Starcraft was the game, which single-handely made me learn english language. Sitting with a paper dictionary and translating all those briefings. Fun times.
That's amazing! It's truly remarkable what people will do to enjoy the things they are intrigued by! Learning a whole language! Now that's dedication! Thanks for sharing, and hope all is well!
@@Dog.Dad.Studios If only there was some new SC story of good quality :) especially I would wanna know more about the galaxy outside of Korprulu sector in SC universe
One of my favorite things about starcraft one is the fact that whenever you take control of an allied base, the colors remain the same. It feels way way more authentic than the color changing to blue, and seeing units of mine of a different color honestly makes me want to keep them alive three times as much, because it just feels different than just another one of my blue guys.
There are also dozens of Novels and Comics, though they are not always (fully) canon. Liberties Crusade for example goes through the Terran SC1 campaign from the perspective of a Warreporter that joined them in that first mission (it at times reads like a fanfiction of someone who dreamed themselve taking part and befriending the characters of that story though) I Mensk explains a lot about why Kerrigan and Mensk are the way they are in this game (and this is one where Blizz Lore Department had a closer hand on if i remember correctly) There is the HeavensDevils Saga that came in the Timeframe of the SC2 Release and tells the story that sort of shows why Raynor became a Magistrat (though mostly what he did before then) And many more
Starcraft was a game I watched my father play from over his shoulder. Before I could properly articulate my wonder and awe over the beauty of the setting. Twenty-seven years later, I am still obsessed. All hail the old golden age of Blizzard Entertainment.
My brother is quite a bit older than me. When we were younger, I couldn't really keep up with him in Starcraft. He'd have 100 zerglings and I'd be trying to tech up to battlecruiser. We got back into it last year playing the co-op campaign mod together. What a nostalgia trip!
Thank you so much for sharing this! I’m an only child, and hearing my friend tell me he also played with his brothers growing up makes me happy! Hope all is well with both of you : )
Yes. Marine range is increased in bunker and further increased with upgrade. This is why if you don't get the upgrade, Dragoons, Siege Tanks and Goliaths can attack bunkers out of their range.
Our own StarCraft experiences? Very well. Back in high school, I used to have a pirated version of StarCraft with no cinematics or voice acting, and I had an absolutely brilliant idea to install it on a pendrive. Turns out if you do that, you just need to update the register the first time you plug it into a new computer and it runs *anywhere*. I took it to school and played the campaigns on school computers when no one was looking. Of course, my school friends quickly realized what I had and had me share it with them, and we played multiplayer matches at school together. It was awesome. Of course, nowadays, having my own income and being able to afford games, I own both StarCraft Remastered and StarCraft 2 with all of the expansions. But I still look back fondly on those days of playing LAN matches with StarCraft ran from a pendrive. You couldn't do that anymore with all the company launchers and online synchronization that modern games have.
I truly appreciate you sharing this with us! This is the beauty of gaming, and shared experiences. I love the "[now] having my own income.." its truly remarkable, and i thank my parents for making me save up for games back then, since now, I understand what it means to have the means, and know I can't go hog wild lol. Wishing you the best, and absolutely, the days of LAN and couch co-op seem dead. I'm hoping one day we can get back to interactivity
Many of the old studios have either died or been hollowed out by capital. We can fondly remember the times we had but with precious few exceptions all the new stuff is either coming from indie studios or teams with a stated commitment to quality. I don’t even consider modern acti-blizzard to be the same studio that made these games.
Was loaning money easier back then? Why does capital now mean the conglomeration of video games when back in the 80s/90s or Wall Street greed, that wasn’t the case. I know of monopolies by publishers and consoles, but it seemed ( and I could be wrong) that developers were numerous. I mean we have a parody studio get John Goodman for God’s sake making a parody of Myst in the late the 90s
@@Dog.Dad.StudiosI think usually you can track the "hollowing" of a beloved company as we know it from the moment it becomes publicly traded. For Blizzard it's 2015. The board of directors in publicly traded companies gradually weed out anyone who isn't focused on the short-term profit until there are basically all businessmen and no artists at the helm.
The battle chests were tangibly one of my favorite parts of gaming; I now look back and cringe that I didn’t save most of the things, including my game informers.. thanks for taking the time to share, it really was a special time
StarCraft is still my favorite game, despite all the recent years of modern decadence. I've started playing the game since 2009 just for fun. I even learned game design, photoshop sprite editing and even programming through modding this game despite engine limitations that I've intensively studied it for years. As a startup indie game developer who has yet to make a video game, I'm taking my talents to someday create an RTS game inspired by StarCraft.
May I ask how you learned those things? I’m not technical and have a series X and my”PC” is a ROG ALLY I just bought cause I could afford the $350 lol and on my bucket list is to be a voice actor for a indie game one day
Man, this video brings back memories. I got the original Starcraft from burning a copy of the CD at school 😂 I think I might of been ten or eleven, my best friend had it so we took it to school and our computer lab teacher made us copies. Played the crap out of it, both the campaign and BattleNet. Then my dad came around one night and went “that actually looks kind of fun”. Fast forward a few weeks and he’s playing it more than I was. Got a second copy and played online with my dad. So many great memories with him thanks to Starcraft
Yes, Broodwar's story is a bit contrived. However if you look at it from the prism of Kerrigan, who is clearly the protagonist of the expansion, then it makes perfect sense. She manipulated everyone else to do her bidding, except Duran of course who in turn manipulated her but that's another story for another day. Now whether Raynor, Fenix, Mengsk, Zeratul, etc, should have trusted her or not is an entirely different question. As the consumer of the story the obvious answer, as you said in the video, is hell no. However if you put yourself into each of the different characters' shoes and look at it from their perspective than you get a different answer. Lets start with the easiest: Fenix. He is a Protoss, therefore extremely bullheaded and arrogant. He also doesn't really know the other races all that well, and Kerrigan is something new altogether being this weird Terran-Zerg hybrid being. Thus Fenix really didn't know what to make of her. The only reason he went along with Kerrigan is because the others, most notably Raynor, did, and Fenix valued his allies' opinions since they stood with him in battle and he learned to respect them. Zeratul is in the same boat as Fenix, with the added bonus of understanding the need to ally oneself with the most unlikely of candidates, desperate times call for desperate measures and all that. Raynor is also pretty easy, he still loved(s) Kerrigan, and we all know how powerful love is. As much as Raynor knew he shouldn't trust Kerrigan, he simply couldn't help giving her the benefit of the doubt, even though he knew the odds of her not betraying him would be miniscule at best. Mengsk is the toughest to explain, as while he had a previous relationship with Kerrigan, just like Raynor, it was business rather than pleasure. Still meaningful, just less so. Also he had no issue betraying Kerrigan himself so that relationship only goes so far. Perhaps it was regret for betraying Kerrigan and seeing what she's become that led to him giving her the benefit of the doubt, perhaps it was feeling he had strength in numbers with everyone else also being distrustful towards Kerrigan and thought she couldn't possibly betray them and defeat them all. Perhaps he simply just hates Terran enemies(the UED in this case) more than he hates aliens. Either way as I'm trying to show, he had a several potential plausible reasons to allow himself to trust Kerrigan against his better judgment. Thus I actually liked Broodwar's story, but only because I viewed it from Kerrigan's perspective as she was clearly the protagonist. Her character was fleshed out and went full circle, from being the betrayed to being the betrayer. From being the helpless victim to the one dominating the entire universe. You can question the other characters' judgments and motivations, but to me they're no worse than the first game when Raynor trusted Mengsk for example. My biggest problem with the story is actually Samir Duran, or more precisely the direction Blizzard took the story in SC2. Duran framing and killing Stukov was on course with the rest of Starcraft's story, for better and for worse. I didn't even mind the concept of him being something completely different and serving a mysterious new master we haven't heard of yet. However what it turned out to be: Amon and the hybrids, was simply awful. If I was to summarize SC2's story in a single sentence than it would be: 'the character assassination of Sarah Kerrigan'. Broodwar fleshed out her character and made her a great protagonist, antagonist or whatever you wish to call her, SC2 and its expansions completely butchered her character. It got so bad that the only way Blizzard's new writers managed to dig themselves out of the hole they dug themselves was to turn Kerrigan into a god(well a Xel Naga), which was insanely dumb and completely destroyed what was left of the story after the base game and both expansions tirelessly tore it down brick by brick. Blizzard should have taken a completely different direction, beginning in Broodwar with Duran, in order to not back themselves into this corner that they did, and clearly didn't have a talented enough writing staff to write themselves out of it.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this! I couldn't do it justice with a response, all I can say is thank you for expressing your view points in such a concise and managed way. This was a great read! Hope all is well!
