I met Starcraft before the 40K but still, I never felt anything special while playing with it, while I fell in love with the 40K instantly. What really annoying that SC made Blizzard tons of money but they almost never gave any credit to GW, but its clear where they taken the inspiration from.
I agree, a lot of inspiration for Starcraft clearly came from WH40k. While DoW was great and popular, SC has always been a step above. And that's a shame, because DoW is so freaking awesome.
Gentlemen, I present to you: Infested Kerrigans Story in Starcraft Jim Raynor (SC1/BW): Okay Kerrigan, you killed billions of people and even my bro-toss Fenix. If I ever see you again, I'll hook you in the goobar so hard even the Overmind's corpse will cringe (loose transcription) Infested Kerrigan: Whatev' [[SPOILER]] Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Jim Raynor: I lub u Sarah. Kerrigan: Jim u suck Zeratul: M-Muh prophecy (that is not at all stolen from WC3, with Zerg being the Fel-Orcs and Fel-Grom being Kerrigan) Jim Raynor: I lub u evun mur Sarah! Kerrigan: Jim u suck. Zeratul also suck. Valerian Mengsk: YOU CAN'T CONTROL MY LIFE DADDY! I also have ordered the better part of the dominion fleet to Char without you noticing, L-O-L. Tychus Findlay: Uh, Jimmy, we have the chance to kill the single most monstrous mass murderer in the galaxy and- Jim Raynor: MUH SARAH (shoots Tychus in the face). Enter Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Clean Kerrigan: I lub u Jim Jim Raynor: I lub u Sarah Mengsk: I am now a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain. I also capture Jim Raynor instead of immediately killing him because I think this will keep Kerrigan away even tough it is perfectly clear that this will actually attract Kerrigan even more. Clean Kerrigan: MUH JIM! I now gather my swarms and kill Warfield, who helped me to become human again, as well as several Protoss, so people can realize I'm just as evil as Infested Kerrigan. That one Broodmother: I have killed all the Protoss on this ship but lost contact with Kerrigan. Surely she wants me to kill more Protoss, and I will follow this command even in the next Expansion pack so the Protoss have some Zerg to fight even though Kerrigan is pretty much indifferent to them. Abathur: Can not speak in gramatically correct English. Makes me sound creepy. Zeratul: Kerrigan, you killed thousands of my people, but muh prophecy says you're cool. Go over there to the Zerg Homeworld that is not at all a dead rock as described in the SC1 manual and get re-infested. Also tell Jim he got trolled, L-O-L. Enter Primal Kerrigan. Also enter Infested Stukov. Infested Stukov: Oh hai! I have no idea what I'm doing here, but Raynor is over there. DURAN/NARUD: ANCIENT EVIL! Primal Kerrigan: Oh hai Raynor! Jim Raynor: Goddamnit Kerrigan, I spent the entire first game de-infesting you and you just reverse the entire crap! I hate you! Primal Kerrigan: *sadface* Primal Zerg: ESSENCES ESSENCES ESSENCES ESSENCES ESSENCES ESSENCES ESSENCES ESSENCES! Primal Kerrigan: Okay guise, let's kill Mensk and kill even more innocents on the way there by having the Swarm fall over several dominion worlds, but we'll play nice and wait for the civilians on Korhal to get evacuated. Primal Kerrigan: Okay, I have disabled Batmans Mengsk's Anti-Shark-Spray Anti-Zerg-Device and now I stand pretty much right before his palace with nigh-infinite zerg troops right behind me. Jim Raynor: Oh hi Kerrigan. As you can not take the last few surviving troops of Mengsk all alone, I've decided to love you again and will land my battlecruiser right here, so I can fight by your side. I'm also so incompetent that'll you'll actually have to drop whatever you were doing in the moment to come and safe my ass multiple times in the mission. Kerrigan enters Mengsk's Palace Primal Kerrigan: I has you, Mengsk. Mengsk: I have the Alien device that I totally managed to smuggle away from Char and right to Korhal without Jim even noticing and even thoug the Dominion Forces on Char were under Valerian's command, who has daddy issues with me. Also, YOU ARE THE MONSTER! Primal Kerrigan: NO YOU Primal Kerrigan fills Mengsk with a mixture of Mentos and Cola, Mengsk subsequently explodes. Jim Raynor: I lub u Horribly-Deformed-Sarah-that-killed-billions. Primal Kerrigan: I lub u Jim, but my people need me Kerrigan magically flies away, leaving Korhal in varying states of destruction. She now readies up for the ANCIENT EVIL so that Humans, Night Elves and Orcs Terrans, Protoss, and Zerg can fight the Burning Legion the Xel'Naga. (Ripped straight from the War for the Overworld Forums).
Warhammer 40k has alot more creative behind it than starcraft. plus starcraft is a computer game. warhammer started off as a table top game. i enjoy playing starcraft 1, starcraft 2 though it was alright but it just was missing alot of that old spark. Warhammer is also Gorey and most of the stories including the battle novel books which i love to read, are about Space Marines over coming incredible odds and coming out on top most of the time. i know in a few of the battle novels they don't always come out on top.
Read somewhere a long time ago that Blizzard Entertainment themselves actually admitted they were "huge" fans and had alot of inspiration from Games Workshop, and thus is why Warcraft and Starcraft was really born. so im fine with it really, nothing wrong with being a fan no matter if you are just one person or a whole company.
I recall hearing that Warcraft was originally suppose to be a Warhammer game but that GW didn't like the design choices or something so Blizzard just made it into their own franchise. I think thats probably just a rumor though since I haven't been able to find any actual evidence.
Wanna know something interesting? In 2nd-4th edition 40K TT a lead designer was Andy Chambers he did stories, made extra rules in Chapter Approved and did a lot of the core game mechanics in most of the Codexs , this same man is currently the Creative Director of Blizzard Entertainment & StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty...
