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  • What was the big ship? Protoss?

  • @imightbewrong555 I have no idea what just happened

  • FUCK the blizz of today... pussies compared to the man's game of before.

  • Oh yeah old scool :D

  • seriously, how many of you didn't know what the hell is going on in this video when you first saw it or played the game?

  • so much darker and better tone than SC2...

  • mother has took my starcrft and expansion and sc2 game, and im fina have a BITCH FIT!

  • Ahhh Starcraft the game that started it all. Its amazing to see how far the graphics have come for this series between the original Starcraft and Starcraft 2.

  • I thought it was cool how Blizzard implemented this type of culture into a futuristic war sim

  • My moment of realization that this game would be awesome... is at 1:53-1:58, when the guys head goes "SPlooogugugugu".

    l0l.

  • this is the only way I can conceive space now, starcraft defined it

  • Damn you're ugly

  • Play this great game online @ RetrOnline! A tutorial will help you to setup the game easily :)

    We are waiting for you!

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  • Are, hell. This thing ain't got a hole?

  • oye vaos como es que consegiste en español

  • Thanks to that exploding head I started playing Starcraft. I was in my early teens when the game came out, so I was "Cool! Gore!"

  • this is blizzard trying to warn us all about void rays way ahead of time...touche

  • that look like a protoss mothership and the now-scraped planet razor ability

  • of Course,James Cameron will maybe Direct The Movie StarCraft back in August 15,2009/2010

  • I actually have a feeling that could have been the Gantrithor.

  • i hope they'll make a movie of starcraft just like final fantasy 7...

  • 12 years and we don't hecking know wtf that thing even is.

  • 1:54 Hilarious

  • That was a Void-ray

  • That was a Void-ray

    FU VOID RAY OP GTFO my TVP

  • Jem´s Song ;)

  • Well, at least we know Joey Ray survived this encounter.

  • You girls strapped in nice an' tight naw?

    Tighter 'an yer mawmas ass-hole.

  • expweeen to mea howa we gona get allodis home?

  • when I die i wanna explode into red triangles too

  • This video isn't quite as epic as I remember it......

  • Is that a toss ship? Don't look yellow to me!

  • Chris Metzen is so depressing. I bet this was his idea.

  • good old fashioned cheesy cruddy animation

  • OMG looking at this and wandering HOW they managed to lost it in 2? HOW? :(

    That dark sci-fy short movie replaced with "who-to-build-a-marine" cgi showcase "with great modeling and shading". That is really beyond me...

    IIRC Bizz has lost many of its original crew, in art/sound department at least, may be that will explain it?!?

  • @YourCRTube I have to honestly say, I can barely understand what you're saying. It's like I understand the gist of it, like how everyone understands stewie in family guy

  • @tousseshi Ha, ha, thats because I make a ton of typos, its hilarious indeed.

    ..and have no way to edit it.

    wandering = wondering

    sci-fy = sci-fi

    who-to = how-to

    Not being good at the language also helps.

  • never figured out why the protoss killed them. maybe because there were zerg on board.

  • @dtadeo2006 correct. The Protoess were doing a "no mercy" policy of cleaning. they didn't care about the terrans, only that there were zerg around. any ship or planet with zerg was in danger of being destroyed by the protoss.

  • Till these day ... I still don`t understand what this intro mean.....? A pirate ship try to take a vantage on wreck ship ...then they been kill by Protoss`s ship.... if that is Protoss`s ship... which unit is it...? Starcraft 2 mothership....? anybody please explain to me...

  • @HeavenXxX They're simple scavengers trying to make a little money from salvaging wrecked spaceships. It is both terran and protoss debris floating out there. Obviously a battle took place there. A passing protoss carrier (not mothership, they weren't around back then) found it best to just kill them. Can't figure out why exactly.

  • @MrBassDude15 thanks...haha...^_^...

  • @MrBassDude15

    Carrier have no laser-beam!

  • @Exverlobter Well, of course carriers in game have no laserbeams, it probably was the Ganthritor, you know, Tassadars Carrier. That had a laserbeam, it destroyed a confederate BC with it, and may explain its huge size.

  • @MrBassDude15 They didn't want them to get the protoss technology floating around

  • @STarCRAFT4BRITS Nope. Actually, that's Chau Sara, and the Protoss fleet is there to scorch it and purify any Zerg infestation. The little Terran ship just happened to be in the way of the beam.

  • @Doncroft1 lol i was being sarcastic

  • So it was a Mothership after all.

  • epic

  • hell at 1:15 with his glasses reflecting he looks like dale gribble haha

  • @TexasForddiesel LOL yeah

  • Wow.... the one cinematic which started it all for me... :') god .. such memories..

