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Larry Laffer · Admin Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 3924 Location: Romania

STARCRAFT II... it's coming and it's for sure!

Today, at WWI(that's World Wide Invitational, ye noobs) in Korea, Blizzard announced the coming of the sequel, after almost a decade, we got ourselves a Starcraft Sequel!

And since I know I got your attention, haul your browser to Blizzard.com

*I might actually buy mehself a new computer for this baby!

[edit]: I'm so hyper I forgot to mention www.starcraft2.com

emmzee · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 11:55 am Post subject:

Congrats

I was personally hoping for Diablo III (I never really play RTS games), but most people were 99% sure it was going to be SC2. (That's StarCraft, not Star Control Tbbbbbth!

) Hope it comes out sooner rather than later ...

abyss · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject:

I never seen pics or played starcraft 1 before. I don't even know if starcraft 1 was a windows or dos games.

wardrich · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 2:21 pm Post subject:

Dogbreath · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 2:22 pm Post subject:

wardrich · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject:

The Sims? I've never even heard of that. It must be one of those Mac games. Laughing

Larry Laffer · Admin Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 3924 Location: Romania

Ro@m · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject:

Th esch shoots look nice,and especially the artwoek,though the red flying thing reminds me of a unit in Dark Colony.

Unknown_K · Way too much free time Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 560

I have a legit copy of Starcraft and the add-ons, its a fun game. The best RTS game in my opinion is still Age of Empires 2.

While Starcraft II looks interesting, most of the RTS lately are all eye candy with small maps that don't have very many units on them. Look at how many 2D enemies were in a room in DOOM2 and compare that to DOOM3, less action but more eye candy (atleast untill we have 20Ghz CPUs and Video cards with 2' deep heatsinks).

Mr.Guimo · Expert Joined: 21 Mar 2006 Posts: 153

HELO!!! I'v already got a threed for this topic Tbbbbbth!

, Not because it matter, but anyway.

So fu*king great!!. I'm exited. Starcraft is c'ming to town yeeehaaa Wink

dayaccus007 · Expert Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 137

Unknown_k
You will probably change your opinion about the best RTS if you will play Campany of Heroes

Larry Laffer · Admin Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 3924 Location: Romania

Sorry played CoH, and I don't think it's better than Starcraft! Really!

Dogbreath · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject:

I'm not really a fan of the whole RTS genre, at least not the Starcraft -esque games where you start out on a (relatively) small map, and pretty much every mission consists of gathering resouces, building base, gathering resources, building an overwealming force, attack enemy, repeat. It's not bad if you're playing online against another person, but the missions from Starcraft got very repetative.

I prefer strategy games like Civilization or Masters of Orion or Alpha Centauri or Empire of the Fading Suns or even Alien Legacy... games where you do quite a bit of exploring along with building, where you can build a nation from scratch and control everything.

I will admit that Age of Empires 2 is my favorite RTS, though. IMO, they handled the "small map scenarios" very very well. You have to advance through 4 "ages", each of which contains different units and gameplay strategy. You can literally build your own city, complete with commons, marketplaces, walls, guard towers, castles, and churches. It had a fairly complex alliance structure, and trade is very well done. Definately a step beyond the whole "build a base as fast as you can" atmosphere of Starcraft.

It still has one thing that really bothers me, though. You can only ever win or lose missions. Your progress in the past mission has no influence on the next one, other than allowing you to access it. I never liked games like that, where you feel like you've being pulled along at the end of the line, and nothing you do can change anything significant.

wardrich · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 3:35 pm Post subject:

No RTS will ever beat Darwinia... except maybe if they make a Darwinia 2 Tbbbbbth!

2LT Worm · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject:

I'm psyched for this game. This is one of those games I can play with my buddies online due to my Macintosh handicap.

I'm stoked because there's no longer a stupid map supply limit. I can have literally hundreds of Goliaths and Siege Tanks. Hooah!