Starcraft 2 Heart Of The Swarm Opening Cinematic

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UFriday

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ETGRY_3583c

Not entirely sure how to embed videos, but there you go.

Well, that was somewhat awe-inspiring. Any thoughts?
 

Ickorus

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Embedding video is simple, quote me to see how it's done:


I'm still debating whether or not I should buy Heart of the Swarm, I like the base game but I've never really gotten into the multiplayer so I'm not sure whether or not it's worth my money.

Also: 1:44 - Wilhelm Scream.
 

Nouw

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Good work as always. Chuckled at the dumbass Viking who landed and tried to take on the Ultralisk.
 

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Odgical said:
Aww yeeeeah!

Wait. Where's my protoss? Do we mean so little?! Anyway, here's to hoping Mr Raynor meets his unfortunate demise for being so hopelessly naive and idealistic. I also want Mengsk to survive, the guy deserves to after all.
Protoss are in the next part of the game, Legacy of the Void, which we shouldn't expect until next year at least, and as for Mengsk, well I hope Kerrigan gets to kill him, but whether that will be in HotS or the Protoss game, I don't know.

Nouw said:
Good work as always. Chuckled at the dumbass Viking who landed and tried to take on the Ultralisk.
Yes, that looked cool, but was not smart. Also the Siege Tank was VERY late getting into Siege mode :)
 

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Alfador_VII said:
Nouw said:
Good work as always. Chuckled at the dumbass Viking who landed and tried to take on the Ultralisk.
Yes, that looked cool, but was not smart. Also the Siege Tank was VERY late getting into Siege mode :)
Zerg: Platinum, Terran: Practice League? Rule of cool haha.
 

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Their skills are top-notch as always. Still, I don't know if I'd like a Zerg campaign. Never could get into their minds in the first star craft as well.
 

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This trailer makes me want to get into Starcraft. Then I remember that I suck at RTS games.
 

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One thing I'll give Blizzard is that they're really, really good at making CGI cinematics.

Beyond that, no one will ever convince me that splitting SC II into 3 games was anything other than a ploy to get people to pay 3 times for a game they've been waiting over a decade for. The argument is that each campaign is itself as big as an one of the SC games from back in the day. But from what I've heard from the majority of people that aren't die-hard Blizzard fans is that Wings of Liberty was about 3 times longer than it really needed to be, which means the majority of it is fluff and filler to pad out the length so that they could justify splitting the game in 3 parts.

In short: fuck Blizzard; those greedy, manipulative fucks.

Note: I have no intentions of arguing this point with anyone, having gotten rather tired of the same arguments. If you disagree, keep it to yourself. I won't change your mind and you won't be changing mine. Quote and pick if you like, I just won't respond to it. :p
 

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RJ 17 said:
One thing I'll give Blizzard is that they're really, really good at making CGI cinematics.

Beyond that, no one will ever convince me that splitting SC II into 3 games was anything other than a ploy to get people to pay 3 times for a game they've been waiting over a decade for. The argument is that each campaign is itself as big as an one of the SC games from back in the day. But from what I've heard from the majority of people that aren't die-hard Blizzard fans is that Wings of Liberty was about 3 times longer than it really needed to be, which means the majority of it is fluff and filler to pad out the length so that they could justify splitting the game in 3 parts.

In short: fuck Blizzard; those greedy, manipulative fucks.

Note: I have no intentions of arguing this point with anyone, having gotten rather tired of the same arguments. If you disagree, keep it to yourself. I won't change your mind and you won't be changing mine. Quote and pick if you like, I just won't respond to it. :p
I thought the Starcraft II campaign was incredibly well done! Not too long at all in my opinion. Have fun not replying, my fellow Escapist!
 

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DVS BSTrD said:
From the StarCraft Wiki
The ultralisk is a 20 meter long and 5 meter high living battering ram
Those looked a might bigger than 5 meters. Tanks are supposed to be able to take those things on, not get suck to the bottom of their feet.
Starcraft (or warcraft) has never made sense proportion wise.

In game no unit can run over anything, an Ultralisk can be blocked by zerglings.

Plus blizzard can always claim the zerg evolved the ultras to be bigger
 

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I refuse to watch this, because I know it's gonna look awesome (Blizzard make the best cinematics in the industry bar none), and what's gonna happen next is I'm gonna get my credit card out and preorder the game. I don't want to do that. Gonna wait for some reviews. If the campaign is indeed 5 hours long, as rumors have it, then they can shove it.
 

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Well its only a matter of time before Graham and Paul at unskippable get a hold of it and rip it a new one lol.
 

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I think I'm only one of the few people that have bought the Collector's Edition of StarCraft 2 Wings of Liberty only for the single player portion. The same thing will happen with the next one, since I am very interested to see where the story is going.

I have no intention of playing the multiplayer because I can't see myself microing and macroing units skillfully so I'd rather not do it.

OT: I haven't watched this cinematic trailer yet, I am waiting for the game to release. I'd rather not spoil myself.


PS: Well my post was completely redundant with this thread wasn't it? :p At least part of it.
 

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Alfador_VII said:
Odgical said:
Aww yeeeeah!

Wait. Where's my protoss? Do we mean so little?! Anyway, here's to hoping Mr Raynor meets his unfortunate demise for being so hopelessly naive and idealistic. I also want Mengsk to survive, the guy deserves to after all.
Protoss are in the next part of the game, Legacy of the Void, which we shouldn't expect until next year at least, and as for Mengsk, well I hope Kerrigan gets to kill him, but whether that will be in HotS or the Protoss game, I don't know.

Nouw said:
Good work as always. Chuckled at the dumbass Viking who landed and tried to take on the Ultralisk.
Yes, that looked cool, but was not smart. Also the Siege Tank was VERY late getting into Siege mode :)
I was almost expecting the camera to zoom out after the siege tank was fully deployed, only to reveal that the zergs were now 1 meter in front of it.
 

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Nouw said:
Good work as always. Chuckled at the dumbass Viking who landed and tried to take on the Ultralisk.
While I agree with your observation, why not just attack the pods? Or Land the Vikings behind the tanks to mow down zerglings?

Fact: Common sense and pants shitting awesomeness don't go hand in hand.

Also, I would ruin my undies if Blizzard made a full length move with their CGI
 

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There's just something so innately Terran about watching a siege tank go into siege mode, sends shivers down my spine.
However, that Terran was absolutely horrible with his decision making.Tanks not sieged up(at the back),no stimpack or combat shields, not to mention no medivacs or marauders, hell he didn't even try to micro his marines. So bad.