Re: GameTrailers doesn't really fuck up GOTY 2009 as far as I'm concerned
Speed of Darkness was alright, in that it was flawed but actually had the redeeming quality of generally being good writing. It’s at about the same enjoyment level as Uprising, except Uprising is more consistent in being average, instead of jumping in quality the entire damn time like Speed of Darkness. It’s been a while since I read it, but this is what I can remember after a deep search into my memories of the book:
1. “Let’s use ‘wound’ ammo instead of ‘kill’ ammo, because the bug aliens use the same logic as humans and are compassionate towards their wounded *trollface*.”
2. They resocialized the main marine, some years ago, to have the idea that Zerg attacked his colony – despite the only people knowing about them at that point being high-ranking confederates, and no actual Zerg attacks happening till several years later. What did they do, keep him locked up for however long it was till everyone else knew about the Zerg as well?
3. Why send a team to secure the Psi Emitter, not telling them what it is, if you’re just going to nuke the damn thing anyway? It’s like they *wanted* the team to bring the emitter back and their plan to fail. If they just wanted the marines dead, there are easier and more foolproof ways to kill someone. Shooting them, for instance.
4. Why leave behind good soldiers, vulture mines, ammo, various other supplies, and most egregiously, a couple of space capable buildings (command centres, barracks, etc.)? They had room for the soldiers, they had the ability to take them, but no, they send them out to do something totally pointless and then leave while they’re away. Yes, the confederates are the badguys, we get it - but they’re not that damn frivolous.
5. The ‘Golden’ stuff being violently out of place with the rest of the book, and the attempt at using it for emotional response at the end of the book just being facepalm inducing.
6. The Sons of Korahal already knew about the Psi emitters, and had been around them enough that they should have been able to get their hands on the blueprints too. All that seeming lack of knowledge about the subject that Mengsk had, all his rage at finding out that the Sara system attacks were weapons tests designed to get rid of confederate enemies, that was him acting – and those missions where you go to find stuff about the attacks, those were just because Mengsk likes to have his men die in utterly pointless missions.
EDIT: (This last one wasn't as obvious as I thought - it is sarcastic, the idea being that the above is what the book would have you believe, instead of the way things were in the game.)