@ It’s called Editorial Entertainment. We’re working on putting a demo out for our upcoming title Cosmic. It’s an FPS that’s a mixture of Halo and Doom.
@@ProjectRedfoot Read "I-Mensk" if you want to understand that reason. Spoiler: In short : Kerrigan was one of the Assassines who killed Mensk familie, even though she does not remember that as confed ghosts get their memories wiped after each mission. rescueing her from a Lab to make her trust him and then use her as a tool against the confeds was his revenge plot, but he never truly trusted her. Her bonding with Raynor and others influenced her in a way that loosened his control on her as shown when she wasn't fully on board with his plan, so he got rid of her (as he planned from the start anyway) before she became to disthrusting of him.
@@Ivan_Ooze I couldn't get through tactics ahah, some people swear by it though. What about fallout 2 did you like more? I enjoyed fallout 2 a lot more, especially since you can cheese the enclave armor, and as a 12 year old getting overpowered early in harsh games was sort of my thing. Yet, I do love Fallout 1's more oppressive atmosphere, if you could call it that. It really hits the spot for me, while yes its 50's, its not like Bethesda's retro 50's in your face style. Its more subtle, I just hated the water chip time limit, made me anxious.. What are your thoughts?
@ I love when a comment becomes a chat! For me it was the new weapons and more locations to explore in 2. I did like the more serious tone of 1 more tho, FO2 always has the wild wasteland trait on and the wackiness can get tiring. I really dig the retro 50s of the new games I just wish they made the world more lived in and not like the bombs dropped last week
On pacing - I don't mind building up the base every time, it's starting with only like four workers that's a real pain. The first five minutes of every mission is basically just sitting around building workers until you can actually start playing the game. There's a reason that, over the past decade of SC2, they've constantly given you more and more workers for every mission / ladder game
I truly appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment! Yes I love my comment section, it’s the underpinnings of the community I strive for : ) Wishing you and your loved ones the best this holiday season. Sincerely, Dog Dad
Some of my most fond memories of SC was playing 2v2 bloodbath and backstabbing my team mate right before we won. Also that 8 player jungle map that everybody built up really big on before fighting was fun. I miss RTS games before they got e-sported. Age 2 with T90 comes close to that vibe.
This game is what made me adore stories when i was a child. I have autism, and seeing these characters come alive and experiencing this hell with them when i was 6 or 7 made me want more stories as a whole. Seeing people i worked so hard to keep alive, my marines id regularly restart if i lost, die was heartwrenching. I was always so scared of what else would come next, and i think thats in large part due to the sound and graphic designs. Playing the zerg felt taboo at first, like fundamentally wrong to play and it was amazing. The protoss felt so freaking amazing to play, everything golden and filled with light it really felt like i had a chance to help this war from the zerg i had just helped spiral out of control and then fighting the protoss as the protoss i really felt like I was damning us all right up until tassadars death. I loved this game as a kid, and as an adult i really just want to play it coop now. It has its flaws, some stupid story writing and dumber decisions made by characters. Starcraft 2 is even worse on those notes. And i wouldn't have it any different, because its just.... Starcraft. Aside from the epilogue being the end theres nothing i want different.
I was in high school when it came out. We had three computer labs supplied by some Microsoft executive that went to our school. I don’t remember who. So we had huge LAN parties on some weekends. Just huge Starcraft and Counterstrike tournaments. Great memories.
Great work! I got to experience this game at like 11yrs old and between that and Ultima, I was locked in 😂 It was one of those "forming" games that set the standards for GOOD gameplay and story. Rock on
The UED is my absolute favorite sub-faction in StarCraft. It and the Terran theme they added with BW was such a clash from the "space frontiersmen" of the vanilla SC Terrans that I couldn't help but fall in love with them. Even if they are utterly cursed, but that's all SC factions.
Peak RTS gaming without a doubt! Incredible campaign, story and play. Didn't know what asymetrical play was at the time, but recognized the balance and care that went into that balance. Waking up early AM to play Sc2 before school. Fastest 3v3 or Top Vs Bottom Nr10! The twin towers come down, and 2 days later you're playing a custom game to protect a tower. What a time to be a teen! I learned how to min max in life thanks to this single game. I cannot praise this game enough!
Thank you so much for writing this, and feeling comfortable to share it with our community! Waking up early to play a game that you love is one of the best feelings in life. Loved 3v3 and TvB! Ahaha oh man, yeah the internet was the same back then as it is now with memes, playing 1.6 Counter-Strike was a bit weird after 9/11, especially having experienced it in Manhattan. I'm glad the game was there for you in so many unique ways! Wishing you the best!
Only game I bought thrice. I loved the game so much that the SC2 announcement helped me thru a rough patch of my life. I still play it. I played the crap out of the UMS games all thru middle school. All this from me playing it back in 99 at my friend's house.
It's truly amazing how video games can help, or even save you during hard times. There is something about exploring a universe that brings me time to breathe from the normal day to day stuff, and the ebbs and flows of life. Wishing you the best, and thank you for taking the time to share this. All the best, and sincerely, Dog Dad
Bc it seems to be a persistent myth, old blizzard wasn't any less bad than current blizzard. The issues of current blizz started there and got to the point they did was bc it was never addressed or challenged. Even in their lawsuit, it was found that all the issues existed in old blizz 15+ yrs ago. Deifying them in any state just gives other companies and orgs the chance to do the same
@@Dog.Dad.Studios unfortunately no, we know now that blizzard was always a toxic cesspool even in the D2 days, blizzard North had management and employees going against each other until being shut down and fully absorved by Blizzard south, and we also know key leaders at blizzard that remained were involved in a bunch of sexual harassment cases
I remember playing Starcraft as a kid in the early 2000s. I got the demo and played it over and over. When I finally got the real game, I would use cheats to set up epic battles in skirmish missions. I didn't understand the story, but I loved it all the same. 20+ years later and I have a bunch of the books and know so much lore. It's an amazing universe and I wish we'd get a 3rd game.
