Forum Overview :: Starcraft 2

You should keep playing by fabio 04/24/2012, 9:16pm PDT Even if it's with cheat codes, keep playing until you get to the point where it's revealed that the Zerg were really innocent noble pawns being controlled by space demons, just like Warcraft 3 and probably just like the upcoming Diablo 3. "Inflated self-importance" is the worst disease in gaming right now. Keep playing until you get to the hilarious joke of the "i-Pistol" ads on the TV. It's an i-Pod ad, except it's a pistol. Does this pistol do anything that's at least a clever mix of parody between gun owners and Apple? Nope, it's a carbon copy of an i-Pod ad with a white pistol in place of an mp3 player; people are even rocking out to music with headphones plugged into the pistol. How is this even a joke? Even a Mad Libs reader would chalk that up as a failure. The zombie mission is the only good level in the game. The multiplayer is actually not a terrorist worse than Starcraft 1, even the original game before the Brood War expansion where a good chunk of units were useless or overpowered. In SC1 you kept building up a series of trumps and counter trumps where spell casting units could lay waste to entire armies so you had to snipe them with special assassin units so in turn you had to set up a picket line of other units to block the assassins as both sides kept baiting each other to commit. If someone mindlessly spammed a single unit, a decent player could use special units to get 10:1 kill ratios or better. SC2 is unit spam. Sure some units perform a little better against others but it's 90% who has the bigger army. A top level player even has an instructional video series for new players that drills into their heads "forget army composition and tactics, it's all about income and production". The spellcasting units are a shitload weaker so it's just a blobfest. It feels like one of those RTSs like Age of Empires or Total Annihilation where you're not so much fighting wars as you are just rubbing economies against each other until one grinds the other into the ground through attrition. You're lucky to pull off 1.3:1 kill ratios now with smart army composition and tactics. How big of a failure was SC2? The expansion is all but admitting they fucked everything up and all the new units are just copies of the old Brood War units or undoing all the changed units (replacing the giant Thor mech with a smaller version that's just a Goliath from SC1). Who knew Metzin could ruin so much.

The correct review. by Claborsarls 04/23/2012, 5:56am PDT     I'm looking forward to if you guys are bad at Skullgirls and how that effects yo NT by ur opinion on it. Worm 04/23/2012, 9:03am PDT     Who the fuck plays SC2 in single player? by This is Chris's Blood 04/23/2012, 9:50am PDT         Single Player SC2 was an entertaining diversion. by Oom Shnibble 04/23/2012, 11:20am PDT             Yes by Arbit 04/23/2012, 1:35pm PDT                 clarification by Arbit 04/23/2012, 2:00pm PDT     You should keep playing by fabio 04/24/2012, 9:16pm PDT         well the demo doesn't allow me to play all the missions I downloaded by sdroa jists 04/25/2012, 10:20pm PDT