it's weird seeing how much they changed the lore between the first and second games. zerus being a volcanic world when zagara specifically comments on it looking weak and it clearly being some kind of jungle planet comes to mind immediately.

Loved this, I basically memorized the SC1 manual and seeing it brought to life is amazing. Thank you!

I am wretched. But I am strong! I am the future. I am Zerg!

The amount of effort you put into this really highlights your appreciation for the lore. Profound amounts of kudos for keeping to the classic lore instead of the new stuff. Ever since I was a kid, I've had an unhealthy obsession with the Zerg and their lore. Especially when it's brood war based.

Oh hey. It's the original lore, not the messed up retcon from StarCraft 2. I like this.

Honestly man your speech pacing and the visuals are so nice, thank you this was really enjoyable.

The idea of the Xel'Naga being wiped out by their creations instead of seeing the threat the life forms posed and eradicating them, or even just simply escaping seems absolutely ridiculous.

Wow, the zerg went through a massive retcon in hots

This is too dope, you made me love star craft even more. they really need to put more into the brand.

This is the first video I've seen of yours and I gotta say, this is a great breakdown of the history! You've got a good handle of it and the way you talk and break up the information is easy to listen to. You deserve more subs!

Great video! Well narrated with fitting visuals to boot. Looking forward for more.

Just subscribed. I am so happy that I finally found a starcraft lore video with such good quality!

I absolutley loved this. I know this is from the SC1 manual, but that doesn't take away from how well you manage to bring it to life. Speaking of manuals, how does one even write these dense information filled manuals? I know they're basically a dead part of game design nowadays, but it Stil lamazes me how those few writers who worked on these could make all this up. (I don't know how many writers Blizzard had in 1998, don't at me.)

What i understood from the manual, or maybe the descriptions in the 1st game were that most of the zerg types we see today came from different planets. Essentially the zerg would explore a new planet and find the most unique or useful lifeform there, take over its DNA and mutate it to make it even better.

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Brilliant video, pal. Keep it up.

A couple of questions. When were the overlords assimilated. I was under the impression that they were absorbed after the zero left Zerus. Second. You mention that the zero where aware of humanity and then took 60 years to reach them. In your previous video about the terrains you all mention them taking like 60 years to start traveling between the stars again. So were the very aware of them shortly after the terrains woke up or later down the line?

Another great lore video, man. I hope you get discovered soon.

The overmind was pleased when defeated because of his primal Zerg instincts. He only sees a better host species to assimilate.

This is very well done. Good work

Thanks for the video!

I commented on another post but here I’ll just say that this is the type of content that makes me wish I had influence. I’d love to boost the hell out of this, but my 3 subs ain’t gonna do it. 🤦🏻‍♂️. I really hope it grows and encourages more content.

At last, the true history and not a fancy recopilation of the second game.

So glad I came across your ch

this is amazing thank you

These are good man, really enjoyed the history and the narration. Lots of things I didn’t know about all three races. Would be nice if you did the races from the Warcraft universe.

I like how it is like a parallel of AI. The Zerg or Overmind is just waiting and learning things...

While I recognize most of the units you depict here are not here and that you likely used them out of a sense of flavor or visual gratification. I would like to point out that you mentioned the Overlords a bit early. The "Large, Lumbering, space-farers" that gave the zerg space travel are the Overlords. This was mentioned in the SC1 Manual and it was mentioned that their large sacs doubled as the ability to ferry the zerg into to space that could not travel it themself. Just wanted to correct it. Good video though :)

Amazing videos my dude

very cool dude I learned a lot thank you.

wow this is very well made video. how does this only have small amount of views?

I was about to start correcting, until i realized StarCraft, as in StarCraft I, as in shown by the tag for the 1998 version, because THEN it all fits the manual of the game. If this was to include Broodwar or StarCraft II ... well most of this was proven to be a bit alternated, since they races did not fail but were set up :P.

I’m glad you went with the non-retconned version of the story. The whole Overmind secretly creating Kerrigan to be the universes’ savior struck me as silly. The primal Zerg sequences even sillier. SC2 ends up ruining what originally felt like a gritty or grim dark space opera in the vein of say Warhammer 40k minus the 80’s heavy metal poster ascetic which I love in its own right. I mean could look at 40k art design for hours; it’s so fascinating especially some of the older stuff it brings me back to the 90’s and those grey rainy days pouring over AD&D books or magic cards. But I digress something was lost in SC2 it became really corny and cringey. It lost its epic feel for something more weirdly character driven. Even the voice acting in SC2 was somehow worse than the original. While they nailed SC2’s art design and gameplay the story leaves a lot to be desired and I’m not super satisfied. I wonder what could have been if they kept the originals epic scope, silent protagonist (cerebrate, executor, and magistrate i believe). I look at a game like grey goo that totally failed on its gameplay but nailed an epic story. Even supreme commander for all the sameness in the art style had a far more compelling story that better fits an RTS.

you make better content than 90% of youtubers nowadays

Mutalisks traveling between planets by flapping wings is pure gold.

This is amazing!!!!!

I just think of one and two are two different universes. I mean in the 2nd game. there were two different timelines. one was the end of everything and the other was saved. I always thought the 1st timeline was the 1st game's and the 2nd game timeline is actually another universe. would explain why primal zerg and a few other things were so different from what we knew from the 1st game. Kerrigan is a example on what I'm talking about. the 1st game she does have free will as a zerg. but on the 2nd game she some odd reason have a spread personality in Wings than have free will in Heart. even the Xel'Naga are different. sure there still creators of protoss and zerg. but you can tell something's different. ether they are different universes or they just forget the actual origin and just remake it. like how warcraft ever since they make WoW they been making things up just to keep the story going. like some kind of TV show.

