EPTWhy is SC1 called BW - Page 2
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m3rciless
United States1476 Posts
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jpak
United States5045 Posts
On May 15 2012 05:05 bgx wrote: Oh man soon it will spread like a disease, i mean BW is ScToo. But if BW is SCToo, then what are we going to call SCToo? On an more serious note, I agree with Chef. BW makes it more distinct from that other game. | ||
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laLAlA[uC]
Canada963 Posts
On May 15 2012 05:49 CaucasianAsian wrote: i just call starcraft 1 (broodwar) star1, and starcraft 2 is star2. much easier to say "star one" than "es see one" or "star two" instead of "es see two", cuts away a whole syllable! Pretty sure this is what koreans use iirc? | ||
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jpak
United States5045 Posts
On May 15 2012 05:49 CaucasianAsian wrote: i just call starcraft 1 (broodwar) star1, and starcraft 2 is star2. much easier to say "star one" than "es see one" or "star two" instead of "es see two", cuts away a whole syllable! That is how koreans say it. Pronouncing "Brood War" is hard for them, so they just say it like that. | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
On May 15 2012 04:39 Gogleion wrote: People used to call it sc more often than bw before sc2 was a big deal, but now everyone calls it bw just so it's not confused with sc2. This is pretty much it. | ||
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Tobberoth
Sweden6375 Posts
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3FFA
United States3931 Posts
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Skwid1g
United States953 Posts
I always called it Broodwar because it asked whether you wanted to play vanilla or BW on start-up though, maybe that's just me. | ||
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Fishgle
United States2174 Posts
broodwar by any other name wouldn't sound as l33t | ||
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iSometric
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Antimatterz
United States1010 Posts
On May 15 2012 04:28 Zandar wrote: If that's right in a few years the column header on the left will be "Legacy of the Void" instead of Starcraft 2 You really think so? It is essentially a different game, so yeah I will probably call it HotS to anybody who plays the game but still SC2 to people who don't play it. | ||
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yoshi_yoshi
United States440 Posts
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Luepert
United States1934 Posts
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Bub
United States3518 Posts
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JerKy
Korea (South)3013 Posts
Only time I bother saying BW, SC2, etc is around friends who dont know what Star1 and Star2 refer to As for the actual BW vs SC thing, I've always used them interchangeably, and I still do When I want to talk about SCII: WoL, I just say Star2 or SCII I have a feeling that when SCII: HotS comes out, itll be abbreviated to just SCII because people will assume that someone playing SCII will have the latest expansion (or at least that's how I'm going to refer to/treat it) | ||
FlaShFTW
United States10612 Posts
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gameguard
Korea (South)2132 Posts
Just think back on it. Before sc2 came out, im sure most people just said stuff like "do you play starcraft?" If you say that now, its ambiguous which game you are talking about. | ||
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v3chr0
United States856 Posts
On May 15 2012 04:47 heyoka wrote: Before SC2 was around "Starcraft" and "Brood War" were used interchangeably, convention here on TL was slightly more towards using BW but hardly noticeable. I think you're just wrong in how War3 isn't/wasn't referred to as TFT, because within the Warcraft community it was always called RoC/TFT on the big Warcraft sites, saying a generic "WC3" is something you only see when it's discussion from outside that space. It's common from within communities to use the most specific terminology possible whereas anything less specialized will tend towards the more generic SC1/WC3 stuff. It's pretty likely people will start referring to the expansion as HotS to avoid confusion between games when discussing what's happening now vs what happened a year ago. I agree, what you've said is true, and most probable. I played WC3/RoC/TFT for a long while, and I'd always have to say RoC or TFT to people who knew the games to differentiate, hardly ever did you say WC3, unless you were making generalizations. Especially once a few years has gone by, the difference is very large as you have an old game which is largely stagnant and the new expansion which has basically taken over, so it's only natural for the expansion to most likely take the name in the end. | ||
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Mobius_1
United Kingdom2763 Posts
On May 15 2012 05:49 CaucasianAsian wrote: i just call starcraft 1 (broodwar) star1, and starcraft 2 is star2. much easier to say "star one" than "es see one" or "star two" instead of "es see two", cuts away a whole syllable! But this is the internet where we type stuff. BW is easier than Star1, and SC2 is easier than Star2.  | ||
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