Wow, i don't have the time yet to read it all, but it looks like totally awesome. I hope there will be all the evolutions of the starcraft metagame, strategies, builds and micro-tactics in "The Book of Starcraft".

Bravo, this is ,eyesclosed, a very good thread.

Tabbris

Bangladesh2839 Posts

September 21 2010 20:22 GMT

#47

HOLY SHIT. This remindes me of the History of Tl post

XsebT

Denmark2980 Posts

September 21 2010 20:26 GMT

#48

I'm speechless and not even done reading/watching. Amazing work.

OMG Battle Chess!

figq

12519 Posts

September 21 2010 20:32 GMT

#49

Dark Reign: The Future of War wasn't mentioned here, but I noticed it was actually published by Activision back then (1997), and was one of the important RTS games of that era. It had entirely unique units and strats for each side - a feature that usually Blizzard claims to be their own revolution with Starcraft, which was published a year later. There are quite a lot of similarities, there are also 2 types of resources, and after depletion the gathering is slower. Also Dune 2 set the idea about 3 races beforehand, they just didn't make them entirely unique.

I love these historical summaries, it all makes so much more sense. None of these games were developed out of nowhere; they made small steps over previous games.

intrigue

Washington, D.C9934 Posts

September 21 2010 20:33 GMT

#50

it'll take me a week to get through this. looking forward to it, part 1 was already pretty dope.

Meatloaf

Spain664 Posts

September 21 2010 20:38 GMT

#51

thanks for the great writing , I started with Dune 2 on RTS!! i still remember how amazed i was.

played them all since then ^^.

caelym

United States6421 Posts

September 21 2010 20:40 GMT

#52

wow. this is epic. the amount of work put into this, and its content is jaw dropping. amazing job!

krew406

United States115 Posts

September 21 2010 20:41 GMT

#53

Thanks so much for this write-up. I've been trying to remember what the name of total annihilation was for years. Used to play that on lan with my neighbor when I was 10

Sqq

Norway2023 Posts

September 21 2010 20:57 GMT

#54

holy shit this is awesome.

OPSavioR

Sweden1465 Posts

September 21 2010 21:00 GMT

#55

Good job!

XsebT

Denmark2980 Posts

September 21 2010 21:01 GMT

#56

THE BOOK OF STARCRAFT nooooooooooooooow!
These are so fucking amazing!

Hatsu

United Kingdom474 Posts

September 21 2010 21:04 GMT

#57

Man what the hell, you just made my day.

shrinkmaster

Germany947 Posts

September 21 2010 21:05 GMT

#58

This was EPIC and while reading i can feel the amount of time and thought that went into writing this masterpiece.

Thank you very much. This will be a thread which i will gladly bookmark and read again and again in the future.