On August 11 2014 17:25 Xiphias wrote: Patch for 11th of Aug Protoss
Colossus: Still not added to the game.
I feel like I'm missing a moderately funny inside joke here.
The joke is that the Colossus is a fucking joke of a unit and one of the most potent examples of SC2's design failures in comparison with Brood War.
But the joke itself can be interpreted as hubris which in literature will set you up for a tragic downfall, by the evil method of dramatic irony. We must have some sense of self preservation to guard ourselves against such things. :o
It was just Xiphias frustration out of the forums that led to this joke. Because one half in our forum is saying Starbow is too much BW and others are saying its too much sc2.
Both are right imo. I think it isn't enough starbow
I don't know if you should want it to be more though. For instance, I resigned myself to the idea that starbow could 'merely' be a superior version of sc2 in case I feel like playing again. And as such, from my perspective increasing its derivation from brood war is missing the point since bw is already a good game, while starcraft 2 isn't.
Like the bible quote:
27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
On August 11 2014 17:25 Xiphias wrote: Patch for 11th of Aug Protoss
Colossus: Still not added to the game.
I feel like I'm missing a moderately funny inside joke here.
The joke is that the Colossus is a fucking joke of a unit and one of the most potent examples of SC2's design failures in comparison with Brood War.
But the joke itself can be interpreted as hubris which in literature will set you up for a tragic downfall, by the evil method of dramatic irony. We must have some sense of self preservation to guard ourselves against such things. :o
It was just Xiphias frustration out of the forums that led to this joke. Because one half in our forum is saying Starbow is too much BW and others are saying its too much sc2.
Both are right imo. I think it isn't enough starbow
I don't know if you should want it to be more though. For instance, I resigned myself to the idea that starbow could 'merely' be a superior version of sc2 in case I feel like playing again. And as such, from my perspective increasing its derivation from brood war is missing the point since bw is already a good game, while starcraft 2 isn't.
27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
(Sorry, on a literature kick atm )
Well yeah maybe. Personally i would have loved it to be a bit more unique though. But this wasn't the intention in the first place i guess.
Sry i am not religious, but yeah being more like BW is probably overall the better way to go ( at least from a design point) The thing is, there are also people who would say sc2 is the healthy part
On August 11 2014 17:25 Xiphias wrote: Patch for 11th of Aug Protoss
Colossus: Still not added to the game.
I feel like I'm missing a moderately funny inside joke here.
The joke is that the Colossus is a fucking joke of a unit and one of the most potent examples of SC2's design failures in comparison with Brood War.
But the joke itself can be interpreted as hubris which in literature will set you up for a tragic downfall, by the evil method of dramatic irony. We must have some sense of self preservation to guard ourselves against such things. :o
It was just Xiphias frustration out of the forums that led to this joke. Because one half in our forum is saying Starbow is too much BW and others are saying its too much sc2.
Both are right imo. I think it isn't enough starbow
Which possible positive outcome of Starbow do you guys think is the most likely to happen?
1. Starbow becomes super popular; you can find a good match in a couple of minutes and the game is even more awesome. Lots of tournaments to watch.
2. Starbow may not be a massive success in itself, not that many play it, but its positive influence on future Starcraft releases and other RTS games is obvious. BW mechanics makes a comeback through Starbow etc..
I just finished watching the VoD of yesterdays group stage and I had a blast, wow those games are awesome! Hope they get casted by Husky, Day9 and or Artosis!
As a thank you to the whole StarBow Community I'll show you a Screenshot of BorN eating a Banana. I took that screenshot back in Feburary. Keep on macroing!
On August 17 2014 21:54 Daumen wrote: All in all I really liked BorN as a caster btw ;>
At first I was a bit worried, but BorN has some kind of magic or something ;X
I really liked him too, has lots of energy
I liked him too, he really has alot of passion. What I like most about his casting is ingame knowledge and that he sees everything from a terrans perspective ^^. I dont like his patriotism, but hey nobody is perfect ^^ He should just make a youtube channel.
On August 17 2014 21:54 Daumen wrote: All in all I really liked BorN as a caster btw ;>
At first I was a bit worried, but BorN has some kind of magic or something ;X
I really liked him too, has lots of energy
I liked him too, he really has alot of passion. What I like most about his casting is ingame knowledge and that he sees everything from a terrans perspective ^^. I dont like his patriotism, but hey nobody is perfect ^^ He should just make a youtube channel.
On August 17 2014 21:54 Daumen wrote: All in all I really liked BorN as a caster btw ;>
At first I was a bit worried, but BorN has some kind of magic or something ;X
I really liked him too, has lots of energy
I liked him too, he really has alot of passion. What I like most about his casting is ingame knowledge and that he sees everything from a terrans perspective ^^. I dont like his patriotism, but hey nobody is perfect ^^ He should just make a youtube channel.
Why was it possible to implement Brood War sounds after all? At first the reason was that the Maps would get way too big afaik, how come you guys have done it? Also: Can you implement any BW sound now? Cuz there are some rly cool ones that I'd like to hear ;D
Beastyqt is one of the most infuriatingly boring players to watch, I thought this in sc2 already and it's even more true in starbow.
Also, players aren't good enough yet for these large maps imo. If we accept that 1) in starbow the mechanical requirements scale with the number of bases to a higher degree than sc2; and that 2) players getting massive 7k banks as a general rule represents a degenerate case, and 3) that maps only became larger in bw and sc2 when the pro scene was already established, then I think the natural conclusion is that we need more smaller maps, where third and fourth base are more difficult to take.
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