StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Forum

After having had a chance to play the game at the Blizzard World Wide Invitational, I would have to say that playing it safe is a bad thing. The game felt so similar to the first one that they might as well have called it Starcraft: Face-Lift Edition. I still love the first one, and I agree whole heartedly that it is essentially perfect. I just personally feel that Blizzard needs to wake up to the developments in the RTS genre over the last 10 years. I think the best example is of shifting focus off of base building. Company of Heroes and even Battle for Middle Earth are great examples of games that reward the player for map control and not base building. The weird thing is that Blizzards seems to be trying to shoehorn that stuff into Starcraft II, while retaining the old mineral and vespene gas collection. By that I mean they have made it so that Vespene geisers deplete insanely fast, forcing the player to expand to other geisers. I understand how a radical shift would annoy many players, but I would love to see a new Starcraft that doesn't feel 10 years old. If you want that play the original, it still has legs even after 10 years.

Wow that was insanely long winded, for that I apologize.