from him but since she has quote on quote gon rouge she is not officially and unofficially connected to him Valerian has 100% deniability and his reign is intact regardless of what Nova does
And Alarak's just cheesing the hell out of everyone.
Essentially Nova changed from spec ops to black ops. She's cleaning up the trash of the Dominion and dealing with threats that arise but without official sanction from the Emperor since he has to focus on diplomacy and not being his father.
As Nova states multiple times:
She will always be loyal to the Dominion.
First 2 chapters are only at 720p, sorry about that :{ Otherwise... enjoy!
i saw you trying to kill the tourists there ;)
We spectres are the future...
You just cant handle it little girl!
pity they haven't made any more mission packs, I'm also hoping for them to add sub faction choice like that of LOTV with the 3 races with auir protoss version, dark templar version, taldarim version & purifier for protoss, current swarm, stokov's, abathur, dahaka, elite terren of the dominion, raynors raiders, pirates & Umoja. also like them to allow co-op commanders for PVP
that's true
Agree, i wasn´t interesed with this mission pack but now with the quarantine i´m playing it, it´s damn good, i have to say that i´m enjoying it more than the 3 main games.
All of this should've been a third-person-perspective action/espionage game, from Nova's shoulders.
yeah for real. what a shame but at least it happened i guess. unlike the other starcraft project that was scrapped. the one that was gonna be like star wars battle front.
It was first person, but it was originally. Starcraft: Ghost started development for then next gen consoles(PS3, XB360) and PC, was announced, then almost immediately shelved.
I'm glad we got some incarnation but never forget what could have been.
Awesome nuke at 1:08:14 xD
45:49 P.O.V. you're a war criminal
Yo what did evil general mean by “you could have prevented this, if you listened.”? It seems like it could just be evil “if I was in power you wouldn’t have to deal with this” type deal, but it seems like it was supposed to have more significance than that.
Did she plan to have evil space rocks come down and murderize everyone if she was ever found out? Did she have some other kind of contingency plan for if the space rocks showed up? It seemed like the only reason they survived was because of assassin lady and prince pretty boy.
Edit: ok I now see it was supposed to be a part of her human supremacy plan. Still, the line seems like it’s implying more, and it’s a stupid plan.
Scooter.
Skippy.
Ace.
26:22
dont mind me just marking where i left off.
Godammit, Alarak.
38:22 Hmm I guess Mercedes make weapons too.
hah, never noticed!
So this what happens after raynor and kerrigan left in mar sara
When prince valerian and admiral horner was now the leader of the dominion
Damn Nova really looks like a blond version of Sarah kerrigan just like some people are claiming.
Maybe they used the same, or at least a very similar, model for both of them but recolored the hair.
The Dominion have seen better days under Valerian Mengsk’s rule. However, Davis managed to cause some damage to the Dominion. She was loyal only to Arcturus and she swore to avenge him by trying to make ppl see Valerian as a fatuous emperor.
Valerian though he was trying to fight to reform the Dominion under his father’s corrupt rule but he has his dark secret that may hinder him. That dark secret was when he gained his power and ascended the throne, the people who supported and fought along with him were all his father’s enemies so there will be certainty of a backlash. This is linked to the Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm where he alleged himself to the Raiders, teaming up and befriending Terran outcast Jim Raynor and Matt Horner, and later the Zerg Queen of Blades Sarah Kerrigan. He willingly allowed the latter bring her Primal Swarm with support from Raynor to lay siege to Korhal resulting in the elimination and death of Arcturus at the hands of Raynor and Kerrigan. So Valerian actually has allies from the Terran outcasts, the Zerg Swarm that followed Kerrigan and Zagara and the Protoss under Altanis to a lesser extent in Legacy of the Void in addition to the Dominion force he took with him in Wings of Liberty.
And then after this event, Nova becomes a new queen of blades lol.
I like Alarak but... why is Artanis allowing him to just attack terran forces like that? Aren't they supposed to be having a truce or something after Legacy of the Void?
