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Starcraft 2- New video! + Poll
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i dont think it played really smoothly since i had the 75mhz Performa 6200 with 8 or 16mb at the time and the frame rate was only acceptable (dont talk about battle.net ...)
They don't need yo put in jesters for sc/bw. You cal ling a BT keyboard to the iPad for the pure diehards. But the first couple of times I played starcraft (I had a UMAX clone ppc 603ev) and the only time I used the keyboard was to press "A" and only because I didn't have a multi button mouse. With the buttons ov the HUD it would be easy to select commands, much easier, in fact than with a mouse because you can instantly jump to it without having to drag a mouse to the bottom right corner. Perhaps some sort of target aware clicking I.e. Scv- click on minerals or refinery to gather, damaged tech to repair. One finger click to move, to together to attack, ome finger at each point to patrol for marines/firebat etc
I think it's probably habit for the purists that's blinkering them to how good it could be. There are plenty of people like me who love the game but are nowhere near pro level, who havlt memorised every keystroke and progression tree.
Infact, I'm gonna go email blizzard, I don't care what you all say I want frigginn iPad starcraft.
I think it's probably habit for the purists that's blinkering them to how good it could be. There are plenty of people like me who love the game but are nowhere near pro level, who havlt memorised every keystroke and progression tree.
Infact, I'm gonna go email blizzard, I don't care what you all say I want frigginn iPad starcraft.
I think SC2 is a cracking game, but unfortunately, after having played the beta, I found that my 24" iMac with 2.8Ghz Core2duo and 4Gb of RAM isn't up to the task. Not at the native resolution of 1920x1200, anyway.
And playing at a lower resolution makes it look a bit fuzzy. So I'm still playing WC3 and I might get that WoW subscription after all since both these games run as smooth as butter.
Pity, in bootcamp Vista, SC2 seems to run a lot smoother, but as I hate rebooting every time to play a game, and since I'll be deleting my bootcamp partition anyway, I won't bother.
I wonder : does the top of the line 27" iMac have the necessary power to run SC2 with FULL detail in OS X at its native resolution of 2560 x 1440 ? That's a 27" 2.8Ghz Quad Core with 8Gb of RAM, 512 Mb ATI Radeon 4850 ?
I wonder... if not, that's a lot of money for an underpowered machine.
I have no doubts about the processor, memory or any of that. The video card is mostly the Mac's achille's heel when it comes to gaming.
I was looking forward to SC2, but it's quite expensive, seeing it's only part 1. There are to more parts coming and since those won't be like normal expansion packs (ie cheaper than the main game), SC2 will be one very expensive game in the long run.
Oh well, I recently bought Civ4 complete (that's Civ4, Warlords, Beyond the Sword and Colonization) on Steam. Paid 10 euros (that's about 12 dollars) as part of a summer sale. Now that's what I call a good deal (sorry, too late now, normal price is back up). It'll keep me busy until I can afford a faster machine...
And playing at a lower resolution makes it look a bit fuzzy. So I'm still playing WC3 and I might get that WoW subscription after all since both these games run as smooth as butter.
Pity, in bootcamp Vista, SC2 seems to run a lot smoother, but as I hate rebooting every time to play a game, and since I'll be deleting my bootcamp partition anyway, I won't bother.
I wonder : does the top of the line 27" iMac have the necessary power to run SC2 with FULL detail in OS X at its native resolution of 2560 x 1440 ? That's a 27" 2.8Ghz Quad Core with 8Gb of RAM, 512 Mb ATI Radeon 4850 ?
I wonder... if not, that's a lot of money for an underpowered machine.
I have no doubts about the processor, memory or any of that. The video card is mostly the Mac's achille's heel when it comes to gaming.
I was looking forward to SC2, but it's quite expensive, seeing it's only part 1. There are to more parts coming and since those won't be like normal expansion packs (ie cheaper than the main game), SC2 will be one very expensive game in the long run.
Oh well, I recently bought Civ4 complete (that's Civ4, Warlords, Beyond the Sword and Colonization) on Steam. Paid 10 euros (that's about 12 dollars) as part of a summer sale. Now that's what I call a good deal (sorry, too late now, normal price is back up). It'll keep me busy until I can afford a faster machine...
You make fair points - I'm too much of a SC nut to listen to reason though. Depends on your priorities. It's a nice game with all the goodies turned up to max. But for real competitive play, you want the effects all off anyway.
The iMac you outline, that's exactly the machine I have. Ran fine on the beta, don't know yet re the Real Thing.
Really, I don't care how it looks. I just want the game. SC/BW was the RTS of all time. It's too early yet to say how SC2 will turn out, it may be it doesn't have the longevity of SC/BW. But I so want in.
(For anyone who doesn't get why someone would say "who cares about the graphics", go watch some Korean professional games. Now -that- my droogs, is RTS.)
I was a Plat player ranked top 10 on my ladder with a 65% W/L ratio during the beta.
I've had the collector's edition the second it was announced.
Take a wild guess. Am I getting it?
Incorrect. The two expansion will be going on sale for expansion price. And each will have self contained story with a single player with the length of 20-30 hours. I breezed through MW2 SP in like 4 hours and they were charging 60 dollars for it. I think I would be content paying 40 dollars for 20-30 hours of gameplay.
Not to mention apparently the expansions won't touch the multiplayer portion so I don't see why people are whining about this still.
I've had the collector's edition the second it was announced.
Take a wild guess. Am I getting it?
Incorrect. The two expansion will be going on sale for expansion price. And each will have self contained story with a single player with the length of 20-30 hours. I breezed through MW2 SP in like 4 hours and they were charging 60 dollars for it. I think I would be content paying 40 dollars for 20-30 hours of gameplay.
Not to mention apparently the expansions won't touch the multiplayer portion so I don't see why people are whining about this still.
At native it plaus on hi without any issues, 1080p res it plwys on ultra although I cant see much of a diff between high and ultra
Yeah, originally I was sort of cheesed that you had to buy three products but now I'm cool with it. In fact (being a Zerg player) I'm actually kinda buzzed now to think there will be a SC2 product especially for me
.Only a few more days! Wheeeee!!!
What are your iMac specs? The game won't even load up properly on my 2006 Core Duo Macbook, but maybe you have better graphics than that wonderful GMA 950