Not sure how you couldn't vote for that scene. It was so well done. With the music and everything. When Melek bows and looks up at Blair and says the Kilrathi must not die out as a race, that scene always gives me the chills when I watch it. The timing of the music was perfect I thought.
Melek's Surrender
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Theres a difference between a well put together scene that is calculated to pull at your emotions, so to speak, and a scene that evokes a real emotional response. I'm not really sure what there is to be emotional about. Yes it is the end of an age old war. But is it seriously more emotional than Blairs anger at thrakath for killing Angel or his anger at paladin for, by not telling him, putting him in a situation where he needed to find out from thrakath.
The only thing from the end of the game is a kind of mournful relief. The war is over... but Angel gave her life in an operation that allowed the temblor bomb to succede.... basically, ending the war killed Angel. The surrender itself would have been of little consolation to Blair. The war was won, But personally he now had nothing (unless you chose flint or rachel but you know it doesn't last)
Personnally I felt the end of wc3 was rather flat, even though on reflection it is probably fittingly so. After all, what was there to be all excited about?
The only thing from the end of the game is a kind of mournful relief. The war is over... but Angel gave her life in an operation that allowed the temblor bomb to succede.... basically, ending the war killed Angel. The surrender itself would have been of little consolation to Blair. The war was won, But personally he now had nothing (unless you chose flint or rachel but you know it doesn't last)
Personnally I felt the end of wc3 was rather flat, even though on reflection it is probably fittingly so. After all, what was there to be all excited about?
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Confed said:Melek's surrender is a great scene, and it's emotional for Blair, because he expected to die there, but if you put yourself in Blair's shoes, a hero surely cares more for his "lairmate"than his own life.
Great scene or not, i didn't really think that the gamemaker would kill off the main character after all that. There wasn't any real sense of dange for me.
Now wc3 aside, I think WC2 has alot more genuine moments of the sort the poll is asking. When I first played it... What! the Tiger's Claw.. Nooo.... And THey blamed me (blair).... Then shadow dies... I What! I have to fly with a Kilrathi! I hate them!!!... Stingray loses a wingman, I save him, and he still blames me. arghh. Spirit dies..... Blair finally kisses Angel...
And I can go on.
Maj.Striker
Swabbie
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I voted for Iceman's moment when he realizes that the Kilrathi hadn't quite taken everything he'd ever had from him. Truly touching.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
Kansas - Melek's Surrender.mp3? No thanks.
Haesslich
Spaceman
Maj.Striker said:
It'd have been more touching if he'd actually been wearing a smile - as it was, I recall the expression was like every other expression he had, IIRC. That kinda robbed the moment of some of its significance... but back then they only had one or two expressions anyways. Pity.
Nomad Terror
Rear Admiral
I never imagined Iceman to be capable of external emotional response. That is why they called him the Ice Man after all.
But he reveals a little bit of what he is going through inside to Blair there.
But he reveals a little bit of what he is going through inside to Blair there.
Atekimogus
Spaceman
I think the most emotional moment was the court martial of admiral tolwyn. I always liked him and seeing this grand man going down was sad, also the music at the court martial was excellent.
Actually, Prince Thrakath calls the plan when they "the message" to Confed "the trigger".Fruitcake said:
After you see the missing holovid scene, this name makes perfect sence as the message contains the words "Heart of the Tiger", wich is the trigger to restore Hobbes' true personality.
I think it belonged in the game. But then, I'd have also preferred to have Blair's final speech before the run on Kilrah included.
You know, I think this was a really well done concept. I never really knew what to make of Tolwyn all throughout the series - at one point I hated his guts and then later I had a sort of respect for him. His treason was... intersting. I felt both a sense of utter disgust at his actions and also a bit of sadness that the war had "transformed" him into such a person.
