very touching comment Like the old days emotion in total despair

Well said. I agree with this commentary.

This would be gold, if you don't consider SC2 inside of the storyline. However, if you did play ALL brood war the secret mission leaves the cliffhanger of the hybrid topic. With that in mind, then the comment is a little off even though the part of everyone else is completely accurate but Kerrigan's

Kerrigan will still have enemies to fight. She said she would give her "allies" a reprieve. Some time to recover, before she begins another war against the Dominion and the Protoss

If they went with this and we don't consider SC2, then Kerrigan winning is fine by me lol. She's the GOAT.

Well they were very close to winning, just Raynor, Artanis, Fenix and Zeratul held idiot balls to allow Kerrigan to fuck all of them over. Aldaris saw they were holding idiot balls and got blown up for it. Dugalle trusted Duran (a traitor he despises) over his friend for little reason and paid for it with his campaign. Also the UED did not expect Xel'Naga shapeshifters..

@Moonlight Key word there: Almost. That's after one also realizes the UED is a totalitarian, imperialist, and colonialist power. Of course, similar pejoratives hold for the Overmind, Infested Kerrigan, and Arcturus Mengsk's Terran Dominion.

​@@stephen1340cThe UED ia based

Keep in mind it was also an expeditionary fleet, just a fraction of the total power of Earth. If they sent a larger force I think even the sheer number of the Swarms would have a harder time taking them down.

Ending of StarCraft 1 you are Amon. All hope is lost Ending of StarCraft 2 You defeat Amon Hope has been restored

it would have been way better if Kerrigan's not under the influence of Amon, otherwise why would Duran go AWOL half way through the zerg campaign

You fucking wits dont you ever dare to mention amin ever again, worst villain ever, its tarnishes sc1 legacy

Starcraft 1 es una obra trágica.

To be fair the ending of vanilla SC1 was: everyone unites to destroy the villain. Friendship is magic.

OMG I noted

Andrew Wang n'ayez pas peur de soufrir le futur! (couldnt even send it)

Sometimes I randomly remember that scene and rewatch it. Poetically similar fates have befallen many men.

Not only that, but the flash at 2:10 of the marine dying in the field is heart wrenching, and I'm not sure if it's the same marine as the brood war intro, because the other guy was actually surrounded by Zerglings!! So this is footage of two different Marines? Remember that In brood war intro the marine died of a Zerglings rush

@@raiden72 look at 1:49. those are marines from BW intro defending each other afterwards

graphics don't amke a good game. If anything I could say for myself that I like when my game don't look too polish. leaves some for the imagination.

Yes! Holy fuck, i mean i love the story in sc2 but as fun as it is to light matches, it doesn't come close to as warm and comforting as the beaming sun!

I actually like it. I admit it's not as DARK, but that boy who loved Starcraft really enjoyed the two campaigns that I have played. 2 really made me appreciate the Zerg. Albeit I was kinda skeptical about Kerrigan, but it's part of her Redemption.

i'm a long time fan of both games and it's incredible how far people are willing to go to suck their own cocks to highlight how much they are biased to a game. sc2 is a match to a sun? sc1 is brilliant but that brilliance is mainly in how great the game was when it was released. just look at all the hype surrounding sc:r fueled by nostalgia only to have its popularity drop off so hard after.

Go Jim Go

And not the bullshit prophecies, bullshit romance, cookie cutter dry characters without any life to them and a story so generic it can safely be assumed that it wasn't even written by people and was actually ran through an automated factory? SC2's plot and characters were so phoned in they accrued long-distance charges. Artanis is a fucking duck, and thats what he has always been. Just slapping "Hierarch" on his name and giving him Friendship Is Magic powers doesn't change that. Kerrigan is pretty fucking bold to tell DuGalle that Alexei was twice the man he was, when she currently is not classifiable as a flat character since the two-dimensionals can at least have a shot at being interesting one-notes. Oh well, atleast we got Alarak being witty out of it. So thats some worth.

It gets worse: in the canceled game SC: Ghost, one of the planets you visit, Abaddon, is partially held by UED forces. The game takes place post-Brood War (4 years after, but recently it was retconned to just 3 in 2503), so these forces are what's left of the Expeditionary Force. The mission required you retrieve a Grizzly (new Terran flying unit) and its engineer from the Korprulu Liberation Front who took over the Dominion depot holding it. Here is all the content pertaining to that planet in the game: starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Abaddon One of the merc groups in Wings of Liberty, Spartan Company, was once part of the UED fleet. By technicality, the UED is a persistent faction as the home world for it is Earth. The UED was formed from the previous Earth government, the United Powers League, so it more than likely still exists.

and that was just a tiny expedition force of the UED.

Honestly for a while there it seemed like Blizzards writers had entirely forgotten Brood War campaigns actual story considering how they wrote Kerrigan. It's like after they saw complaints they went back an actually played BW for reference. That's why Stukov shows up in HOTS, and they reference the sad song record player thing like twice. It even plays on the main menu now sometimes lol.

