Quick Look: StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops

Seems legit

Brad, quick!!! The Alekhine's Gun quick look has hats!!!

Man, Blizzard keeps putting Nova in stuff, from bits of Starcraft II, to Heroes of the Storm, to this mini campaign thing. Look dawg, I hate to break it to you, Blizz, but you never actually released Starcraft: Ghost, and I don't think that many people actually like Nova that much as a character.

What I'm saying is I'd much rather play the mini campaign based around Sgt. Hammer.

Think this will stop people from asking, "When will Blizzard release Starcraft: Ghost?"

No...

@drew She was in Wings of Liberty

Sculpted boob armour. Still a thing.

Edit: Holy hell that checkpoint.

I love how completely insane StarCraft has gotten.

Also the pricing seems quite high.

Brad clicks a lot.

Finally, Starcraft Ghost gets its official release!

Bring back Warcraft RTS.

also in heart of the swarm for a bit.

It's $15 for the three packs and $7.50 for one, just so you guys know :D

Oh, right... Starcraft.

Brad got the pricing wrong, it's $7.49 per pack, or $14.99 for all three.

@brad:

Oh, okay. That seems way more appropriate.

@drewbert She probably has a Saturday morning cartoon voice because she is voiced by noted Saturday morning cartoon, and video game, voice actress Grey DeLisle

@foggen: it's a thing with starcraft/RTSes to keep your actions per minute (apm) high. Maybe force of habit as i don't think brad does much multi starcraft 2 anymore.

Someone scream at me if i'm wrong, though.

@hassun: Will it ever stop?

@coffeeraygun: Never be boob-over!

@ripelivejam: Yeah, I knew what that was. Pro players seem to twiddle a lot in the beginning, presumably to wind up for the actual craziness later. I just thought it was funny that he was compulsively rapid-clicking to move a single character through a tutorial area.

Am I crazy or did it make the Metal Gear V "schwing" noise when the robo-camera's lens flare hit at the right angle?

Boy that checkpoint is pretty much examples A-Z in a lesson on bad checkpoint design.

No brad, you don't say "pwn" that's so last decade

We say rekt now.

Women still has boobs in the future.

What are those weird metal hexagons around Brad's minerals?

Snap Neck

@whatshisface: ... I don't think you got the point I was making. Functional sculpted boob armour doesn't actually exist for a reason.

ghosts cant eat

RIP Starcraft Ghost

Pretty big difference O_O When Brad said $15 for the first ~90 minute episode, I was out.

It's a very not serious sci-fi. Sometimes it goes into anime territory even. Everything is possible in those. And maybe the boob armor is not actually solid metal. So whatever.

The technical term for these non-base missions in a base-centric RTS is 'Bad'. These are Bad missions.

THE NOZZLE

@foggen: Gotta keep that APM up!

Edit: Already addressed, whoops, but I was also being slightly cynical, so that's new.

StarCraft Drew: Snap of the Neck

Oh, thank you, I was getting all up in arms about the ridicilous price until I saw your post!

Yup!

@bedurndurn said:

I'd agree with your sentiment in Warcraft 1, Warcraft 2, Starcraft 1, and Warcraft 3, but in Starcraft 2 I thought they were actually kinda fun and engaging.

@hassun: I guess you didn't play Crysis!

@edmundus: ok

Watching Brad click 50x more than necessary is sending pain down my forearms, can't watch!

@voodoopc: My PC can't handle Crysis (fitting username btw).

wonder if the starting cut scene was something from Ghost that never got used. Also this feels very much like the final Warcraft 3 stuff (playing the Panda) right before they moved everything to MMO. Might be a hint they are planning a new direction for the Starcraft license.

This is the *actual* pricing on the content.

Brad made it sound like it was $15 per pack or $30 to get them all.

@crimsonjester: Blizzard specifically answered that question last Blizzcon, it's a totally new thing, perhaps story bits have been recycled but most if not the entirety of it is unrelated to whatever was supposed to happen in Ghost.

Still haven't even dove into LOTV yet.

@foggen: Playing RTSs competitively does that. I see myself constantly clicking now in any top down games like MOBAs

Soooo with the 80's-esque "Subliminal Messages Will Set You Free and/or are a Sign of Brainwashing", can someone please confirm that Nova Covert Ops is really a video-game adaptation of They Live?

Because I would pay money for that.

Wasn't Nova supposed to be some kind of crazy psychic force-of-nature as per the crazy anime direction Starcraft went in? Like I seem to remember there was a bunch of stuff from her and Tosh's storyline in Wings of Liberty that got into some strange territory.