Sometimes it's hard to express just what Brood War means to me; I think it's the same for a lot of people. There are so many things that are amazing about this game that go unsaid by fans because we feel that it should be obvious just by looking at it. Today I invite you to challenge yourself to put what Brood War means to you into words: tell us an anecdote that is close to your heart, tell us about how this game is played, tell us what makes it more than a game. I've asked a few veterans to get the ball rolling with their own thoughts, but I hope you'll participate too. If your story is really interesting I may add it to the OP (or not, don't be offended o.o;; ).
I love Brood War because I love seeing Koreans cry. I love Brood War because that’s the intensity of this game at the professional level. Hours and hours of practice and dedication and striving to be the best you can be all leads to a single moment on the stage. A moment so intense that no matter how reserved you are you cannot hold back your emotions, your happiness, your disappointment. To watch people who have worked so hard for something inspires me, it makes me want to work hard too. To become a fan of a particular player, to go through with him on his ups and downs and feel genuinely affected by his wins and losses is what makes this game so beautiful to me. This game has so much energy in it; the emotions of the players, not just anger, but sadness, happiness, supreme confidence and agitation, all affect how the player performs. A misclick is devastating in agitation. A poor decision ruins players who are distracted. Everything every player does is so directly linked to him, that the game is an extension of his being. This is where personality in Brood War comes from. You can play this game a million different ways, you can focus on macro, micro, tactics or strategy, and it will always show through to your fans. They will know you and your play style. As fans, you will know your players. I remember the intensity of my own games, I remember the sweat from playing a hard, drawn out game, and I remember the feeling of pure satisfaction from winning. I remember defeats where I realised only after the game what had happened. I know what goes through a player's head, and how it feels to be on either side of the fence. I love to live that again and again through all the storylines and the prophecies and the superstitions that make this game so exciting. It’s this game that is so intense and has so much personality that makes that possible. I love Brood War because I love seeing Koreans cry.
I have played and loved Starcraft ever since the moment my small 8 year old hands had touched the game. It was exciting, new, adventurous, and of course fun. The competitive scene, which I had found only a few years later was even more thrilling. The anticipation and training for a single day, the sweat and the frustration of a difficult game. I have played the game for 13 years now, and it is more than a game. It's the community, the friends I have made, the rivalry that makes you train even harder, its all of these and so much more. The feeling of walking into a tournament or starting a new game has always been exhilarating. Kali, Gamei, PGTour, Neo-Gamei, WGTour, ICCUP, Brain, Fish, all these servers always have hundreds if not thousands of people who train just as hard, if not more so perfecting every tiny detail in their game play. The thoughts of your last game of the day running through your mind, replaying every moment, every click over and over. Sometimes it's pride in your micro or macro mechanics. Sometimes it's in the confusion in what you did wrong. How did he have such a bigger army? How was he so much better? What did I do wrong? The game grows itself onto you like a blanky or a stuffed teddy bear since you were young. It means more than words, and you never want to see it go.
because it's fun
I love BW because it's limitless (I don't even know if that's the word I'm searching for, but I can't think of a better one). I'm no longtime veteran fan; I've been following since no earlier than 2009. I'm not a skilled player; I'm hardly better than a computer on a good day. I have barely any true grasp of strategy. But still, games of Brood War are simply thrilling to watch. You don't have to be a micro genius who practices hours daily to enjoy watching Brood War. If anything, simply knowing the units and spells is enough. There is a certain innate magic in CC infestation, DTs, reaver drops, devastating vulture harass, tank standoffs, and yes, even muta dances. All it really takes is enough of a brain to wonder what might happen next. And that's not much of a limit.
Brood War is like wine. It's great to play with wine too. I love the whine/cheese.
Brood War is the only game I will stay up until 3 AM to watch. I watch it more than I watch regular sports, and that's a difficult thing to beat. I can't play the game to save my life, but something about watching it makes those lonely nights so much better and exciting. I squeal every time Jaedong wins a game or every time Bisu loses.
go BW
I love Broodwar because it is just an awesome game you can never get enough from. If you're not motivated to play, hell yea you still want to watch it. It's one part of my identity. My hobby. When I first started playing it was only casual until me and my best friend discovered the korean pro scene. Man had we fun. Imagine your time as a kid when you dressed like a person you ever wanted to be? Well, my best friend and I photoshopped our heads on Grrr...'s and and I think it was Yellow's spacesuits and made progamer ID's. Fuck astronauts or something, we were fucking progamers. I love Broodwar because it's an awesome childhood memory. I love that I can get as excited about "my" Broodwar team as "regular" sports fans can get about their team. I almost cried sometimes. Both of pure joy and sadness.
You cannot not love SC:BW.
Because of BoxeR's empire NaDa's Brilliance Reach's Manliness XellOs's Sexiness Nal_rA's Dreams YellOw's Silver Crown July's sponsor picture of a steak. iloveoov's Hidden Banana Stash Kwanro's Flowchart to success Firebathero's Dance Moves EffOrt's Invasion Bisu's Cough Ninja Mask Stork's Golden Carrier Badge Jaedong's Death Stare FlaSh's Robotic Eye
Each of these players (and many more) shared an interesting story to tell that's well worth a listen to which they told over the years with their careers. Beyond what you see in the game of Brood War, you could see who they were as people. All of them are inspirational, but it was BoxeR's autobiography that really puts it more than anyone ever could. It's one thing I could suggest not just to his fans or fans of BW, but to anyone wanting motivation because 'they wanted to take the easier path in life.'
Brood War is everything. It's the coolest form of meditation on earth. You can play it without knowing the vastness that it offers and still love it. It's a never-ending story. Every match is a story. And every match is a different story. I love Brood War because it's an incredible form of expression. And it's an incredibly fun form of expression. I love that every time I watch a Brood War match, I can see exactly what each player is doing and what they are thinking. When I see Jaedong controls his mutalisks, I feel as if we are one. When Kal loses his shuttle but just makes another one, I know exactly how he is feeling. When I see fantasy pull off an amazing build, I envy his genius and feel just as smart for realizing it. There's just this magic to Brood War that makes it so much more compelling than any other game I've ever played. Perhaps it's just the amazing complexity/simplicity of all the units that allows countless forms of creativity. Perhaps it's the interface that allows eternal room to improve that binds us all together. Or maybe it's just the angelic voices of korean commentators that keep us all here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpuv7VPb2rA
Who can explain it? Love for Broodwar is best when you have love for the players. There's nothing quite like supporting your favourite Broodwar team or player. For sports' leagues, you have a hometown with a team and you root for it out of locational convenience. I honestly believe the attachment you get to a team or player that you create only from watching them play is far greater than rooting for the home team. You're invested in your favourite player because he entertains you and you have no choice but to root for his success. When JangBi defeated Flash I got on my knees, put my hands on my head, and literally chanted "oh my god" several times. It's not a hometown thing - it's a love for someone you picked and you chose to support. And JangBi isn't even my favourtie Protoss. You should see me when Stork wins.
I can't even express why I love BW. It's magical. When I play on Iccup, I'm like a kid trying to make a coin appear between my fingers, while progamers are David Copperfield, Harry Houdini, and David Blaine combined.
PS : Please Chef, don't try a personality test based on why I love BW.
Brood War is the only game I will stay up until 3 AM to watch. I watch it more than I watch regular sports, and that's a difficult thing to beat. I can't play the game to save my life, but something about watching it makes those lonely nights so much better and exciting. I squeal every time Jaedong wins a game or every time Bisu loses.
I love Broodwar because it is just an awesome game you can never get enough from. If you're not motivated to play, hell yea you still want to watch it. It's one part of my identity. My hobby. When I first started playing it was only casual until me and my best friend discovered the korean pro scene. Man had we fun. Imagine your time as a kid when you dressed like a person you ever wanted to be? Well, my best friend and I photoshopped our heads on Grrr...'s and and I think it was Yellow's spacesuits and made progamer ID's. Fuck astronauts or something, we were fucking progamers. I love Broodwar because it's an awesome childhood memory. I love that I can get as excited about "my" Broodwar team as "regular" sports fans can get about their team. I almost cried sometimes. Both of pure joy and sadness.
It seems like everyone has their own story on how they got into Broodwar, but they all are really very similar. Most started really young, and it just stuck with them all this time. For me it was 2001, I was 13, the game was actually given to me by a friend of my parents, still to this day the best gift I have ever received. I didn't have the expansion, just vanilla Starcraft, but I played the shit out of that game. I must have played through the campaign at least 20 times through. Literally every second of free time was spent playing Starcraft. I don't know if this friend heard from my parents how much I enjoyed the game, but 6 months later he sent me the Expansion Pack, the second best gift I have ever received ^_^. By this time I had the internet and my Starcraft addiction was in full force. I played so much Starcraft, mostly UMS and money maps and team games, normal I guess for a 14 year old. I remember sitting on the living room computer, me and the monitor underneath a blanket, so that the light didn't wake up anyone, playing Starcraft until 4 or 5 in the morning, and dreading my decision the next day at school. I didn't even know about pro gaming or try to play competitively until maybe 2 years ago...but still I loved this game more than anything, not even realizing how big it was. I guess what I'm getting at is the reason I love Starcraft is the 9+ years of memories I have with it, nothing else has ever even come close to keeping my interest that long, and no game can ever really take it's place, that would just be impossible. It's a hard thing to explain, and I guess most people won't understand, but it's been almost 10 years and my favorite thing in the world is still loading up a game of SC:BW.
Because of BoxeR's empire NaDa's Brilliance Reach's Manliness XellOs's Sexiness Nal_rA's Dreams YellOw's Silver Crown July's sponsor picture of a steak. iloveoov's Hidden Banana Stash Kwanro's Flowchart to success Firebathero's Dance Moves EffOrt's Invasion Bisu's Cough Ninja Mask Stork's Golden Carrier Badge Jaedong's Death Stare FlaSh's Robotic Eye
Each of these players (and many more) shared an interesting story to tell that's well worth a listen to which they told over the years with their careers. Beyond what you see in the game of Brood War, you could see who they were as people. All of them are inspirational, but it was BoxeR's autobiography that really puts it more than anyone ever could. It's one thing I could suggest not just to his fans or fans of BW, but to anyone wanting motivation because 'they wanted to take the easier path in life.'
On September 02 2011 13:19 Ryusei-R1 wrote: Brood War is the only game I will stay up until 3 AM to watch. I watch it more than I watch regular sports, and that's a difficult thing to beat.
This. BW is nearly the only thing I will stay up late for. Even tonight I will dread through the few hours of sleepiness before my mind is jolted awake by the OSL semifinals.
I love BW because it is a game that evolves...a game that is constantly evolving. It is this evolution that makes the game exciting. Players are constantly trying new strategies and updating their performance with the latest ideas and theory. Seeing players think outside the box and invent sick build orders or building a different unit composition is what makes the game great.
I love Broodwar because from our point of view, it shows that Starcraft is a game that can never be truly 100% mastered no matter how much you try, there will always be ways to improve. It shows how much time and practice the progamers put into the game to try to play to the best of their ability, and when it finally pays off and they get that proleague/individual league win, it makes the progamers feel like all that hard work was worth it.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that most of the work (hours of practice) goes unnoticed, and only really the BW fans that understand how much hard work is required to play at this level will appreciate how hard these players work, sort of as a huge respect thing.
Because it was the best game ever invented man, u know this :D ...... You can't play a game practically every day for over 10 years and forget about it ..... especially one like BW, always has a special place in my heart
I love Brood War because I found out about the game when I was eight years old, and it was just a game. Now, 13 years later, it is a source of pleasure for me not only because of the game itself, but also because of the amazing scene it has created. I have met several good friends through Brood War, and even though some of them stopped playing, it does not mean that our friendship has been terminated. I love Brood War because in my first 2 years of college when all of my "real life" friends went away to school and I stayed a local community college, I was able to check TeamLiquid and watch jon747's and nevake's YouTube channels and escape from the world around me. StarCraft created an immense world outside of my own, where Boxer taught Oov everything, and then sAviOr came and destroyed everyone (way before 2009). I loved Ma Jae Yoon because I have always played Zerg, and I'll never forget the game when he beat Bisu on Neo Harmony in January of 2009 and thought, "maybe he WILL destroy everyone in 2009!"
Brood War was never just a game for me. It was a competition; an educational institution; an escape. The professional scene in Korea may burn out and people may stop playing, but I know one day I'll be an old man, talking to kids about a game called Starcraft that will never be topped as the greatest game of all time.
Who can explain it? Love for Broodwar is best when you have love for the players. There's nothing quite like supporting your favourite Broodwar team or player. For sports' leagues, you have a hometown with a team and you root for it out of locational convenience. I honestly believe the attachment you get to a team or player that you create only from watching them play is far greater than rooting for the home team. You're invested in your favourite player because he entertains you and you have no choice but to root for his success. When JangBi defeated Flash I got on my knees, put my hands on my head, and literally chanted "oh my god" several times. It's not a hometown thing - it's a love for someone you picked and you chose to support. And JangBi isn't even my favourtie Protoss. You should see me when Stork wins.
Brood War is everything. It's the coolest form of meditation on earth. You can play it without knowing the vastness that it offers and still love it. It's a never-ending story. Every match is a story. And every match is a different story.
I love Brood War because it's an incredible form of expression. And it's an incredibly fun form of expression.
I love that every time I watch a Brood War match, I can see exactly what each player is doing and what they are thinking. When I see Jaedong controls his mutalisks, I feel as if we are one. When Kal loses his shuttle but just makes another one, I know exactly how he is feeling. When I see fantasy pull off an amazing build, I envy his genius and feel just as smart for realizing it.
There's just this magic to Brood War that makes it so much more compelling than any other game I've ever played. Perhaps it's just the amazing complexity/simplicity of all the units that allows countless forms of creativity. Perhaps it's the interface that allows eternal room to improve that binds us all together.
Or maybe it's just the angelic voices of korean commentators that keep us all here.
On September 02 2011 14:33 Crisium wrote: Who can explain it? Love for Broodwar is best when you have love for the players. There's nothing quite like supporting your favourite Broodwar team or player. For sports' leagues, you have a hometown with a team and you root for it out of locational convenience. I honestly believe the attachment you get to a team or player that you create only from watching them play is far greater than rooting for the home team. You're invested in your favourite player because he entertains you and you have no choice but to root for his success. When JangBi defeated Flash I got on my knees, put my hands on my head, and literally chanted "oh my god" several times. It's not a hometown thing - it's a love for someone you picked and you chose to support. And JangBi isn't even my favourtie Protoss. You should see me when Stork wins.
yes I feel like fans of BW (or I guess any sort of sport without city-teams) are much appreciative of the players/teams they are fans of. it's true that everyone needs something to cheer for, but it means so much more when you cheer for someone because you appreciate the way they make you feel when you watch them instead of just "they win a lot" or "gotta root for the home team."
