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Hey guys (and ladies),
I was planning on making a post outlining some ways for newbies to get into the "World of StarCraft". But, I decided to maybe take it a little deeper.
After playing a few practice games this morning my stomach starts yelling at me to ingest food. As I'm making some rice, I start scrolling through the TV guide to find something to watch. Of course, there isn't much on except some Doctor Who reruns so I decide to pull out the behind the scenes DVD that came with Wings of Liberty. I sit down with my bowl of rice and fire up the "StarCraft retrospective". If you haven't seen it, it basically shows the making of StarCraft and how it helped bring esports to the public. It's a really cool video that I recommend any fan watch.
All morning I have been trying to decide what steps I can put on here to help new players get into StarCraft. As I'm watching the video, it dawned on me. "Why would someone want to get into it?" "Why did I decide to get into it?" "Why do people around the world play and watch it everyday?" I think it boils down to one simple thing...we all love something about StarCraft. Some people love the competitive aspect, others love the map making. Some love the campaign, others love the arcade. I truly believe that there is something, somewhere in the "World of StarCraft" for everyone.
I only recently started playing StarCraft and the competitive side of it was what got me hooked. I'll say it again, and I'll probably way it a million more times, when I watched the Scarlett vs Bomber game 3 match, I knew I wanted to learn to do what she did. That very day I told myself, "I am going to be a StarCraft 2 pro and become a part of this community!" And why did I say that? Because I found something about StarCraft that I love.
So, in the comments, share what you love about StarCraft and what got you hooked on it. And I want to issue a challenge for everyone, including myself, try to introduce a few friends to StarCraft. Show them the different aspects of the game, esports, arcade, campaign, etc. Thanks for reading.
- Smoothie
 
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Poverty, not your best motivator.
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@ThomasjServo Poverty? I'm lost lol.
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Couldn't afford new games, so I kept playing and playing and playing.
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@ThomasjServo Oh! I gotcha lol. Well, at least you kept playing a great game.
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@Cele Whenever I say StarCraft I mean both games. This post actually applies to StarCraft 1, Brood War, Wings of Liberty, and Heart of the Swarm. So I wrote it with the intention for anyone reading it to use whichever game they like best. I personally love Heart of the Swarm. Also, it's "StarCraft" not "Starcraft" 
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On June 15 2014 05:51 Smoothie8484 wrote:Also, it's "StarCraft" not "Starcraft"
It's LeviOsa, not LevioSAA!
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On June 15 2014 05:51 Smoothie8484 wrote:Also, it's "StarCraft" not "Starcraft"
Could you be more of a douche? This is TL... SC, sc, starcraft, STARCRAFTUUUU etc are all acceptable and if you really loved starcraft you'd know not to nitpick over capitalization.
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@Scarecrow Hahaha It was actually a joke aimed at Cele. They wanted to be all negative about trivial stuff so I decided to do the same thing lol. Could you be more of a douche? Yea, I probably could. If I was trying to be one, then I probably wouldn't have put the smiley face instead opting for the smiley giving "the finger" lol. if you really loved starcraft you'd know not to nitpick over capitalization. If a college English professor, that has trained their brain to notice even the slightest grammar mistake, loved StarCraft would he not twinge over capitalization?
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College English professors have better things to do than worry about C's being arbitrarily capitalized mid-word on a gaming forum.
I'm also not fluent in emoticon but I'd consider putting a smiley after a piece of condescending advice to be fairly antagonistic.
Cele wasn't being trivial. You are generalising about two different games when you're really just talking about SC2. They may share a fanbase but there's still plenty who exclusively prefer one over the other. Stick to talking about SC2 as it's clearly your thing.
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To this day I don't know what about Starcraft (Vanilla and BW) got me into it, but it is such an amazing game. Starcraft 2 is fun too, but without getting into SC1 I wouldn't have gotten into SC2, most likely.
I remember being really interested in the original campaign, and then getting excited the first times I was going to play it with friends (mostly cooperatively VS comps). That menu music still gets to me.
Later on I became more competitive with playing online and while I never got to the actual competitive scene, the experience unlocked a whole new way to game, for me.
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On June 15 2014 12:00 Scarecrow wrote:
College English professors have better things to do than worry about C's being arbitrarily capitalized mid-word on a gaming forum.
I'm also not fluent in emoticon but I'd consider putting a smiley after a piece of condescending advice to be fairly antagonistic.
