Starcraft 2

[JunkyII]

^   This!

[Tigger29]

Blizzard > EA.  Much more thorough in testing their games prior to release for bugs, balance, playability, etc. 

Personally I'm waiting until prices drop a little, as I was in the beta but wasn't terribly impressed.  My late middle school/early high school years were essentially burned on SC, and some of the changes from the original I can't say I enjoy.  However, I do plan on enjoying the single player campaign, in a slightly less frantic environment than multiplayer.  Maybe I was just younger and faster, but I simply couldn't enjoy the Beta due to the pace, which felt significantly faster than I remember.

My G/F got Sims3 right when it came out, and only within the last week was she able to actually play it, as it would lock up her computer on a regular basis.  Last week they came out with a patch and all has been well ever since.  So it's been... what... A year now? maybe longer?

Sims2 was the same way.. my ex-wife played it all the time but all kinds of quirky things happened until they finally patched it several months after its release.  Her characters would have a baby, but the baby would disappear and since it was gone they couldn't feed it or bathe it and family services would eventually come take it away LOL.

I have to say though, Sims2 was pretty clever... my ex- was playing a husband and wife... and while the wife was at work the husband invited the neighbor lady over and they were getting it on.  While this was happening, the wife's mother came by for a visit, saw the other woman and left.  The husband left for work later on.  The wife came home from work and her mom came over and visited.  Then the mom left.  Then the husband came home and the wife slapped him across the face!!! HAHA I was laughing my butt off!

Yes Blizzard does release patches, but these rarely have anything to do with reliability of the software.. it's usually little things like speed improvements, or balancing changes.. things like that.

[grizz441]

^   This!

I used to be a big starcraft broodwar player and that game was the most balanced real time strategy game I ever played.

[Kazaa]

Yea Im beginning to like it more..kinda confusing IMO at first.


Kazaa wanna get owned ?

My starcraft idea is same as here JunkyII

Lets go some Junky, what race do you play? Add me Kazaa.

[JunkyII]

Lets go some Junky, what race do you play? Add me Kazaa.

Terran or Toss.....Terran is kinda easy mode now though. Reapers = pwnage

[Die Hard]

Loved the classic game. The new one is also very good.

[Gman]

Wow, that was a crazy couple of days playing through the single player campaign.

Unbelievable game IMO, the animation is SICK, although the story is a little cheese-ish, wth, I was entertained.

I with the team would do a animated SC movie, I'd rather watch it than some Toy Story six or Shrek 15 anyday.

Highly recommended, even if you never played the first game.  If you did, they made a lot of stuff easier yet better..

[321BAR]

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.

IMO the only good RTS series of the last two decades are the C&C series until RA3, Warcraft, Starcraft, Age of Empires, and...yup got nothing else. Most of the older versions kept far away from DRM and until RA3 i hadn't had to deal with any online registration of any sort. My computer i run the higher games on is not connected and RA3 is still sitting in the box untouched.

[themaj]

Check Company of Heroes. Then add it to your list

[druski85]

Been playing SC2 on my buddy's 7 hour trial he sent me.  Will be purchasing it this evening, after seeing how fun the single player is. (beta I felt kind of meh about)  The pace still feels faster than original SC, but I have to support blizzard for putting out another great title.   

[Serenity]

So I've been thinking of picking up Starcraft II, but here's my issue: I am only running a 2.3GHz laptop with 4GB RAM and a Radeon 4650. Is this gonna be sufficient to run SC2?

[Gman]

I would say yes.  My notebook is a new gaming rig, but my home system is only a 5200+ 2.6 with 3 gigs ram and a 220 gt vid card, and I can play it fine at med to med-highish settings.

[JunkyII]

So I've been thinking of picking up Starcraft II, but here's my issue: I am only running a 2.3GHz laptop with 4GB RAM and a Radeon 4650. Is this gonna be sufficient to run SC2?

I have about the same with a bit of trouble in some spots but they have a way to turn your graphics down in-game.

[321BAR]

Check Company of Heroes. Then add it to your list

thats barely a series...

[Gman]

I've got 2 free 14 day trial keys in my SC2 box I just found, so if anybody wants to try it free and can stand to download the game, shoot me a PM and they are yours.


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