|
|
baklava
Honorable
Legendary Hero
Mostly harmless
|
posted July 30, 2010 01:20 AM |
|
Edited by baklava at 01:21, 30 Jul 2010.
|
Quote:
only Bioware and Legacy of Kain have ever delivered on that front
Don't forget Troika and the Lucas Arts that once was.
____________
"Let me tell you what the blues
is. When you ain't got no
money,
you got the blues."
Howlin Wolf
|
|
winterfate
Supreme Hero
Water-marked Champion!
|
|
posted July 30, 2010 01:40 AM |
|
|
I'm playing the campaign on Hard myself, hehe...certainly makes mission progression slower. 
Besides, I'm splitting my time between this game, college and DQ IX, and I love DQ IX. 
____________
If you supposedly care about someone, then don't push them out of your life. Acting like you're not doing it doesn't exempt you from what I just said. - Winterfate
|
|
mamgaeater
Legendary Hero
Shroud, Flying, Trample, Haste
|
|
posted July 30, 2010 03:33 AM |
|
|
I'm playing the campaign on medium. I want to enjoy the campaign first then i can start challenging myself (by enjoy i mean not getting buttstomped into oblivion)
Initial impressions.
Starcraft.
That is all.
____________
Protection From Everything.
dota
|
|
Kareeah_Indaga
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
|
|
posted July 30, 2010 04:30 AM |
|
|
Quote:
(by enjoy i mean not getting buttstomped into oblivion)
Yeah, switching genres might be kind of hard on your troops. *ducks*
____________
Adventures in Helnith has moved!
|
|
winterfate
Supreme Hero
Water-marked Champion!
|
posted July 30, 2010 04:41 AM |
|
|
Ooo, I see what you did there hun. Naughty Kareeah naughty!
____________
If you supposedly care about someone, then don't push them out of your life. Acting like you're not doing it doesn't exempt you from what I just said. - Winterfate
|
|
JoonasTo
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
What if Elvin was female?
|
|
posted July 30, 2010 08:45 AM |
|
|
StarCraft 2 DLed and ready to install as soon as I get home from work today. Time to get cracking at the campaigns then.
____________
DON'T BE A NOOB, JOIN A.D.V.E.N.T.U.R.E.
|
|
mamgaeater
Legendary Hero
Shroud, Flying, Trample, Haste
|
|
posted July 30, 2010 02:40 PM |
|
|
I was talking about mario but whatever.
____________
Protection From Everything.
dota
|
|
JoonasTo
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
What if Elvin was female?
|
|
posted July 30, 2010 02:43 PM |
|
|
|
OmegaDestroyer
Hero of Order
Fox or Chicken?
|
|
posted July 30, 2010 02:58 PM |
|
|
lol
____________
The giant has awakened
You drink my blood and drown
Wrath and raving I will not stop
You'll never take me down
|
|
DagothGares
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
No gods or kings
|
|
posted July 30, 2010 03:00 PM |
|
|
Did they just remove everything great about battle.net?
____________
If you have any more questions, go to Dagoth Cares.
|
|
JoonasTo
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
What if Elvin was female?
|
|
posted July 30, 2010 03:58 PM |
|
Edited by JoonasTo at 18:19, 30 Jul 2010.
|
Yeah, they kinda did.
Installing the game now.
Lame that the installer content ends at 49% though...
Well, played through first three campaigns missions on brutal.
The missions are quite average stuff. No imagination at all so far.
Cutscenes are lame, I mean really lame. Characters are bland and boring and there are some texture bugs or lazy scirpting. (completely poison green cognac bottle for example)
The time between missions is rather useless but gives a nice touch to atmoshpere. Though I'd value a more desperate atmoshphere a hell lot more. BTW. Why the hell is the Mar Sara bar theme playing on the Hyperion bridge?.
Interface is a pain. It's a laggy clustersnow. What might have been good when StarCraft came out is now helplessly outdated. Compared to any modern RTS, I compare to late CnC series, it lacks in functionality and in features. You can't as much as command your units to make a single line and forget about the units moving in a sensible way.
Three missions, still stuck with god damn medics and marines. What is up with these campaings? Ugh.
The game is quite resource intensive, if you want anything decent looking you'd need some graphic power. That isn't an issue, I cand eal with crappy looks. But the game hogs RAM like crazy, I have 2gigs and yet it's all used up if a few more units appear. Haven't monitored computing power but since I have a 3 GHz dual core I doubt I could find that a problem.
Well, onto the next.
____________
DON'T BE A NOOB, JOIN A.D.V.E.N.T.U.R.E.
|
|
OmegaDestroyer
Hero of Order
Fox or Chicken?
|
|
posted July 30, 2010 09:52 PM |
|
|
It seems the only standard reviewers are using to review the game is: Is it Starcraft? That's it.
