Is it wrong that I've never played SC?

Zapp Brannigan · 06-06-2007 11:18PM #1

Yup, that's right. Never played it, never even seen it being played.
I've played WCIII though

(and before anyone has a heart attack, I have bought the SC battle chest it's on its way from eBay as I type)

Pugsley · 06-06-2007 11:25PM

SC wasnt THAT big over here, nothing on the scale WC3 was, I know a lot of people who simply missed it.

If your playing it now it has aged quite well, but only the multiplayer aspect, single player is quite shallow (solid storyline but pretty poor to play through, imo), and skirmish has the downside of no difficulty slider, so beginners get humped real bad, and decent players have no challenge without simply playing 4v1 or whatever it takes.

However multiplayer is still superb craic, real good challenge, such a solidly balanced game, and the 3 totally different sides makes for a great veriety of games and tactics.

Nietzschean · 07-06-2007 12:12AM

Pugsley wrote:

SC wasnt THAT big over here, nothing on the scale WC3 was, I know a lot of people who simply missed it.

I dunno must have varied as to where you were geographically or something, cause where i'm from it was SC all the way, very little WCIII to none.....

nesf · 07-06-2007 01:12AM

Depends on your age really I'd say. If you started with the original Warcraft and got addicted then you'd probably be like me and pounce on every RTS Blizzard produced afterwards.

I can completely see how younger players missed it though.

Zapp Brannigan · 07-06-2007 12:44PM

Yeah I guess it must be an age thing. Still should have the game in a week or so, I'm excited!

Memnoch · 07-06-2007 04:12PM

greatest strategy game EVER made. And this coming from someone who got hooked into RTS's by playing C&C on the PS1 lol.

J.S. Pill · 28-06-2007 12:43AM

Pugsley wrote:

and skirmish has the downside of no difficulty slider, so beginners get humped real bad, and decent players have no challenge without simply playing 4v1 or whatever it takes.

There was no difficulty slider in the actual game menu but all you needed to do was open the map you wanted to play in the map editor and modify the difficulty level triggers. Very easy to do.

god i feel like such a nerd for knowing that, I should have gotten out more when I was 15

Moneymaker · 30-06-2007 05:07PM

J.S. Pill wrote:

There was no difficulty slider in the actual game menu but all you needed to do was open the map you wanted to play in the map editor and modify the difficulty level triggers. Very easy to do.

god i feel like such a nerd for knowing that, I should have gotten out more when I was 15

Ditto.:D

sc0rchedst0rm · 02-07-2007 10:45PM

My mind still boggles at people who haven't played Starcraft. But then again I guess it's not that unusual. In Ireland Starcraft seems to have almost "slipped under the radar", atleast so far as I've seen.

Personally I love Starcraft! I watch VODs from South Korea where they have professional Starcraft leagues... it's just simply the best RTS ever made, no question.

Warcraft 3 pales in comparison.

TheDoc · 08-07-2007 09:49PM

played it for a while never got into it, at the time i heard of it i was beginging my wc3 gaming in reign of chaos.

SC has aged well and has being out years........WC3 will age the same. They are the two best RTs games out there by miles. I was considering playing some starcraft but figure ill wait till new one out before i take it seriously.

seraphimvc · 08-01-2008 05:36AM

need to dig this up today to add my opinion:)as a big RTS fan!!

love early C&C from Westwood and SC/warcraft series from Blizzard!!but sadly none of my friends played them,even they did,they hate them!jaysus....

for those who said SC's campaign story battles are too easy or shallow to play with,50/50 kinda right honestly,but i enjoy every moment of it,the storyline is one the most epic games i known!and for the expansion broodwar,who didnt retry any of the levels?i found that was kinda challenging.the story is the main point and it trained you for the advance basic.

humanji · 08-01-2008 12:46PM

I honestly didn't like SC or WC3, which is a pity, because I loved WC 1 + 2. I could just never get into them as they just didn't feel right for some reason.

ionapaul · 08-01-2008 06:54PM

Man, I loved WC3! Anyone know if there still are many people playing it online?

