BlizzCon 2011

[wibod]

I don't believe Valerian'll die though, he's been noted to play a large role eventually when asked about him pre-WoL. Five bucks says he kills his dad before Kerrigan can.

The funny thing is I think people are more willing to accept that Valerian will kill his dad with Space Frostmourne than they are Kerrigan or Raynor doing it with the Power of Love and Justice.

"What are you doing, my son?"
"Succeeding you, father!"

This would be pretty hilarious.

Also Zealots are going to be late game units now!
http://kotaku.com/5852440/how-starcraft ... er-balance

[Alevice]

oh my!

[Mucky]

The transformation grants the Hellion more hit points and a stronger flame attack, making it much more effective against hordes of late-game enemies like Zealots, which normally would tear Hellions to pieces.

rofl

The transformation grants the Hellion more hit points and a stronger flame attack, making it much more effective against hordes of late-game enemies like Zealots, which normally would tear Hellions to pieces.

AHAHAHAHAHA WHAT THE FUCK

[Eredalis]

I sat behind the guy who asked about Stukov, and right before he got up I heard him mention it to his friend, "going to ask Stukov" and it's funny because the entire Q&A time I was contemplating standing up once again to ask THE question that I know would get ignored: Stukov. It was ignored at a press event I went to, before WoL came out, with the response of: "Oh.. Stukov.. we forgot! Oh man, oh well!" But yeah, I got a little too excited over Stukov, but I should of gone up to ask about Aldaris!

I have seen a moment ago I had written the german version of Stukov: Stukow! I don't know why the responsible translation team have done that back in the day. Maybe it was a flaw or mistake, but Stukov was translated as Stukow.

Although everything is possible, take Tassadar for example or other heroes from the WarCraft universe, I honestly don't believe that Aldaris will ever return. He was never the big player in the original StarCraft, more the unlikeable troublemaker. It's kinda funny, that you mentioned just him, because nobody has ever asked about him in all these years of the development of StarCraft II. (i.e. lore panels, interviews)

[mAc Chaos]

Aldaris was always my favorite character. It always was funny to me that everybody thinks he's a douche.

I mean, look at it from a real world perspective. He's basically a member of government. Tassadar is like one of our generals. Imagine if one of our generals just deserted the army out of nowhere and disappeared into the mountains of Afghanistan and took half of the army with him. Then a few months later he just returns out of the blue and is like "YO I'VE BEEN CHILLIN WITH OSAMA THAT GUY IS A VISIONARY" how do you think we would receive him?

[Alevice]

More like he sided with the outcasts like maybe the ku klux klan* (DT) and also with che guevara (raynor)


*feel free to point out a different outcast extremist organization

[RazorclawX]

I'm more amused by the fact we love Mengsk and Aldaris over here than anyone else.

[Taeradun]

Imagine if one of our generals just deserted the army out of nowhere and disappeared into the mountains of Afghanistan and took half of the army with him. Then a few months later he just returns out of the blue and is like "YO I'VE BEEN CHILLIN WITH OSAMA THAT GUY IS A VISIONARY" how do you think we would receive him?

same way the Germans received the July 20 plotters :godwin:

Aldaris owns though, but partly also because he was able to admit he was wrong, and then when he stirred up trouble a second time it turned out he was right lol

[Thalraxal]

Aldaris was awesome.

Sarah Kerrigan apparently has lost her memory as the Queen of Blades (this was reiterated multiple times by the panel), and is now in a more of a confused state as to wanted to complete her own objectives while trying to understand why everyone hates her. Think of blending the emotions of seething hatred to kill someone, confusion as to what exactly have you done to deserve all this hate from not one, not two, but all three races, and ultimately the ongoing love fiasco that you try to deny so much. I think it's too much, honestly, for any actor to replicate a true-sounding voice that can compliment the character, but I'm hoping... Hoping hard.

As for the giant Corsair-err, Tempest.. Thing is HUGE. I played a 1v1 as Terran against Protoss, and the size of that thing was just- jesus.

Amnesia? Actually, that's a perfectly reasonable side-effect considering her infestation and sudden restoration by Sufficiently Advanced Technology. While she's being motivated by more than just seething rage, it's still the emotion that I'd expect her to be giving in her delivery of her lines about Mengsk. Mostly, while I think Tricia Helfer was a fantastic choice for a voice actor for Infested Kerrigan, I don't see her as a good fit for Regular Kerrigan. She's a great actress, but I just haven't seen her deliver the harder edge to her voice that Regular Kerrigan needs. Oh, well. Time will tell.

I'm happy to hear that the Giant Corsairs are sufficiently giant. When Blizzard super-sizes a unit, they super-size that unit.