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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 8045832" data-attributes="member: 6686357">The stories are well below passable. They get a free pass due to nostalgia. The youtube playlist by Pr0nogo is the only critical review that seems to have been made in the last twenty years, and it is not kind.I'm not expecting a great story. I just expect one that doesn't aggravate me so much the moment I tried to think critically about it. I dislike the story because it focuses on interpersonal drama and superheroes instead of the actual war which is supposed to be going on.Like, here are some quotes from the official website advertising the game before release:Based on those, I would expect that the franchise would be about the Confederate nations vs the Overmind swarm vs the Protoss gestalt. You know, something analogous to how Command & Conquer is always about the wars between its signature armies. I don't expect nor do I have any interest in badly written interpersonal drama that runs roughshod over all that.Normally I'd just find a different game to focus my mental energy on, but there isn't one and that makes me sad. Starcraft has tons of elements I like, but everybody else seems to only like the stuff that I actively dislike. Trying to engage with fanboys is like bashing my head against cinderblocks because they refuse to believe the story is anything less than perfect. They put it on a pedestal because they loved it when they were five or ten and lacking in critical thinking skills. These same fanboys then think that SC2 is awful and a betrayal of SC1.From my POV, SC1 wasn't a good story in the first place. So obviously SC2 couldn't ever hope to match up to the maturing standards of grown-up players of the original.What I wouldn't give for a community of like-minded people that I could talk to and not feel completely alone in the universe.</blockquote>

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