StarCraft 2030 Details — Full Breakdown & Transcript

[00:00] Starcraft

[00:30] Starcraft in any real way. I played the original one when I was very young, I think around 10. It's honestly been so long ago that I just straight up don't remember. With the main things I remember, of course, being about Kerrigan and the Protoss, which at the time I thought were extremely cool.

[00:47] But when Starcraft 2 rolled around, I honestly just wasn't really into the genre at that point, and then you combine that with the fact that there was this huge emphasis on, like, competitive of multiplayer outside of the story, and it just wasn't really my thing, which, combined

[01:01] with the fact that I had absolutely no money at the time, it was pretty easy for me not to play it. However, fast forward 16 years to 2026, and we've got this BlizzCon where they are announcing a new StarCraft that is apparently set to release in 2030, which is another instance

[01:17] of them announcing games way, way ahead of time at this year's show, with Diablo V apparently coming in 2029, but we'll see how that actually winds up, which is also the case for Starcraft. In fact, I do want to point out that in addition to having this really far out release date,

[01:34] or release window, I should say, this isn't the first time they've tried to do something like this. In fact, there's the very famous instance where they canceled Starcraft Ghost, and then much more recently, like 2019, they actually also canceled a Starcraft Battlefield FPS

[01:51] in favor of working on their other projects. So to be clear StarCraft games do have a bit of a history of getting cancelled which is actually even more relevant here than you might initially think because the cancelled games for the StarCraft universe have in fact been games that have been trying to move away from the real strategy genre

[02:10] which is apparently what their deal with this one is going to be. In particular, thanks to some interviews and stuff that is after the fact, we know that it is going to be an open-world sort of narrative title centered around a singular Terran Marine,

[02:24] which I wanted to put up here towards the beginning of the video because, I mean, honestly, I think there's just a not insignificant chance this game doesn't make it, but we will see what happens, I suppose. A lot can change in four years.

[02:37] But those initial sort of details out of the way, once you move on from that into some of the details they talked about and then what was in the trailer itself, I do think I can actually sort of see the vision of what they are trying to build here, even if it is, again, way too early.

[02:53] And before I jump into those details, I do want to say that, you know, having gotten into Warhammer 40k over the years, everything about this trailer really reminded me of Warhammer 40k, both in terms of like its presentation, but also some of the themes, because the trailer itself shows a Marine being trained and then ultimately fed into the Zerg meat grinder, only for his suit to be recovered, repaired and presumably filled with another meat grinder with more meat for the meat grinder.

[03:21] But it seems like a lot of what they showed in this particular trailer is actually meant to represent some of their ideas for what they have to come with the actual game.

[03:34] But I should also emphasize right there, then, that it does also seem like this game is in pretty early development. A lot of these things and stuff they talked about in these interviews seem very amorphous and, you know, not something that might actually exist physically just yet.

[03:50] But either way some of the answers were compelling and provided the stuff can actually come to bear might wind up being an interesting thing to deal with Starting with the fact that it going to be an open world sort of narrative sci shooter you might be wondering what perspective it is apparently going to be third person or at least they want it to be and this is so they can show off a lot of the armor

[04:11] that you'll be using. Now it's a little unclear if it's going to be like a proper looter shooter that we've seen elsewhere, or if they might do something a little more specific than that. However, it does seem like they want upgrading and dealing with and maintaining your armor to

[04:25] be a really big part of it, which is one of the reasons for third person, they want you to get that visual going, but also to hone in on the story. In some of the interviews, they basically said that this project got started because

[04:38] of some things they wanted to do with it, narratively being like a ground level view of what these conflicts look like in the form of a singular marine, as opposed to like the more zoomed out units and stuff you would use in the real time strategy situations,

[04:53] and what that experience might be like for one of those singular individuals. And as a result, what they showed in the trailer with this particular soldier kind of getting thrown into guaranteed death in mass,

[05:06] highlighting the fact that, you know, you can try to do better if you want, but it's not going to be easy. And I think there's room there if it's done really well for that to be a compelling narrative experience. But obviously it's really just way too early to say much else.

[05:20] However, we do, through the trailer, of course, know that there's going to be the Dominion and Terran and everything. So we do, from the trailer, of course, see the Terrans as well as the Zerg, as the Zerg do a lot of ripping and tearing through our ill-fated trailer protagonist.

[05:35] So it's pretty obvious they will have something to do with it. Now, you may be wondering where this takes place in the timeline, and apparently it's going to be set a few decades after StarCraft II to give them, of course, some room to work with.

[05:47] And in an interview with Destin actually the developers mentioned that while you don physically see a Protoss alien anywhere in the trailer you can if you look closely spot some of their architecture as well So we know at the very least they be in the background but you know again too early to really say if they be in the game in any real capacity or not But bringing all of that together there is a world

[06:11] in which this game comes out and is good. I can kind of get the idea of what they're trying to do here, and it does sound kind of compelling in its own way, but that does have to contend with the fact that Starcraft does not exactly have the best track record when it comes to releasing games,

[06:27] and the fact that they are setting a release window for 2030, which would tell me that this game is in super early development, most likely, and a lot of things can change in the next four years. Even things entirely outside of their control,

[06:41] and with the way the industry and its ups and downs have been going lately. My big reaction to this is like, you know, good luck. I guess come 2030, if it's still releasing, I'll be taking a look at it, because it does sound interesting, and I want to see where this one lands,

[06:54] but that is so far away, it makes it kind of impossible to really say much else besides we will wait and see, which is, naturally, where I'm going to end this video. So, that's pretty much everything I could scrounge up on this game.

[07:06] I did think as a concept, again, it was interesting, and I could see why they would want to greenlight the idea, but, I mean, realistically, I need to see some gameplay and some things in motion here before I could really have anything else to say about it.

[07:19] And that is why that is all for this video. So certainly hope you enjoyed it. If you did, by all means, like, comment, subscribe, all that YouTube jazz. If you feel like you can put up with me for the next four years while we wait to see what becomes of this particular announcement,

[07:33] you can leave a comment and come back to it four years from now. But regardless of any of that, truly, just thank you so much for watching. I really do appreciate it. May you wander in wisdom and have an amazing day.

[07:51] Thank you.