I love watching BW because the skill cap is insane and an epic game is truly EPIC. Flash v Jaedong w the intense focus and all the sweat dripping, trading armies and units non-stop.
I truly hope SC2 can be as epic and fun to watch as BW. SC2 armies seem to die to fast and the battle seems to small and too much waiting for huge 200/200 armies (that don't seem as massive compared to BW).
I love Brood War for the moments. The moments that made you laugh (Jangbi's "Problem?" face, lololol), the moments that made you bitter + Show Spoiler [OSL spoilers] +
so0 knocking out Killer T_T
, the moments where you were cheering and waking up your roommates for yelling at 5 in the morning+ Show Spoiler [OSL spoilers] +
FLASH GETTING JANGBANGED
. I know in the grand scheme of things these aren't necessarily "important" to what makes Brood War a great game/sport, but it's good to know that this isn't just another sport you watch to kill time, but rather it's something that create memories for me.
No two games are the same. The amount of strategical depth and tactics that are used, and a never ending metagame, combined with a ridiculously exciting set of units as well as a heartwarming pro-scene.
On September 02 2011 14:44 neobowman wrote: No two games are the same. The amount of strategical depth and tactics that are used, and a never ending metagame, combined with a ridiculously exciting set of units as well as a heartwarming pro-scene.
I like this one a lot. so simple yet it nails just about everything amazing about BW.
I remember playing this when I was 4 It has allways been my game to fall back to ever since, wether the other games I also played had been Red Alert 1, Red Alert 2, WoW, Warcraft III, Diablo II, League of Legends, anything. I remember playing the game with my friends all day. I remember being the best out of us and thinking "hell yes, I'm the best" (I breached C- for the first time yesterday, and I still felt like a baws). This, mind you, was before I had internet or ever went to battlenet. I got to know the proscene through the WoW community since it linked me to GomTV.net to watch the Korean WoW tournament. Then my eyes noticed the tab where it says starcraft and watched through it ever since. Tasteless shoutout'ed TL and I came here (hopefully) to stay. While this is just my story it has something to do with "why I love this bloody game" I have loved this game no matter what, when I would feel like a baws beating the missions in vanilla, feeling like a hero after detroying the overmind and going to the phone to call my friend about it, I think I was 8-9 at the time? Then one's success went from being co-op vs a bot (and then more than 1). I remember when I was zerg, I would allways get 5 sunkens and cracklings off of 1 base cus I thought cracklings were baws and 5 sunks were needed else those 11 zealots were probally going to kill me. Oh lordy the nostalgia, going to the present where my satisfaction is in ICCup and seeing Stats and KT as a whole win makes me happy and while a flu prevented me from fully enjoying their latest success. It still felt fucking good. Funny that most of the time I enjoyed this game offline but now it's hard to imagine playing it without being online, back then no strats were needed, no proscene or whatever.. So.. lacking yet so good I guess it's hard for me to define the love, since, it's allways been there. It's hard to put words on something which "has allways been" so I wont try to put it simple
I love Brood War because of the competition and the dedication each player has to the game. I love the community who made it's home on the back of the game. I love that players compete and can call themselves progamers.
I haven't been around long, not long enough to see many players rise and fall, but each time I watch an event like the OSL or MSL, I can't help but feel proud to know the players when they sit in their booth and what they've done to get there. Never having spectacular talent in one field, I often look upon the accomplishments of others to inspire me. Seeing inspirations like Boxer, Nada, Oov and Savior who dominated the scene for so long, and the rising of new players like Flash who I watched become a bonjwa, makes me feel prouder to be his fan than I do for most things I've done personally.
To me, these players are all inspirations; bonjwa or not. Just seeing progamers motivates me harder to work hard and be proud of what I have accomplished, because I see them and see what amazing thing they've done to have earned such a great title. Being a fan of this game will always be an understatement. I love this game.
I'm a super competitive person. When I grew up, I played a lot of sports and my dad always coached me. When high school came I lost interest in baseball and although I still ran cross country and played basketball in some church leagues from time to time, adding in another form of competition wasn't bad at all. That's where Brood War came in.
I'll never forget the feelings I got from Brood War. You all know what I'm talking about. Where you beat that Korean with a really good record or that "known" player, and you know that it was all because of the hard work you've put into the game. I remember the first time I got to D+, C-, C, etc. I was always so happy because I was able to endure all of the frustrating losses (and believe me, there were a ton of them) and was able to grow as a player.
I still remember the first time I hit B-. By then I was only playing Koreans and I went like 13-1 in one day to get from C to B-, and man it felt amazing. Like, everything just clicked. I was playing super, super well and that first time I was able to join the Ladder A-B channel, it was a surreal experience.
And you know, B- against Koreans isn't bad at all. I was really proud of my play and felt really confident playing my style. But I never, ever got cocky....
On a cold day in December of 2009, the new iCCup season had just started. I remember my second game of the ladder I played a Korean Zerg whose name was just random letters. I did my little timing attack that had been working perfectly... only to get it shut down. The Zerg ended up going 3 Hatch Muta into 5 Hatch Hydra. His Muta control was amazing and he picked off all my HT's with ease to the point where he just easily won by attack moving his Hydralisks over my bridges on Destination.
That Zerg was a pro-gamer (at the time, of course) by the name of Luxury. And ever since that, my attitude towards the game changed. I no longer viewed myself as good because compared to the Korean pros, we're all bad. There's no reason to go around bragging about your play because there's always someone out there who can completely smash you. That's not to say that you can't be happy with success - that's perfectly fine - but never start to get content with your play, always work on improving on something.
Of course I've made so many friends over this game and have talked about so many random subjects (girls, religion, etc.) that it just means so much to me.
I really, really hope that SC2 can fill this role some day. Only time will tell.
Why I love Brood War? This is not the first time I was asked this question really,my answer has always been the same.
Why the hell not? Have you ever seen the great life stories of the players who play a video game,like XellOs who secretly played it in the middle of the night after his mother fell asleep.Or the stories of the great dominance of the bonjwas like BoxeR,iloveOov,NaDa,savior and Flash and the great sights of players as they rise to the occasion for that one win in the proleague,or shed tears because of that one loss.
Brood War is no mere game,its a sport,nay its life and it really makes you live it.
I love the pageantry and excitement of a big match. I love the stories that constantly unfold as players reach meteoric heights, testing the limits of endurance and ingenuity, or as players careers meet tragic ends in the face of their physical and mental trials. I love the memories, not only of great matches, tournament runs, players, and eras in the game, but the memories tied up in old LR threads, the memories of shedding sleep and sanity to catch every STX match, practicing ZvT with a beer and a buddy, all of those marathon LAN parties.
Brood War was the first game I ever played. It is one of the few games I have cared enough about to play on a steady basis. It is one of four games that I've cared enough about to watch "professional" matches. It is one of three games that I've cared enough about to learn about the intricacies and professional scene. It is one of two games that I've cared enough about to watch commentaries of matches. It is the only game that I've cared enough about to write about, to dedicate thousands of hours in the span of a few years.
Failing to wake up for AP tests, making new friends, bettering my faltering English skills, killing time--Brood War has been there. It will always be there.
I love brood war. Well because its Brood war. There is nothing like this on the planet. We have such a uniqe qorld here in which we see the rise and falls of not only players in the game during a match. But in real life.
We see the rise of legends such as BoxeR, Nal_Ra, NaDa, and others. We also see the downfall of players like go.go, and SaviOur.
We have seen a culture form around this game that has almost created esports itself. How often can a single game say that. Only one and only one ever will have this honor. That is Brood War.
In every game-whether it is an Ace Match for the honour and glory to be crowned Proleague champions, or if it is just another minor offline preliminary game that isn't even broadcasted, you can see, feel and taste the endless hours of hard work and dedication that the progamers have practiced and sweated for that game. No matter what, their passion is always there, and plus the devotion and support of the fans will always keep Professional BW scene in my heart till the day I die.
the passion with which the game was created on and still revolves around,
the depth of the game which allows it to reward talent and practice,
which subsequently allows for historic, epic story lines to emerge (iloveoov surpassing his master, rise and fall of savior, etc.)
the pure effort that people of all levels in the bw esports scene (players, commentators, esports new reporters, cameramen, program director, music director, screen writer, etc.) puts in,
gosh there is so much more but i don't think i can really put them into words. broodwar is a very beautiful game, even more beautiful when taking into account what goes on behind the scenes in order to be able to present the final product which is what we the audience get to see on live broadcast. of course, all of this is possible because at the very basic level, the game itself is incredibly sophisticated and amazing.
My first love of BW is simply LAN parties. It was my first multiplayer RTS that I played- all others I played singleplayer or else I played hotseat strategy games. But from compstomps to later 2v2v1's or 3v4's those Nerd Nights, were just so awesom.
And what I particularly enjoyed about BW was how different the races played and yet how balance they were. In addition, I loved how much the effectiveness of my armies scaled based on my level of control (storming templars, reaver and dragoon micro, statis and recalling arbiters, etc.)
And they I was introduced to the proleagues and my mind was blown. The level of control that players had over their units while macroing like boss inspired me. And although Savior fans hated him, I found Bisu's multitasking harassment so crazy.
And then as I moved on to iCCup from compstoming, I just loved how the endless things one could do to improve. I started practicing hotkeys as browsed the internet (I now find my hotkeys are decent, but my mouse control is terrible.) I don't know, there's just so much I like about BW. But it's the LAN parties that I most enjoy.
Edit) Oh yes, and to really butter up the OP... I have to say, when we have smaller LAN nights, one of our favourite UMS maps to pull out is:Tandem StarCraft (That and BW Risk) So much fun.
My biggest thing that I love about broodwar is the people it creates. These are the some of the most impressive athletes on the planet imo. They have a burning desire that could engulf my entire being. They have so much passion, and they pour their lives into this game. It is amazing watching Flash JAEDONG hold a gold medal over his head, and look into the thousands of fans and know that he is an amazing person. Someone who has what it takes to even be a professional has an amazing strength, power, ability, talent, perseverance, DEDICATION. the ability to completely place themselves into their motions and so perfectly control everything, that they become true champions. Brood war is such an interesting and engaging game and i love it.
I love Brood war because when I was 11 and the game hit the shells, all I could think about was to play with my friends vs the computer. took me awhile to actually get the game because my parents wasn't sure wether or not it was to scary for me. I got to play it when I cought my dad playing it after my bedtime with a microphone talking to his friend. Then i got so mad he could'nt say no. After that my life formed after the life of a progamer. there was a period where I played 8-9 hours a day, vs the computer. Thought that would make me as good as BoxeR. Unfortunately, it didnt. Still remember the hype I felt when I was going to watch some Fpvod just released, or a game of Wcg where Koreans would own everyone. You cant beat the feeling when someone you are a huge fan of either wins or looses and after he/she wins/looses gets very upset, and you feel the same way. After all theese years, its sad to see the teams i've been following for years, disbands..
On September 02 2011 16:34 puppykiller wrote: pushing the hotkeys feels right. My hand feels wrong when its off the keyboard.
Haha just a few hours ago, I was with my customer's finance director, and while the report I wanted to show him was loading, I caught myself franticly typing 1a2a3a4a5a. Of course I had selected an Excel cell so it all appeared on the screen.
Any game that is so well loved by multiple cultures and brings people from those cultures together is an incredible thing. Aside from providing one of the most competitive games on the planet, like so many other profound games, the lessons of Starcraft can apply to the lessons of life.
Although my skills in BW were limited to Reaver Recalls, Mass Carrier/Scout/Dragoon/Hydra and other unit spamming builds I still had some of the best nights of my life playing friends literally all night long on our 56 K modems. Oh yeah, I did DT and lurker drops too =)
1998 was a great year for multi-player video games that totally changed the direction of modern gaming by allowing people to play each other and even do so without having to be in the same room. Before that you needed a shitload of quarters and a ride to a seedy arcade where older players lurked like pool sharks
Even though SC2 is much more my speed and I'm Plat, I aspire to be at least Masters some day and they joy I get from those things wouldn't exist without SC1. My 2nd RTS after Warcraft 2....those were the days!
I love watching pro SCBW because I know how they feel and how its hard about playing all those units, expand everywhere, defend those expand, always be aggressiv, and all those stuff.
Broodwar is playing a long tough game against someone who doesn't speak the same language as me. It is feeling a closer connection to them and more communication through a simple "ggyo" than I do with many people that speak the same language as me.
It is spending countless hours and mental energy training, and winning and losing against players who have invested the same time and mental energy.
It is frustration, elation, satisfaction, dejection, and underneath it all a mutual respect for those I compete against.
I'm going to need a couple of days to really write a proper "Why I love BroodWar" response. But after reading this thread, I have indeed been inspired to do so. Expect a 5 page long essay via spoiler soon.
This game has so much energy in it; the emotions of the players, not just anger, but sadness, happiness, supreme confidence and agitation, all affect how the player performs. A misclick is devastating in agitation. A poor decision ruins players who are distracted. Everything every player does is so directly linked to him, that the game is an extension of his being. This is where personality in Brood War comes from. You can play this game a million different ways, you can focus on macro, micro, tactics or strategy, and it will always show through to your fans. They will know you and your play style. As fans, you will know your players.
Fantasticly written. Very nicely put and as a former "foreign pro" I can tell how much truth is in there... mentality is the part about the game that got underestimated most often but is probably most important once you've reached a certain skill level.
I still recalled the 1st time I played sc1: I thought scvs are attacking units in the very 1st mission. It was one of the very first "real" games I have played, silly dos games don't count.
I love broodwar because I love the Korean commentators. Even though I do not understand a word they say, their passion for the game transcend all barriers.
Broodwar also created something which might just be a dream, a fairytale, the world of esports.
Broodwar is playing a long game against someone ranked much higher than me at 2:30 AM, jumping out of my chair and fist-pumping the moment they type "gg", and falling backwards and crashing into my closet then giggling uproariously.
