Why The Plot Of Starcraft Is Insane - Escort Mission 

+The God Emperor We actually already had the space devil part in Starcraft.

MrTohawk Nope. In SC1 there was talk of the Xel'Naga, but not that one of them was the IMPENDING SPACE DEVIL! Just that they were a power house of the sector that could be returning. And then they had to just Warcraft/Diablo up the story with SC2 :( Unless you're talking about the overmind in which case I don't agree he was exactly a space devil.

+The God Emperor This! It's funny how they borrowed heavily from Starcraft's story to make Warcraft 3 and then they borrowed even more heavily from Warcraft 3 to make Starcraft 2. Blizzard has been selling a reskin of the same game since 1998.

+The God Emperor The way you say it... It actually feels reasonable to me. "Different races unite as they face a powerful enemy". Pretty epic and cliche, huh? Though, I should say, I am too tired of this heroic bullshit. I prefer stories more like one from Path of Exile. Where you basically appear out of nowhere and those npcs offer you help only because you help them, not because you are the Hero, baka!

+The God Emperor Xel Naga explained as the progenitor race of zerg & protoss in the SC1 manual. More like panspermia created capitalists terrans against telepathic races represented as communist zerg and socialist protoss.

As an Australian I can confirm that this video is 197% accurate.

+ThePoptartster Space Australia is real mate and so is it's moon Space Tasmania.

+ThePoptartster I'll have you know I'm from Space Brisbane.

Go Space Broncos!

How is it harsh? Invade you're genuinely not in the know, some convicts used to be sent to Australia, it wasn't meant as an insult

Go space broncos

Don't worry about Space-Brisbane, most of the Terrans come from out astro-west of Space-Ballarat

It's all about dat space kush baby

+MaximumKahnage Chuck a Space Shrimp on the Space barbie, and have a nice dip in the Space pool. Don't get sunburnt though, or you'll get the Space skin-cancer.

+MaximumKahnage Space Nimbin (or more accurately New Nimbin) is never good any time of any year. Just because the junkies got techno spacey on top of the already spacey, doesn't make it cooler.

Don't let the space dingos eat your space babies. Like me sister... Poor Sheila.

oh, go back to space New Zealand.

+DEEZ GUYZ DBZA FTW

Wrestling's fake.

What would a space outhouse be like?

Exactly

You're not. Gameplay is SC - most cutscenes are SC 2, basicly anything that doesn't look like you could have made it on a potato is SC2. (p.s.: Not judging btw. SC 1 is old as balls, 'course it's not going to look that great compared to somewhat modern cgi)

+JinFreeks it may be old but gameplay is much better than today's game.

all of this was from SC 1

+The Abortion Except the scenes showing footage from the SC2 trailer, of course. And that one showing Tychus chewing his cigar. That also wasn't. So... nope, not all of it was from SC1.

No that would be ironmans reterd brothers fight giant bugs in space

+Henry Stone It's not necessarily bad, it just becomes completely irrelevant after maybe 15 minutes of playing the first game.

+devo342 Isn't that the plot of Starship Troopers?

+Henry Stone it's the funniest though

devo342 fucking lmao, very underrated comment

At all. I was waiting for the snarky plot summary that ruins the game story. But I got nothing. The main Terrans are regular humans and the grunts are clones of humanity's least desirable people. How is that a revelation?

+BossRedRanger I think it was toward the end when they bring up the Southern Confederacy and liken the clones to slaves. Effectively the player is in the role of a Southern slave driver forcing drugged clones into battles they have little chance of surviving.

+Danté Solablood little chance of surviving? Pfft. Watch me micro bro! (just don't look at my bronze league rating... because then you'll know you're probably right)

but the player doesn't exist in the story, canonically the troops usually take orders from whatever hero character is on the field that map

+DrMustacho It's a joke, son!

#pcmasterrace

Deleted. This thread has turned from a joke into a bullshit internet argument.

#pcmasterrace

+Anderson Andrighi please stay on your high and mighty throne your majesty, because we peasants love killing fucktardy royalty

+The Learned Soldier #Arianmasterrace

How ignorant can you be?

+Jay Martin He's a southerner.

+MiniMackeroni haha lol oh no

+MiniMackeroni good one

+ProductBasement confirmed Source: South Carolinian that has fled to see his home state for what it is.

WRONG!!!

DONTworryIgotTHIS the premise of the terrans doesn't belong to the plot?

He mentions some of it, but gets it wrong. For example, Terrans weren't caught in the middle of the war when they arrived. Terrans created the Zerg.

It mentions plenty, but it's all wrong.

Fuck me someone already posted this.

agreed!

+Field Marshal Fry Let's be honest now, everything is less awesome then warhammer 40k.