Lerquiy of Nirlac They aren't part of the Dae'lam so he can do what he wants
No, the truce is between the Tel'Darim and the Daelaam. The Terrans were not involved in this pact - therefore Alarak is technically allowed to attack Terrans.
At least that's what I interpreted it as. I might be wrong thou.
None of those answers are correct. After the war, some of the Tal'darim chose to stay with the unified protoss in command of Artanis: the Daelaam. The rest of them are still in charge of Alarak and he has no connections to the Daelaam anymore. They're on different paths and agendas.
1:11:36 shat my pants XD My sound was a bit high i guess
wanted some more of alarak
It's like Starcraft Ghost we never got.
Girls need a car(ship) for loyalty
Alarak standing next to Nova looks so weird, You don't really realize how big the dude is during LOTV. But when standing next to terrans without trooper armor, Dude is like 8ft tall or something.
one of two greatest ghosts
So Nova's ship is the Great Fox?
I was thinking the same thing! They're uncannily similar.
Question one missions were apart of which packs? Just curious, I feel the first one ended when she killed the technician correct? I'm probably wrong on that though.
Alarak betrays Nova...why am i not surprised? >_>
Watch the video before reading the comments, dumbass. You know there's gonna be spoilers so why the hell are you reading them?
Where can i buy nova coverts ops now, i've looked on the store and all the links give me a 404. Did they ditch it or include it in another pack?
which would win a big ship that has a rail gun a flame thrower and deploys fighters
or
a woman who has a sniper rifle
Imagine if Starcraft games done in arcade shooting games like Contra, Metal Slug, Aero Fighters, R Type etc. Blizzard still owing Starcraft Ghost and I wish they restart the project in next gen consoles.
This campaign looks fun.
Thanks a lot for this upload!
my pleasure
68:04 why did you nuke YOUR OWN forces?!
why not?
.....that’s a mathematically impossible time.
@@youmebothorneither how so ?
Thank you for uploading it on YT! I want to buy it, is that good idea?
yes it is :) and you're welcome
I was expecting the leader of the swarm to come and collect her zergs
Well the UED is what they need to worry about unless it split apart if its still united then you can expect that they will be back and be a greater threat to the protoss, zerg, and the dominion cause the UED still wants to put the terrans in the dominion under tere control and kill the protoss and zerg ause they see both as a threat. I would like to see a starcraft were it deals with the UED.
They all died lmao
@@krystof5271 That was only a small expeditionary force using barebones tech supplemented with Dominion resources. Keep in mind that the Koprulu sector is considered to be a bunch of fringe colonies in the eyes of the UED.
The UED is a major militaristic government back on earth. In the words of one of the people involved behind the scenes:
The loss of the expeditionary force is an annoyance but hardly puts a dent in the UED's military might.
But they got interested once they found out that there are alien races in the sector so they might come stopping by.
Nova or Kerrigan?
Who's the best ghost?
good question
probably Tosh :)
@@xLetalis but he's already dead
@@alexlinkinparkful depending on your choices he may survive
@@xLetalis I think they said that Tosh surviving was canon as Raynor felt like he had more in common with Tosh in how to get things done. Also quoted from the wiki "During Raynor's expedition into the Void in 2506, spectres were still in service of Raynor's Raiders"
Anyone notice Alarak's voice goes higher pitched at the end of the terrazine mission.
Heh, those goofy mercs are still using Vultures.
At the beginning i dont get it why they made her cloak when they know she is gonna run away
True Dude they prolly were too dumb to expect it and also plot.
They brainwashed her but did not expect that old Nova left a message on her Visor. I suppose when this message popped up new Novas instincts kicked in.
The cloak is already intact because she is a ghost, the only thing they did to her is to erase her memories, nothing added, nothing removed (Her memories is removed but that doesn't count).
So did you take all the tech equipment for Nova? Cuz when you were doing the mission with the Reapers with fending off the waves of Zerg you didn't picked it up to show you got it, you just skipped and just went back to the fight. At least you shown you took the equipment in the other one where Swann calls Nova an "Ace"
gosh I can't remember ;[
@@xLetalis well if there isn't a Blazefire Gunblade in her weapons line. You've missed a good easter egg
question here....why Swann calls Nova "Ace"?
