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Newbistic
China2912 Posts
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Deference
United States15 Posts
On March 05 2011 12:50 exploding.godhand wrote: I'm pretty sure that just shattered the "Oh my god, Browder is so dumb" biases. I wouldn't say that. Not to say I think he's dumb, but these are things that have probably been covered and anyone in his position would know how to give safe answers. | ||
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malphigian
United States68 Posts
On March 05 2011 14:05 Newbistic wrote: This isn't supposed to be a formal interview, right? Some of the questions like the "zerg rush" and the mothership question seem really loaded. I'd prefer more open ended questions if there are future interviews. I hate to axe grind here but this is so messed up I feel obligated so, again: The OP is lying, this was not an interview, this is somewhat distorted version of Browder's GDC talk rewritten as an interview for some bizarre reason If anyone doesn't believe me, I'll post some stills from the talk once the GDC site puts them online. A mod should really edit the first post because this is really weird. | ||
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Mr. Wiggles
Canada5894 Posts
On March 05 2011 14:43 malphigian wrote: I hate to axe grind here but this is so messed up I feel obligated so, again: The OP is lying, this was not an interview, this is somewhat distorted version of Browder's GDC talk rewritten as an interview for some bizarre reason If anyone doesn't believe me, I'll post some stills from the talk once the GDC site puts them online. A mod should really edit the first post because this is really weird. Yeah, I'm getting kind of confused about the whole interview thing. It seems he just copied what Dustin was saying during his talk and framing it as an interview. Did he think no one on TL would call him for it and give him lots of credit and praise for his "interview"? | ||
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bqzg
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good answers though. | ||
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Raiznhell
Canada786 Posts
On March 05 2011 10:03 Kisezik wrote: Yeah, but its really hard to get really high up in the ladder with 'random'. His job is to design the game, not aim for grandmasters league Diamond League still represents the top 20% of players on each server I do believe. Hows that really, really REALLY bad? | ||
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a176
Canada6688 Posts
On March 05 2011 09:40 BisuDagger wrote: Me: Who is your favorite SC:BW player? Browder: I do not have one. why not, browder? | ||
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Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
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BisuDagger
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uSnAmplified
United States1029 Posts
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brain_
United States812 Posts
On a more serious note... I wish we still had Goliaths instead of Thors.  Its so much easier to balance a unit when you need a bunch to achieve a critical mass, rather than just getting one (which is why you get annoying mass-repair strategies like PvT Thor rush. Its just bad for timings. Ground-based, AoE, long-range anti-air is also a pretty bold leap. | ||
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BoldMan
United States168 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/KP0gS.jpg) if jim carry and nony had babies... thats u | ||
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DystopiaX
United States16236 Posts
On March 05 2011 15:54 Chairman Ray wrote: Hmm, diamond player eh? I am disappoint. David kim is masters and was in the top 200 at some point, so it's not like they're all terrible. I find all Blizzard interviews kind of interesting because as much as we like to bitch, every one of them about balance just reminds me how really fucking hard balance is and although we all have ideas about how changes we'd implements would "fix" the game there's a lot more to think about than just the pro scene and whatnot. | ||
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BeefAvenger
Canada54 Posts
On March 05 2011 16:10 uSnAmplified wrote: Dont know why people are trashing him, he just happened to randomly meet browder and got to ask some questions, of course its not a formal interview. people were trashing him because he didn't interview browder. He took browder's talking points from a presentation and rewrote them into a fake interview, i guess to try and become internet popular? Now he's backpedaling because people called him out on it | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10366 Posts
