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HeidstroM
Profile Joined December 2010
England33 Posts
March 14 2011 20:38 GMT
#1
I've been having real trouble ever since the release of SC2 deciding on which race to play. Lately, I've been switching alot between Protoss and Zerg as I try and find the race which suits me best. (I've definitely ruled out Terran, I hate that race with a passion.) I have been getting really frustrated with myself, as I keep promising to stick to one race to practice and get good at, but then I'll see a cool play in a GSL game from HuK, Fruitdealer or another god like figure in their respective race and switch right back.

So my question to you is, why do you play the race you play? Hopefully if I hear some reasons that I can also relate to, I will finally choose a race and be done with it. Maybe even Terran. Thanks.
IvanJoukov
Profile Joined March 2011
France31 Posts
March 14 2011 20:39 GMT
#2
Cause I have no self esteem.
lagbzz
Profile Joined September 2010
Poland171 Posts
March 14 2011 20:40 GMT
#3
I love creep and zerglings, even though they die like no tomorrow ^__^
Let us divine :D
TSM
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Great Britain584 Posts
March 14 2011 20:40 GMT
#4
On March 15 2011 05:39 IvanJoukov wrote:
Cause I have no self esteem.


very very good

i play zerg because i got to the high levels playing it, my other races are really bad
The person to smile when everything goes wrong has found someone to blame it on - arthur bloch **** tl:dr *user was banned for this post*
Stropheum
Profile Joined January 2010
United States1124 Posts
March 14 2011 20:41 GMT
#5
Because I'm a masochist
decaf
Profile Joined October 2010
Austria1797 Posts
March 14 2011 20:42 GMT
#6
I like playing zerg because I find the other races boring. Nothing fancy about mindlessly doing build X. Zerg is way more challenging in my opinion.
Tim17
Profile Joined January 2011
France39 Posts
March 14 2011 20:42 GMT
#7
Cause i want to use iEchoic's build against ivanjoukov.
Zystra
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom79 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-14 20:43:07
March 14 2011 20:42 GMT
#8
I also hate terran with a passion which is why I take great pleasure at destroying them with an invincible deathball or warp storming their mineral line.
eXwOn
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada351 Posts
March 14 2011 20:43 GMT
#9
Terran. Just an old schooler from SC1. I was on a team many years back and they needed terran players when I first joined. I found the micro intense, and trained extremely hard. From that I developed a personal attachment to terran that I couldn't leave.

Sorry to hear you have a vendetta against terran :'(
#2 in the world on the ladders!!! 3.31.11 :D:D:D
dthree
Profile Joined March 2010
Australia150 Posts
March 14 2011 20:43 GMT
#10
Other races are too slow
TheTenthDoc
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States9561 Posts
March 14 2011 20:43 GMT
#11
I used to play P but switched to T because P was the same thing every game. The variety of choices I have as a Terran player is great, I'll gladly trade the Colossus (my favorite unit) for that.
MrMotionPicture
Profile Joined May 2010
United States4327 Posts
March 14 2011 20:43 GMT
#12
I play Terran. because that is what I played in Broodwar.
"Elvis Presley" | Ret was looking at my post in the GSL video by Artosis. | MMA told me I look like Juanfran while we shared an elevator with Scarlett
Vipsanius
Profile Joined February 2011
Netherlands708 Posts
March 14 2011 20:44 GMT
#13
I started playing terran, then switched to protoss. Whenever I was toying with Zerg and returned to protoss, I noticed my macro improved a lot. Switched back and forth a few times, but I roll Zerg as my main race.
Jermstuddog
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States2231 Posts
March 14 2011 20:44 GMT
#14
Oldskool love from BW. Zerg was always my favorite, even though I thought Terran was better.

Go figure that it's the same shit in SC2.
As it turns out, marines don't actually cost any money -Jinro
naggerNZ
Profile Joined December 2010
New Zealand708 Posts
March 14 2011 20:44 GMT
#15
I play Zerg because it is the weakest race, therefore even if I lose I'm still better than my opponent because they only beat me due to exploiting imbalance.
Rob28
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada705 Posts
March 14 2011 20:44 GMT
#16
I started with terran because I played through the single player first, but switched to toss after a few weeks because it's what I played in BroodWar. If I could go back in time, knowing what I know now about toss, I'd have gone zerg instead of specializing in a race that's boring as hell and contantly being nerfed (but I won't go into an imba argument here).

IMO terran is a cop out race. Remember that sceenshot of Idra demanding that his opponent apologize for playing as protoss because he thought winning with them is not winning with skill? That's how I feel about terran now.
"power overwhelming"... work, dammit, work!
Masq
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada1792 Posts
March 14 2011 20:45 GMT
#17
Played zerg in broodwar and I hated ZvT so I switched to Terran for SC2 beta.

HowSoOnIsNow
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada480 Posts
March 14 2011 20:46 GMT
#18
I played Zerg because of SaviOr and July back in Brood war and just because i though that the mechanic of the race was really based on timings and rhythm, being a musican, it always help. Though, i got so fed up with defiler play and just the simple fact of playing a zvz that i switch to terran.

Now, in SC2, i play Zerg, i find that ZvZ is actually fun. It takes more effort to learn Zerg and i like that for a fact. I find them also visually more interesting.
Real mens play Zerg.. Startale fighting.
Scorch
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Austria3371 Posts
March 14 2011 20:46 GMT
#19
Zerg has superior style and flavor. The way zerglings engulf the enemy, how the map gets infested by creep, so many banelings, the overall artistic design of the race. From a gameplay point of view, you have to play more intelligently and reactively than with the other races. I always feel like an underdog, which makes every won battle that much more rewarding.
DystopiaX
Profile Joined October 2010
United States16236 Posts
March 14 2011 20:46 GMT
#20
Tried out all 3 races, thought Protoss was the most fun.
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