Just another game that can't possibly do poorly because of what it is. Final Fantasy syndrome at its best.
I have way too much time on my hands to care about something as insignficant as review scores. If the game makes people happy, who cares what anybody else thinks?
A game is a silly thing to begrudge.
|
|
winterfate
Supreme Hero
Water-marked Champion!
|
|
posted July 31, 2010 01:44 AM |
|
|
Quote:
If the game makes people happy, who cares what anybody else thinks?
Quoted for truth.
But yeah, I've been seeing a lot of Blizzard arse-kissing in initial game reviews. Even as a fanboy, I find that  . When I write game reviews I try to be as objective as possible and, failing that, admit that I'm about to get biased.
Quote:
The game is quite resource intensive, if you want anything decent looking you'd need some graphic power. That isn't an issue, I cand eal with crappy looks. But the game hogs RAM like crazy, I have 2gigs and yet it's all used up if a few more units appear.
@Joonas: Glad it's not only happening to me. For a second I thought the computer I was running it on (my dad's since it's stronger than mine) was being a fail. And yeah, the game's limitations in that department became apparent in mission 3...those last 2 minutes took nearly 4. :S
And kudos for tackling it on Brutal. I'm playing it on Hard, since I consider myself a vet, but not one of those "leet" Korean Starcraft Pros (they'd probably pwn the campaign in their sleep). I like the difficulty; can't curbstomp the opposition but if I bring my A-game it's easily doable. 
And lastly, but not least, +100 for that picture comparing a rock to SC2. Made me lol.
(OT: Mvass posted one a while back comparing the rock to an IPad didn't he?)
____________
If you supposedly care about someone, then don't push them out of your life. Acting like you're not doing it doesn't exempt you from what I just said. - Winterfate
|
|
JoonasTo
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
What if Elvin was female?
|
|
posted July 31, 2010 11:22 AM |
|
Edited by JoonasTo at 14:23, 31 Jul 2010.
|
I consider myself a casual StarCraft player.
Beaten the original campaigns, vet campaigns and the legacy of the confederation mod. Can take on a few comps in custom with Zerg, two with protoss and if lucky and the enemies aren't both protoss then with great difficulties two with terran. In lan with friend we've beaten 6 allied comps versus us.
Spent most of my BattleNet time in custom maps, Evolves(I am the king in this), lots of defenses, golems, rpgs, zone controls, etc. Only a few normal games, beaten some, lost some. Nothing special there.
Finished the siege tank mission with the big laser cannon in StarCraft II. First mission where I didn't collect do the extra objectives. Was way too annoying mission anyways. Click, boom, click, boom, click, boom.
Ugh, when would I get one normal mission without some annoying time limit and an enemy with "spawn über massive pawnange machinery times fifty" if you don't do exactly as the map maker wants you to do. Where are my alternative tactics! I have to defend, of course I attack them! But noo, cross this line and the enemy insta spawns three colossi, two carriers, four voidrays and bunch of stalkers with immortals...
Screw you blizzard! You suck at making campaigns! Take a look at EA, hear me, snowing EA does it better! Just...
*sigh*
That was last night, I consider replaying it to get the research points. I'm not satisfied with wasted resources like that. I think I'm going to need all the help I can get in the later missions and I don't want it to come and bite me in the ass...
BTW. I wasted an hour of my life on Lost Viking Arcade on Hyperion. It's a nice touch but too bad it's control and performance are messed up. Got bored after beating the third level.
EDIT: HA! Take that protoss snows! I OWN!
*krhm* Yes, I replayed the mission with the drill. Was a breeze now that I knew what's where and so forth. Some defenses.
Oh, yeah, the third mission end had nice flood of Zerg. That I had defenses like this didn't exactly help the memory issue.
You should try turning off your antivirus program. I checked what programs were stealing my memory and during gameplay the kernel memory was filled. For some reason StarCraft II uses up a whole lot of kernel memory where things like antivirus and windows services dwell. So turning off antivirus might help the issue.
____________
DON'T BE A NOOB, JOIN A.D.V.E.N.T.U.R.E.
|
|
Shyranis
Promising
Supreme Hero
|
|
posted July 31, 2010 06:07 PM |
|
|
About the hardware requirements.
Supposedly Blizzard has already admitted to an overheating issue caused by the game and are working on a fix to a programming bug.
____________
Youtube has terminated my account without reason.
Please express why it should be reinstated on
Twitter.
|
|
JoonasTo
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
What if Elvin was female?
|
|
posted July 31, 2010 09:10 PM |
|
|
A question, what does everyone hate most about RPS games?
