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[RaiDK]

[url="http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/788/788627p1.html"]http://au.pc.ign.com...8/788627p1.html[/url]

[Alias]

I love you Blizzard.

[Commander Abs]

About f'k'n time is all I can say,,,,,

*flips over his 52 page study of Starcraft which he did for grade 10 English *

Man,, just saw that Starcraft was released in 98,,,, *feels old all of a sudden*

Edited by Commander Abs, 19 May 2007 - 06:40.

[Comr4de]

Sweet

I'll be looking forward with excitement for this one.

[RaiDK]

OK, I'm less optimistic about this now. Simply because 80% of all the new units sound like they were ripped straight from C&C3!



Can you say "Annihilator Tripod"?

[Athena]

Cool!

EDIT This was in reply to the first post.

Edited by Blaat85, 19 May 2007 - 07:17.

[RaiDK]

lol

Screens are up:

http://media.pc.ign....126/imgs_1.html

Thoughts? I would have liked it to be a bit more gritty, but ah well.

[Golan]

Meeh, was hoping for a real Starcraft II, not some Starcraft 1.5 + WCIIIx0.5 ...

[RaiDK]

Golan, on 19 May 2007, 18:41, said:

Meeh, was hoping for a real Starcraft II, not some Starcraft 1.5 + WCIIIx0.5 ...

QFT.

lol, epic spelling mistake.

Edited by RaiDK, 19 May 2007 - 08:50.

[Killerratte]

Doh, the Battlecruisers are really ugly.

[Alias]

RaiDK, on 19 May 2007, 18:43, said:

Golan, on 19 May 2007, 18:41, said:

Meeh, was hoping for a real Starcraft II, not some Starcraft 1.5 + WCIIIx0.5 ...

QTF.

Starcraft 2: $80
Keyboard: $30
12 years of private education: $52000

Making a spelling error in all caps in size 72 font: priceless.

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Sorry, I couldn't resist it.

[RaiDK]

I agree. The original battlecruiser looked largely industrial, the new one is a freaking techno cruiser.

Actually, all the terran units look techno. WTF?

ROFL at spelling mistake. Damn these laptop keyboards!

Edited by RaiDK, 19 May 2007 - 08:51.

[Revan]

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Sorry for getting spammy, but I had to.
This is the best new game announced I heared in ages. Thank you blizzard for not going MMOG.
Though I agree with you, I'd have preferred the Terran stuff more industrial, I suppose it's ok and more realistic like this.
I'm wondering about the protoss though, they seem to have completely changed them
The only familiar things I found so far are Zealots and Photon Cannons. I hope they don't remove some of the awsome old stuff, like Carriers, Arbiters and Dark Archons.

[RaiDK]

It's weird, almost looks like they gave the franchise to a new company... A friend of mine found the whole "Marines with shields" concept hilarious.

Then again, the original Blizzard team has left...

[Mathias]

I have never in my life been so moved by a public announcement by any company.

Fuck this forum, I cannot possibly describe how I feel in this thread.

[RaiDK]

I'll judge when I play it. Which will hopefully be sooner rather than later

[Revan]

[url="http://eu.starcraft2.com/"]http://eu.starcraft2.com/[/url]
Hell YESSSS.

[Mathias]

There's absolutely NOTHING wrong with the game whatsoever. It looks like they are aiming to please the korean hardcore scene and the worldwide fanbase simultaneously. New gameplay ideas like the Immortals only countering overwhelming force like Siegetanks and the zergling's winged form is immense. The unit portraits are fucking amazing and yet we have seen only 1% of the game! Just one tileset, just 3-4 units of each race.

This is the day I have waited for for 10 years now.

The graphics are perfect, they look EXACTLY like starcraft 1 sprites turned 3D. If you complain it isn't gritty enough, you need to play SC1 again. Battlecruisers looking too "techno"? WHAT THE FUCK? They look exactly like they used to do - like "technology". The fact that everyone compares it to WC3 is ridicolous. No matter what they'd do, this would come up. Did you expect them to make an isometric sprite game?

For now, I will wait, and reserve judgement until I see more. For now, I think they are revealing the most eye-opening stuff first. Then we will see how the familiar stuff plays out and if they are keeping the Starcraft feel intact.

EDIT: Heck, if they went for a more gritty color scheme, people would start complaining about CNC3-likeness instead. Seriously, what are you expecting?

Edited by Mathias, 19 May 2007 - 10:44.

[Prophet of the Pimps]

Superb news. I love SC and finally we will get to what happened. Any word on the 4th faction that was rumoured to be the creators of both zerg and protoss.

[Kris]

FINALLY!! Starcraft 2

hmmm why the siege tank deploys its whole tracks instead of doing it like in SC1?

[Mathias]

Won't be any, atelast not in cold hard gameplay terms. Which I don't mind TBH. Much higher chance of fucking something up like that. Would be matter for an expansion.

[RaiDK]

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EDIT: Heck, if they went for a more gritty color scheme, people would start complaining about CNC3-likeness instead.

lol, people complain about everything. I just didn't really expect it to look like that, and like I said I'll reserve judgement till I actually play it.

Now, time for some youtube love:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=aJDFw4TGWmo

[Golan]

Mathias, on 19 May 2007, 10:42, said:

The graphics are perfect, they look EXACTLY like starcraft 1 sprites turned 3D. If you complain it isn't gritty enough, you need to play SC1 again. Battlecruisers looking too "techno"? WHAT THE FUCK? They look exactly like they used to do - like "technology". The fact that everyone compares it to WC3 is ridicolous. No matter what they'd do, this would come up. Did you expect them to make an isometric sprite game?

It´s been only me explicitly comparing it to WCIII and RaiDK semi-agreeing with me so don´t see this as the next worldwide anti-Blizzard conspiracy. Also, the graphical style clearly is the one from WCIII, using the same proportions, bloated bodies, overstylized housecolors, heck they even seem to have used the same polish to get rid of every bit of dirt on their loved toys.
BTW, that is how a terran battlecruiser was looking to some of us.

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EDIT: Heck, if they went for a more gritty color scheme, people would start complaining about CNC3-likeness instead. rolleyes.gif Seriously, what are you expecting?

People seeing the voicing of an oppinion not as a formal declaration of war against SCII or any other game?

Alias, on 19 May 2007, 08:49, said:

Starcraft 2: $80
Keyboard: $30
12 years of private education: $52000

Making a spelling error in all caps in size 72 font: priceless.

You just made my day...

Edited by Golan, 19 May 2007 - 11:12.

[Saint]

Tis a fine day indeed to hear of this.

[Kris]

Don't want to double post....

SC2 !!!!! Fook yeah!

My only complain now is why they changed the overall design of the terran units? D:

Still! Finally! SC2 !!!