Ok... so I finished the SC2 campaign, mostly everything done on brutal...  
 Can we all agree that the ending of the story sucked?  
 "Walks into cave, picks up chick, shoots  tychus in the face, walks out, lives happily ever after derka derka" 
 
I enjoyed the game, but it seems like that ending was abrupt and stupid. 

For me it's more like "the story so far" with the Zerg and 'Tossers campaign still missing and by then it will be a whole lot better. 
So no, I can't agree with you. 

Besides not being surprising in the least (Tychus' betrayal was "foreshadowed" to the point where he might as well have been yelling "I'm going to betray you" the entire game), I thought it turned out just fine. It was a much more fitting end than I was expecting for something that is supposed to be a third of a story. 

" For me it's more like "the story so far" with the Zerg and 'Tossers campaign still missing and by then it will be a whole lot better. So no, I can't agree with you.  "

" @ZeForgotten said:

" For me it's more like "the story so far" with the Zerg and 'Tossers campaign still missing and by then it will be a whole lot better. So no, I can't agree with you.  "

This is how I felt too. It was a good way to wrap up that plot while leaving a lot of questions unanswered to be answered later. Also the secret mission brought a lot of story to the table too. "

It was more of a , " were gonna leave it like this because we want you to think of the possibilities about why all these things have happened before we release the next campaign story"    Which sorta did make me think about how this Xel'Naga artifact actually turned kerrigan back to a human and how it will play out in the Zerg Campaign.  Then it made me think about the inevitable encounter with the Xel'Naga in the future, or are the hybrids actually the xel'naga and they just evolved into the zerg and protoss at some point in the past.

" @Slax said:

" @ZeForgotten said:

" For me it's more like "the story so far" with the Zerg and 'Tossers campaign still missing and by then it will be a whole lot better. So no, I can't agree with you.  "

This is how I felt too. It was a good way to wrap up that plot while leaving a lot of questions unanswered to be answered later. Also the secret mission brought a lot of story to the table too. "

I thought I was crazy for thinking that way, glad someone agrees. I also agree with the secret mission bringing a lot of story into the mix "

I thought the ending was perfectly fine, considering there are still two expansions to be made.

" Ok... so I finished the SC2 campaign, mostly everything done on brutal...   Can we all agree that the ending of the story sucked?   "Walks into cave, picks up chick, shoots  tychus in the face, walks out, lives happily ever after derka derka"

It was kind of lame, I agree. 
 
I really like Blizzard, but this one was kind of lame.  I am hopeful they can do better in the next two exspantions.

" @ZeForgotten said:

" @Slax said:

" @ZeForgotten said:

" For me it's more like "the story so far" with the Zerg and 'Tossers campaign still missing and by then it will be a whole lot better. So no, I can't agree with you.  "

This is how I felt too. It was a good way to wrap up that plot while leaving a lot of questions unanswered to be answered later. Also the secret mission brought a lot of story to the table too. "

I thought I was crazy for thinking that way, glad someone agrees. I also agree with the secret mission bringing a lot of story into the mix "

No, not crazy at all. It had to fulfill the requirements for any 1st part of a trilogy. Like character introduction, the story of the universe so far etc. If it went to far into the story there wouldn't be anything compelling in the next two chapters. "

I'm more worried about how she's gonna get rid of those head tendrills...  Also, they're far from happily ever after at the end, the only thing that kind of wrapped up was Kerrigan turning into a human, but I'll wager she'll either be still crazy and homicidal, or racked with guilt over killing billions of humans and protoss while she was the Queen of Blades.  The ending only seemed abrupt because it was supposed to be a cliffhanger.

I thought it was pretty good, makes you think about what happens next. 
 
I also felt sorry for Tychus. He was my favorite character even though I knew that he was going to betray Jimmy right from the start.

" It was more of a , " were gonna leave it like this because we want you to think of the possibilities about why all these things have happened before we release the next campaign story"    Which sorta did make me think about how this Xel'Naga artifact actually turned kerrigan back to a human and how it will play out in the Zerg Campaign.  Then it made me think about the inevitable encounter with the Xel'Naga in the future, or are the hybrids actually the xel'naga and they just evolved into the zerg and protoss at some point in the past. "

" Ok... so I finished the SC2 campaign, mostly everything done on brutal...   Can we all agree that the ending of the story sucked?   "Walks into cave, picks up chick, shoots  tychus in the face, walks out, lives happily ever after derka derka"  I enjoyed the game, but it seems like that ending was abrupt and stupid.  "

Maybe I'm dum, but I didn't see the tychus thing coming, or the artifacts working. So I was happily surprised. But the lack of Samir Duran made me angry.

