Poll: Starcraft 2 - Best campaign?

[Hawki]

People interpret things differently. But for me, it's about magnitude. As you said, it was 4 missions... they only knew each other for what, a few weeks?

Two months.

To me this is a relationship that never got off the ground, no first date, no first kiss...

Not in the game, no, but we saw the kiss in 'Hope and Vengeance', and they had their first date at Sam's Place.

 

[skywolfblue]

I'll go with Heart of The Swarm. I love all 3 campaigns, but I think HoTS had great story that showed Kerrigan's internal conflict. Jim moves heaven an earth to make her human again, then is captured and presumed dead. So she makes the choice to abandon her humanity in order to embark on her quest for revenge. She chooses to be the monster.

I know a lot of people bitched about the love story with Raynor and Kerrigan, because they were never a thing in SC1 before she got abducted. Just Jim being a smartass and flirting with her, but that was about it. Then they retconned it to make them former lovers torn apart by tragedy. But meh, I liked it. It made for some emotional scenes, and I liked the story in WoL and HotS better than the original SC, so it was an improvement, IMO.

I feel the same way. I rather liked the love story slant that WoL spun, even if the "redemption" of Kerrigan at the end was naive.

I mean you can argue she already was one in Brood War winning in the end and becoming the Queen of Blades and leading all the Zerg.

But I never wanted a redemption arc for her this drastically. All of a sudden she's the Chosen One to save the universe from an evil Space God! And she beats him by becoming a literal Holy Angel made of Fire, Light, and Lawful Goodness! And all her prior crimes and betrayals she did as the Queen of Blades, pfft nothing.

If they wanted her to be "Redeemed" just say that we need her and her Zerg army to help us battle this new and greater threat, don't make her the be all, end all of the series!!

The LoTV epilogue ending was pretty bad. It's weird for me because I love SC2 so much, so I tried as hard as hell to like the ending...

But suddenly the person who has been a monster who has slaughtered billions gets magically redeemed, and turned into an angel. And all her prior sins are completely ignored. That was a real "WTF Seriously?" moment.

 

[Paragon Fury]

Storywise it's WoL for me, with LotV being a definite dead-ass last.

Gameplay-wise, HotS was probably the most fun.