Cele wasn't being trivial. You are generalising about two different games when you're really just talking about SC2. They may share a fanbase but there's still plenty who exclusively prefer one over the other. Stick to talking about SC2 as it's clearly your thing.
I think you're the one seeing it as condescending.
Correction does not need to be condescending 100% of the time.
I think the problem lies in your interpretation.
More to the point, you're acting far more "douchey" about it than he was in his one little correction, so I wonder how you think you're acting any better in the situation. When bitching at a critic, be sure to avoid being the real arsehole.
As for the smiley, I'd say it's up to interpretation again. Try to imagine, just for a moment, that the person is a friend, someone you know and trust, have no reason to think ill of, and they smile at you when saying it.
Do you immediately feel like they need a punch to the face or a good yelling at? I sure hope not. It can just be friendliness within the community. Hopefully you're just having a bad day and don't always jump on people like this just for attempting to correct things.
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I love how the blog tries to spread good messages and positive attitude and the community rush in to destroy it in less than ten replies.
Starcraft for me is when I realize how clever some pros are.
Zerg drone timing back in early WoL was really difficult to handle, maps were horrible, cheese and slow overlords and queens make it so hard to know when to drone and when to make units.
Even if you make 75 drones, after surviving all kinds of attack, you can still lose to a protoss deathball extremely easily because back then then zerg deathball was roach hydra corruptors.
So in balancing between stopping protoss getting a third and droning, I have always found zerg players in that period of time to be really talented.
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On June 15 2014 12:29 Fuchsteufelswild wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2014 12:00 Scarecrow wrote:
College English professors have better things to do than worry about C's being arbitrarily capitalized mid-word on a gaming forum.
I'm also not fluent in emoticon but I'd consider putting a smiley after a piece of condescending advice to be fairly antagonistic.
Cele wasn't being trivial. You are generalising about two different games when you're really just talking about SC2. They may share a fanbase but there's still plenty who exclusively prefer one over the other. Stick to talking about SC2 as it's clearly your thing. I think you're the one seeing it as condescending. Correction does not need to be condescending 100% of the time. I think the problem lies in your interpretation. More to the point, you're acting far more "douchey" about it than he was in his one little correction, so I wonder how you think you're acting any better in the situation. When bitching at a critic, be sure to avoid being the real arsehole. As for the smiley, I'd say it's up to interpretation again. Try to imagine, just for a moment, that the person is a friend, someone you know and trust, have no reason to think ill of, and they smile at you when saying it. Do you immediately feel like they need a punch to the face or a good yelling at? I sure hope not. It can just be friendliness within the community. Hopefully you're just having a bad day and don't always jump on people like this just for attempting to correct things.
If you honestly think that's a remotely necessary correction on this forum I don't know what to say. Correction isn't necessarily condescending but in this case how can it not be? A friend smiling whilst telling me what I did wrong is fine, assuming the correction has some merit. A random 11 post stranger doing a smiley whilst correcting a 5+ year user on something this dumb/trivial is very different. Context is everything.
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@micronesia I definitely remember that menu music too lol. I didn't play SC1 until I got WoL but I was amazed on how well done the game was. Other than maybe graphics, I personally thought it never really showed its age. I would certainly rank it up there as one of the best games of all time.
@ETisME Hearing everyone talk about their experiences makes me wish I would have played all the StarCraft games from the beginning. I feel like I missed so much!
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I remember back in the good old days of BW forum guys hating on SC2 and visa versa. I remember thinking, "Maybe there is something to that old game" so I went and watched it. I remember Bisu vs Flash in the last SPL final. I remember being on the edge of my seat during the entire game. I had felt like that during starcraft 2 games, and during regular sport games, but I realized then why SC1 was so cool; it was the first E-sport to really make that feeling a thing on the big stage for RTS games.
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On June 15 2014 12:43 Scarecrow wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2014 12:29 Fuchsteufelswild wrote:On June 15 2014 12:00 Scarecrow wrote:
College English professors have better things to do than worry about C's being arbitrarily capitalized mid-word on a gaming forum.
I'm also not fluent in emoticon but I'd consider putting a smiley after a piece of condescending advice to be fairly antagonistic.
