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Scribble
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
2077 Posts
March 28 2011 18:22 GMT
#5581
Wow, the BW trolls are out in force today. My favorite part about all the "SC2 takes less skill" nonsense is that nobody can ever seem to point out how, and nobody can seem to explain that somehow people have gotten better since release...even though the same bs argument was being made during beta.

BW will continue to thrive for a while still. There's no need to feel so threatened that you have to leveraging pathetic insults against its main competition.
GeorgeForeman
Profile Joined April 2005
United States1746 Posts
March 28 2011 18:23 GMT
#5582
This combined with TSL is amazing to watch. I can't wait for the bracketed competition. The Koreans will probably in better form, but I think it's clear that foreigners can at least hang with the Koreans.
like a school bus through a bunch of kids
Monta
Profile Joined September 2010
United States60 Posts
March 28 2011 18:23 GMT
#5583
My favorite part is the Korean flag in the WorldAllStars flag in the OP.


Foreigners Fighting!!
Miefer
Profile Joined March 2011
Taiwan229 Posts
March 28 2011 18:25 GMT
#5584
I played some bw before but not that much like sc2 now. so i am not a expert in bw.
i am really curious what make people think that sc2 need less mechanics than bw?
i mean in bw you didnt have larva inject, creep spread , mules, crono and so on. also the resource managment is quite the same. army control too.
mustache
Profile Joined April 2010
Switzerland309 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-28 18:30:50
March 28 2011 18:25 GMT
#5585
On March 29 2011 03:19 Jakalo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2011 03:01 mustache wrote:
On March 29 2011 02:52 ReachTheSky wrote:
On March 29 2011 02:49 mustache wrote:
sad how dumbed down SC2 is compared to BW. it's not like TT1 is all of a sudden way better or nada way worse.


Thats a silly statement dood. It takes alot of skill to compete. TT1 obviously has skill. Whoever said that TT1 was way better or Nada was way worse?


if a BW pro can scout rush a supposed foreigner pro and win. THAT shows you how much better the koreans pros were in BW.

3 OSL and 3 MSL wins are telling me that nada is the better player. In BW that is. In SC2 its all about who does what strat instead of about needing insane mechanics to pull those strats off. Which is sad because it makes things very "flavour of the week"

TT1 is a great player, but if you honestly think SC2 compares to BW in terms of skill difference between top players then you are just lying to yourself or have no clue about BW.


On March 29 2011 02:54 Jakalo wrote:
On March 29 2011 02:49 mustache wrote:
sad how dumbed down SC2 is compared to BW. it's not like TT1 is all of a sudden way better or nada way worse.


Oh man, this is a new game, its sad you cant get over it already.



I play SC2. I have tons of fun playing and watching SC2. What dissapoints me and what im scared of is that SC2's skill limit will be reached way too fast. I'm not mooning over BW, just sad that SC2 is missing things which made BW great.
a 3x OSl and 3x MSL winning losing to some foreigner is proof to me that the skill levels at the top are too close, and it's not really possible to set yourself apart.


Its useless to stress about things that may or may not yet come true, even worse so when you have no control over it.
You say SC2 is dumbed down, well mechanics are way easier, thats for sure, but game itself is not ''dumber'' in any way.
Yes BW is terrific and I too follow it, but Sc2 has awesome international scene, nothing bw will ever have mostly due to the mechanics.

Also basing it on at the moment low level pro (lets be real) bw switchover player losing in a single game to I dont know how much practiced player (probably more than Nada)...


The game is dumbed down. the strategies aren't. The mechanics are the only real significant change from BW to SC2, and the'yre what sepereted the pros from the semi pros. now that it's so much easier i dont see whats going to seperate them.

I think SC2 could have had the scene it has with more difficult mechanics as well. Blizzard having WoW in its back just gave the company so much more publicity that i think the players would come regardless o fgame difficulty

On March 29 2011 03:22 Scribble wrote:
Wow, the BW trolls are out in force today. My favorite part about all the "SC2 takes less skill" nonsense is that nobody can ever seem to point out how, and nobody can seem to explain that somehow people have gotten better since release...even though the same bs argument was being made during beta.

BW will continue to thrive for a while still. There's no need to feel so threatened that you have to leveraging pathetic insults against its main competition.


I am not a troll, and BW is harder than SC2. that's a simple fact. so BW takes more skill.

