Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Here is why StarCraft 2 is a piece of shit

[quote name="Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)"]At the recommendation of a few people over at Jonsey's other board, I tried downloading the free version of Star Craft 2 to see if it was interesting enough to maybe buy. Well, I complained because it appears that the only thing I can get into is initially the mission where you have to defend three supply depots against what I called "hungry animals" that I find out later that are called the Zerg. Every time I try the Zerg mission I lose on the first depot. A user on that board, whose handle is Pinback, tells me I need to choose one of the easier missions in the game, first, instead of getting killed off in the Zerg mission. Okay, try one of the campaigns. Oh, sorry, you have to have the paid edition. Okay, try the other one. Oh, sorry, you have to have the paid mission. So, in simple terms, the only thing I can try on this goddamn game is the fucking Zerg mission, which has the exact same problem that I hate with these fucking games lately, the minimum, least difficult, and easiest mission equates to something where the weakest enemy is twice as tough as the Cyberdemon in Doom, and the game is as difficult as the player vs. AI games in Quake III Arena. It's like these game designers have no understanding that "easy" does not mean someone who only plays video games 4 hours a day, 5 days a week. It should conceivably include people who have no experience in the game. Well, on that the tutorials, which explain how to use the interface, are good. But the learning curve isn't merely steep, it's basically a 90 degree angle! And I declare Starcraft 2 to be essentially unplayable. As soon as I honor my promise to my friend to do a co-op mission with him I am erasing this piece of shit so I can save 12 gigs of space. I mean, I have to be careful, disk space is precious, I only have about 1.3 terabytes left. "A billion bytes here, a billion there and soon we're talking real disk space." - Paraphrased from Everett Dirkson on the Federal Budget. Or it might have been some other politician. Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) _________________ "The lessons of history teach us - if they teach us anything - that no one learns the lessons that history teaches us." [/quote]