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TheAntZ
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Israel6248 Posts
October 30 2010 00:49 GMT
#21
Playing BW now is a very bad idea unless you enjoy challenging yourself tremendously, or simply love the game and proscene a lot. Theres not as many people playing it anymore, and the ones who are are very good, so you'd get stomped over and over without the chance to learn properly. I'd suggest you get better at sc2 first then maybe try your hand at bw, since the matchmaking will match you against players of equal skill. On iccup theres no guarantee, and getting smashed 2000 times before winning is no fun. I know from personal experience
43084 | Honeybadger: "So july, you're in the GSL finals. How do you feel?!" ~ July: "HUNGRY."
Hakker
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1360 Posts
October 30 2010 01:08 GMT
#22
if your just bronze at sc2 dont expect to be anywhere above D for atleast a year of solid practice.
Raeleigh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada902 Posts
October 30 2010 01:24 GMT
#23
On October 30 2010 10:08 Hakker wrote:
if your just bronze at sc2 dont expect to be anywhere above D for atleast a year of solid practice.

I never did expect that, but thanks.
you are perfect porcelain.
Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
October 30 2010 01:45 GMT
#24
if you're afraid to play 1v1 cause of stats or your ranking or something you're probably not going to get good very fast.

Being afraid of losing is probably a thing that holds alot of people back from improving, there's nothing that helps.

If you have better friends that's probably even better but i imagine you'll have to ladder it up some day to go as far as you can.

But it all depends on where you wanna get to, if it's just an average understanding of the game then it really doesn't take much work to get average diamond blah blah.

You should play bw! just to appreciate how much better and more demanding it is
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Raeleigh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada902 Posts
October 30 2010 01:58 GMT
#25
On October 30 2010 10:45 Divinek wrote:
if you're afraid to play 1v1 cause of stats or your ranking or something you're probably not going to get good very fast.

Being afraid of losing is probably a thing that holds alot of people back from improving, there's nothing that helps.

If you have better friends that's probably even better but i imagine you'll have to ladder it up some day to go as far as you can.

But it all depends on where you wanna get to, if it's just an average understanding of the game then it really doesn't take much work to get average diamond blah blah.

You should play bw! just to appreciate how much better and more demanding it is

Yeah, i'm just nervous and scared of doing poorly.
I think it's cause I just really, really don't like doing bad. I get embarrassed and immediately think I should be good at everything. It's a bad thing to do, haha.

So maybe playing BW and losing a lot will be good. ;D I definitely think i'm going to play though.

Yeah, my boyfriend is much better than me, and so is our other friend, and I play with them lots. I try to 1v1 my friends as well. But it's hard xD I don't want to get mad at them for winning XD!

Thank you though!
you are perfect porcelain.
Cedstick
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada3336 Posts
October 30 2010 02:08 GMT
#26
No pain, no gain. Just do the 1v1s, realize you're going to lose, learn from your mistakes and... get better! Once you learn to accept that you're going to lose -- once you let go of that part of your ego -- is when you really start to progress. Can't win without losin'.

As for BW, those saying that it helped a ton are those who played it while waiting for SC2 to come out.
"What does Rivington do when he's not commentating?" "Drool." ~ Categorist
Raeleigh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada902 Posts
October 30 2010 02:11 GMT
#27
On October 30 2010 11:08 Cedstick wrote:
No pain, no gain. Just do the 1v1s, realize you're going to lose, learn from your mistakes and... get better! Once you learn to accept that you're going to lose -- once you let go of that part of your ego -- is when you really start to progress. Can't win without losin'.

As for BW, those saying that it helped a ton are those who played it while waiting for SC2 to come out.

Stop posting in my blogs. /chases you with fire

Can we 1v1? You seem like you're pretty good, and I HATE TvT! :[
^_^
you are perfect porcelain.
TheAntZ
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Israel6248 Posts
October 30 2010 02:47 GMT
#28
If you want some practice vs Z or T I play both those at the E level and got some time right now
43084 | Honeybadger: "So july, you're in the GSL finals. How do you feel?!" ~ July: "HUNGRY."
FruitGG
Profile Joined August 2010
United States73 Posts
October 30 2010 05:00 GMT
#29
I only played SC2 exactly when it came out. (No broodwar experience but had other RTS experiences NOT related to SC ex. DotA , HoN) I just played and watched vods non stop and after a few months i got into Platinum. Im #11 in my ladder right now with 1.1k points. If you really want to learn something , just put effort in it and you'll get the results that you're trying to find.
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9110 Posts
October 30 2010 06:32 GMT
#30
My roommate is having a blast going through the starcraft vanilla campaign right now. For getting into "serious" gaming though sc1 wouldn't be good because the only people left doing melee I feel would be fairly advanced.

