gollemn

...or at least is planning on getting it at some point? I know I am

Blizzard fucking kills every single game they put out, both with their story line and their game play. Add to it the fact that SC2 can give you limitless amounts of alternative games in their 'use map settings' games (DotA, Tower Defense, etc. etc.), and that these sorts of games have a ton of lasting power (people still play SC1 and Warcraft III, both the traditional game and the custom games), I think it's well worth the ~$60 price tag.

The only thing I'm ticked about is that they split the game up into 3 campaigns so they can milk the franchise for all it's worth. We'll see if I'm willing to cough up the additional $120 to play the Protoss and Zerg campaigns (probably won't).

For those of you who don't know what starcraft is, or have played it but want a recap in ~5 min., check out this video.

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/85012...0b.html?show=hi

The Ziess

wait, the terran zerg and protoss all have their own individual game?

The Ziess

im pretty sure that you only need one copy of the game to play all three races...

IARainman

you mean one of these?

gollemn

Yeah, to play all 3 races online, you only need the first game. But I'm sure the other 2 games, in addition to simply continuing the story line, will come out with new units/etc. a la Brood War in order to get people to buy it.

The Ziess

so sc2 is the terran single player campaign and then another game will be zerg single player and so on?

gollemn

Yeah. The SC2 coming out today is "Wings of Liberty," which is JUST the terran campaign. Blizzard will be releasing the Protoss and Zerg campaigns separately in the future, with no time table given for either.

Otto

eventually ill probably get it, gonna see how it all pans out, but im expecting it to be pretty good. but tonight ill be in the final fantasy 14 beta

The Ziess

weak. im probably not buying it now

gollemn

Yeah, it pisses me off that they did it that way. They CLAIM that the reason they're doing it that way is because they had SO much content that they didn't want to leave out that they split it up into 3 releases, but that each release will have the same amount of content as the entirety of one of the originals. In other words, Wings of Liberty is supposedly going to have the same amount of campaign content as the entirety of the first Star Craft.

I don't know if I buy that, and I don't know how they're going to make THAT much content still feel new and fresh throughout. I'm assuming it's going to be kinda like Warhammer 40k, where you don't HAVE to play all the levels/content if you don't want to. In WH40k, they have a main story arc that you can follow, but you also can choose to go on a bunch of side missions along the way that help upgrade your troops, get you cooler items, etc. It doesn't progress the story line, and they get kinda repetitive because they're variations on the same 2 or 3 missions, but it's still 'new content', I suppose, since it's on different worlds with different enemies.

Either way, I'm still going to get it. I haven't been disappointed by a blizzard product yet, so until I am, despite my criticisms, I'll still pay.

gollemn

For those of you who are interested, you can actually download the game itself right now, you just can't activate/play it until midnight tonight (not sure if it's EST or PST). You pay when you activate it.

High&Mighty

are you doing spending money on video games when you don't even have a job?

Scuba

I know right?! I just got a 1 TB external HD....


<< Unemployed...

High&Mighty

Yeah but you are kind of unemployed for the interm by choice aren't you?

You said you had cash stashed until school started. Or was that someone else?

Anyway, Gollemn is who we are talking about.

MissKittyKaye

dorks

JSClark

There's a 14th coming out???

I'm missing my PS3 right about now - ended up selling it. I was working on 13 as well

86Camaro

I'm still waiting for diablo III

JSClark

You and the rest of the Blizzard fanbois..... including myself

gollemn

That'll be another year minimum.