En Taro Tassadar, en taro Starcraft... you died so young :( and your story about the Earth, the VED, XelNaga, Tassadar, Zeratul, Duran etc. ... will never reach us...
I must disagree friends. I think that StarCraft has only gotten better.
As an aside note: I think the fact that Tassadar used the power of the Khala and the Void during the final battle was the reason behind his transcendence.
"Never tasted death"? Then I must wonder what the afterlife is like for the Protoss.
Wouldn't it be a lot better if he said "the Armageddon of all" or "The apocalypse of life" or "the Harbinger of Doom"or "The destruction of all existence"
This is, quite honestly, the worst butchering of past lore this generation has ever seen. Yes, even worse than what World of WarCraft did to WarCraft I-III.
All this talk of hybrids and this Dark Entity, and watching that "final" battle in Zeratul's sidequest missions makes me wonder what'll happen come Legacy of the Void. Guess we have to go through Heart of the Swarm first.
Warcraft lore and Starcraft lore are so very similar several parallels can be drawn. Tassadar is like Medivh bestowing his wisdom upon Thrall(Zeratul). And the Zerg remind me of the Orcs on Draenor. They were enslaved by demon master's(Hybrids) and forced to war against the Draenei(the other inhabitants of the world).
In Legacy of the Void it will probably end up as Terran led by Jim, Toss led by Zeratul, and Zerg by Kerrigan to destroy the Xel'Naga(Burning Legion).
The death of the Overmind was very good and very bad.
Good because it meant Kerrigan could take full control of the Swarm. It also stopped the Zerg's plans to assimilate the Protoss.
Bad because the swarm went insane without the control of the Overmind - essentially reverting into mindless monsters, destroying everything in their path.
When people bitch about Starcraft 2 it's hard to take them seriously because most of them are just blinded by nostalgia and butcher Starcraft 2 for minor nitpicks.
The thing about making the Zerg not so evil I don't mind because if they stayed evil the next expansion would just be Zerg-rushing Terrans like it was in Starcraft 1. If you want to do that stuff just use the map-editor.
@komun1212 late reply, but yes the zerg was never evil, it was just a different form of perfection that the zel naga wanted that the protoss never had. Adaptation. Anyways the zerg are smart and very much to themselves till the dark voice decided to jack around with the zerg and make them monsters. I mean if you look at the original starcraft book that came out with the first game, most of the strains that were picked up by the zerg were innocent plant eating creatures. take the Hydralisk for ie
@Hatchatfatbat but the species wasn't killed, the zerg were and have started out as larvae. It was the need to want to do more that they attached to the hosts live parasites. It was only after they they realized that they if they needed to they could take dna and mutate their own bodies. That's my understanding of it that I read.
man i hate bitches that complain all the time about the follow up games when gta iv was about to relese all were like dying to play it now ppl who were the biggest fans dissing it same in sc 2 to remind you that since 2007 u cried and just wanted to play it? so shut the fuck up and stop bitchin dont like it? then dont play it simple as that!!!!!!
The death of the Overmind was very good, and very bad- on one hand, it decapitated the Zerg and left them without a leader for quite a while, eventually opening the way for Kerrigan to prevent the end of the universe. On the other, it meant that the Zerg blindly rampaged across Aiur- destroying everything in their path and slaughtering each other and the Protoss indiscriminately.
Back in 2009, I was shocked to find out that Tassadar was still alive. Supposedly he crossed over to another plane of existence but no one knows for sure. There's a connection between Tassadar's disappearance and Adun's who went out the same exact way. There's supposedly some legend predicting Adun's return or was it Tassadar's.
zeratul doesn't have a voice, protoss don't have mouths. They use voice synthesizers like Stephen Hawking ( notice lights on zealots necks as there synths work ). Seems you haven't unlocked the secret level where Zeratul busts his old voice synthesizer and has to kill Stephen to get a new one.
People think about this: Tassadar knew how to combine the kight and dark energies of the protoss, so when he charged the Ganthritor with them he changed himself, becoming something like an archon or a new being of pure psy energy. Does that make sence??? + if this is close to why he lives i think we'll see more of him versus the hybrids in the Legacy of the Void.
This doesn't exactly explain how the Overmind could have created the Queen of Blades for the purpose of freeing the Zerg if it was still compelled by it's directive to consume everything.
The things he said when Kerrigan hatched can explain it. Technically, creating an agent powerful enough to control the swarm, but possessing free will does not go against the directive. And since Kerrigan is still under his control as long as he lives, it's like creating a new superweapon. Unfortunately, the Overmind left for Aiur to die, Kerrigan was set free, and noone can blame him, since he's already KIA.
I'm sorry but when I saw that tassadar was still alive I pretty much threw my hands in the air and shouted: WWHHHYYYYYYYYYY? Now his noble sacrifice means nothing. But I would still like to see if those crafty Zerg are going to create another Overmind. Now THAT would make heart of the swarm worth playing just for the mission briefings alone. BTW... zeratul's voice actor died a while ago, so somebody had to replace him...
@191O42447 Incorrect sir though close, 2 Templars combine to form 1 archon sacrificing themselves to form something greater. If all Templars became archons then everybody that played protoss would go mass templars every time. Tassadar is an exception, he may not even be an archon but something similar, he learned to combine light and dark energies, that could have been the reason he was able to survive, maybe he transcended into a being a pure energy similar to that of an archon.
They FUCKED UP and replaced the voice actor. I hate you with a passion Blizzard. You have ruined my enjoyment of the Starcraft universe with your wanton replacement of voice actors. Fuck you and your overwhelming incompetence.
"You speak of knowledge, Judicator? You speak of experience? I have journeyed through the darkness between the most distant stars. I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities... Unto my experience, Aldaris, all that you've built here on Aiur is but a fleeting dream. A dream from which your precious Conclave shall awaken, finding themselves drowned in a greater nightmare."
Were you like me and totally disappointed by the Protoss dialogue in SC2 in addition to not using the original voice actors which were more unique. I miss those voices.
@jessc1979 all the dv did was force them on a collision course with the protoss. considering that the protoss are incompatible (their cojmmmubiustic higvemind is utterly antithetical to the zerg hivemind) they really should never have qualified even if they weren't immune. Hence why the dv makes sense. blizz confirmed that the zerg will still be badass.
