This is why you use children to fly your drones and tell them it's just a video game. All those awesome memories of killing terrans, protoss and zerg -- and I didn't even know I was mass murderer.

The Protoss bravely fight for Aiur.
They stand during times that are dire.
This cool cinematic
Shows events climactic?
Heck, that's why I'm a Starcraft buyer.

If the Iron Giant was played by a Protoss..

There's room for both. I do plenty of sports/activities, but I still enjoy watching people who are really good at them perform them at a high level.

And yeah, there are some sports I enjoy watching more than playing. My time is limited and for me, joining a rugby team or learning to be good at Starcraft would mean sacrificing another aspect of my life.

But a few hours to watch a game? That I can totally do.

oh and @poolcleaner? Protoss FTW!

When Wings of Liberty came out, I was sincerely excited for the reignition of a series that had given me so much joy with the first game. I held off of buying it on the first day to make sure that I wasn't getting a polished turd. As someone that rarely gets to play something more than once all the way through these days, I have to make sure that I am getting my money's worth. I watched many of my friends purchase SC2 and play through it within a disapointing amount of time. I can assure you that they did not "speed run" through it. That is all I am saying. I will wait for the trifecta, the triumvirate of all three elements. Marines, Zerg, and Protoss. The game will be so much better when I can get through the complete story line without having to wait 2 years for the next chapter.

As an old school protoss it makes me very sad that they are removing the iconic carrier and replacing it with such a functionally similar unit.

As a Zerg player it does make me happy to see Hydras actually being useful

>> ^Jinx:

to be fair, Protoss should pretty much always win against worker rush. Still quite entertaining. I think I like the bad manner cheesers pathetic insults at the end the most.


Any race should always win against a worker rush, as you have much more mining time and can build more workers than the rusher. The protoss had a 13 to 11 advantage, and could've built 3 more workers with the money he wasted on the forge.

to be fair, Protoss should pretty much always win against worker rush. Still quite entertaining. I think I like the bad manner cheesers pathetic insults at the end the most.

Ouch that last probe was a game changer, the guys losing it in the background is so epic!

That protoss should micro his probes when attacking, sending each weak probe to a mineral patch, like blink micro for probes lol

Nevermind, I don't even play protoss, or SC2 for that matter

Oh god, I hope that Protoss was just messin and tryin to win wit just cannons or wow is he bad.

And I normally don't much like the commentary on these vids, but they won me over when they started talking about the old Protoss voices.
BW Zealot: I LONG FOR COMBAT
SC2 Zealot: We cannot hold :*(

and thats why I play Zerg now :3

Basically, it's taking a huge chance that will almost guarantee your victory if the opponent doesn't pay attention in the very beginning. A coin flip, because if it doesn't work, you will lose 90 % of the time.
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

What is cheesing? It has something to do with Protoss cannons, right?

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

What is cheesing? It has something to do with Protoss cannons, right?


It's a tactic where you basically do an all in, very early attack where you opponent is most likely unprepared for it so early in the game. It's very easy to do and very hard to defend against without prior scouting.

What is cheesing? It has something to do with Protoss cannons, right?

Yah, it was pretty awful tbh. I upvoted mostly cos I like seeing e-sports on the sift, but honestly there have been better games.

Particularly frustrating to watch since I play Zerg. I've got into similar situations against Terran and often it really feels impossible to win lategame against an entrenched Tanks, Vikings, Thors, Ghosts etc. Partly its an issue of Terran having such a more efficient army in terms of both mineral/gas and supply but mostly I think it comes down to mules. Terran had 45 SCVs in the later stages of that game compared to Zergs 50ish, and that was after a nuke wiped out some 20-25 supply worth of drones. The fact Mules are supply free and can supersaturate the last remaining mining bases gives Terran such an advantage later on. Nestea could have handled it better, saccing drones for Spines/Hatcheries so he could remacro faster after he lost his army, but still its a really tough situation to deal with as Zerg imo, particularly on that map where the map is so often split down the middle with relatively safe expansions for both players and pretty tight choke point (well, for lategame) in the middle. I always endeavour to end Terran before they can get a 4th on that map because if I don't I know I'll likely lose later.

To win as Zerg there you really need to get on their production buildings and then begin to eat away at their army as best you can. Its suicide to directly engage their army and I've never had much success going for their economy unless I can complete deny the last remaining base, but generally I think its best to really deny them anything to spend their minerals/gas on.

Its funny, because for so long I whined about Terrans and Protoss never playing a macro game, always doing 1 base cheese as I struggled to get to midgame...now I wish they'd stop playing for the long game and go back to their allins . Talk about being careful what you wish for.

(Oh, last thing, to be fair I think Nestea could have won that last battle had EMP not hit all his Infestors. A couple of Fungals on those ghosts and they would have been revealed and died quite quickly to the Broods. On top of everything else in this game I think perhaps that EMP was really the killing blow)