It's an amazing game for sure! One of the all-time classics, and you have a great reason to keep playing! Hope you get that pc someday, even older laptops will run the original well
Chris Metzen & James Phinney did the Starcraft story. In the expansion, only Chris Metzen is credited. Also, they let Kerrigan in because Raszagal was already infested and under her control. It makes sense that Zeratul would trust her after the missions; they are fighting together. The Dark Archons are one of the game's best units (especially in single-player); their only weak point is their high cost. I could go on, but I have stuff to do.
My all time favorite game. Was given to me by my dad at random when it came out, cause his friend gave it to him and he to me, dad doesn't play games lol. But eventually got the battle chest. Have played it off and on since. Online gaming b4 it was a thing.
Me and my cousin would sneak off to the den where the computer was at like 1:00am in the morning, he had StarCraft on if watch him play hours , now we play SC2 together and log 5-6hrs play throughs each being just as fun and nostalgic as the last 🫶
Nice video :) I watched it with a break in the middle. I do recall you said something... that I know I had the answer for but I forgot what it was lol :) I'm looking forward to seeing what else you have here.
Probably why the Confederates exist. It's American South inmates who settled in Tarsonis. It's also why so many places have Southern names like New Gettysburg. Granted there were Midwestern and Texas inmates in the area too, but they seemed to settled in places like Mar Sara and Chau Sara. Pretty sure Raynor is from Shiloh, which is just straight up Midwest farm country.
Honestly, I kind of see the final mission of Brood War as having dropped the ball the most in the story. Kerrigan, after all her scheming and betraying, finally had the consequences of her actions show up at her doorstep, and she was completely bailed out without a scratch. She then gloats about it when she actually had nothing to do with her victory. Her cerebrate (you) just took care of all the nasty stuff for her. I think the final mission should have gone like this: Kerrigan realizes she's bitten off a bit more than she could chew. The only way to survive is to retreat within the endless nydus network inside Char, and you need to buy her enough time in a last stand so she can burrow. In essence, it would have played out like In Utter Darkness from Wings of Liberty, with the mission ending when the cerebrate is eventually overrun and slain, but Kerrigan is now safe. From then, she could talk about rebuilding the swarm, and how she had to sacrifice everything to secure her "crown," even her loyal cerebrate, that she's completely alone now. Idk, I thought it would've been cooler that way.
So, I always assumed the broodwar protoss campaign was always a story from the dark templar perspective, and with lore you know they were so quickly dismissed by the rest of the protoss so he felt sympathy toward her and her story since she was "brainwashed and controlled" by the overmind. And of course we know she is just evil in starcraft 1.
Thank you for this excellent work. I did enjoy Starcraft deeply, back around 2008. I lived every mission. And Broodwar... I found it cool, but it did not touch me. What you say about the story being rather implausible strikes me as the reason, thoug back then I would not know to articulate it like that. I ended up rushing through it. With StarCraft II it was the same for me, fun to play against people, but the story did not touch me. I am convinced that the first StarCraft along with Diablo II and Warcraft III did something special, a combination of storytelling, ambiance, and mechanics, which path is yet to be resumed by someone else.
Kerrigan played a huge part in helping me figure out that I'm in fact a woman. I've wanted to be like her ever since I was a little kid. Unhealthy model for a child, probably, but I didn't care, she was so cool with her wings and mannerism.
I'm pretty sure the overminds goal was always to pass the swarm to kerrigan who was much more mobile n not stuck to a planet I could be wrong but that's how I remember it 😂
A lot of Xel'Naga related lore was delegated to the Starcraft 1 manual, which was expected pre-reading at the time. It's a pretty good read if you haven't done so already. Anyway I do agree Brood War's plot is really dumb in retrospect because it required people to trust others that are clearly overly shady. That being said, I think the first game's Zerg campaign being 50% "Pick up the Chrystalis and move it to another part" was a bit of low point, but the Terran was quite the high point and the Protoss campaign ended with the biggest bang in sci-fi story history.
So in the original CD booklet the terrans were a lost prisoner transport full of criminals of which most were from southern US states. They crash landed on a planet, and started a colony.
I learned to lower the music volume of games as the first thing I do (even before going into tutorial) during this era of gaming, but whenever a game forces me into the game without letting me into the settings before it's still the same bro first things to do when starting a new game: >settings/options >sounds >music: 3/10 >sfx: 5/10 >cutscences: 10/10 >in game diagog: 10/10
I think my favorite way to enjoy SC1's story and setting is to play the Mass Recall campaign for SC2 with the real scale mod and the old style of models rather than the SC2 ones
I introduced my aging dad to Starcraft 2, and we both had a lot of laughs at how spaghetti-western the story is. I was always more of a Star Wars man myself, being religious, in my youth so I never touched Starcraft until I was an adult. I found it to be a good universe with a ton of squandered potential. 40k always appealed more to me though, up until its recent subversion.
Thank you for sharing this! I'm glad you two could share those moments together! I played Witcher 3 with my mom while she was in hospice and it made a sad experience worth something. What was the recent subversion for 40k? I don't pay that much attention to that universe, but I do enjoy it when I am playing something within it. Hope all is well!
@@Dog.Dad.Studios GW has been completely compromised and is now attacking its own core fanbase while promoting racial and sexual identity politics agendas. The people who have been in the hobby for fourty years (what few of them were left after GW raised prices sharply over the past decade) all left and the "fanbase" is mostly gloating idpol people from the left and a few very blackpilled fans in the center or on the right who still partake in the hobby to a limited degree but mostly ignore GW and everything they say except to spit on it. The company has been going downhill for a while but this really was the final nail imo. Even when I joined the fandom back ten years ago people were mad at GW for their prices and some other things. Now the fandom is essentially dying out and being hollowed out to go the route of Disney Wars, which i saw coming years ahead of everyone else and dipped out of the Star Wars fanbase because of it. Just sad all around. Us nerdy guys can't have hobbies without the lame normie bros and self-important karens ruining it.
@@StarboyXL9 So it's because of the demographics and not the company chasing those demographics? You couldn't miss the point by a wider margin if you tried.
There is no cow level, operation cwal, show me the money, black sheep wall, me spending so much time trying to learn how to spell these cheats as a dyslexic kid lol Burt into my brain to this day, best quote 2 trunk drivers hitting the zergling "I love you sarge" I was 10 when I got my hands on this in 99, I loved the game, see Jimmy meting kergin for the 1st time "you pig" Blizzard made top quality games, but "look how they massacred boy" 😢 (godfather) SC2 with all them skins and not so micro transactions 35 pounds for a skin set and you can only equip 4 units unless Ur in a 1v1, the story is so good.
Never went away. A lot of the BW pros who went to SC2 just kind of wandered back, and even when playing SC2 played the old game for fun. There is even a mod where you can play SC1 versus 2 in the SC2 engine.
