Martin the Marine is going to become a reoccurring character throughout the series. In HotS, he'll be one of the survivors of the invasion of Korhal, heroically killing an entire swarm of Zerglings by manually firing an auto turret stolen from the wreck of a raven. In LotV, he bravely holds the line with Raynor's Raiders retaking Bennet Port from the hybrid, helping the Protoss retake the artefact. Even the might immortals speak afterwards of the valour and strength of Martin the Marine. In Covert Ops, he's one of the brave soldiers defending Admiral Horner's base against wave after wave of Zerg, and eventually joins Nova's crew, becoming the Marine that lands the final shot against the Xanthos at the end of the final battle. The legend of Martin the Marine will never die, and he shall live forever in our hearts.
Grant:” Even though we have an entire fleet of Flying Fortress’ and mechs the size of buildings, I’m gonna send thousands of you to fight with no medical, air or tank support. Just to prove a point” Marine: “ ROCK AND ROLL”
'Despite being marine-shaped, Jim is gonna this one out' *15 minutes later* 'Tychus is wearing a Marine suit while in the mech, while tank drivers are not'
I know im late, but did someone see how he pulled 1 marine out to bait the seeker missile, but accidently a-moved onto him, while commentating that? Pure Gold!
2:29 "This guy again?" "Kill 1 of his units and he gives up" *kills one of his units* "Give up please" "Nope" *proceeds to murder the bunker's crew* Gotta love the callbacks
@@zach11241 The best part was he successfully pulled only the targeted marine away from his army and even shot him dead, then walked his army into the corpse right before the missile went off! Still way better than I could do, of course, but I just thought it was hilarious!
Headcanon: Mengsk is a descendent of GGG and got all his strategies from watching his great great great great great grandfather play an old videogame on an archaic platform.
it would have been a great easter egg to find, that the shield upgraded marines are immune by technicality. sadly it was a missed opportunity from the devs.
"Next time you are having a bad day, remember that at least you weren't shoot out of a battlecruiser in a rickety drop pod directly into a black hole, before being spit out, briefly injected with drugs and then disolved to the quantum level. ALL IN THE NAME OF ARCHEOLOGY" Grant Games, Giant - 2021
@@ieuanhunt552 From the opening cinematic of the cancelled Starcraft Ghost game. If you look up, "Starcraft ghost cinematic" it will probably be the first result, or at least near the top.
I remember in OG StarCraft 1 I used to make as many drops hips as you could select at once then make enough marines to fill them all, fly them into the middle of an enemy base and click unload all and watch the base disappear from the center outward.
Not gonna lie, your All-In looked like my first brutal All-In a few weeks ago, except my army comp was the classic terran composition of broodlord, mutalisk, medivac
"Unfortunatly, the artefact is not a marine." Let me get this straight. You did All-in on brutal without using PFs, tanks AND artifact? I mean, I know I am no super-star, but holy fuck this seriously makes me feel bad about my skills at SC2.
@@TooFewSecrets PFs are banned per rule 1: he can only defend using Marines. (Bunkers were presumably allowed because the Marines are still the ones doing the shooting, note how he never got the turret upgrade.) Edit: ignore that, I forgot he used one on Haven's Fall. Yeah, he's flexing. (And cutting down the number of SCVs.)
I'm half-convinced that he's Martin the Marine who used his unmatched intimidation skills of badassery to make the Viking pilots look the other way. Well, either that or he slapped on a silencer and used the civilian-slaughter mayhem to cover his sneaking to the back of enemy lines...like a Ghost would...
I'd like to think that Martin was in every single mission (expect the one where the marines were shot into the rip-field generator) as one of the survivors. Actually, is there a GGG cinematic universe now?
You should not be able to steamroll the whole game using nothing but Marines. If you can, that suggests the Marine is OP and too versatile. Questionable game design.
@@mxbx307 I'd say "steamroll" is a bit too strong of a word. In many of the levels, it would've been so much cheaper resource and sanity wise to build a different unit. Just because you can build only marines, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
A marine walks into a bar and asks “where’s the counter?” The bartender responses “there is no counter.” (Edit: I just scrolled down 1 comment and realized someone else posted the same joke… welp)
@@mxbx307 As a protoss player - I raise you mass stalker. Sure it's kind of outdated, but in campaigns and in lower rank in ladder, it's still completely viable, and sometimes - necessary. Stalkers are WAY more versatile than marines. Shields mean if you're good, you can realistically take no damage from skirmishes, and it's a (mostly) cheap unit. Mass Marine only is easily outdone by Stalkers.