Yeah I wondered if you were weren't recording word by word or so, which makes sense if you're not, because his tone when he was talking about having to play Random sounded like he was secretly trying to convey the message that he doesn't wanna play Random and is sad ;( And yeah, remember that is Random Diamond. Random Diamond is really good relative to the entire player base of SC2, and probably still better than half the players on TL. A Masters Random player would be quite good. (Speaking generally, of course you can just practice 9 rush builds so you have all MUs covered). That would be sweet if there are tournaments directed at each league, although I would doubt 1 different pool for each league. Perhaps some of the maps would overlap, or etc., but I can't imagine them making so many maps for each league, even if it is just add a couple more rocks the lower the League gets or something. But a general pool with overlapping maps, for example, would be good. Like a Bronze League would have nooby maps like Agria, but perhaps also Lost Temple, a Gold player may have Lost Temple, Metalopolis, while Diamond and Masters might get a couple bigger maps like GSL's with. Edit: Also, with so many people playing SC2 atm, once they get the auto-tournies to run, it probably wouldn't be hard to make league-specific tournies. I think that would be really awesome and really help the competitiveness of SC2 and add more interest across all leagues. And perhaps they could have some where all levels can participate too. | ||
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BeefAvenger
Canada54 Posts
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BisuDagger
Bisutopia19299 Posts
On March 05 2011 16:35 BeefAvenger wrote: people were trashing him because he didn't interview browder. He took browder's talking points from a presentation and rewrote them into a fake interview, i guess to try and become internet popular? Now he's backpedaling because people called him out on it I'm not backpedaling. I did interview with him. I"m sorry u feel like u have to keep trashing me. Just because I took questions from the general public and threw them in doesn't take away from the legitimacy of the content. Your posts aren't helping anyone and I hope a MOD will prevent this OP from becoming a flame war. This thread is meant for discussion on SC2. That is my last say on this matter, take it as you will. I love starcraft, that is all. | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11135 Posts
On March 05 2011 16:21 brain_ wrote: Lol @ him loving MKP - that explains so much. On a more serious note... I wish we still had Goliaths instead of Thors. Its so much easier to balance a unit when you need a bunch to achieve a critical mass, rather than just getting one (which is why you get annoying mass-repair strategies like PvT Thor rush. Its just bad for timings. Ground-based, AoE, long-range anti-air is also a pretty bold leap.I've always thought of the Thor as Browder's way of injecting a bit of C&C into SC2. Think about it. Almost all the C&C games include the Mammoth Tank or a close derivative of it (such as the Apocalypse Tank or the Overlord Tank): a high hitpoint, high armor, dual barrel, anti-air missile shooting monstrosity. The Thor is basically a Mammoth Tank in the world of SC2, which I enjoy considering that I also come from a C&C background. Nothing is more satisfying than massing a huge number of Mammoth Tanks or Thors and rolling over the enemy. Nothing is more tragic than watching your army of Mammoth Tanks or Thors somehow getting owned despite your expectations otherwise. Also, I've always thought of the Viking as the true successor to the Goliath. In fact, I've always considered the Viking to be a flying Goliath with the anti-air power and range of the original Goliath, only with better mobility since it flies. Anyways, it's cool to hear Browder's opinions about SC2. Interesting to see him have trouble including the Thor and Mothership into the game due to their questionable unit roles. It seems that because they unveiled the Thor and Mothership as major units early in SC2's development, Blizzard has tried really hard to somehow shoehorn them into the game despite their questionable roles in an e-sports focused game. I also love how Browder waves around his C&C background proudly. C&C is an excellent series of games (except for C&C4, and to a questionable degree post-Westwood games like Generals and onwards). I still consider Red Alert 2 to be the most fun RTS I've ever played (sorry BW), and it's awesome to see Browder, lead designer of RA2, to still have his groove in SC2. | ||
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malphigian
United States68 Posts
On March 05 2011 16:43 BisuDagger wrote: I'm not backpedaling. I did interview with him. I"m sorry u feel like u have to keep trashing me. Just because I took questions from the general public and threw them in doesn't take away from the legitimacy of the content. Your posts aren't helping anyone and I hope a MOD will prevent this OP from becoming a flame war. This thread is meant for discussion on SC2. That is my last say on this matter, take it as you will. I love starcraft, that is all. That's fair enough, thanks for clarifying, it was a weird decision to frame the whole thing as an interview. I mean, no one asked him questions about usefulness of mothership, ultralisk size, and "zerg rush" before the talk -- those were his prepared slides during the talk -- just an odd decision to rephrase that as an interview or Q&A. Would be better served to be presented as points he brought up of his own accord during the talk. In any case, seems to be basically cleared up now. | ||
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uSnAmplified
United States1029 Posts
Oh well we have thor i guess :> | ||
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