Starcraft, a game where cutscene and ingame models not matching up, but this can stem from how STarcraft was Originally gonna be a warhammer 40k RTS. Yea, its a bit hard to believe but it was, heck, if you look closely, do some extensive thinking and some mental gymnastics, you can see the elements. Though I feel some structures in StarCraft 1 look far better than in 2, mostly on the Zerg part in some areas like the spawning pool for an example.
When I was a little kid, I found a pirated starcraft on one of my dad's cds and installed it to check it out. It was a pirated Russian copy with all cinematics and voices cut out. So like, you had to read everything and didn't know major plot movements. This and the oozing zerg interface and also the protoss interface for some reason horribly disgusted me. I just thought it was some weird adult game and put it away. But then I found it again two years later and absolutely loved it.
I was always a bit confused on how Artanis looked in Brood War. Like his outfit looks nothing like any protoss we've seen so far and even Zeratul has more clothing than him. Why does a vaunted templar and newly promoted Praetor look like a caveman. Also the warp gate on Aiur to Shakuras seems like a plot hole. There was just a warp gate to the homeworld of the Conclave's most hated enemy on Aiur and they never found it for hundreds of years? Also why was there even a warp gate on Shakuras if it could be connected to Aiur, only Nerazim have ever been there so only they could have built it? The only plausible explanation I could think of is the warp gates being able to 'connect' to any other warp gate built but requires coordinates or something so Zeratul just used a warp gate on Aiur to link to another warp gate on Shakuras
It might doubd silly but for me I always found slightly brutal the way dragoons would be destroyed and spill. Very clear what happens with tiny sprites.
Man in middle school I used to play the shit out of this at my friend (we were poor but able to live in the burbs and didn’t own a computer at home til I left the nest and 2 years later bought one for my lil bros) my friend had diabetes and was definitely nerdy, I was a bit more outgoing and athletic but we were poor and in the suburbs I lived especially in middle school we were both “losers” lol but our love of video games brought us together…his computer room used to be across his room so we would keep the doors open and talk…I used to sleep over so many weekends and his dad was definitely a metal head with the Harley and always wore black and was just happy his son had a friend…I later introduced a couple other friends I knew who like to game and we all became friends and took turn at who’s house we were at but never mine cause my step dad was an abusive rage filled asshole and plus I was poor(no snacks!) my buddies sure had full fridges and even soda!!! Man I’m 39 now and have an 8 year old who loves gaming now but things could be better at home (mommy problems that are about to change after Christmas) but I just thought of all those times and smiled
Thank you for taking the time to share this, I truly appreciate it! It's amazing where life can bring us, what the journey entails, and where we are now. I wouldn't have believed it at a younger age. Wishing you and your family the best, and I know you'll make those memories with your 8 year old. Sincerely, Dog Dad
It definitely is survivor bias to claim "the game is remembered because it's good, and it's good cause it's old" But what is very true is that it survived and it would be wise for developers to glean what we can from the games that do make it into this status.
That blizzard made more money on designing a mount that took a day and no production team versus a whole production crew to create a full video game? That’s not rational thinking? What?
Starcraft was the game, which single-handely made me learn english language. Sitting with a paper dictionary and translating all those briefings. Fun times.
That's amazing! It's truly remarkable what people will do to enjoy the things they are intrigued by! Learning a whole language! Now that's dedication! Thanks for sharing, and hope all is well!
me too.
That makes me curious- How did you feel about the characters from that angle of perception?
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@@nonya1366 I second this question
There has been a surge of great StarCraft related videos lately. I’m not sure why, but I like it!
It’s about time we got some love for the OG of RTS nowadays! Hope all is well
@@Dog.Dad.Studios If only there was some new SC story of good quality :) especially I would wanna know more about the galaxy outside of Korprulu sector in SC universe
yep, it's getting me to want play it again. Hell i'll do it tonight!
@@nicolasriveros943 there is no greater itch than the itch to play StarCraft!
Probably the disappointing early access for Stormgate has caused people to retry StarCraft, the OG RTS
One of my favorite things about starcraft one is the fact that whenever you take control of an allied base, the colors remain the same. It feels way way more authentic than the color changing to blue, and seeing units of mine of a different color honestly makes me want to keep them alive three times as much, because it just feels different than just another one of my blue guys.
This is a fantastic point!
Having THAT part of the Terran theme hit after the intro. This guy knows what’s up
You as well : )!
this lady Kerrigan seems really nice and beautiful i hope nothing bad happens to her
Don't hold your breath, pal
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I know, right? Imagine if she would try to destroy the galaxy or something, like, that’s crazy
"Alexei and I have been friends since long before you were born"
Lol, lmao even.
It’s wild!
Back then when they were purging people for the UPL. Although Duran probably existed long before both Alexei and Gerard.
A lot of SC1 lore is written in the manuals. It has lore about the history of the races, the units etc.
There are also dozens of Novels and Comics, though they are not always (fully) canon.
Liberties Crusade for example goes through the Terran SC1 campaign from the perspective of a Warreporter that joined them in that first mission (it at times reads like a fanfiction of someone who dreamed themselve taking part and befriending the characters of that story though)
I Mensk explains a lot about why Kerrigan and Mensk are the way they are in this game (and this is one where Blizz Lore Department had a closer hand on if i remember correctly)
There is the HeavensDevils Saga that came in the Timeframe of the SC2 Release and tells the story that sort of shows why Raynor became a Magistrat (though mostly what he did before then)
And many more
If you wrote this yourself you would be able to pronounce words like albeit. You chatgptd this.
Starcraft was a game I watched my father play from over his shoulder. Before I could properly articulate my wonder and awe over the beauty of the setting. Twenty-seven years later, I am still obsessed. All hail the old golden age of Blizzard Entertainment.
My brother is quite a bit older than me. When we were younger, I couldn't really keep up with him in Starcraft. He'd have 100 zerglings and I'd be trying to tech up to battlecruiser. We got back into it last year playing the co-op campaign mod together. What a nostalgia trip!
Thank you so much for sharing this! I’m an only child, and hearing my friend tell me he also played with his brothers growing up makes me happy!
Hope all is well with both of you : )
ASS being down 13 points in the stock market radicalized me, long live the terran dominion
I lost all my money to that and the Hawk Tua Dominion Girl!
Yes. Marine range is increased in bunker and further increased with upgrade.
This is why if you don't get the upgrade, Dragoons, Siege Tanks and Goliaths can attack bunkers out of their range.
Our own StarCraft experiences? Very well. Back in high school, I used to have a pirated version of StarCraft with no cinematics or voice acting, and I had an absolutely brilliant idea to install it on a pendrive. Turns out if you do that, you just need to update the register the first time you plug it into a new computer and it runs *anywhere*. I took it to school and played the campaigns on school computers when no one was looking. Of course, my school friends quickly realized what I had and had me share it with them, and we played multiplayer matches at school together. It was awesome.
Of course, nowadays, having my own income and being able to afford games, I own both StarCraft Remastered and StarCraft 2 with all of the expansions. But I still look back fondly on those days of playing LAN matches with StarCraft ran from a pendrive. You couldn't do that anymore with all the company launchers and online synchronization that modern games have.
I truly appreciate you sharing this with us! This is the beauty of gaming, and shared experiences. I love the "[now] having my own income.." its truly remarkable, and i thank my parents for making me save up for games back then, since now, I understand what it means to have the means, and know I can't go hog wild lol.
