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Note: This blog may not have a purpose or mean a thing.
My boyfriend recently came to the conclusion that I am one of the biggest fans of Starcraft 2 without ever having actually played the game.
He's taking a nap as I'm thinking about this and I realize that I think he's right. At least, he's right in part.
His reasons make a lot of sense. I've dreamt about Tasteless, Day9, Artosis, and IdrA on more than one occasion. I used to lurk this forum and then decided to get an account on here to post stuff. Hell, I've even made Tasteless and Artosis on the Sims 3 and report back to him every so often about it. I watch videos relating to Starcraft out of boredom and I don't play. I'm learning to understand what everything means. I'm following at least 10 people related to Starcraft and am definitely developing an interest in it.
I think it might be good for me to learn how to play. Does anyone have any suggestions whatsoever?
 
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Be a student of the game and don't be a quitter. Have fuuuuuun
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Hmmmm does he know what you dream about?
Does he wish he was as pro as them? :p
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He knows I do and what it's about and I'm sure he probably does.
Well, I don't think he knows I had a dream about IdrA.
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Canada5155 Posts
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Buy the game O.O considering how much you watch all you have to do is ge tthe mechanics down  . Which can be a pain sometimes >.>
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learn to give him a good massage and make him feel good, dress up nice for him... these things are much more important than starcraft... lol
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On March 13 2011 13:14 mishimaBeef wrote:
learn to give him a good massage and make him feel good, dress up nice for him... these things are much more important than starcraft... lol
I already can. I meant I want to do this for me.
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Inform your learning by studying and emulating the players you admire.
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If you want to learn the best way to start is to just play and learn from your boyfriend, it may seem a lot harder than playing singleplayer and laddering by yourself, but if you teach yourself it is easy to gain bad playing habits.
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It's a video game not rocket science, a good first step would be double clicking on the desktop icon to launch it
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On March 13 2011 13:14 mishimaBeef wrote:
learn to give him a good massage and make him feel good, dress up nice for him... these things are much more important than starcraft... lol
HERESY!
Starcraft>all!!
Besides, if he likes Starcraft, and she likes Starcraft, and they can both play it together; that beats the fuck out of a lame massage orsome "nice clothes" any day of the week.
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On March 13 2011 13:02 Lanaia wrote:
I've dreamt about Tasteless, Day9, Artosis, and IdrA on more than one occasion.
You don't need to like Starcraft to have dreamed about those guys.
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It's fully possible to appreciate Starcraft without ever playing the game. The same logic can be applied to any sport.
But, once you have first hand experience with the game, you will likely appreciate it more. The same logic can be applied to any sport.
Move an Archon around and make it kill 2 Zerglings, and a connectedness can be established between you and the virtual unit. You don't need to ladder or anything. Just go beat the computer. After that, you can use SC2 to play very casual custom games like Nexus War and stick to watching SC2 on youtube.
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Just dive in, if you have watched starcraft games you know more than enough to get started.
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StarCraft 2 has a big spectator aspect to it, every so often when I cast I'll notice my mom peering over my shoulder to see what's going on because it sounds very interesting.
Being a fan of SC2 is nothing bad, and you're not alone in what you think.
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Yeah I'd say just go for it, start playing. Maybe a game or two against a medium AI and then do your placement matches. If you need any help improving, consult Ver's How to Improve guide in the Brood War forum and you'll be on your way to mid or upper diamond in no time at all.
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On March 13 2011 13:41 Energies wrote:Show nested quote +On March 13 2011 13:02 Lanaia wrote:
I've dreamt about Tasteless, Day9, Artosis, and IdrA on more than one occasion.
You don't need to like Starcraft to have dreamed about those guys.
How come boxer isn't on the list?
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Canada812 Posts
It is going to be tough when you just first start playing. You will be bad. You will lose a lot of games. It will take a lot of time to get better. However, if you can tough it out for a while, the game can be very rewarding and fun. This isn't to say that the lower levels can't be fun either though. My brother just started playing, and he gets frustrated very easily so I don't think that he'll be playing very much in the future.
Basically you just have to keep playing. If you lose, don't get down, but rather, try to learn from it and improve so that you will never lose in the same fashion again.
You've got a long road ahead of you.
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lagmaster
United States374 Posts
You do not have to play to enjoy Starcraft. Depending on how competitive you are, playing the game can be pretty depressing at times. Nothing makes me rage like losing 5 games in a row. Watching games can make me rage too (like Jaedong losing to Flash in game 2 of the msl last year... oooh that one stung like a bitch), but you get the same enjoyment without all the extra effort.
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NeverGG
United Kingdom5399 Posts
I was like this for pretty much my entire eSports career - you don't need to play, or to even fully understand the game to be able to contribute/to become a huge fan. For me it was all about capturing the moments which defined those years, improving my own photography skills, and bringing the foreign fans closer to their Korean gamer idols. SC and SC2 provide a lot of different things to different people which are in no way always related to actually playing the game.
GL with trying it out in the future :D I'm sure once you get going you'll find a lot of fulfilment in actually gaming, and it'll only add to your experience when you watch the matches.
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OMG can we be friends? I'm almost the same as you!!! I only play a little (yes only a tiny little bit) Zerg and most of the time I just watch and read everything SC-related and I still have a lot to figure out. I've only been into Sc for about 3 months  I follow like 40 ppl on tweet and about 30 of them are involved with SC ) I collect progamer pics and dream about SC everynight!
Yes. I'm not really a SC player but I'm one of the biggest fans :x If you play, let's play together sometimes ^^
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So basically, you're like most sports fans, except for SC.
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Once you start playing the game you'll have dreams about everything (the units, games, etc) +_+. When I play too much Starjeweled I see jewels when I close my eyes.
Good luck! Play lots. It's a lot of fun and if you don't like the competitive side of laddering, there is always the COMPETITIVE SIDE OF STARJEWELED.
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I've watched Proleague for years, as well as a few seasons of GSL, and I don't play BW or SC2...I didn't even know about the pro scene when I was playing BW and by the time I discovered it and TL, I had long since lost interest in playing...
I'm just around for the community / spectating / hosting events now.
So, there's others out there like you that don't play but love the game, lol. Simplest way to get into BW/SC2 is to just load up the game and play, and...probably the biggest factor is to not get discouraged when you lose, and try your best to learn from your mistakes. That's probably the biggest hurdle for a lot of people.
Good luck!
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I had no idea that it was anything like other sports.
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Dreaming about those guys is normal, I do it too, and it has nothing to do with Starcraft
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