Correct. Escort missions with retarted AI controlled escortees.
Wanna quess what's what in StarCraft II?
Right again! Escort missions. With idiotic AI controlled escortees no less.
Who charge forward with no regards of enemy siege tanks or zerg ambushes. Not to mention some of the idiots literally charge headlong into enemy bases.
If you make an escort missions in RTS you give control of the escortees to the player. Not to some retarted time scripted AI that's scripted along with the easy difficulty in mind. So that when the escortees take a break for two minutes you can create four marines and half a goliath. You give control of the escortees to the player because he's the one in charge of transporting that them. That way, he won't get mad when the escortees get blown to bits because he made the bloody mistake.
I am so totally pissed off right now.
WHY DO YOU LIVE IN THE STONE AGE YOU IDIOTS! WAKE UP BLIZZARD!
____________
DON'T BE A NOOB, JOIN A.D.V.E.N.T.U.R.E.
|
|
blizzardboy
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Nerf Herder
|
|
posted July 31, 2010 09:26 PM |
|
|
Starcraft 2 is absolutely wonderful. Another masterpiece from Blizzard. I'm loving the style of the campaign, and how I'm surprised to say: Jim Raynor isn't completely lame. I think part of the reason I disliked him so much in the 1st campaign is because his portrait was just so incredibly stupid.
____________
"Folks, I don't trust children. They're here to replace us."
|
|
Eliteleader
Adventuring Hero
|
|
posted August 01, 2010 12:36 AM |
|
|
Wow a lot of you are so negative, didn't really expect that. I guess I'm too naive and too much of a blizzard fanboy to have seen that coming.
Nevertheless the other forums that I frequent are a lot more positive. I myself have only played some multiplayer during the beta and found it really enjoyable though I'm looking forward to playing the campaigns a lot more at the moment.
____________
"One fine day in the middle of the night, Two dead men got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and shot each other"
|
|
Adrius
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Stand and fight!
|
|
posted August 01, 2010 12:45 AM |
|
Edited by Adrius at 00:45, 01 Aug 2010.
|
Well according to our local Blizz-Fanatic Xerox ( ), HC is one of the most Blizz-Hostile communities he has ever encountered.
____________
|
|
xerox
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
|
|
posted August 01, 2010 02:57 AM |
|
Edited by xerox at 03:04, 01 Aug 2010.
|
Yes. This is the most anti-Blizzard forum I have ever been on and sometimes its annoying cause most people do not even try their games seriously or where just noobs and got mad or they read to much before they try the game and that ruins the experience for them.
Anyway, some upgrades at the end of the campaign just makes it to easy. I ended up going with Science Vessels + Battlecruisers in the last missions (battlecruisers also pwned the last mission) and that was just so OP and unbeatable plus the fact that you could produce 2 out of ANY unit. So 2 battlecruisers at the same time from one building etc plus the flame turrets that were really OP and crushed all zerg attacks.
Im playing Protoss in multiplayer now and seriously what is wrong with some people? I have met several Protoss and ALL of them have gone from mass Zealots? Whats the fun in trying to cheese and end the game in 5 min and then failed cause I blocked my ramp with gateways and cannons and went void rays since he only did zealots which cant attack air?
Same thing with Zerg. Like half Zerg go for the super annoying Zergling rush. Nowdays I always find myself investing in Photon Cannons because all other Protoss and Zerg players seem to be stupid and always go for the same thing.
Atleast I am original with my games. I use different strategies all the time. There is only one tactic where I mass up a single unit and that is mass stalkers with blinks (oh wait, I use warp prism too). Its really fun on Desert Oasis 
Also most people do not seem to expect Protoss to go for Dark templar and are like "Wtf?" when their army and base is torn apart by invisible blue ninjas.
Terran Units from the campaign I think would be cool for Terran in Heart of the Swarm
* Firebats. Really nice to incinerate Zerg and heal them with Medics. Also nice to put in bunkers.
* Nerfed Science Vessel. I like to heal units. Would be nice to heal Mech units too and also the freaking mechanical ballon looks awesome.
* Diamondback. Reallllllly cool unit and would be fun cause everybody always use Marauders agaisnt everything armored and it would be nice with some variation. Did I mention it looks really cool?
* Tech Reactor. Lol producing 2 of all units at the same time? OP but yes please.
* The Flame turret was freaking awesome. It can just be destroyed by air units.
* I liked guns on the bunkers. Was cool and useful. Also that it repairs itself.
____________
Over himself, over his own
body and
mind, the individual is
sovereign.
- John Stuart Mill
|
|
|
|
This Popular Thread is pages long: 