@FullmetalLakers824 Do you have a video for that? Would be good to see that together with this to really show how the dialog in Starcraft 2 has been so dumbed down.
now that you remind me that it puts me into rage all over again because of this
"blah blah blah ...I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities... Unto my experience, Aldaris, all that you've built here on Aiur is but a fleeting dream. [THE VOICE ACTER SWALLOW IS SALIVA IN THAT PART] A dream from which your precious Conclave shall awaken, finding themselves drowned in a greater nightmare."
@KodierungHerz Are you a fucking idiot? I am a starcraft 1 veteran and a loyal fanboy, i see NOTHING wrong with this scene at all. Grow up and stop hating on Blizzard because you are butthurt that something didn't go your way. Fucking idiot.
@Dallishar Stop loving everything Blizzard sells you no matter what. If you see nothing wrong in the way Zeratul talks, the stupid retcon, the dialogue, the timing and so on, then you, my friend, should stop sucking blizzard's balls for just a second and pay a little attention and realize something's terribly wrong.
"a loyal fanboy" oh yes, yes you are. Nothing but a cocksucking fanboy, shame on you.
@KodierungHerz I am in NO way a fanboy. I think diablo 3 sucks, and they ruined Wow completely, if you think i am a blizzard fan boy then you have another thing coming buddy. I see NOTHING wrong with starcraft 2, there are minor things that i dislike but that's about it. Nothing worth talking shit on the internet about. Grow a pair pal.
@Dallishar First YOU call yourself a "loyal fanboy", then you say you're not. You think Diablo 3 sucks, when you haven't even play it yet, and then, you see nothing wrong with SC2??? Grow a brain, TROLL. I'm not feeding you again.
@KodierungHerz By loyal fanboy i meant i am loyal to the starcraft series, meaning i will always play them. Also, i think you're the one trolling. Grow a pair.
@mstrblik well whats mor important saving nerazim the dark templar or deefeeating the overmind, and i guess overmind is in their planet and of cors so their planet is important so its tassadar now i understand
WTF...Blizzard, why did you have to ruin one of the BEST video game characters of all-time? Why must you put a disgrace on Zeratul by doing this? Why? Why?!!
I think Zeratul went braindead in the last 4 years, because he can't seem to remember that DURAN CREATED THE FUCKING HYBRIDS AND CAN'T RETAIN THE IDEA THAT TASSADAR IS SPEAKING FROM "THE BEYOND"... he also has speaking problems, since it takes him like 5 minutes to say 3 words
seriously, I prefer that Zeratul gets killed in the first mission of the zerg campaign before he loses all my respect saying another stupid thing or a pathetic cliche like all the terrans did
@EBTcraft15 Not really. Protoss don't "die" like humans do. They instead come one with the Khala, energy that gives them their psionic powers, and lose all sense of individuality completly. Thats why dark templars resisted them in the first place, since powers of the Khala come with cost of individuality, and they draw from the void, which allows them retain that individuality. That's why Tassadar could return, since he knew how to use the void, without losing himself to Khala.
@Ruosteinenknight When protoss die, their mind also dies with them, only their residual psionic energy merges back within the Khala! Also doesn't the Void represent the energy that the Dark Templar have to extract directly from the enviromment since they cannot acces the communal psionic channel (Khala) and the silence that comes with severing the nerve apendages and cutting themselves off from the Khala. Thus i ask how did he use the "Void" to come back....as "plot insolation"?
@EBTcraft15 Protoss themselves at least believe that they completely merge with the khala, with mind included. "The Khala awaits me, you're stain within the khala." and so on. Whether they actually do, that's another question where I have not gotten answer. Then getting back from the death...well I only know that one has done it. "Voice in the Darkness". It was some kind of creature what was imprisoned by Xel'naga and had complete control of the void.
@EBTcraft15 "Voice of darkness" seems to be nigh immortal. It was destroyed with a explosion that bended space time. It wasn't enough to kill it, if anything it sent it to "In-Between Place" where from it taunted remaining Protoss fleet...despite that it had said that explosion would kill it.
Of course this is speculation. Frankly, I'm not even sure that is Tassadar, perhaps somebody who pretends to be him? Perhaps the vision is some kind of trick? Everything seems to be possible.
@Ruosteinenknight I would love for Tassadar to be an illusion, tricking everyone with this prophecy (and new human kerrigan backstabbing everyone and clawing her way to power....again).
@EBTcraft15 Reason why suspect about is that Tassadar isn't the first who died using the void and the khala combined. Adun was the first and Dark templars believe Adun would return one day to save the protoss. But he hasn't come back yet, even if Aiur was devastated.
I really would like to know what he's waiting for:D He must really demanding person, if that can't motivate him to hurry.
@Ruosteinenknight Couldn't they just drop the "prophecy" bullshit anyway. SC and BW already played out the scene with Duran, the hybrids and Kerrigan winning over everyone and all that without the need for a prophecy, making Tassadar Jesus, alien artifacts, Dark One, Overminds logic defying gamble with Kerrigan becoming semihuman thus unable to be controlled, Raynor seeing Kerrigan as a damsell in distress and brooding when in SC1 he is finished with her and sees that she's just a bitch, etc.
@EBTcraft15 Christopher Vincent "Thundergod" Metzen who's blizzard's vice president of creative direction, can probably answer to that. when it comest to anything related to stracraft lore, he's the one in charge and accepts all the storylines and such. I reckon he has something really surprising in store for us all...don't know if it's a pleasant surprise, though. At least WoL did end well...kind of. If you don't count that Tychus got killed. That's was a shame.
@Ruosteinenknight Considering Christopher Vincent "Thundergod" (lol at the nickname) Metzen managed to fuck up the warcraft lore in WOW prettty much and a bunch of the starcraft lore (zeratul doesn't remember Duran or the hybrids), i don't have any hopes for starcraft. As for the ending, Tychus betrayal and death was expected from the intro of the game when "Mengsk" frees him, but i was more appauled by the entire Raynor and Kerrigan going into the sunset scene...teenage drama happy ending.
@EBTcraft15 Well, he created the lore, it's his business what he intends to do with it, that's artists freedom. I don't actually get why people think that Zeratul "Doesn't remember the hybrids" and "Duran is the mastermind of all." Duran actually said in brood war that he was "a servant of far greater power" effectively saying that he isn't pulling the strings. He asked in this vid who had programmed overmind to destroy the protoss.