With your brilliant tactical acumen, you correctly deducted that your enemy had a maximum kill count limit. And by heroically sacrificing your army by the thousands, you maxed out that counter and won.
Fun fact, there was a Starcraft 2 professional named MarineKing who won many tournaments back in the day and was famous for - you guessed it - building lots and lots of marines.
24:33 I love how it doesn't even look like the Ghost was blown up by the grenade. His brain just happened to shut down while being in the vicinity of an explosion and thus his body collapsed.
The theme of WoL challenge runs is that "Liberation Day is hell". Hilariously, lacking medics but getting stimpak means that you have returned to OG, pre-Brood War balance, where stim is a permanent trade-off on life for temporary damage. Still handy, but definitely a big decision on when to juice the boys.
@@lkmdude8094 It sounds like a tactical decision but in reality it just meant you never upgraded stim cause you could spend that gas on tanks, goliaths, and science vessels.
@@lkmdude8094 Except marines also only had 40 HP, and no combat shield upgrade; yeah, the guy above is right. Sacrificing 25% of a marine's unrecoverable health pool for a temporary damage boost was completely pointless. The only utility it had was with firebats, who had higher HP, and even then, firebats had very limited usefulness as a unit.
The medic on smash and grab. Spends years of her life going to med school, willingly puts herself at risk to heal the troops, get gunned down immediately by the same troops at 2:41. Also I'm pretty sure he forgot that terran epilogue mission
Won't be happening, as per him on one of the streams. Your units have a +25% incoming damage modifier because it's brutal, so zerglings get 1-shot fairly often by AoE (Especially on the final mission, which was deemed impossible)
"I know his story. I know all their stories. None of them ever think it'll turn out like this... 'Lot more dead boys out there. Warriors." That whole speech has a different vibe after watching this.
What do you mean? They unfortunately couldn't take the pressure of the battlefield and committed suicide, and they're might be more "unfortunate" suicides if you stick your nose to far into Raynor's rebels business.
(GGG) Has an actual mid stream discussion over wether or not the planetary fortress is allowed for this run. But Jim the guy who is literally a hero MARINE ... no he's not allowed.
As someone who panics so badly while playing rts games that he has no fun at all, i really appreciate your display of skill and the ability to keep cool.
I like that you ruled that Jim Raynor, who is literally just a heroic marine, is NOT a marine for the purposes of this challenge, but Tychus in the Odin IS a marine.
An old challenge...I remember watching someone try this back many years ago. Nice to see it again, but for the Protoss missions, people substituted "marine only" with zealot only.
The tosh mission has only tosh as a controllable unit and the Nova one only has marines at the start and they are unable to advance without Nova's help
@@bayarsejar5831 Also keep in mind the "Choose Your Own Adventure" style of the WoL campaign. It doesn't require you to do it in any specific order, or to complete all of the other missions before going to Char. He just skipped the Deadman's Port mission and went to Char without Ghosts/Specteres.
For future playthroughs of Welcome to the Jungle: The Protoss upgrades trigger only on Tarrazine turn-ins, so you can *cheese* the mission by patrolling SCVs that have tarrazine at your base, locking the protoss into base upgrades.
It’s been a while, you’ve done a lot of runs since this one. But you got me hooked for many months, watching your archive channel. These early fame-making videos still have a lot of rewatch value though. I find that, StarCraft II, Warcraft III, StarCraft I, and all of them again in various incarnations like deathless, marinerboys, real scale and mod fest and other streams do an amazing job of rotating content to keep it interesting. I don’t follow every series, but many of them. In no way did I expect you to be able to keep these games so interesting for so long. Hats of to you, sir!
I used to like Nova Covert Ops. Then a glitch started appearing where Nova's weapon vanishes if you use the gunblade's ability. And since Starcraft 2 is no longer supported, I doubt the glitch will ever be fixed.
This man and his missions done with just marines is kind of a great canonical tribute to Terrans in a galaxy with face melting hordes of Zerg and a technologically vastly advanced race of Protoss. The human spirit of the Terrans to never give up and keep going with the power of bullets and guns and manpower.
There are a few missions that require transports. There might be others but 'The Moebius Factor' and 'Maw of the Void' come to mind. Edit: I forgot Orbital Strike exists. Mainly because I opt for the Tech Reactors.