  • HOLY SHT THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE THE MOTHERSHIP IN STARCRAFT 2

  • Damn how i wish they would have had subtitles for this, English isn't my native language and with my hearing impairment, I have a hard time understanding what they say in many of the old cutscenes..

    I sure as hell hope they have optional subtitles for cutscenes in SC2.

  • @Gargantou They do have subtitles, at least for the in-game cut-scenes (which are high quality in my opinion). Not compeltely sure about the pre-rendered cinematics though.

    With regards to this video, there's not really much going on though. It's pretty much all "small talk". They are scavengers on a scavenger ship that comes across this wreckage, and then they die :)

  • big game 

  • Anyone know what the big ship is that kills the other ship? It's not in the game.. which makes me wonder what this entire intro is about?

  • 2:08 3 MORE DAYS TILL STARCRAFT 2 COMES!!! Can't W8 for it. Trust me Blizzard works really hard on their games. Maybe except for WoW...

  • I like how the dude's head explodes

  • STARCRAFT 2 DO NOT WANT

  • It took me about 10 years to realize this, but i think there's a plothole with the spanish speaking guy. In the backstory, it says that the UPL had wiped out all languages except english about 200 years before this, so yeah.... BTW, anyone know what he's saying?

  • @urnewgod The cinematics team mentioned in a commentary track that they had only the broadest of topics to make cutscenes from, because it took them a long time to make videos. Needless to say, they probably never got the note that there was only one Terran language. But having a mexican on the team makes them sound even more rednecky. :)

  • this game is movie worthy in my opinion

  • Back in 1998-2000, my friends were under the impression they were wasted by a Xel'Naga ship and not Protoss.

  • What's the opening song?

  • It's a Protoss Mothership! With Planet Cracker! Ahhhh!

    I like how they pretty much have the unit from the first cinematic now.

  • This time period in PC gaming really saw some amazing RTS games come one after another. StarCraft being the most prominent, with Total Annihilation before it and the lesser know but excellent Dark Reign as well.

  • what a simple, yet creative intro. No cheesiness or crap like that.

  • What's the story behind this video anyway? why'd the protoss blow up a civilian salvage rig?

  • @Escuderoam they didnt blow up the terrains. read the prequel story to starcaft - they wanted to burn the planet chau sara, which was infected by the zerg, this ship just happened to be in their way. protoss always "cleaned" the planets, grilling them with their shoop da whoop weapons.

  • @FLy1n6V sounds an awful lot like Halo "glassing flood infected planets"

  • @TheSilentPenguin12 starcraft came before halo so it sounds an awful lot like Starcraft "glassing zerg infected planets"

  • What! i can hardly understand at the end...

  • pure epicness... i could watch this the whole day long

  • cant wait for this feeling in better graphics with SC2!

  • great video !

  • these horned rimmed glasses. 0:47

    i see koreans wear these all the time. is this where they got it from?

  • 1:56 I lol'd

  • This is the only StarCraft intro i like, the Brood War it's to violent for me, the battle between Terran and Zerg is so horrifying...

  • @tincho0501

    I never gave it much thought until I read your comment. The discomfort you get from that Broodwar intro was likely the intended effect.

    In many ways, that intro - the juxtaposition between the horrific images and the music - helps emphasize the horrors of war. This has been used to great effect in movies like Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now and Platoon - the latter two are essentially anti-war movies because they show the ugly side of war

  • I guess it's Blizzard's way of reminding you that even though you're playing a game, one shouldn't forget that it is war and what you're essentially simulating are the countless deaths of living beings. Gruesome if you think about it :D

    lol - okay - I'll stop being a nerd now. ;)

  • @tincho0501 I have to agree XD when I was young I used to play this game all the time but the brood war intro always gave me nightmares

  • "Damn your ugly"

    Hes right.....:P

  • This is what starcraft is all about, Rednecks in space with shitty halfway working badass tech and country electric guitar tunes

  • Starcraft 2 has a lot stronger country soundtrack. Terran will REALLY be Rednecks in Space!

  • @KHAAAAAAAAN you know its funny thats exactly the feeling i get in star carft 2.

  • @KHAAAAAAAAN lol!

  • the best intro of all times! It was lightyears ahead of EVERYTHING as it came out and even 5 years later.

  • The only other RTS released around the same time that was also very good was Total Annihilation, predecessor to Supreme Commander. (It came out in 1998)

    Both Starcraft and Total Annihilation are my favorite RTS games...

  • @Intranetusa

    It's funny, I never got into Starcraft the way I did Total Annihilation. I loved TA.

    I remember various gaming sites, like C|Net Central back in the day, did comparisons between them and SC would come out on top, which drove me nuts, as I felt that TA was the superior, both on a technical/graphical basis (since it used 3D units and topology) and as a strategy game.

    I need to reinstall Starcraft at some point and play through it. I have yet to finish the campaigns.

