I got a good laugh out of the worst maps. You missed a couple, but still funny times. I think you missed the mark with "best" maps by quite a bit though...

n0ise

3452 Posts

March 08 2013 23:48 GMT

#24

good writeup, sadly the content is mostly off

Blacktion

United Kingdom1148 Posts

March 08 2013 23:52 GMT

#25

Im confused, antiga goes on the worst list yet steppes and scrap station dont? those maps were god awful
You even praise scrap station in the extreme list :s

BlueEagle

United Kingdom75 Posts

March 08 2013 23:55 GMT

#26

I liked Slag Pits. Then again, you'd like any map you have an 80% win rate on, right? :D

SnipedSoul

Canada2158 Posts

March 08 2013 23:56 GMT

#27

Being reminded of Blistering Sands seriously just ruined my weekend. The map was just atrocious.

Zinnwaldite

Norway1567 Posts

March 08 2013 23:56 GMT

#28

I remember liking Scrap Station..

roronoe

Canada1527 Posts

March 09 2013 00:04 GMT

#29

Too many people shitting on this list.
Theres a lot of good thoughts in there and the list is pretty good overall. Don't be too close-minded to what an ideal map is in your mind.
Maps need to bring out interesting elements or different gameplay (think Triathalon in BW)

jinorazi

Korea (South)4948 Posts

March 09 2013 00:05 GMT

#30

any 4 player map with splittable sides is A+ in my book

Whitewing

United States7483 Posts

March 09 2013 00:06 GMT

#31

I feel like you ignored the way protoss has to be played when you wrote this write up. Since you're only examining maps, that's fine I guess, but when you include how hard it is for protoss to take a third on many of these maps that you ranked highly, you'll see why a lot of people didn't really like it. Having to do a 2 base all-in every game (or having to defend one if you're playing against a protoss) is kind of lame.

Sadist

United States7328 Posts

March 09 2013 00:08 GMT

#32

Cloud kingdom and daybreak are way too similar for me

IMO Jungle basin #1 worst all time. OMFG getting 4 gated when trying to FE as terran was fucking brutal. Proxy DT through backdoor

. Then center being ROFL narrow that you cant even engage a toss. + back when it was played there was still amulet -_-

archonOOid

1983 Posts

March 09 2013 00:08 GMT

#33

What about Akilon wastes/flat which was designed by blizzard and was in the map pool for wings in the end. It had some amazing games and some of them were listed in the best games of 2012 thread.

pdd

Australia9933 Posts

March 09 2013 00:11 GMT

#34

How is Steppes not there and Antiga at #10? I mean Antiga is kind of a bland and boring (and as of recently, bad) map, but Steppes is a million times worse.

NotRandoMNamE

80 Posts

March 09 2013 00:13 GMT

#35

No mention of KESPA maps?

Vindicare605

United States16124 Posts

March 09 2013 00:13 GMT

#36

Crossfire as a top 5 map?!

WTF!?

The two of us have a VERY big difference of opinion OP. When you put Antiga Shipyard in the worst maps category and Crossfire in the top 5.

grush57

Korea (South)2582 Posts

March 09 2013 00:13 GMT

#37

Bad Best list.

Gfire

United States1699 Posts

March 09 2013 00:16 GMT

#38

The extreme category seems a little weird to me. Some of those were pretty standard maps at the time, and didn't seem all to extreme... The only one I'd say really fits in is Icarus there. I guess it's because really extreme maps didn't really make it into the pools until the last several months in Korea.

Maps in WoL were pretty disappointing, overall though. I expect the worst maps being made (by not blizzard) in HotS pools will be better than the top WoL maps.