Who has had a greater impact on the Protoss race? - Page 10

On May 09 2009 10:48 ragnasaur wrote:
seems like everyone who knows wut they are talking about votes nal_ra over bisu

On May 09 2009 13:33 Kuja900 wrote:


This, its just the mindless fanboys who have only been around for a year maybe are diluting the proper results.

On May 09 2009 10:48 ragnasaur wrote:
seems like everyone who knows wut they are talking about votes nal_ra over bisu

On May 08 2009 13:45 Plexa wrote:
I predict Bisu is going to win this poll, but Nal_ra really should imo

On May 09 2009 15:12 AttackZerg wrote:
MODS

Is there anyway you can sort Join date / voted for?

I still remember watching nal_ra play and thinking "Oh my god that has never been done before".
I think bisu and stork have pushed protoss play beyond its farthest dreams but I believe that once nal_ra entered the scene protoss play changed dramatically (On battle.net and the pro scene)

On May 08 2009 13:45 Plexa wrote:
I predict Bisu is going to win this poll, but Nal_ra really should imo

On May 09 2009 11:50 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:

einstein arguably did just as much, for one, he found one of the extremes at which newtonian physics breaks down. his work on GR with tensor fields / differential geometry was basically the biggest application of that new math too.

On May 09 2009 01:16 jgad wrote:
If Protoss was physics, Nal_Ra would be Einstein, who opened the eyes of the world. Garimto would be Boltzmann, who gave us solid and fresh fundamentals, Bisu Schrödinger, whose probes can be in two places at once, Reach Tesla, who flexed the forces of nature into radical and powerful spectacles, and Stork Oppenheimer, who didn't really revolutionise anything, but who used what was at hand to build a bigger bomb than anyone had seen before.

On May 09 2009 20:18 Plexa wrote:
Also Bisu is probably Niels Bohr

On May 09 2009 13:34 EvilTeletubby wrote:




To answer both of you in the same breath...

Ra's FE builds were not the same as Bisu's by any stretch. If they were, every Protoss would have started using them. Ra was creative in that he was thinking outside the box and trying to create builds which were unique, but to be honest, he just didn't have the success rate with it that would encourage other Protoss users to use the same builds. Yes, Ra would FE, but he would lose a good portion of the time with it too. There wasn't the same follow-up or flexibility as the modern day Bisu build. So it's not really an issue of "Ra did it first, Bisu popularized it" -> Ra never did the same build. Obviously if he did, we wouldn't be debating this.

To the point of modern PvZ vs traditional (2+ years ago) PvZ, yes, modern Protoss is dominated by Bisu's actions. But traditional PvZ has not nearly the same amount of influence from Ra. Yes, again, Ra was creative/ahead of his time, but he did not influence his race as a whole like Bisu did. You wouldn't suddenly see every Protoss copying something Ra did. You DID see that with Bisu. That's influence.