If you’re looking for a decent plot that ties a wide variety of RTS missions together in some coherent manner then you’ll find SC2’s plot quite serviceable.

But seriously, there’s no point in arguing over this. Let’s just all agree the writing is par (if not sub par) for a megacorporation’s standards and move on.

That’s…exactly what Tosh did. Its why people keep calling him a space pirate. Its why he helps you attack a Dominion prison.

Jim Raynor is a broke space pirate with a stolen ship. His (obviously unintentionally short) engineer finds it hard to find enough spare parts to keep the ship running. They can train Ghosts. What?

There are dozens more, but there’s nothing said here that hasn’t already been said. Starcraft II is not to be played for its story, unfortunately. It’s really quite a shame, considering they had such a great body of material to work with.

Be fair to the TV guys though. Some of the commercials were hilarious.

But the story gets worse and worse the more you think about it. Where did Tosh pick up his Rastafarian look, accent, and voodoo fixation? Is that one of the classes they teach at the Ghost Academy? He can’t have inherited the culture, since you enroll in the Academy by being selected in your infancy and you never see your own family again. The idea of this was that the Confederacy can brainwash you from birth into total loyalty and thus guarantee a reliable return on the excessive expense of training ghosts in the first place. They did this because if you’re trained as an adult with your own opinions, you might go rogue on them and use that high-tech equipment and specialized knowledge to wreak all kinds of havoc. Wow, forward thinking there, guys!

Basically there’s no reason that makes any sense and they just wanted to add some ethnicky flavor. The news segments were even worse — apparently they weren’t sure that I’d watch the first one, where the joke is that Kate is saying something good about you and then Donny interrupts her, so to be safe they decided to include the exact same joke with no variation in the next twenty-five.

I can never look at them the same way again.

I agree, it looks like something has gone wrong with the scale of things in that picture. More disturbing, if you look closely at the pictures again, is the fact that the armour has giant splayed boobs.

And who does? Space Marines certainly don’t.

The cinematic tries to explain it some, but it’s still a little odd. But so is the whole aliens in space thing too.

The writing in the campaign is universally recognized as sh**, and pretty much the only ones who say otherwise are those who play multiplayer, those who never played/paid attention to the first Starcraft, and game reviewers (sorry PCG!).

However, the campaign missions themselves are actually pretty interesting, though I didn’t really have any trouble until that one supernova mission, and only then because I made all the wrong units to fight immortals and archons.

Even a Google Images bodybuilder has only a head’s width of shoulders on either side of their head. SC2 space marines have epic shoulders…

Actually, that’s what I think during pretty much all of the game’s dialogue. I’m not too worked up about it, since the main feature for me is playing the online ladder, but the story and its presentation here are a joke compared to the old StarCraft and Brood War campaigns. Chock full of awful cliches, a lot of the “dramatic” scenes sound like they’re from a parody that the voice actors mistakenly played straight. I can’t be the only one who cringed as Raynor uttered lines like “Guys like me don’t get second chances, darlin’. We just gotta finish what we begun.”

Looks like you’re wrong , Heres proof…

Try looking at the shape of some bodybuilder’s upper bodies sometime…

Did you even WATCH the OPENING CINEMATIC?!!