  • @mikepalomino

    I totally agree - I liked TA"s technical aspects, huge maps, lots of units, and graphics, but I liked Starcraft's gameplay and storyline more. I think TA would've been much better with a real plot.

    btw, have you tried TA-Spring?

  • @Intranetusa

    I have seen screenshots but at the time it was still in early development. So I haven't played it.

    I enjoyed the more realistic aspect of TA's tactics. If I recall SC uses a kind of rock-paper-scissor strategy. TA used a more tactical approach - using artillery to soften defenses, airstrikes to destroy soft targets, etc... it was like a real-time grand strategy game. Great stuff!

    But yes I agree, TA would have been great with a more solid story. That's where SC wins hands down.

  • @mikepalomino

    yep pretty much. One of the things in SC that was revolutionary was the units were all totally different and so were the strategies required to play them.

    TA has hundreds of awesome units, but the two sides are pretty similar and their units mimic each other.

  • does anybody know the opening song

  • Starcraft 2 wings of liberty... open portals in 2010.

  • "Damn, ur ugly." LOLOLOL

  • The first line in one of greatest games of all time, PC, RTS or otherwise:

    "I can't see a thing, Jim!"

  • I'M A FIRIN MAH LAZER!!!

  • lol

  • I remember, 1998.. or whatever. Putting in starcraft original in the cd. Blizzard appeared across the title, and then this video played.

    Then.. a big ship blows up a tiny ship..

    And then i realized..

    STARCRAFT flashed across the screen.. and i knew it was the greatest thing to happen

  • @orochimaruisugly

    Dude that's the most true thing I have ever heard!

    And BTW - Fancy a Light??? :D

  • @orochimaruisugly BEST STARCRAFT COMMENT PERIOD

  • @orochimaruisugly Haha I remember being in kindergarten in 2000 and playing this at my friends house on his older bros computer, with all the cheats on and thinking it was the greatest game of all time.

  • 1:50 Ima firen mah lazor!!!

  • We got a big ol´ buttload of floating debris out here!

  • if any of you gotquestons about sc the text me at 7138684 and ill get to them as fast as posible

  • 1:56 reminds me of when I have a hang over.

  • lol

  • LOL!!! My name's Joey Wright!!! lol

  • when saw this first time it was scariest thing i ever seen

    and i always use that "yeeeeeeeah" word, its cool)

  • It's definately some kind of protoss ship. As to why it's not in the game - chalk it up to the artists' creativity. Also it's likely the game was still in the early stages when this cinematic was designed. Plus, there are other instances in the SC cinematics where units and/or vehicles do not conform 100% with those found in the core game.

    One way of looking at it is thinking of the cinematics as a highly advanced form of concept art.

  • The unit is the mothership, its a unit for the protoss in starcraft 2

  • blizzard didnt say nothing about that ship,where do u know about that

  • sorry about that, i's not a mothership rather, its the Gantrithor

  • Whats a gantrithor?

  • Tassadars Carrier. I read on a book once that the Gantrithor was the most unique carrier. It has several weapons at its disposal, apart from the interceptors. It has an armament that fires a beam similar to battlecruiser's yamato cannon and also a beam that is similar to mothership planetcracker, although much weaker

  • Oh ok cool. I am just wondering since i never of herd of it in the game. SOunds like a cool book. Do you know the terrent vehicle int eh video?

  • actualy your all wrong it wasnt the gantrithor, a mother ship, or carier it was a tempest ship of alderis's called the maxion. tempest are verry similar to cariers but with an extra wepon a phase ossilater that alows the warping of up to 10 fighters to go wherever you desire as long as you can plainly see the location.

  • Can you please list your source. As I was not aware of that ship..

  • my uncle Rocket is theprotoss designer of sc2 he tells m everything

  • If that's true, tell me his name so I can look him up when the devteam credits come up.

  • any other questons you got, send to me in text form at 7138684

  • the guys outside are scv's the viehicle is a terrann dropship prototype

  • Yo then what was that terrian ship. I think that protoss ship was a mother ship. It has the same weapons.

  • wow.. 10 years and we still don't clearly know what the alien ship in the video is.. mothership is a new presumption since starcraft 2 ( I really doubt it is a mothership), protos carrier (with superweapon, or simply something removed from the game) could be.. some other unknown gigantic protos ship? .. meh sure why not.. a while back I kept thinking it's a Xel'Naga ship.. but now I say that's pretty ridiculous.. :-?? .. I'm sticking with carrier

  • Cinematics and actual gameplay tend to have units that aren't exactly the same.

    Why they do that? Who knows.

  • I've read somewhere that that big blue protoss ship was supposed to be named "an Annihilator-class protoss vessel", they never planned it to be in the original starcraft game since it would be too big...too powerful.