MrGhaundan yeah, but since Star Craft is a blatant 40k expy so it makes it seem even less awesome by comparison

+Field Marshal Fry well, they used to be the same company

sotijas The same company? Blizzard has always been US based and games workshop UK. Field Marshal Fry Maybe, but i still like starcraft as well. Would be fun if they didn't fuck up tyrani...i mean zerg though. Then again games workshop isn't flawless with their fluff either.

MrGhaundan but it's more than made up for with the Imperial Guard and their Mars Patten Adamantium Balls

+Jackson Romero one?

The shanking is still there, but it's from a lurker.

+ravenandthecrow For the record I am a disapointed Starcraft fan that love the lore, the story and the gameplay of starcraft 1 but I am disapointed in the lore, story and the gameplay of Starcraft 2. Starcraft 1 was awesome because each race had their own perspective and from their point of view they were doing what was right according to their value a bit like it would happen in real life. It was all plausible from a sci-fi perspective. Starcraft 2, zerg became missunderstood creatures, protoss became a lot weaker than in starcraft 1 and the romance between Kerrigan and Jim was invented to fit the romeo and juliet story line. Also the Zel Naga turns out create the universe instead of being a super uber advanced race. The gameplay was not as much fun for me than in starcraft 1. Broodwar was an expansion to the starcraft1 game and starcraft 2 and three different variation of the same game and almost 3 game on its own. There was no expansion. All it was, was a game broken in three with game imbalance. fuck this. I am still ranting about it. Nevermind what I said.

Can't tell if serious or troll... In any case, these videos aren't trying to offer perfectly accurate plot summaries, they offer jokes based on the strangest elements of the game.

Victoly Serious. I am not a troll. I used to be a big fan. Let just say it was very disapointing and I have not played Starcraft in a while. I now play Legend of the Endless or Darkest (strategy) Dungeon or War (2D startegy) for the overworld (RTS) I am just super disapointed in Blizzard. At least they did not disapoint me as much as Walt Disney did with Star wars the Force Awaken and shoving aside the Extended Universe. A lot of things I really loved has been changed in a way that totally disrespect the lore that was established and most of all just to reboot stuff because the game developpers or movie makers did not want to invest time to immerse themselves in the lore or because they wanted to make something brand new. So to make this short, I ranted because pretty much EVERY videogames, tabletop games, TV franchise or movie franchise or comic fanchise or anime franchise has either been rebooted in a lame version of itself, or is now gone. Time and money invested in things I was super passionate about gone just like that because of corporate decisions. I m bitter. Sorry for the rant.

+Victoly You really thought that might be a troll? No matter how I read it it seems completely genuine. I don't see the attack vector, who would it have been written to piss off?

ravenandthecrow Two things: One, your expectations are way off-base if you're "disappointed" that a Cracked video made jokes. That's what the whole channel is about. Two, If someone's creative decisions-Blizzard's, Disney's, whoever-bother you so much, ignore them. Ignore the new Star Wars movies and continue to enjoy the "expanded universe" novels. Ignore SC2 and continue to enjoy the "lore" of the first Starcraft. New media does not invalidate your experience of older media.

+leprechaunluck24 I think they could all work together. See I have this theory that every Cracked show takes place in the SAME UNIVERSE. In which Michael is a super-powered genie boy and Dan appears to be a voice of reason, but is evidently unhinged throughout. He murders an intern in that one episode of 'Today's Topic', which explains his psychopathic coldness in 'After Hours'. All Cracked staff act the same, exaggerated or plain fictional version of themselves in every show. No way Sorren is that handsome in our real world. My point is yes, I agree. A thirty minute show combining all sketches would be great, and certainly work.

+Nikolaus Cox Your blowing my mind man!!!!

+Yosías Cruz Guerrero Sandoval They're not. The lore reason for ghosts and other telepaths are experiments conducted on earth which included cybernetics, gene-splicing AND cloning. The marines were never explicitly clones though, lore wise they are resocialized convicts and mental patients and when the dominion rose to power a tiny percentage were volunteers.

the video said they were humans clones its like they didn't even research what they're talking about

+Yosías Cruz Guerrero Sandoval Yeah, thats cracked for you i guess.

+Yosías Cruz Guerrero Sandoval The joke was that every non important character had identical voice acting and portrait. same joke can be made about Wacraft as well.

Manuel Sacha You've dug to deep. The internet Illuminati must silence you.

Gotta be careful though Burter. Space Dingo'l eat your space baby.

+Mr Phox Zerglings = Space Dingos Raynor/Tychus = Space Ned Kelly? Mengsk = Space Turnbull? UED = United Kingdom of Britain

+Mr Phox poor Sheila

I was severely disappointed. #zergMasterRace

+ladybickster Me too, actually. Even though I never waited for this.

+Kevin Chin See him pwning those scrubs in the first non-tutorial mission of the terran campaign?

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