Starcraft 2 HOTS

Why blizzard isn't making a movie is beyond me.

I just jizzed a bit, ok ... allot, when that ulralisk was chasing the seige tank

I always love Blizzards cinematics. Make a movie please!

Why?

Don't get me wrong. I think those cinematics are amazing and I think they should continue making them. However, SC and Diablo barely passes for mediocre video game storytelling, so I can't imagine it doing any better as a movie. Except being a huge fan service, of course.

I think having this format for their cinematic stuff is what's making it so easy to enjoy.

Its a good point, but collaborating with a decent writer should not be a problem for blizz when making a movie. Just as long as the cinematic department at blizzard creates the damn thing

That being said, the prequel novels for starcraft 2 by Christie Golden weren't horrendously bad either, so I guess she could try to write a screen play at some point.

Blizzard would have to produce/exec produce the entire thing and get a Hollywood studio to handle distribution...and that's it. The minute you get Hollywood exec producers involved in the creative side it would go to utter shit. (No offense, Hollywood...you can make good movies but movies based on video games that you make are shit.) Now, how many studios with big distribution experience would line up to work with Blizzard and not get creative input? Nice round number.

This all assumes Blizzard could find the right person to write the script and the right director to make it happen. Without those things it would probably be crap with or without a big external studio meddling in.

I love how they show the actual size of the battle cruisers in that cinematic ! xD

What an awesome vid, throws chills down my testies.

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Blizzard would have to produce/exec produce the entire thing and get a Hollywood studio to handle distribution...and that's it. The minute you get Hollywood exec producers involved in the creative side it would go to utter shit. (No offense, Hollywood...you can make good movies but movies based on video games that you make are shit.) Now, how many studios with big distribution experience would line up to work with Blizzard and not get creative input? Nice round number.

This all assumes Blizzard could find the right person to write the script and the right director to make it happen. Without those things it would probably be crap with or without a big external studio meddling in.

I couldn't agree more. I was simply talking about hiring a good writer as a blizzard employee. I don't think they would need a high profile director as they've clearly shown the ability to produce some quality shots. An engaging story is what they need the most to pull this off imho.

http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/kxc56f/…ansion-overview

So HOTS stands for Hot Shieet !?

looks soo fck bad ass guys !

I'm interested in the new multiplayer stuff, but honestly after Starcraft 2: WOL and Diablo 3 I don't trust Blizzard to make a coherent story any longer.

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I'm interested in the new multiplayer stuff, but honestly after Starcraft 2: WOL and Diablo 3 I don't trust Blizzard to make a coherent story any longer.

I dont like that you pair WOL with D3. WOL had a decent story. Nothing revolutionizing from blizzard, but not horrendous like the d3 one... But then again I've also read a couple of the starcraft novels from Christie Golden so I might be mixing what was in the books vs the game.

I second that. I had no beef with Starcraft 2's story. In fact, it's one of the things that attracted me to the game. Diablo 3 however, don't get me started. So no, a comparison is unfair.

StarCraft 2's story was extremely chliché'd, Mengsk became an utter idiot while he was a cunning backstabbing bastard in both SC1 and Brood War, and Kerrigan became an emo Zerg matriarch who wanted to die constantly and she was not fearsome at all. I'm sorry, but WOL's story sucked compared to its predecessors. The whole space cowboys stuff was great, but it only lasted like 4-5 missions. Still, I agree that WOL's story is 10k times better than D3's, no contest. Also, the mission design was brilliant at times, but several of them were really boring/annoying and relied too much on gimmicky stuff.

I'm more of a multiplayer type of guy when it comes to games such as StarCraft, but the balance of WOL is horrendous in its current state and it clearly shows Blizzard has no idea how to balance the game. Protoss and Zerg have been dominating for quite a while (I'm not talking tournaments, I'm talking ladder) and now with HotS's beta Terrans were wrecking absolutely everything. Widow Mines are still incredibly powerful, and the new Protoss units are a joke and have not fixed the lack of aerial possibilities for them at all.

If Blizzard addresses this and balances the game correctly I might pick it up, because it clearly all looks awesome. These cinematics are really well made and the campaign looks fun enough, but I'll need to wait and see first. I definitely won't buy this on the first day.

WOL story was pretty bad imho. Can't remember it too well though... I guess that's a sign it wasn't exactly memorable.