Wishing you the best, and absolutely, the days of LAN and couch co-op seem dead. I'm hoping one day we can get back to interactivity
Many of the old studios have either died or been hollowed out by capital. We can fondly remember the times we had but with precious few exceptions all the new stuff is either coming from indie studios or teams with a stated commitment to quality. I don’t even consider modern acti-blizzard to be the same studio that made these games.
Was loaning money easier back then? Why does capital now mean the conglomeration of video games when back in the 80s/90s or Wall Street greed, that wasn’t the case. I know of monopolies by publishers and consoles, but it seemed ( and I could be wrong) that developers were numerous. I mean we have a parody studio get John Goodman for God’s sake making a parody of Myst in the late the 90s
@@Dog.Dad.StudiosI think usually you can track the "hollowing" of a beloved company as we know it from the moment it becomes publicly traded. For Blizzard it's 2015. The board of directors in publicly traded companies gradually weed out anyone who isn't focused on the short-term profit until there are basically all businessmen and no artists at the helm.
@ yeah private equity in art is horrible, no matter what
It's not the same studio at all. The people that made our beloved games don't work there anymore
Been obsessed with starcraft since I was like 5 , that and diablo 2 were a huge part of my childhood. The early 2000s was a dope time to grow up in
The battle chests were tangibly one of my favorite parts of gaming; I now look back and cringe that I didn’t save most of the things, including my game informers.. thanks for taking the time to share, it really was a special time
StarCraft is still my favorite game, despite all the recent years of modern decadence. I've started playing the game since 2009 just for fun. I even learned game design, photoshop sprite editing and even programming through modding this game despite engine limitations that I've intensively studied it for years. As a startup indie game developer who has yet to make a video game, I'm taking my talents to someday create an RTS game inspired by StarCraft.
It’s great to hear about your passion and dedication! Please let us know about the future game! Looking forward to it : )!!
May I ask how you learned those things? I’m not technical and have a series X and my”PC” is a ROG ALLY I just bought cause I could afford the $350 lol and on my bucket list is to be a voice actor for a indie game one day
Man, this video brings back memories. I got the original Starcraft from burning a copy of the CD at school 😂 I think I might of been ten or eleven, my best friend had it so we took it to school and our computer lab teacher made us copies. Played the crap out of it, both the campaign and BattleNet.
Then my dad came around one night and went “that actually looks kind of fun”. Fast forward a few weeks and he’s playing it more than I was. Got a second copy and played online with my dad. So many great memories with him thanks to Starcraft
I truly appreciate you writing this, thank you for sharing : )
Yes, Broodwar's story is a bit contrived. However if you look at it from the prism of Kerrigan, who is clearly the protagonist of the expansion, then it makes perfect sense. She manipulated everyone else to do her bidding, except Duran of course who in turn manipulated her but that's another story for another day. Now whether Raynor, Fenix, Mengsk, Zeratul, etc, should have trusted her or not is an entirely different question. As the consumer of the story the obvious answer, as you said in the video, is hell no. However if you put yourself into each of the different characters' shoes and look at it from their perspective than you get a different answer. Lets start with the easiest: Fenix. He is a Protoss, therefore extremely bullheaded and arrogant. He also doesn't really know the other races all that well, and Kerrigan is something new altogether being this weird Terran-Zerg hybrid being. Thus Fenix really didn't know what to make of her. The only reason he went along with Kerrigan is because the others, most notably Raynor, did, and Fenix valued his allies' opinions since they stood with him in battle and he learned to respect them. Zeratul is in the same boat as Fenix, with the added bonus of understanding the need to ally oneself with the most unlikely of candidates, desperate times call for desperate measures and all that.
Raynor is also pretty easy, he still loved(s) Kerrigan, and we all know how powerful love is. As much as Raynor knew he shouldn't trust Kerrigan, he simply couldn't help giving her the benefit of the doubt, even though he knew the odds of her not betraying him would be miniscule at best. Mengsk is the toughest to explain, as while he had a previous relationship with Kerrigan, just like Raynor, it was business rather than pleasure. Still meaningful, just less so. Also he had no issue betraying Kerrigan himself so that relationship only goes so far. Perhaps it was regret for betraying Kerrigan and seeing what she's become that led to him giving her the benefit of the doubt, perhaps it was feeling he had strength in numbers with everyone else also being distrustful towards Kerrigan and thought she couldn't possibly betray them and defeat them all. Perhaps he simply just hates Terran enemies(the UED in this case) more than he hates aliens. Either way as I'm trying to show, he had a several potential plausible reasons to allow himself to trust Kerrigan against his better judgment.
Thus I actually liked Broodwar's story, but only because I viewed it from Kerrigan's perspective as she was clearly the protagonist. Her character was fleshed out and went full circle, from being the betrayed to being the betrayer. From being the helpless victim to the one dominating the entire universe. You can question the other characters' judgments and motivations, but to me they're no worse than the first game when Raynor trusted Mengsk for example. My biggest problem with the story is actually Samir Duran, or more precisely the direction Blizzard took the story in SC2. Duran framing and killing Stukov was on course with the rest of Starcraft's story, for better and for worse. I didn't even mind the concept of him being something completely different and serving a mysterious new master we haven't heard of yet. However what it turned out to be: Amon and the hybrids, was simply awful. If I was to summarize SC2's story in a single sentence than it would be: 'the character assassination of Sarah Kerrigan'. Broodwar fleshed out her character and made her a great protagonist, antagonist or whatever you wish to call her, SC2 and its expansions completely butchered her character. It got so bad that the only way Blizzard's new writers managed to dig themselves out of the hole they dug themselves was to turn Kerrigan into a god(well a Xel Naga), which was insanely dumb and completely destroyed what was left of the story after the base game and both expansions tirelessly tore it down brick by brick. Blizzard should have taken a completely different direction, beginning in Broodwar with Duran, in order to not back themselves into this corner that they did, and clearly didn't have a talented enough writing staff to write themselves out of it.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this! I couldn't do it justice with a response, all I can say is thank you for expressing your view points in such a concise and managed way. This was a great read! Hope all is well!
As the head of a small studio I hope to one day be able to have our studio create a game worthy of getting a retrospective.
What’s your studio called? That’s pretty amazing!
@ It’s called Editorial Entertainment. We’re working on putting a demo out for our upcoming title Cosmic. It’s an FPS that’s a mixture of Halo and Doom.
@@Incog-e1z looking forward to it : ) keep up the hard work!
“Ah boys, about that evac?” 😢
Was there a logical reason to leave her? Like, would they have lost MORE if they had tried to go back? It just doesn't make sense
@@ProjectRedfoot Read "I-Mensk" if you want to understand that reason.
Spoiler:
In short : Kerrigan was one of the Assassines who killed Mensk familie, even though she does not remember that as confed ghosts get their memories wiped after each mission. rescueing her from a Lab to make her trust him and then use her as a tool against the confeds was his revenge plot, but he never truly trusted her. Her bonding with Raynor and others influenced her in a way that loosened his control on her as shown when she wasn't fully on board with his plan, so he got rid of her (as he planned from the start anyway) before she became to disthrusting of him.
