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Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-04 00:23:44
January 04 2011 00:22 GMT
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6000 Posts

      The Infested Terran is my favourite unit in the game of StarCraft:BroodWar and it's finally my icon. Infested Terrans are like mines you can control that have more than twice as much health and do four times more damage—mines already did a tonne of damage—all for 100 minerals and 50 gas a pop. Three infested Terrans kill a Command Center. Two make it weak enough for you to Infest again.
      I recall many years ago that there was a patch which screwed up Infested Terrans. I don't remember how, but it made them unbuildable. That a very disappointing time in my life. Thankfully they didn't take long to fix that.

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Since 1998

      That's how long I've been playing this game. I've even still got the 1.0 disc. I was a little kid then, of course, but between myself and my two brothers we each pitched in $25 to buy the game. We'd been looking forward to it a long time, since before then we played WarCraft II on a LAN (my father has always kept up with computers). My StarCraft disc says "Windows 95 and NT" on it. It says copyright 1997. I guess they made it before Windows 98 was even a consideration.
      Playing StarCraft for the first time is a kind of magical experience. A lot of people suggest playing the campaign and then learning one build order and doing it over and over again to people who are new to the game, but I don't think that's correct. I think way before that point we all played endless games of StarCraft with a few friends vs the computers and that was a lot of fun in its own way. That's how you learn the game and get familiar with its units. How you begin to use hotkeys and memorise things without specifically 'training' yourself. StarCraft is a game, after all.

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Are they kidding? They can't possibly own the copyright to a beta image.


Not WarCraft in Space

      It really wasn't. It was so much better than anything I'd ever played before. It felt good to play StarCraft. It made sense. The selection indicators around my units weren't squares, they were circles! I'd played a few RTS's before StarCraft, including Total Annihilation. I'd enjoyed a lot of them, but StarCraft was a better game on every level. The varying factions didn't just have slightly modified equivalents of each other, they had completely different abilities. It is a genuinely difficult decision to choose a main race after playing all three. You feel regret that you'll be missing out on the dynamics the other matchups offer, even the other side of the matchups you are already playing.
      StarCraft brought something to the RTS world that had never existed in such a polished form before. BroodWar took that to another level entirely. It didn't take long at all for the last major balance changes to be in place and for the game to be stabilized forever.
      Before I got interested in 'melee' StarCraft I played a tonne of UMS. It's part of the reason micro and tactics were the strongest aspects of my game when I first started melee. UMS was a beautiful part of StarCraft too, though. If you were too afraid to play with your ego on the line, there were tonnes of team UMS games to enjoy. Even the UMS games which had you compete against others were often just with other people who only had a vague idea of how to play. It was a great environment for enjoying StarCraft and learning about the units.
      Beyond that, there were the chat channels. I'd be lying if I said I didn't spend a lot of time just talking to strangers (then becoming friends with said strangers) in chat channels. It was an important aspect of my enjoyment of this game. It gave weight to being good at the game. There were actually a few people to impress. B.net is mostly dead now, in part thanks to iCCup taking the loyalest fans with it, but it still remains some of my fondest StarCraft memories.

It's a Game

      The proscene of StarCraft:BroodWar is one of the coolest things ever, and often inspires me to play StarCraft and think about StarCraft and talk about StarCraft, but in the end StarCraft will always be a game to me. My life is not to become a StarCraft progamer. I have other goals, so I can't spend too much time playing. But that's okay. StarCraft never demanded I be the best at it to have fun. StarCraft is a game with all levels of players and all you need to do is find people your own level. Let the people for whom it's a job take it seriously. Let us just have fun.
      Becoming better is fun, but becoming better should never take priority over having fun. Sometimes people take this game too seriously. Sometimes people have strange ideas about what will make them better. If you've read my blogs before you'll know that I'm not a fan of ladder. Ladder makes you play in strange ways. Ladder makes the most effective way of climbing it (to start) doing a single strategy every game. But that is neither fun nor making you a better player overall. The fun of StarCraft is in expressing yourself through the tools the game gives you.

