Starcraft 2

[demonzwish]

anyone else besides my self here play this, i bought ...erm reserved it with low hopes, because alot of people who played the beta were saying sc2 sucks sc2 sucks, but i played it and from game one i was in aww, the graphics are amazing and doesn't need to be said its an improvement and a refresh compared to number 1, the units were unique and added what i thought to be a whole other level of strategy to the game. generally i was impressed and still am, one of the most remarkable features are the ai intelligence improvements, even on their hardest level in number 1 me and my friend could stomp 1 even 5-6 computers on our own, now we tried to fight 1 ai on insane difficulty and we never even saw the enemy base, i myself tried expanding once and was kicked out after 20 mins, i was blown away, he was on defense i was our offense, he spent so much time and resources on our defense he couldnt expand and i couldnt really maintain my expansion because when his defense faultered my offense became our defense, it was crazy, that backs up my ai intelligence boost statement from earlyer, so what are others opinion on this game, id perfere opinions of those who have actually played the game but really anyone is welcome to contribute, although negitive comments should be left to those who have actuallly played the game otherwise its just slander, not critiqueing

[oiledbman]

`I think that Korea's going to be the judge on whether it's better than the original. Hopefully it won't be like the 'Melee is better than Brawl'(Smash Bros) or the 'Third Strike is better than SFIV'(Street Fighter) crowd.

Personally, I love it. I got into SCI too late, so much like counterstrike, I was out of my league. I played WCIII half-decently, and I seem to be doing ok in SCII. I think it's like you said they changed it enough to make it fresh - otherwise why make a new game at all?

[demonzwish]

oiledbman wrote: `I think that Korea's going to be the judge on whether it's better than the original. Hopefully it won't be like the 'Melee is better than Brawl'(Smash Bros) or the 'Third Strike is better than SFIV'(Street Fighter) crowd.

Personally, I love it. I got into SCI too late, so much like counterstrike, I was out of my league. I played WCIII half-decently, and I seem to be doing ok in SCII. I think it's like you said they changed it enough to make it fresh - otherwise why make a new game at all?

why is koreas the judge of this? and how late you talking? i got into sc1 about 4 year after it came our, in 2000, i was...... haha 10 i beleive i wasnt that strategic, so whats your fav race?

[oiledbman]

`Toss definitely, though I don't seem to be able to mass carriers anymore , but looks like Blizz gave me Void Rays instead. I also like the Warp Prisms doubling as a Pylon - very handy.

And the Korea thing - SCI is a national pastime there, I don't doubt SCII will shift to take it's place, but the word's still out on that one.

[demonzwish]

oiledbman wrote: `Toss definitely, though I don't seem to be able to mass carriers anymore , but looks like Blizz gave me Void Rays instead. I also like the Warp Prisms doubling as a Pylon - very handy.

And the Korea thing - SCI is a national pastime there, I don't doubt SCII will shift to take it's place, but the word's still out on that one.


yeah i suppose but sc2 got alot of media coverage in the us and is plastered up on nearly every store that carrys electronics or games, but anyway same here witht he race...we should play sometime, whats ur code and username?
mines demonzaura and my code is 212

[oiledbman]

`Raisinbman, not sure what my code(?) is though.

[cortex]

I played the original for years. I just completed the sequel (only got it 2 days ago) and despite absolutely loving every minute of it I do not think it surpasses it's predecessors', it is however on par and certainly an acceptable follow up.

If you think of what the original was like in it's day and what SC2 is like now and balance out the time difference SC2 could have been much more in my opinion but it's still absolutely fabulous.

I really want a hardcore version on an even larger scale than SupCom1 with tens of thousands of units, massive infrastructure and games that last for literally days.

[oiledbman]

`Might be some health-related problems with that, but sure, if a developer's gonna do it, more power to 'em