" Maybe I'm dum, but I didn't see the tychus thing coming, or the artifacts working. So I was happily surprised. But the lack of Samir Duran made me angry. "

" Ok... so I finished the SC2 campaign, mostly everything done on brutal...   Can we all agree that the ending of the story sucked?   "Walks into cave, picks up chick, shoots  tychus in the face, walks out, lives happily ever after derka derka"  I enjoyed the game, but it seems like that ending was abrupt and stupid.  "

But... Duran quite possibly was in the game.  I mean, Dr. Narud was wanting people to collect these artifacts for him, and Kerrigan "knew who he was" and "what his plans for the artifacts were" - which he brushed off as quickly and generically as possible.  And as soon as we saved him he vanished as quickly as he could.  Remember - Duran has had many faces and many names. "

" @Liam_mk said:

" Maybe I'm dum, but I didn't see the tychus thing coming, or the artifacts working. So I was happily surprised. But the lack of Samir Duran made me angry. "

But... Duran quite possibly was in the game.  I mean, Dr. Narud was wanting people to collect these artifacts for him, and Kerrigan "knew who he was" and "what his plans for the artifacts were" - which he brushed off as quickly and generically as possible.  And as soon as we saved him he vanished as quickly as he could.  Remember - Duran has had many faces and many names. "

"Walks into cave, picks up chick, shoots  tychus in the face, walks out, lives happily ever after derka derka"

Yeah, I'm 90% sure that was  Duran. 
 
I mean, in the secret mission (And I assume I don't need to mark spoilers here) you find out the TERRANS are the ones making the Hybrids, so it's most likely Duran heading up their R&R as Dr.   Narud.

I saw Tychus coming from the beginning of the game, but I thought the ending was good enough, not fantastic though. 

Already spouted this enough on these forums, but if you ask me the entire story sucked. There was so little of any relevance going on. I've yet to see anyone making a single good argument explaining what was good about the story.
  
@StarvingGamer said:

" @DG991 said:
I thought the ending had an incredibly powerful moment, when Tychus placed his laser sight on Kerrigan and just waited.  If he wanted to he could have shot her before anyone had a chance to react, but he wanted to give Raynor the chance to make a choice, a chance that Mengsk had robbed Tychus of.  Despite his anger, despite his greed, despite his utter lack of nobility and soldier's sense of self-preservation, in the end his sense of loyalty and friendship won out.  He gave his life for his friend Jimmy the only way he knew how. "

" @Durandal377:  Holy shit your right DURAN is to totally NARUD backwards! "

" Already spouted this enough on these forums, but if you ask me the entire story sucked. There was so little of any relevance going on. I've yet to see anyone making a single good argument explaining what was good about the story.
  
@StarvingGamer said:

" @DG991 said:
I thought the ending had an incredibly powerful moment, when Tychus placed his laser sight on Kerrigan and just waited.  If he wanted to he could have shot her before anyone had a chance to react, but he wanted to give Raynor the chance to make a choice, a chance that Mengsk had robbed Tychus of.  Despite his anger, despite his greed, despite his utter lack of nobility and soldier's sense of self-preservation, in the end his sense of loyalty and friendship won out.  He gave his life for his friend Jimmy the only way he knew how. "

 If this was the case, why did he shoot ? Why didn't he just sacrifice himself instead ? "

Blizzard said the Zerg campaign was focused on expanding Kerrigan's personal power. The ending of WoL gives them the perfect setup to do so. It's probably going to be similar to the Armoury upgrades for Terrans, but instead it'll be upgrades on Kerrigan's person that'll make her able to use different powers and use different units. 
 
Personally I thought the ending was okay, considering what they want to do with Kerrigan's character and redeem her. The In Utter Darkness mission already kinda showed what they want to do: The Terrans, Protoss and Kerrigan's Zerg unite to fight the Xelnaga and their Hybrids. 
 
I also missed the Dr.Narud = Duran thing. But it makes sense he was involved. Personally I can't make sense of what Mengsk Junior's angle is in all this. He seems like a nice guy who wants to prove "he is a worthy successor to his father", but he exudes douche.  Is that seriously his only motivation? I suspect it's him working with Duran and he's the major bad guy in all this. He's worked with Dr.Narud after all and we've got no proof of Mensgk doing the same. Mengsk even banned the trade in alien artifacts. He may be a tyrant and an asshole, but I can't see him working with any kind of alien or alien technology. 
 
Ofcourse, if that's the case, it would make sense for him to take Kerrigan out of the picture. Remember that even though Raynor and Junior are working together up to the last cinematic, there's no saying he will keep doing so now that Kerrigan is semi-human again.  He mentioned his motivation was to redeem the greatest war criminal(Kerrigan) in history by making her human again, to prove he's a good successor, but I suspect differently.
I think the Zerg campaign will begin immediatly after the end of the Terran campaign. Remember that the Dominion military still outnumber Raynor's Raider by a good amount on Char and Junior will probably capture Kerrigan to study her or to give her to Duran or something. So the Zerg campaign will begin with Kerrigan breaking out of the clutches of the Dominion military and regaining her powers over the Swarm, except this time she has a conscience and wishes to redeem herself for her crimes.
 
I'm just speculating.

I didn't think the ending sucked. I'm really wondering what they're going to do with the Zerg campaign now that Kerrigan is cured and all. I thought it was a great ending to part 1 or a 3 part story arch.