Ideas for Starcraft 2

[someone402]

what are your ideas for starcraft 2( races, story, units, ect.)?

 

[DeusExMachina]

Third person RPG.

lolololol.


But seriously...I think that'd be cool...

 

[Cole]

Based on the Brood War storyline and secret mission I think it's safe to assume that the Hybrids, and the foreshadowing(beat the final level and read the text about what Kerrigans "feels" is going to happen).
The Foreshadowing:
"And alone, floating on a dark platform above
the burnt-out planet of Char, Sarah Kerrigan,
the Queen of Blades, sat and lorded over the
ravenous Swarms. Unable to shake the feeling
that a great threat loomed just over the
horizon, Kerrigan could only stare off into the
vastness of space where she beheld a great
void. Or perhaps a reflection of a hollow
victory and of the trials yet to come...
"
Possibly the Xel'Naga would come into play as an unplayable race, and just their for the story.

The Terran are all split and divided, the Protoss mostly lay in Ruins. The UED has been beat back, but they will probably send more forces. Jim Raynor is probably going to be once again a center of storyline as he was in Starcraft.
The Protoss know now of the Hybrid, or Zeratul does anyway(It said, "Unable to explain his numbing discovery to his companions, he could only sit and fear for the future of the universe...").

Anyway as Duran said
"Your violence, young prodigal, is typical. As is
your inablility to comprehend the greater scheme
of things. You can destroy all of the specimens
here. It will do you no good. For I have seeded
the Hybrid on many, many worlds. You will never
find them all before they awaken... And when they
do... your universe will be changed... forever."


There is also the map "Deception" included in he N64 version of starcraft. It matters if Blizzard is going to use it in the actual story. Now this map is all about the Terran learning how to utilize protoss\zerg technology and minipulate zerg\protoss genes. Also in the N64 version map "resurection" another map not in the Pc, Jim Raynor finds Stuvok Infested, and has found a cure for infestation.

 

[Dog--]

Since The Humans on earths still exist, and some protoss, I bet they'd team up and fight the Zerg on earth.

Maybe since earth is a long ways away, while the Zerg are going there the humans will engineer yet another race, and history shall repeat itself.

I think it'd be cool if it was still an RTS but you could go into first person view + control of a unit and back to the topside view at a whim - say you create 10 marines, then a marine commander (Could be a new unit), you play as the commander and then you lead the 10 marines as if your own squad (BF2 Style), or you play as a marine in the squad and you take orders from an A.I. commander - you all know that would be sweet-ass. Multiplayer like this would also work amazingly. Also, not just Terran, what about protoss? Being a zealot or DT, Dragoon, or a carrier pilot? Maybe even fly an interceptor? Then there is Zerg... oooohhh yaa!

Also if you play a ghost, you could be stealthy, go inside a building (or multiple buildings), place charges in them, retreat to safety, Ka-Boom.

That would be cool, Going inside buildings - as I said before: Sweet.

 

[Cole]

Since The Humans on earths still exist, and some protoss, I bet they'd team up and fight the Zerg on earth.

They already tried that and lost.
Of course you still got Raynor still out there .


And Dog where not talking about Starcraft:Ghost(\Battlefield:Starcraft(I wish lol)) here, Starcraft 2. It will stay an RTS and be true to the oringal Starcraft Formula. I'd hate any "hero" or "special" for the multiplayer. They often times can slow down the gameplay, for example in Wc3. Wc3 is a much slower paced game combat-wise than Starcraft.

Maybe since earth is a long ways away, while the Zerg are going there the humans will engineer yet another race, and history shall repeat itself.

The Zerg arn't going to Earth, they could care less about it they just owned there Expidtionary Force, the UED. The next expiditionary force will becoming for the zerg. Plus the Terran are on thousands of planets, earth is insignificant.
What do you mean engineer yet another race? They never made a race. The Zerg and Protoss were once stupid little "retarded" creatures, then the Xel'Naga a nomadic race from a different galaxy, came and created Auir, left, came back finding the protoss, slowly guided the protoss technology, then eventually showed themselves to the protoss, then thinking they pushed the protoss to far to fast they were leaving, the protoss seeing themselves being abandoned attacked the Xel'Naga.

The Xel'Naga then went off and found the Zerg and guided there evolution, eventually they found out that the Zerg developed there own system, where you have an Overmind, Cerebrates, Overlords, etc.. and then the Overmind had found the Xel'Naga existed and found that there prescence had reduced his control, so he launched a suprised attacked against the Xel'Naga fleet destroyed the greater whole of their fleet, the Xel'Naga were suprised at wern't able to mobilize fast enough. They found out about the Protoss from Xel'Naga records and also scouted out another race called the "Terran". Finding no possible way to counter the awesome might of the protoss, he thought up a much better strategy. He'd attack the Terran. The Protoss had watched over the Terran, not interfering or showing there presence. When the Zerg attacked, it launched all 3 races into a great conflict.


