And as I’ll argue in this essay, they are justified in doing so. Hardly anyone seems that willing to defend the story. This doesn’t even seem a case of majority opinion overwhelming the minority. LOTV ends with the very “all races team up to fight the ultimate evil” plot point that everyone was fearing, but because we had been given five years to grapple with the fact that there was no way around it, enjoying it for what it was becoming easier.ĭespite that, there is no point denying that Blizzard took their shot at the story and missed. However, I suspect the reason I say this is because by the time LOTV was released, I had settled with the fact that Blizzard wasn’t going to change their tune. Its story is more engaging than the last two, and it is a sort-of-fitting coda to the trilogy. Like others, I share the opinion that LOTV is the best of the bunch. In fact, I would argue that the damage HOTS did was so large, that it retroactively reduced the quality of WOL in my eyes. I had expected the dark middle chapter, but got a story that doubled down on WOL’s most ludicrious parts. However, with the release of HOTS, I finally succumbed to the band wagon, realizing that the story I wanted wasn’t the one I had gotten. I didn’t necessarily disagree with all the arguments that were made against it, but I enjoyed the game, and felt a need to be honest about my feelings. I was one of the few who didn’t much mind the story of WOL.
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Heart of the Swarm came out in 2013, doing little to remedy the damage, while Legacy of the Void came out in 2015, and is generally seen as having the best story.
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Though Wings of Liberty was met with critical acclaim in 2010, there were few who would defend its story (I should know, as I frequented the forums quite a bit in those days, and I rarely saw a positive review). In the meantime, they released a spiritual sequel (WarCraft 3) as well what would become their most popular game (World of WarCraft). It took even longer-a whopping 12 years-for Blizzard to follow up Brood War with a sequel. In that time, we’ve had one game, two expansion packs, as well as a DLC that seems to have wrapped up the story (for the time being, anyway). It’s now been 7 years since StarCraft 2 was released.