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LuMiX
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
China5757 Posts
April 15 2010 14:30 GMT
#41
excellent article, i agree w/ you 100%!
iSiN
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1075 Posts
April 15 2010 14:33 GMT
#42
When people say broodwar is dying they don't mean that the game is fading away or anything merely that prizes and tournaments are shifting. Everyone agrees starcraft is the best game ever made and we only hope that SC2 will be a worthy adversary not a replacement.

However very nice write up and a good read.
Grouty @HoN/PCKJ <--<333 || Jaedong Fan Cafe GFX
Kragx
Profile Joined February 2010
Denmark236 Posts
April 15 2010 14:35 GMT
#43
On April 15 2010 21:00 wassbix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 15 2010 15:43 jpak wrote:
Great read. I, too, believe Starcraft 2 will be a HUGE success, because there's already a strong community around the game. It's people like us who make the games so great. There are games with better designs, mechanics, and graphics than SC1 or 2. But a game is only truly great when we the fans lift it to that pedestal.

Well done, sir.


CS Source had a huge fanbase too. In the end Source scene kinda died while CS 1.6 is still played competitively and leisurely. So I don't think SC:BW being big will mean SC2 will succeed, it might even harm it as players return to it instead of embracing SC2.


However as it is now, and i think it's the trend, CS Source is slowly taking over, as the 1.6 players are become more focused on other things (real life/studies etc), and the "new generation" won't start a game that old. At least this goes for the majority in Denmark, and other places i believe. Something similar is probably going to happen for SC/SC2 in the long run.
k!llua
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Australia895 Posts
April 15 2010 14:37 GMT
#44
Re. 1.6/Source comparison:

Source came out at a time when 1.6 was still quite popular and was growing in tournaments around the world, particularly in Asia (WEG, for example).

BW has pretty much stagnated, if not died out, outside of Korea. So I think SC2 will be a catalyst for a lot of returning fans and a generation of newer gamers.

If Blizzard have coded the game to allow for things like high ground advantage and they can eliminate that STUPID "is being revealed" mechanic then things should be fine. Balance will come in time; BW wasn't perfect upon release.

Exciting times, exciting times.
my hair is a wookie, your argument is invalid
fishyjoes
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Germany644 Posts
April 15 2010 15:52 GMT
#45
This should be a blog because i want to give you five stars for this post.
infinite fun: http://dagobah.biz/flash/loituma.swf
Garnet
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Vietnam9033 Posts
April 15 2010 16:45 GMT
#46
Amazing post.
jpak
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States5045 Posts
April 15 2010 16:53 GMT
#47
If there is ONE thing I have apprehensions about, it's the fact that there will be no LAN play. But I'm not going to jump to hasty conclusions about that.
CJ Entusman #50! #1 클템 fan TL!
Djabanete
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States2786 Posts
April 15 2010 16:54 GMT
#48
On April 15 2010 22:13 DivinO wrote:
So wait...Kal is an older player? and ZerO is considered newer?

I'm not being facetious, I'm curious.

Kal started making an impact a lot earlier than ZerO did, regardless of who actually became a progamer first... Recall that Jaedong's first MSL win, back in late 2007, was against Kal in the finals.
May the BeSt man win.
Armathai
Profile Joined October 2007
1023 Posts
April 15 2010 16:55 GMT
#49
Legendary Post!

It really sums up everything to love about BW and to look forward to in SC2!
Looking for ArcticCerebrate formerly from @USEast
Gargoth
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden13 Posts
April 15 2010 17:35 GMT
#50
Nice post, i will read it again, very well done
C0rrupt
Profile Joined March 2010
United States57 Posts
April 15 2010 17:57 GMT
#51
May broodwar live on
The corruption has begun
Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8163 Posts
April 15 2010 18:02 GMT
#52
I like this article a lot. I really hope that if SC2 isn't all that it needs to be everyone will be coming back to BW. I really dont want to be stuck playing an inferior game for the next 12 years.
Free Palestine
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
April 15 2010 18:18 GMT
#53
Good stuff. But Calm's not mediocre...-fanrage-
TranslatorBaa!
Rantech
Profile Joined April 2010
Chile527 Posts
April 15 2010 18:39 GMT
#54
great article, very nice writing.

And ppl should go and watch some vods, the game is still "perfect" and "balanced" and its still awesome. The magic is still there. Personally i enjoy watching 2006 -2010 vods, they're still exciting to watch.
2Pacalypse-
Profile Joined October 2006
Croatia9530 Posts
April 15 2010 19:40 GMT
#55
On April 15 2010 23:37 k!llua wrote:
Re. 1.6/Source comparison:

Source came out at a time when 1.6 was still quite popular and was growing in tournaments around the world, particularly in Asia (WEG, for example).

BW has pretty much stagnated, if not died out, outside of Korea. So I think SC2 will be a catalyst for a lot of returning fans and a generation of newer gamers.

If Blizzard have coded the game to allow for things like high ground advantage and they can eliminate that STUPID "is being revealed" mechanic then things should be fine. Balance will come in time; BW wasn't perfect upon release.

Exciting times, exciting times.


Wasn't Beta released like 2 weeks after TSL 2 ?
Moderator"We're a community of geniuses because we've found how to extract 95% of the feeling of doing something amazing without actually doing anything." - Chill
DreaM)XeRO
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Korea (South)4667 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-15 20:05:29
April 15 2010 19:48 GMT
#56
great writeup. and i agree
no matter if the scene dies
i will still be on iccup
trying to hit that ever elusive A
cw)minsean(ru
Arrian
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States889 Posts
April 15 2010 20:09 GMT
#57
great piece, great points, great read

I love to see people putting stuff together like this. loved the firefly quote too
Writersator arepo tenet opera rotas
Mortality
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States4790 Posts
April 15 2010 20:17 GMT
#58
Eh? Since when are guys like Kal and ForGG old?

God I feel dated. "Old" should mean Garimto or Giyom or H.O.T-Forever or TheMarine. In my mind, anyone who hasn't seen those guys play live is "new" to the game. :/
Even though this Proleague bullshit has been completely bogus, I really, really, really do not see how Khan can lose this. I swear I will kill myself if they do. - nesix before KHAN lost to eNature
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
April 15 2010 21:12 GMT
#59
On April 16 2010 05:17 Mortality wrote:
Eh? Since when are guys like Kal and ForGG old?

God I feel dated. "Old" should mean Garimto or Giyom or H.O.T-Forever or TheMarine. In my mind, anyone who hasn't seen those guys play live is "new" to the game. :/


Well they've been progamers for nearly (?) 4 years now, which is pretty "old" for most n00bs like me (started watching in 2008 lawl)

This article was pretty inspirational and well-written... kudos. Still, I feel like the reason why some of those things you named (soccer, etc.; you could probably talk about things like chess too) have lived on is because they are ... "irl" things. Of course computer gaming is still young, so who knows? Maybe online entertainment will totally supplant irl entertainment, especially when computers become cheap enough for almost everyone to afford them. By then, we'll just have to hope our systems are backwards-compatible enough to play BW
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StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
April 15 2010 21:58 GMT
#60
great read
Hwaseung Oz fan for life. Swing out, always swing out.
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