I found the game to be extremely entertaining and am enjoying it a great deal. I feel that the interface has been... Well, vastly doesn't even begin to describe the ease with which Starcraft 2 flows in every respect over Starcraft 1. The new battlenet is -amazing-. I've been playing games against random people all day and the manner in which is sets these, dare I say, discreet rendezvous is titillating.
My gameplay virtually smolders with unspoken lust.
The story was entertaining and, I feel, very well executed given the platform. Given that it's an RTS I'm more impressed that they've delivered enough of a story to set the virgins of the world ablaze with indignation over the likelihood of Mar Sara being a world of smoldering glass or the verdant paradise which is presented.
Furthermore Kerrigan's hair was a lighter shade of red in SC 1 than in SC 2. I'm writing Blizzard to demand they explain this oversight. So don't get too invested, I expect the game to be recalled shortly.
One thing which I find rather annoying is the lack of support for extra-regional play. Most of the people I play with are outside of the states (as most of the disco people I know of who play SC within the USA annoy me something fierce).
' Wrote:Furthermore Kerrigan's hair was a lighter shade of red in SC 1 than in SC 2. I'm writing Blizzard to demand they explain this oversight. So don't get too invested, I expect the game to be recalled shortly.
:lol::lol::lol:
Im not going to lie, I don't really care about the storyline in SC 2. I mean the dialogue in that game is enough reason to flinch in agony or burst with laughter at the sheer corniness. "Raynor's the best!", "Kick Dominon's ass!", etc. The game looks very well done in terms of both graphics and gameplay. That, in my opinion, should matter the most.
Small update. There seems to be an extreme weakness with the battlenet ranking system. I'm a very, very average player at best and I just secured a position in gold by, apparently, winning 3/2 matches.
I've heard of others dropping into platinum by simply winning all of their placement fights. Oft their opponents were of negligible skill at best.
The system they're employing to rank players feels like it needs a great deal of review. I know I am not one level below world class SC players. So don't be shocked if you play your five placement rounds and end up in platinum XD
I'm disappointed with how difficult they made getting new portraits >.> To get any non-terran portrait, you've got to manage almost a dozen 1v1 wins in quick match or ranked games. I never liked 1v1 much, always quite imbalanced based on whatever race you picked. Protoss kill zerg kill terrans kill protoss, the whole rock-paper-scissors thing is bs balance mentality if you ask me.
They should've just gone with the old system used in warcraft 3, win 10 games as protoss and you get your first protoss portrait, is that such a difficult concept? Why do they have to be 1v1 games >.>
' Wrote:I never liked 1v1 much, always quite imbalanced based on whatever race you picked. Protoss kill zerg kill terrans kill protoss, the whole rock-paper-scissors thing is bs balance mentality if you ask me.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying 1 vs 1 is pointless because one race is certain to beat another?
If that is what you're saying can you be more specific with which races are certain to win? That'd be handy knowledge.
I purchased the game for my son and I a couple of days ago. I dabbled with SC1 a few years back, but my son has gotten more involved in it of late. In most aspects, we both think that SC2 is a vast improvement over its predecessor. That said, we both were dissappointed in the lack of LAN capabilities. And that you need to log on to Battlenet to play campaign or against the AI. The cash flow must be low at Blizzard HQ.
As far as its plot and storyline go, it's not life-changing stuff buts it's entertaining enough. I think of it as a tasty RTS cake with a thin layer of RPG icing.
During the Beta-phase, Terrans got some buffs while the Protoss felt a few relentless bops of the nerf bat. The Protoss Mother Ship is a shadow of its former self. That said, I think the balance between races is reasonable. It helps to remember that each race has its own core strategy.
I like it. Terran is a way too strong in my opinion, people with good unit control would smash everything that moves with it.It needs a nerf a bit, anyway Zerg tactic seems to be changed a bit we will see after the patches.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
' Wrote:During the Beta-phase, Terrans got some buffs while the Protoss felt a few relentless bops of the nerf bat. The Protoss Mother Ship is a shadow of its former self. That said, I think the balance between races is reasonable. It helps to remember that each race has its own core strategy.
Amusingly enough TvP is my weakest matchup (I favor playing Terran but I'm dabbling with 'toss). Protoss units are capable of -really- taking advantage of Terran immobility with voidray harass and warpgates. 4 warpgate all ins are frikin devastating and very, very hard to respond to if you're caught unprepared. Furthermore Protoss are usually very safe relying on one base until they can establish their doom army.
The reason I generally fair poorly against Protoss is that a well executed Protoss 4 gate or robotic build demands that I play much less aggressively. Ghosts and leapfrogging siege tanks is generally the best response to such tactics. However a tank/ghost/marine/viking army is insanely immobile and leaves you open to a great deal of harass back at home.
The point of this post is that the above statement can be applied to any race in response to any race. Don't fall into a Tenacity mentality, any race can handily defeat any race. It just demands experience with the extremely diverse roundup of scenarios you might find yourself in.