Cele wasn't being trivial. You are generalising about two different games when you're really just talking about SC2. They may share a fanbase but there's still plenty who exclusively prefer one over the other. Stick to talking about SC2 as it's clearly your thing. I think you're the one seeing it as condescending. Correction does not need to be condescending 100% of the time. I think the problem lies in your interpretation. More to the point, you're acting far more "douchey" about it than he was in his one little correction, so I wonder how you think you're acting any better in the situation. When bitching at a critic, be sure to avoid being the real arsehole. As for the smiley, I'd say it's up to interpretation again. Try to imagine, just for a moment, that the person is a friend, someone you know and trust, have no reason to think ill of, and they smile at you when saying it. Do you immediately feel like they need a punch to the face or a good yelling at? I sure hope not. It can just be friendliness within the community. Hopefully you're just having a bad day and don't always jump on people like this just for attempting to correct things. If you honestly think that's a remotely necessary correction on this forum I don't know what to say. Correction isn't necessarily condescending but in this case how can it not be? A friend smiling whilst telling me what I did wrong is fine, assuming the correction has some merit. A random 11 post stranger doing a smiley whilst correcting a 5+ year user on something this dumb/trivial is very different. Context is everything.
No, he's right. You're being more of a douche. Ease up.
@ OP, I loved SC from Vanilla and BW. I wasted many happy hours in 98/99 lanning with mates at University. However, I moved on after a couple of years (I became a FPS fan with CS and DOD and then BF) and forgot about SC. But, the good memories remained as well as the characters and story (the campaign made an indelible impression on my mind).
I had no idea of the explosion of BW in Korea as an E-sport until a friend of mine went over to Korea to teach English and told me about it. Still, I was doing other things and had no desire to play. However, hearing SC2 was coming out rekindled a lot of those old memories and I was very hyped. I even found myself booting up BW again and lanning at a cafe with some of my old friends (the same group of guys I played BW with back in Uni) after watching the SC2 trailers.
SC2 came out and I got into it pretty soon after. I've been playing the game, off and on, and been a part of the community since about late 2010. No regrets thus far. But, life catches up with you the older you get and I have less time to play and watch games than I used to. That said, I still enjoy the game immensely. Playing wise, I just like the immersion that SC2 gives me. The total engrossment in the game. That, and the competition and, of course, the fact that SC2 is hard.
My old Uni friends and I boot up SC2 from time to time and play 2v2/3v3/4v4. It's the most fun I have in SC2. Laddering is good too. But, my most enjoyable SC2 experiences have come in teams with my irl friends. The laughs and the rage!
I'm not sure I'll be around for LOTV. Heck, I may not be around by the end of the year. But, SC2 is still and always a lot of fun.
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Back in 1999 I was playing Age of empires. And some guys were LANning SC, 2v2 on Hunters. They lacked a guy for 2v2 so they asked me and I agreed. I had no idea what to do or when to do it. They even picked the protoss for me as they said it was the easiest. My team mate told how to make DTs. So I made those invisible fuckers and just pushed them into one of the enemy's base. They ripped everything, we won, I was hooked. ^_^
Later I tried terran and zerg, I actually enjoyed terran but toss has always been the most natural for me to play.
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@docvoc Yea, I definitly agree with you there. I love the feeling you get after watching a pro match. It reminds me of when I was younger I was really big into Alabama football (I still watch a few games a year with friends). I would get so pumped after a big win lol. It's the same with StarCraft for me.
@aZealot and hymn One of the funnest parts of gaming for me is being about to play it with my buddies. I don't have many local friends that play but I'm working on converting a few lol.
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What got me into broodwar was that at the time, it was so fucking different. 3 races with all unique units and buildings and tech trees, it was fun just exploring as a kid. The custom games were fun too but I was a noob for so long haha, I played the game on and off for years. Then around 2006 or 07 I stumbled upon the professional scene and it was GG. I couldn't understand half of what I was watching or half of what the commentators (Artosis, Day9, had some epic casts) were saying but I could tell the players were competing with PASSION. I started searching for more videos and info which led to TL, and 7 years later (omg it's been a while) here I am.
The Scarlett Bomber series for you is like MJY vs. Nada for me.
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@Titusmaster6 I'm still in that phase where I am just beginning to understand what the commentators are talking about lol. I've been focusing on just mechanics for the most part so I get lost sometimes when everyone talks about build orders but I'm getting better.
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I envy you, it's a fun phase. glhf!
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