It seems that I'm alone in this. Almost everyone I know has played starcraft but me and it was because I could never get into rts games. Should I just bite the bullet and pre order it now or just stay away. I'm pretty sure a lot of people are going to be getting this.

I personally suck ass at RTS games. I used to play age of empires all the time on easy and just build everything up. When I tried to play it online or even against my sister, I would get my ass kicked. So be warned if you are anything like me, multilayer is going to chew you up and spit you out.

Hit up the Starcraft Battle Chest and see what it's about. It's going to be your best indicator of whether you're going to enjoy # 2

you obviously haven't played the right RTS games. alot of people think RTS's start and stop with the Blizzard games( Warcraft and Starcraft) but they are soooooo wrong. I reccomend playing some other RTS games before SC2. 
 
 
Examples:
 Medieval 2 Total War
Company of Heroes
Demigod
Red Alert 3
World in Conflict
Warhammer 40k Dawn of War+ add ons(not Dawn of war 2 though it's less RTS and more rpg)
Order of War
Dungeon Keeper

" It seems that I'm alone in this. Almost everyone I know has played starcraft but me and it was because I could never get into rts games. Should I just bite the bullet and pre order it now or just stay away. I'm pretty sure a lot of people are going to be getting this. "

I played the motherfucking SHIT out of Warcraft 3 and Starcraft, but only as custom games or for fun. 
 
It's only recently that I got into serious vanilla competitive RTS. I am going to be taking SC2 very seriously. 

Competitive RTS is terrifying to me. I always wanted to get into it, but never could. I would say try starting out with Starcraft 1 and at least warm up.

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I usually only play RTSs agains the computer, but I might try to play SC2 online too.

" Hit up the Starcraft Battle Chest and see what it's about. It's going to be your best indicator of whether you're going to enjoy # 2 "

You should just buy it but don't jump directly into ladder.
 
If you have no experience with RTS, you'll get completely destroyed. 
 
I recommend you start by playing custom games or compstomps. They'll at least help you get some of the basic mouse/keyboard'ing skills you'll need for ladder.

" @HairyMike87:   The game will be great, but it isn't probably the best place to start. Maybe you should start with the first Starcraft or Warcraft III.   This one won't have LAN, it will feature a improved Battle.net ( = more expensive) and the online play will be murderous.   "

No offense, but that's not great advice. Starcraft:BW is so much different from SC2 at this point, and if you consider the SC2 multiplayer competition to be hard, you can't even imagine what it's like on BW.

Also, WC3 is a completely different kind of RTS.

Just go put a $5 preorder on the game at gamestop to get a beta code when the beta goes back up. Don't worry about getting crushed when playing online, SC2 is going to be absolutely huge, and there will be plenty of people just like you who aren't great at the game. Plus, the matchmaking has been pretty good in the beta.

I can beat the hardest level AI in Age of Empires II, but I've never wanted to take those skills online because I don't like people and will take any steps necessary to avoid them. I don't feel that playing against an AI in an RTS/TBS is really any worse than playing against a human being; in fact the only genre I think is actively better when played with real people is fighting games.
 
I'm not really a PC gamer anymore, and I never played the original StarCraft because as I said, AoE II was my RTS love, so I'll doubt I'll get into it. Maybe if the single player is good.

Lots of people are starting RTS'ing with Starcraft II. There's a lot of WoW players coming over to actual gaming because of SCII ;-)