Because whenever a big important match comes round, I call my friends, buy some beer and hard cider, spike mango lassi's with honey liqueur, and watch the damn thing live on a 36' TV starting at 2 in the morning. And then there's this:
I really envy those of you who got to broodwar since the times of Boxer. Its funny but BW was the first PC game I saw, (I was at school at that time) I was somehow magically mesmerized by scvs who were drilling pretty blue minerals and making tanks and soldiers, and then there were strange creatures that spawned buildings out of their workers, and proud graceful aliens with sharp plasma blades as weapons. Oh those were the days. I didn't have internet till I went to University, nor did I have any skill to play with real ppl. My favourite was "show me the money" > "black sheep wall" and then I was squealing with happiness and anticipation. I didn't know that this game could be so dense and challenging as much as entertaining. Then in 2008 my friends told me "Hey do you play SC? Its fun, you know" And I said, "well yeah, it was my favorite long ago, but its old, how can it be fun?" Now is 2011 and I'm counting days till OSL Ro4 Day2)
The massive amount of skill required, as well as the tremendous amount of hard work each progamer, even the B-team practice partners, put into the game. Every game that I am watching, even if it's a PL match against two players I've never heard of, represents the culmination of hundreds of practice hours. There is always room to improve - different players given the same battle situation can completely turn it around. The amount of multitasking is just insane. SC2 doesn't even come close.
I love if for the closeness that one feels to the pros as a viewer. I love how I can watch a game and try to get at what is going on in the pro's head, what he knows must happen to win. I can cheer them on and feel my spirits rise and fall with the fortunes of the player.
And I love it more still for the untouchable skill of the pros. I can pick my favorite pro, my favorite map; I can log on and pick the same race and map the pros played on. I can push myself to the limits, use a killer build, rally a maxed army around the map, queue a shuttle to drop their expansion. Yet, the game I play will be worlds away from the one I just saw streamed from Korea.
Because when I was 13 years old I had acquired the game and was playing it. I stumbled upon the fact that people were competing in it, and Blizzard released Battle Reports of those games. I instantly fell in love with the described play of a player named ExecutorZileas.
Since then I played the game casually on and off, I never really dived into following the pro-scene, mostly just glancing whenever there were big finals or some stuff. I followed my friends through counter-strike, into world of warcraft and dota, but Starcraft always remained the game that defined myself, and while I was never anything special, my friends considered me "the guy who's good at starcraft".
10 years later, I still hate the fact that they added a delay to the release of a scarab when you dropped a reaver from a shuttle. But 10 years later I've seen heroes rise and fall in the Starcraft scene in Korea, I've seen quite a few games live and watched countless VOD's.
It was a game that started off being really just another RTS, but then evolved into the game it is now, a million miles away from what Blizzard began with.
Brood War has really shown to what extent a computer game can be pushed to and I think that is the most interesting thing about it. There's playing sc and then there is PLAYING starcraft by today's standards and trends.
Also the different shifts and eras throughout the history of bw, starting with garimto, boxer, nada, reach, yellow, july and then it was xellos, oov, chojja, savior, nalra, stork, FBH, and then now bisu, jaedong, flash, snow, hydra. So many new players came onto the scene and everyone thought they were the most groundbreaking. Then after a while a new guy would come out with something new or just have much sicker apm and the whole metagame would shift and change. It was like watching a decade long war with different commanders and generals using different strategies and tactics to fight.
Being a teenager and seeing bigger and better players come out on the scene and fight against the established heavyweights at the time and take over, those were such phenomenal and magical times. The crowd, commentators, highlight videos, pimpest plays, strategy talk, ceremonies, the tears, laughter, reading live reports when streams didn't exist, all the people on teamliquid following this, it was just such a good period of time to be part of the movement.
There was also this feeling that we foreign people (non koreans) were sort of the guys in the very back without seat tickets jumping up and down craning our necks to get a view of the stage. Trying to get GOM player to work, translating korean articles, live reports, private streams, leaked replays and vods, gossip etc. Teamliquid didn't have much recognition back then and everything was more or less just running on pure enthusiasm from the fans. Everything was slow and unorganized but somehow throwing a million hammers at a nail finally drove it into the wood.
That movement was simply magical. If you missed it then sorry you will never experience it and will never truly understand what brood war means to those of us that lived it.
Broodwar is incredible because the level of skill shown by the players leave me in awe. Also it has been along long enough so that so many players have a history and character. I love it and I wish more people could find something they can enjoy as much as I enjoy Broodwar.
Progamers. They breathe, eat and sleep starcraft. Some push themselves to their limits for a possibility of winning a single championship, some do it for pride and fame, while others are content enough to bring enjoyment to the fans of BW and doing ceremonies.
In my 4 years of watching BW, I've grown to know them through their self-expressions in the game and each of them has had their moments of glory. Kwanro had his drones win him a spectacular game against Really, Movie in his out of this world PvZ builds and Upmagic at a time when terrans weren't doing well showed us pure-mech play.
Rooting for a player/team through long stretches of slumps, bad news or bitter losses may make you question - whats the point of investing so much time and effort into watching? Well, the answer for me is simple. It's the love of agame and esports at its finest and we're all proud to be part of it.
So many reasons to say why... But let's say it's a game that can be enjoyable to play no matter if you're meganoob or progamer - and it's exciting to watch when two players of equal level clash.
Maybe because of the competition, the progamers. the teams, the community, I don't really know. Or maybe because everything about BW is magical and no words can explain it.
It's the only game I played and watched about 10 years ago, but I was too young to realize how awesome it is, and I stopped, and when I was a bit older, I came back to it, because I remembered. There simply isn't any other game that succeeded the test of time this well, and even though people are saying that BW is dying, I'm gonna go ahead and say that it's not a few bumps that are going to stop BW. It has already seen quite a few bumps, and it's still here today.
Because it's very entertaining to watch the highest level of play, which is - given the difficult mechanisms of the game - still not perfect, and never will be, so there's always room to improve, even for the likes of Flash. Because I know it's a very hard thing to learn, and in just mere months, you'll never become to even remotely close mastering it. Because there are very, very good players, but no player can dominate the scene forever. Because it proved - for me -, that it's not just a video game, that everyone can master. It requires tenacity, dedication, endurance and mental toughness to reach the top, and become a progamer. And then you may end up just a B teamer, or a not so successful A teamer with <50% winrate, despite practicing 10-12-14 hours a day. Natural talent for the game is why Flash, Jaedong, Bisu and Stork are considered the top today. And I don't even want to mention the professional commentary which I enjoy more that nearly any other english one, despite not knowing a single word in korean.
I love Brood War because it is the only game that makes me feel alive... by watching Korean pro games and by playing it. It is the only game I have ever played for more than 10 years and there will never be a substitute to fully replace it.
On September 02 2011 20:17 meegrean wrote: I love Brood War because it is the only game that makes me feel alive... by watching Korean pro games and by playing it. It is the only game I have ever played for more than 10 years and there will never be a substitute to fully replace it.
Brood War Forever.
This gave me chill bumps. I joined TL in 2002 and told all my friends that there was a video game that had pro's making huge salary. I barely make a post a month since then. But i enjoy pro BW so much im a sponge for information and this place has gave me water =)
If you don't know much about BW, but you're curious about it, and you're wondering why we're all saying there is nothing more awesome than BW, do watch Nanashin's stream now.
Not advertising or anything, but I know that many SC2 players are reading BW forums, and the game that was just played was just too sick to not share it <3
While I do enjoy the stories of the pro teams, it is the constant pursuit of Strategical perfection that really hooks me. Matchups evolve over time as they develop and as maps rotate. I love trying to trace the ever changing perfect strategy as it mutates, watching which players are the true innovators and charting the fluid process of it all.
There is simply no other game or sport where players are given completely different tools to work with and yet the game is still balanced. There is no substitute.
On September 02 2011 20:46 endy wrote: If you don't know much about BW, but you're curious about it, and you're wondering why we're all saying there is nothing more awesome than BW, do watch Nanashin's stream now.
Not advertising or anything, but I know that many SC2 players are reading BW forums, and the game that was just played was just too sick to not share it <3
Wow, thx man dude, I almost forgot that they play today. ( I got a defeatist attitude of not being able to watch live because of time zones, so I don't care about Game dates.) Thx again dude.
I love Broodwar because it's entertaining. It's like a TV series that never sucks. It's got action, drama, trashtalk, slumps, epic comebacks, Boxer, more epic comebacks, victory, defeat, tears, fans, fanboys and mindless korean shouting.
i like watching BW because play styles have matured. Games also seem to go longer than SC2 games. After just watching the OSL RO8 i was on the tip of my seat watching with anticipation. Much more that and GSL i've watched. Not to say i don't enjoy watching SC2, theres just a very big soft spot for BW in my heart.
I love Brood War because of the people who play it. It takes a special kind of person to play Brood War, someone who can appreciate this game. Someone who will look past the "inferior" graphics, the buggy units, the fact that it is SO old that (for example) the entire Halo series was released in the intervening time. Someone who will play this game for more than the few hours, days, or sometimes weeks that encompass the playtime of most modern games. Someone who can ignore the frustration of losing 90% (low estimate ) of their games, who has the will to improve, who will try to understand the game instead of just trying to beat people within their skill level.
There is the uneducated noob, who will bash away at his friends and fellow noobs in blissful ignorance, who could go on quite peacefully for years. Unless he faces a player so much better than him that he wonders, "How can someone be that much better than me?" And if he is one of the people described above, he develops a thirst for knowledge, to understand the game. And becomes...
The D/D- noob. This person scrambles around, looking for build orders and whatnot, until they are finally educated and settle into playing the game as they have never before. They suddenly realize just how much more this game really is.
Then they become a competitive player. Their skills improve as they play, and they force themselves to go on, shrugging off the countless defeats, and every win is sweet, because they have earned it, through their sweat and determination and effort. And thus they continue, loving the game because of the feeling they get when they win, not minding that they still lose a lot, and knowing that there will always be someone better than they are, but going on nonetheless.
Of course, there is always the chance of them falling by the wayside and becoming a sort of casual-competitive mix. This is the kind of person that thrives on ~NoHunters FFAs, where people use their wits, diplomacy, and nearly everything in the game to beat down 7 opponents.
And then there are the progamers. How can you not love the progamers. I don't even know what to say. The macro, the micro, the multitasking, the dedication...they're just awe-inspiring. JangBi's storms, Jaedong's mutalisks, Bisu's probes, Fantasy's vultures, Snow's 72 kill reaver, Flash's everything. And that's just the players we have today. There is 10 or more years back, with so much more.
I entered the world of multiplayer Brood War in spring 2009, to my great regret (once I found out just how long I could have been here). I soon after joined a community of Starcraft players, a bit on the smaller side, but that only made us closer. Here I got to see first hand most of the groups of people that play Brood War, and the rest I saw through the eyes of commentators.
Brood War is just so amazing. May it continue on, as long as possible.
I love Brood War because, it's not just some game that people play. It's a sport and event that thousands of people love all around the world. On Brood War we're not just players in a clan, or in a chat room. We're a community, a group of people that talk discuss, live and breath this incredible event. Everyone who has played Brood War has know what it's like to, lose in a humiliating fashion, feel like throwing your computer out a window, or starting a balance whine thread here on TL. And everyone knows what it's like to have that feeling of self awe and gratitude after winning, because when you win it's not because you had the better race or, bought some gear in an online cash shop, you won because you were better than the other person, and that's what makes this better than some shitty console game. I'm one of those kids who found Brood War thanks to Starcraft 2, and I'm grateful for it. Brood War was the first time I had ever fell in love with something so quickly. It was the first time I screamed because my favourite player lost in an epic best of 7. It was the first time I woke up at 5am just to watch something that I loved. It was the first time I had developed a man crush. (thanks a lot "Nada's Body") It was the first time I felt like I in the right place, somewhere I belonged. I'm grateful for everyone player in Korea and lurker on TL, and everyone around the world who just loves Starcraft like me. That's why I love Brood War.
Nothing more needs to be said, I win the thread, put it in the OP and lock this, we're done here.
I kid, I kid.
I love Brood War because it's the game I grew up with. I've spent so many hours playing countless games, meeting people and making friends. I've met some people on battle.net a decade ago that are still dear friends to me today, just because of StarCraft. At some point the people, the experiences, and the memories transform StarCraft from just a game to an important part of who you are as a person. I've long since reached that point, and I love Brood War because it's a part of me now.
When I think "Brood War"... well, there is my terrible self, with bad micro and worse macro and no dedication, nothing but a "love" of the game, if you can call anything without absolute commitment love. Even the terrible player I am can wake up and do something spectacular: I've won FFAs with better players. I've beaten Koreans 1v2 (it was 2002 and they double drone-rushed, but still!).
But then, there are the pros. In their world my personal "spectacular" would be bad play even for Rock. But that dedication and talent produces a level of transcendence that can't be properly described, moments that remain impressed on your mind forever. Theperfectrush. Thebeautifulgame. Rocksolidendurance.
I love Brood War because its difficulty brings us moments when mere humans can do what seems impossible. Because, win or lose, the game is a challenge, and for all the terrible failures which happen when we try something hard, in the end any great challenge produces beauty. And when a challenge is successfully overcome, the act produces a hero, and the act of overcoming that challenge, joy.
I love Broodwar in and of itself, without thought or hesitation, without lingering doubts on my sanity. I love it purely, passionately. I love it for the difficulty of splitting probes. I love it for the feeling of awe when I attempt to micro my mutas. I love it for the frantic reaver micro and the more frantic chase of scarab and SCV. I love it for the clunky dragoons and the spider mine daebak. I love it for the euphoria of victory and the frustration of defeat.
There is no measure to how far Broodwar has influenced my thoughts and my actions. Its lessons run deep: Manage every aspect of your base and your life. Micro what you can in front of you, but always think of the bigger picture. There is a time to rush at instances of opportunity, and a time to sit back, collect yourself and expand your resources. Always be Calm but don't clam up your sense of adventure. And most important of all, practice practice practice.
And when my day is done, when my children and my children's children have decided to try their hand at this game called life, I will watch them with wistful eyes, just as I watched Lee Young Ho grow up and into his destiny. I will encourage them to play and laugh and run their fingers through their Kim Taek Yong-like hair. I will counsel them when their eyes are lit aflame with Lee Jaedong's rage. I will comfort them when they get 2nd place like Song Byung Goo.
And I will tell them to explore, imagine, innovate; to sing, dance, and lose yourself; to love another and to believe in the impossible, because a man named Lim Yo Hwan once did, and there is no greater path in life than that walked by emperors.
The history. The ceremonies. The BM. The Dong. The Passion. The Insanity. The great and the absurd. The casters. The players. The fangirls.
Hyuk leaving a 3HP nexus to attack a zealot. Hyuk letting vultures in his main on a map where Zerg walls in. Hyuk all-killing SKT1
Effort taking an OSL finals from Flash. Finals in an aircraft hanger. Dreamliner being the best map ever, not because it was playable, but because it was a goddamn plane.
