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Can kerrigan not be at the center of the story for once. Please god let 'legacy of the void' cast kerrigan as a minor character. I hate seeing her so much. She p*sses me off overall as a character.
Galdos wrote: There is a game dedicated to the Zerg and you are surprised that Kerrigan is the main character?
Also, she was actually ignored for over half of Starcraft 1. Like 3/4ths of the game actually lol.
No kerrigan is important in most of starcraft. Everything ends up coming back to her. All of the terran campaign of the original was about mengsk's betrayal of her. In the second most of your role is in keeping kerrigan alive and watching her grow until near the end when you invade aiur without her for some reason. The protoss campaign of starcraft 1 admittedly didn't have her.
In brood war she manipulated the protoss in their campaign and got her way. In the terran campaign she ultimately manipulated the UED but failed. Then in her campaign in brood war it shows her manipulating everybody who just act like hapless fools and morons the whole game and have no plans of their own. She wins brood war and leaves her enemies alive because she wants to test them in time or leave them alive to suffer so that they might somehow find a way to kill her during the down time. I suppose some may also say she has humanity left but come on she makes mengsk look like a choir boy and at least mengsk though insane for power doesn't have the sort of arrogance she possesses by a long shot.
Fast forward to starcraft 2 and all of WoL eventually comes down to kerrigan needing to survive. The whole f*cking game gets thrown to the side to give her importance. I mean maybe i'm wrong but most of what happened in WoL even seems to be inconsequential overall considering what is seeming to happen in the trailers for HotS. Good job we made her weaker and slightly more human but she's still a mostly evil b*tch that could very well kill billions just to get revenge against mengsk. Thanks for being a hypocrite kerrigan. Thanks for making use hate you despite making him seem like a monster when really you both are.
Now with HotS we have kerrigan in an all important role yet again.
Can't we just have the other characters be more important for once. I never saw tassadar get this much focus and he was infinitely cooler than kerrigan ever was and made her look really stupid. In WoL he was basically a ghost that talked to zeratul. I dunno i just find that no other character or faction or race has given any of their characters the type of spotlight kerrigan has continuously gotten. Maybe she's the poster child or attention wh*re of starcraft but i'm really tired of looking at her. I want her to die and i hate how she was made all important. Just put a bullet right between her eyes already.
I just want to see something happen with the tassadar spirit or with duran. Just please i want to see more competent characters handling things. I'm so glad that duran was never one of kerrigan's actual minions though. He seemed to be smarter and yet a greater backstabber. Maybe that's just me though. At least he didn't have kerrigan's arrogance to make everything so annoying. He was somebody you could actually love to hate in the sense that he was a decent bad guy like mengsk. Mengsk's betrayal seemed to make sense and in many situations it was likely raynor wouldn't have gotten off the orbiting platform on tarsonis alive with a rebel group. Either way raynor didn't have nearly what it would take to handle things. Odd how kerrigan would become this much of a bad guy. You'd think other ghosts had to have been infested besides her which was kind of the point of duran until you find out he was never infested to begin with. Honestly i think some of the story is a bit weird. I may have to piece it together a bit. They sound like they wanted to go with one thing and then went with another. For instance didn't the zerg originally go towards psychic emanations because they were trying to absorb humans for hidden psychic potential. Then you had the UED using the psi disruptor to actually control the zerg en mass which kind of makes no sense to me. Does the overmind sort of control via psychic links to zerg? I don't think it does. That's the only explanation i have.
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So yeah i think some more psychic zerg creatures would be cool to see. I can imagine some ghosts getting absorbed into the swarm would be cool. Of course would that be more like infested ghosts like kerrigan or perhaps would we get a sort of zoanthrope or cerebrate type creature or something. Speaking of psychics i honestly hope tosh isn't dead. I think having spectres instead of ghosts would have definitely added variety to the game and made it a different beast from starcraft 1. Please just throw spectres in for LotV at least. Massively powerful terran psychics sounds like fun esp. since for a psychic sniper they don't really seem to use the powers outwardly or as casters so much. Most of what they have is in the form of their suit or their weapon rather than psychic abilities. It'd be nice to show the psychic potential in terrans for once.
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I really like Kerrigan, but concur that I kind of wish they had left her out of this a little. I think they closed the circle really well at the end of the last game. Either way, I'm pretty excited about this even as a non-SC fan generally because the storytelling is so tight.
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The whole 'What if raynor could see you now?' bit from warfield does make it sound like raynor is dead but who knows maybe he's just unconscious or something else. Somehow this all reminds me of that cut super alpha scene on youtube where kerrigan kills mengsk with raynor. At least a scene or two of this looks very much like that alpha scene where kerrigan storms mengsk's palace.
All i have to say is WoL better have meant something. I know they make it sound like she's even more regretful than ever and yet she's still slaughtering by the millions with the zerg at her back. She may as well say, 'Oh but i'm sorry now,' except that's a bull sh*t excuse. Why is raynor such a depressed dude that can't move off with his life or another woman? Why is kerrigan just an angsty rebellious teenager that basically has to play the victim card and say, 'Yeah well i'm an evil b*tch to everybody because one dude was a d*ck to me!"
Duran and tassadar please show up to allow some respectable characters in this series once again. In fact don't kill off valerian either as he's interesting for the time being. I want to see valerian develop more before i can say if he's awesome or not though he has seemingly earned my respect with a mere one page bio on blizzard's site (not that that'll say much). Also mengsk you used to be cool (mengsk: "I'm still cool." -simpsons from the future episode with a native american dream viewer or something). Ugh why does everybody cool or smart have to be dead? Tassadar is dead, the overmind is dead, zasz (somebody that seemed to call out kerrigan's arrogance, rebellious nature and stupidity from the start and died from that nature because of her failings), stukov (the dude that saw the plot unfolding with duran and knew the importance of the psi disruptor) and anybody i may have missed. In brood war kerrigan's dumb plans worked perfectly without a hitch and had no back-up plans in case anything f*cked up royally which they should've a lot worse than they did. Also kerrigan you have one of the most OP'd factions in the game's lore. You don't really have to be that manipulative in some ways or at least not anymore. I still stand by kerrigan's campaign in brood war being totally stupid. Everything went too much in her favor even when it shouldn't have.
So yeah not too thrilled about our full 2nd kerrigan campaign and even less thrilled that once again kerrigan is pretty much center of this universe.
I know the trailer and cinematics are cool but judging by this game and most others i'll probably be totally sick of it in a couple months anyway. Blizzard games are way too competitive and grind based for me. I can't enjoy a game that bases more of the strategy around how fast you build your buildings and in what order as well as making the right amount of workers and whatever instead of say you know building the right units to fight somebody on the map. I shouldn't have to mine minerals or gas infinitely and i shouldn't have to click on the screen 50 bajillion times till i get carpal tunnel. I find it odd my guys can't spread themselves out and i have to individually select each guy to do this. Shouldn't i just be able to tell my guys to run around a certain way without making infinity billion clicks on the screen? Couldn't i just use voice command or rely on A.I. for that? I should be more worried about strategy than some of this crap. I dunno.
Sorry i just had to rant. Blizzard games have kind of gotten to me a bit at this point.