They Say It's Like Chess

      But it's actually like Go. Go is a beautiful game. It has so many different play styles to accomplish one goal. It has so many different aspects one needs to master. The whole game isn't attacking. Sometimes it's gaining territory. Other times it's protecting territory. That makes the battles more interesting, since they are not the whole game. It makes the game as a whole more complex, since there is not a single way of playing it.
      Chess is like a single battle in StarCraft. Go is like the entire game of StarCraft. That's not an insult to Chess. I'm just stating that Chess is a very focused game which rewards a very particular skill-set. Still, let it be known that I find Go more interesting because of these differences.

Is It Too Personal?

      I've tried to keep this from being just a boring history of myself with StarCraft. I've tried to mention the things that make this game beautiful for everyone. Somehow, though, I feel like I can only speak for myself. I can only say these are the things that made StarCraft:BroodWar an amazing game to me. I can only say these are the things I see lacking in the games people moved onto every year after 1998.
      For what it's worth I'll never like another game more than I like StarCraft: BroodWar. It's not elitism. It's not just familiarity. I moved on from plenty of games before StarCraft. It's just that even among the few games that came after it which were innovative (WarCraft III's hero system), those elements never made for a better game. Those games which weren't even innovative, but just had different units were even less worthy of attention.

Chef <3 <3 <3 BroodWar

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LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
January 04 2011 00:24 GMT
#2
Hey I love BW too! We should have a party or something.

And grats on 6k posts, haha I'm looking forward to guardian status ;D
:)
Kojak21
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada1104 Posts
January 04 2011 00:27 GMT
#3
Congrats!
¯\_(☺)_/¯
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9775 Posts
January 04 2011 00:28 GMT
#4
I am glad that as I probably won't ever have to face these little things ever D:
GO BW GO!

5/5
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PH
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6173 Posts
January 04 2011 00:29 GMT
#5
I definitely consider BW to be the best game I've ever played. It's incredible on every level.
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Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
January 04 2011 00:32 GMT
#6
On January 04 2011 09:28 seRapH wrote:
I am glad that as I probably won't ever have to face these little things ever D:
GO BW GO!

5/5

Unless you play on Holy World. Mwahhahaa. Or FFA.
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
ghrur
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3786 Posts
January 04 2011 00:32 GMT
#7
CONGRATS ON 6K. :D Starcraft is definitely my favorite game too. ^_^ Still, I feel like some games can hold a candle to it, like Deus Ex and OoT and such. :p
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Hidden_MotiveS
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada2562 Posts
January 04 2011 00:33 GMT
#8
What are you saying is beautiful?

I think watching games is beautiful. Even if I'm just watching one of my games, they provoke me to think about all of the intricacies of the game. I love how I'm always learning about the game, and trying new things, whether it be on UMS or 3v3's. I'm too scared to play ladder
emperorchampion
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada9496 Posts
January 04 2011 00:38 GMT
#9
Reading something like this reminds me of how great this game really is
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Broodlings
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States157 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-04 00:42:43
January 04 2011 00:41 GMT
#10
The image of the beta of starcraft wow interesting how everything was super warcraft 2ish great blog overall 5/5
There is no Karont3 icon???? what is this madness?
XsebT
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Denmark2980 Posts
January 04 2011 00:49 GMT
#11
It is indeed. Beauty and attraction go hand in hand.
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Nao
Profile Joined October 2008
Poland166 Posts
January 04 2011 01:11 GMT
#12
Congrats on 6000!

On January 04 2011 09:22 Chef wrote:
      But it's actually like Go. Go is a beautiful game. It has so many different play styles to accomplish one goal. It has so many different aspects one needs to master.

When i tried to learn Go i used many aspects of BW's game play to grasp the main concepts of territory, balance, positioning and such. After i become somewhat decent at it the more advanced ways of thinking in go really helped me to understand some more things about BW. I think both games are exceptional and have a lot in common.
One cannot out-kwanro Kwanro. -Trap
IamBach
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1059 Posts
January 04 2011 01:15 GMT
#13
Yes!! I hate it when people compare scbw to chess when scbw to Go is so much more applicable. Good job on 6k posts!
Just listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__lCZeePG48
Zergneedsfood
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States10671 Posts
January 04 2011 01:53 GMT
#14
6K? Awesssommme!

