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When I saw the cutscene where Raynor is freed from the prison ship I wondered "hey I think it's weird they kept in the same clothes and he kept his smokes"

About a day later it also occured to me he had his pistol. With 6 bullets in it. With his hands unbound. ON A PRISON SHIP.

I mean ignoring the fact it's monstrously retarded to keep him alive at all, who the **** leaves him his ******* handgun. that's just pants on hand ******* mental.

Also, Blizzard ******* sucks at creating villains. The entire point of a villain is to create someone that threatens the protagonist so that we can appreciate the suffering they go through and feel inspired to also dislike them. They are also required to actually do things that pose a genuine threat. Take Darth Vader, he brutally chokes people (even on his own side), he kills likeable wise Obi Wan right in front of his son (well we don't know he's his son yet, but Vader knows dammit) and is complicit in the use and maintenance of a machine which destroys entire planets. He is completely without mercy or remorse or any virtue at all. Plus he looks and sounds scary and menacing. That's villainy one oh ******* one right there.

Mengsk doesn't have these qualities. The closest he gets on getting a win over kerrigan is by pretending he killed Raynor. Which is ******* stupid. Raynor should of been killed off in a dramatic fashion. The simplest (and perhaps most cliche'd but I'm not a professional writer so bear with me here) would be to have a scene near the start where Kerrigan and Raynor go through some wacky death defying escape from the Dominion, Raynor lags behind a bit and just before he catches up you cut to a shot of Mengsk ordering someone or hitting a button and BOOM Raynor just gets blown away right in front of Kerrigan.

See? Now imagine if we actually liked Raynor. We'd be ******* pissed! We'd want to go through this story to get our cathartic ending where Mengsk gets his face zapped and we'd enjoy it more, perhaps.

Oh I suppose the actual closest mengsk gets to being a danger to kerrigan is his weird unexplained lightning device (**** was with that anyway?!). It did feel extremely Emperor Palpatine but eh w/e. Then Raynor runs in 'unexpectedly' and saves her. Which was undramatic because we already knew Raynor forgave Kerrigan for going back to being Zerg by appearing in that final level to begin with. If it had seemed like Raynor had completely given up on Kerrigan earlier and THEN he shows up to save her that could conceivably be dramatic. Imagine the difference between Han Solo coming back when he does in A New Hope and an alternative version where Han decides he actually does decide he cares about the Rebellion and his new friends after all and agrees to help blow up the Death Star and flies out with all of them. One of those is surprising and dramatic. The other is a Blizzard plot.

Argh so much stupid in the writing for this game. I dunno whose responsible for this (if it's Metzen just stick to voice acting mate) but I wish they'd get someone better.

Quick Comments

	ROOTPetraeus:	i liked the story :(
	SanG:	u also want spook in a cage, pet
	FlashDrakE:	+1
	Reere:	^
	PiG:	+2