This game, along with half life and fallout 1 & 2 was my childhood
Which Fallout was your favorite, 1, 2, or dare I say, Tactics? Thanks for sharing : )
@@Dog.Dad.Studios i gotta go with 2. never cared for tactics tbh, but i have been thinking about giving it another shot now that im older
@@Ivan_Ooze I couldn't get through tactics ahah, some people swear by it though. What about fallout 2 did you like more?
I enjoyed fallout 2 a lot more, especially since you can cheese the enclave armor, and as a 12 year old getting overpowered early in harsh games was sort of my thing.
Yet, I do love Fallout 1's more oppressive atmosphere, if you could call it that. It really hits the spot for me, while yes its 50's, its not like Bethesda's retro 50's in your face style. Its more subtle, I just hated the water chip time limit, made me anxious..
What are your thoughts?
@ I love when a comment becomes a chat! For me it was the new weapons and more locations to explore in 2. I did like the more serious tone of 1 more tho, FO2 always has the wild wasteland trait on and the wackiness can get tiring. I really dig the retro 50s of the new games I just wish they made the world more lived in and not like the bombs dropped last week
On pacing - I don't mind building up the base every time, it's starting with only like four workers that's a real pain. The first five minutes of every mission is basically just sitting around building workers until you can actually start playing the game. There's a reason that, over the past decade of SC2, they've constantly given you more and more workers for every mission / ladder game
Great retrospective, loved this game since I was a kid. Also your attention to comments is awesome. Subbed 👍🏻
“Thank god for cold fusion”
I truly appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment! Yes I love my comment section, it’s the underpinnings of the community I strive for : )
Wishing you and your loved ones the best this holiday season.
Sincerely,
Dog Dad
I have no idea why I suddenly got an urge to rewatch Starship Troopers and Aliens. Must be the weather.
Starcraft was also massive in Latam, with millions of players... under the pirate flag ofc xD.
Power to the people, glad it’s still being played!
@@Dog.Dad.Studios You could find it installed on every internet cafe. Along with Age of Empires and after a couple of years, WC3's Dota.
The setting was and still is incredible, I'd play a mmorpg themed around it in a heartbeat
16:20 I would have to disagree. The first thing humans do when we discover new territory is send missionaries.
Some of my most fond memories of SC was playing 2v2 bloodbath and backstabbing my team mate right before we won. Also that 8 player jungle map that everybody built up really big on before fighting was fun. I miss RTS games before they got e-sported. Age 2 with T90 comes close to that vibe.
Thank you for sharing this, and I love me some AoE match ups! Wishing you the best
The marines weapon in cutscenes look MG42 like - interesting
Maybe with the trenches and theme, blizzard wanted to evoke that?
What.
This game is what made me adore stories when i was a child. I have autism, and seeing these characters come alive and experiencing this hell with them when i was 6 or 7 made me want more stories as a whole. Seeing people i worked so hard to keep alive, my marines id regularly restart if i lost, die was heartwrenching. I was always so scared of what else would come next, and i think thats in large part due to the sound and graphic designs. Playing the zerg felt taboo at first, like fundamentally wrong to play and it was amazing. The protoss felt so freaking amazing to play, everything golden and filled with light it really felt like i had a chance to help this war from the zerg i had just helped spiral out of control and then fighting the protoss as the protoss i really felt like I was damning us all right up until tassadars death. I loved this game as a kid, and as an adult i really just want to play it coop now. It has its flaws, some stupid story writing and dumber decisions made by characters. Starcraft 2 is even worse on those notes. And i wouldn't have it any different, because its just.... Starcraft. Aside from the epilogue being the end theres nothing i want different.
Thank you for sharing this, I truly appreciate you!
I was in high school when it came out. We had three computer labs supplied by some Microsoft executive that went to our school. I don’t remember who. So we had huge LAN parties on some weekends. Just huge Starcraft and Counterstrike tournaments. Great memories.
Grew up watching my dad play sc1 and wc3, literally my earliest childhood memories
Great work! I got to experience this game at like 11yrs old and between that and Ultima, I was locked in 😂 It was one of those "forming" games that set the standards for GOOD gameplay and story. Rock on
I appreciate you : )! Sending all my best to you and your loved ones!
I actually liked that it started as a "small" event and grew bigger as longer you played until it became lovecraftian huge story.
Just so everyone knows, broodwar is still alive and thriving today. Asia and u.s. west servers
Amazing!!
The UED is my absolute favorite sub-faction in StarCraft. It and the Terran theme they added with BW was such a clash from the "space frontiersmen" of the vanilla SC Terrans that I couldn't help but fall in love with them. Even if they are utterly cursed, but that's all SC factions.
Yeah ahaha there ain’t no good guys that’s for sure! Thanks for taking the time to comment!
Peak RTS gaming without a doubt! Incredible campaign, story and play. Didn't know what asymetrical play was at the time, but recognized the balance and care that went into that balance.
Waking up early AM to play Sc2 before school. Fastest 3v3 or Top Vs Bottom Nr10! The twin towers come down, and 2 days later you're playing a custom game to protect a tower. What a time to be a teen!
I learned how to min max in life thanks to this single game. I cannot praise this game enough!
Thank you so much for writing this, and feeling comfortable to share it with our community! Waking up early to play a game that you love is one of the best feelings in life. Loved 3v3 and TvB!
Ahaha oh man, yeah the internet was the same back then as it is now with memes, playing 1.6 Counter-Strike was a bit weird after 9/11, especially having experienced it in Manhattan.
I'm glad the game was there for you in so many unique ways! Wishing you the best!
Only game I bought thrice. I loved the game so much that the SC2 announcement helped me thru a rough patch of my life. I still play it.
I played the crap out of the UMS games all thru middle school.
All this from me playing it back in 99 at my friend's house.
It's truly amazing how video games can help, or even save you during hard times. There is something about exploring a universe that brings me time to breathe from the normal day to day stuff, and the ebbs and flows of life. Wishing you the best, and thank you for taking the time to share this.
All the best, and sincerely,
Dog Dad
Bc it seems to be a persistent myth, old blizzard wasn't any less bad than current blizzard. The issues of current blizz started there and got to the point they did was bc it was never addressed or challenged. Even in their lawsuit, it was found that all the issues existed in old blizz 15+ yrs ago. Deifying them in any state just gives other companies and orgs the chance to do the same
Blizzard 15 years ago and 30 years ago are different though, no?
@@Dog.Dad.Studios unfortunately no, we know now that blizzard was always a toxic cesspool even in the D2 days, blizzard North had management and employees going against each other until being shut down and fully absorved by Blizzard south, and we also know key leaders at blizzard that remained were involved in a bunch of sexual harassment cases
I remember playing Starcraft as a kid in the early 2000s. I got the demo and played it over and over. When I finally got the real game, I would use cheats to set up epic battles in skirmish missions. I didn't understand the story, but I loved it all the same.
20+ years later and I have a bunch of the books and know so much lore. It's an amazing universe and I wish we'd get a 3rd game.
Thank you for sharing this!
Got it for N64 in 2000. Still play it to the day. Only game i play. Always wished i could get a good gaming PC and get online with it. Maybe one day
It's an amazing game for sure! One of the all-time classics, and you have a great reason to keep playing! Hope you get that pc someday, even older laptops will run the original well
you could run starcraft on a patato. i had 333mhz with 4mb of vram. any laptop today would run this game.
