Dummies who hold Starcraft's pink-slip

[FrustratedPoet]

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After the recent confrontation I am now assimilated into his Cold Beer regime ... the first team meeting since the kidnapping, on Saturday, passed off without bloodshed ...

[Urban Ranger]

tniem & FP,

That's true, they don't release any games until they are finished. So is id Software, which is even more radical by not even saying when they expect their games will be ready.

[Dis]

Blizzard rules.

yeah they take a while, but the games are in pretty good shape when they ship.

But I'm not big on RTS. But I do like the company. Although they are almost too good a company. Battle.net could use more bandwith. But its free which is nice. I have no intention of buying an online game that cost me money per month. I can't get enough hours in per month.

[Skanky Burns]

I don't blame id Software for not making any promises about when their games should be released. Imagine all their fans getting upset....

*Image of thousands of fans taking to the streets armed with all sorts of guns*

[Jethro83]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
I don't blame id Software for not making any promises about when their games should be released. Imagine all their fans getting upset....

*Image of thousands of fans taking to the streets armed with all sorts of guns*

Hate to imagine. Anyway, I don't see any disappointment amongst friends of mine who are id fans when Quake 3 is released. All I hear about it is "Quake 3 rules" and "Don't you have Quake 3 yet?". Its like they don't care about how little has changed between Q2 and Q3 (apart from the omission of a single-player game with a plot). Reading through PC Powerplay, I get the impression that fanaticism towards Quake 3 is what defines the "Hardcore" gamer. Kinda why I stopped getting it every month. If being a gamer takes being a fan of every crock that id releases, then no thanks.

[Sarxis]

Originally posted by LordAzreal


Its like they don't care about how little has changed between Q2 and Q3 (apart from the omission of a single-player game with a plot). Reading through PC Powerplay, I get the impression that fanaticism towards Quake 3 is what defines the "Hardcore" gamer.

So, do you have Quake 3 yet? Answer carefully! It may change my opinion of you. lol


I know what you mean about games being fads though; its as if you are from an alien planet if you like different games than your peers.

[MrWhereItsAt]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Yeah but there is no new idea coming out of Blizzard. All their realtime games are more of the same, just different settings.

Is there anything innovative from Blizzard?

They may be same old, same old, UR, but the thing with Blizzard games is that they are just so damn addictive! You HAVE to buy the expansion, the sequel, the original...

[Garth Vader]

I can't think of anything they could do to improve Starcraft. I would have liked to have seen more campaigns, Broodwars could have used more cutscenes too, but that's about it.

[Jethro83]

Originally posted by Anunikoba
So, do you have Quake 3 yet? Answer carefully! It may change my opinion of you. lol

I don't have Quake 3 and I don't plan on getting it. I played it a bit on a friend's computer once and I can say that all the hype isn't really justified at all. It was the most overrated piece of dog dung I'd ever played. Nothing had changed from Quake II except the graphics.

I'd much rather be playing Half-Life with the High Definition pack.

And if this means I'm not considered "Hardcore" as a gamer, then so be it. I didn't want to be a "hardcore" gamer anyway. Just a "Casual" gamer.

I know what you mean about games being fads though; its as if you are from an alien planet if you like different games than your peers.

That's exactly right. The last LAN party I went to, nothing was played but Diablo II (fine by me, even if my best Barbarian was 30 levels below the rest. They shuttled him up to their level), Alien vs. Predator (again, fine by me. That's a decent game) and Quake III. They couldn't understand me when during the Quake III game, I was playing Civ III and SMAC instead.

[Sarxis]

Originally posted by LordAzreal


I don't have Quake 3 and I don't plan on getting it. I played it a bit on a friend's computer once and I can say that all the hype isn't really justified at all. It was the most overrated piece of dog dung I'd ever played. Nothing had changed from Quake II except the graphics.

I'd much rather be playing Half-Life with the High Definition pack.

And if this means I'm not considered "Hardcore" as a gamer, then so be it. I didn't want to be a "hardcore" gamer anyway. Just a "Casual" gamer.



That's exactly right. The last LAN party I went to, nothing was played but Diablo II (fine by me, even if my best Barbarian was 30 levels below the rest. They shuttled him up to their level), Alien vs. Predator (again, fine by me. That's a decent game) and Quake III. They couldn't understand me when during the Quake III game, I was playing Civ III and SMAC instead.

You have answered... wisely.

(The other guy, the one who answered poorly, had to face Xaero on Nightmare difficulty all by himself.. without his own railgun! ROFL!! )

[Urban Ranger]

MrWhere,

Maybe to you. To me, Starcraft is just Warcraft in space. So there is one more race. Ho hum.


Garth,

The single player campaigns are so It's the same thing over and over again:

1. Survive the initial onslaught
2. Build up
3. Win by attrition

I particularly loath the Protass one with the civil war.

One thing they can do is to have the AI not cheating. Another thing they can do is they could have some sort of branching campaign, so that when you lose a scenario you can do something new instead of going over the same thing over and over again until you win.

The third thing they can do is to add more strategy and less puzzle solving.

[Triped]

'craft campaigns are absolute sh*t.

Blizzard designs the gameplay around multi-player..the single-player is really just an addon, which explains why they're so boring.

[Jethro83]

And the Brood War plot isn't anything great either. Its like they only took half a day to think it up. Sure, it continues after the original plot fine, but many things in it don't make sense. So I don't throw a spoiler into this thread, I'm not going to mention them.

And its ending is craptacular.

[Skanky Burns]

To me, Starcraft is just Warcraft in space. So there is one more race. Ho hum.

The amazing thing is they managed to make 3 races that had distinct, balanced abilities and playstyles. You played a different game depending on what race you chose.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns

The amazing thing is they managed to make 3 races that had distinct, balanced abilities and playstyles. You played a different game depending on what race you chose.

which is what they're trying to do with WC3.

In WC2 the humans and orcs were essentially identical (except the orcs were better because of the ogre's bloodlust spell), but in WC3 Blizz are trying to make all 4 playable races as different as possible while still keeping them balanced. Not an easy task, which is why they're patching the c**p outta their beta at the moment.