Uh, can we talk about how slick the editing is for the segment of 'All-In'? That epic SC1 track building up to crescendo while you desperately throw everything you've got at Kerrigan to buy just a few more seconds - chef's kiss
pretty sure in the devil's playground you can clear every zerg structure on the map with marines. Clearing these is actually a hidden victory condition, so you don't have to collect all the minerals. It even awards the Feat of Strength "The Scenic Route" if done on hard or higher.
8:21 i know what happened, the tanks were too far away from the train (their objective) so getting in range of their objective was more important then attacking, try making a unit follow another unit and making the first unit walk away, the follower will attack until the first unit is too far away
Heart of the Swarm with only Zerglings or The Hyperion, no Kerrigan. Legacy of the Void with only Zealots, Centurions, or Sentinels. Artanis counts as a Zealot if he has a melee attack. PS: If you're in a marine suit like Raynor is in Liberation Day, you count as a marine in my book.
@@lucasdantas2398 Nah, "badass-but-otherwise-ordinary human" and "awesome power armor" are only two of the three components necessary to make a Sister of Battle. The third is "enough faith to take anti-tank weapons to the face and keep fighting."
I thought the last mission was easier (during normal non marine only play) against fliers. Cause the nydus worms can appear anywhere in the middle of your base. At laeast the fliers can only attack the edges. And with the insane anti air upgrades to the turrets, it's usually a breeze.
You can prevent nydus spawning in your base by building buildings where they would spawn. Also you can just put two tanks and 2 marine bunkers in your base and forget about them
I was so confused at first watching this because his marines were dying and he wasnt resetting. Took me a good 5 minutes before I realized it wasnt meant to be deathless haha.
So i just got done trying The Dig with marines only on brutal with no drill, and it is possible. As long as you have 2 upgrades, line your entrances with bunkers, 2 layers at the top entrance, and target fire the sentries as early as possible, you can do it. My APM is garbage too so someone more skilled could do it no problem
I said this elsewhere in the comments but it needs to be said directly to the man himself. (GGG) Has an actual mid stream discussion over wether or not the planetary fortress is allowed for this run. But Jim the guy who is literally a hero MARINE ... no he's not allowed.
the last part reminds me of the first time i played the last level of the Protoss campaign in the "brood war" expansion. i had NOTHING left but the Temple when it finally hit full charge!
"I don't want an award, I want a medic" - Martin the Marine
Martin the Marine is going to become a reoccurring character throughout the series. In HotS, he'll be one of the survivors of the invasion of Korhal, heroically killing an entire swarm of Zerglings by manually firing an auto turret stolen from the wreck of a raven. In LotV, he bravely holds the line with Raynor's Raiders retaking Bennet Port from the hybrid, helping the Protoss retake the artefact. Even the might immortals speak afterwards of the valour and strength of Martin the Marine. In Covert Ops, he's one of the brave soldiers defending Admiral Horner's base against wave after wave of Zerg, and eventually joins Nova's crew, becoming the Marine that lands the final shot against the Xanthos at the end of the final battle. The legend of Martin the Marine will never die, and he shall live forever in our hearts.
@@guardianof2fort964 Amen.
@@guardianof2fort964 Amen.
He is the Big Gabe!
Amen
I would have counted Jim as a marine in mission one, but I appreciate your commitment to purity.
It isn't a building mission anyways he can't build anything.
Technically, Jim Raynor is THE Marine so....
Technically Jim is a Vulture, he just lost his mount.
@@KaguroDraven Well yeah but he's wearing marine armor...
True
Grant:” Even though we have an entire fleet of Flying Fortress’ and mechs the size of buildings, I’m gonna send thousands of you to fight with no medical, air or tank support. Just to prove a point”
Marine: “ ROCK AND ROLL”
Cuando el espíritu de Arturus Mengsk se apoderó de este canal.
The red army would be proud, also won the world war
The Imperial Guard would like to know your location.
"BY THE NUMBERS, BOYS"
@@shelldie8523 Oh shut
'Despite being marine-shaped, Jim is gonna this one out'
*15 minutes later*
'Tychus is wearing a Marine suit while in the mech, while tank drivers are not'
It's around 18 minutes if perfectionist
techinically speaking jims a buzzard driver in marine armor whilst tychis is infact a marine that's how they were trained anyway
@@marley7868 He was also sealed in his suit by Mengsk.
@@Cometgamer08 except specifically in bathrooms, so he can take the suit off to go to take a leak while inside the Odin specifically.
@@thegreatestdane8978 p0
"I just paid 6000 minerals for 8 marines"
STONKS!
❤️
Inflation*
"Their seeker missiles are easy to dodge of you're good, so they slaughter my Marines."
... Yeah, I felt that.