And of course, BW is best.
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KezseN
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Singapore1450 Posts
January 04 2011 01:53 GMT
#15
Nice read, its like reading a review from a starcraft wiki page.
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Dance.
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States389 Posts
January 04 2011 02:07 GMT
#16
Can anyone remember the game where a zerg player rushed queens and stole the map's neutral command center? I might be remembering it wrong, but it was PvZ and the zerg end up winning.
It is what it is...
IamBach
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1059 Posts
January 04 2011 02:09 GMT
#17
that game does sound pretty cool
Just listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__lCZeePG48
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
January 04 2011 02:14 GMT
#18
On January 04 2011 11:07 Dance. wrote:
Can anyone remember the game where a zerg player rushed queens and stole the map's neutral command center? I might be remembering it wrong, but it was PvZ and the zerg end up winning.

Every ZvP on Holy World lol.
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
ghrur
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3786 Posts
January 04 2011 02:15 GMT
#19
On January 04 2011 11:07 Dance. wrote:
Can anyone remember the game where a zerg player rushed queens and stole the map's neutral command center? I might be remembering it wrong, but it was PvZ and the zerg end up winning.


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PoP-sicle
Profile Joined May 2007
Canada418 Posts
January 04 2011 02:48 GMT
#20
next time talk about the goold old clan [zone] and how it all started for us :D


MeTaNe[Zone]
n3mo
Profile Joined May 2010
United States298 Posts
January 04 2011 03:03 GMT
#21
dudeee thats like baneling drops on steroids hahaha

chef, weren't you the one who wrote that excellent article on the Stove way back when? (ha puns)
mad props to you man, and congrats.
My hatred for [banelings] is way greater than my compassion
EvilTeletubby
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Baltimore, USA22256 Posts
January 04 2011 03:13 GMT
#22
<3 Chef

Need to say no more than that.
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Zim23
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1681 Posts
January 04 2011 03:20 GMT
#23
<3 BW. Hoping chat channels in Bnet2.0 will bring back some of that nostalgia.
Do an arranged marriage if she's not completely minging, and don't worry about dancing, get a go-kart, cheers.
Aquafresh
Profile Joined May 2007
United States824 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-04 03:27:33
January 04 2011 03:24 GMT
#24
On January 04 2011 11:07 Dance. wrote:
Can anyone remember the game where a zerg player rushed queens and stole the map's neutral command center? I might be remembering it wrong, but it was PvZ and the zerg end up winning.


Zero vs Kal is probably what you're thinking of. He did it to Hwasin too, but he was way ahead at the time if I remember. Here's the Hwasin game as the Kal one was posted.



Really well written post by the way.
Meapak_Ziphh
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States6786 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-04 06:42:14
January 04 2011 06:38 GMT
#25
Pure poetry. On another note I never knew that icon was an infested Terran.
Edit: I should let you know that the first (and only) game I won on iccup so far was using stove... It gave me confidence knowing I was doing an unbeatable build that allowed me to win :D
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jcroisdale
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States1543 Posts
January 04 2011 06:59 GMT
#26
Infested terrans the ultimate smackdown unit. I was never big into watching BW but if anyone has some casted pro games with Infested terrans plz post or pm them to me i would be so damn happy,
"I think bringing a toddler to a movie theater is a terrible idea. They are too young to understand what is happening it would be like giving your toddler acid. Bad idea." - Sinensis
DivinO
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4796 Posts
January 04 2011 09:02 GMT
#27
DivinO <3 Chef 5/5.
LiquipediaBrain in my filth.
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
January 04 2011 12:54 GMT
#28
Nice post, it made me want to play the campaigns again to remember how I felt the first time I played Starcraft ! Of course if I want to feel how it was back then, I must not use hotkeys, and must use cheat codes haha !
5/5
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Hidden_MotiveS
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada2562 Posts
January 04 2011 13:37 GMT
#29
I remember that Kal game sparked such an imbalance rage against IT's

Entertaining to say the least to read about the arguments.
2Pacalypse-
Profile Joined October 2006
Croatia9517 Posts
January 04 2011 18:47 GMT
#30
Excellent blog!

I can relate to a lot of your points.
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