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Post by url00 on Mar 29, 2011 7:43:59 GMT -5
Anybody else play this game? It's fun, although I'm not very good at it... Yet. ;D
I'm known as Zappo if you want to add me. (Or do you need more info then that? I always forget...)
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Post by Contrary on Mar 31, 2011 20:37:21 GMT -5
I played it a bunch when it game out, it got kind of too extreme to play when I also had school to worry about. I was pretty bad, I only got up to the top 10 of my Platinum league before I stopped playing. Pretty sad considering I started in Platinum after my placements. For those who don't play Starcraft there were 5 leagues, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond. As an analogy to CoD I'd say Diamond is where you start being able to get Dogs often enough to warrant running them. Kind of like the point where you have all your tools down and then it becomes about really refining them.
Hey url00 are Marine Rushes really bad now? I heard from my friend that that's all people did for a while.
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Post by mannon on Apr 1, 2011 0:01:15 GMT -5
O,o By that analogy I'm only at about say Gold, maybe even Silver. lol I tend to get out my predators only 1 or 2 times in a good match, (none in a bad one) and get my harrier about 1 in 5 or worse. heh heh Actually probably more like 1 in 7 right now, but I got them more often when I was playing at least once a week.
Actually killstreaks are something that's always frustrated me. I tend to have bad luck with them. In fact I'll play games where I will have a 2:1 or 3:1 KDR and never get anything better than UAV. I've even had more extreme examples, but those are more rare as are the times when I'll wrack up a 10 kill streak, and thus not worth consideration. At any rate it's just always felt like my killstreaks remain disappointingly low for my skill level and I'm not really sure why that is. Maybe being a more defensively minded player hurts me in that regard.
Wish I did have SC2. It looks fun. But then I still haven't beat the original. >,> I fiiinallly bought it a few years ago because I missed the original SC when it was popular. Only played a few missions in SP. heh Don't think I'd bother going online with SC1 or 2 though. For some reason RTS games vs humans just don't appeal to me. I prefer tactics and strategic depth to speed speed speed, manual dexterity, and memorized build orders, ect... Hence why I generally play RTS games on slow and prefer turn based. (Not that I'm incapable of developing the manual dexterity. I'm perfectly capable as long as I get in the practice. If it were that alone then I prolly wouldn't mind. I just prefer to have time to actually think about my next move.)
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Post by Contrary on Apr 1, 2011 0:50:55 GMT -5
I'd say that Starcraft is the maximum ultimate pretty cool guy for strategic depth and tactics- it really pains me to see that you think otherwise. You have to have speed and manual dexterity- just like CoD, but I'd say that using your head is proportionally more important than it is in CoD by a factor of several digits. You do want to memorize build orders, but I'd really compare that more to the opening route in SnD. You DO want to have a couple optimized series of actions to start out, but from there it's all assessing and responding appropriately to the actions of your enemy. In fact I'd say that you have build order losses even less than you have route losses in SnD, especially at a higher level.
I see your opinion often and I don't know where are getting the idea that the whole game is build orders, any more than a lot of people think that fighting games are all combos (unless it's Tekken lol, but even that...)
In my opinion Starcraft is THE most competitively viable game. Period. Not just of video games but ALL games, including Chess.
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Post by mannon on Apr 1, 2011 5:13:00 GMT -5
Like I said, I prefer turn based to plan my moves carefully. RTS is still fun, it's just what I prefer. You cannot really have full on strategic depth in a time critical game unless you're a fast thinker, and I'm not. I think deep, but slow. Laserquad Nemesis is more my style... which I should play again. It's been ages.
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Post by IL TJ on Jun 20, 2011 0:26:12 GMT -5
if you like sc2, i recommend looking up "day9" on google.
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Post by Aphoristic on Jun 23, 2011 21:12:13 GMT -5
if you like sc2, i recommend looking up "day9" on google. Number 200 is the best.
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Post by niteshadex on Jul 1, 2011 21:55:35 GMT -5
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Post by mannon on Jul 4, 2011 4:20:55 GMT -5
Been watching some SCII on TotalBiscuit's channel and I'm addicted to watching those vids. Fascinating game. Actually made me break out the old SC1 disks. heh Still doubt my computer could handle SCII though and I'm broke so I won't be getting it anytime soon, but watching these vids actually kinda makes me want to play it.
In fact it looks a lot more fun and less frustrating to play that online than BO. At least if you know you've lost a game you just gg and move on instead of being stuck having to play out the rest of the match or ragequit... which I never do. I rather like that. Last few times I've played BO were really frustrating because anytime I tried to use any of my "serious" classes I just failed. I couldn't get any prgress on the pro perks I was working on, or do any good in the match. It was just a complete fail if I used anything but the M60... which I do love, but I don't want to be a 1 trick pony. Then again maybe I should just go for that and finish off this prestige with 100% M60. ;p
Anyway... SCII looks awesome.
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Post by mannon on Jul 4, 2011 5:35:07 GMT -5
lol That was actually pretty awesome. I have to admit, I was rooting for Ben. ;3 Okay, subscribed...
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