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Kim_Hyun_Han
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Bash
Finland1533 Posts
I must have watched this intro like a million time . | ||
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ooni
Australia1498 Posts
To avoid confusion, this isn't analogy of ppl's thoughts between SC1 and SC2; this video was made before SC2. I really enjoyed Wc2. It was quite fun, I do not miss the old mechanics, it was just bad. Will we be thinking about SC this way in the future? Guess we will find that out in 15 years time. | ||
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PhilGood2DaY
Germany7424 Posts
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JohannesH
Finland1364 Posts
On March 21 2010 19:27 ret wrote: sc2 is sad compared to most of these games, so unchallenging i have to force myself to play cuz 'everyone else is doing it'. yeah I wish there was big playerbases for non-Blizzard rts's too... Theres some really good ones but if you cant reliably get games vs good players gameplay cant completely make up for that. | ||
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Tracil
Australia505 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.abandonia.com/files/games/216/NetStorm%20-%20Islands%20at%20War_8.jpg) Pipe dream mixed with tower defence, and a totally awesome win condition- sacrificing an enemy priest to your evil gods! It's totally another APM-dependant game, since the whole thing is about how much better you are at building bridges than your opponent. >.> | ||
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floor exercise
Canada5847 Posts
On March 21 2010 22:19 JohannesH wrote: yeah I wish there was big playerbases for non-Blizzard rts's too... Theres some really good ones but if you cant reliably get games vs good players gameplay cant completely make up for that. AoX is what happens to non bliz games (despite being awesome they die abruptly and even the publishers abandon them) | ||
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Chrispy
Canada5878 Posts
On March 21 2010 19:27 ret wrote: sc2 is sad compared to most of these games, so unchallenging i have to force myself to play cuz 'everyone else is doing it'. Screw SC2, stream some Brood war man! :D :D | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
On March 21 2010 22:28 Tracil wrote: The oldschool RTS that's dear to my heart is Netstorm. Pipe dream mixed with tower defence, and a totally awesome win condition- sacrificing an enemy priest to your evil gods! It's totally another APM-dependant game, since the whole thing is about how much better you are at building bridges than your opponent. >.> woah, is that screenshot the whole map? If so that's pretty cool, reminds me of Rampart which was like a turn based RTS (if that makes sense). | ||
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Tracil
Australia505 Posts
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BaltA
Norway849 Posts
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Navane
Netherlands2748 Posts
On March 21 2010 19:57 ooni wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mxypu9WC8c To avoid confusion, this isn't analogy of ppl's thoughts between SC1 and SC2; this video was made before SC2. I really enjoyed Wc2. It was quite fun, I do not miss the old mechanics, it was just bad. Will we be thinking about SC this way in the future? Guess we will find that out in 15 years time. To avoid confusion, this IS analogy of ppl's thoughts between SC1 and SC2; alltough this video was made before SC2 beta came out, it was posted during heated debates over sc2 MBS when nobody had ever played with it. Netstorm was great. To bad indeed that the real skill needed to win this game was build bridges quickly using only random bridge components  | ||
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ploy
United States416 Posts
On March 21 2010 19:27 ret wrote: sc2 is sad compared to most of these games, so unchallenging i have to force myself to play cuz 'everyone else is doing it'. It's so unchallenging... so why haven't you won anything you've entered? I don't really understand people saying this kind of stuff who aren't that great. More on topic: Does anyone know if KHB is only playing wc2? Is he already done playing sc2? | ||
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d_so
Korea (South)3262 Posts
On April 06 2010 13:14 ploy wrote: It's so unchallenging... so why haven't you won anything you've entered? I don't really understand people saying this kind of stuff who aren't that great. More on topic: Does anyone know if KHB is only playing wc2? Is he already done playing sc2? i don't understand people who mock those that fail at the highest level when they themselves are the peons slurping for leftovers at the high-level strategy table. oooorr in other words stfu | ||
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ploy
United States416 Posts
Wouldn't you think it'd be funny if J.J Reddick said basketball was too easy of a game and only played it for the money? Yea he is in the top 0.01% of all basketball players...but that's not nearly good enough for him to call the game he plays unchallenging. | ||
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d_so
Korea (South)3262 Posts
On April 06 2010 13:28 ploy wrote: Don't get your panties in a bundle man ... you are clearly a great arguer with all the assumptions you make. Ret is much better than me at sc2. However, you don't see me saying it's an easy game. Wouldn't you think it'd be funny if J.J Reddick said basketball was too easy of a game and only played it for the money? Yea he is in the top 0.01% of all basketball players...but that's not nearly good enough for him to call the game he plays unchallenging. actually, you're the one assuming things by 1.) misconstruing the definition of "challenging" as being depenendant on one's ability compared to his/her peers, and 2.) by saying ret called the game "easy" when he never did (Hint: challenging doesn't always mean difficult -- look it up). | ||
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ploy
United States416 Posts
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d_so
Korea (South)3262 Posts
On April 06 2010 14:28 ploy wrote: Trying to fall back on semantics huh? You are something else. What was I thinking assuming that by the use of the word 'challenging' he was implying something that was difficult. After all, he could have meant to halt and prove identity of, or to confront or defy boldly, or to demand as due, or all the other definitions that wouldn't have made sense in that context? As to your first point I'll use an example - In high school I thought batting in baseball was pretty easy, but in college it became pretty damn challenging. I don't want to derail this thread any more and you're slowly bringing me down to your level of idiocy so I digress and am done here. god how blind are you Main Entry: chal·leng·ing Pronunciation: \-lən-jiŋ\ Function: adjective Date: 1842 1 : arousing competitive interest, thought, or action <a challenging course of study> 2 : invitingly provocative : fascinating <a challenging personality> challenging: Listen: US - UK Adapted From: WordNet 2.0 Copyright 2003 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. challenging A adjective 1 ambitious, challenging requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake" 2 challenging, intriguing disturbingly provocative; "an intriguing smile" 3 challenging, thought-provoking stimulating interest or thought; "a challenging hypothesis"; "a thought-provoking book" Overview of adj challenging The adj challenging has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (3) ambitious, challenging (requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake") 2. challenging, thought-provoking (stimulating interest or thought; "a challenging hypothesis"; "a thought-provoking book") 3. challenging, intriguing (disturbingly provocative; "an intriguing smile") HINT: do you see the word "difficult" anywhere? Your personal inferences are your own but don't mistake your misplaced notions for the intent of what someone else is saying. There is no correlation between challenging and your ability to beat the competition, and as such your first post is retarded. He never said the game was easy so your second post is equally retarded. You didn't look up the definition like i told you to do so your third post is also retarded, this time due to misinformation. sorry yo | ||
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FarbrorAbavna
Sweden4856 Posts
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Wargizmo
Australia1237 Posts
Great to see some love for Dark Colony in this thread... I just loved how the aliens had machine guns. Dune 2 was the first RTS I ever got into and I just loved it. I also used to play the Warhammer table top games and I remember thinking how awesome it would be if they came out with a strategy game like Dune 2 but with Orcs, then soon after a friend gave me a pirated floppy disk of Warcraft 1. I remember I was so keen to play I spent an entire afternoon guessing the secret word from the manual they made you type in in order to launch the installer (back in the days when DRM was fun). When Warcraft 2 came out, me and one of my friends would play it directly over the modem, we used to have to sneak in games at 4am because his dad wouldn't let him use the computer. Eventually I ended up getting a thing called the internet and discovering Kali, a multiplayer client which emulated a LAN network over the net, at the time it was the single most awesome thing ever created. Good times, good times. | ||
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