EPTThis game is too good to let die. If it dies, I will fight until the end.
Why We Love Brood War - Page 14
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vOdToasT
Sweden2870 Posts
This game is too good to let die. If it dies, I will fight until the end. | ||
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Shock710
Australia6097 Posts
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Essbee
Canada2371 Posts
On August 03 2012 10:13 Shock710 wrote: Because its what makes me happy, if i ask a girl out and she rejects me i go home and play starcraft and after i feel fine, if i fail an exam i go home and play starcraft and i'm okay. I love it sooo much, nothing puts me to sleep happier than know my favorite player won today, the feeling and emotions i go through when i watch a game makes me feel so alive and so happy to be human and able to enjoy this, nothing makes me feel prouder than when i pull of a build and crush someone =D nothing gives me more motivation than losing horribly and knowing i need to improve. Broodwar is my love and always will be That's exactly how I feel about Brood War. Why? The unit design is perfect and unique. The units are SO much fun to control. Also the music. Also the simple graphics. ...hell everything about BW is just fantastic imo, except maybe the hosting on bnet  | ||
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arb
Noobville17922 Posts
I love Brood War because it's the best Goddamn game ever made. | ||
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FraCuS
United States1072 Posts
On August 03 2012 09:58 vOdToasT wrote: I will not quit StarCraft because the korean scene is gone. I will attempt to master the game, and when I have learned programming I will host money tournaments. This game is too good to let die. If it dies, I will fight until the end. Totally agree with this! | ||
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Tru_m4n
162 Posts
I don't really know where to start, but the reasons why I love Starcraft have to be the players I've learned to appreciate through the years, those crazy games and tournament finals, sick OSL/MSL opening videos, screaming korean commentators (and fan girls), Tasteless and Super Daniel Man, as well as those hilarious TV shows with Nal_rA and Hyungjoon... These things, and many more, are the reasons why I love Starcraft. I began to follow Starcraft during the GomTV Classic tournaments hosted by Tasteless and Susie/Daniel. I had played the game for a couple years already with my friends but watching professional players was something different. These tournaments along with some Boxer compilation videos on Youtube were my introduction to professional Starcraft, and I don't think I could've had a much better introduction, I was caught immediately. Over these years I have seen players rise to glory and/or fall into the shadows, and it saddens me that I won't be able to experience any more of this after Brood War is gone. I don't want the game to disappear, but it seems inevitable now. The game may not live forever but I know that all the memories that Brood War have given me will never go away. | ||
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Marshall_D
United States196 Posts
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DyEnasTy
United States3720 Posts
On August 03 2012 09:58 vOdToasT wrote: I will not quit StarCraft because the korean scene is gone. I will attempt to master the game, and when I have learned programming I will host money tournaments. This game is too good to let die. If it dies, I will fight until the end. *havent played on iccup in years* *reads posts about loving BW* *tears forms in eyes, thoughts of epic victories and humiliating defeats fill every corner of mind* *walks to closet and stands staring into the deepest corner, then pulls out shoe box with thick dust covering it* *slowly opens box, containing a small worn out cloth wrapped around an squarish object* *unwraps cloth slowly, careful not to break the ancient fabric* *revealing* *white microsoft PS/2 mouse* "Im not too old.... I... can... do... this" Bring it on. Time to play some BW. | ||
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Phoobie
Canada120 Posts
My friend introduced Starcraft to me around the time I started high school, and while other kids moved on to other games I stuck with starcraft and slowely discovered the pro scene and fell in love. I'm not a skilled player, I play at a platinum level of SC2 if that's any indication, I don't put in the hours to practice and play because I spend so much time following the pro scene. When I see a Zerg player move a maxed army of lings, ultras and lurkers like it's on 1 control group I say "DAMN!!!", when I saw Boxer pull off a 3 prong attack with simultaneous micro for the win my jaw dropped, When I saw Jangbi storm a screen of terran mech I screamed as loud as the girls in the crowd did. To see mastery of such epic, difficult and volatile gameplay is simply beauty. | ||
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HighTemper
Canada3867 Posts
1) Perfect Races The design of the races are simply perfect. The feel of the marching marines and tanks through the battle field with pride; swarm fear to opposition in sauron masses; and bring destruction with mighty creations and psionic power. Combined with unique unit interactions, sounds and music, the gameplay experience is unbeatable. Each race has their own imbalances. 1000 dmg in 1 psi-storm! 2000 shield off 1 EMP!! 3000 dmg with 1 plague!!! But the races are perfectly balanced. 2) Perfect Harmony between Strategy/Mechanic/Metagame/Environment One cannot win with mere strategy and tactics; one cannot just win with 600 APM; one cannot win by only knowing the trend or the opponent; and one cannot win without competitive environment, team practice, sponsors, and the infrastrutures to make everything possible. Take any great player and you can find a unique combination for their success. And the graphic is harmonious to this genre: simple, distinguishable, and pixel-perfect (perfectly aligned tank lines anyone?). 3) Perfect Scene/Community The development of the scene and community is god-send. Who would have thought at the early stage of BW a mere game can be televised and watched by millions? The players, commentators, and community are extraordinary because there is something above money, something above the basics needs, something about the love of the game, the hardship and dedications to create such a beautiful scene. It is so lively and glorious yet filled with stories of tears and sweat. And the community, we are intelligent individuals from all over the world with different background, but we have one thing in common: Because We love BW. | ||
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syst
United States247 Posts
