Any Starcraft Players in the House?

LinkManDX · 07-04-2009, 05:29 PM

My friend recently introduced me to this game and I'm hooked (I know, "late to the party"). I play Terran (poorly).

Anybody else play?

Also, no Zerg rush jokes.

**Valigarmander** · 07-04-2009, 05:34 PM

I play. My copy of the game (and expansion) are at a different house, though.

I usually play as Zerg, sometimes Terran.

Maximum Spider · 07-04-2009, 06:22 PM

"Need a light?

Yeah, I still play it.

***Ace Mercury*** · 07-04-2009, 07:35 PM

I played it a bit with my friends back in university. I wasn't much good at it, but there were a few memorable games. My only victory was when I just started pumping out siege tanks and leapfrogging them to my friend's zerg base. I built some goliaths once he sent two or three mutalisks after my army =/

Metal Man · 07-04-2009, 07:52 PM

I played it back in the early 2000s. Lost my key, outta luck.

***Saria Dragon of the Rain Wilds*** · 07-04-2009, 10:46 PM

"Can I help you... sir?"

I <3 SC a whole pile. Haven't played in a while, now. Looking forward to the release of 2.

**Valigarmander** · 07-04-2009, 10:50 PM

^ WHEN SC2 COMES OUT, LET'S RUMBLE.

^^ If you wanted, I could give you my key. I'm pretty sure different keys will work with different copies.

***Saria Dragon of the Rain Wilds*** · 07-04-2009, 10:53 PM

^ I honestly don't even know if my laptop will be able to handle it. It's a sad, terrible possibility that I refuse to acknowledge until it's nearly out (aka they still haven't announced the system requirements).

**Valigarmander** · 07-04-2009, 10:58 PM

lol yeah

This computer I'm using right now probably wouldn't work that well with it, either. If I did get it, I might only be able to play it occasionally, on a friend or relative's computer.

***Saria Dragon of the Rain Wilds*** · 07-04-2009, 11:01 PM

We should start a group or something. "People who don't have the awesomest computers but still desperately need to play SC2". We can be the PWDHTACBSDNTPSC2.

**Valigarmander** · 07-04-2009, 11:02 PM

DO IT

DOOOOO IT

Maximum Spider · 07-04-2009, 11:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saria Dragon of the Rain Wilds

"Can I help you... sir?"

"I DON'T HAVE TIME TO F*CK AROUND!"

LinkManDX · 07-05-2009, 01:16 PM

I won't join that group because in a day or two this will be coming in my mail.

Also, YOU WANNA PIECE OF ME BOY?

Double also, any tips to improve macro?

***Cosmonautical*** · 07-06-2009, 04:50 AM

MY LIFE FOR AIUR

I haven't bothered playing in a while. Does anyone know if the new Battle.net app fixed the router/packet issues with Starcraft? SD and I have been playing online over the VPN app, Hamachi, but I don't think the version of Hamachi that was compatible with SC is accepted by their servers, anymore.

FlipSwitch · 07-06-2009, 08:31 AM

Ahh, SC! I remember that. It was good. Although I died quite alot.

Lurch1982 · 07-06-2009, 06:39 PM

I never understood why people still play SC. Move on to bigger and better things (Dawn of War II is highly recommended; its basically what Blizz wanted to do with Warcraft III).

***Ace Mercury*** · 07-06-2009, 06:49 PM

It's the archetypal RTS. Blizzard spent years tuning the balance on it, and it runs on anything that Windows 98 can run on.

Can't say that I've played a lot of RTS games, but I'm hard pressed to think about something good that a newer game has that Starcraft doesn't. The ones I can think about are max army size, number of simultaneous selected units, and better pixel resolutions. I think the biggest turn-off is that I'm too used to 2D sprites versus 3D models -- I disliked Warcraft III because all of the units and buildings looked too similar.

Lurch1982 · 07-06-2009, 10:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ace Mercury

It's the archetypal RTS. Blizzard spent years tuning the balance on it, and it runs on anything that Windows 98 can run on.

Can't say that I've played a lot of RTS games, but I'm hard pressed to think about something good that a newer game has that Starcraft doesn't. The ones I can think about are max army size, number of simultaneous selected units, and better pixel resolutions. I think the biggest turn-off is that I'm too used to 2D sprites versus 3D models -- I disliked Warcraft III because all of the units and buildings looked too similar.

The genre has been pretty stagnant for years, but really its hard to say with a straight face that Starcraft is better than either Sins of a Solar Empire or Dawn of War II (better case with SC vs Dawn of War I + expansions, but not much). Yeah it can run on anything released past Win 98, but so can most games released post Win 98.

I couldn't play it after a while because Battle.net was flooded with people that straight out annihilated anyone remotely new or rusty to the game.

Warcraft III was kind of lost on me because I realized playing it that Blizz wasn't sure what they were trying to do. They were sort of going for a RTS with Diablo elements, but they somewhat missed that mark. Dawn of War II actually got it right, and it handles it on an appropriate scale (limited squads, not hundreds of people).