    Those redneck / mexican guys were supposed to represent the Terran ability to scavenge wreckages in the game for money, the developer team abandoned that idea and replaced it with the Terran buildings ability to hi-jack enemy add-ons.

  • thank you i was always a big protoss fan and i never recognized that ship from the game.

  • It never was in the game, and the problem is... I don't remember where I read about the annihilator-class.

    But yeah, I am a big Protoss fan, but I like the way the Zerg play,

    Lol "We hit 'taters this time!"

  • I've watched this video a million times since 98, and I just realized that he's saying "paydirt." We hit paydirt this time.

  • Where?

  • damn this game came out 11yrs ago an I still play it its just that good

  • I remeber playing this game. Last time i played it was only like 5-8 months ago. I can't wait until the star craft 2 comes out. I hate that blizzard is keeping us waiting since the game look like its ready to be release at least as a beta. There no excuse for not even having a approximate release date of the game since there been like 10 game videos.

  • Amen to that man can't wait either its gonna rock

  • bunch of dumb space rednecks...

  • loll

  • noo, LMAO, when they fix the camera the second time and hes like wait i got it, then the scary music starts. LMAO, and it's like some kind of protoss looking thing.

    1:44-16, that thing.

  • best game ever

  • is so cool

  • OOps, thumbed down by accident

  • "Damn your ugly" That line gets me every time lol

  • WAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

  • someone help me. msg me on this. WTF IS THAT THING?! it can't be a DT cause DT's have two eyes and tape around their jaws. looks like a infested terran cause it has the helmet piece and armor but then again it looks like a really fucked up zealot. plus a dt does'nt have those spikes on their heads.

  • What the hell are you talking about man... what's a DT. You talking about the Mexican pilot? This was made before or right after the original concepts of the game - the things in it don't necessarily pertain to real people/units in the game.

    Not to mention, the Protoss and Terrans naturally have a lot of things (aircraft, vehicles) not incorporated into the game, which focuses on them militarily.

  • REDNECKS IN SPACE!

  • PLANET CRACKER

  • thats from thee game...

  • The big blast is not from a carrier, it's from the mothership, seen in SC2.

  • Dude wtf u smoking? They never even THOUGHT about the mothership. this is sc man. Not sc2! They didnt even plan to make a sequel Yet when this came out. THINK before u post.

  • You should be more careful with you're tongue, before it goes somewhere unpleasant.

    Okay then "professor", explain where the blast comes from?

  • from the mothership.

  • ur stupid

    carrier first cant do that

    nothing in sc can shoot like that

    so its the mothership

  • no it's a carrier. The motherships were decommissioned from the end of the Khala/ tribal wars after the Xel'Nagas departure to SC2. The motherships were docked and out of use. The game SC just has to remove some features from the units they portrayed to balance. Here's anothing thing: How do the Protoss, incinerate a zerg infested planet with out giant lazer beams? :P

  • I love the southern style guitar that is always in the background when the terrans appear

  • Yeah, a classic. Love it too!

  • At the beginning of Starcraft, the Protoss, with Tassadar's fleet glass the colonies of the terrans because they are already infested by the Zerg swarm (but terran are still unaware of this infestation).

    And for Protoss doesn't matter if a lot of terrans die in this "purification".

  • Why do protoss hate terran (I havent played much of the game)

  • Uh... Protoss don't hate Terrans dude, they tried to save their asses from the Swarm. Cause by glassing the planet the Protoss thought the Zerg wouldn't infest other Terran worlds. You know, killing a ceature in its egg so it can't reach eclosion? Well it' the point.

    But, um... they failed, so whatever lol

  • I remember when I first saw this as a bonus with Diablo back when I was a little kid. It scared the shit out of me.

  • The Corsairs and the Terran battlecruiser weren't scaled up properly in the game.

  • love the music at the beggining xD

  • Dawn of War II rox!

  • that Mexican guy is the first guy i have seen in all these SC vids wich is not a redneck....who is he??? where did he come from??

    why is he there???

    i want some background info on hi.m

  • was that some kind of giant protoss corsair that kiled them?

  • it mustave been an arbiter. and the terran ship must have been a dropship. i could be wrong. anyone out there from blizzard who can shed some light on this?

  • the terran ruleszzz

  • I love the depiction of the terrans , :)) like a bunch of rednecks , smoking all the time , yellin, listening to good ol' country music and basically not giving a shit :))

  • hahaha yeah man its awesome

  • Damn Straight! hehe they always have a good tym roastin all those aliens

  • This intro does make sense if you know starcraft story that is beyond the story given in the game.

  • When I first got the game and saw the intro, it made no sense. In other words, I think the intro could use some work, but the gameplay was great, as was all of the other cutscenes.

  • God I want that song from the beginning XD. Anyone know a similar type?