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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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Even SC2 beat out Duke Nukem Whenever...
KEKEKEKEKE ZERG RUSH!
....Or was that "My life for Aiur!" I could never tell what those damn zealots were saying.
If Star Trek had the internet: Captain, we've received an IM from the romulans. "Surrender or be destroyed. LOL. o.O"
P.P.S. I'm doing Science and I'm still alive.
Word. I hated War3 - it slammed all of the most irritating elements of RPGs on top of an RTS and wound up being a severely unenjoyable experience as a result. I can't think of a Blizzard title I've enjoyed less.
Hopefully Starcraft 2 is Improved Starcraft. If their previous release pattern is anything to go by, it should be. Then Starcraft 3 will suck ass, then we'll have World Of Starcraft, which won't suck.
In other news, the rest of the world released a huge sigh of relief as the Doomsday Clock was turned back. A spokesman for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was quoted as saying "A Starcraft MMO could have ended it all. We may never know how close we came to the complete and utter destruction of society as we know it."
StarCraft is back for more. Will my academic career survive this time?
>>it seems that they decided not to mess with a winning combination
If it ain't broke, why fix it?
Seriously, Starcraft is an RTS, and to make it anything else in the main series (As opposed to a spin-off or a side-game)
would be an insult to the millions who play Starcraft.
I am likely going to preorder this anyway.
I, for one, welcome our new Zerg overlords.
*whisper: dude, we don't have any overlords*
SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS!
"Starcraft in 3d in Directx 9 with particles systems and a few minor tweaks to the gameplay."
I'd buy that for a dollar!
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
i'm starting grad school next semester. i hope to god that sc2 is delayed long enough for me to get my phd.
chillax137
I was done with PC gaming. I had picked up a Wii to satisfy any semi-casual craving for gaming. My last windows PC was transformed into a sexy Ubuntu + Beryl box. I told myself that not even Spore or Team Fortress 2 could bring me back. I was out, man. No more buying more RAM, Multi-Core CPUs, or overpriced video cards on an annual basis. But then they had to do this...
Anyone know where I can get a good price on a nvidia 8800?
Exactly. Just like everyone stopped playing Starcraft when Warcraft III came out!
Touch everywhere, even when inappropriate.