I know im late, but did someone see how he pulled 1 marine out to bait the seeker missile, but accidently a-moved onto him, while commentating that? Pure Gold!
2:29
"This guy again?"
"Kill 1 of his units and he gives up"
*kills one of his units*
"Give up please"
"Nope"
*proceeds to murder the bunker's crew*
Gotta love the callbacks
Beautiful, I laughed so hard :D
The callback to his LotV campaign in Shatter the Sky and its "unique" objectives was great too
That was so awesome :-D
Heresy!
@@helperinokripperino8885 also: "they will die, but the extraction process will finish before the Protoss can kill the extractor."
"Their seeker missiles are easily dodgeable if you're good...
so they slaughter my marines."
Suicide by words?
Nah. Suicide by missiles and slow dodging.....
@@zach11241 The best part was he successfully pulled only the targeted marine away from his army and even shot him dead, then walked his army into the corpse right before the missile went off! Still way better than I could do, of course, but I just thought it was hilarious!
time stamp?
@@Nicholas_Steel 7:42
this guy's like Mengsk's soulmate. sacrificing gigantic numbers of terran lives to suit his goals..
You mean Raynor? Yeh, just look at some high-level Raynor gameplay in co-op, you lose thousands each minute and don't care at all.
Mengsk was secretly from the Warhammer 40k Imperium of Man. That's where he got that tactic
@@phuzzychinn Commander Chenkov would scold Megnsk for not using enough manpower.
Headcanon: Mengsk is a descendent of GGG and got all his strategies from watching his great great great great great grandfather play an old videogame on an archaic platform.
lol
Wait a second, why does the Rip-field Generators deal damage to marines? Marines have shields!
You’re goddamn right
I guess whoever desinged that mission is a shieldist)
HAHAHA lmao guy that really make us think
it would have been a great easter egg to find, that the shield upgraded marines are immune by technicality. sadly it was a missed opportunity from the devs.
@@thorin1045problem is they know players will abuse the shit out of it
Deathless run: Wow no casualties!
Marines Only: Looks like meat's back on the menu boys!!
10:50
"I don't want an award, i want a medic"
These little captions absolutely slay me.
"They Will die but extraction process will end before the protoss can kill an extractor" loved that one
now, where did I hear that before?!
Its the trademark of the channel
@@gorkemaykut5230 nova covert ops speed run I think.
"Bullet Malfunctions."
"Excommunication."
"Retiring."
You sure you aren't a Government censor describing a military engagement with allies?
And Danny was never heard from again because they went to a nice farm that’s too far to drive to.
*bullet incidents
Gotta keep the story straight man
My man was larping as Stalin during the purges
"I don't want an award.
I want a medic."
Iconic words.
medic will be more valuable if it will be a female
"The counter to any unit is a marine. The counter to any building is a stimmed marine"
DayJ
The wisest thing he ever said, closely followed by his Overlord impression. Brings tears to my eyes.
Bob the Ragelot: (screaming noises)
inb4 the classic transition into "loosing whole fucking base".
@@Jaime_Protein_Cannister Ah man those were the days. You don't happen to know where that moment occured? I'm sure it was a Funday Monday.
@@cptKamina DayJ is getting into Aoe2 these days it's fun to watch :P
I can't recall witch episode... but at least I remember Uniden
My headcanon is that the marine that finished the first mission is the 48 kill marine.
The 48 kill Marine is a descendant of Doom Guy
@@richter1934 100%
Yess
I'm glad so many other people were thinking the same thing.
He should be the new commander after Raynor retires
"Next time you are having a bad day, remember that at least you weren't shoot out of a battlecruiser in a rickety drop pod directly into a black hole, before being spit out, briefly injected with drugs and then disolved to the quantum level. ALL IN THE NAME OF ARCHEOLOGY" Grant Games, Giant - 2021
This guy's videos are hilarious. "The objective in this mission is super unique..." 😆
I died when he said that
legendary
My only regret is not trusting my recommended videos two months ago and missing that line all this time.
I am Grant Games, the supreme archeologist!
I have to say, Jim is absolutely a Marine (He's just chad and has a name) But on Mission 1 your dedication is immensely obvious. I salute you.
How does that joke go...
A marine walks into the bar and asks "where's the counter?"
the bartender says "there is no counter"
@@turtlememes2334 yeah, the "units lost" counter broke
"Who called in siege tanks?!"
"I wanna know who called siege tanks onto _my_ battlefield, lieutenant!"
"... We ain't got no tanks here, sir."
Mother of mercy...
