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Starcraft 2; Looks freaking awesome
Topic Started: May 22 2007, 04:21 AM (516 Views)
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You guys hear about StarCraft 2?

There's some gameplay vids on IGN and also a kickass cinimeatic trailer.

It looks freaking awesome.
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This is funny somehow because if they wouldn't rotate the camera sometimes it'd look about exactly the same as Star Craft Brood War :lol: . Seemingly no new race is available, just a couple of new units. But Star Craft was a really cool game and if this is a worthy follower it will be such another cool game by Blizzard ^_^ .
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It's about time!
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Despellanion
May 22 2007, 04:59 AM
It's about time!

Is that quoted from the trailer?
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May 23 2007, 03:07 AM
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May 22 2007, 04:59 AM
It's about time!

Is that quoted from the trailer?

No, I just think it was about time they made a sequel for Starcraft. And now they finally do after all those very poor Warcraft titles.
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May 23 2007, 08:47 AM
And now they finally do after all those very poor Warcraft titles.

I'm not a big fan of RTS games in generalbut IMHO "Warcraft 3" and "Warcraft 3 - The Frozen Throne" are some of the best RTS games ever. The enormous commercial success contributes to this these :D . And "World of Warcraft"... Well that's something special. If you'd take the strength of the identification with the in game character as main parameter for the quality of an MMORPG "World of Warcraft" is probably the best MMORPG ever. But I personally hate it. I hate it for the fact that it's addicting. I hate it for the fact that some of my friends have wasted a lot of time playing it. I hate it for having only one single challenge, which is freeing up more time for playing it to reach higher levels. That and the fact that I don't use to spend a lot of time on computer games are the reasons why I never touched it ;) .

But I'm really wondering how good StarCraft II will become. If you compare Warcraft II (the first PC game I ever played :D ) to Warcraft III there's a giant difference. In the second part there were only human and orcs as races. In the third part you've got five different races. StarCraft, which was published after Warcraft II, had three races and according to the announcements of Blizzard nothing is going to change with this. Also the amount of new units seems to be quite small. The style of the graphics is about exactly the same as in StarCraft with the only difference that it's 3D now. Blizzard never tended to use high end graphics but the game play videos look really quite poor.

Well, let's see what they'll make out of this. If StarCraft II becomes just a modern remake of StarCraft it will be nice, but having some innovation would be better.
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May 23 2007, 01:03 PM
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May 23 2007, 08:47 AM
And now they finally do after all those very poor Warcraft titles.

I'm not a big fan of RTS games in generalbut IMHO "Warcraft 3" and "Warcraft 3 - The Frozen Throne" are some of the best RTS games ever. The enormous commercial success contributes to this these :D . And "World of Warcraft"... Well that's something special. If you'd take the strength of the identification with the in game character as main parameter for the quality of an MMORPG "World of Warcraft" is probably the best MMORPG ever. But I personally hate it. I hate it for the fact that it's addicting. I hate it for the fact that some of my friends have wasted a lot of time playing it. I hate it for having only one single challenge, which is freeing up more time for playing it to reach higher levels. That and the fact that I don't use to spend a lot of time on computer games are the reasons why I never touched it ;) .

But I'm really wondering how good StarCraft II will become. If you compare Warcraft II (the first PC game I ever played :D ) to Warcraft III there's a giant difference. In the second part there were only human and orcs as races. In the third part you've got five different races. StarCraft, which was published after Warcraft II, had three races and according to the announcements of Blizzard nothing is going to change with this. Also the amount of new units seems to be quite small. The style of the graphics is about exactly the same as in StarCraft with the only difference that it's 3D now. Blizzard never tended to use high end graphics but the game play videos look really quite poor.

Well, let's see what they'll make out of this. If StarCraft II becomes just a modern remake of StarCraft it will be nice, but having some innovation would be better.

Well, personally I hate Warcraft and I have always been leaning more towards Starcraft because it's a timeless game (Starcraft 1 feels pretty modern even today). The Warcraft series have never made a big impact on me because I don't really like the concept of fantasy RTS. Sci-fi is the way to go for me. You may call that a stupid argument if you will, but that's how I feel about it. I thought the Starcraft 2 gameplay trailers looked sweet, and I'm really looking forward to that Collossus-thing the Protos has :D
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Well, I guess it's just a question of taste then ^_^ . And this colossus thing is looking really neat :D .
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It does look pretty sweet, and i play starcraft daily in school so i couldent be happier :cow:
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The problem is, you're going to need an insanely high end PC to play the game at maximum settings!

Either way, I can't wait to see how the single player storyline will unfold!
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