@Ruosteinenknight 1: not "servant" but acting for a greater power (which happens to be this Dark Voice....the typical "i'm evil and want to destroy the universe" villain. Oh ....were are you Overmind and Kerrigan, at least you had a better motivation than this)
2: because in the second mission he reacts to the hybrid as he hasn't ever seen one or at least even mentions Duran or the Hybrid facility from the "Dark Origin" mission, maybe?
Maybe I'm forgetting something, but where does it suggest Zeratul forgot about the Hybrids+Duran?
And even then, "Dark Origins" was a BONUS mission. It was meant to get us thinking and see the future of the Starcraft series a bit.
The end scene... Was a bit lame, I'll give you that. But its still FAR from a "happy ending". Kerrigan is back, but Tychus is dead and Arcturus still needs to be taken care of. Plus everyone will be out for Kerrigan for a bit, due to what she had done in the past.
@Keep701 1: Mission before jesus Tassadar, when he looks for the preservers and qouting"a zerg, protoss hybrid! Gods! An abomination! Who created this monstrosity?"
2: a bonus mission that everyone knew about, was canon to the story
3: Tychus could have been saved (it's not like Raynor was getting hints from everyone....jesus how much of an idiot to be to not get it) and Kerrigans execution would be satifying if it wasn't for the prophecy and doomsday!
@EBTcraft15 Duran is not the only one creating hybrids. Before Zeratul left his seclusion (He didn't confess that in truth he had cut himself off from all contacts and stayed in far away world for three years, and only wandered about a year) that one of his old enemies, Dark Archon Ulrejaz had resurfaced and was creating hybdrids of his own on Aiur. That's the same guy who also "created" the Tal'darim by giving them sundrop drug, and blinding them to khala.
@EBTcraft15 Zeratul probably thought even that Duran, what ever he is and even a Dark Archon can't be everywhere at once, so perhaps he wondered who was the third "Creator?" Thus far mensgk seems to be involved too, like bonus mission "Piercing the shroud" tells. Or then perhaps he wondered which of them did get to create hybrids first, since Zeratul doesn't know that Ulrejaz has been incapacitated, but not killed.
@Keep701 I rather think that they're marching to an unknown beginning. There's no telling what comes next. Perhaps Tychus rises as a zerg king or something. Besides, they did end Starcraft and Brood war into a Pyrrhic-victory scenario, so it's best not to overuse it. It wasn't that bad ending, kind of refreshing to see another kind of ending than all dying and burning around you
The ending still takes a toll on the SC universe. As I said, Tychus is dead, and Mengsk still remains on his throne, although he is losing favor rather quickly. People will want Kerrigan's head, and the Protoss must still be convinced that she is not the true enemy.
@EBTcraft15 By the way, I didn't make up that theory of entering the Khala. It was viewed in novel "Starcraft: dark templar saga." I know, it's pretty damn annoying that they evolve the story in books and then when you play the game without reading them, you're completely dumbstruck. Chris Metzen trusted bit too much in the fact that we all had read those book trough before playing starcraft 2:)
@Ruosteinenknight oh come on! Did they really have to go the "Halo" way, having to read the novels, comics an promotional toilet paper to get all the nuances and ideeas behind the story of the game?
@EBTcraft15 Some of the books were written so late as 2001 and 2002, and they didn't know there would be starcraft 2, so they are purely "Nice to know, but not need to know"-basis. The dark templar saga, however is the most elaborate description of everything. They even tell what's Xel Naga's ultimate motive of uplifting the species, and that even protoss do drugs:) But i too would've liked if they had explained that all in sequel games, rather than books and comics.
@Ruosteinenknight Xel Naga's ultimate motive of "uplifting' alien species wasn't to practice with their genetics in order to create the perfect beings?
@EBTcraft15 No. It's about survival...guided by enlightened views. Xel'Nagas have a long life span, longer than protoss, but they aren't immortal. And they can't reproduce. When their lifespans reach their end, they seek two races, one with the "Purity of form" and one with the "Purity of essence." When that is done they bring those species together naturally and peacefully, and in that case they merge and Xel'naga will be reborn.
@Ruosteinenknight Wait a second...they merge them for what? to infuse these new creatures with their minds like the Asgards from Stargate Sg1 to gain a pseudo immortallity by this body transfer?
@EBTcraft15 That isn't said. I only know that it's done naturally and peacefully, by introducing two species together, and that they don't kill species extinct. And hybrids aren't the supposed result, as there is no genetic engineering involved and all the mutations should be natural instead of controlled lab environment. For some reason Dark voice has sabotaged the whole thing guiding the zerg to destroy the protoss and Overmind didn't know why.
@Ruosteinenknight 1: by just what you said there (with peace and all) it means they contradict the lore of the originals, the entire thing about Xel'naga being scientists perfecting their protogenics by EXPERIMENTING on the protoss (failed) and the zerg (succeded but got consumed by the Overmind) pretty much being in the manual. It's simple, focused and way more interesting than this convoluted confusion.
2: so my question still stands: what was the end goal of the Xel'Naga?
En Taro Tassadar, en taro Starcraft... you died so young :( and your story about the Earth, the VED, XelNaga, Tassadar, Zeratul, Duran etc. ... will never reach us...
NisTV 1 week ago
not going to lie, when i saw tassadar in SC2 it gave me chills. it does dissapoint me tho thats its not the same voice acter
epyon542 3 weeks ago
how do you unlock this?
Musiqking06 3 weeks ago
I must disagree friends. I think that StarCraft has only gotten better.
As an aside note: I think the fact that Tassadar used the power of the Khala and the Void during the final battle was the reason behind his transcendence.
"Never tasted death"? Then I must wonder what the afterlife is like for the Protoss.
NicholasGeschke 1 month ago
I like how the Stalkers and Colossi are just chilling back there.
certainlymaybe 1 month ago
It's worf! (Michael_Dorn)
zenithian13 2 months ago
Tassadar has so charming voice that I could become gay for him!
klakier19901 2 months ago
1:33
Massive Zerg orgy brothel going on there.
ThePantherVision 3 months ago
"The end of all things"?
