EPTThat being said, there's a campy B-Movie feel to his stories that just feel good if you shut off the front lobe of your brain. You aren't here to be stimulated intellectually, but just to appeal to the baser instincts.
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Takkara
United States2503 Posts
That being said, there's a campy B-Movie feel to his stories that just feel good if you shut off the front lobe of your brain. You aren't here to be stimulated intellectually, but just to appeal to the baser instincts. | ||
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
On July 29 2010 01:34 D10 wrote: Anyone from teamliquid should play only on brutal and never consider tuning it down! wheres your 1337 pride guys ? I have to repeat missions sometimes, because when you dont know the map and etc... brutal can get you offguard and end it right then and there I'm more interested in the story at this point. I usually play games on Normal first so I can breeze through it and enjoy the story and exploration. I figured bumping it up to hard was good enough, and it is. + Show Spoiler + On the mission with the drill it was a pain in the ass to collect the relics, because every time I went off to grab one, the massive air assault came. On hard mode its not that big of a deal, but on Brutal, urgh. I just don't wanna deal with that just yet  | ||
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RifleCow
Canada637 Posts
On July 29 2010 01:31 Bibdy wrote: "Just don't click the television"? Really? Are you Steve Jobs in disguise? It feels really slow. I'm 11 missions in and it feels like I'm just going through the motions unlocking units until eventually, FINALLY, something interesting happens. Whats wrong with not clicking the television? If you don't like something don't watch it. Not like the newscasts are important to the story in any sense. | ||
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Xanrae
Belgium53 Posts
I can't believe Chris Metzen is paid for this. He already implemented his author avatar in the game. Not surprisingly this is the unit that survived all the way despite having no role for 2 years, while units like the soul hunter and lurker were removed for the silliest reasons. | ||
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
On July 29 2010 01:39 RifleCow wrote: Whats wrong with not clicking the television? If you don't like something don't watch it. Not like the newscasts are important to the story in any sense. You only know that AFTER you've clicked them every time. I'm not one of those people that just ploughs through mission after mission without completing all dialogue options. I'm a completionist. Must have taken me 80 hours to get through my first playthrough of Dragon Age. | ||
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zingmars
Latvia189 Posts
As for campaign - it isn't THAT bad. yeah, maybe it isn't that hard as you could expect, but hey, campaign is meant for that. It's not a diamond league or something like that. =] | ||
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Armsved
Denmark642 Posts
I was disapointed in the campaign. The story wasnt very good. The movies in the game sucks major balls, so I didnt feel "rewarded" like in Sc1. I also think the way terran worked in the campaign was a joke, might be because im only used to multiplayer in beta. On the other hand, I loved the news. I found that very entertaining even thou the female reporter should had been fired after the 1st few missions. I mainly enjoyed the protoss mini campaign. EDIT: Also, why didnt they make the ship like and FPS. I mean there were 4 places and you could just click it and you would show up there. The starmap on the bridge would just show 3 planets if you had 3 missions. If they had made it FPS style and the starmap would shown your location and the location of the missions I would feel like I was actually on a ship. The way it is now feels like its just a good looking menu. | ||
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
On July 29 2010 01:43 Armsved wrote: I just stomped it on normal. I pretty much only played for the story and I should be playing on the right dificulty online. I was disapointed in the campaign. The story wasnt very good. The movies in the game sucks major balls, so I didnt feel "rewarded" like in Sc1. I also think the way terran worked in the campaign was a joke, might be because im only used to multiplayer in beta. On the other hand, I loved the news. I found that very entertaining even thou the female reporter should had been fired after the 1st few missions. I mainly enjoyed the protoss mini campaign. EDIT: Also, why didnt they make the ship like and FPS. I mean there were 4 places and you could just click it and you would show up there. The starmap on the bridge would just show 3 planets if you had 3 missions. If they had made it FPS style and the starmap would shown your location and the location of the missions I would feel like I was actually on a ship. The way it is now feels like its just a good looking menu. Well then its just a 3D menu. Just wandering around spending time walking through a ship when all you want to do is use a console and do some upgrades or something. No point adding a 3D FPS section between missions to a strategy game. You'd need a whole different set of controls for walking around and looking about, and for what? If the game was a 3rd-person sandbox adventure, sure. Go for it. But, in this game that's kind of a waste of time and doesn't really fit. | ||
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RifleCow
Canada637 Posts