If you honestly think im a troll reread what i wrote.

if you really need it spelled out for you heres why broodwar need more skill
-macro, no MBS
-spells, no smartcast
-overkill, you needed better unit control
-controle group sizes

fun or not it was harder. And im not actually sure players got that much better, Blizzard jsut kept patching the game and modling it into the more macro heavy game it is now.

Contagious
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States1319 Posts
March 28 2011 18:26 GMT
#5586
Fire > Fnatic > Koreans
SafeWord
Profile Joined February 2010
United States522 Posts
March 28 2011 18:30 GMT
#5587
Everyone keeps saying SC2 is much easier. Then why is skill gap so close? Why aren't the korean's completely raping?
Who needs players when you have God?
mustache
Profile Joined April 2010
Switzerland309 Posts
March 28 2011 18:31 GMT
#5588
On March 29 2011 03:30 madmandrit wrote:
Everyone keeps saying SC2 is much easier. Then why is skill gap so close? Why aren't the korean's completely raping?


thats why the skill cap is closer...
Ludwigvan
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany2373 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-28 18:35:41
March 28 2011 18:32 GMT
#5589
This has been so epic. I am a bit sad for MorroW that he lost his game and also gets to play MC. But well, the rest of the games have been amazing. TSL and the World finals almost lets MLG look like just another tournament, which it isn't.

Tomorrow hwaiting!

EDIT:
On March 29 2011 03:25 Miefer wrote:
I played some bw before but not that much like sc2 now. so i am not a expert in bw.
i am really curious what make people think that sc2 need less mechanics than bw?
i mean in bw you didnt have larva inject, creep spread , mules, crono and so on. also the resource managment is quite the same. army control too.


I think this is especially because of multiple building selection and army selection. If you have a ton of hatches, or gateways, you have to click every single one, in SC2 you don't even have to look at your base to build them, just use hotkeys. Also the unit pathfinding is much better in SC2. Dragoons need a lot of micro, especially when they try to go through small ramps.
Cathasaigh
Profile Joined April 2010
United States285 Posts
March 28 2011 18:32 GMT
#5590
On March 29 2011 03:25 mustache wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2011 03:19 Jakalo wrote:
On March 29 2011 03:01 mustache wrote:
On March 29 2011 02:52 ReachTheSky wrote:
On March 29 2011 02:49 mustache wrote:
sad how dumbed down SC2 is compared to BW. it's not like TT1 is all of a sudden way better or nada way worse.


Thats a silly statement dood. It takes alot of skill to compete. TT1 obviously has skill. Whoever said that TT1 was way better or Nada was way worse?


if a BW pro can scout rush a supposed foreigner pro and win. THAT shows you how much better the koreans pros were in BW.

3 OSL and 3 MSL wins are telling me that nada is the better player. In BW that is. In SC2 its all about who does what strat instead of about needing insane mechanics to pull those strats off. Which is sad because it makes things very "flavour of the week"

TT1 is a great player, but if you honestly think SC2 compares to BW in terms of skill difference between top players then you are just lying to yourself or have no clue about BW.


On March 29 2011 02:54 Jakalo wrote:
On March 29 2011 02:49 mustache wrote:
sad how dumbed down SC2 is compared to BW. it's not like TT1 is all of a sudden way better or nada way worse.


Oh man, this is a new game, its sad you cant get over it already.



I play SC2. I have tons of fun playing and watching SC2. What dissapoints me and what im scared of is that SC2's skill limit will be reached way too fast. I'm not mooning over BW, just sad that SC2 is missing things which made BW great.
a 3x OSl and 3x MSL winning losing to some foreigner is proof to me that the skill levels at the top are too close, and it's not really possible to set yourself apart.


Its useless to stress about things that may or may not yet come true, even worse so when you have no control over it.
You say SC2 is dumbed down, well mechanics are way easier, thats for sure, but game itself is not ''dumber'' in any way.
Yes BW is terrific and I too follow it, but Sc2 has awesome international scene, nothing bw will ever have mostly due to the mechanics.

Also basing it on at the moment low level pro (lets be real) bw switchover player losing in a single game to I dont know how much practiced player (probably more than Nada)...


The game is dumbed down. the strategies aren't. The mechanics are the only real significant change from BW to SC2, and the'yre what sepereted the pros from the semi pros. now that it's so much easier i dont see whats going to seperate them.

I think SC2 could have had the scene it has with more difficult mechanics as well. Blizzard having WoW in its back just gave the company so much more publicity that i think the players would come regardless o fgame difficulty

Show nested quote +
On March 29 2011 03:22 Scribble wrote:
Wow, the BW trolls are out in force today. My favorite part about all the "SC2 takes less skill" nonsense is that nobody can ever seem to point out how, and nobody can seem to explain that somehow people have gotten better since release...even though the same bs argument was being made during beta.