Wouldn't it be a lot better if he said "the Armageddon of all" or "The apocalypse of life" or "the Harbinger of Doom"or "The destruction of all existence"
herozhunter 4 months ago
Zeratul's voice is so bad. Why did the old actor have to die? And god, Tassadar's is even worse.. -_-
2:46 -- Worst part of this entire trainwreck of a cutscene. "NOO!! THIS VISION!!! I CANNOT BEAR ITTT! STOPP!!!!"
Dem0nS1ayer 5 months ago
This is, quite honestly, the worst butchering of past lore this generation has ever seen. Yes, even worse than what World of WarCraft did to WarCraft I-III.
Pr0nogo 5 months ago
And this is how Starcraft is ruined.
xlucidx 6 months ago
@xlucidx Ruined? How?
timemonkey 5 months ago
are they going to cybertron!?
shotstar24 6 months ago
Michael Dorn (Worf) is Tassadar's voice actor :)
pierreo33 6 months ago
Um, I have never tasted death, CAPTAIN!
goherd3112 7 months ago
Tassadar is Worf from star trek! :D
jokzzor 7 months ago
Did anyone notice that the planet the zerg are going towards at 2:18 is Korhal? Just throwing that out there
Nemesis2815 7 months ago
@Nemesis2815 how do u know its korhal
FrostyLedeni 6 months ago
I wonder how overlords move around the Universe going 10 miles a fuckin hour
EazySPM 8 months ago
@EazySPM did you play sc1? there you can clearly see the zerg moved en mass through worm holes
kreliann 8 months ago
@kreliann lol oh, I didnt play sc1
EazySPM 8 months ago
@EazySPM :D yup
thewaysh 5 months ago
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@EazySPM the better question is why the fuck are the muta's flapping their wings in outter space when there isn't even air
lighangel 2 months ago
I was just waiting for the sentence: The Dark Voice is...without honor.
Got to love Worf
Sememon 8 months ago
@SaberOtaku His voice changed :/ like wtf the old one was the best. Tassadar AND zeratul
superdubman999 8 months ago
This cutscene made me throw up in my mouth a bit when I played it. Awful.
cork904 8 months ago
reddit cancer
Zizard01 9 months ago
Holy Check, I do hear Lt. Commander Worf in there somewhere
zak1zakzak 9 months ago
Tassadar played by Michael Dorn?
Fr0st1989 9 months ago
@Fr0st1989 Yep
Werlevik 9 months ago
All this talk of hybrids and this Dark Entity, and watching that "final" battle in Zeratul's sidequest missions makes me wonder what'll happen come Legacy of the Void. Guess we have to go through Heart of the Swarm first.
nepomusik 9 months ago
2:03
Madness?..
THIS IS STARCRAFT!!!!
EvilRuski 9 months ago 28
Tassadar sounds like Worf...
silicondrifter82 9 months ago
Warcraft lore and Starcraft lore are so very similar several parallels can be drawn. Tassadar is like Medivh bestowing his wisdom upon Thrall(Zeratul). And the Zerg remind me of the Orcs on Draenor. They were enslaved by demon master's(Hybrids) and forced to war against the Draenei(the other inhabitants of the world).
In Legacy of the Void it will probably end up as Terran led by Jim, Toss led by Zeratul, and Zerg by Kerrigan to destroy the Xel'Naga(Burning Legion).
Spondoo 10 months ago
The death of the Overmind was very good and very bad.
Good because it meant Kerrigan could take full control of the Swarm. It also stopped the Zerg's plans to assimilate the Protoss.
Bad because the swarm went insane without the control of the Overmind - essentially reverting into mindless monsters, destroying everything in their path.
NicholasGeschke 10 months ago
tassadar = beast forever even more bad ass then chuck norris
Captaincrab77 10 months ago 2
@Captaincrab77 Omg,watch your back buddy,Chuck is probably on the way to kill you for your blasphemy
MostazalsLord 10 months ago
That was awful dialogue.
tjbyrum1 10 months ago
@tjbyrum1 I was wondering if i am the only one to notice it. I sounds like bad fanfic written by a 13-years old...
Alendit 10 months ago
Damn the protoss speak so wisely and COOL!!!
ElCapo696 10 months ago
@ElCapo696 Indeed buddy,indeed
MostazalsLord 10 months ago
So Tassadar regrets calling the Overmind a foe that has ravaged its way across the universe consuming all in its path.
MegaClam1 10 months ago
@MegaClam1 not exactly
MostazalsLord 10 months ago
When people bitch about Starcraft 2 it's hard to take them seriously because most of them are just blinded by nostalgia and butcher Starcraft 2 for minor nitpicks.
The thing about making the Zerg not so evil I don't mind because if they stayed evil the next expansion would just be Zerg-rushing Terrans like it was in Starcraft 1. If you want to do that stuff just use the map-editor.
Purpleisawesome93 10 months ago
This scene didn't happen to me, I just... wow gtd dustin
userstupidname 10 months ago
@nxvznx Wow, rage much?
LaigledeMeaux 10 months ago
Tassadar has become one with the Force.
JForcE777 11 months ago 18
Tassadar: I never die bro, Ill tell you all about it later.
TheFivegoodemperors 11 months ago
Tassadar: Its cool bro, I never die but ill tell you how later
TheFivegoodemperors 11 months ago
Anyone else know that Michael Dorn, aka Worf from Star Trek TNG, Is the voice for Tassadar in Starcraft 2?! Awesome cross over!!
DCdabest 11 months ago
Anyone else notice that Tassadar and the dark voice have basically the same voice? D-8
kdwormy 11 months ago
2:03 Madness......Madness ?? THIS IS STARCRAFT xD !!!
LABAN1991 11 months ago
They're doing the same thing they did with Orcs in Warcraft 3. I didn't mind Orcs being noble and all that but with Zergs, I just like them evil.
Anyways Tassadar and Overmind seems to be getting along well in death.
njahmoon89 11 months ago 2
Who agrees with me, are zerg not evil? just a misunderstood race? the overmind was the father of the zerg, am i right? some one answer!
komun1212 11 months ago
@komun1212 They ain't, it's just that asshole called Dark voice which controlled the overmind and attacked the entire galaxy
ATGOD2 11 months ago
@komun1212 late reply, but yes the zerg was never evil, it was just a different form of perfection that the zel naga wanted that the protoss never had. Adaptation. Anyways the zerg are smart and very much to themselves till the dark voice decided to jack around with the zerg and make them monsters. I mean if you look at the original starcraft book that came out with the first game, most of the strains that were picked up by the zerg were innocent plant eating creatures. take the Hydralisk for ie
PhantomGuyver 10 months ago
@PhantomGuyver But isnt it kinda evil to force spieces into the zerg swarm via infestation? :P
Hatchatfatbat 9 months ago
@Hatchatfatbat but the species wasn't killed, the zerg were and have started out as larvae. It was the need to want to do more that they attached to the hosts live parasites. It was only after they they realized that they if they needed to they could take dna and mutate their own bodies. That's my understanding of it that I read.