No one knows where the Xel'Naga went, what happened to them. But with Samir Duran, one can only assume he knows a great deal about them, specfically with this:
"DURAN
I've had many names throughout the millennia,
young prodigal. You would know me best as
Samir Duran.

ZERATUL
Kerrigan's consort! Is this part of her twisted
schemes?

DURAN
No. Young Kerrigan could not have engineered
this grand experiment. Although her rebirth into
the Zerg Swarm has sped up my progress, I can
assure you that this endeavor is quite beyond her
narrow understanding.

ZERATUL
If you are not her pawn, then what are you?

DURAN
I am a servant of a far greater power. A
power that has slept for countless ages.
And is reflected in the creature within that cell.

ZERATUL
Have you any conception of what you've created
here? Do you have any idea what this... this Hybrid
is capable of?

DURAN
Of course I do. This creature is the completion
of a cycle. It's role in the cosmic order was
preordained when the stars were young. Behold
the culmination of your history. "

Yeah im just a really really big fan.

 

[Dog--]

Just pick and pick at it until there is nothing left, tsk, tsk.

 

[Kouler]

Maybe the Xel'Naga race would consist of some Xel'Naga creations as well as the Protoss/Zerg hybrids that were created.

 

[Loc-Dog]

I hope they make it less like an RTS, and more like Doom 3.

 

[15357]

I hope they have more units, and 3D space.


The UED seems way powerful, but not too numerous enough.

And more cinematics. They were cool.

 

[Bob_Marley]

well first look where we left off.

1. Kerrigan can do pretty much whatever she pleases and the zerg have overall control of the sector

2. The UED exiditionary force has been decimated, and no-one made it back to relate the defeat to high command, although from the lack of contact they've probubly figured it out.

3. The dominion has been massivly weakened by its wars against the zerg and UED along with skirmishes against the protoss. Their most talented (non player) military commander, General Duke, has been defeated. Many of their worlds are either infested, destroyed or out of control.

4. The protoss have seen their once mighty empire pretty much wiped from the galaxy and are now restricted to Shakuras, a few remote outposts and the remains of their fleet.

5. Duran (who or whatever he is and what he serves) has created a new species, supposedly the perfect being, by combining zerg and protoss.

6. Zeratul and Raynor have gone thier seperate ways and have not been heard from since. We can only guess what they are up to, but my money is on that Zeratul is hunting down all the hybrids he can find and that raynor is ploting his revenge against Kerrigan for the death of Pheonix and all the other freinds he lost along the way.

7. Stukov was ressurected as an infested terran, but rescued by Raynor and a small combined terran/protoss raiding force and is presububly accompanying them

So, in short, I have absoulty no idea what is going to happen next.

As for the actual game, keep the style of play the same, keep the sides balanced and make it 3D.

and more cinematics, with more hapless terrans getting wasted.

 

[15357]

well first look where we left off.

1. Kerrigan can do pretty much whatever she pleases and the zerg have overall control of the sector

2. The UED exiditionary force has been decimated, and no-one made it back to relate the defeat to high command, although from the lack of contact they've probubly figured it out.

3. The dominion has been massivly weakened by its wars against the zerg and UED along with skirmishes against the protoss. Their most talented (non player) military commander, General Duke, has been defeated. Many of their worlds are either infested, destroyed or out of control.

4. The protoss have seen their once mighty empire pretty much wiped from the galaxy and are now restricted to Shakuras, a few remote outposts and the remains of their fleet.

5. Duran (who or whatever he is and what he serves) has created a new species, supposedly the perfect being, by combining zerg and protoss.

6. Zeratul and Raynor have gone thier seperate ways and have not been heard from since. We can only guess what they are up to, but my money is on that Zeratul is hunting down all the hybrids he can find and that raynor is ploting his revenge against Kerrigan for the death of Pheonix and all the other freinds he lost along the way.

7. Stukov was ressurected as an infested terran, but rescued by Raynor and a small combined terran/protoss raiding force and is presububly accompanying them

So, in short, I have absoulty no idea what is going to happen next.

As for the actual game, keep the style of play the same, keep the sides balanced and make it 3D.

and more cinematics, with more hapless terrans getting wasted.

We had enough of that in the original :E

EDIT: Oh, and on a unrelated note, did anyone know that starcraft was once used to train officers in the military? Train, not raise morale.

Forgot which nation, could hae been ours.

 

[boglito]

We had enough of that in the original :E

EDIT: Oh, and on a unrelated note, did anyone know that starcraft was once used to train officers in the military? Train, not raise morale.

Forgot which nation, could hae been ours.

Probably teh ehvil commies in the north practicing the famed zerg rush...

.bog.

