Relic vs Blizzard, lets show'em [Escapist Vote] - Page 15

Your right. I am too young to have played Starcraft and Warcraft 3. Heck I am downloading a Starcraft Demo right now. But I honestly don't think my age should determine whether or not my post is valid. I can't tell whether that educated post comment is sarcasm or not.

When you say that the number of people playing it after +5 years Definitely correlates with the quality of the game, I agree with you for the most part. But, since relics games haven't stood the test of time, we can't exactly judge them by that. But because of the whole time thing, we can't judge which is better by sales. We also can't judge by reviews, because as standards change, so do reviews scores, and a game that met the standard in 1989, won't meet the standard today. So the only real choice we have for comparing the two is to assume the both have been released at the same time, and judge everything by a perfectly technical standpoint. But this of course, would probably destroy starcraft. While Starcraft may have invented the genre, that does not mean it is the best in the genre. Case in point being Resident evil. It invented the survival horror genre, but Silent hill 2 made it shine. Wolfenstien invented the FPS, but Doom made it popular. Infact, being the first in genre, Starcraft is at a disadvantage, cause it's unable to work out its flaws. Other games have been able to see what work, see what didn't work, put their own spin on it, and improve on starcraft's formula. Maybe Starcraft still continues to deliver to this day. Let me play a quick round in the demo I just downloaded.

*plays game*

Well, that was interesting. It wasn't strategically dead, which was good. I couldn't just walk over there and spam them, which was a plus. Granted that's all I had the energy to do. But I could only select twelve units at any given time, which PREVENTED me from spamming. that said, it's not really all that impressive. The artwork is bad, the animation is bad, and it just doesn't look appealing. There is also no motivation. In DoW your required to go forward to gain resources where as here I had no reason to cause there was a boatload of minerals sitting there behind me. And talk about SPEED. I swear in that game one year equals one second. I would've died if I had waited for that armor upgrade any longer.

So with that quick summary, I conclude: It's overrated. Yes, it may be the most strategically balanced RTS on the market, but I didn't find it fun. Maybe that's cause its ten o clock, or maybe that's cause its only slightly more advanced then graph paper. I don't know. But from my little experience just then, I didn't find it all that fun to play or visually appealing.