Me. I work nights and i'm gonna make up some garbage so i can go to midnight release. Who all is calling in tuesday?
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Game » consists of 10 releases. Released Jul 27, 2010
The first chapter in the StarCraft II trilogy focuses on the struggles of the Terran race, as seen through the eyes of Commander Jim Raynor, leader of the rebel group Raynor's Raiders.
Who's calling in to work to play this game on release?
at my job we have to request our vacation days early in the year and once they're posted, that's it. sick days and personals are all that i have left.
I dont really get what the hype is about this game. I played starcraft back in the day and it was pretty great, but a shitload of RTS has hit the market mixing up the formula since then, like Dawn of War 2 with coversystems and squadbased tactics taking a large and much needed role. SC2 just seems like starcraft 1 with flashier graphics, am I missing something here?
And no im not a hardcore Korean RTS player, obviously :)
idk man. i never played the original and i was in the Beta for this and it was just so much fun. the giant bomb tournament hosted by Harris was fantastic! i haven't had my blood pumping like that from a video game in a long time. i just really enjoy this game and i haven't even played the campaign. that new Ghosts of the Past trailer makes me want to do just that.
Yeah that's why everyone hated SFIV so much. Who wants the old playstyle when we can have new and awesome stuff like Soul Calibur IV." I dont really get what the hype is about this game. I played starcraft back in the day and it was pretty great, but a shitload of RTS has hit the market mixing up the formula since then, like Dawn of War 2 with coversystems and squadbased tactics taking a large and much needed role. SC2 just seems like starcraft 1 with flashier graphics, am I missing something here? And no im not a hardcore Korean RTS player, obviously :) "
Most of my friend who love RTS games hated Dawn of War 2. Down of War 2 mix up the formula too much for most fans of RTS games.
Easy to play, easy to get in to, impossible to ever truly master makes it pretty much a pinnacle of competitive RTS play. Also, for singleplayer fans, Blizzard crafts a pretty mean story.
I still haven't understood what all the fuss is about StarCraft II, but I won't be one of those pulling a sicky to play it.
In fact, I probably won't end up playing it at all.
i really believe in the matchmaking system. i never played starcraft 1 and wasn't a big rts vet from command and conquer and i still managed to win almost 40% of my games in the beta. i feel like there will battlenet will be much more saturated with n00bs when the actual game comes out to and i don't believe people will have trouble finding like-skilled opponents. i think it's a shame that so many people keep saying they aren't interested in multiplayer due to all the starcraft pros.
Yeah, it's really not that bad. I played very little of SC and BW multiplayer, as I was always probably the worst player out of all my IRL friends so I got destroyed every time we played. I went from turtling with cannons and teching to carriers, to a player who ONLY massed Dragoons, to a somewhat below-average Terran player after watching some SlayerS_Boxer replays, but I stopped shortly after that.
And yet I'm finding decent success at SC2. I was put into Bronze league after my placement matches in phase 1, where I only played around 10 games total before the beta went down. In phase 2, I was placed into Silver and actually had a better than .500 record, to the point where I was being pitted against players in the Gold, Plat and Diamond leagues. A lot of that had to do with watching a lot of Day[9] dailies I believe, as it really tightened up my play. Getting a build order down, making sure money stays low, not getting supply blocked, etc, so I strongly agree with neozephyrox.
Anyways... I work an early shift tomorrow, so I will be able to attend the midnight launch of SC2 no problem. But I do have work the following day (and all the rest of the week as well =/), so my playtime will be somewhat limited. *sigh*
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