@@heatseeker9573 I'm glad someone knew what I was quoting. =D
Explain for a friend he's a little dumb
@@ieuanhunt552 From the opening cinematic of the cancelled Starcraft Ghost game. If you look up, "Starcraft ghost cinematic" it will probably be the first result, or at least near the top.
@@firockfinion3326 thx
Using the Tal'Darim mothership's black hole ability to keep your units alive? That is the most genius thing I have ever seen, Sun Tzu would be proud!
Use your enemy's tactics against them -Probably a paraphrase of Sun Tsu
I had no idea you could drop units into that.
Unfortunetly if anyone tries it he will fail because they dont have only motherships
Wait, a comment about Sun Tzu that isn't using this format? Genius.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War
Never would I thought Achilles and Alexander the great in a comment section quoting Sun Tzu
Well we know where Kerrigan got her plan to kill Mengsk in Hots, she obsereved the marine in this first mission
She was totally watching the entire time
I remember in OG StarCraft 1 I used to make as many drops hips as you could select at once then make enough marines to fill them all, fly them into the middle of an enemy base and click unload all and watch the base disappear from the center outward.
You must love the Hercules drop-ship
😂
Not gonna lie, your All-In looked like my first brutal All-In a few weeks ago, except my army comp was the classic terran composition of broodlord, mutalisk, medivac
lmao
"Unfortunatly, the artefact is not a marine."
Let me get this straight. You did All-in on brutal without using PFs, tanks AND artifact? I mean, I know I am no super-star, but holy fuck this seriously makes me feel bad about my skills at SC2.
PFs weren't even banned he just didn't feel like mining gas, even with no minerals left. Absolute Chad.
@@TooFewSecrets PFs are banned per rule 1: he can only defend using Marines. (Bunkers were presumably allowed because the Marines are still the ones doing the shooting, note how he never got the turret upgrade.)
Edit: ignore that, I forgot he used one on Haven's Fall. Yeah, he's flexing. (And cutting down the number of SCVs.)
@@TooFewSecrets pardon my ignorance but what are PFs?
@@azhei_4332
Planetary Fortresses
he have not much skills. terrans can fuck everything with enough marines.
The vortex maneuver on the maw was true genius, these hype and creative moments are what makes these challenge runs so excellent.
The Marine in the first mission is the hero we all need, the enemy was so scared of facing him they let him take the objective.
Big gabe embodied
I'm half-convinced that he's Martin the Marine who used his unmatched intimidation skills of badassery to make the Viking pilots look the other way. Well, either that or he slapped on a silencer and used the civilian-slaughter mayhem to cover his sneaking to the back of enemy lines...like a Ghost would...
@@joshuakim5240 A ghost-marine? There's simply no stopping that.
I'd like to think that Martin was in every single mission (expect the one where the marines were shot into the rip-field generator) as one of the survivors.
Actually, is there a GGG cinematic universe now?
Liam Hogan
With how well he stayed under the radar, you could call him a SUBmarine
There’s a joke in here somewhere about marines being the most well-rounded unit in the game.
Specifically around 0:00 - 32:49
You should not be able to steamroll the whole game using nothing but Marines. If you can, that suggests the Marine is OP and too versatile.
Questionable game design.
@@mxbx307 I'd say "steamroll" is a bit too strong of a word. In many of the levels, it would've been so much cheaper resource and sanity wise to build a different unit. Just because you can build only marines, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
A marine walks into a bar and asks “where’s the counter?”
The bartender responses “there is no counter.”
(Edit: I just scrolled down 1 comment and realized someone else posted the same joke… welp)
@@mxbx307 As a protoss player - I raise you mass stalker. Sure it's kind of outdated, but in campaigns and in lower rank in ladder, it's still completely viable, and sometimes - necessary. Stalkers are WAY more versatile than marines. Shields mean if you're good, you can realistically take no damage from skirmishes, and it's a (mostly) cheap unit. Mass Marine only is easily outdone by Stalkers.
That black hole strategy on maw of the void was genius dude.... You're a madman.
With your brilliant tactical acumen, you correctly deducted that your enemy had a maximum kill count limit. And by heroically sacrificing your army by the thousands, you maxed out that counter and won.
> It was simply a matter of outsmarting them.
Wow, I never would have thought of that!
Even they couldn’t stomach the senseless violence
The Zapp Attack as war historians call it, or Branigan Shenanigans according to the haters.
"They will die but thats a sacrifice that I am willing to make"
- Lord Farquad, Shrek.