The ICCUP matches on Python. The ICCUP matches on Python. The ICCUP matches on Python. The ICCUP matches on Python. The ICCUP matches on Python. The ICCUP matches on Python. Trying to get people to play me on Andromeda. Trying to figure out how to host games (an ability I've since lost, I can't open ports ;_;) Being in E Having people recognize me because of my blog. Being convinced that a mouse was a good thing to have when playing starcraft, after failing with my laptop trackpad. The ICCUP training program giving me strategy tips when I was floating a million dollars and a hooker. Race switching out of Terran because I can't wall off properly (I still can't!)
Watching Cholera, Klazart, and later Nukethestars. Moletrap being useful, an ability he's since lost (oh snap!)
Falling out of love with Brood War. Falling back in love with Brood War.
Flash vs Jaedong in the finals Flash vs Jaedong in the finals Flash vs Jaedong in the finals Flash vs Jaedong in the finals Flash vs Jaedong in the finals Flash vs Jaedong in the finals Flash vs Jaedong in the finals Screaming obscenities at my screen when the power went out and KeSPA gave Jaedong the game even though Flash was totally winning
Getting UpMagic'd as Zerg and not playing for a week because fuck wraiths.
Being a kid, and playing primitive proto-dotas on Battle net. NR 20 7-vs-1 computer Fastest Map Ever Fastest Map Ever, NR 20 It's NR20, that was totally 19:50.
The awesome plot. The mediocre missions. The fucking awful installation missions where you fought three marines and had to read a book while Kerrigan healed back up. Brood War having better missions, The BW opening. The BW ending. Being surprised when Kerrigan came back. Admiral Stukov is pants-eatingly retarded.
Playing Warcraft 3 like it was Starcraft, getting pissed at the low supply cap and slow-ass only one unit needed missions, and knowing BW was better.
Trying to make custom levels. "You have to get past a massive minefield!" Why is there s ~26,000 sprite limit that so arbitrary I need more enemy mines
Why do I love BW you ask.... Geez, why DON'T I love Brood War!!!! I still remember that one fated morning....me and my relatives were having dumplings and my cousin placed the Brood War CD in the computer and the first thing I've noticed were the images of all of the races and as he started playing "Show me the money" lol, I IMMEDIATELY noticed the Hydralisk in the game and he was annoyed because I kept asking questions about the game but from that moment on, I just KNEW that I was a Zerg player. The more and the more I've learned about the Zerg backstory, the more I was in awe. Such race that have so much harmony with each other. Anyways flash forward 9 years and here I am....watching some OSL!
I discovered BroodWar back in 2000, when my friend was playing one of the Terran missions on a Windows 98. I remember him telling me that bunker-turret supported by tanks was the best possible defense in the entire game. I tried playing through all the campaigns but it was very difficult for me and I often resorted to cheats (Power Overwhelming, Black Sheep Wall, Where is the Money FTW!!!).
For a long time from the summer of 2001 to about Christmas 2008 the BW CD just collected dust under my bed, but one night I was bored and miraculously decided to give it a second try.
I don't remember how I found out about TeamLiquid, but the very first pro player I found about was Nal_Ra. I remember being amazed by his "Dreamer Toss" style. From there I discovered the legends known as Boxer, Nada, Bisu, Jaedong, and Flash. At that point I was simply in love with the pro scene: how players had to compete for spots on teams by winning the Courage Tournament and struggle through blistering competition just so they could go pro, how many would practice for hours beyond the requirements stipulated by their teams, the magic of Proleague and MSL/OSL, the glitz and glam of the stage overshadowed by the sheer diligence and hard work required of the progamer lifestyle, the distinct personalities of each of the pro players both in their play and in their interactions, the amazing rivalries yet humbling camaraderie within and between teams, and of course the electrifying fans and commentators who really brought the game to life.
Why do I love BroodWar and the Korean pro scene? It's hard to explain it in words really. It's just extraordinary, really unlike anything I've ever seen before.
I love Brood War because it is so encompassing. I tell my friends, Brood War is not a game- it is a lifestyle. A fan does not simply play BW, he lives BW, he thinks BW; it is the only game to which I have ever been addicted. I love Brood War because of the commentators- Klazart, Diggity (now converted to SC2), and especially Nuke the Stars. His music from Effort's OSL floats through my mind with the intensity and focus of every high-stakes TvZ trailing shortly behind it, a streamer in the wind of my mind. It is a lifestyle we all choose, and I love it.
This thread remind me to my best friends. My best friends once asked me why I'm love Starcraft so much and I was speechless for a while. Why? Then, she say to me how weird I am. I took time to tell her because nobody asked me like that before this.
Here is my answer: I love Starcraft not because the cute of progamer or the progamer is handsome or whatsoever but this game is unique. The progamer, they are human like us too but how they can develop a great strategies to win while play the game in TV match which is live is more unique. And also when I play, it really test your ability how to win with your own strategy.
Joy and sadness especially after watch your favorite team or players lost or win. And how i can keep watching the Vods again and again = that special about Starcraft even though I'm not understand what the commentator say. It beyond the world and all of us unite in one place, here in TL ( since TL is the only place I can communicate and share my opinion regarding Starcraft )
Broodwar is the game that I found illegal cd keys for when I lost mine, because I didn't wait the three days to get a new one from blizzard in the mail. It's the game my best friend and I bought again after graduating college (because I still needed a cd key and he needed the install for a mac) so that we could get back in touch with each other. To this day, BW has been the thing that has kept our relationship strong.
Even when we made the dangerous decision to train 1v1 against each other (I never want to play another TvZ on destination for as long as I live) and we would yell and curse at each other during the game, and the winner was always elated and the loser wanted to die, but every game ended the same:
gg sir. gg again? give me a second kk go
Because BW taught us to respect each other. Without ever telling us, it taught us that when we lost, we should look inside ourselves to find the answer why, and that our opponent was only doing what we were doing. Trying to be better than the day before.
Brood War means quite a hell of a lot for me. My mother decided to undergo training in computer maintenance and repair, so for me, unlike the vast majority of the people around me, I always had a computer, and after about 1998, always had an internet connection. Starcraft (the original) was what kept me in the house and ate up all of my time despite how bad I was at it, while my older brother went out, got entangled in the local cliques, and that began his downfall into crime, for which he is still in and out of jail.
Later, I met my soon to be stepdad who had on his computer the Starcraft Brood War Beta, at which I instantly creamed myself with excitement. That began probably the strongest link in my relationship with my stepdad, our love of Starcraft. A few years later (after 2001 but noticably before the release of Warcraft 3), Knowing my enthusiasm for the game, my stepdad introduced me to one "Slayers`Boxer`" and the fact that there was a professional scene around game. While I was interested, it was a limited interest until he started to give me replays and links to stuff about the big Protosses of the time, and being not only a Protoss player, but someone who was absolutely in love with the idea of the protoss race, I instantly became attached to the name Nal_Ra. As well, my stepdad began teaching me how to play competitively, teaching me about foreign ideas such as "Build Orders", "Keeping your money low" "Constantly building workers" and so forth.
For years after, my love of Starcraft was always fostered by Starcraft Legacy, a site no doubt most people in the BW community for any reasonable amount of time are familiar with, but over time the lack of info to keep my attention was just not happening with Starcraft legacy, although I always checked back to see things like the Pimpest plays, or who won the latest titles, or to watch some featured replay or another. By 2006, however, my attention turned to Basketball and my play time was eaten up by Warcraft 3, my nigh constant trickle of BGH and LT games not withstanding.
However, my interest in Starcraft picked up again hardcore through the SomethingAwful thread run by Fakesteve "Ask me about Pro Starcraft", where I fell in love with the scene all over again, and was introduced to the GOM leagues, where for the first time in my life, I was given consistent english commentary of Starcraft games, as well as the link to Teamliquid, a site I never knew existed until then. For the next year, I completely ruined my sleep schedule to keep up with the Gom classic, MSL, OSL and proleague. I even tried my hand at getting better at Brood War to no avail.
The biggest, most heartwarming starcraft event of all time for me, though, was every weekend for the entire run of it, my stepdad and I would set the TV up to play the TSL2 stream, and we sat there and watched starcraft together. This meant a lot, as for years he hasn't been paying attention at all, what with his job taking up all of his time and my mother of course taking up the rest of it.
I'm rambling and I'm sure I've completely managed to miss some key things here, but I think it says enough that, without ever being a notable or particularly dedicated fan, that I can write this much about my history with starcraft and still feel I'm missing parts.
What's not to Love about BW? It's like jumping out of an exploding helicopter with no parachute, while Chuck Norris wrestles with 3 bears. Naked. Okay maybe that has nothing to do with Starcraft but that's how Awesome it is.
Although becoming a pro is just a Fantasy to most people, it doesn't stop anyone from drinking bear semen in an EffOrt to become at least as half as good as Jaedong. Yes, bear semen. For Relaz. http://bearsemen.com/.
One of the best things about Starcraft is the online community. Who doesn't love discussions about strategy, certain progamer's body and other generally random things on oh I don't know...maybe some kind of online forum...GosuGamers perhaps?
I love brood war because its old like a grandma. And who doesn't love his or her grandma?
BW is great, the only thing I hated about BW is OZ. I swear everytime OZ wins a part of me dies so when they decided to disband I was jumping and screaming in joy.
The first time Flash busted out his double armory FE on Katrina(I think, the bullshit TvP map) was so epic. Dam toss and their 2 base carrier play. Also Savior's muta vs Boxer's goliath micro and Yellow vs Bisu was godly.
i just stayed up till the sun rose watching the osl semifinals. I am now sleep deprived, fighting a cold, dead tired, ready to collapse, and I'm loving every fucking moment of it. That's just how awesome BW is.
I don't even play SC/BW! ^.^ but I've been watching e-sport since the beginning and I couldn't stop since. My first e-sport match was Grrr... vs Boxer. Back then, pros still cluster their tanks together and siege/unsiege at the same time and P's response is normally storm. Boxer was the first one to have the multitask ability to split the tanks during a battle. Wow, time has changed... but my love for BW is now stronger than ever.
I love Broodwar because It was almost a ritual in my household. My father played Warcraft 2 with his buddies, they'd all get together and literally bring there now ancient systems and wed set up 4 pcs in the kitchen and have a lan going. At that point I was maybe 8 or 9, when i first saw Starcraft. It really was a truly amazing game compared to War2. 3 completely different races, so much more was possible within the game. (My mind was particularly blown that you could control more then 9 units at once ) I just remember sitting up way past my bed time just to try to watch my dad and his friends stomp all over each other at night, this was just about every weekend. They would get so into it and yell and shout, and always at the end it was laughs and handshakes all around. It really showed me how great gaming was and inspired me to pick up the mouse myself. Starcraft is so much more then a game, its a way of life to so many, to think here in the US kids want to grow up to join the MLB or NBA, and in Korea theres kids striving to be professional Starcraft players. Livelihoods have been made off of this game, a true cultural phenomenon. Particularly Starcraft left such a mark on my childhood and I think is much more then partially responsible for my passion for gaming that ive carried with me since those lans in my kitchen almost 11 years ago ^_^.
Playing SC2BW (Hardcore mode! Still counts!) and getting BM'd for having fantasy gg timing right before I release my 8 carriers that I built off my three unscouted bases upon his unsuspecting tank/vulture contain.
I switched from Protoss to Zerg. I can't decide which race I love the most, man. EVERY RACE IS SO AWESOMELY DESIGNED. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Playing StarCraft is the most fun thing I know of. It's fucking BEAUTIFUL. It's the wonder of mathematics when you make up a good build order, and the brilliance of intelligence when you correctly read a situation and act accordingly. It's so fucking SATISFYING.
I love this. Honest to god, I started my BW obsession when I was 10, and it was with Crash RPG, and EVOLVES. I was so gosu at both ^_^/. But then I learnt what South Korea was all about, and realized that my dream of seeing pro gaming wasn't actually a dream; it was reality (just, on the other side of the planet).
To this date, nothing makes me more excited and happy than seeing Jaedong's 5 hatch hydra busts, or old VoD's of oOv v Julyzerg, or even watching semi-pro iCCup ladder games. I love everything about this game. I wouldn't trade it for the world.
Today, I noticed there were 20 something ppl in the Op Teamliquid channel. Naturally, one thing led to another, and voila, we had some Race Wars. For those of you who don't know what Race Wars is, it's basically, everyone goes random, and then you ally people of the same race. It's mad wicked fun, here is a battle report (from my perspective) of one of the games.
The game starts off. I spawn as Zerg. I decide that since this is FFA and all, people are most likely to rush and stuff. So I decide that I should 9 pool. What I don't know that this is on Killing Fields. Killing Fields is an imbalanced map made by Blizzard, and is 256 x 256 big. In other words, it's FRICKING HUGE. I'm already off to a great start. http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Killing_Fields I meet my one and only Zerg ally. I also scout around and see some T's around. Naturally, I make a proposition:
I try to salvage whatever economy I have left. Meanwhile, Brown Protoss ggs out. We leave his robo facility alone so brown can obs use a shuttle and 4 probes to kill 10-20 workers while watching the game. . + Show Spoiler +
White Protoss decides to mass carriers. While we yellow zerg decides to attack protoss, 8 carriers show up.
I love BW because the game in itself has such beauty that is very hard to describe. It's also the only game that will get me yelling (SSBM being the only other game next to it) and it's the only game to actually get me teary by how fucking beautiful it is, also watching the streams and listening to the fans yell gets me nervous/chills/heart racing/boner all that shit man ALL THAT SHIT. STARCRAFT BROOD WAR 화이팅!!! WOOOOOO!!~!~!
Why do I love Brood War? I love Brood War because of the great community where if you lost a lot of games and feel like you can't go on, they'll help you through it and tell you that you can't stop now! I love Brood War because of the great vods made by the community, for the community. I love it for the great games on Sunday Night.
I love Brood War for the hilarious Battle Reports made by gamers across the world. I love Brood War just for the sole reason that it has gamers across the world. American foot ball? That's nothing. Brood war is where it's at!
I Love it for the skill involved. For the game. For the meta game. For trends, mistakes, overloading pressure, overloading tasks. I Love the buggy AI, the mastery over it. I Love high ground miss chance. I Love the Reaver. I Love storm drops. I Love seeing the loss on 1 drone in a ZvZ. I Love the amount of energy, time, and passion put into something that I think is ranked up there as ONE of the things with the highest skill ceiling possible where a human can still improve. I Love OSL Highlight Videos.
I've watched July pour units all over from the map. I've watched BaBy First enter his matches and show me 500apm wraith micro. I've watched Flash beat Stork on Katrina. TWICE. I've felt the dread from watching certain builds. I've felt the nerd chills from watching impeccable timings. I've felt the passion of GG.