Still is probably a decent amount of FMP and BGH though I would think on public servers. I also think SC has much better UMS compared with sc2 currently.
NIIINO
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Slovakia1320 Posts
October 30 2010 07:39 GMT
#31
Well i can say i suck in BW soooooo much QQ
I wanted to try it too so i asked my Asian friend if he doesnt have original SC:BW and he just said yea sure i will bring you it tomorrow. : )
That night i played him it ended 1:1 (he was more WC3 type than SC) but still i will remember that matches forever. So i had some free time and i tried play it against ppl on b.net.
I found just few servers but it was enough.

1st game: I have still no idea from where that Zealots came from but i think it was across the map, behind that river where i never been cause its even so hard to scout for me.

2nd game: Wooohoooo i did a Lurkers, but WTF he can see my lurkers : ( i need a scourges ! and how i was looking for from where i can get em i dont have no more hatcheries and he is asking me if this is my 1st game : (

3rd game: T powaaaa ! Z wanted to muta me but yea my turrets are EVERYWHERE ! and im one big turtle boy hoping for the best ! Battle cruisers on tha way ! ..... i can tell you 1 battle cruiser > 100 expansions 200/200 just army cause he didnt need drons more, there are no minerals... He said it was fun play Monopoly with me. I said Monopoly FTW !

4th game: There wasnt 4th game and never will be cause i dont want to waste time of that guys.

END: It was worth of it i love that game and you will too its so much fun even you are the biggest nub out there
Raeleigh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada902 Posts
October 30 2010 19:01 GMT
#32
On October 30 2010 11:47 TheAntZ wrote:
If you want some practice vs Z or T I play both those at the E level and got some time right now

That would be good. I'll probably try playing after this weekend, since I won't be home. Going to a LAN party. Maybe i'll try it on a friends computer?
Once I get it going though, i'll send you a message. Thanks!

On October 30 2010 14:00 ValSic wrote:
I only played SC2 exactly when it came out. (No broodwar experience but had other RTS experiences NOT related to SC ex. DotA , HoN) I just played and watched vods non stop and after a few months i got into Platinum. Im #11 in my ladder right now with 1.1k points. If you really want to learn something , just put effort in it and you'll get the results that you're trying to find.

Haha, I used to play DotA all the time with friends, wasn't that good though, haha.
So does watching VODs and replays really help then? My friends said it was better to just keep playing.

On October 30 2010 15:32 Jonoman92 wrote:
My roommate is having a blast going through the starcraft vanilla campaign right now. For getting into "serious" gaming though sc1 wouldn't be good because the only people left doing melee I feel would be fairly advanced.

Still is probably a decent amount of FMP and BGH though I would think on public servers. I also think SC has much better UMS compared with sc2 currently.

Okay. O: I think i'll definitely do the campaign then, just because. (:


On October 30 2010 16:39 NIIINO wrote:
Well i can say i suck in BW soooooo much QQ
I wanted to try it too so i asked my Asian friend if he doesnt have original SC:BW and he just said yea sure i will bring you it tomorrow. : )
That night i played him it ended 1:1 (he was more WC3 type than SC) but still i will remember that matches forever. So i had some free time and i tried play it against ppl on b.net.
I found just few servers but it was enough.

1st game: I have still no idea from where that Zealots came from but i think it was across the map, behind that river where i never been cause its even so hard to scout for me.

2nd game: Wooohoooo i did a Lurkers, but WTF he can see my lurkers : ( i need a scourges ! and how i was looking for from where i can get em i dont have no more hatcheries and he is asking me if this is my 1st game : (

3rd game: T powaaaa ! Z wanted to muta me but yea my turrets are EVERYWHERE ! and im one big turtle boy hoping for the best ! Battle cruisers on tha way ! ..... i can tell you 1 battle cruiser > 100 expansions 200/200 just army cause he didnt need drons more, there are no minerals... He said it was fun play Monopoly with me. I said Monopoly FTW !

4th game: There wasnt 4th game and never will be cause i dont want to waste time of that guys.

END: It was worth of it i love that game and you will too its so much fun even you are the biggest nub out there

Haha, I really enjoyed reading your post! Once I start playing, maybe we could play some fun matches together?
You seem like you'd be fun to play with. xD ♥
you are perfect porcelain.
nafta
Profile Joined August 2010
Bulgaria18893 Posts
October 30 2010 20:02 GMT
#33
I suggest you just play whatever you enjoy since that's the most important part of gaming(along with owning newbies ofc ).You will never improve if you are not actually having fun with the game.

If you like both games just play them both.At your level mechanics are the thing that needs the biggest improvement anyway.

GL
Raeleigh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada902 Posts
October 30 2010 20:47 GMT
#34
On October 31 2010 05:02 nafta wrote:
I suggest you just play whatever you enjoy since that's the most important part of gaming(along with owning newbies ofc ).You will never improve if you are not actually having fun with the game.

If you like both games just play them both.At your level mechanics are the thing that needs the biggest improvement anyway.

GL

Awesome, thanks for that. ^____^ I do have fun playing SC2, so I will try SC, see what that's all about. (:
you are perfect porcelain.
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