Rumour Control: Starcraft 2

[Liquid Blue]

Blizz is notorious for delays though =(

[Edify]

Look for it Christmas 08

WTF That's my senior year of college! nooooooooooooo I hope I don't lose interest in computer games before then :turned:

[Burzum]

It's like women, music and good wine, you never get tired of it.

[Noah]

It's like women, music and good whine, you never get tired of it.

Fixed

[GuruMeditation]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you a play in 1 part.

How Blizzard feeds us the same shit over and over and still wins.

Fanboy 1> Man, I like Starcraft. But how old is it?
Fanboy 2> It is verily 9 years old now! Tis an old game.
FB1> Verily?
FB2> That's how old.
FB1> Damn.
Blizzard> Rejoice minions! We will be releasing Starcraft 2!
FB1+FB2> HUZZAH! What can expect from Starcraft 2 Great Overlord of Blizzard?
GOB> The game graphics will be in .... THREE DIMENSIONS!
FB1> HUZ... err ... wait a second ...
FB2> Wasn't that the sales pitch used to sell Warcraft 3, 5 years ago?
GOB> You shall also receieve, THREE RACES with which to play the game!
FB1> .. don't we already have those?
GOB> You shall also receieve NEW UNITS!
FB1+FB2> AH HAH! How many?
GOB> So far, TWO PER RACE!
FB1+FB2> ... oooh ... kay ... how about customization?
GOB> What! What do you mean customizations?! Don't we give you enough?!
FB1> It's just, other games allow us to download different units and races, and can have a larger scope.
GOB> Did you not see, our FANTASTIC RENDERED INTRO OF DOOM?
FB2> Does that actually have any relevance to the gameplay? Foot soldiers tend to die really quickly, why do we care about them?
FB1> We've seen what you can do in WoW? Can't we like, modify our UI? Because it does seem rather clunky. Or script some intelligence into our units?
GOB> How DARE you question the Great Overlord Blizzard! Do you want me to take this away? Do you question our superiority in making RTS games like this?!
FB1+FB2> NO NO! FORGIVE US!
GOB> I was going to release a special edition for twice the price that gave you the ability to have a unit with different coloured armor, but because you have spoken ill of the game you shall not get it!
FB1+FB2> NO! We want to pay for the game three times so we can look different to everyone else and show our loyalty to the Great Overlord Blizzard!
GOB> Fine, we shall see. But you had better speak in better tones next time, or we will push the games ETA back another year!
FB1+FB2> We promise! We will now go to every internet forum and say how great this game is (even though it looks almost identical to the game you released 10 years ago and doesn't feature any of the new ideas put into RTS games by other companies).

Tragedy, or comedy, or porn as we get f'd up the ass by Blizzard feeding us the same shit, just dressed differently.

You be the judge!

[Fluffz]

blasphemy, burn

[GuruMeditation]

You shall play FB1 for the dramatization of the play!

[Burzum]

This isn't WoW2 or WC4...it's SC2, so fuck a) customization (half of the SC copies went to Korea, Korea has the biggest SC progaming scene in the universe, progamers don't give a shit about customization, therefore fuck that), b) more than 3 races (for sake of game balance, it's impossible to juggle 4 races' worth of units and still come up with a stew that's not overpowered at some end), c) your not-enough-new-units-per-race bullshit, we haven't even seen half of the protoss arsenal, not to mention Z or T; d) scripting...do you want to play the game or watch the game play itself? Learn to micro, dude!

WC/WoW was Blizzard's playground for new ideas, and they all suck horribly. No one in their right mind plays WC3 competitively anymore, because the balance smells, the graphics are messy, there is next to no actual gameplay with all the autocasting bullshit and it's incredibly boring to watch, plus the horrible luck factor you get when you have creeps 'n' heroes 'n' their level-ups 'n' the random item drops. Fuck that.

And what's up with the retarded notion that townhall-type structures need some sort of auto defense? Rushing was ever part of RTSs and is one of the cornerstones of the genre.

[GuruMeditation]

Hey if you enjoy playing the same games over, and over, and over .... personally I was expecting more from Blizzard than this.

This is just Starcraft 1.5. You may as well just buy the original Starcraft. It's going to be pretty much the same game. I ain't dissing Starcraft. I'm saying Starcraft will be another run of the mill RTS. Back in 1998 it was the best. Today if you want a quality RTS you've got a large selection. But of course if Korea and your existing fanbase are the only things you care about then fine.

(and yes, I do appreciate the irony that I mention playing the same game over and over on a forum for a game that's over 10 years old. Difference is SS is rather unique in it's gameplay, wheras there are plenty of RTS games)

[Fluffz]

WC/WoW was Blizzard's playground for new ideas, and they all suck horribly. No one in their right mind plays WC3 competitively anymore

hey, WC 3 is not that bad, at least it wasnt in the beta after which i didnt play anymore. i guess just a very small percentage of people play games on such a professional level they could whine about WC3 balance. and it has been some time around now.

its not said SC2 will get a better balance than SC1 which has been rebalanced for 10 years, but it will still be fun to play just like WC3.

[Noah]

New race? Fuck that.

Starcraft is a RTS close to perfection, why would you want to change stuff too much around?

They did right by changing as little as possible, I'm having so high expectations for this game, it's insane.

I'd have a hard time accepting a new race into the game story-wise, and new units.

[Fluffz]

Update! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30MBljXxg3M at the end, there is a reaver.

That are a lot of units, i wonder if some get removed, delayed for an update or if they implement some sort of tech tree where you either choose one way or another. like Dark or Light for Protos. there are more units than in Brood War already...

[Vykromond]

NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND PLAYS WARCRAFT 3 COMPETITIVELY GUYS OH FUCKIN' NOESsssss

[Reaver]

Update! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30MBljXxg3M at the end, there is a reaver.

I didn't agree to this

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

Wand autocast: best thing, or bestest thing?