BW will continue to thrive for a while still. There's no need to feel so threatened that you have to leveraging pathetic insults against its main competition.


I am not a troll, and BW is harder than SC2. that's a simple fact. so BW takes more skill.

If you honestly think im a troll reread what i wrote.

if you really need it spelled out for you heres why broodwar need more skill
-macro, no MBS
-spells, no smartcast
-overkill, you needed better unit control
-controle group sizes

fun or not it was harder. And im not actually sure players got that much better, Blizzard jsut kept patching the game and modling it into the more macro heavy game it is now.



So it's harder because of flawed and outdated mechanics? Ok, I'll take the easier game that isn't harder for the sake of being harder at this point.
This is the tale of Captain Jack Sparrow!
SafeWord
Profile Joined February 2010
United States522 Posts
March 28 2011 18:32 GMT
#5591
But that makes no sense what so ever...Koreans should be able to just win... Plus you judge a game thats been out for not even a year while BW has been out forever.
Who needs players when you have God?
Miefer
Profile Joined March 2011
Taiwan229 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-28 18:38:33
March 28 2011 18:34 GMT
#5592
what are smartcasts? is healing from medivac smartcast?
I dont understand overkill either

@ludwigvan
danke for the explaination
but should these things from bw be in a game from 2010? O mean we cant go back to standars from 10 years ago
papaz
Profile Joined December 2009
Sweden4149 Posts
March 28 2011 18:37 GMT
#5593
On March 29 2011 03:22 Scribble wrote:
Wow, the BW trolls are out in force today. My favorite part about all the "SC2 takes less skill" nonsense is that nobody can ever seem to point out how, and nobody can seem to explain that somehow people have gotten better since release...even though the same bs argument was being made during beta.

BW will continue to thrive for a while still. There's no need to feel so threatened that you have to leveraging pathetic insults against its main competition.


Actually people are pointing it out all the time. Even a player like me that has never played BW understands the "BW trolls" as you put it.

The simplifying of the game mechanics is making it harder to differentiate yourself at the top, aka it takes more "physical/mechanical skill" to play BW.

Not that I agree or anything since I haven't even played BW but just sayin...
12D3
Profile Joined February 2010
United States39 Posts
March 28 2011 18:37 GMT
#5594
--- Nuked ---
GeorgeForeman
Profile Joined April 2005
United States1746 Posts
March 28 2011 18:38 GMT
#5595
smartcast means you click on 10 HT, click "storm" and click on the map and you get one storm instead of 10.

Great day for the Foreigner team! But the 4 players they played were the 4 worst on the international team. I'm still not sure whose going to take games off of NesTea and MVP, let alone Min Chul. It should be extremely interesting. :-)
like a school bus through a bunch of kids
mustache
Profile Joined April 2010
Switzerland309 Posts
March 28 2011 18:40 GMT
#5596
BW has been ou tlonger, and SC2 should have some time to unfold. I'm just doubting that the skill cieling is highenough based on what i've seen. and it's not like the beggining of Bw where everyone sucked. these guys have been playing RTS for the past 10 years and bring a load of experience with them

If the game is easier its easier for everyone to get good, if that's easier then the skill ceiling is lower and the difference between the best players isnt as big, how is that not logical?

smartcasts are that you can select all your templars and click the hotkey for storm, then choose a target and storm only once. if you did that in BW all your templars would cast onto that spot. So you have to control each one individiually.

overkill is when more units attack than are needed to kill the enemy.
for example if you run a zealot against a tank line in SC2 enough tanks to kill the zealot will shoot while the rest dont.

in BW they would all shoot and you could run the rest of your units in while the tanks were on "cooldown"
ParasitJonte
Profile Joined September 2004
Sweden1768 Posts
March 28 2011 18:41 GMT
#5597
Don't you realize that what you're discussing now is a separate thread entirely?

Stay on topic. Discuss the games. Discuss Artosis' and Cella's choices and so on. God...
Hello=)
Trolle
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Sweden227 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-28 18:43:15
March 28 2011 18:43 GMT
#5598
This doesn't seem to be MorroWs tournament. Hope he get a good run in TSL instead. Otherwise, really entertaining bracket with lot's of chances for all the players to go far!
meep meep
Scribble
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
2077 Posts
March 28 2011 18:44 GMT
#5599
On March 29 2011 03:25 mustache wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2011 03:19 Jakalo wrote:
On March 29 2011 03:01 mustache wrote:
On March 29 2011 02:52 ReachTheSky wrote:
On March 29 2011 02:49 mustache wrote:
sad how dumbed down SC2 is compared to BW. it's not like TT1 is all of a sudden way better or nada way worse.


