|
On May 10 2010 12:14 Chill wrote:
Guess I'm the only one not impressed with that game. Terran shenanigans dying to conventional macro. The lockdown was sick though.
It's not like it was a suicidal strat though - Hiya had a timing (right after the recall that didn't do much) where he could have pushed and won. I "agree" though in the sense that if you pull off that many shenanigans, you should probably actually have a lead instead of an "I did all this crazy stuff just to squeeze out one small timing window that you can usually get playing normal TvP anyway".
|
Awesome game. Hiya smile after the MC made me laugh hard.
|
On May 10 2010 12:14 Chill wrote:
Guess I'm the only one not impressed with that game. Terran shenanigans dying to conventional macro. The lockdown was sick though.
You're not alone. For the entire game I was thinking to myself that nukes and 3 port wraith harass was cool, but you can't win the game this way and if only Free will be able to hold on until he gets his tech it's game over right there. Hiya had too much supply/resources locked in harass so when the first Protoss hits came crashing down on him, he didn't have enough units to respond and deal with the threat quickly enough, which translated directly into immediate loss of map control and thus a huge setback for a mid-late game.
But you have to admit that seeing EMP + nuke and awesome lockdown is rare this days.
|
On May 10 2010 12:44 Sephy69 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2010 10:30 suejak wrote:On May 10 2010 10:28 konadora wrote:On May 10 2010 09:38 yomi wrote:
Brood War even has better graphics than SC2 damn right it does lol, how can you even pretend to believe that's true? I have a thing for old-school pixelation, but this game looks almost indistinguishable from Warcraft 2 these days. It's so simple.  don't need to pretend, IT'S FUCKING TRUE, sc;bw graphics = sex with kerrigan, sc2 graphics = bob the builder built sc2
Most disturbing set of analogies ever to grace the internet. I hope your weird sexual appetites are kept at bay by some sort of well-regulated porn supply.
BW had its day. It will go on being an ok game. But it's just a lot of tedium and clicking these days for some of us.
Sorta ugly clicking.
|
wooooowwww just wooooowwww really makes me wanna play bw again
|
On May 10 2010 09:56 Tsagacity wrote:I really wish SC2 had some sleek, hi-res 2D look to it 
i wish SC2 was on 2D 
|
i'm glad this was posted. people need to be made aware how baller hiya is
|
On May 10 2010 13:20 skronch wrote:i'm glad this was posted. people need to be made aware how baller hiya is
Anybody can be baller and lose. =D
|
I approve of this game. I do not approve of this thread.
|
On May 10 2010 10:30 suejak wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2010 10:28 konadora wrote:On May 10 2010 09:38 yomi wrote:
Brood War even has better graphics than SC2 damn right it does lol, how can you even pretend to believe that's true? I have a thing for old-school pixelation, but this game looks almost indistinguishable from Warcraft 2 these days. It's so simple.
It's like playing 2D chess on a computer versus 3D chess. No one in their right mind would prefer to play on a 3D board because the unnecessary clutter interferes with the game.
|
51574 Posts
it's funny because hiya proceeded to lose the series
|
This is the kind of game I have wet dreams about.
|
On May 10 2010 13:40 Saracen wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2010 10:30 suejak wrote:On May 10 2010 10:28 konadora wrote:On May 10 2010 09:38 yomi wrote:
Brood War even has better graphics than SC2 damn right it does lol, how can you even pretend to believe that's true? I have a thing for old-school pixelation, but this game looks almost indistinguishable from Warcraft 2 these days. It's so simple. It's like playing 2D chess on a computer versus 3D chess. No one in their right mind would prefer to play on a 3D board because the unnecessary clutter interferes with the game.
The difference being that this is a space game with aliens and explosions.
|
Very fun to watch but,
On May 10 2010 09:59 Senx wrote:+ Show Spoiler +The game would have been awesome if the T actually won it... nontheless it was an entertaining game, for sure.
|
I only caught the last half of this game on the stream the other night (I was an idiot and only wanted to see Midas vs Jaedong) and wow this has been pretty much the best game I've seen in months. Multiple pimpest plays from both sides.
+ Show Spoiler +scan scan scan EMP EMP EMP WA RECALLLLLLLUUUUUUU WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA LOCKDOWNU YAAAAAAAAAA
When I saw that recall animation I was sure the game was over. It was the most outrageous timing on lockdown I have ever seen. Well done to the observer for catching all the action with such perfect precision. It would have been so easy to miss either moment by a few seconds.
|
lol poor free ... if I *recall* correctly (pun not intended) this is the second time his arbiter got lockdown while attempting a recall (first was against Boxer, i screamed like a little girl back then)
|
Free should have won ages earlier if he wasn't playing absolutely terribly. Hiya didn't have an army for the longest time and it is a testament to how bad (meaning inefficient, suboptimal, though fun) Hiya's strategy was that Free won so easily despite some great control exhibited by Hiya and some lapses by Free.
|
On May 10 2010 14:03 vek wrote:I only caught the last half of this game on the stream the other night (I was an idiot and only wanted to see Midas vs Jaedong) and wow this has been pretty much the best game I've seen in months. Multiple pimpest plays from both sides. + Show Spoiler +scan scan scan EMP EMP EMP WA RECALLLLLLLUUUUUUU WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA LOCKDOWNU YAAAAAAAAAA
When I saw that recall animation I was sure the game was over. It was the most outrageous timing on lockdown I have ever seen. Well done to the observer for catching all the action with such perfect precision. It would have been so easy to miss either moment by a few seconds.
Yeah great job by the observer. The TSL made me appreciate the korean observers quite a bit with how off things could get between observers and the casters when they aren't in the same room.
|
Yes, SC1 is far superior to SC2. Especially the graphics. The graphics of SC2, and by graphics I really mean visuals (I don't care about polygon/pixel count or the change to 3D), are just so boring. It simply lacks the charm and cartoony feel of the original because the designers of SC2 are just favoring realism when there is no need for it considering that Starcraft is not a game where realism or immersion is a big factor. They say limitations breed creativity, and so perhaps the ease with which one can now create "pretty images" made the designers lazy and so they opted for more bling instead of having any creative substance in the visuals. Simply put, improving graphics is more than just upping the framerate and pixel count or any such thing; I mean, would it be an improvement to the paintings of Monet if someone were to use modern tools to enhance the sharpness and clarity of them?
|
The triple stargate wraith --> unused stargates was rather silly. I figured Hiya would followup with battlecruiser + claim several island expos, or something like that. Dunno how viable that is, but paying for extra stargates and then not using them so that you can build more factories is painful to me.
And if you're going heavy wraith, you've really gotta kill those neutral arbiters, man.
|
|
|
|
|
|
EPT