On September 03 2011 05:47 s.Q.uelched wrote: I love BW cuz Jangbi is going to do something Stork wasn't able to!
He first has to beat a shit zerg, and after that a pretty good PvTer in order for that to happen, and I don't believe he'll be able to get past Fantasy.
Why I love Brood War? I have been with that game since I was in elementary school. My older brother played it all the time and battles were so epic. They seemed so real and scary. I thought Star Wars was well done but wow...this was amazing. Sadly, my older bro did not like it when I was in his room and to persuade him, I gave him my Halloween candy, Christmas candy, and Easter candy just to watch him play. In fact, all I would think about when getting candy during Trick or Treat was how long would the bag of candy last me?
Go into the future 4 years, I finally bought the game and played it for the first time of my life. Oh my God was I a happy man. Then one year later, I saw the National Geographic documentary and I made my decision there. StarCraft is going to be the game I will play and never ditch.
btw, I thought StarCraft had great graphics because my parents hated TV with a passion so we could not afford a console. When everyone was playing Halo 2, our family was still playing Crono Trigger and Seiken Densetsu and thought those were the coolest games ever made.
On September 03 2011 05:47 s.Q.uelched wrote: I love BW cuz Jangbi is going to do something Stork wasn't able to!
He first has to beat a shit zerg, and after that a pretty good PvTer in order for that to happen, and I don't believe he'll be able to get past Fantasy.
On September 03 2011 05:47 s.Q.uelched wrote: I love BW cuz Jangbi is going to do something Stork wasn't able to!
He first has to beat a shit zerg, and after that a pretty good PvTer in order for that to happen, and I don't believe he'll be able to get past Fantasy.
plus, stork did beat fantasy in 2008 OSL finals
he means winning a starleague as toss in this day and age
I love Brood War because it is a long standing, forever-giving friend that I grew up with for good ten years of my life.
I personally look back most fondly upon the 2001-2006 era, where there werent hundreds of able gamers, there were, really, only a dozen or so pioneering names, each with their own special strengths and weaknesses. From this cluster of elite players, each player brought their own brand of play. For a teenaged-me, it was the coolest thing ever and I was enchanted by it all, the rivalries, the stories, the drama...
I hated each of these guys with a passion for all the times they let me down and loved them in turn for all the times they rose to the occasion against the odds:
Boxer's status as the undisputed revered icon of progaming Yellow, every romantic's favourite who was as brilliant as he was flawed Reach playing the lone Protoss hope one Z/T infested Starleague after another Nada's perfect execution of Terran macro-play Kingdom winning games with his first zealot and scouting probe Nal_rA and his endless catalogue of radical strategies Rainbow, whose games hinged entirely around the success of his reaver harassment July taking Zerg to a new level with his mutalisk and lurkerling micro Xellos and his scary ability to beat anyone on his day, the badass leader of SUMA G.O. iloveoov's meteoric rise from nowhere and playing like he was 5 years ahead of everyone Anytime's glorious "legend of the fall" royal road beating all the household names as a rookie Pusan's hilariously blunt macro play Savior's uncanny invincibility as a complete player
I'll never forget all the times I sat in front of my computer and got shivers down my spine from watching a bunch of people, who no one knew but me, playing a game, which no one played but me.. It's fucking special and I'll always be so proud to have followed it from beginning to end even though it's something I could never explain to my family or my closest friends- in fact, it's all the more special for it.
I thought about it for a while ... but then I decided I couldn't say it any better than this:
On February 18 2010 08:58 riptide wrote: There are video games, and there are video games. While none of us are strangers to controlling animated characters or wandering through virtual worlds, we do know that for a game to be truly great, it must capture a generation. Indeed, for a game to be great it must enthral and entertain, drawing you in and shutting the world out. The best games you play not because you can, but because you must.
Starcraft was one of those games, a title that transcended bytes and packets and moved into a sphere that was hitherto out of reach. From ICCUP to the OSL, this is a game that bridges languages, continents and prejudices. Starcraft, a game that could have been just another rts, showed us one thing. Something good can beget something better. The game, make no mistake, is a legend. Its true power however lies not in its finely tuned balance or the skill it requires at the highest level. No, Broodwar's strength is the sum of its players. You. Me. Us. We made this game. With ladder play and forum posts and guides and VODs and uploads and downloads and hundreds of thousands of man hours that will never be measured, we forged it.
For more than seven years, Team Liquid brought us together, giving us the best of Professional Starcraft and in the process creating the most far reaching, vibrant and influential ESPORTS community on the planet. Warcraft 3 came and went. CNC3, Dawn of War, RA3 - all games, but indeed, not games. They entertained for a while, they created competition for a while, but when all was said and done, they were not Starcraft. Not Starcraft: Broodwar.
I first got into BW when I watched IntoTheRain games back when I was young. He was the first true brotoss, the one that created the style of manly tossness that now resides in all brotosses (Esp. Reach). Man, I loved to see him burst out with those units and destroy zergs left and right.
I fell in love with Brood War when my brother was staying up all night playing the game and I was peaking into his room every chance I got. He was a master. Then I forgot about Brood War, only to find my brother's old Starcraft+Starcraft Brood War discs lay there on MY shelf a couple of years later, so I installed it on our newly bought Compaq PC. And this time I discovered something new. I discovered Battle.Net, and on Battle.Net I discovered Fastest. I quickly began massing fastest games with my cousins for a few months or so. But then once again I forgot about Brood War and I entered my first Diablo 2 phase. Been through a couple of those since then. Then in late 2008 I rediscovered Brood War and I found out about low-money maps, so I joined SC2Armory.com a bit later and from there I found out about the awesome Brood War community, both on TeamLiquid and SC2Armory. I soon learned that Brood War was a very unique game in that the excitement you get from playing or watching Brood War can not be reproduced in any other game or sport. From here I learned everything that was Brood War - OSL, MSL, PL, WL, TSL, iCCup and most of all, the community. I do not know a game that has as good a community as Brood War. On my journey with Brood War I got to know so many new people. Specifically in the SC2Armory hamachi channel and the TeamLiquid iCCup channel <3 In addition to that, TeamLiquid now serves as my go-to source for news or entertainment in general. I love you TeamLiquid! However, I'm ashamed to admit that I do not watch nor play much Brood War anymore and I need to catch up on that for sure (at least the watching part). But Brood War, you will always hold a special place in my heart.
I love broodwar, because of the community. I couldnt play a game for over a decade alone. Its everyone. From progamers to any other character in TL, you guys make me keep coming back to play this one game.
Everything about Brood War just seems picture perfect to me. The game, the scene, the players, the community, the resources... I could go on and on. I feel like much of who I am now is embodied in some way by BW. Oftentimes when I'm feeling a bit discouraged, I think, "Those progamers threw everything out the window; their opportunities, their social lives, just to have a chance at their dreams."
Brood War means more than nearly everything in the world to me; like many of you that grew up playing BW, I grew up watching BW. I am quite young for a Brood War fan (if I do say so myself), so to me it feels like BW is an integral part of my life. I remember when my parents confiscated my laptop, I would go on the Wii and waste away the afternoon hours afterschool watching the newest Proleague matches on an Internet channel.
A major reason why I love BW is because it is a way for me to connect with my brother, who is 8 years older than me. One of my earliest memories is of me watching my brother sneak onto the computer to play Starcraft. Whenever he comes home from med school, it is something that I can reliably talk to; whether it be showing him epic plays or sick timings, I start feeling the magic of when I was 4 or 5 years old with him.
The day when Brood War dies is when my inner child dies.
Honestly chef If you asked me from the bottom of my heart since my young eyes set on my CRT and saw that I can interact with units on my screen and them having the ability to make nuclears,tanks and marines blew me away and my experience in computer gaming . Since than I was hook towards these game although than the counter strike scene was much more bigger in here in malaysia and that game took precedence over my love for bw for a while .
I think it's just natural to like a game at this caliber , clear crispy quality of units that is spectator friendly , there's no way you can't tell whats happening on the screen,heck even the creator of bw made the game just to be crazy and fun "not like trend set by today developers which commonly set out to make games with the theme of "ESPORT MATERIAL and yet it's so simple and yet so amazing ".
Just looking at unit being micro and reinforcement units being sent on the way to follow through with any rush is enough for me to get glued to lcd screen for hours .Plus knowing the players and team just adds to the magic of broodwar for me and everytime the word AHHHHHH Plague,REBBEEERRRRRRR, PACTORY, gets in my ear the whole world could be at war and I wouldn't give a damn as starcraft bw comes first over anything .
Probably my view as a fan maybe fanatic but these game has transceded to me beyond being just a game , It has the capability of landing yourself prestige,wife,money and tell me any other gamers who are able to reach that high point of life other than starcraft players ?.I think starcraft has conquer my imagination and I even dream of destroying stork,bisu,flash," insert name here " in a msl .
Bw will always to me be a game that I love till I die ,no peer pressure or anything Is going to put off the flame for these game in me , It's going to keep on burning .
bw wont last with this attitude, bw forums are saying goodbye allready, dont do that its disgusting i dont wanna read bw forums anymore.
And yes BW (jangbiii) is only thing i try to watch even if it costs me a important lecture.
EDIT: i still remember time of holy war and how boxer beat young flash etc (klazart lol). In that time forums were filled with life and discussion about bw players and events, not about how good bw is and how bw is better then anything, how bw is better then sc2.
On September 26 2011 23:30 LeibSaiLeib wrote: bw wont last with this attitude, bw forums are saying goodbye allready, dont do that its disgusting i dont wanna read bw forums anymore.
And yes BW (jangbiii) is only thing i try to watch even if it costs me a important lecture.
EDIT: i still remember time of holy war and how boxer beat young flash etc (klazart lol). In that time forums were filled with life and discussion about bw players and events, not about how good bw is and how bw is better then anything, how bw is better then sc2.
The Chills, guys! The Chills! I never tought I would feel like that way while watching a game! I used to think that this feeling was reserved for those amazing music concerts where musicians showed me all their dedication, work, skill, passion and love in their performances. But later i understood my chills: Progamers just are showing me the same things, not through a musical instrument, but through this amazing game.
I watch BW for the emphatic GG after an epic game. So much tension and drama builds up in the game, and it all erupts at the end with a GG. The crowd explodes into cheers and squeals of nerdgasms. The commentators explode into GG like it's the last words they'll ever roar out of their lungs. I echo the GG like I was in that very booth, playing - marching my valiant Protoss warriors into battle, throwing down thunderous storms, and landing massive scarab bombs - the GG have been served justice, and then I need new pants and then I truly know inside, this is why I love BW.
After watching OGN broadcast SC2 for the first time, I have to say part of the reason I love watching BW was the exciting commentators, the presentation, the great observer, and not seeing progress bars so that matches actually have suspense and uncertainty.
I love Broodwar because every time I log on I realize how bad I am at it, and how I'm much much better at Starcraft 2. Then I play a few games of Broodwar and go back to Starcraft 2 and play 5 times better. I love watching high-level brood war because it offers the best games. I wish there were more/better English language streams for pro-league and the like, but I still watch Broodwar when I can. I love Broodwar because I grew up with it. I love Broodwar because of Sayle.
And I love watching NeoGSoulkey do crazy shit with zerg.
Why do we love Brood War? Because of the adrenaline rush you get when you play. The feeling you get when your opponent types in those two letters. "GG". Maybe it's the fact that somehow, Brood War brings us together, a family. You know it was on a drive to a friend's house when I bought Starcraft Expansion Pack. I remember a friend told me about this game. It look amazing, simply fascinating. Yet, so difficult. I wanted to challenge myself, and a challenge I got. I remember those days, skipping through campaign mode, being a complete noob, all the while thinking to myself, HELL YEAH IM SO PRO! Using cheat codes everywhere, typing in "There is no cow level" to every single one of the campaign levels and thinking I had truly beaten Brood War. I remember those Fastest and BGH games I would always play, never daring to even attempt to go into low-money. But one day I did, I played low-money and boy what a "WTF" face I had the whole game. I couldn't get 10 barracks in the first 3 minutes of the game, get 10 hatcheries in the first 3 minutes of the game... But I wanted to get better, to be so good. So that's when I got hooked to this beautiful game. And the very first pro-game I ever watched, never to forget...
It seems so long ago. I was just 10 years old. But I've always come back to this game, one way or another. TL is my second home, always somewhere where I can take comfort in. Yet, it's also like a parent, strict and enforces these rules upon us. But it seems that I welcomed it. Even though I've been banned before and warned before, I felt good about it. I felt that I was being helped back on my feet. Back to where I used to be. Back to where I belonged.
I still will never understand how I truly got hooked to this game. I even feel a strong irony emitting from this. I lived in California my entire life, until 10 years old. Then everything changed. I met my next door neighbor how had this. And I still remember myself complaining to my parents "I DONT WANT TO MOVE!!! I LOVE CALIFORNIA!!!" Little did I know, I would consider this move the greatest move of my life. Because without it, I wouldn't have known the existence of this game. I wouldn't have known of this great community, Teamliquid. That is why I love this game. That, is why I love Brood War.
We can't allow this beautiful sport to die. It is part of our life and has been a part of korean culture for a decade. I'm really glad that Kespa is finally taking countermeasures to all the team disbandings.
I started playing broodwar when I was 8 or so, but I justed played UMS and money maps. Even back when I was 8 I never really thought one race was better than the other races, so back then I could see a balanced game. I never knew about competitive gaming until 2007, when I first started watching BroodWar. I was so enthralled by the fact that these people play games for money, and devote their life to it. Before BW I never played a game for more than a year, but here I am still playing it for 4 years. I love broodwar so much, it is the greatest spectator sport I've ever had the pleasure to watch.
For me as someone who never followed the game super closely the thing I love most about Brood War was the storylines of korean progamers...it's absolutely amazing.
My favourite builds and stuff i like seeing Flash do:
- Strong FD into some massive contain into making the protoss look like a scrub. - 14CC into 3 rax+Valkyrie (quite possibly anything is good) - Anything incorporating dropships full of marines dropped ontop of a hatchery with alot of drones - Killing 4 Protoss bases at once while having a huge mass of tanks in their main base. - His godlike marine splits against lurkers
I love BW because it is an epic story filled with so much history and passion.
It is the original Esport, and it will forever be where gaming became more than just gaming; it became a passion, a dream, a job, a struggle, a hope, a goal, a story, a lifestyle.
I love Brood War because it is the medium that connects me and the rest of Korea together. Without knowing Hangul or living in Korea, watching OSL Grand Finals', Shinhan Bank Proleague, MBCGame Starcraft League... they all make me feel as if I am there, in the room, with hundreds of thousands of die hard Brood War fans who want nothing more than to see their idols reach the pinnacle of sports; the right to be called Champion.
