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Blizzard Announces StarCraft 2

We'll be returning once again to the world of StarCraft, it appears, and not in the form of a Massively Multiplayer game. Blizzard has announced StarCraft 2 at their packed event in Seoul, South Korea. IGN is liveblogging the event, describing gameplay footage being played as well as full cinematics. From the description of ongoing events there are massive changes to the way the game plays, new units, a physics system within the game engine, and the capability to show over 100 units onscreen at a time. "Showing gameplay footage - Looks like protoss ships - floating over asteroid/ base structure - entering protoss ase - similar looking buildings - vespene gas still in the game - character pane shows up on right side - some protoss guy - shifts to terran bases floating on rockets over same type of territory - sill collecting crystals as resources - marines load out. Dustin is actually playing the game - nothing in the game is final." Additional coverage from Milky at 1up.

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  1. Meh by Uthic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Was never taken with Starcraft, liked TA much better. Will be worth trying at least.

  2. Re:Starcraft 2 by Mex · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I have not the slightest idea what the fuck you just wrote.

  3. Re:Lame by Vicissidude · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fine, then don't say it's some whiny excuse like "$15 is too much" or "I can't afford the $20 extra for broadband". There's nothing wrong with wanting a life.

  4. Re:Lame by geminidomino · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    $15 IS too much for the experience they offer, on top of charging for the game (and spare me the bullshit platitudes about buying the game to pay for development, and paying the fee to pay for the servers. I don't give a fuck.) I have plenty of CRPGs and JRPGs that I can grind in almost infinitely, for free and without some 12-year-old enfant terrible questioning my ancestry.

    Some people can afford it, but decide that it's not a reasonable value. The lifeless fanboys who think a set of +5 bananas on their shoulder makes them more worthwhile as a human being can't understand that.