PhantomGuyver 9 months ago
@Anek303 Indeed, still they can talk without having a mouth, but it seems to be harder...
nighteyes360 11 months ago
"I sense... an end..."
No shit Sherlock.
lol Zera is awesome tho :D
KMSigler 1 year ago
worf \0/
matheus330 1 year ago
man i hate bitches that complain all the time about the follow up games when gta iv was about to relese all were like dying to play it now ppl who were the biggest fans dissing it same in sc 2 to remind you that since 2007 u cried and just wanted to play it? so shut the fuck up and stop bitchin dont like it? then dont play it simple as that!!!!!!
shadymary1 1 year ago
@shadymary1
okkkk......so anger management?
WetWilly9 1 year ago
I hope they explain more in other 2 parts of starcraft 2 what tassadar means that he didnt die.
DarkVextra 1 year ago
The overmind has a X Box sign on it :D
CrazyMarauder 1 year ago
The death of the Overmind was very good, and very bad- on one hand, it decapitated the Zerg and left them without a leader for quite a while, eventually opening the way for Kerrigan to prevent the end of the universe. On the other, it meant that the Zerg blindly rampaged across Aiur- destroying everything in their path and slaughtering each other and the Protoss indiscriminately.
NicholasGeschke 1 year ago
Back in 2009, I was shocked to find out that Tassadar was still alive. Supposedly he crossed over to another plane of existence but no one knows for sure. There's a connection between Tassadar's disappearance and Adun's who went out the same exact way. There's supposedly some legend predicting Adun's return or was it Tassadar's.
chicagoboy888 1 year ago
@chicagoboy888
He speaks from 'the Beyond'. Some kind of heaven or afterlife, I imagine.
OWADesign 1 year ago
@chicagoboy888
Adun's return according to Starcraft Wiki
MegaClam1 8 months ago
lol zeratul has 69 kills
xmentheboy 1 year ago
why did they get this fatso to voice over good old ZERATUL. He ruined his character..
0zzy07 1 year ago
@0zzy07 well the original voice actor for zeratul died:(
TommyRyan90 1 year ago
awww how sad :( the overmind was just a misunderstood giant monster like godzilla or Lisa Lampaneli and also TASSADARS RULES!!!!!
vladmcjagger 1 year ago
zerg were ordered to destroy protoss civ and assimilate them into the zerg genome.
overmind resisted and created kerrigan.
duran said kerrigan's presence helped him create and seed zerg-toss hybrids
duran said zerg-toss hybrids are part of a cycle.
Was duran's mission a back-up plan to merge the zerg-toss incase the overmind aiur assault failed? Or is he part of a different agenda?
Maybe the ancients aren't unified, and are infighting like humans.
meemoeuk 1 year ago
zeratul doesn't have a voice, protoss don't have mouths. They use voice synthesizers like Stephen Hawking ( notice lights on zealots necks as there synths work ). Seems you haven't unlocked the secret level where Zeratul busts his old voice synthesizer and has to kill Stephen to get a new one.
meemoeuk 1 year ago 2
@meemoeuk >.> They are telepathics >.>
StarcraftSzierra 1 year ago
1:06 Zerg Xbox
TheRaViJdS0ul 1 year ago
Tassadar: The overmind was merely a setback!
ulzeraj 1 year ago
"Remember, Zeratul...always speak with...dramatic...pauses!"
artman40 1 year ago 4
2:01
Zeratul "Madness"
Tassadar "THIS....IS.... AIUR"
trumsu915 1 year ago
2:42 .... that planet looks familiar .....
Vanhyo 1 year ago
*Overlords floating to earth*
"NO! THIS VISION!.... I CANT BEAR IT!"
Overlords: :(
warlerker 1 year ago 2
People think about this: Tassadar knew how to combine the kight and dark energies of the protoss, so when he charged the Ganthritor with them he changed himself, becoming something like an archon or a new being of pure psy energy. Does that make sence??? + if this is close to why he lives i think we'll see more of him versus the hybrids in the Legacy of the Void.
phoenix8801 1 year ago
This doesn't exactly explain how the Overmind could have created the Queen of Blades for the purpose of freeing the Zerg if it was still compelled by it's directive to consume everything.
AbyssalZones 1 year ago
@AbyssalZones
The things he said when Kerrigan hatched can explain it. Technically, creating an agent powerful enough to control the swarm, but possessing free will does not go against the directive. And since Kerrigan is still under his control as long as he lives, it's like creating a new superweapon. Unfortunately, the Overmind left for Aiur to die, Kerrigan was set free, and noone can blame him, since he's already KIA.
BTIsaac 1 year ago
Stalker: So, is Zeratul talking to the air, or something?
Collosus: BOOPBEEP BEEPBEEPBOOP BOOP BEEPBEEPBEEP
Stalker: Yea, I think so too.
snrabu 1 year ago 70
@snrabu
xD
So true xDDD
MercenaryZack 1 year ago
@snrabu :DD
TheMultiRaude 10 months ago
@snrabu hahaha, you made me laugh at 3:00 am !!! xDDD
HalBDeU 9 months ago
I'm sorry but when I saw that tassadar was still alive I pretty much threw my hands in the air and shouted: WWHHHYYYYYYYYYY? Now his noble sacrifice means nothing. But I would still like to see if those crafty Zerg are going to create another Overmind. Now THAT would make heart of the swarm worth playing just for the mission briefings alone. BTW... zeratul's voice actor died a while ago, so somebody had to replace him...
Enkarashaddam 1 year ago
and what did tassadar mean of "I HAVE NEVER TASTED DEATH ZERATUL NOR SHALL I"?
lionhartish 1 year ago
the overmind was merely a predictor right?
lionhartish 1 year ago
@Dusto22. When templars die they become archons. Get it?