"They will die, but the extraction process will finish before the protoss can kill the extractor."
- Veteran Dominion Commanders circa 2480-2504
Fun fact, there was a Starcraft 2 professional named MarineKing who won many tournaments back in the day and was famous for - you guessed it - building lots and lots of marines.
yeah. . . and crying his een out when he got beat
There was a long period with bio being alpha and omega of terrans
I remember that period of time, roughly from 2010-present day.
Wait do you mean marinelord or is that two different people? I’m too lazy to google it. Plus there’s also a guy named babymarine
@@Karma0917 most of the marine named players actually play protoss
"You ever notice that nobody ever comes back to the barracks?"
24:33
I love how it doesn't even look like the Ghost was blown up by the grenade. His brain just happened to shut down while being in the vicinity of an explosion and thus his body collapsed.
Me: im going to sleep now
GGG: *uploads*
Me: I guess im not
Same here :D
JUST HAPPENED TO ME!
Good timing
@EPloar Div probably because of his calming voice and he doesn't raise his voice to much while still staying interesting
Same!
You are officially the most Inhumane commander this sector has ever seen. Congratulations. And give the damn medic to Martin already.
"Hey, I'm not expendable!"
That or the most ingenious commander who was pushed to the edge with nothing but marines left in his army.
I appreciate that the 'Unique objective' joke is still going, good job Grant
Which one?
@@theunidentifiedchangeling9451 26:50
@@amaurylaunay Oh, I thought he was serious because of his accent or whatever, I'm not entirely sure what's the word for it.
@@theunidentifiedchangeling9451 Inflection
The ending was so epic and heroic, it felt like I was watching a movie.
Interestingly: I understand none of starcraft, and yet, I love watching you do challenge runs.
Damn bro get on that
The theme of WoL challenge runs is that "Liberation Day is hell". Hilariously, lacking medics but getting stimpak means that you have returned to OG, pre-Brood War balance, where stim is a permanent trade-off on life for temporary damage. Still handy, but definitely a big decision on when to juice the boys.
Wow, I would have never imagined that medics didn't exist in base sc1. That really does make stim much more of a tactical decision.
@@lkmdude8094 It sounds like a tactical decision but in reality it just meant you never upgraded stim cause you could spend that gas on tanks, goliaths, and science vessels.
@@lkmdude8094 Except marines also only had 40 HP, and no combat shield upgrade; yeah, the guy above is right. Sacrificing 25% of a marine's unrecoverable health pool for a temporary damage boost was completely pointless. The only utility it had was with firebats, who had higher HP, and even then, firebats had very limited usefulness as a unit.
The medic on smash and grab.
Spends years of her life going to med school, willingly puts herself at risk to heal the troops, get gunned down immediately by the same troops at 2:41.
Also I'm pretty sure he forgot that terran epilogue mission
Betrayal.
good. no hoes in this bro train
Had it comin
"That terran epilogue mission" sounds like pure sadism, using marines on a map clearly designed for siege tanks
Technically, the epilogue is LotV, not WoL, so it's not part of this campaign and therefore not this run
The boys after this run: "you better have 10,000 medics in store for us after the shit we've seen."
wonder what they’re gonna do with the medics after they’re done healing the trauma
@@raffimolero64 How do you think he did deathless?
"welcome to the jungle sucks"
"Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes"
Great song
"My Soldiers Rage! My Soldiers Scream! My Soldiers Fight!"
Can't wait for you to beat all of HotS with only zerglings next
Won't be happening, as per him on one of the streams. Your units have a +25% incoming damage modifier because it's brutal, so zerglings get 1-shot fairly often by AoE (Especially on the final mission, which was deemed impossible)
He didn't do Nova Covert Ops no units death, or did I miss something?
@@stevehazelton6878 alright, zealot only legacy of the void then!
Tbf You can beat almost all of it with only Roaches (and maybe also spore crawlers or queens for air units only) so... theoretically possible? xD
@@QuinoLising iirc he did do it, but the footage got corrupted or something, and he's reluctant to redo it since NCO gets fewer views anyway
"The objective of Shatter the Sky is super unique."
Ah shit, here we go again.
I'm out of the loop, where is this from?
@@lagg1e From one of his Terran videos. He used the same template for nearly every mission in that video I believe.
@@UtterlyShagged no it was basically the only thing he said during legacy of the void
@@ImperialButterflies i'll take your word for it, I don't quite remember it that well.
@@lagg1e He says this every time Blizzard has a mission with 3-4 static targets that have escalating defenses. It even came up in Warcraft.
