Everyone else was dancing on clearly-visible puppet strings, and the writing staff weren't manipulating them artfully. Tychus was probably the only solid, believable character in WoL. Especially them!īlizzard's most popular characters are basically being dragged through their stories like props now. And yes, that can even apply to horrible arch-demons from hell. There's not enough attention to smaller, humanizing details. You need to look back to the gay-love-confession cutscene from SC or Baal hamming it up at the end of D2/beginning of LoD to understand what's gone missing. They definitely lost a few tricks from the bag over the years. How does this happen? How does a company decide to spend so much time and money developing beautiful cutscenes for a story that's so bad? Is there any way that the industry will change and stop doing this? Even the stuff that should be simple and obvious, like giving your characters appealing faces, they got wrong. I don't think there was a single person involved with the story who had any idea how storytelling works. But Legacy of the Void is on another level of bad. Like Halo 5, which feels like a story that was probably ruined due to rewrites and corporate decisions. There have been other bad stories this year, for sure. (I know the Protoss have always talked like that, but that's the kind of audio effect you should have on a bad guy, not on characters you're supposed to care about.) And there's this horrible audio effect applied to every line of dialogue that makes the characters sound even more soulless. It's all just dramatic readings of exposition lines. The characters don't even have facial expressions. No joy, no sadness, no empathy, no drama. Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void has one of the worst stories I've ever seen. There are an endless amount of good writers out there, so how is it that big budget games keep ending up with bad stories?
I know this post is a little mean, but I think the problem of bad stories in video games needs to be discussed.
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