No, Bioware is just as bad as Blizzard. Let's not even go there, I wouldn't let either fucktards near anything I manage even if they offered to pay
me for it. Neither of them can write, neither of them know what it takes to make a story not cliche. They need to give it up and start hiring actual writers.
I thought the Wings of Liberty was a decent and enjoyable campaign with an interesting storyline,
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solidified by mentioning movie plots, no one watches movies for the plot! Be less obvious next time, bro!
but there were more subtle "it's cheesy but hey everything else is awesome" reviews than a few honest ripping plot-analysis. -
I can tell you exactly why - everyone's a fucking fanboy. Only fanboys lack the balls to see truth. You see Johnny? He's trolling you - playing the card of the fanboy. He did it quite well, too. He's doing it because he knows everyone here is loves cinematics, everyone loves stories, but the card he's playing is the more popular one.
People are obsessed with Blizzard solely because of the logo. 90% of the high level players have told me they were bored of the game and disappointed in Blizzard's decisions behind it during beta, and many of them simply stopped playing. Those who continue to play, play only because sc2 is where the money is at. Blizzard is doing their damndest to shut down sc1 now that it competes with their new titles to force the progamers to make the move. Anyone who willingly tags along does so in the vain hope the game will improve in two expansions.
The rest are fucking fanboys. There isn't one person who will honestly tell you they enjoyed sc2's story. Not unless they are hopelessly oblivious to the billion cliches it utterly butchered, the completely braindead dialogue, the hideous carelessness in the voice acting, the confusing clusterfuck their non-linear campaign fad garbage turned it all into, and the grand finalle that left me throwing up in a ditch five miles east.
Sc2's story is fucking terrible. A ten year old will tell you that, because it's the same damn story they write in kid's movies and TV shows that people watch only to laugh. It bears all the hallmarks of laziness, fads, and westernized action-oriented condom tugging. Everything from the facepalm worthy bile-hurling PLOT TWISTS (OH MY GOD THE GHOST IS BLACK AND HAS A SILLY TROLL ACCENT) (OH MY GOD IT'S MENGSK'S KID AND HE'S BLONDE AND HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT) (OH MY GOD THE ARTIFACTS TURN KERRIGAN INTO A HUMAN AGAIN SO RAYNOR CAN SQUEEZE ONE MORE OFF BEFORE THE
DARK VOICE CONQUERS THE GALAXY AND STATES "I shure luv it wen a plan cums together ^___^" (NOT NECESSARILY IN THAT ORDER)), to the HORRIBLE dialogue (except for Tidus because I love his hickness), every single line Raynor said was fucking MISERABLE and it's like they had some junior high turd write their entire dialogue from the ground up with absolutely no knowledge or care of the character. OH WAIT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID LOL because they went around hiring complete and total nobodies to bloat their staff count with sheep.
Starcraft 2 would have bombed out in an instant if it was made by any other company and turned into the exact same thing it is now. It wouldn't have the logo brainwashing retards into thinking it's amazing just because Blizzard built it. I don't care who the fuck you are, you're a troll if you say otherwise and I will just laugh at you.
You'd think for a company raking in so much money from WoW that they could afford to put some fucking effort into their writing, but then you remember no one has put effort into their writing since Black Isle. Bioware is just the same - talentless newbies playing off of fads and tropes.
And anyone who says otherwise is simply wrong.
The fact that the majority of their audience is a bunch of pen-pushing brainless twats makes this kind of business practice possible, and until the average IQ of America raises above 50 no one else will be inclined to follow suite and realized they are getting milked like whores.
Now, I haven't played any sc1 campaigns besides the odd one. And therefore I can't agree or disagree with any opinions about LoTC or whatever. But I have played some wc3 ones, notably return of the dragon or whatever. They were all fucking terrible. I don't expect players to be able to make good stories. Hell, if I was personally given the reigns to sc2, I wouldn't be confident even I could recover from their mess without redoing the whole damned thing from the ground up! I tell you I'd definitely get some outside opinions before making a big decision!
But I will tell you this - campaign makers are more inclined to actually put effort in their story, because Blizzard doesn't give ten fucks about what John Doe thinks about their story. The fact is, Sc2 made record sales just like every other Blizzard title. As far as they care that's all that matters. Sc2 was successful, hands down, and nothing John Doe or myself can say about it will change that. Thus their practice will not change.