Thats a silly statement dood. It takes alot of skill to compete. TT1 obviously has skill. Whoever said that TT1 was way better or Nada was way worse?


if a BW pro can scout rush a supposed foreigner pro and win. THAT shows you how much better the koreans pros were in BW.

3 OSL and 3 MSL wins are telling me that nada is the better player. In BW that is. In SC2 its all about who does what strat instead of about needing insane mechanics to pull those strats off. Which is sad because it makes things very "flavour of the week"

TT1 is a great player, but if you honestly think SC2 compares to BW in terms of skill difference between top players then you are just lying to yourself or have no clue about BW.


On March 29 2011 02:54 Jakalo wrote:
On March 29 2011 02:49 mustache wrote:
sad how dumbed down SC2 is compared to BW. it's not like TT1 is all of a sudden way better or nada way worse.


Oh man, this is a new game, its sad you cant get over it already.



I play SC2. I have tons of fun playing and watching SC2. What dissapoints me and what im scared of is that SC2's skill limit will be reached way too fast. I'm not mooning over BW, just sad that SC2 is missing things which made BW great.
a 3x OSl and 3x MSL winning losing to some foreigner is proof to me that the skill levels at the top are too close, and it's not really possible to set yourself apart.


Its useless to stress about things that may or may not yet come true, even worse so when you have no control over it.
You say SC2 is dumbed down, well mechanics are way easier, thats for sure, but game itself is not ''dumber'' in any way.
Yes BW is terrific and I too follow it, but Sc2 has awesome international scene, nothing bw will ever have mostly due to the mechanics.

Also basing it on at the moment low level pro (lets be real) bw switchover player losing in a single game to I dont know how much practiced player (probably more than Nada)...


The game is dumbed down. the strategies aren't. The mechanics are the only real significant change from BW to SC2, and the'yre what sepereted the pros from the semi pros. now that it's so much easier i dont see whats going to seperate them.

I think SC2 could have had the scene it has with more difficult mechanics as well. Blizzard having WoW in its back just gave the company so much more publicity that i think the players would come regardless o fgame difficulty

Show nested quote +
On March 29 2011 03:22 Scribble wrote:
Wow, the BW trolls are out in force today. My favorite part about all the "SC2 takes less skill" nonsense is that nobody can ever seem to point out how, and nobody can seem to explain that somehow people have gotten better since release...even though the same bs argument was being made during beta.

BW will continue to thrive for a while still. There's no need to feel so threatened that you have to leveraging pathetic insults against its main competition.


I am not a troll, and BW is harder than SC2. that's a simple fact. so BW takes more skill.

If you honestly think im a troll reread what i wrote.

if you really need it spelled out for you heres why broodwar need more skill
-macro, no MBS
-spells, no smartcast
-overkill, you needed better unit control
-controle group sizes

fun or not it was harder. And im not actually sure players got that much better, Blizzard jsut kept patching the game and modling it into the more macro heavy game it is now.



Congratulations, you pointed out differences.

A human being is only capable of so many tasks at a time. In BW, you correctly pointed out a number of important mechanics that players have to focus on, skill-sets which aren't necessary in SC2. So here's a thought, doesn't that just leave room for other skill-sets to develop?

What I'm getting at, is let's just say the "skill ceiling," the maximum amount of tasks anyone is capable of handling is 400 actions per minute. In BW, you hit your skill ceiling managing these mechanics. In SC2, people will hit it managing other mechanics UNLESS there is no way, mechanically, to play better.

Is that honestly what you're arguing? I'd certainly accept that the skill ceiling for mechanical play is lower in SC2...if you're only talking about base management, but micro? There is absolutely no limit to how much room there is for unit control to improve IN EITHER GAME, but there is a limit to how much a person can physically do. If players are using their hands less for the mechanics you listed, they're just going to find other ways to improve. There's simply no reason why this cannot be the case, and THAT is a fact.

BW does inherently take more skill to be a top level player; it requires DIFFERENT skills.
Sprungjeezy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States1313 Posts
March 28 2011 18:45 GMT
#5600
[image loading]

Best picture of Cella I could find that almost fit the original : /.
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