Starcraft 2

[BoilerDown]

Blizzard doesn't do DRM.  They do unique registry numbers that pretty much makes games impossible to resell.

They did do that recent forum deal where they were going to require you to post under your real name, but they backed off of that on the WoW forums at least.  I don't know about the Starcraft forums.

I thought Skuzzy was saying he was afraid of being infected and being unable to quit playing.  Which is a legitimate fear given Blizzard's past RTS games.

It should be easy enough to find out ahead of time what, if any, DRM is included when the Starcraft2 reviews start coming out.  I expect it to be similar to World of Warcraft... in that you get a long code that you have to enter and that registers the software under your username.  Which I hope doesn't mean you have to be online to play in single player mode, but it might.

Its interesting that Skuzzy didn't play Starcraft 1, given how liberal their DRM, if you can even call it that, was.  With the spawned copies and all, it made it very easy to take your PC to a friend's house who didn't have the game and legally play against them.  Did that many times.

All that said, I'm taking Calc 2 this summer and don't want to get wrapped up in a game I potentially can't put down until my class is over.  So in a couple weeks I'll have time to read some reviews and if they are positive, I'll buy it, then have 3 weeks to plow through the game until the fall semester starts.

[Skuzzy]

I did not play Starcraft 1 because I did not know about it.  I recall seeing it on the shelf, but the pictures on the box did not look all that interesting.

I like a good RTS.  Blizzard writes pretty good code as well, although I am not a fan of them using the BitTorrent libraries for thier updates/patches.

I hope it is a success for them.

[Gman]

KEKEKEKE ZERG RUSH ^_^

[Babalonian]

BitTorrent updates were implemented after the WoW popularity surge in which a patch day typically meant at some point or another the main Blizzard website was going to go down or be inaccessible due to the patch download traffic... typicaly sometime between 1pm and 4pm PST as everyone on the east coast started getting home and logging on, this gave you a three hour window after the servers came back up (between 10am and 1pm) of achieving a quick and trouble-free patch download.  At the time the best way to patch on a major patch day after the official servers started to bog down and "eat it" was to actually download the patch from a third-party site that blizzard opted to host the file on (IE: fileplanet), but even these started to have problems shortly before the BitTorrent patcher due to the volume of demand/downloads overflowing to the third-party download hosting sites, and often the original file would degrade and be bugged until fileplanet got around to reseting it.  I'm not a fan of the BitTorrent patcher either, but honestly given the scale and demand for the file on the date of the patch going live it's probabley one of the few examples of when using such a means made sence and overall improved the patching process.  After 48 hours the rush was over though and it was best to just download it straight from the Blizzard servers.

Starcraft wise, the first was a fun game and I loved the storylines, but multiplayer was nuts but surprisingly subpar in my terms of a strategical challenge, too many elitists spamming the same order of construction for their base and units as the other guy with the one who could spam the same buttons in the same order the fastest winning.  Personaly I'm waiting for the new Diablo.

KEKEKEKE ZERG RUSH ^_^

See, that's a really challenging multiplayer strategy game when everyone is just doing the same "best for suceeding" strategy as the other, with "the best" being those who can memorize a string of commands and then execute them in that order the fastest.

I give it 3-4 weeks of people getting their kicks outa zerg rushes and the single player storyline before the game plummets in popularity with exception to those who preffer that particular style and challenge of multiplayer gaming.

[Beefcake]

Starcraft wise, the first was a fun game and I loved the storylines, but multiplayer was nuts but surprisingly subpar in my terms of a strategical challenge, too many elitists spamming the same order of construction for their base and units as the other guy with the one who could spam the same buttons in the same order the fastest winning. 

And of course you had me the Terran waller that would close of the entrance to my base and use a million bunkers + siege tanks to kill off the Warrior/Zergling spammer. Starcraft is one of the few games that I still play on a regular basis, the others being Aces High 2 and Battlefield 1942 Forgotten Hope.

Blizzard knows how to make great games, I would probably quit my job and never leave my room if they came out with a Starcraft MMORPG.

[JunkyII]

Nothing 2 or 3 Zealots cant handle HAHAHAHA

[Saxman]

I never played the original, (I preferred Warcraft II) but it's great seeing legendary series' get dusted off and brought back to life. If only someone would buy the rights to Aces of the Pacific....

[chewie86]

I'm going to buy it in less than 1 hour hoping to find some copies, I played the original with a friend of mine and used to pwn most of the people on the italian channel back in 2001. I'll tell you my gameID when I get it and register junky, then I'll own you on SC2 because just on AH2 isnt enough. [/steam]  

 

btw I dont mind about DRM skuzzy, my iMac doesnt know what it is [/bite-skuzzy-ftw]. 

[JunkyII]

I'm going to buy it in less than 1 hour hoping to find some copies, I played the original with a friend of mine and used to pwn most of the people on the italian channel back in 2001. I'll tell you my gameID when I get it and register junky, then I'll own you on SC2 because just on AH2 isnt enough. [/steam]  

 

btw I dont mind about DRM skuzzy, my iMac doesnt know what it is [/bite-skuzzy-ftw]. 

dont make me laugh Chewi!!!

[Skuzzy]

I'm going to buy it in less than 1 hour hoping to find some copies, I played the original with a friend of mine and used to pwn most of the people on the italian channel back in 2001. I'll tell you my gameID when I get it and register junky, then I'll own you on SC2 because just on AH2 isnt enough. [/steam]  

 

btw I dont mind about DRM skuzzy, my iMac doesnt know what it is [/bite-skuzzy-ftw].  

Yes, but your iMac cannot natively play 99% of the games I have on my shelf I do enjoy playing.  

If you have to boot Windows on your iMac. so you can play a game, your iMac is just as effected by DRM as any other computer.  

[1701E]

Always a few extra perks for going to the midnight release.



Get some discounts from EVGA and other companies with the Midnight Release card, some chances to win free games/prizes (like I'll ever win, but ya never know), and a free poster of which there were only about 10 at our store.
 

[Tec]

Damn I was expecting WoW with aliens.  I would dig this game, but I think my machine may not.

[Saxman]

Damn I was expecting WoW with aliens.  I would dig this game, but I think my machine may not.

Nothing like WoW whatsoever. Now, if you'd said WarCraft or WarCraft II you'd been on to something (DAMN it. Drives me absolutely crazy that ever since WoW came out everyone has forgotten WarCraft started as strategy games. Even the movie that's being proposed is based on WoW and not the original games....)

[Tec]

Saxman, I still have WC2 BNE and would love to play some time if you want.  Which is why this looks so appealing to me.

[Beefcake]

Saxman, I still have WC2 BNE and would love to play some time if you want.  Which is why this looks so appealing to me.

I still have WC1 but my system has trouble playing it.