Brood War is more than just a game to me; it is a way of life. Brood War has made me a smarter and more mature man, by teaching me to think outside of the box, and be overly analytical and interpretive of my surroundings. Brood War players never take anything for granted. They never take no for an answer. They never surrender to failure. They can not be stopped.
There is a distinct characteristic about Brood War players. Whether it ranges from our obsessively-high Actions Per Minute, which no other game can even come close to reaching, or whether it ranges from our ability to turn a simple game of collecting minerals and fighting armies into one of the most beautiful and sound strategical war games ever developed on this planet. The fact that as players, spectators and fans, we have all caused probabilities to almost go out the window, and professionals have the exact mineral count and drone count down to the wire in the 25 minute mark in a game is remarkable. This game has paved the way and set the measuring stick by which every other game and competition is created and judged for today.
No other game has caused the amount of hype and drama that Brood War has. No other game has caused millions of fans around the world to be able to connect with one another, despite not understanding each others languages, and communicating with words and phrases that were globally understood by communities through just a game and its respective actions. No other game has caused theory-crafting to be so in-depth, so vivid, and so perplexing in nature, that we as gamers have developed strategies in Brood War that are in many ways more advanced and tactile than any Artificial Intelligence can ever mimic, and this is due to the power of our minds ability to expand and adapt over time.
Brood War is my heritage. It is my passion for gaming. It is what causes me to have a warm feeling of love and happiness every single time I see a game, ranging from the most amateur of games, to the most professional of settings. Brood War is my life.
I'll always associate BW with one of my earliest childhood memories - watching my brother play BW. I'd sit there, sometimes for hours, as he played on b.net: 1v1s, UMS, whatever. I never got into BW or played it as much as he did, but I still loved to sit there next to him and watch. Everytime I hear the sounds of BW, it always brings me back.
All the other stuff is pretty cool too, but that's the main reason why I'll always hold BW in a special place.
i love starcraft because of all the small amounts of joy i receive from it and the surrounding community every day.
its not so much about winning laddergames or even getting deep in a tourney. its more about watching starcraft, listening to hilarious commentary, seeing a weird but powerfull new build or just enjoying great games like most recently drg vs thorzain on antiga shipyard.
but possibly the most important part are all those small .jpg, .png, and .gif files you see every day.
i dont even care if its a gif of a firebathero ceremony or of moons banelings, a nostalgic picture of boxer haircuts in 2003-2006 or a screenshot of the lobby for the second game of idra vs cruncher in tsl3, reading the starcraft bible thread or wathching the picture in the programer look-alike thread.
my life is better because everytime im down i can click on some random link on teamliquid, in skype or irc to get a small potion of starcraft joy
i love starcraft because of the sound when it unborrows and of the sound when it follows my enemies and then booooom. spidermines are sooo cute. Or siege tanks most awesome unit ever invented, and behind it the battle cruiser, or more exactly the yamato. I love the 3 races overall and have many fave units in em. I love bw because it has everything ^.^.
It's maybe because of it's simplicity, it's dedicated players or just simply because it's the game I've been playing from the time I knew what a Desktop is to owning one. Many games I have known before Brood War, and many after. But Brood War is the game that I'll always be playing. I don't know. It's kinda like taking a bath. You actually don't need to take a bath, but it feels good to take a bath.
Starcraft purely made me what i am today. Learning Starcraft was difficult and complex and i sooned to realized that it's was just as my studies.
So i put my love for Starcraft in my school work. If i can learn by myself to play a game this well, i could do whatever i want. Because starcraft was really complex.
Starcraft is the reason why i speak english. I used to have an english version of the game and the storyline was difficult to catch. So i translated the whole game. Every dialogue ingame, every briefing. Hell i translated the whole manual. And online it wasn't really a french speaking fest. So i asked the player to explain it to me. I played Starcraft with a dictionnary.
People tends to say video games can't do squat for a child but distract him. And that's not true (ok i might write this at work but you got the point).
When life was difficult i just played. I dreamed about this game. I was thinking about strategies all the time when i was travelling back or from school.
I met a lot of people online and some of them are close friends today. When i started playing Starcraft II it wasn't quite the same. The game was good but something was missing. The ultimate controls of each units and even if the hype was good... It was just not Brood War.
When i watch matches online i'm sometimes screaming behind my TV (yes i watch it in my couch and not behind my computer...) "What are you doing ! " "Go back now !! " "Oh my god that's so beautiful". I sometimes rage because the player that i chear for lost.
My relationship with Brood War last for more than 12 years for now. It's even longer that my longest "love relationship" (ok i'm not that old but still).
Starcraft Brood War is just so full of emotion, of fun, of everything. Yeah. For me. Brood War is everything.
On September 28 2011 20:20 aimaimaim wrote: I Love Brood War but I don't really know why.
It's maybe because of it's simplicity, it's dedicated players or just simply because it's the game I've been playing from the time I knew what a Desktop is to owning one. Many games I have known before Brood War, and many after. But Brood War is the game that I'll always be playing. I don't know. It's kinda like taking a bath. You actually don't need to take a bath, but it feels good to take a bath.
i started playing sc around 2002/2003 and i still love to see dragoons die. i once started the editor just to place ~300 dragoons and kill them with nukes :>
People are talking a lot about the game itself and progamers and those are important to me, too, but the community that I felt in this game was like nothing I'd ever experienced.
In 2001, the GameFAQs message board was where I visited to learn about low level Final Fantasy 3 playthroughs or a new hacked rom version to test your abilities. I had always had a soft spot for BW and picked it up randomly out of my bin, installed and went on the gfaqs BW board to see what I could learn to be awesome at the game. The gfaqs community had a channel called BSB and from then on I had no other life. I gave up all my shitty friends I had started high school with, thought about BW at school and came home and played as long as I could. I remember I didn't hang out with one person outside of school during my second year of high school and I couldn't have been happier. I could always count on 5 or 6 people to be in BSB and we would play together for hours. I got to know many of them very well and they were great friends to me at the time when talking to people I didn't know in person was a helpful personal experience. We made websites, hosted tournaments, used the ban hammer in channel a lot, made a yearly holiday commemorating a favorite in house player and we even had a comic series full of inside jokes. I learned about the delicate play that normal resource maps brought to the game and heard of the fact that there were pro players (no replays, yet!). Watched VODs when I could (but I was playing on a 28.8 modem!) and read battlereports.com over and over again. Once I finally saw the tvt replay of boxer locking down those battlecruisers I think I knew that my life would be different. I was absolutely fascinated by the skill. BSB ended up churning out more than a few really great players and I consider many of the people I talked to over 10 years ago friends today. Amazing!
Professional gamers are the reason the game itself is incredible. The most magical aspect of the sport is that style and personality can be seen in play by the discerning viewer and the game rewards viewers for knowing about the players, tournaments and the game itself. Being excited by an ongoing challenge is one of the greatest things that life has to offer and BW always has more to offer the curious mind. There's no skill cap so there's no end to the drama. I am great at picking up hobbies, learning how to be better than average within a short time and then giving up on them because they no longer excite or fascinate me. BW has always been fascinating and will never cease exciting.
As for personal play, I don't think I'd ever been so nervous in my life as when I would play BW tournaments back in the day with my friends from BSB. Especially if we traveled to other channels to compete! I didn't want to let the BSB name down and played as hard as I could (and still play terribly! hahaha). I remember something called Rose Ladder on useast. I remember signing onto gamei and being too afraid to actually play. I remember translating the WGTour registration page from French and posting it up for everyone I knew to sign up and start playing. I remember that manner was/is important in this game. I remember attending a WCG regional event and almost taking a game off a known player in a long match on Gaia (I'll never forget this!) I remember having to submit replays for every match won on wgtour. I remember playing a progamer on pgtour and dying to a dt drop but I couldn't have been more honored in my life. I remember that over 10 years after I first started playing BW competitively I was on stage at the OSL finals in Seoul congratulating Jangbi and a dream had been fulfilled. Hardly anything gives me more satisfaction than this game.
I love Brood War because it was game that me, my brother and my sister could play. Because of all the lans me and friends shared. Because it was game that I could compete against older and stronger people than me and win against them.
I love it thanks to watching Nal_Ra play. This guy not only had some really good sim city, but he considered whole map as his main base. I mean there was stuff everywhere. What a sick baller.
Brood war is such a great game. I got into it from SC2gg, though I'm not an amazing player in the least, the sweat and blood and hardship that is displayed in the game, whenever i see brilliant play from flash. it just makes me so damn happy and in awe of things that took years to accomplish.
I lost so much interest in BW when I found out about the Savior cheating scandal (he was by far my favorite player). I don't think it'll be the same to me =/
I love Brood War because of Jaedong`s mutas against Iris. Because of Jangbi`s storms against Nada. Because of GGPlay dark swarms agains Iris. Because of Boxer`s x3 bunker rush against Yellow. Because of Firebathero`s dance against Savior. Because of Much`s pylon heart against Firebathero. Because of Tempest Dragoon against Light. Because of Flash`s...Because of Flash. Because of Bisu.
Because I am it and it is me. Because my entire life can easily be seen reflected in this game I've played for my whole life. Bad actions, good actions, memories, the best of them and the worst are all tied together in Brood:war. Dead friends, live friends, best friends everyone I've ever known or loved has known BW because of me. I love Brood War because I am it and it is me.
i love brood:war because the boys who lost at the lan party instantly after a 20 min no attack phase in the beginning. because its intense to watch the pros. because in 1998 i started with the campain on my friends pc. did not had my own one. Because my Brother with 7 years loved to play it on lan. And now with 15 nearly 16 he hates sc2 because of loosing on ladder because of my GF she loves these cute bugs
I love BW because its given me some of my best memories with my friends. I remember getting pissed and stomping Troy when he broke the 10 minute NR, i remember the epic 45 minute PvZ on destination between my friend Christian and I. I remember the big derpy Free for alls on hunters when i commanded Chris to go SK and he won even though i stormed so many marines. I remember every single reaver drop ive ever done. (they were all awesome) I remember the epic defences and the totally full of fail offences. I remember Borna proxy two raxing my ally. I could go on, but the point im getting at is that its amazing fun, both to watch and to play. I have to go, but ive gotta throw in when me hazy and chris were watching the OSL finals between lash and JD, when JD did that speedling timing attack against Flash's marines... OMG
On September 28 2011 22:54 Liquid`Sheth wrote: Because I am it and it is me. Because my entire life can easily be seen reflected in this game I've played for my whole life. Bad actions, good actions, memories, the best of them and the worst are all tied together in Brood:war. Dead friends, live friends, best friends everyone I've ever known or loved has known BW because of me. I love Brood War because I am it and it is me.
I know in general its not encouraged to do this.
But I'm giving this post a QFT.
So true in its essence. BW is more than a game. It is a lifestyle. It is its own culture.
I love Broodwar because it breaks through the limits of my imagination. Reality rarely surprises one's imagination. "you can't script something better than this!" Broodwar delivers that regularly. It's not every game, it's not even 10 games, but you know it's coming, you know it will deliver, you just don't know when. Reach V Flash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbJqPi9EtXk&list=FL_c8bX3-bcAjQ979Ce19DUA&index=27) Everyone's thoughts said Reach was DEAD, but he shows that his training, his ability, his game sense, is far superior to my imagination. Everyone thought flash was dead after, but he shows you that his game sense, his planning is still beyond your wildest imagination. I love Broodwar because it lets me dream bigger, it makes me realize that there are people out there who it able to do something that even in my wildest imagination, was impossible.
On September 28 2011 22:54 Liquid`Sheth wrote: Because I am it and it is me. Because my entire life can easily be seen reflected in this game I've played for my whole life. Bad actions, good actions, memories, the best of them and the worst are all tied together in Brood:war. Dead friends, live friends, best friends everyone I've ever known or loved has known BW because of me. I love Brood War because I am it and it is me.
I'm a lover of SC2, I don't want to seem biased. But there's just something that seems so much more beautiful in a SC:BW game. Maybe the players are better or the game is just that much more developed, but for those important matches I'm just a little bit more excited than for the big SC2 tournaments.
For me the game that really turned me from being someone who just watched it to someone who wanted to watch every big game and was excited for every big tournament was the Korean Air OSL from 2010, Flash vs Effort. The unstoppable machine that was flash vs Effort, a good player, but a guy who hadn't really won anything, hadn't gotten far enough to really immortalize his name in the annals of broodwar history.
By all accounts this was flash's OSL. He was on fire. Dominant in every matchup, a monster of 'Best ofs', four losses in his last 30 games, alive in both Starleague tournaments. The only thing was though, one of those losses, the most recent one, had come against Effort. There was a chink in the Ultimate Weapon's armor.
The tournament starts with massive fanfare, it's being held in a massive Aircraft hangar packed with screaming fans. The upstart Effort is lowered down from the ceiling in an aircraft crane. Spectacular. Then the hangar doors open up. A jumbo Korean Air jet rolls up and the door opens and out pops the Ultimate weapon. The players march up through the raucous crowd, effort first followed by Flash, while the commentators and screaming fans echo in the background. Then the games begin.
Effort looks well prepared. An unorthodox 2 base 4 hatch Muta build that flash can't has him on the ropes. In unflash like fashion he loses a valk. Then.... lag into pause. The refs confer and a regame is called. Apparently flash's screen went black and he lost the valk. Lots of drama and controversy in the LR thread. Effort's preparation was all for naught. Flash comes back in the regame and wins the next two games looking completely omniscient while doing so. The chink in his armor has disappeared, and with one game away from elimination, it looks like Effort's journey ends here.
Game 3 looks a lot like game 2. Flash going MnM, moves out onto the map, but this time effort is ready with lots of lings and his third is nicely hidden. An absolutely beautiful ling surround (this was much harder to do in BW) and effort kills off Flash's push rather nicely. A hard switch to mutas by effort that Flash isn't prepared for start wrecking Flash. The Ultimate weapon ggs. Series goes to 2-1. Winning two more in a row is still going to be ridiculously hard to do.
Game 4. Flash's scv moves out early... towards the center of the map. The ripe odor of cheese weighs heavily in the air. But, hark, what this way comes? An overlord, from Effort? Yes, yes it is. Effort's miracle starsense tells him that flash is going to cheese him this game, and as his overlord reaches the center, flash cancels his second barrack. Gas goes up at home for Flash, follow this up with mech. A flood of lings from effort head towards flash's base. Flash micro manages to repel them.
