User blog comment:Hawki/Ranking the StarCraft Campaigns (by story)/@comment-31277203-20171218094439

Personally Hawki I always felt that BW ended terribly. It made all the sacrifices in SC1 for nothing (remember, by that point in time we didn't know what Duran was planning, or was the hybrid's intended purpose). The zerg threat wasn't over, it merely got its command structure altered. Sure the Khalai and Nerazim reunited, but we all knew LONG before any info on SC2 that there'd be serious tribal problems due to what happened in the past. Raynor was left with a skeleton crew and therefore was unable to achieve anything (this was confirmed at the beginning of WoL as 4 years of rebellion did little against Mengsk).

LotV's main storyline was fine for tying the loose ends together, but the epilogue was something entirely different. Sure we finally got confirmation that the "Tassadar" we saw wasn't really him, but Ouros got way too little development, and it made it seem like he was put in at the last minute for the whole ascension matter. It also caused Kerrigan's mentality to revert back to her arrogant ways in believing she didn't have to understand or do anything in order to obtain great power, which shouldn't be the case (which was exactly the problem in HotS).

I felt NCO suffered because we didn't get the details of why Davis did what she did. Yes it's revealed later she was a member of the SoK, but that raises Qs going back to SC1, and why she was never heard of back then. The whole insurgency just didn't make any sense because Davis was merely trying to dethrone Valerian. It isn't exactly confirmed (though heavily implied) that she was trying to replace him with herself or something like that. Nor did it explain how Davis was able to obtain so many DoM followers (as the SoK was never that many in number, which would mean at least some of Davis's troops had to be former Dominion troops or something). Bottom line was that NCO had the potential to be something more, but Blizzard tried to tell a very quick story that left too many Qs unanswered.