Another Starcraft blog.

Posted by Shork on May 22, 2007, 12:46 a.m.

Praise be to God, Allah, Vishnu, etc, Starcraft II has been announced!

Unless you are a headless moron living in a cave with 5 or 6 extra chromosomes, you've already heard about it by now.

Anyway I am way frickin excited about this. I have watched the cinematic trailer 5 times, and the game play trailer 3 times. I check the site for updates at least three times a day. It's insane.

One of these years the game will actually be made availabe for purchase. When that happens, I'll camp out for days to buy it.

I have also noticed that there has been a string of blogs about starcraft I. For your information, I play on USEast as Shork. If you play, add your name and server so that we may play, and you will most likely win.

The most annoying thing about battle.net is the backstabbing. If you fall into the previous category of cave-bound mongoloid, a backstabber is someone who allies with you before hitting your base with about 300 carriers. Blizzard has announced that they will be overhauling battle.net, and I hope that part of that overhaul will be a method of tracking backstabbing. I am not sure about the best way of identifying a backstabber. Maybe if 5 or more players (with enough games to prove their not some type of bot) all independently name the same person as a backstabber then a special badge can be given to that player to denote the backstabbing status, then other players can choose whether or not to ban the player from their games. That might work.

I have also seen people complain about how starcraft II will only have three races. Damn it, there will be an expansion pack! It's garaunteed, blizard has never made a game without an expansion pack, so there is plenty of time to add a new race.

I really like the new units, especially the zerglings and nydus worms. The new banelings may prove to be extremely useful if defilers and dark swarm are still in the game. I am really afraid that some of the really good units in SC1 will be removed from SC2. Oh well, we'll have plenty of time to find out.

Comments

stampede 17 years, 6 months ago

Hahaha, "5 or 6 extra chromosomes".

Theodore III 17 years, 6 months ago

I've watched both the game play and cinematic trailers, and ruhtrA and I have decided to start practicing again!

We play on USEast, but have recently been playing USWest, because according to ruhtrA, USEast is screwed up atm : /. I play as Theodore_III on both servers.

Personally, I have never experienced backstabbing :D. Mostly because me and ruhtrA team up against two other random players :P.

I don't think there needs to be a new race, because there are just so many unit changes. That's just my opinion though.

Starcraft FTW!

Shork 17 years, 6 months ago

yeah, a new race would be really hard to balance. I read that the original game was intended to have 6 unique races, but with that many, there is no way to keep proper balance while making the play styles different enough.

JW 17 years, 6 months ago

They can't really be a diff race. Zerg, protoss and terran are like blue red and yellow.

Casshern 17 years, 6 months ago

hot damn, gonna love starcraft II!

need to start playing sc again after exams…:D

marbs 17 years, 6 months ago

Obviously I'm a headless moron who lives in a cave, and has 5 or 6 extra chromosomes.

Kaz 17 years, 6 months ago

Uh, it's not gonna be out this year so don't get too excited.

omicron1 17 years, 6 months ago

Prediction: There will be a hype-fest from now till whenever it actually is released, at which time everybody will complain that it's too similar to the original, but nobody will care one whit.

Kairos 17 years, 6 months ago

Quote:
I have also seen people complain about how starcraft II will only have three races. Damn it, there will be an expansion pack! It's garaunteed, blizard has never made a game without an expansion pack, so there is plenty of time to add a new race.
Who needs a new race? It was already perfect.

Anyways, since we all know Blizzard's notorious delay times, we will get it during it's anniversary, probably. And I haven't played in forever, my skills have rusted up quite a lot.

Shork 17 years, 6 months ago

I use PB quick lube to get rid of rust on tractors… wait, you don't have metal joints?