On July 29 2010 01:41 Bibdy wrote: You only know that AFTER you've clicked them every time. I'm not one of those people that just ploughs through mission after mission without completing all dialogue options. I'm a completionist. Must have taken me 80 hours to get through my first playthrough of Dragon Age. Either way its technically optional. Its a lot better than say, Mass Effect 2 which is supposed to stand only on its single player merits but still forces you to go through hours of scanning and mining planets. The point of the Newscasts is to be ridiculous, its supposed to be surreal and satirical, sort of like the Fallout series. Though it arguably isn't as witty, I feel it does what it aims to do pretty well and frankly theres barely any unenjoyable moments. The SC2 campaign is better than SC1 campaign imo. | ||
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Roniii
United States289 Posts
On July 29 2010 01:28 CurSeD wrote: Having played SC1 campaign just before the release of the sequel, I must say the story and dialogue of SC2 is FAR better. In SC1, the mission are really straight forward, the dialogue, even if they are still good, are less ''profound'' than those in SC2. Now, you are more into the characters and the storyline. Nonetheless, I'm still a fan of the SC1 campaign. yep this is how i feel. i JUST played SC1 original campaign. The story telling in SC2 has a lot more effort put in to it. | ||
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Railz
United States1449 Posts
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
On July 29 2010 01:49 RifleCow wrote: Either way its technically optional. Its a lot better than say, Mass Effect 2 which is supposed to stand only on its single player merits but still forces you to go through hours of scanning and mining planets. The point of the Newscasts is to be ridiculous, its supposed to be surreal and satirical, sort of like the Fallout series. Though it arguably isn't as witty, I feel it does what it aims to do pretty well and frankly theres barely any unenjoyable moments. The SC2 campaign is better than SC1 campaign imo. Chkuh-pyeeeeeeeoooooooooooo....THUNK. Chkuh-pyeeeeeeeoooooooooooo....THUNK. Chkuh-pyeeeeeeeoooooooooooo....THUNK. Chkuh-pyeeeeeeeoooooooooooo....THUNK. | ||
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Mooshrew
United States18 Posts
I went through the entire SC and BW campaign just before SC2 came out, and I gotta say most people who say SC1's campaign is leagues better is either lying to themselves or has put up a massive nostalgia block in their minds. I mean sure, SC1 did some things better, but overall I think both games are on par with each other. I can't wait for the other two campaigns. | ||
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rS.Sinatra
Canada785 Posts
I still love the lore and story line and if you want the non-13 year old version, I suggest you pick up the novels since 90% of you have probably never picked up a book in your life or know how to appreciate quality material literature anyways. A little reading is healthy. | ||
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Armsved
Denmark642 Posts
On July 29 2010 01:48 Bibdy wrote: Well then its just a 3D menu. Just wandering around spending time walking through a ship when all you want to do is use a console and do some upgrades or something. No point adding a 3D FPS section between missions to a strategy game. You'd need a whole different set of controls for walking around and looking about, and for what? If the game was a 3rd-person sandbox adventure, sure. Go for it. But, in this game that's kind of a waste of time and doesn't really fit. But the whole point of it was to make it feel like you were on a ship.. A part of the story, but I just didnt feel it. I felt very distant from the characters in the story and the whole enviroment. You know all the things that are common problems with RTS campaigns that blizzard tried to do somthing about. | ||
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groms
Canada1017 Posts
I'm just wondering if brutal is even that difficult since hard was just....meh. I expected hard to be HARD. Brutal should be fkin unplayable imo. Normal must be a joke and I can't even imagine what easy is.. | ||
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Takkara
United States2503 Posts
On July 29 2010 01:57 groms wrote: Anyone beaten it on brutal yet? I didn't have the balls (or the patience frankly) to even try. I went for hard and cruised my way through although I had a few mistakes here or there that cost me and made me have to restart one or two missions. I'm just wondering if brutal is even that difficult since hard was just....meh. I expected hard to be HARD. Brutal should be fkin unplayable imo. Normal must be a joke and I can't even imagine what easy is.. I'm on Brutal, but only about 6 missions in. Some missions you have to go back and redo some stuff just because you can't always blind counter some things. I had to fix my unit comp sometimes to address what I discovered the enemy has. That's about it, really. It's not too terrible so far, though Scouts are bad news  | ||
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SONE
Canada839 Posts
Prophecy Missons, man were they fun. Best missions in the game imo. | ||
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sikyon
Canada1045 Posts
On July 29 2010 01:57 groms wrote: Anyone beaten it on brutal yet? I didn't have the balls (or the patience frankly) to even try. I went for hard and cruised my way through although I had a few mistakes here or there that cost me and made me have to restart one or two missions. I'm just wondering if brutal is even that difficult since hard was just....meh. I expected hard to be HARD. Brutal should be fkin unplayable imo. Normal must be a joke and I can't even imagine what easy is.. You know most people havn't played an RTS game in ages and normal is probably decent for them. It's not like when you select "regular" in MW2 you are expected to have the abilities of your average gamer that spends 2 hours a day playing FPS, able to make headshots at 500 yards with a pistol  | ||
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Housta
United States57 Posts
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