I tend to agree. While the story isn't bad, the majority of starcraft players are in it for the competitive multiplayer.

the starcraft saga is one of the most interesting video game stories ever told, fucker

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If you have realistic unit scaling, then a Battlecruiser can easily be worth thousands of marines, and hundreds of tanks. Then an individual marine becomes meaningless, and you're now talking about commanding entire companies or battalions, which can easily become overhwhelming and tedious.

I've always thought of the battles in starcraft as abstract representations, and when you get treated to a CG movie, that's a brief glimpse of what "really" goes on during that battle.

@rychan, so the CGI cinematic is not representative of actual gameplay? Well, that's a first!

Can you imagine trying to play starcraft if units were to scale?
From that video, an ultralisk is about the size of an aircraft carrier and a battle cruiser seems to be like a decent sized city. It'd be impossible to control.

I did this to pay off student debt, but I had a nice couch to sleep on in a communal apartment where anywhere from 4 to 10 people were living at a time. There were 2 rooms, 4 primary beds, 2 couches, and several bean bag chairs. Luckily, most of us had jobs, so it was a very comfortable, if not crowded living. All good people and gamers, so wake up and see who is playing what game. Usually DotA, Counter Strike, some new FPS, original Starcraft, or WoW. We didn't even have to give up technology. Hahaha! Sucker.

@ghark there are some different issues with it. One is that you can "stream snipe", which means timing your finding match to the streamer, increasing the chances of getting matched up against him. that in itself isn't necessarily so bad, but it is essentially griefing.

The other is that if you add delay to your stream, you lose fundamental ability to interact with your viewers, which makes the stream much less entertaining for both parties.

A huge part of Starcraft is scouting what your opponent is doing and reacting to that, and being able to see the whole map negates that and gives you an extremely unfair advantage. It's like looking over the shoulder of someone else you're playing against, or looking into the cards of a poker player you're playing against.

Whenever I see the thumbnail of this video I think "OOOOOO! a new Starcraft video made it to the top 15!" but then I click on it and become disappointed...

Short answer: I like it.

It's much like Diablo 2, but simplified in a number of game design ways. You level up much faster than in D2, and to have it feel good you should really use the auction house to get new items - some times something drops that is better than what you can find for reasonable amounts of gold, and that still feels brilliant.

The launch was shit, but it's much more stable now, so I feel alright about it. I've gotten used to always online from starcraft and MMOs, so I don't think that's an issue.

I only just hit level 60 and started inferno, but I really enjoy running around to get the nephalem valor buff (every time you kill a champion, rare or boss you get a half hour buff with +25 % magic find that stacks up to 5 times). Chasing that and getting drops is fun.

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what you think of diablo3?
and be honest.

>> ^gwiz665:

At 17 (5 PM for you 12h types) I go back home and play starcraft or diablo or @Lann

There's a great LAN/Lann party pun in here somewhere.

PsYstarcraft FTW! The dude is seriously funny (and a ferocious good player), find some of his Starcraft 2 drunk-casts.

I work as a game programmer, mainly in UI. We work in Unity3D with C#.


I get up at 8(ish), brush my teeth and take the bus to work. Get in at 9, set down and work on awesome stuff. At 17 (5 PM for you 12h types) I go back home and play starcraft or diablo or @Lann.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

They move like Starcraft squads.

Pfft, I wish my Dragoons moved like that :3

They move like Starcraft squads.

I've been live streaming a bit of Diablo 3 beta and starcraft, and I use Xsplit for it. It is vastly superior to the alternatives that I've seen. http://www.xsplit.com/ You can record offline as well.