I've played a lot of Starcraft. Played kbk, gamei, wgtour, pgtour, iccup. I was terrible the whole time (c- at best on iccup) but the game is simply perfect I couldn't stop playing. I couldn't play it for shit but I love the feeling of finishing an amazing macro ZvT, multitasking my heart out. Even at noob levels the game was intense and difficult. I liked going to my local PC room and having kids be dumbfounded by the speed at which even noobs like me play the game and how untouchable I was by the average random player. It's understood that RTS games are about area and resource control, BW, War3 and SC2 all have this feature. No other game matches the pace and size of a Brood War game. | ||
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Sawamura
Malaysia7602 Posts
Playing broodwar was the best thing I ever decided to do and I will remember all the times and failure and glory I experience through out my broodwar days . | ||
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Jaaaaasper
United States10225 Posts
I miss playing bw far more than i should, but every time i try to get back in, and lose the campaign early on, i just can't bring myself to keep trying knowing i wont be as good. I can accept being bad at sc2 and lol and console games, but sucking at bw and knowing i cant get all that good again hurts. | ||
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Monsyphon
Canada190 Posts
Everyone always says to move on from the past but this game isn't in the past. It is in our present, and if we let it, it will be our future. | ||
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Lucrolio
United States1 Post
I love Brood War because of the emotional attachment that I've come to appreciate as ive grown up and made new friends online (while keeping the ones offline :D). Its always been "that epic game" my friends and i would pour hours and hours of time into to have fun. Making "great walls of cannon" and "carriers up the wazoo" along with other cheesy stuff defined having fun while losing imo. It was a game that let you have fun, however you chose to play it... hardcoretryhard, casual, or just straightup inbetween. imo this is what i feel like a lot (not all) of the games these days lack. Im totally just trying to keep myself up for these last couple of hours for this last matchup! ^_^ v | ||
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bITt.mAN
Switzerland3700 Posts
But not only the Pros, but you guys too. Though the fun was sometimes slow, and even more so recently, when we had it, it was worth it. I love feeling part of a community of people who are as passionate about the game as I am, who were also my gateway in understanding so much more than just the game's strategies. I loved you guys not for all being stellar, but because YOU WERE ALWAYS THERE, and you'll never know how much that mattered to me, but thanks guys, it was great. And it still can be if we reinstate Racewars Everyday! keke | ||
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Thorin
601 Posts
Ultimately though, TBH, even though Protoss has always been my favourite race, I've always enjoyed TvZ amongst elite level players more than any other matchup as a spectator. While some of those Flash vs. Jaedong finals were much maligned, due to people having the sense in the latter ones that JD was doomed to lose, I think every one of them manage to produce at least one incredible macro epic game, interestingly usually won by Jaedong. The way the game transitions from one race having to hold, seemingly in peril, into his window to try and take over, has always been a very thrilling back-and-forth for me to watch. You knew Jaedong's impossibly good mutas would be on their way and Flash was going to try and hold with the absolute minimum. Suddenly it was life-or-death as to whether he could catch them out in the field unexpectedly with his marines or whether he'd find himself one turret or one second short at his nat, getting picked off before he had a chance to reap the benefits of his econ greed. Then if he held the mutas suddenly he had his choice of strange timing windows in which to attempt a veiled timing attack, as JD rushed to more bases and the amount of gas a Zerg needs vs. the best Terran of all time in a macro game. Then, if the Terran goes MnM you get the exciting moments of clutch defiler play as the Zerg barely holds onto bases about to be overrun, laying down dark swarms yet trying to dodge the inevitable irradiation. Each race has his moment when he can blow his macro load with drops, but will the other spot it in time? I think honestly high level TvZ has it all: the drops and counter-drops, the last second dark swarm holds, the chess game of how much and at what time you need turrents/marines to survive the mutas you know could be coming, the way science vessels seem imba while they're rubbing out the guy's drones and irradiating his best units, yet suddenly seem so fragile when scourage appear on the screen next to them out of nowhere. The probing T attacks which either find the Z without enough sunken colonies, or forced to give up a little advantage and find himself a little behind when the attack pulls back and heads elsewhere. | ||
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Xiphias
Norway2223 Posts
I been feeling depressed latly and not knowing why.... I think I know why now. I cannot play BW anymore. And MSL is gone. And OSL is gone (at least for BW). My parents would not let me play much, and not on the family computer which had internett. That was 12 years ago. I remember logging on every time they were gone and play. I remember beating everyone at LAN's because I could produce endless steams of hydralisk. I remember learning about the pro-scene. Watching Boxer's increible 1-base plays. I remember aweing at TvT on lost temple when the two players (one of them was Boxer) spilt the map in two in less than 15 minutes. I remeber the yearning to play more than I could at the moment. I finelly found iccup when I had a place for myself 4 years ago. I remember getting C- once. Only once. I think I know why I feel depressed. A huge part of my life is gone. I have to move on. I do not have much time for playing BW anymore, and SC2 made me forget all by BO's anyway, and now it's just frustrating to play without the time to relearn everything. And now the pro-scene is gone too. Watching flash play SC2 IS NOT THE SAME.... (although it is not soo bad...). Thanks you for all your inspirational posts. Tears are rolling down my cheack is I post this. May BW never be forgotten. | ||
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SilSol
Sweden2744 Posts
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Sinedd
Poland7052 Posts
On August 03 2012 11:48 arb wrote: I'll put it straight up I love Brood War because it's the best Goddamn game ever made. this  | ||
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