191O42447 1 year ago
@191O42447 Incorrect sir though close, 2 Templars combine to form 1 archon sacrificing themselves to form something greater. If all Templars became archons then everybody that played protoss would go mass templars every time. Tassadar is an exception, he may not even be an archon but something similar, he learned to combine light and dark energies, that could have been the reason he was able to survive, maybe he transcended into a being a pure energy similar to that of an archon.
LaigledeMeaux 10 months ago
When I first saw Tassadar I was stunned. I was totally convinced that he was dead.
Dusto22 1 year ago
Is tassadar some kind of archon?
TheSoulSilv3r 1 year ago
They FUCKED UP and replaced the voice actor. I hate you with a passion Blizzard. You have ruined my enjoyment of the Starcraft universe with your wanton replacement of voice actors. Fuck you and your overwhelming incompetence.
tikalal 1 year ago
@tikalal Hothead. Zeratul's voice actor died in 2002.
Doncroft1 1 year ago
@Doncroft1 Talking about Tassadar, sorry.
tikalal 1 year ago
@tikalal Lol. I understand... Tassadar's old voice was better :)
...by far...
Cubalisk 1 year ago
Zeratul: "I DO NOT UNDERSTAND"
Understatement of the millenium, Zeratul. And trust me, we're all with you on this one. Personally, I think Blizzard is f***ing up, big-time.
PadraikKasier 1 year ago
"You speak of knowledge, Judicator? You speak of experience? I have journeyed through the darkness between the most distant stars. I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities... Unto my experience, Aldaris, all that you've built here on Aiur is but a fleeting dream. A dream from which your precious Conclave shall awaken, finding themselves drowned in a greater nightmare."
Anyone miss this epic, universal quote?
FullmetalLakers824 1 year ago 71
@FullmetalLakers824 Definitely my favorite quite from SC1.
Were you like me and totally disappointed by the Protoss dialogue in SC2 in addition to not using the original voice actors which were more unique. I miss those voices.
The dialogue here as a WC3 ring to it.
jessc1979 1 year ago 2
@jessc1979 indeed.who wrote these dialogues is NOT the same person from the 1st game.
miss those epic quotes :(
don't know about tassadar's voice but the actor of zeratul's voice in SC1 died before the make of tis game.sad :(
bananaempijama 1 year ago
@bananaempijama Tassadar's voice this time is done by Michael Dorn (Worf from Star Trek TNG).
jessc1979 1 year ago
@jessc1979 aw that's so wrong.why they didn't use the same actor?his voice was so much better
bananaempijama 1 year ago
@bananaempijama No arguments here. I can't remember where I read this, but Blizzard simply chose to go with another actor.
Damn, I hope the outrage against the retcon, voice acting and dialogue is so big that Blizzard corrects it when they release 'Heart of the Swarm'.
jessc1979 1 year ago
@jessc1979 me too cuz i think blizzard is paying to much attention to wow and other games and starcraft is getting worse
bananaempijama 1 year ago
@jessc1979 all the dv did was force them on a collision course with the protoss. considering that the protoss are incompatible (their cojmmmubiustic higvemind is utterly antithetical to the zerg hivemind) they really should never have qualified even if they weren't immune. Hence why the dv makes sense. blizz confirmed that the zerg will still be badass.
pirateking193 1 year ago
@jessc1979 How stupid are you? There are pretty much no retcons at all, and the voice acting and dialogue is brilliant.
OWADesign 1 year ago
@OWADesign Not stupid enough to not realize that there are no retcons and that the voice acting and dialogue is brilliant. Now *that's* stupid.
jessc1979 1 year ago
@bananaempijama dorn is epicer
pirateking193 1 year ago
@FullmetalLakers824 fire and fury is quite good too. as is anything tychus says
pirateking193 1 year ago
@FullmetalLakers824 Do you have a video for that? Would be good to see that together with this to really show how the dialog in Starcraft 2 has been so dumbed down.
kadaveri 11 months ago
@FullmetalLakers824
now that you remind me that it puts me into rage all over again because of this
"blah blah blah ...I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities... Unto my experience, Aldaris, all that you've built here on Aiur is but a fleeting dream. [THE VOICE ACTER SWALLOW IS SALIVA IN THAT PART] A dream from which your precious Conclave shall awaken, finding themselves drowned in a greater nightmare."
cant unsee after that
emperror333 11 months ago
@FullmetalLakers824 i also miss his voice instead they got a new guy.
superdubman999 10 months ago
TASSSADAAARRRR
hoboreclaimer 1 year ago
This is the worst scene... I mean, it's freaking TASSADAR!!! terrible dialogue, terrible timing, terrible, terrible damage.
KodierungHerz 1 year ago
@KodierungHerz Are you a fucking idiot? I am a starcraft 1 veteran and a loyal fanboy, i see NOTHING wrong with this scene at all. Grow up and stop hating on Blizzard because you are butthurt that something didn't go your way. Fucking idiot.
Dallishar 1 year ago
@Dallishar Stop loving everything Blizzard sells you no matter what. If you see nothing wrong in the way Zeratul talks, the stupid retcon, the dialogue, the timing and so on, then you, my friend, should stop sucking blizzard's balls for just a second and pay a little attention and realize something's terribly wrong.
"a loyal fanboy" oh yes, yes you are. Nothing but a cocksucking fanboy, shame on you.
FUCK YOU. And happy holidays!
KodierungHerz 1 year ago
@KodierungHerz I am in NO way a fanboy. I think diablo 3 sucks, and they ruined Wow completely, if you think i am a blizzard fan boy then you have another thing coming buddy. I see NOTHING wrong with starcraft 2, there are minor things that i dislike but that's about it. Nothing worth talking shit on the internet about. Grow a pair pal.
Dallishar 1 year ago
@Dallishar First YOU call yourself a "loyal fanboy", then you say you're not. You think Diablo 3 sucks, when you haven't even play it yet, and then, you see nothing wrong with SC2??? Grow a brain, TROLL. I'm not feeding you again.
KodierungHerz 1 year ago
@KodierungHerz By loyal fanboy i meant i am loyal to the starcraft series, meaning i will always play them. Also, i think you're the one trolling. Grow a pair.
