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Starcraft 2 Offically announced
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It's not like you can't run it in OS X unless you have to original Windows only discs.
$20 for the Battle Chest and it comes with the Mac version. You just need to get the OS X installer of of Blizzard at worst.
The current Starcraft: Battle Chest discs (at least since 2003) have the Windows and Macintosh installers on the same discs.in other words? lol... i dont get what ur saying... sorry
Gametrailers.com has quite a few actual gameplay battle scenes. I must say, it look really wicked.
http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=4868
http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=4868
Probably the wrong place to ask, but can Starcraft still be bought anywhere online? Never played it.
Whoa!
Easily. They were talking about not having insane requirements for it, and probably 50% of laptops out there today have in intel950GM graphics card, and your x600 (or whatever it is) is miles above an i950GM.
OK. So I went to the Blizzard Invitational yesterday. It was fun (I bought, among other things, a stuffed murloc plush toy).
The Starcraft Demo was in a giant auditorium, and from what I saw, this will be the greatest RTS ever released. The graphics are superb and some of the new gameplay touches (like the Terran Jetpack troopers and the Protoss' Mothership's black hole) are really really cool. It's all as slick as hell. More to the point, you could see infinite possibilities with the game. It will require massive APM to be any good though.
But the most impressive thing for me was the Zerg. They look and act like a real swarm. Their movement is much more organic than the Zerg in the original SC. Hilariously, the demo had the Zerglings spell out "GG" after owning a load of units. The graphics are the best I have seen in an RTS without being overbearing.
I'd say that there's probably a lot of balancing left to do before they can release the game (the Blizz developer at the demo said that as of now nothing is final). It's a major professional sport here in Korea (the SC final yesterday was predictably an all Korean affair), and if they released it in an unbalanced form it would probably doom the game since about a third of their sales are here.
And the fact that the mac release is simultaneous with Windows makes it all the sweeter.
The Starcraft Demo was in a giant auditorium, and from what I saw, this will be the greatest RTS ever released. The graphics are superb and some of the new gameplay touches (like the Terran Jetpack troopers and the Protoss' Mothership's black hole) are really really cool. It's all as slick as hell. More to the point, you could see infinite possibilities with the game. It will require massive APM to be any good though.
But the most impressive thing for me was the Zerg. They look and act like a real swarm. Their movement is much more organic than the Zerg in the original SC. Hilariously, the demo had the Zerglings spell out "GG" after owning a load of units. The graphics are the best I have seen in an RTS without being overbearing.
I'd say that there's probably a lot of balancing left to do before they can release the game (the Blizz developer at the demo said that as of now nothing is final). It's a major professional sport here in Korea (the SC final yesterday was predictably an all Korean affair), and if they released it in an unbalanced form it would probably doom the game since about a third of their sales are here.
And the fact that the mac release is simultaneous with Windows makes it all the sweeter.
First off- those gameplay video's were available yesterday morning, the link is somewhere up there ^^^.
Second- You're terminology there is a bit off- Blizzard releases the game on the same disk, just something standard you can expect for Blizzard.
So? I didn't watch them. I went to the live demo. Is there something wrong with that?
Splitting hairs is pathetic.
Yep. Go to Amazon.com (or any site of your choice, really), and do a search for StarCraft. You'll most likely see the StarCraft: Battlechest, which includes the original StarCraft plus the Brood Wars expansion. I bought it on Amazon for $18.00. I've been playing StarCraft all weekend -- man, I used to spend hours on this back in high school. Memories.
I love this game. Can't wait for the 2nd.
I know this will probably rub people the wrong way, but I'm skeptical about Blizzard making SC2 all that great.
I've always considered Blizzard to be the crack dealers of gaming, relatively bad games, but highly addicting (which is why I'm loading up a WC3 game right now). Perhaps this is due to spending a lot of time with Bungie* games, and having them right up my ally. Blizzard was always second rate in light.
That said, I love Blizzard for always being cross platform.
