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Few tips and recommendations on how to clear Lost Viking achievements.Īlways, ALWAYS play while connected to Battlenet. Read our guide on how to complete Brutal Campaign.Ģ. StarCraft2CampaignMissionsandAchievementsGuide.txtġ. This guide is intended to clear up any misinformation regarding achievements and provide suggestions on the best way to unlock various achievements. I don't make any guarantees of accuracy, but if you see any inaccurate information, please post so I can correct it.Īfter beating the campaign and logging onto the forums, I noticed there have been quite a bit of confusion regarding campaign achievements, especially Liberty Completionist and HUIRN. As this is a mission mechanics guide, I don't really talk about much beyond what's listed in the achievement descriptions in-game, but still, you have been warned.ĭISCLAIMER 2: This guide is mostly comprised of what I have personally observed, with a few additions from forum threads. It’s a perfect synthesis of gameplay and story-telling that makes for a unique and powerful experience.Īnd that, my friends, is why video games are awesome.DISCLAIMER 1: This guide may contain SPOILERS. You can incinerate massive waves of enemies with the thermal lances of your robotic colossi, shatter armies with the psionic storms of the high templar, and bend time and space to your will with the Shield of Aiur mothership.Īnd yet it’s still not enough, and this hammers home the terrible, unstoppable power of the Hybrids.
And it hits so much harder than it could if In Utter Darkness was a movie or television program, because it was you who was fighting to hold back the fury of the Hybrid, struggling in vain to preserve some hope for the universe.Īll this is further reinforced by how powerful and dramatic the Protoss units are in-game. It imparts an amazing sense of hopelessness, of futility. No matter how hard you fight, no matter how brilliant a player you are, no matter what, you will be forced to watch as your best-laid plans fail and your mighty fortress is ripped apart before your very eyes. Now, you could just let the enemy win to save time, but there are achievements for holding out longer, so most people try to cling on as long as they can.īut the enemy attacks will grow progressively stronger, the light progressively dimmer, the longer the mission lasts.
They took full advantage of their medium and made the player an active participant in the end of all things. They could have just ended with a cinematic showing the end of the universe. :D)īut In Utter Darkness has a second objective, and this is where it gets brilliant: “Defend until the last Protoss falls.” In other words, the mission will not end until you are wiped out.īlizzard could have been predictable about this. (As an aside, my record is about 3,400 kills on brutal. The overall objective is “witness the coming apocalypse.” The mission invariably ends with the Protoss being defeated, but for the sake of challenge, you have to achieve a certain number of enemy kills to move on to the next mission. It is supposed to be a vision of the future in which the last survivors of the alien Protoss make their final stand against the Zerg Swarm and their Hybrid masters. In Utter Darkness is a mission in Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. But when the writing is good and combined with interesting and immersive gameplay, you get something truly special. And sometimes, such as in the Murozond example, it is.
Now, you might say this is a crutch to conceal bad writing. It’s easy to ignore minor flaws in the story - like some bad dialogue. This creates a level of immersion that no other medium can duplicate. The player is not a passive observer they’re right in the action.
It’s because I was too busy thinking, “OMG that giant ****ing Dragon is headed right for us! OMG we get to rewind time! OMG this dungeon is so awesome!”Īnd this is what makes games so interesting as a medium for story-telling.
It only occurred to me while thinking about the dungeon afterward. It is, in fact, almost embarrassingly cheesy.īut the interesting thing is that I never noticed this while running End Time. Now, this is not a good piece of dialogue by any stretch of the imagination. If you’ve played World of Warcraft recently, you no doubt recognize this quote from the new dungeon, End Time. “You crawl unwitting, like a blind, writhing worm, towards endless madness and despair!” Lately, my mind has been on some examples that excellently demonstrate these advantages. They have their disadvantages when it comes to telling a good story, yes, but they also have their own unique advantages. You may not agree, but I firmly believe that video games are an art form equal to movies, books, or any other story-telling medium.