"I know his story. I know all their stories. None of them ever think it'll turn out like this...
'Lot more dead boys out there. Warriors."
That whole speech has a different vibe after watching this.
What about the dead girls? Those medics all died for nothing...
What do you mean? They unfortunately couldn't take the pressure of the battlefield and committed suicide, and they're might be more "unfortunate" suicides if you stick your nose to far into Raynor's rebels business.
This is like the opposite of your deathless run.
It's a deathmore run!
Everyone else doing this: "How many ways can I cheat this by not building things that aren't Marines?"
GiantGrantGames: "Welp..."
now i understand why the captain in the starcraft:ghost cinematic though he only needed his marine core
I for one believe Raynor is just a Marine, so I don't mind him being used
Raynor is in fact a marine so the uploader is factually incorrect.
@@dannygjk still beat the mission though.
(GGG) Has an actual mid stream discussion over wether or not the planetary fortress is allowed for this run. But Jim the guy who is literally a hero MARINE ... no he's not allowed.
As someone who panics so badly while playing rts games that he has no fun at all, i really appreciate your display of skill and the ability to keep cool.
I like that you ruled that Jim Raynor, who is literally just a heroic marine, is NOT a marine for the purposes of this challenge, but Tychus in the Odin IS a marine.
An old challenge...I remember watching someone try this back many years ago. Nice to see it again, but for the Protoss missions, people substituted "marine only" with zealot only.
it was the same guy lol GGG do all of these runs which is why he titled the video "is it ACTUALLY"
That stutter step through the entire campaign was just beautiful.
Nova: Covert Ops reference understood and appreciated. Returning to default tasks.
"whenever i skip missions i get yelled at" What about the tosh mission and Nova mission?
The tosh mission has only tosh as a controllable unit and the Nova one only has marines at the start and they are unable to advance without Nova's help
What about his rule of if isn’t possible then do it normally like belly in the beast and Protoss missions
@@bayarsejar5831 Also keep in mind the "Choose Your Own Adventure" style of the WoL campaign. It doesn't require you to do it in any specific order, or to complete all of the other missions before going to Char. He just skipped the Deadman's Port mission and went to Char without Ghosts/Specteres.
@@Valhalla05 he did deadman’s ports but just not breakout 10:51-13:35
@@bayarsejar5831 Sorry, I meant New Folsom.
For future playthroughs of Welcome to the Jungle: The Protoss upgrades trigger only on Tarrazine turn-ins, so you can *cheese* the mission by patrolling SCVs that have tarrazine at your base, locking the protoss into base upgrades.
It’s been a while, you’ve done a lot of runs since this one. But you got me hooked for many months, watching your archive channel.
These early fame-making videos still have a lot of rewatch value though. I find that, StarCraft II, Warcraft III, StarCraft I, and all of them again in various incarnations like deathless, marinerboys, real scale and mod fest and other streams do an amazing job of rotating content to keep it interesting. I don’t follow every series, but many of them. In no way did I expect you to be able to keep these games so interesting for so long.
Hats of to you, sir!
I love how you never quit the "Super unique"meme
"All in the name of archaeology!" That line killed me.
"They will die, but the extraction process will finish before the protoss can kill the extractor" Yaaay! Nova covert ops speedrun reference.
I used to like Nova Covert Ops. Then a glitch started appearing where Nova's weapon vanishes if you use the gunblade's ability. And since Starcraft 2 is no longer supported, I doubt the glitch will ever be fixed.
I feel like the ending of that last mission is exactly the vibe the writers wanted for it XD
This man and his missions done with just marines is kind of a great canonical tribute to Terrans in a galaxy with face melting hordes of Zerg and a technologically vastly advanced race of Protoss. The human spirit of the Terrans to never give up and keep going with the power of bullets and guns and manpower.
Next video: beating Starcraft 2 using medics only
Yes.
That bunker begging for mercy was hilarious
19:15
"It's almost if the mission wants you to use flyers to eliminate hi-priority targets or something"
XD
"I should disguise myself as an SCV" got me to laugh in real life. Well done.
There are a few missions that require transports. There might be others but 'The Moebius Factor' and 'Maw of the Void' come to mind.
Edit: I forgot Orbital Strike exists. Mainly because I opt for the Tech Reactors.
The "super unique" joke always gets me.
17:56 might be the funniest Starcraft meme ever
Speedruns have thought us one thing: Drop pods, drop pods everywhere.