I really hoped that in the Nova DLC missions, the Defenders of Man were actually UED remnants, and they caused chaos in the Dominion to send a signal back to Earth. Turned out they were just another renegade-ish Dominion faction.

It's a brutal ending. It's really grim. Fundamentally, the evil bitch wins and the few good guys that there are left are very weakened.

@Dauren Nurakhmet You seem to misunderstand. I love this ending from the bottom of my heart. This is one of my most favorite games of all time, because of how daring and unusual it is. So I suggest you drop the ''go watch disney cartoons'' because that's what a 13 year old would say to sound edgy or cool, and it's quite frankly pathetic.

Then they went and retconned it out of happening with Starcraft 2 =(

@@Daftanemone wait all of it what the fuck?!

@@Daftanemone They didn’t really retcon it, they just continued the story in a more optimistic tone, depending on which option missions you pick

Indeed. There were not many games or stories even back during the 90's where the villains of the story basically won. The Zerg won hardcore at the end of SC: Brood War.

I cried when I had to defeat Raynor and kill Fenix... I've only ever played the last campaign in Brood War once. Too traumatic to do again.

i wish the ued won

truuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Nah. SC2 was great.

​@@bolg892expect the story

@@Slicebreader Story was great too Idk wym lol

@@Slicebreader nah,story was great until heart of the swarm rolled arround,whole part where she re-infests herself was mega cringe,like bruh what was the point of wings of liberty if she is just going to re infest herself for sake of stupid revenge,not to mention legacy of the void start was trying to fix story at first,but was actually final nail in the coffin in the end when xelnaga werent technologically superior race to everyone but instead were cthulhu like with magic,and also the fact kerrigan became one of them,that was the most ridiculus part of all if sc2 ended with wings of liberty and kerrigan staying with raynor,if heart of the swarm featured abathur or some other Zerg leading instead,and if Legacy of the void ended up with them all joining forces to defeat amon instead of one of them becoming a xelnaga to kill a xelnaga so in short:story is perfect only if you never get into heart of the swarm and legacy of the void

Yes like the falling apart feeling and lost all hope, he realizes he was betrayed, and about to die.

+Freddy FuseBear I dont know, perhaps because he is in league with Amon? Being a Xelnaga and all...

Yeah, but nobody knew anything until it was too late though.

Because some men just want to watch the world burn...

I find it a bit strange how he listened to Duran even though it was established he distrusted him. All the while they also established Alexei was among his personal friends. What is more he could've resolved this much more easily by just asking Alexei proper.

Xirius The Soulwatcher I was wondering that myself. Apparently the UED had some weird HICOM mistakes, because their HICOM is sh!t, as in the trust factor.

I was the same. I'm 31 now so was originally playing Starcraft as a child. I wished the last mission could have ended another way. I was relieved the story allowed Raynor to live though.

While I can’t disagree with that as I love the old games too, I appreciate the newer games for giving the heroes a break and chance to shine with an optimistic tone.

Agreed, with both of these comments.

activision happened. Look what triple A companies like NaughtyDog/BioWare/EA turned into along with Blizzard

@@simunator It just got worse..

@@blubberblase1012 That's true, somehow the lackluster graphics helped in making the story much more compelling, like it fits into the grim and dark tone of the narrative. They pretty much nailed it on making do with what they had back then.

Best comment I have read my friend. Truly disgusting what transpired here. Greetings from Central Europe I still cannot believe that this happened.

Ironic as well since the Protoss have the most tragic losses (Tassadar, Aldaris, Fenix, and Raszagal) while the Terran characters have borderline cockroach-tier refusal to die.

The news of the defeat would have reached the UED. After all, the UED knew about the events that preceded their fleet's arrival. In the lore, the reason given for the UED never responding is they were simply too busy. The UED was a fascist dictatorship that emerged from a particularly turbulent period in Earth's history. It was never the epitome of stable governance. So in the time since the Expeditionary Fleet was deployed, internal squabbles had taken priority. But yeah, his touching final farewell and revelation about Stukov very likely never reached Earth.

If I recall correctly, the UED has 10 fleets under its command. The Expeditionary Fleet was maybe a 10th of the size of one of those fleets. They also stripped the fleet of a lot of their most advanced technology to both make the journey to the Koprulu Sector easier and to prevent the Dominion from being able to reverse engineer their technology should the worst happen. And yet that fleet was able to subjugate the Zerg, conquer the Dominion, and even send the Protoss packing. They stripped the fleet down because the UED was utterly paranoid. Its a fascist, xenophobic dictatorship. Everything they did was about protecting Earth from even the most remote of perceived threats. In this case, their concern was that the Dominion was so utterly mismanaging the Zerg threat that it would inevitably snowball out of control and threaten Earth itself. That propaganda video at the end of the UED campaign seems to pretty accurately reflect UED mindsets about the situation. The Brood War opening cinematic also shows that the Zerg are the real motivation for getting out there, and that they are afraid of the Zerg's aggressiveness.