Flash throws up a starport, still slightly mysterious as to what effort is doing. Effort manages to squeeze a ling into Flash's base and scouts the starport. HUGE. Hydra Den goes down and sunken comes up just as vulture gets to efforts base and he's able to repel. Vulture drop inc. Hydras are waiting, this should be cake for Effort to hold. Somehow flash is able to kill three drones, despite the hydras. 2 dropships out now for Flash and a switch back to bio. Still no expo. Double drop all in time. Effort moving out with his hydras, but spots the drop. He retreats and holds, not losing too many hydras and cleaning up most of the MnM. He follows it up with a huge amount of lings and transitions to lurkers. Another Effort ling surround and lurkers rip everything apart. GG. 2-2. It's all down to one last game now.
Effort looks like he's already won. After the first two games it looked to be all over and it showed on his face. Now with the series tied 2-2 its for all intensive purposes a Bo1 and Effort is coming into like he did into game one, full of confidence and ready to win. Flash... looks like flash.
Game 5, 12 hatch gas for Effort, 14 CC for Flash. Greedy flash being Greedy. Ling harass coming, but a bunker is up for flash. Super fast lair from Effort, but more lings coming... Flash doesn't pull SCVs and Effort runs his lings into the main. More lings come to the natural. Nothing is happening for flash, lings camping everything. Flash breaks, GG. The messiah has arrived! Effort takes the OSL finals.
The series may not have had the most epic games in the world, but the drama of it all overshadowed the gameplay. It was truly one of the most epic series I've ever seen and really cemented my passion for SC:BW. Even as the scene seems to be dying I still remain a huge fan of the game and will watch every OSL, MSL (hopefully), SWL, and Proleague finals I can catch. Jangbi vs Fantasy reminded me of what a broodwar finals really is.
On September 29 2011 01:45 SillyPrincess wrote: I love BW because it required skill. Unfortunate they couldn't update the graphics and textures to it...
It requires much greater mechanical skills since Brood War doesn't provide the convenience of the auto-mining and multiple-building select and among other things. In terms of strategy innovation and adapting build orders so that you win is still about the same. Brood War is really great at taking your dexterity to a whole new level.
Brood War to me isn't just a game. It's a way of life. I remember, back in '06-ish that I was so dedicated to become a progamer. I ate, drank and lived of the game. I remember my "own build", the 4rax Marine/SCV all in vs. Zerg on my offrace. I remember how terrible PvP was. I remember how I cheered when Bisu, SaviOr or iloveoov (My favorite progamers for each race) won a game. I remember how I smiled when I first saw Jaedong play. I remember how I raged at Flash, when he cheesed Bisu. I remember how shocked I was when SaviOr got banned from the KeSPA. I remember iloveoov at his prime. I remember those endless nights of playing this game. I remember me getting buttered on ICCup. I remember how fantastic all the races were, compared to in SC2. I remember, when playing as Zerg, being capable of taking my third right when my first base finished. I remember micro-ing my Marines vs those damn Lurkers. I remember the silly Dragoon AI.
I remember Brood War as an experience. As an achievement. As a way of life.
And more importantly, I remember Brood War as a game I could truly call "mine".
Thank you Blizzard, thank you Korea. I owe you both. <3
I love broodwar because the potential impact dimensions you have over the outcome of the game are that diversified that you might get the impression, its independent how long you play it you can always learn more about it. its a never ending fascination
me and macromanagement was love at first sight. i never knew of her existence when i played wc3. shortly after i studied the brilliance of the bisu pvz build, we married.
5-hatch hydralisk and Psi-Storm on siege tanks. 3 Hatch mutalisk and zerglings on the flank. Watching Koreans as if they were kings. These are a few of my favorite things. ^^
I remember my first LAN. it was shortly after TSL1 I was determined not too lose in the first round and bring shame to my household. I stayed up all night practicng my 4 pool. Seriously, i did this.
I finally saw the brackets, i pushed my way through the crowd if 16 or so nerds, (and one girl!) with glee to gander at them. Then there i saw it, my name was across from none of then JF. My dreams were shattered. Just a few short months ago i had sat on the edge of my seat watching him play draco in the finals. full of mixed emotions, knowing i didnt have a chance i opened with a 12 hatch on python. I got killed by a 2 gate rush and gg'd with 2 zealots and 2 probes in my natural, totally out micro'd.
The next game i choose tau cross, and i got to use that 4 pool i practiced so hard. Practice didn't pay off, his scouting probes killed my remaining drones as i frantically tried to kill him before the cannon got up in his mineral line. Shortly after this i gg'd out. Shock his hand, and that was my brush with BW fame. After that i got to play many games and made great friends.
if you ever have the chance, go to a LAN. Even if you dont know anyone there, its always ALWAYS a good time.
times like this, are why i love brood war, and it will forever be a part of me.
I have to be honest. I only started getting really Brood War in 2009, when I finally found people in my high school that enjoyed playing Starcraft with me. Those times were the some of the greatest in my life. We always had more than 10 people wanting to get our 4v4s going. We were all so nooby, rushing DTS and Guardians. We all went to college and it began to die off, but my best friend and I stayed on Brood War, and to this day, we still play games weekly, and it has brought our friendship so much closer. We skype during the games because it's just something we share in common. I kind of always wish we could get all 10+ of us to get on skype and have just a crazy 4v4 like in the old days, but college does that to people.
During college, I started really getting into the pro scene, and I dragged my best friend into it and he fell in love with it too. We always competed on who was the best english caster, he would always say Husky and I would say that everyone on Violetak (Diggity, Moletrap, Rise, Cholera, Klazart). I took a goal for myself and that was to be able to get a game on Violetak and be a commentator, and I'll keep that goal, hopefully it'll happen soon.
I love Brood War. I knew I would love Brood War even when Starcraft 2 came out, just because Brood War brought me closer to my best friend, it brought me closer to so many people and the Teamliquid Brood War community, in my opinion, is the best, and I mean THE BEST community I have ever been a part of. Better than League of Legends, Kings of Chaos, Starcraft 2. Again, that is my opinion. I remember asking on streams about what to do since I was so new, and I never got a "lol noob" or anything like that.
I love seeing the massive crowds that Brood War still pulls in. I love the over 5000 viewers during a final match. I love this game because it's the game that is closest to my heart. I wouldn't stay awake until 530am for a finals, or 2am for a match with not even my favorite teams. I promise I'll be casting when I have the time. But nothing is like Starcraft Brood War.
We're all trying to get better, but even after 15 years, we're still not good enough.
I read this entire thread twice atleast now. All of these stories <3 I love Brood War, since my dad's coworker gave him Vanilla SC, and I got it for my third birthday. Back in '98 I miss using cheats and stuff in campaign. Then my dad told me all about the Koreans playing in real StarCraft tournaments, how they dedicated themselves. I thought it would've been fun back then. We'd watch The Four Kings, dominate and go. Boxer building SKT T1 up from the ground. The Legend of the Fall. NaDa's domination. My dad eventually fell out of it, as did I for awhile. I got back in touch a little bit earlier then I'd joined TL.net Around summer of 2008, I started to watch all those people on VioleTak, mostly Moletrap <3 Since then it's been on and off, and since finding Teamliquid I've caught up on alot of things and I will always support Brood War. Even my girlfriend converted since OSL finals, and ProLeauge Grand Finals <3
I've put so much time into this game over the past 13+ years, be it abusing Power Overwhelming to lolrape 7 computers, or failing miserably over and over on Iccup. Even now, when I don't have as much time available and have seemingly "fallen out" of the Brood War loop, watching the Proleague finals was still just as exhilarating as it always has been.
I discovered the pro-scene in 2008, and I immediately fell in headfirst, staying up for any matches I could. I remember begging my parents to let me stay up until the wee hours of the morning on weekends to watch Proleague or OSL/MSL during the school year. When they went away for a weekend that summer - the weekend that happened to be PL playoffs and MSL finals - I binged on pro StarCraft all weekend, watching every match live on my shitty internet connection.
It's brought me joy, it's brought me heartache. It's brought me utter embarrassment. But most of all, Brood War has given me more entertainment than I could have ever asked for.
isnt there a VOD thread (besides the small VOD thread) that exists? Im in urgent need to watch some BW. even better, Id really like to watch the Iris vs GGplay series!
On October 23 2010 09:37 myopia wrote: bad sentimental blog soundtrack + Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuAGVr-O-3E
With Brood War's future uncertain, and many new people here having never played it, I want to share some small facet of its past. That portion from which I draw my Starcraft heritage.
I first played Brood War sometime around '99. I would've been 12-13 at the time. I leeched off my friends until ~2002, when my parents finally got us a computer/internet good enough to run the game. There were 6 of us, together all through grades 7-12. We'd sit at lunch, playing various face card games and talking play-by-plays of last night's BW session. We had a clan, Mystical Ninjas, on USWest. I can still remember my first bnet account: ProbeRusher[MyN] (yeah I got a few laughs from it). Most of us were awful. We ran a lot of BGH.
For me, Day9 will never top this cast. THIS is the Brood War I know. I clocked a thousand games on this single map over the years. Our matches would often play out just like this cast. I was there: placing hatcheries in seemingly random places. 50 food 10 minutes in. Filling mid with cannons. Getting rushed and begging to be allied. My favorite strat was massing wraiths and ghosts. Why? Because they're COOL.
When we weren't dominating, or getting dominated, on BGH, we'd play UMS. I sifted through hundreds of maps (courtesy of renaka.com), looking for the cream of the crop. Here they are, for your downloading pleasure:
Archon Tag – In Color Final Fantasy III Magic TG Arena v.Enigma Raccoon City[Beta1.099] Resident Evil Open RPG Test of Terran Perfect 1.0 X-Men RPG Insane Platinum 2
I won't go through a rundown here, just know they were worth my time. Give them a shot if you've got some friends who still play Brood War.
My buds and I, plus my brother and a cousin or two, played consistently up through 2005, then on and off for a few years after that. Win or lose, I've never had more fun from a video game. It was hilarious. It was awesome. It was the greatest game ever made.
“But myopia,” you say, “what about the koreans? And you haven't even mentioned ICCup!” Believe it or not, I had no concept of professional Starcraft until 2009. I remember, years back, hearing about BW themed parades in Seoul, but I brushed it off as asians being asians. I didn't know about ICCup. I found TL looking for information on SC2. The first SC match I ever watched live was Chill V Combat-EX-. Casted games opened up a whole new world. I caught my first pro games thanks to a tipoff from one of my internet music bros (shoutout to jon arbuckle). The strategies I'd never dreamt of, the huge crowds and screaming commentators, it's still a bit surreal to me.
What I'm trying to say here is Brood War had so much going for it as a game, that I loved it for completely different reasons than the hardcore crowd. I sunk a thousand hours of my youth knowing nothing of Boxer, hold lurkers and reaver-shuttle micro. Competition and improving my skills meant nothing to me, Starcraft was all about having a good time with people I knew.
We're all in our twenties now, in college or graduated with careers. At this point in our lives, the less we invest in video games, the better. I don't even have BW installed anymore; I can't play it without my friends. I've got a few of them added on SC2, but it's just not the same. BW occupied a certain time in my life and there's no going back. I don't hate SC2, it just came at a 'bad time' for me. I'll never feel the same way about it. I haven't watched any tournaments so far (though I always check for NonY's results because NonY is awesome). Still,
My forum tabs.
I keep an eye out for cool custom maps.
So here's to Brood War's past, a memorable part of my teenage years. And SC2's future, one that I may never have much of a part in. No hard feelings, Wings of Liberty. You're just not my Starcraft.
On September 29 2011 11:46 DyEnasTy wrote: isnt there a VOD thread (besides the small VOD thread) that exists? Im in urgent need to watch some BW. even better, Id really like to watch the Iris vs GGplay series!
On September 29 2011 11:46 DyEnasTy wrote: isnt there a VOD thread (besides the small VOD thread) that exists? Im in urgent need to watch some BW. even better, Id really like to watch the Iris vs GGplay series!
Why do I love BroodWar? Because nothing brings friends together at 2am to watch live matches and complain/rant/rave/cheer/cry about our favorite players and those who happen to be playing.
the moments of pure ecstasy when you're favorite players pull off the impossible, the moments of intense joy when you're team comes from behind to clench victory, the heartbreak you feel when you see the player you're cheering for slip up and lose. broodwar for me is a roller coaster of emotions every time i watch, something i just cannot get anywhere else. to see what these guys can pull off week after week is mind blowing and pushed me to try and recreate the builds, timings and class that seam almost impossible to achieve. alot of games and alot of viewing have passed and i still get the same satisfaction from watching and playing. that is why i love brood war.
On September 29 2011 11:46 DyEnasTy wrote: isnt there a VOD thread (besides the small VOD thread) that exists? Im in urgent need to watch some BW. even better, Id really like to watch the Iris vs GGplay series!
I mostly play StarCraft 2 now, but anytime I think of my childhood, it's thinking back to those 4+ hour gaming sessions with my friends and my younger brother, trying to see how many computers we could beat, and how many nukes we could launch simultaneously.
Brood War and Blizzard games in general have been a huge part of my life, and are where I have found most of my entertainment outside of regular world things.
I love BW becuase of the epic storylines. Legend of the Fall, Bisu 3-0ing SaviOr, EffOrt's comeback (although I was upset when it actually happened). The fact that these aren't even half of all the storylines speaks volumes about how storied and long lasting BW has been.
I remember the first series I watched was SkyHigh R-AKing Hwaseung Oz. I remember the drama of IdrA becoming the resident badboy of TL and how he was supposed to tear up TSL 2. I remember the first time I watched TL Attack's epside with Sea. I remember my first experience on iCCup, and how much I hated reavers.
I've had friends mock me for passionately watching StarCraft. I've been in arguments with friends for badmouting something I love so much.
Broodwar isn't just another game to me. BroodWar and TL have given me so many great memories, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Do you remember how we first met? It was in a shopping mall, when my bro introduced you to me. We started hanging out, and had tons of fun. You would tell me the epic stories of the wars between the Terran, Protoss and Zerg, and I would listen to them like a child in awe.
Do you remember the LAN parties we had? You never said no and was always there with me with my friends, even if I went on a holiday break. You would wait for me patiently and never complained. And every free time I had, I would accompany you together in my room.
Do you remember how did we parted ways? I'm sorry if I hurt you, but I was really busy with my school work and life. But you didn't cry or gave me the middle finger, that we move on with our own lives.
Do you remember how did we met again in sclegacy.com? It was after I heard that you will have a lil sister soon, but when I saw you in that pimpest plays section, I fell deeply in love with you even more. How could be I such a fool to let you go? Heck, what was I thinking?