Uh, can we talk about how slick the editing is for the segment of 'All-In'? That epic SC1 track building up to crescendo while you desperately throw everything you've got at Kerrigan to buy just a few more seconds - chef's kiss
27:26 "I knew his only weakness - bullets!"
Marine printer go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
bro how you manage to comment this a day ago, vid came out 14 seconds ago
Brrrrrrrrrrrr
@@TheNotSoIrishGamer A lot of channels offer early access on videos to patreons and what not.
Thomas C
Richy is a patron. Grant releases videos to his patrons a day or 2 early
5:03 I love these little jokes, like that probe as an scv :D
pretty sure in the devil's playground you can clear every zerg structure on the map with marines. Clearing these is actually a hidden victory condition, so you don't have to collect all the minerals. It even awards the Feat of Strength "The Scenic Route" if done on hard or higher.
No, you get the achievement but the mission won’t end
8:21 i know what happened, the tanks were too far away from the train (their objective) so getting in range of their objective was more important then attacking, try making a unit follow another unit and making the first unit walk away, the follower will attack until the first unit is too far away
2:29
"This guy again?"
"Kill one unit and he will give up"
Heart of the Swarm with only Zerglings or The Hyperion, no Kerrigan. Legacy of the Void with only Zealots, Centurions, or Sentinels. Artanis counts as a Zealot if he has a melee attack.
PS: If you're in a marine suit like Raynor is in Liberation Day, you count as a marine in my book.
A Terran Space Marine is what happens if you put a Imperial Guardsman into a suit of Astartes power armour.
So... A sister of battle ?
@@lucasdantas2398 Nah, "badass-but-otherwise-ordinary human" and "awesome power armor" are only two of the three components necessary to make a Sister of Battle. The third is "enough faith to take anti-tank weapons to the face and keep fighting."
That one marine: You are the last one, complete the mission.
Commenting on this historic work of art~ so glad to see recent Starcraft content, really warms my nostalgic-heart~
17:58 You just described the life of an average Eversor assassin
How non-chalantly Grant said "I hate the doctor and want her to die" was scary. 0.o
I do not get why he dislikes her. I played StarCraft || campaign multiple times and have never even played the other mission.
I thought the last mission was easier (during normal non marine only play) against fliers. Cause the nydus worms can appear anywhere in the middle of your base. At laeast the fliers can only attack the edges. And with the insane anti air upgrades to the turrets, it's usually a breeze.
You can prevent nydus spawning in your base by building buildings where they would spawn.
Also you can just put two tanks and 2 marine bunkers in your base and forget about them
Really enjoyed this. From what I've gathered, the answer is, "no not completely (even on the Terran side of things), but you can get pretty close."
Yeah that's pretty accurate.
Man, that unique objective sure is exciting. Weird that more games don't have such unique objectives.
I was so confused at first watching this because his marines were dying and he wasnt resetting. Took me a good 5 minutes before I realized it wasnt meant to be deathless haha.
This was pretty amazing, although it did feel extremely weird to see you lose even a single unit
I read that as, "Can you ACTUALY beat SC2 with only 1 Marine". That would be a hell of a challenge
It would only be possible if he had the essence mod from the arcade so he builds captian America with a rifle instead of a shield
@@qberrygamz7049 giggity
@@AZ-rg3rf Im sorry what how am I supposed to respond d to that lol
when the doom music kicks in
I like how every terran play always becomes the heaven of thousands flying barraks and factories, sooner or later
Them flying buildings be coming in clutch sometimes
So i just got done trying The Dig with marines only on brutal with no drill, and it is possible. As long as you have 2 upgrades, line your entrances with bunkers, 2 layers at the top entrance, and target fire the sentries as early as possible, you can do it. My APM is garbage too so someone more skilled could do it no problem
I tried, but I couldn't do the beginning no build part with just my 4 marines. the base part was easy with marines only.
I said this elsewhere in the comments but it needs to be said directly to the man himself.
(GGG) Has an actual mid stream discussion over wether or not the planetary fortress is allowed for this run. But Jim the guy who is literally a hero MARINE ... no he's not allowed.
26:27 You say Gates of Hell, yet the title card explicitly states Gates of Heck, I call shenanigans.
Jokes aside though, great video :)
all about the google intro was damn right perfect!
Watching these marines run into the meat grinder but win on numbers alone makes me understand WW2 Russia.
Found your channel yesterday. Started watching all the deathless runs for SC2 and WC3, absolute banger content! Cant wait for more
the last part reminds me of the first time i played the last level of the Protoss campaign in the "brood war" expansion.
i had NOTHING left but the Temple when it finally hit full charge!