@@jarynn8156 Another interesting thing about the UED is that very few of their units have actually been seen and all of them were absolutely cracked asf with long-lasting legacies and influences in Korprulu Terran warfare technology. Medics, Spartan Company Goliaths, and Valkyries would lead to pseudo reverse engineering to eventually lead to the Medivac, Viking, and Liberator. We've never seen the UED's combat infantry, heavy vehicle, specialist, or flagship units. Even the battlecruisers used in Brood War were all stolen since the Alexander was the only heavy air unit present which never even fought.

but chris metzen himself said that he "grew up" between sc1 and 2 so how could the first game be more adult????

@@ifound15min35 growing up sometimes mean losing the spark of creativity and fantasy that drives you. In some cases it means to become empty and grey. Work becomes a routine chore as you're slowly worn down. It's why you should never grow up inside.

I think that’s the point! Truly a sad ending!

There's also a typo: "...proven to be stronger thatn we anticipated."

I like the typos.. it makes it more realistic... you guys missed "Au revior"

Cough Warcraft 3

@@Dawnyy warcraft 3 is cliche as fuck fantasy story, with writing as bad as the biggest rip off of lotr, good game tho

@@ifound15min35 Well you got no eye for quality then... Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne expansion is a master class in great storytelling.

Eso paso por que blizzard queria matar estarcraft para darle apoyo a age impires

@@fosphor8920 No, not even close. You just overdosed on nostalgia.

Wait what? Did they really fucking do that? What the fuck.

@Zoomer Stasi ​ Still as true as the day I said it. If can't handle it, your loss :)

@@PappaTor You overdosed on nostalgia, instead of being a whiny neckbeard, go play starcraft 1.

@Zoomer Stasi your name is homosexual, your opinion has no value, please raise your testosterone levels before having an opinion on starcraft, thanks :)

Hello 10 years later. It did not happen. Have a nice day.

Completely worth. It has more pathos I can say, especially HOTS, but still a great sequel. Hope there will be Starcraft 3 in a couple of years - this game is immortal, and it needs at least one more sequel! Third breath I would say )

@@From_The_Shadow_I_Come Dearest Dmytro: By then, Microsoft would've had acquired Activision-Blizzard. The way they ended SC2 seemed very... final to me. Sure, the gameplay was fun and engaging but the story always seemed like it was rolling down the hill towards its end. Blizzard, well it rolled down the hill years ago. For any consumer that has tasted the olden products, they may believe in that company no longer. All they stand for now is the greed they inherited from the publisher Acitivision that acquired them... Though, know this, I still bear some shred of hope. They retconned and remade the Modern Warfare series. Change opens new doors for opportunities, and with how the kids these days gobble up anything these game companies push out it doesn't matter anyway. Maybe, they will retcon and remake Starcraft as well. Hopefully just the parts right after WoL. I just am not a fan of how the story turned out. It feels like it proceeded in its own bubble. The UED was clearly a force to be reckoned with, even with the downfall of their expeditionary fleet. The universe within the franchise, should be expansive. Think 40k. So many chapters of the legendary Space Marines, so many groups, and factions, and lore. You could even make your own. I hope the RTS genre comes back into the mainstream. Not just in the form of MOBAs and other stuff. I feel it would teach the kids from these days to learn teamwork and cooperation, by making them manage units, seeing the consequences of their actions. Anyway, this is very long and I do not know why I did this, but I will go shoot myself with optimisim now. Au revoir.

@@CommissarChaotic I don’t make special expectations, any new stuff on StarCraft would be a fresh breath for franchise. I like StarCraft 2 as well, because it has more dynamic and convenient gameplay. If they release StarCraft 3 - I suppose it will be either some completely new stuff, or some spin off where UED has a major role. Any option looks at least interesting. I love the old series, sometimes play Brood War, but still as a game engine I like StarCraft 2 better. They have BILLIONS of money - do you still think that they will f**ck the release up? I do 🙂but still, I don’t leave my optimism as they at least have capabilities to make a really great game. So my hope is alive. Everything dies, but StarCraft is not dead yet, and must not be, because this game has fans like us

@@From_The_Shadow_I_Come you mentally challenged? Sc2 is hot garbage

@@kbjosekiller google translate?

You're welcome :)

September2004 Because they need the UED for StarCraft 3.

Message of the defeat actually reached earth. The thing is that the UED started having internal problems so they just lost interest in the koprulu sector.

Asumo que eres de españa o jugastes starcraft en castellano por llamar a esa faccion así. DUT [Directorado Unido de la Tierra] Castellano UED [United Earth directorate] ENG JTU [Junta de la Tierra Unida] Latino

It doesn't really fit DuGalle's character to switch sides. He seemed pretty loyal to Earth.

I actually think SC1 has better graphics. Despite the lower resolution, SC1's graphics look sharper and more well-defined; more realistic. Everything in SC2 somehow looks soft and cartoony.

I'm also gonna say that bw actually had the better voice acting. Sometimes in SC2 you can tell the lines are read from a script with little investment by the actors. Kerrigan's stuffers the most from this. In bw we had great moments for the voice actors like the death of Stukov, the reveal of the hybrids by Duran, every dialogue between Tassadar and Aldaris, Kerrigan's mockery of Zeratul when he killed Raszagal, etc.