Pugsley · 11-01-2008 01:20PM

ionapaul wrote: »

Man, I loved WC3! Anyone know if there still are many people playing it online?

Its pretty much a national sport in Korea.......
Next to SC, but WC3 is huge too, and yes its still played a LOT, more so than most new RTS's, its biggest in Korea and America but theres a big european following too. Problem is most people who still play it have been playing it for years, so you will get stomped for ages at it.

TheDoc · 05-02-2008 11:32AM

yeah have to agree if your new going online your gna get pounded alot..

i go on the odd time, but the wc3 scene has become stale competively and boring so ive turned away from it

debating whether or not to bother with sc2 even.

put back in sc other night and played for a few minutes before uninstalling. im just a wc3 fanboy....

wc3 was the first rts that brought in heros and doing stuff before fighting, having to level a hero etc, i find most rts boring because of that stale period of just building

world in conflict however looks very interesting

Sephiroth_dude · 06-02-2008 06:50PM

campaign is hard enough actually :-/

Pugsley · 07-02-2008 02:41PM

The campaign very rarely forces you to speed things along though, its very easy to sit back, get 200/200 pop and then just steam roll them, and can be done on most of the missions. Some of the missions are a pretty decent challenge though.

Sephiroth_dude · 07-02-2008 06:45PM

actually how missions are there in the campaign for each faction?

robby^5 · 03-03-2008 04:49AM

Gah i never liked Starcraft, its all about spamming one unit, and by the looks of it SC2 is more of the same, I liked to think with RTS's out there like Company of Heroes, Dawn of War, SupCom & WiC we've moved on from that type of gameplay which is 10 years old at this stage.

FuzzyWuzzyWazza · 03-03-2008 05:14AM

Haha, funny I only started playing this a few weeks ago, thought it was about time I got around to it. Pretty good game, and the graphics are class, perfectly retro.

Ivan · 03-03-2008 10:13AM

You fail at starcraft. Get some better opponents and you will get destroyed by "spamming one unit".

If you get to build 3 marines/zealots or 6 zerglings before attacking or being attacked then something is seriously wrong...

Pugsley · 03-03-2008 08:32PM

robby^5 wrote: »

Gah i never liked Starcraft, its all about spamming one unit, and by the looks of it SC2 is more of the same, I liked to think with RTS's out there like Company of Heroes, Dawn of War, SupCom & WiC we've moved on from that type of gameplay which is 10 years old at this stage.

Spoken like a master of the game. That is all.

DirkVoodoo · 17-03-2008 07:26PM

I remember getting the demo for starcraft back in 1998/9 (I was in 4th year at any rate!).

Playing it for the first time I thought it was cool, very much like warcraft in space, and the graphics weren't exactly revolutionary. Lovely art design but a lot of games were trying to make the switch to "three-dee" back then.

I got the game, after much anticipation (far less than I am experiencing with SC2) and was blown away by the brilliance of it all. Aside from the fantastic story which paints a very "Blizzard" universe, full of betrayal and heroism, good and evil type stuff, the game managed to do something that I don't think any game has managed to achieve since: Balance!

To say SC is about spamming one unit is pretty ridiculous and tantamount to saying that sampling fine cuisine is all about eating different brands of corn flakes. It shows that you have either never played the game or played it against sufficient opposition.

The balance between all 3 races created a multiplayer phenomenon that is unparalleled in the RTS genre. We need only look to South Korea.

Starcraft was, and is, a great game. The pace may not be to some people's liking. The esoteric nature of the zerg control scheme may upset others, but no one can deny that Blizzard mastered the art of creating 3 unique factions, where few units have a counterpart, yet all races are equally playable and potent.

Froot · 22-03-2008 07:19PM

I never played it either.

I hated WC3...I reinstalled it a few months back, still hate it

StarCraft is supposedly good, SC2 looks good.

Is it wrong that I've never played SC?

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