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So this is my first topic, wow.
During the first phase of beta I played protoss, why i don't know. Then when phase to came online I continued playing protoss, but i felt something was missing. Then i tried zerg, and I absolutely loved it!
The thing that made me choose zerg is probaly my Age of Empires 3 experience. I always played a gametype where you couldn't attack the opponents during the first 40 minutes. May seem boring to you, but those where some fun macro games.
The thing was you could always mass units, no matter which country you chose (but they all only had like 3 unique units). Every unit producing structure made five of everything at the time so you where always maxed out.
But with protoss you can only make som many units at the time, and that didn't suit me. so I started playing zerg. They suited me perfectly, the incredible massability of units and the imo incredibly easy macro (I played in silver league).
So that's my story about how my earlier experince shaped my SC2 race, what's yours?
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I chose zerg because of the tentacles.
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On July 22 2010 05:04 Smurfz wrote:
I chose zerg because of the tentacles.
Actually, I disliked zerg at first because of their insectoid appearence. But now I like them because of it
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I was also a big time AoE3 player. The expansions kind of went downhill but vanilla was more or less balanced (probably due to the same exact units for every country) And I also play Zerg. Their macro mechanic is just more comfortable for me than CB and mules. I'm also a reactionary player and like to play to counter the enemy. I don't see how you're viewing zerg as a race that can't attack before 40 minutes.. must be a lower league player.
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I chose Terran because they were my favorite race in BW, eventhough I sucked with them comparable to Protoss/Zerg. I'm switching to Protoss for 1v1 though, I just don't like TvT in sc2.. I don't like ZvZ either. I just find PvP to be the most enjoyable mirror match so I'm going to go with them after release.
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On July 22 2010 05:07 LooseMoose wrote:
I was also a big time AoE3 player. The expansions kind of went downhill but vanilla was more or less balanced (probably due to the same exact units for every country) And I also play Zerg. Their macro mechanic is just more comfortable for me than CB and mules. I'm also a reactionary player and like to play to counter the enemy. I don't see how you're viewing zerg as a race that can't attack before 40 minutes.. must be a lower league player.
nonono, I played 40 min treaty in AoE3, I don't really know why I brought that up. But the core of the post is that late game AoE is like zerg. you can spam units and fast counter what the opponents making. And that made me choose zerg.
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I chose zerg because the race was actually fun in brood war.
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aoe kinda hurt me, actually, although i do have the same tendency. ottoman <-> terran.
the part that hurt me is that ottomans have automatic 'scv' production, and so i never worried about queueing workers - it happened automatically.
on the other hand, ottomans = huge cannons, or in the sc world, mass siege tanks; i had a pretty good idea of where to position things, and how to take control of key points (trade routes, for example) with them.
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I'm also a big AoE player. AoE is a much, much more economically-focused game and has greatly influenced my economic-focused style on here. I remember I used to play Portugal and work on turtle builds, so Terran's ability to turtle and defend suits me.
I never played SC1 so some AoE tendencies also hurt me (such as in SC, scouting and even fighting with workers is commonplace whereas in AoE it is heresy because the economic system is so much more complex).
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I chose zerg cause i was getting very frustrated with some of the builds i had to face with protoss, I still contemplate switching to another race... kind of wanted to play random
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I always liked playing defensively and being a complete turtle mostly doing strategic strikes to set up a better mid/lategame and getting alot of expos.
Siege tanks and scanners are just to good when using this style. In wc3 I did as much fast expansions with human as possible following up with mass towers but my style originates from playing Terran in broodwar having NTT as my role model.
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I was also an AoE3 player, and also chose zerg. I chose zerg because I like to win the macro game and outmass my opponent, which kinda reflects my AoE3 choice of civ: British.
On July 22 2010 05:07 LooseMoose wrote:
vanilla was more or less balanced (probably due to the same exact units for every country)
I don't think vanilla is very well balanced at all, but then neither are the expansions. The only balanced version of the game is on the TAD fan patch.
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just the cliche lore behind zerg and there counterparts (aliens,tyranids, etc.)
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thought we were talking about area of effect. idk but protoss just comes natural to me where zerg feels like im a little slow. terran feels more similar to protoss so id choose them over zerg. that's just me though
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Terran, because you play humans in all AOE games :p
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On July 22 2010 05:12 iEchoic wrote:
I'm also a big AoE player. AoE is a much, much more economically-focused game and has greatly influenced my economic-focused style on here. I remember I used to play Portugal and work on turtle builds, so Terran's ability to turtle and defend suits me.
I never played SC1 so some AoE tendencies also hurt me (such as in SC, scouting and even fighting with workers is commonplace whereas in AoE it is heresy because the economic system is so much more complex).
Yeah portugal really was economy focused.
So many AoE players are choosing zerg, hmm, I'm not the only one then.
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i hate being the the same in video games, i can't choose human in wc3 or terran in sc. i like being the freakishly different thing but kinda cool at the same time, so zerg it was. i was actually an orc player in wc3 when orc was up, then switched to undead when it got op haha.
i just thought the grossness of zerg was so cool
brood war zerg makes my head ache really fucking hard. let me have these 102 control groups of zerglings, cilck a defiler and swarm my zerglings while huge cows ram their ass.
but nothing will ever beat the feeling of 9 lurkers destroying 60 marines
EVER
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On July 22 2010 05:12 Mindcrime wrote:
I chose zerg because the race was actually fun in brood war.
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You have to admit, spreading creep all over the map is pretty fun, even if it isn't hold position lurkers or muta micro :S.
Anyways, how can you seriously play a 40min no rush game? I have never played a 40min+ RTS 1v1 unless it was like rise of nations, and even that just grinds part 40min. Unless you mean like a 40min FFA, but still, thats 40 minutes of straight macro, wouldn't you be maxed a lot sooner than that?
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I liked Zerg in BW because of their swarming, mass-y feel. Half the reason that I wanted to keep playing them in SC2 was so I could actually control large groups of units well. Little did I know that apart from zerglings, Z pretty much lost their swarming aspect.
So now I just play Z since I'm most comfortable with their macro mechanics.
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Hydralisks are where it's at. Picked Z since 98. Go mondi.
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