Dallishar 1 year ago
whos higher or something greater Adun or Tassadar
sheshahari 1 year ago
@sheshahari if its for saving the Nerazim(dark templar), Adun
for defeating the overmind, its Tassadar
mstrblik 1 year ago
@mstrblik well whats mor important saving nerazim the dark templar or deefeeating the overmind, and i guess overmind is in their planet and of cors so their planet is important so its tassadar now i understand
sheshahari 1 year ago
"But you died slaying this cursed Overmind!"
WTF...Blizzard, why did you have to ruin one of the BEST video game characters of all-time? Why must you put a disgrace on Zeratul by doing this? Why? Why?!!
FullmetalLakers824 1 year ago
lucky this video was here, I accidently skipped it
Keleus 1 year ago
Awaken my child, and embrace the
glory that is your birthright. Know
that I am the Overmind; the eternal
will of the Swarm, and that you
have been created to serve me.
morag815 1 year ago
Wow, I was told that the SC2 story was bad, but I had no idea it was this bad. Way to destroy Sc1's lore Blizz.
morag815 1 year ago
wut
Explain how its bad.
Keep701 1 year ago
@Keep701 Shall I start with the neutered overmind, neutered Kerrigan or paranormal activity Tassadar?
morag815 1 year ago
Hmm...
I'm not sure how the Overmind is neutered, so sure, start there.
Kerrigan neutered? Lol, use words correctly please. But sure, explain whats wrong with her.
And paranormal activity Tassadar? You mean like how Fenix was preserved in the shell of a Dragoon?
Keep701 1 year ago
Michael Dorn was the voice for tassadar
MrGilles1990 1 year ago
i don't think the xel'naga expected the humans to be here
firemasterist 1 year ago
tassadar looks like one of the peservers
firemasterist 1 year ago
I think Zeratul went braindead in the last 4 years, because he can't seem to remember that DURAN CREATED THE FUCKING HYBRIDS AND CAN'T RETAIN THE IDEA THAT TASSADAR IS SPEAKING FROM "THE BEYOND"... he also has speaking problems, since it takes him like 5 minutes to say 3 words
seriously, I prefer that Zeratul gets killed in the first mission of the zerg campaign before he loses all my respect saying another stupid thing or a pathetic cliche like all the terrans did
Peace out!
bestofush 1 year ago
Michael Dorn voiced Tassadar!
brav0wing 1 year ago
The Zerg was ... altered. A single over-riding purpose was forced upon them. THE DESTRUCTION OF PORNOGRAPHY!
drnhan94 1 year ago
0:21 "i have never tasted death for" fanboys are calling me from the grave. Way to spoil Tassadar's heroic death.
EBTcraft15 1 year ago
@EBTcraft15 Not really. Protoss don't "die" like humans do. They instead come one with the Khala, energy that gives them their psionic powers, and lose all sense of individuality completly. Thats why dark templars resisted them in the first place, since powers of the Khala come with cost of individuality, and they draw from the void, which allows them retain that individuality. That's why Tassadar could return, since he knew how to use the void, without losing himself to Khala.
Ruosteinenknight 1 year ago
@Ruosteinenknight When protoss die, their mind also dies with them, only their residual psionic energy merges back within the Khala! Also doesn't the Void represent the energy that the Dark Templar have to extract directly from the enviromment since they cannot acces the communal psionic channel (Khala) and the silence that comes with severing the nerve apendages and cutting themselves off from the Khala. Thus i ask how did he use the "Void" to come back....as "plot insolation"?
EBTcraft15 1 year ago
@EBTcraft15 Protoss themselves at least believe that they completely merge with the khala, with mind included. "The Khala awaits me, you're stain within the khala." and so on. Whether they actually do, that's another question where I have not gotten answer. Then getting back from the death...well I only know that one has done it. "Voice in the Darkness". It was some kind of creature what was imprisoned by Xel'naga and had complete control of the void.
Ruosteinenknight 1 year ago
@EBTcraft15 "Voice of darkness" seems to be nigh immortal. It was destroyed with a explosion that bended space time. It wasn't enough to kill it, if anything it sent it to "In-Between Place" where from it taunted remaining Protoss fleet...despite that it had said that explosion would kill it.
Of course this is speculation. Frankly, I'm not even sure that is Tassadar, perhaps somebody who pretends to be him? Perhaps the vision is some kind of trick? Everything seems to be possible.
Ruosteinenknight 1 year ago
@Ruosteinenknight I would love for Tassadar to be an illusion, tricking everyone with this prophecy (and new human kerrigan backstabbing everyone and clawing her way to power....again).
EBTcraft15 1 year ago
@EBTcraft15 Reason why suspect about is that Tassadar isn't the first who died using the void and the khala combined. Adun was the first and Dark templars believe Adun would return one day to save the protoss. But he hasn't come back yet, even if Aiur was devastated.
I really would like to know what he's waiting for:D He must really demanding person, if that can't motivate him to hurry.
Ruosteinenknight 1 year ago
@Ruosteinenknight Couldn't they just drop the "prophecy" bullshit anyway. SC and BW already played out the scene with Duran, the hybrids and Kerrigan winning over everyone and all that without the need for a prophecy, making Tassadar Jesus, alien artifacts, Dark One, Overminds logic defying gamble with Kerrigan becoming semihuman thus unable to be controlled, Raynor seeing Kerrigan as a damsell in distress and brooding when in SC1 he is finished with her and sees that she's just a bitch, etc.
EBTcraft15 1 year ago
@EBTcraft15 Christopher Vincent "Thundergod" Metzen who's blizzard's vice president of creative direction, can probably answer to that. when it comest to anything related to stracraft lore, he's the one in charge and accepts all the storylines and such. I reckon he has something really surprising in store for us all...don't know if it's a pleasant surprise, though. At least WoL did end well...kind of. If you don't count that Tychus got killed. That's was a shame.
Ruosteinenknight 1 year ago
@Ruosteinenknight Considering Christopher Vincent "Thundergod" (lol at the nickname) Metzen managed to fuck up the warcraft lore in WOW prettty much and a bunch of the starcraft lore (zeratul doesn't remember Duran or the hybrids), i don't have any hopes for starcraft. As for the ending, Tychus betrayal and death was expected from the intro of the game when "Mengsk" frees him, but i was more appauled by the entire Raynor and Kerrigan going into the sunset scene...teenage drama happy ending.