Chris Metzen & James Phinney did the Starcraft story. In the expansion, only Chris Metzen is credited. Also, they let Kerrigan in because Raszagal was already infested and under her control. It makes sense that Zeratul would trust her after the missions; they are fighting together. The Dark Archons are one of the game's best units (especially in single-player); their only weak point is their high cost. I could go on, but I have stuff to do.
Thanks for taking the time : )
My favorite Starcraft memory...well, it got me started in writing. I wrote a story and actually sent it to Blizzard. I still have their reply letter.
What did they reply?
Duran and Dr. Narud are the Same. His placement in Broodwar was a good Idea, and his All Knowing Personality is also Mysterious.
My all time favorite game. Was given to me by my dad at random when it came out, cause his friend gave it to him and he to me, dad doesn't play games lol. But eventually got the battle chest. Have played it off and on since. Online gaming b4 it was a thing.
Thank you for sharing this : )
Me and my cousin would sneak off to the den where the computer was at like 1:00am in the morning, he had StarCraft on if watch him play hours , now we play SC2 together and log 5-6hrs play throughs each being just as fun and nostalgic as the last 🫶
That’s fantastic! Thank you for sharing this : )
I have now completed watching this series backwards. Give me more.
Check out my other retrospectives : )
@@Dog.Dad.Studios bold of you to assume im not already.
@@Aaron4309 I didn’t assume anything, just hope you enjoy them : )
All the best
Nice video :) I watched it with a break in the middle. I do recall you said something... that I know I had the answer for but I forgot what it was lol :)
I'm looking forward to seeing what else you have here.
I appreciate your kind words! Thank you : ), it’ll come back to you. There’s a lot on the channel, wishing you the best!
Probably why the Confederates exist. It's American South inmates who settled in Tarsonis. It's also why so many places have Southern names like New Gettysburg.
Granted there were Midwestern and Texas inmates in the area too, but they seemed to settled in places like Mar Sara and Chau Sara. Pretty sure Raynor is from Shiloh, which is just straight up Midwest farm country.
That executrix reference was wonderfully niche, bravo
I appreciate you : )!
Honestly, I kind of see the final mission of Brood War as having dropped the ball the most in the story. Kerrigan, after all her scheming and betraying, finally had the consequences of her actions show up at her doorstep, and she was completely bailed out without a scratch. She then gloats about it when she actually had nothing to do with her victory. Her cerebrate (you) just took care of all the nasty stuff for her.
I think the final mission should have gone like this: Kerrigan realizes she's bitten off a bit more than she could chew. The only way to survive is to retreat within the endless nydus network inside Char, and you need to buy her enough time in a last stand so she can burrow. In essence, it would have played out like In Utter Darkness from Wings of Liberty, with the mission ending when the cerebrate is eventually overrun and slain, but Kerrigan is now safe. From then, she could talk about rebuilding the swarm, and how she had to sacrifice everything to secure her "crown," even her loyal cerebrate, that she's completely alone now.
Idk, I thought it would've been cooler that way.
Thanks for sharing this : )
Fantastic video. I really, really enjoyed it! Great work!
I truly appreciate your kind words! Thank you 🙏! I put my all into each video, at your leisure : )
All the best,
Dog dad
So, I always assumed the broodwar protoss campaign was always a story from the dark templar perspective, and with lore you know they were so quickly dismissed by the rest of the protoss so he felt sympathy toward her and her story since she was "brainwashed and controlled" by the overmind. And of course we know she is just evil in starcraft 1.
RIP Phoenix. You were gone too soon. Twice.
Ahahah the “twice” part
Starcraft 1 was the spark that started it all, SC Brood War was its peak, SC 2 was a mixed bag.
Thank you for this excellent work. I did enjoy Starcraft deeply, back around 2008. I lived every mission. And Broodwar... I found it cool, but it did not touch me. What you say about the story being rather implausible strikes me as the reason, thoug back then I would not know to articulate it like that. I ended up rushing through it.
With StarCraft II it was the same for me, fun to play against people, but the story did not touch me. I am convinced that the first StarCraft along with Diablo II and Warcraft III did something special, a combination of storytelling, ambiance, and mechanics, which path is yet to be resumed by someone else.
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and share this! I truly appreciate you!!
I look forward to going through both WC3 and D2
Kerrigan played a huge part in helping me figure out that I'm in fact a woman. I've wanted to be like her ever since I was a little kid. Unhealthy model for a child, probably, but I didn't care, she was so cool with her wings and mannerism.
Sooooo were you born a dude or a girl?
wow what a video this was an amazing set up
Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!
@@Dog.Dad.Studios I loved the old SC universe
I never did beat UMS, Haunted Vacation, man, what a fun map that was
The game manual lays out the extensive backstory for all three factions.
I miss the era of game manuals.
They knew the download would be bad and couldn’t hold everything on the discs, such a great tangible way of adding on to the story, I miss them too!
1:42:19 agree with you, its the plausibility “within” the setting.
greatest game ever hands down
I'm pretty sure the overminds goal was always to pass the swarm to kerrigan who was much more mobile n not stuck to a planet I could be wrong but that's how I remember it 😂
Great video!! Blizzard have always made my favourite Warhammer fan-fic 😂
It’s one way to look at it ahah 😂 thank you for the kind words!
A lot of Xel'Naga related lore was delegated to the Starcraft 1 manual, which was expected pre-reading at the time. It's a pretty good read if you haven't done so already.
Anyway I do agree Brood War's plot is really dumb in retrospect because it required people to trust others that are clearly overly shady. That being said, I think the first game's Zerg campaign being 50% "Pick up the Chrystalis and move it to another part" was a bit of low point, but the Terran was quite the high point and the Protoss campaign ended with the biggest bang in sci-fi story history.
UMS maps were my favorite. Paintball if anyone remembers, was really fun
So in the original CD booklet the terrans were a lost prisoner transport full of criminals of which most were from southern US states. They crash landed on a planet, and started a colony.
Thank you for this. Starcraft classic had the better tale, Broodwar probably had the better game.
Well said! I agree completely!
To be honest, I didn’t really understand the story until I read Liberty’s Crusade
I NEED YOUR RETROSPECTIVE OF SC2! NOWWWWW! 😭
I’m editing it right now : ) should be out this week!
@@Dog.Dad.Studios will there be one for each of the campaigns?
@ yup! Wings of liberty is out and writing the script for HotS currently. Hope all is well!
I hate kerrigan in brood war. The writers gave her too much plot armor and made every other character stupid to make her look good
I learned to lower the music volume of games as the first thing I do (even before going into tutorial) during this era of gaming, but whenever a game forces me into the game without letting me into the settings before it's still the same bro
first things to do when starting a new game:
>settings/options
>sounds
>music: 3/10
>sfx: 5/10
>cutscences: 10/10
>in game diagog: 10/10
I really wonder how well the Terrans at their Full Power could fight the Covenant from Halo.
It was so polished for its time.
I think my favorite way to enjoy SC1's story and setting is to play the Mass Recall campaign for SC2 with the real scale mod and the old style of models rather than the SC2 ones
I have to check it out, others have mentioned it and it sounds so cool!