Do you remember how hard you were playing to get? I had to get beat down by your exes so hard, I got 2 gate, vulture harass, marine tank contain, stormed, dt'ed, fast wraith, all sort of things. There was a few times I wanted to give up, but I didn't...because I knew you are the perfect one for me.
After three long years, I grown up so much from your hard-to-get games. You thought me how to multitask, do a timing attack, dance and macro, develop my star sense and strike fear into my opponent's hearts from the shadows. But still in the end, I couldn't still win you back.
It was then when I heard the news, that you are sick. Doctors are slowly backing off because they couldn't find a cure, wtf is this? Some kind of a Korean drama? But I ignored it because I didn't want you to see me concerned, and continue to be best friends.
Your lil sister came along then, and to be honest she's isn't even half of a woman compared to you. But to be fair, she's so young and still have room for improvement. I also see a future with her, but with uncertainty.
But know this BW, I'll never forget all the great times we had and have through these 13 years. We have our ups and downs, I met new friends because of you too. And never forget the movies we watched together, like the "Terminator vs Aliens" series and when the Storm God broke his curse. Those were really great movies huh :'D
This friendship I will treasure, forever and ever, always. You're always the best love I ever had no matter what, remember that.
I <3 broodwar because I've grown up playing it. I <3 the complexity of every unique match. I <3 watching pro games because I feel like im watching an epic battle of intelligent space aliens. I <3 how balanced the entire game is. I <3 the cutthroat reactions and decisions it forces players to make I <3 the feeling of watching a BAMF like Nal_rA load a game Ultimately I <3 the beautiful mosaic of a starcraft game
On September 29 2011 18:22 ragnasaur wrote: I <3 broodwar because I've grown up playing it. I <3 the complexity of every unique match. I <3 watching pro games because I feel like im watching an epic battle of intelligent space aliens. I <3 how balanced the entire game is. I <3 the cutthroat reactions and decisions it forces players to make I <3 the feeling of watching a BAMF like Nal_rA load a game Ultimately I <3 the beautiful mosaic of a starcraft game
Dude which world do you come from ? things at your world sounds fun.
On September 29 2011 11:46 DyEnasTy wrote: isnt there a VOD thread (besides the small VOD thread) that exists? Im in urgent need to watch some BW. even better, Id really like to watch the Iris vs GGplay series!
You just became my least favorite poster ever.
awww cmon dont be like that. You can point be to Iris vs GGplay? :p
On September 29 2011 11:46 DyEnasTy wrote: isnt there a VOD thread (besides the small VOD thread) that exists? Im in urgent need to watch some BW. even better, Id really like to watch the Iris vs GGplay series!
You just became my least favorite poster ever.
awww cmon dont be like that. You can point be to Iris vs GGplay? :p
On September 29 2011 11:46 DyEnasTy wrote: isnt there a VOD thread (besides the small VOD thread) that exists? Im in urgent need to watch some BW. even better, Id really like to watch the Iris vs GGplay series!
You just became my least favorite poster ever.
awww cmon dont be like that. You can point be to Iris vs GGplay? :p
Fuck giving a heartfelt, sentimental response--Brood War is the manliest fucking game ever. Massive figurative balls of steel are not just mandatory--they're the essence of this game. Brood War is like an endless epic battle between ninja pirate berzerkers and mechanical shark-bears on crack--everything from marine vs lurker micro *SSHH AWWW YEAAH TATATATATATA*, mutalisk micro mercilessly raping the crap out some pathetic worker line, bottom-lip-bitingly intense reaver shuttle CONTROLLLLLL RIBORIBORIBORIBORIBORIBORIBO--scarabs decimiating everything, mine surrounds--MINE DAEBAK WAAAAAA PSIONIC STOOOORM that makes Thor look like a pussy, inducing a collective orgasm in the crowd and commentators and the hordes of fans, DAT MACRO when a fucking massive army from hell destroys everyone and their grandma. When you play BW, you don't cry like a bitch, you put on a Jaedong-esque death stare and destroy everything in 20xx (or at least aspire to while struggling like the noob you are on ICCup).
I'm going to post why I love BW, although I've started following it closely since the last MSL games that Flash won, I still enjoy it a lot.
They are very specific and minor details but what I really enjoy so far are two things:
1) The phases of the game: Terran goes Factory FE, with a bunker in front, Toss comes with Dragoons and I assume attacks it with range upgrade, T tries to get a tank, gets it, sieges it, and P has to retreat, and the game enters into a whole different phase. I really love that, it's awesome. 2) After a progamer makes a big mistake or loses a whole ton of his army, the camera shows him trying frantically to fix the situation and make the right call. While doing that, you see his hands and shoulders move a lot, indicating that he is really using his mouse like crazy all around. (I saw this from Flash against Jangbi, and I really loved that aspect. Jangbi plays like he's stoned with a creepy smile on his face so I don't know how he reacts to that situation ) I enjoy this a lot, really cool.
i got into brood war after seeing nal ra demos and vods of reach destroying boxer in osl 2002 :D still loving reach, still dreaming he can come back and win another OSL :>
think brood war must be the first video game (and probably only game) to transcend into a real life sport.
I was really young when SCBW came out (4 years old, to be exact). I played RTS games when I was younger, but now that I'm really into SC2 and the esports scene, I love watching brood war matches. I've even bought brood war, and I play it on occasion, although I'm terrible. But playing it myself, and watching brood war matches (and documentaries like "Hyungjoon becomes a progamer") has left me with nothing but respect for SC:BW and everyone who played it on a professional level. It's such a difficult game to master, I love seeing people play it on the highest level.
There were 3 main points which made me fall in love with bw at the beginning. 1 - TvT replay of SlayerS_'BoXeR' vs "don't remember who it was actually" 2 - FPVOD of IntotheRain (i did not believe what i saw) 3 - watching sYs(DUNE) playing live in Prague (i think it was 2001). The first time i realized what does the real apm when playing bw look like.
I have played SC vanilla since it came out. I had to buy additional 12MB RAM memory to be able to play it without lag. I mean this has to be love, if you play the same game for that long.
SC:BW for life. How I got into it? Zelda 64 Madness and Starship Trooper. Oh the simple UMS from back in the day... If anyone has Shadows RPG map still (it was like a 5 player, infintely long, each hero had 3 upgrades, simple RPG from back in the day, story line not those open RPG ones) LET ME KNOW. I played COUNTLESS hours like 5-6 hours with friends trying to beat that game (never did)... I NEED THAT MAP BACK!
Because all the Broodwar units just feel so strong. I play SC2 for several reasons, but when I go back to Broodwar, it just amazes me how good all the units feel. I can't even begin to describe the pleasure of using Dragoons after the travesty that is the Stalker.
Because of the history. Broodwar has 10+ years of progaming history. I can remember watching games in computer class in highschool in 2002-03, and remember the game developing, how everything felt so big when it happened. I remember taking a break for a year, coming back in 2006-07, seeing Savior's absolute bonjwa dominance and thinking to myself "so it was Zerg that was the best race." I thought BW was done, solved, and Savior had proven Zerg to be the best. Yet we're still here, 2011 going on 2012, and people are still playing. The game is entirely different from 2006-07. Savior from then would find himself entirely outclassed, lucky to win a game off the top 5 in the world in a bo5 now.
Because of these , I have never seen other professional sports man thank their mom , its either their coach or team mates . But xellos he is the best , I think we lost a lot of charismatic players in the shift to mechanic players , GoRush,Themarine,Nalra,Boxer and Yellow hell they made broowar so damn interesting .
Though they may not exist playing in proleague or msl anymore they will forever be reminded by their fans for the entertainment they gave us .
I do hope one day , I can make my parents proud of me , I really am going to work hard to make them proud .
because of the hype. i'm still new to bw but even just watching games i dont understand, the hype feels so far apart from anything you can feel from sc2.
i didnt feel the same watching mvp vs top, compared to jangbi vs fanta. the latter was just a lot more....heart-wrenching and exciting
On October 11 2011 21:58 Sawamura wrote: Because of these , I have never seen other professional sports man thank their mom , its either their coach or team mates . But xellos he is the best , I think we lost a lot of charismatic players in the shift to mechanic players , GoRush,Themarine,Nalra,Boxer and Yellow hell they made broowar so damn interesting .
Though they may not exist playing in proleague or msl anymore they will forever be reminded by their fans for the entertainment they gave us .
I'm a super competitive person. When I grew up, I played a lot of sports and my dad always coached me. When high school came I lost interest in baseball and although I still ran cross country and played basketball in some church leagues from time to time, adding in another form of competition wasn't bad at all. That's where Brood War came in.
I'll never forget the feelings I got from Brood War. You all know what I'm talking about. Where you beat that Korean with a really good record or that "known" player, and you know that it was all because of the hard work you've put into the game. I remember the first time I got to D+, C-, C, etc. I was always so happy because I was able to endure all of the frustrating losses (and believe me, there were a ton of them) and was able to grow as a player.
I still remember the first time I hit B-. By then I was only playing Koreans and I went like 13-1 in one day to get from C to B-, and man it felt amazing. Like, everything just clicked. I was playing super, super well and that first time I was able to join the Ladder A-B channel, it was a surreal experience.
And you know, B- against Koreans isn't bad at all. I was really proud of my play and felt really confident playing my style. But I never, ever got cocky....
On a cold day in December of 2009, the new iCCup season had just started. I remember my second game of the ladder I played a Korean Zerg whose name was just random letters. I did my little timing attack that had been working perfectly... only to get it shut down. The Zerg ended up going 3 Hatch Muta into 5 Hatch Hydra. His Muta control was amazing and he picked off all my HT's with ease to the point where he just easily won by attack moving his Hydralisks over my bridges on Destination.
That Zerg was a pro-gamer (at the time, of course) by the name of Luxury. And ever since that, my attitude towards the game changed. I no longer viewed myself as good because compared to the Korean pros, we're all bad. There's no reason to go around bragging about your play because there's always someone out there who can completely smash you. That's not to say that you can't be happy with success - that's perfectly fine - but never start to get content with your play, always work on improving on something.
Of course I've made so many friends over this game and have talked about so many random subjects (girls, religion, etc.) that it just means so much to me.
I really, really hope that SC2 can fill this role some day. Only time will tell.
On September 02 2011 23:41 XsebT wrote: Never has a loss felt so bad, never has a win felt so satisfying.
While that remains true for me, today I can also say that never have I lost a game before it lost me. In these dark ages of Brood War, one can only hope for its renaissance. Brood War forever - the one game.
I missed out on so much as a BW fan. I got into the game/sport abouut a year and a half ago when I stumbled onto some old youtube VODs because I remembered a friend mentioning the "massive Korean Starcraft scene". I had no idea. Then I found Nuke got totally sucked into the pro-scene. Once that was beginning to fade I quickly began falling in love with the foreign scene. It gives me hope to see BW refusing to die. It truly is excellent!
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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*
I love Brood War because you truly see and appreciate the mastery of the game.
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.
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:
I love it simply because the game is amazing. I enjoy the proscene but I never followed it in a hardcore way, knowing stats or even watching regular season games.
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.
I have never met a game as complicated as broodwar and that I mean in terms of the need to use your brain to create strategy on the fly and to manually create soldiers all depending on how fast you were in selecting your building or hotkeys however that doesn't mean you can win all engagements just because you are good at macroing . Players who have 1/2 the amount of the armies you have would divide your superior army in to smaller pockets of army and destroy what was once a big army .
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 .
I love bw because its the one thing i miss now that i can't play games at a competitive level. W3, meh, cs 1.6 :/, smash brothers ahh well, halo no big deal, but the inability to be anywhere near my old level at bw brings me far closer to tears than i want to admit. 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.
I love Brood War because it will never die. 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.
Just like many i started the original sc when i was young, even before i realized what the name of name of the game was or even what the hell i was doing in this (particularly fun game)
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
I love Pro Brood War because it is SO good. Beyond the perfect ballance, beyond the great strategies and mind-games,beyond the very game itself, there were always the players. Though most of them would never achieve much or rise to much fame, they always had a face (if you worked enough at it) they were never just faceless Koreans. They were people, with personalities and drama, and I loved living alongside that. Oh how BW has tought me SO much about a completely different (Korean) world, and made me love it so passioinately, I don't think any sport could compare.
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
This seems like a good place to leave my response to the topic of best matchup in BW:
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.
Wow .... I read through the first 7-8 pages and this last page.
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.
I don't just love broodwar for the korean scene or matchs! I mostly love BW because of all the memories and how great the game is in general. Like everyone that has played this game for years and years must of had many great memories playing it with friends. I've got like 1000 of stories from my BW time that is amazing and hilarious and filled with drama. Like Starcraft will always be in my life no matter what i do. That's pretty much why i love this game.
I love it because it's so difficult to master! I admire the dedication and skill korean progamers possess when it comes to BroodWar. Just to be good at the mechanics takes a lot of effort, but on top of that executing elaborate and micro-intensive strategies perfectly while playing mind games with the opponent is just mind-boggling!
I got into broodwar after playing SC2 so sorry if my reasons are noobish. First thing that i loved about bw was "wtf, no deathball vs deathball battle, sweet!". Then i got to see firebathero's first person in-game view and was mesmerized (also dizzy) by how fast these guys are. Suddenly sc2 pros looked like clowns, lol. And then i started watching Sayle's casts and became a Khan fanboy though he doesn't seem to like grape, brave and bisu that much? Sayle quickly became my favorite caster because you can tell he's genuinely excited about the game, no cheap commercial hype and his objective unbiased view on the game balance makes a lot of sense. I think broodwar is the most demanding game skill and practice wise and it shouldn't die out in favor of easier games. Also hope Sayle will keep casting, grapes just wouldn't taste the same
i just love broodwar. Words fail me to explain how i feel. I can agree to everything you guys said here( that i read) and there is still probably more. But certain stuff about the brilliance of broodwar just became clear to me when i started playing it again after playing sc2 for a good deal of time. In BW i always know why i loose or win, in sc2 i sometimes don't. its either the perfect vortex or it isnt. The rest of the game nearly doesnt matter. In sc2 30 minute games are often decided by a split second mistake. I love about BW that it rewards the better play in the course of the whole game much more. I love that the usage of certain units is more fun and challenging. Compare a reaver with a Colossus. Or a Carrier with a tempest. I love that strategy is actually deeper and that the game is less volatile on pro level. The better player just wins more often then in sc2. But thats just striking to me from comparing the games. It's about what i love about BW for me and not about what sc2 falls short off. At least not anymore though it bugged me a long time.
There is nothing much left to say, everyone else has already given their reasons why BW was such a fantastic game. So I will leave this here, for everyone to think about it:
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