But WC3 *really* disappointed me when it came out. It was a glorified SC with WC units. In light of how many years it came out after the Myth serious, though sprite based, had a physics run 3D world, with moveable camera. WC3's "terrain" was kiddish, and the "chance to hit" was annoying to say the least, not mention how visually nothing lined up with what reality was.
Where as in Myth you could watch a volley of arrows fly through the air, farther in distance because of the obvious slope in the terrain, and rotate the camera around them as they fell into enemy troops in a spray pattern that caused blood to spill from where they hit.
And WC3('02) came years after Myth ('97) and Myth 2('98). Even Starcraft('98) had the ability to build on these games, or at least be as realistic. But they weren't.
So, I *hope* that SC2 is more than a glorified SC engine with better graphics. I hope they can build a game, with all the money they have, that matches and pushes what RTS are "supposed" to be. I really hope they get the online pre and post game rooms and chat worked out. I still hate SC and WC way o f handling online game rooms. Look up Myth2 for how this should be done.
Anyhoo... end rant.
Will I buy SC2? Of course. Will I play it? Yep. Will I be addicted to it and play it more than I should? You betcha. Will I think it's a quality game that I would suggest others to play? I'm not placing money on that yet...
~Earendil
*I'm aware that comparing other gaming companies to Bungie is not fair to the other companies ;-)
I've always considered Blizzard to be the crack dealers of gaming, relatively bad games, but highly addicting (which is why I'm loading up a WC3 game right now). Perhaps this is due to spending a lot of time with Bungie* games, and having them right up my ally. Blizzard was always second rate in light.
That said, I love Blizzard for always being cross platform.
But WC3 *really* disappointed me when it came out. It was a glorified SC with WC units. In light of how many years it came out after the Myth serious, though sprite based, had a physics run 3D world, with moveable camera. WC3's "terrain" was kiddish, and the "chance to hit" was annoying to say the least, not mention how visually nothing lined up with what reality was.
Where as in Myth you could watch a volley of arrows fly through the air, farther in distance because of the obvious slope in the terrain, and rotate the camera around them as they fell into enemy troops in a spray pattern that caused blood to spill from where they hit.
And WC3('02) came years after Myth ('97) and Myth 2('98). Even Starcraft('98) had the ability to build on these games, or at least be as realistic. But they weren't.
So, I *hope* that SC2 is more than a glorified SC engine with better graphics. I hope they can build a game, with all the money they have, that matches and pushes what RTS are "supposed" to be. I really hope they get the online pre and post game rooms and chat worked out. I still hate SC and WC way o f handling online game rooms. Look up Myth2 for how this should be done.
Anyhoo... end rant.
Will I buy SC2? Of course. Will I play it? Yep. Will I be addicted to it and play it more than I should? You betcha. Will I think it's a quality game that I would suggest others to play? I'm not placing money on that yet...
~Earendil
*I'm aware that comparing other gaming companies to Bungie is not fair to the other companies ;-)
I agree, Blizzard games are like crack. I've been seriously addicted to every one that I've played. That's why I stayed far away from WoW... I also think that Blizzard produces some of the most high quality cgi cinematics over any other game company.... Starcraft 2 already looks great. It will be interesting to see how they apply the Havoc physics engine.
Now, Bungie did have good games: Marathon, Myth, Pre-Microsoft Halo, etc.. Oni was kind of a flop but still fun. Anyway, now, Bungie seem to only be about Halo. No hope for another Myth. How I miss Myth.
In game Cinematic, woohoo... *yawn*
I've also stayed far away from WoW, because I know I'll get hooked like a crack addict, and that's not good for college grades
Bungie was always more about story line, game play, and breaking rules, in that order. Even Oni, though basically scrapped and rushed to ship was hella fun to *play*, and a solid unique game, even if the graphics lacked and it was buggy. I really wish they had had money and thus time to finish that game...
Off topic, but I actually have more hope for bungie these days. The company was going under before the buy-out. Jason Jones, the Man behind Marathon, Myth1, and Halo, has already, and has been working on the next gen game from Bungie. Halo 3 is the last, and that company is far from done producing games. I look forward to the next thing from Bungie like I do from Apple. I might be inclined to compare Blizzard to Microsoft ;-)