My Life For Aiur
I KNEW we were not Artanis in SC1! That means all 5 or 6 (does Endlave's count?) of the SC1 player characters don't return!
I introduced my aging dad to Starcraft 2, and we both had a lot of laughs at how spaghetti-western the story is. I was always more of a Star Wars man myself, being religious, in my youth so I never touched Starcraft until I was an adult. I found it to be a good universe with a ton of squandered potential. 40k always appealed more to me though, up until its recent subversion.
Thank you for sharing this! I'm glad you two could share those moments together! I played Witcher 3 with my mom while she was in hospice and it made a sad experience worth something.
What was the recent subversion for 40k? I don't pay that much attention to that universe, but I do enjoy it when I am playing something within it.
Hope all is well!
@@Dog.Dad.Studios GW has been completely compromised and is now attacking its own core fanbase while promoting racial and sexual identity politics agendas. The people who have been in the hobby for fourty years (what few of them were left after GW raised prices sharply over the past decade) all left and the "fanbase" is mostly gloating idpol people from the left and a few very blackpilled fans in the center or on the right who still partake in the hobby to a limited degree but mostly ignore GW and everything they say except to spit on it.
The company has been going downhill for a while but this really was the final nail imo. Even when I joined the fandom back ten years ago people were mad at GW for their prices and some other things. Now the fandom is essentially dying out and being hollowed out to go the route of Disney Wars, which i saw coming years ahead of everyone else and dipped out of the Star Wars fanbase because of it. Just sad all around. Us nerdy guys can't have hobbies without the lame normie bros and self-important karens ruining it.
@@StarboyXL9 So it's because of the demographics and not the company chasing those demographics?
You couldn't miss the point by a wider margin if you tried.
Protoss Probe: STOP POKING ME!!!
Listening to this brings a tear to my eye, it is almost as if I had a Ganthridor in the eye. Oh FUCK!!!
rip Tassy
I always thought the confederacy knew the command center was infested and they were using it for research
Ah interesting! I like this!
There is no cow level, operation cwal, show me the money, black sheep wall, me spending so much time trying to learn how to spell these cheats as a dyslexic kid lol Burt into my brain to this day, best quote 2 trunk drivers hitting the zergling "I love you sarge" I was 10 when I got my hands on this in 99, I loved the game, see Jimmy meting kergin for the 1st time "you pig" Blizzard made top quality games, but "look how they massacred boy" 😢 (godfather) SC2 with all them skins and not so micro transactions 35 pounds for a skin set and you can only equip 4 units unless Ur in a 1v1, the story is so good.
I think... starcraft 1 is making a comeback 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Never went away. A lot of the BW pros who went to SC2 just kind of wandered back, and even when playing SC2 played the old game for fun. There is even a mod where you can play SC1 versus 2 in the SC2 engine.
Starcraft, a game where cutscene and ingame models not matching up, but this can stem from how STarcraft was Originally gonna be a warhammer 40k RTS.
Yea, its a bit hard to believe but it was, heck, if you look closely, do some extensive thinking and some mental gymnastics, you can see the elements.
Though I feel some structures in StarCraft 1 look far better than in 2, mostly on the Zerg part in some areas like the spawning pool for an example.
20:55 *SERIOUSLY?!* I know it's just a game, but that guy is AWFUL!
This was so frustrating
Iconic moment though : )
The enemy of my enemy is tomorrow's me problem.
When I was a little kid, I found a pirated starcraft on one of my dad's cds and installed it to check it out. It was a pirated Russian copy with all cinematics and voices cut out. So like, you had to read everything and didn't know major plot movements. This and the oozing zerg interface and also the protoss interface for some reason horribly disgusted me. I just thought it was some weird adult game and put it away. But then I found it again two years later and absolutely loved it.
That’s fantastic, thank you so much for sharing! I feel like this is unique to that time period, I appreciate this!
I was always a bit confused on how Artanis looked in Brood War. Like his outfit looks nothing like any protoss we've seen so far and even Zeratul has more clothing than him. Why does a vaunted templar and newly promoted Praetor look like a caveman. Also the warp gate on Aiur to Shakuras seems like a plot hole. There was just a warp gate to the homeworld of the Conclave's most hated enemy on Aiur and they never found it for hundreds of years? Also why was there even a warp gate on Shakuras if it could be connected to Aiur, only Nerazim have ever been there so only they could have built it? The only plausible explanation I could think of is the warp gates being able to 'connect' to any other warp gate built but requires coordinates or something so Zeratul just used a warp gate on Aiur to link to another warp gate on Shakuras
I could never pass the final Protoss mission in Brood War.
It might doubd silly but for me I always found slightly brutal the way dragoons would be destroyed and spill. Very clear what happens with tiny sprites.
Man in middle school I used to play the shit out of this at my friend (we were poor but able to live in the burbs and didn’t own a computer at home til I left the nest and 2 years later bought one for my lil bros) my friend had diabetes and was definitely nerdy, I was a bit more outgoing and athletic but we were poor and in the suburbs I lived especially in middle school we were both “losers” lol but our love of video games brought us together…his computer room used to be across his room so we would keep the doors open and talk…I used to sleep over so many weekends and his dad was definitely a metal head with the Harley and always wore black and was just happy his son had a friend…I later introduced a couple other friends I knew who like to game and we all became friends and took turn at who’s house we were at but never mine cause my step dad was an abusive rage filled asshole and plus I was poor(no snacks!) my buddies sure had full fridges and even soda!!! Man I’m 39 now and have an 8 year old who loves gaming now but things could be better at home (mommy problems that are about to change after Christmas) but I just thought of all those times and smiled
Thanks for the video
Thank you for taking the time to share this, I truly appreciate it! It's amazing where life can bring us, what the journey entails, and where we are now. I wouldn't have believed it at a younger age.
Wishing you and your family the best, and I know you'll make those memories with your 8 year old.
Sincerely,
Dog Dad
Blacksheepwall
A classic!
The only Cheatcode i frequently used. (to test out my custom map creations as to find out if the units in the fog did what i wanted them to do)
The friendships I made.
Very important and not talked about enough
I remember as a kid I used to memorize all unit speech,
Too bad the interesting story was watered down into space Jesus in the sequel
Yuo, Playing the campaign does not prepare you for your first Zergling rush 🤣
That was the moment I respected the Zerg more as a faction 😁
My youtube name and profile pic are straight from starcraft.
I love you sarge
Modern game : 75% сhance to be forgotten in the year
Old games : 20+ years old, still getting reviews
(i know its kinda survivor bias, but anyway)
It definitely is survivor bias to claim "the game is remembered because it's good, and it's good cause it's old"
But what is very true is that it survived and it would be wise for developers to glean what we can from the games that do make it into this status.
I'm so old school my first copy of Starcraft is version 1.0.
Don't know if it means anything, but there is a StarCraft tabletop RPG.
I did not know this but I love playing tabletop! Maybe someone ported it
The sc2 vs mount quip holds up to 0 scrutiny or rational thinking.
That blizzard made more money on designing a mount that took a day and no production team versus a whole production crew to create a full video game? That’s not rational thinking? What?
Why did you slow it down? To make it longer? I played at 1.25 speed. It sounds correct.