StarCraft 2

[Serrano]

Let's hear it then, how earth shatteringly good is it? Do the in-game graphics all look like top-end HD cutscenes? Did they decide to keep the old Jim Raynor voice actor? Ect, ect, ect?

[Tale]

Aren't they preventing people from playing it before midnight?

[Nightshape]

Bit pre-mature really... The thread that is.

 

No, I'm not all that excited about SC2, I may be later, but not today, or tomorrow.

[Azure79]

I'm planning to get my boxed copy tomorrow.

 

I'm pretty excited. I'm going to play through the story missions first because I really want to see how the story unfolds. I'll jump on Battle.net for a few games after that.

[Tale]

Am I the only guy who loves RTS games, but hates playing them multiplayer? I even like Skirmish, but hate people.

 

Which is sad because I helped develop an RTS. I was actually considered good at it, despite the fact that the balance team could tear me a new hole.

Edited July 27, 2010 by Tale

[Monte Carlo]

Am I the only guy who loves RTS games, but hates playing them multiplayer? I even like Skirmish, but hate people.

 

Which is sad because I helped develop an RTS. I was actually considered good at it, despite the fact that the balance team could tear me a new hole.

 

I hear you brother. I'm not twitchy, smart or competitive enough for MP RTS versus humans. I love Company of Heroes, I've got a friends list as long as your arm for skirmish V CPU. But people? I get my arse kicked every time.

 

So, yeah, the SP vanilla campaign for a RTS is crucial for me. Games like CoH deliver on that front, I've played the core allied campaigns two or three times and not got bored of them and love online but, as I say, not against the waves of pro / smurf ninjas.

[Serrano]

Not the premature argument ag- oh. Er, no some people had been playing the game since before I created this thread.

 

I'm not fond of games like Warcraft, Starcraft or C&C as multiplayer games either. Dawn of War on the other hand is one of my favourite online games of all time, which is odd as it's pretty similar to the other three. Perhaps I do like it because it was easier *shrug*.

Edited July 27, 2010 by Serrano

[Monte Carlo]

^ Try Company of Heroes. Seriously, and it's free online from September. It's awesome on very level.

[Monte Carlo]

Just checked out some SC2 screenies. I like.

[Tale]

Am I the only guy who loves RTS games, but hates playing them multiplayer? I even like Skirmish, but hate people.

 

Which is sad because I helped develop an RTS. I was actually considered good at it, despite the fact that the balance team could tear me a new hole.

 

I hear you brother. I'm not twitchy, smart or competitive enough for MP RTS versus humans. I love Company of Heroes, I've got a friends list as long as your arm for skirmish V CPU. But people? I get my arse kicked every time.

 

So, yeah, the SP vanilla campaign for a RTS is crucial for me. Games like CoH deliver on that front, I've played the core allied campaigns two or three times and not got bored of them and love online but, as I say, not against the waves of pro / smurf ninjas.

I'm twitchy and smart enough. I'm just not competitive. I HATE having to play seriously. The more players I can hide behind to **** around while still kicking butt, the better. I can take breathers every now and then instead of win/loss being entirely on me. Too stressful.

[Serrano]

Monte did you ever play a game called Blitzkrieg 2? Sounds like you might enjoy it, it had three good single player campaigns. It's similar to DoW and CoH in some ways, but in others it's more like a WW2 era Total War game (battlefield-segment only). Between missions you can level up certain types of units depend on how well they'd done in the previous mission to grant them added bonuses, so if your light tanks killed most of the enemy for example then they'd get the lion's share of xp. You also got to chose your missions to a certain degree, it worked a bit like a hub system on the region map where you had a few core missions you had to do, but could pick the order, and in addition there were side missions that you could do to unlock units and the like.

 

Anyway there's a demo on gamers hell;

 

http://www.gamershell.com/download_10561.shtml

 

And an incredably underwhelming trailer on youtube.com;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WutVXfyD_NQ

[taviow]

I'm extremely excited for it! Getting it as soon as I can tomorrow!

 

I've played a lot of SC (both the campaigns and people), and I was in the SC2 beta. Can't wait to play the campaign!

[Tigranes]

I was too much of an Age of Empires style man, didn't really like SC or WC much. Additionally, I still don't know how people rave on about SC's storyline - it was generic crap, just delivered slickly, just like Diablo's. Storyline is certainly not why I'd play of any of Blizz games.

 

That said, SC2's certainly looked interesting, so I'm torn...

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I suck at RTS games, computers or humans. So it's a no-go for me.

[LadyCrimson]

I was too much of an Age of Empires style man.. [...]

Yeah, AoE (and LotR2) were what pulled me into strategy genre. Then I burnt out on the gather/construct/conflict pattern. I find such more interesting in a board game face-to-face than pcgaming/online I guess.

 

@Tale - I'm the same way...not competitive enough. And for me, even when I play Skirmish it's not the winning at speed that entertains me...it's actually the prolonging of watching the AI opponent make a fool of itself. Cracks me up. I blame Dungeon Keeper for showing me how silly-fun that could be.

Edited July 27, 2010 by LadyCrimson

[pmp10]

I was too much of an Age of Empires style man, didn't really like SC or WC much. Additionally, I still don't know how people rave on about SC's storyline - it was generic crap, just delivered slickly, just like Diablo's. Storyline is certainly not why I'd play of any of Blizz games.

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[Thorton_AP]

Additionally, I still don't know how people rave on about SC's storyline - it was generic crap, just delivered slickly, just like Diablo's. Storyline is certainly not why I'd play of any of Blizz games.

 

Most stories can probably be classified as "generic" in some capacity. So much so I feel the word "generic" is overused and has become virtually meaningless.

 

A "generic" story that is well written and can evoke an emotional attachment to the characters is still an excellent story.

[Tigranes]

Generic is overused, but that doesn't mean there aren't stories which are generic to their detriment. I felt that the slick, polished, well produced delivery of the story only served to highlight how devoid of life the narrative was. Personal call, of course.

[Tale]

Storyline is certainly not why I'd play of any of Blizz games.

If Grom's death didn't move you, then you have no soul. Maybe it was moving because it was slick. But that does not make it any less moving. And Arthas' ascent to the Lich King. Oh, you jackass Prince, you are a terrible person, but I can't help but pity...

[Thorton_AP]

Yeah typically I have enjoyed Blizzard's stories.

 

I still need to play WC3 actually....

[Oblarg]

Blizzard RTS: tabclicktabclicktabclicktabclicktabclick

 

For my RTS needs, I think I'll stick to SoaSE. Micro sucks.

 

I'll buy SCII if (and only if) the modding community is active enough to make it worthwhile in bnet. If it just ends up being DotA 2.0, I'll pass.

[Deadly_Nightshade]

Am I the only guy who loves RTS games, but hates playing them multiplayer?

 

Nope.

[Calax]

Now installing

[Krookie]

Question: at anytime was this game going to be sold for $20? someone told me that a while back and I was like "oh **** yes I will get SC2" but now I'm like, "uhhhhhh $60, no thanks."

[Deadly_Nightshade]

Question: at anytime was this game going to be sold for $20?

 

I think so, when they originally announced that it would be three games and not one I believe that they said that the three games would be cheaper.