EBTcraft15 1 year ago
@EBTcraft15 Well, he created the lore, it's his business what he intends to do with it, that's artists freedom. I don't actually get why people think that Zeratul "Doesn't remember the hybrids" and "Duran is the mastermind of all." Duran actually said in brood war that he was "a servant of far greater power" effectively saying that he isn't pulling the strings. He asked in this vid who had programmed overmind to destroy the protoss.
Ruosteinenknight 1 year ago
@Ruosteinenknight 1: not "servant" but acting for a greater power (which happens to be this Dark Voice....the typical "i'm evil and want to destroy the universe" villain. Oh ....were are you Overmind and Kerrigan, at least you had a better motivation than this)
2: because in the second mission he reacts to the hybrid as he hasn't ever seen one or at least even mentions Duran or the Hybrid facility from the "Dark Origin" mission, maybe?
EBTcraft15 1 year ago
@EBTcraft15 I'm right there with you dude. Hoping (but still pessimistic) for a storyline redemption in the next game.
MysticLegend2 1 year ago
Maybe I'm forgetting something, but where does it suggest Zeratul forgot about the Hybrids+Duran?
And even then, "Dark Origins" was a BONUS mission. It was meant to get us thinking and see the future of the Starcraft series a bit.
The end scene... Was a bit lame, I'll give you that. But its still FAR from a "happy ending". Kerrigan is back, but Tychus is dead and Arcturus still needs to be taken care of. Plus everyone will be out for Kerrigan for a bit, due to what she had done in the past.
Keep701 1 year ago
@Keep701 1: Mission before jesus Tassadar, when he looks for the preservers and qouting"a zerg, protoss hybrid! Gods! An abomination! Who created this monstrosity?"
2: a bonus mission that everyone knew about, was canon to the story
3: Tychus could have been saved (it's not like Raynor was getting hints from everyone....jesus how much of an idiot to be to not get it) and Kerrigans execution would be satifying if it wasn't for the prophecy and doomsday!
EBTcraft15 1 year ago
@EBTcraft15 Duran is not the only one creating hybrids. Before Zeratul left his seclusion (He didn't confess that in truth he had cut himself off from all contacts and stayed in far away world for three years, and only wandered about a year) that one of his old enemies, Dark Archon Ulrejaz had resurfaced and was creating hybdrids of his own on Aiur. That's the same guy who also "created" the Tal'darim by giving them sundrop drug, and blinding them to khala.
Ruosteinenknight 1 year ago
@Ruosteinenknight as, i said earlier teh story becomes terribly convoluted and clusterfucky as hell!
EBTcraft15 1 year ago
@EBTcraft15 Zeratul probably thought even that Duran, what ever he is and even a Dark Archon can't be everywhere at once, so perhaps he wondered who was the third "Creator?" Thus far mensgk seems to be involved too, like bonus mission "Piercing the shroud" tells. Or then perhaps he wondered which of them did get to create hybrids first, since Zeratul doesn't know that Ulrejaz has been incapacitated, but not killed.
Ruosteinenknight 1 year ago
@Keep701 I rather think that they're marching to an unknown beginning. There's no telling what comes next. Perhaps Tychus rises as a zerg king or something. Besides, they did end Starcraft and Brood war into a Pyrrhic-victory scenario, so it's best not to overuse it. It wasn't that bad ending, kind of refreshing to see another kind of ending than all dying and burning around you
Ruosteinenknight 1 year ago
The ending still takes a toll on the SC universe. As I said, Tychus is dead, and Mengsk still remains on his throne, although he is losing favor rather quickly. People will want Kerrigan's head, and the Protoss must still be convinced that she is not the true enemy.
Keep701 1 year ago
@EBTcraft15 By the way, I didn't make up that theory of entering the Khala. It was viewed in novel "Starcraft: dark templar saga." I know, it's pretty damn annoying that they evolve the story in books and then when you play the game without reading them, you're completely dumbstruck. Chris Metzen trusted bit too much in the fact that we all had read those book trough before playing starcraft 2:)
Ruosteinenknight 1 year ago
@Ruosteinenknight oh come on! Did they really have to go the "Halo" way, having to read the novels, comics an promotional toilet paper to get all the nuances and ideeas behind the story of the game?
EBTcraft15 1 year ago
@EBTcraft15 Some of the books were written so late as 2001 and 2002, and they didn't know there would be starcraft 2, so they are purely "Nice to know, but not need to know"-basis. The dark templar saga, however is the most elaborate description of everything. They even tell what's Xel Naga's ultimate motive of uplifting the species, and that even protoss do drugs:) But i too would've liked if they had explained that all in sequel games, rather than books and comics.
Ruosteinenknight 1 year ago
@Ruosteinenknight Xel Naga's ultimate motive of "uplifting' alien species wasn't to practice with their genetics in order to create the perfect beings?
EBTcraft15 1 year ago
@EBTcraft15 No. It's about survival...guided by enlightened views. Xel'Nagas have a long life span, longer than protoss, but they aren't immortal. And they can't reproduce. When their lifespans reach their end, they seek two races, one with the "Purity of form" and one with the "Purity of essence." When that is done they bring those species together naturally and peacefully, and in that case they merge and Xel'naga will be reborn.
Ruosteinenknight 1 year ago
@Ruosteinenknight Wait a second...they merge them for what? to infuse these new creatures with their minds like the Asgards from Stargate Sg1 to gain a pseudo immortallity by this body transfer?
EBTcraft15 1 year ago
@EBTcraft15 That isn't said. I only know that it's done naturally and peacefully, by introducing two species together, and that they don't kill species extinct. And hybrids aren't the supposed result, as there is no genetic engineering involved and all the mutations should be natural instead of controlled lab environment. For some reason Dark voice has sabotaged the whole thing guiding the zerg to destroy the protoss and Overmind didn't know why.
Ruosteinenknight 1 year ago
@Ruosteinenknight 1: by just what you said there (with peace and all) it means they contradict the lore of the originals, the entire thing about Xel'naga being scientists perfecting their protogenics by EXPERIMENTING on the protoss (failed) and the zerg (succeded but got consumed by the Overmind) pretty much being in the manual. It's simple, focused and way more interesting than this convoluted confusion.
2: so my question still stands: what was the end goal of the Xel'Naga?
EBTcraft15 1 year ago
@EBTcraft15 "She revealed that though extremely long-lived, the xel'naga are not immortal and do not breed. At the end of