 

[15357]

I don't think they had enough computers capable of playing starcraft back then. :E

 

[Sulkdodds]

Ground Control style ubertactics minus resource management low-level strategy huge ultraviolence capital ships bombarding from space all-out-war zoomable threedee camera scout/snipers tanks gigantic pulsating zerglobules superhightech supermilitary superviolent rough and tough marines with tattoos versus mass of horrible pulsating alienish stuff with some random space-dudes on the sidelines going holy shit man that's a nasty fight. Yes.

 

[Cole]

Maybe the Xel'Naga race would consist of some Xel'Naga creations as well as the Protoss/Zerg hybrids that were created.

I doubt it. I'd think they would seperate the races. The Xel'Naga afterall had weapons to destroy planets(The Xel'Naga Temple). The only reason the Zerg were able to destroy many of the Xel'Naga was due to the Overmind used his psionic powers to cut the Xel'Naga off and send a secret massive assult against the Xel'Naga ships.

I could see the Xel'Naga as being just a little to powerfull of a species.

7. Stukov was ressurected as an infested terran, but rescued by Raynor and a small combined terran/protoss raiding force and is presububly accompanying them

Completely matters if the N64 version was infact an extension of the story.

2. The UED exiditionary force has been decimated, and no-one made it back to relate the defeat to high command, although from the lack of contact they've probubly figured it out.

Actually at the end Cinamatic you see Dugalle writing a letter, this letter has actually been red and well let me get it:
"[Start DuGalle's Letter]

Dearest Helena,

By now the news of our defeat has reached the Earth. The
creatures we were sent here to tame are untameable---And
the colonies we were sent to reclaim have proven to be
stronger thatn we anticipated.

Whatever you may hear about what has happened out here,
know this: Alexei did not die a hero. I killed him---my
pride killed him. And now my pride has consumed me as well.

You will never see me again, Helena.

Tell our children that I love them, and that their father
died in defense of their future.

Au revior

[End DuGalle's Letter]"

and also:
"Shortly after DuGalle's defeat, the remainder
of the UED Fleet was overtaken by Kerrigan's
forces and eradicated. No UED vessel ever
made it back to Earth to report what had
transpired.

With his rag-tag fleet beaten and crippled,
Arcturus Mengsk fled back to Korhal to lick
his wounds and plan the reconstruction of his
Terran Dominion...

Artanis and the Protoss survivors returned
to Shakuras to begin rebuilding their once
glorious civilization...

Zeratul and James Raynor went their
separate ways and have not been heard from
since their departure. "


We know the Hybrids will be the biggest turn in the Starcraft Universe, one can only wonder what will happen.

 

[Darkwolf]

Um... whats starcraft: ghost going to be then?

 

[Cole]

Um... whats starcraft: ghost going to be then?

Starcraft: Ghost is a Starcraft FPS\TPS for the consoles. It is about being a Ghost named "Nova".
Since Swingin Apes took over the project(Who Blizzard then acquired at E3 2k5), no one really knows anything about the storyline.

So far since Swingin Apes has taken over in Fall 2004, there has been no news on release dates, new videos\screenshots at E3, and Swingin Apes decided to include multiplayer(Nihilistic was not) and apparantly those who played it's multiplayer at E3 loved it.

 

[Dog--]

Starcraft: Ghost looks like it would be an alright game, but it will never compare to Starcraft.

 

[Cole]

Starcraft: Ghost looks like it would be an alright game, but it will never compare to Starcraft.

Considering Blizzard acquired the people making it(Blizzard was just making sure the person developing it wasn't screwing up which was why the dropped nihilistic after all those delays) I think very highly of this game. But I agree, it wont be as much of a hit as Starcraft was.

 

[<RJMC>]

why are people saying they want it more like doom3?

is like saying that they want hl3 more like a racing game or somehting

on topic

what if there is 2 new races,the xel nagas and the hybrids,like in w3frozen trone where there is the nagas,that are playable but not a various race

 

[Cole]

what if there is 2 new races,the xel nagas and the hybrids,like in w3frozen trone where there is the nagas,that are playable but not a various race

My guess is the Xel'Naga would be unplayable if included at all.

The Hybrids will most likely be playable.

 

[DeusExMachina]

They should make some books on Starcraft.

 

[Cole]

They have a few novels for all there games .

 

[Mr-Fusion]

That's hinting that Duran is a xel-naga? Or not?

Maybe he's a xel-naga and they're looking for new corporial hosts. The hybrids present the perfect opportunity for the xel-naga to resurrect themselves.

 

[Yuri]

Wasn't there a movie?

I don't give a shit about the story. I'm interested in the gameplay, and if they can pull off a sequel to the best RTS ever made.

 

[15357]

I want some interactive terrain.

 

[Sainku]

The absence of warcraft3ish hero units would be nice.

 

[DeusExMachina]

They have a few novels for all there games .

Yeah, I just looked over it at Wikipedia. Its too bad Blizzard doesn't make them canon .