Excellent video. I’m surprised it doesn’t have more views, so hopefully my comment gives the algorithm a much needed poke!

6:50 Weren't the Overlords from a different planet? Or was that a StarCraft 2 retcon?

I want r34 of the overmind

A game focus on early time of zerg would be nice...

Good video. Can't read the text on mobile while it's sitting on my desk though. Embiggen!

Did you create these animations or are these sourced from somewhere?

There are at least three creatures in the video I can't quite identify. The first is a winged bug that appears at the 2:46 mark along with the crab beetles & lava crabs. The second comes at the 4:50 mark and looks vaguely like a short centipede with a spiked back & big pincer jaws (I believe you use them as stand-ins for cerebrates). The last one comes in at the 5:22 mark and is either a big, spiky caterpillar-like creature that splits when attacked or is multiple creatures made to walk in a straight line to give the impression of the former. I've looked all over the StarCraft wiki but so far I've found no matches for them. And no, I haven't had the luxury of playing any of the StarCraft II games, so I can't go there to ID them myself.

Wheren't the Xel'Naga powerful psionics? When the Zerg assimilated them, shouldn't they also have obtained psionic powers and thus had no need to gain them from the humans?

How can the zerg travel at light speed, in space?

The only part in the old lore that seemed farfetched was the part of the zerg killing zel'naga.

Wouldn't the zerg need just one protoss and one human to master their genetics and assimilate them?

You add upward inflection at the end of sentences it sounds like you're reading off a list

sc2 story line was a treason to this awesome lore.

What if the Zerg was used in ultimatrix

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You'd do a very well DAELEK voice, sir!

Early lore of SC was so detailed, so epic, so breathtaking... and what did Blizzard do to it in SCII? They said: "it was all a lie", and took out some uninspired BS god knows from where. SCII lore is the greatest failure and the saddest loss in history of games.

Wait isnt the zealots from the begining is alaraks starcraft 2 units what do they call them.. supplicants!

Also, I thought it was a mystery the whole time about what happened to the zelnaga. But the only one that was left was the dark one. And he made the over mind to enslave the zero, and he made the protoss. At least according to starcraft 2. And the over mind could see the future of it and the protoss and amon.. so it made the queen of blades to take over and lead the swarm. But the whole time you never learned what happened to the rest of the zelnaga. Only that amon was the last one and it was in the void.. and the original strain of the zero survived on the original home world. So it was more like amon tweaked the zero rather than made from scratch.

I’m confused, was not Zerus a jungle world? Was it not Char the volcanic ash world?

lol why are they flapping their wings in space 🌌

So how did the Primal Zerg come into play with this?

I thought this was Moist Critical's voice 😂

Now that we know it was actually Amon was the only Xel'Naga that was experimenting here and that, after he used them to destroy his brethren, was destroyed himself actually makes the story much better in my mind.

Man the Zerg would wreck the flood from halo however not sure they would against the tyrannoids from war hammer…

I swear you have the same voice of Charlie (Penguinz0)

I hope the Xel Naga are a playable race in SC 3.

God damn bugs!

I didn't like the way the races were given plot armor so at any one time, say Terran can overpower and win then at another time, say Zerg wins. There is no longer any clear boundary who's stronger - Terran, Zerg, Protoss? And the 3 races no longer "have boundaries" so to speak. Protoss are meant to be the most technologically advanced, wise, foreseeing things but were written so they often failed and failed not because of lack of numbers, or their enemies had better strategy - they just failed and no sensible explanation was given - they just failed because the story said so. I don't know how to get this idea across and there have been many people who didn't offer serious discussions because they simply missed the point - let's say the Hulk in Marvel cinematic universe - suddenly gets low esteem, lost his strength, lost his edge - at least you can still see why the Hulk is failing although you had difficulty accepting it. There are theories out there. So far, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't understand how say Zerg can best Terran technology. Even your most carapaced units would suffer concussions, heat exhaustion, constant need to refuel for their regenerative abilities to work - that the Zerg must have some magic occult sustenance force or they have Undead-like abilities or amazing evasion. Or sheer numbers to tank a lot and a lot of Terran ammunition meaning many Zerg die every battle it's nuts but their sheer numbers exhaust the enemy's ammunition and resources and overrun them. And in no way Zerg damage can be too high - I always imagined the Zerg as sort of representing tribal groups fighting more technologically advanced colonizers. Forgive me if I cannot grasp any concepts of story/fiction but to me science fiction must have a basis of truth and reality - sensible explanation for things. Not perfect but at least something! Help me to understand.

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Mutalisks in space ?@?!11wtf?!. Also, this is a settled argument. The Zerg are the monster from "Who Goes There?" (1938) which is the book that went on to become John Carpenter's The "Thing" (1982).

Good video, but the narration is weird. Ends every sentence like it's a question

I strongly dislike how they changed the Zerg in SC2 >:/

It always amazes me how Halo basically copied this whole story, and how much of it was directly inspired by 40K.

About the birth of the Zerg. This isn't the story as we know it through the Heart of the Swarm campaign. According to the story Zerus wasn't a volcanic planet like Char. It was a green planet where the Zerg were fighting each other consuming the essence and becoming stronger. And the first Zerg was born within the first spawning pool, the one which Kerrigan stepped in to become like super strong.

There's one, massive inaccuracy. Zerus is a Jungle world, not an ash world. You're thinking of Char, which is only an adopted base of operations for the Swarm. (Edit) There are other inaccuracies but they dont matter because SPOILERS.

I reject sc2 lore. Sc1 is my only game.

Zerus was not a volcanic world, its Char that was. Little confusion there, I think.

I don’t think it’s correct to say xel Naya, they don’t interfere. It should be Amon and his followers

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amazing video but sorry to say your narrating is annoyiong. that intonation on full stop is annoying everything else great job