@@saykdosits just Swann's quirk in the dialogue. He even called Valerian "Scooter" and Artanis "Skippy"
@@ravenlinosoriano2867 bur does it mean something? Ace? (also thanks for answering)
I thoroughly enjoyed the gameplay in this pack.
But, fuck me, after, what, an in game DECADE of folks trying to drive the zerg into doing what they want and it absolutely backfiring spectacularly, you'd think they'd have learned the lesson xD
lmao there is a scene where nova beats up two space marines. tiny little woman doing that to a couple ton men. yeah fuckn right
Starcraft Netflix Series!!! Make it happen!!!
Well that was certainly interesting btw looking forward to your upcoming videos on swtors next expansion! if that indeed your intent. =D
yep it is ;]
1:24:00 how could nova overpower a marine in power suit, the suits must be really lightweight
Protagonist power of convenience
Ghosts have superhuman strength and agility, in addition to their psionic powers.
@@demonhunter5520 thats just idiotic
She's nearly in Kerrigan's record as a Ghost, all Ghosts are well trained assassins, pretty sure she used judo in that. Heavy yes, but maybe because of her training.
The marine suits are designed to be survive space and be prisons first, protection is not their priority.
And ghosts have several drugs as well as their psionics which greatly enhance them physically, with Nova being the most powerful ghost besides Kerrigan.
why is jinaras sound lower quality then everyone elses ?
How the fuck did she vault a 400 kg power suit with a 100 kg marine inside over herself???
I want new starcraft game :(
Time stamp bookmarks.
32:41
1:11:12
1:47:41
37:35 "We have to stop this, now!" - you literally could have if you weren't just crouched there overhearing him blatantly state he is finalising the plan, while doing nothing except ensure you are far enough away to not get to him in time. God blizzard does shit cliched cinematics
2:31,2:28
all these game movies are confusing if your not a gamer
aren't 3 races became friends
yes but just the part of protoss that had artanis as highlord had aliance with terran and zagara wasnt in allience with someone
The leaders have truced, but not all of those under them. There’s still feral Zerg, and the Defenders of Man aren’t quite what the seem.
Is this story after Legacy of the Void
yes
Bargain.
With alarac.
Deal with the devil . . . . Makes mengsk look like a pawn shop buyer
Blizzard's Mass Effect and Normandy ship.
Why they changed her face model and voice actress though? Worse.
Did they change Matt's voice actor
Not today anyway
Mission pack? why don't they just call it DLC instead? Is it not DLC?
I mean it is...
51:55
Attach cobra amma
Good talk
No it wasn't
dude u should have just made this a walkthrough and showed what weapons and tech you used on each mission
sorry ;[
Iam not saying like WHY DIDN'T you do that i was just figuring you put all this time and effort into it but there are plenty of walk through s out there maybe some just wanna watch the story line : ) i give u a like for your time and effort
So glad I didn't buy this expansion. Love the IP, but these mini games are dreadful
Noòooooooooooooo
she looked cute in the heroes cinematic....now she just looks like a lady boy
I really wish they out time into this game but it's too painful to play or watch. Legit only like looking at her. Other than that it's bad/lazy writing and just no context or content.
But that's people today. Hallow idiots.
Blizzard was ahead of the spread.
For crying out loud, who the hell writes those scripts and who voice-acts this? The dialogues are terrible at best. Since when do Protoss (any Protoss) say things like "imbeciles" or "what is this"?
a tal'darim maybe
they are known to be very cocky
Gabriel Barsch my dad "alarak" as i call him does call humans imbeciles.
It's freaking Alarak and the Tal'darim. What do you expect from overly edgy Protoss?
True, the history and dialogues are not that good since Heart of the Swarm, i wouldn´t call them bad but average at best. However i love the missions of this pack.
Drugs are bad for everyone, kids.
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