Starcraft 2

I can't wait for the game. Im building myself a new PC just for when it releases =)

Wish I got to play it to...

starcraft isnt math.

its memorization, control, and on the spot thinking. i guess you can say koreans have a larger brain capacity then americans.

doing 400+ APM while trying to predict what your opponent is going to do and what you're going to do next. = very very hard

HECK YES! i wana play it soooooo bad, after all i am a star craft fan at heart.

And Starcraft has a lot to do with math.

Originally posted by MSBMichael Name was SLayeRS

Boxer? o.O

Anyhow, I can't wait to play it. I haven't played SC in years, and I wasn't too good at it, but man, I love watching some of the games. Go go Nal_rA!

Originally posted by KnightTemplar I was playing the demo a few weeks ago and there's still people setting up multiplayer games... This game is what? 8 years old?

It just gets better with time. StarCraft has achieved almost perfect balance in an RTS, or as close as you can get to true "balance". For every strategy, there is a counter. The game itself has longevity because of it.

I personally enjoy the Command & Conquer series as well, but all you really have to do, is spam one unit. I've played a good amount of C&C3 on my 360, and if you played against GDI, you were going to get Mammoth rushed, if you played against Scrin, the PACs would come in full force. I never really played against NOD too often, most people seem to have gone with either GDI or Scrin. Anyhow, of course that's generalizing a bit, but for the most part, you could go in, and without much actual strategy.

StarCraft on the other hand, you couldn't do that. If you were playing a balanced map, such as Lost Temple, or Luna, and not a money map, or a map where they clump 40k minerals and 6 geysers in one area, you could come across a few people going with cheese strategies like massing cannons, and such, but it wouldn't work against a decently skilled player. That's what keeps the game fresh. You have a multitude of choices, and viable strategies, and while some are better than others, it isn't straight "build 50 of these and rush", not that you should be able to build that many units at the start of a game, anyhow.

Yeah, and another problem with the spamming Battlecruisers and carriers, is that they took up a lot of resources, took some time to build (especially if you're building them en mass), and were slow once they were up in the air. All of those factors discouraged the use of building the one, most powerful, unit.

And even then, a group of carriers isn't an instant win against a skilled player, well depending on the opposing force. One thing that was nice about carriers, against people who aren't too micro intensive, is all the little interceptors flying around. If you just send you're units into the fray, they'll pretty much attack the first thing they see. But if you have all of your units focus fire on one carrier, they go down quick.

I love Starcraft, I've been playing for 9 years and can't wait for SC2 to come out. It almost never gets boring. I have my own clan and everything, and its very easy to take care of.  I'm Clinton-@useast.