The StarCraft II Launch and Discussion Post

[kal9390]

Give me crossfire support SC2!!!

 

[robwright]

Anyone else worried that it...(gulp) might not be as good as we'd hoped? I'm not talking about the reasons cited above (DRM, no LAN support, etc.), just the game content itself.

What if the next three games turn out to be like the Star Wars prequels? Imagine the chaos. There will be a bloodbath civil war between SC fanboys that will threaten to shut down every gaming/tech forum north of Mexico! South Korea will have to be split in two -- again!!! Gaming journalist will herald the death of PC gaming and then start beating each other with their spiral-bound notebads (actually, I have no problem with this)! Blizzard release an SC2 console version... for the Wii!!! Activision Blizzard will commission Neversoft and Treyarch to make StarCraft: Ghost!!! Boby Kotick will displace Mike Morhaime!!! It will be mass hysteria!!!! You maniacs!!! You blew it!!!!

Oh, who I am kidding. It's going to great...

 

[Guest]

No LAN? LAME - i didn't know this, won't be getting it now. What were they thinking?????? What an utter crock of sh!t

 

[hoofhearted]

There will be LAN, it just won't come from Blizzard.

 

[Reynod]

I think we need Rob writing some of this stuff Markus ... or at least in charge of the wargames off the coast of South Korea.

What do you think?

 

[stevelord]

Considering the additions they made to SC1 post retail, amongst what they've done with other games...LAN mode is not impossible.

 

[coldmast]

I finally get to build my computer for this game!

 

[theguy82]

If only I was into RTS games :/

 

[Maxor127]

Not interested in this. I tried playing the first Starcraft but it bored me. I think RTSes bore me in general now. I haven't really liked one since Myth II. Maybe one day I'll get around to finishing the first game, but I definitely won't be getting this at least until the inevitable Battle Chest version.

 

[dark_lord69]

I didn't go to the midnight opening. My wife wouldn't have been happy about that since we both work today and I wouldn't have stayed up super late to play it after I bought it anyways... But I plan on selling Final Fantasy 13 and using the cash from that to help pay for SC2.

 

[L0tus]

Will buy later in the year.

...it'll still be there. Seriously, I don't understand these consumer frenzies!!!

 

[zak_mckraken]

I'm gonna get the regular version and I'll probably wait a week or 2 for the madness to drop a bit! I wasn't restlessly waiting for that game, but I'll sure enjoy the single-player campaign.

 

[animehair]

midnight launch was great...i was chattn' with some hardcore players...then I thought some trivia was in order...so I asked "hey remember when they ported SC to the Nintendo64?" The one guy looked at me blankly...then I asked him how old he was...he just turned 18...I'm going to be 31 next week! He was talkn' like he had been playing SC for years! hahah. Good stuff....im sure he could still kick my butt.

 

[kio54]

collectors edition all the way!

thank god i got this week off from work

 

[robwright]

[citation][nom]animehair[/nom]midnight launch was great...i was chattn' with some hardcore players...then I thought some trivia was in order...so I asked "hey remember when they ported SC to the Nintendo64?" The one guy looked at me blankly...then I asked him how old he was...he just turned 18...I'm going to be 31 next week! He was talkn' like he had been playing SC for years! hahah. Good stuff....im sure he could still kick my butt.[/citation]

I feel ya. I still have my N64 version. Hence my previous (attempt at a) joke regarding a forthcoming Wii version....

 

[bildo123]

[citation][nom]not4me[/nom]I'll buy it when they release the other 2/3 of the game. I played SC2 for the story line, so...yeah. Sorry but $180 dollars for 1 game is a bit too much imo.[/citation]

I was curious, can anyone confirm with unquestionable certainty that the other "releases/expansions" will in fact be $59.99?

 

[koss64]

So many people enthusiastic about buying a standard edition pc game for $60, have we become sheep now?

 

[chiral]

[citation][nom]koss64[/nom]So many people enthusiastic about buying a standard edition pc game for $60, have we become sheep now?[/citation]

If it were any other video game, I'd be upset at the thought of paying 60$. But it's a Blizzard game, they have never created a game with poor quality. You will get what you pay for with this, I'm sure of it.

 

[03RAH03]

It has less content than the original Starcraft and costs three times as much. No lan support? So I would have to buy multiple copies to play with my friends, family?

Starcraft 2 is inferior to the first in everyway except for graphics, and costs three times as much. The original also includes the expansion.

Gameplay>Graphics

 

[itadakimasu]

I got it for $45 off of Dell.com a few days ago. Hoping to get it in the mail tomorrow.

 

[xerroz]

Not impressed by Sc2, i'll be sticking to Heroes of Newerth. Battlenet was ok but battle.net 2.0 is just horrible, youre barely getting any of the features the old one gave and youre paying more than the average pc game. So no thank you. Im not even gonna get it just for the map editor as heroes of newerth is getting one soon anyway so ill be able to play the same good old maps i used to back in Warcraft 3.

 

[itadakimasu]

[citation][nom]03RAH03[/nom]It has less content than the original Starcraft and costs three times as much. No lan support? So I would have to buy multiple copies to play with my friends, family?Starcraft 2 is inferior to the first in everyway except for graphics, and costs three times as much. The original also includes the expansion.Gameplay>Graphics[/citation]

Orly? Have you seen any of the custom maps/games created w\ the SC2 engine? And... who buys it for the campaign? More people were playing the original starcraft than MW2 when MW2 first came out.

You should look at the pricing in a sense for game play time. You're not going to just play for 5 hours and then trade it in or let it collect dust like most other games. it offers basically infinite replay value.

 

[xerroz]

[citation][nom]itadakimasu[/nom]Orly? Have you seen any of the custom maps/games created w\ the SC2 engine? And... who buys it for the campaign? More people were playing the original starcraft than MW2 when MW2 first came out. You should look at the pricing in a sense for game play time. You're not going to just play for 5 hours and then trade it in or let it collect dust like most other games. it offers basically infinite replay value.[/citation]
The fact that you will be paying for the most popular custom maps makes it even more of an annoyance (if your map was popular, why wouldn't someone charge for it?)

 

[03RAH03]

[citation][nom]itadakimasu[/nom]Orly? Have you seen any of the custom maps/games created w\ the SC2 engine? And... who buys it for the campaign? More people were playing the original starcraft than MW2 when MW2 first came out. You should look at the pricing in a sense for game play time. You're not going to just play for 5 hours and then trade it in or let it collect dust like most other games. it offers basically infinite replay value.[/citation]

Custom maps and games arent that interesting to me. Most mods these days are of low quality and scope. More people were playing the original starcraft than MW2? I dont know if that is true, but I am sure more people will be playing Starcraft than Starcraft 2.

If I look at pricing in sense of game play time, Starcraft wins. Perhaps it has alot of replayability, but Im sure I would tire of it well before its worth 60, or 120 if I want to play with my fiance.

 

[Guest]

Preordered from Best Buy and got it Monday afternoon! YA!!!!