EPTAlso i just want to say that i played SC2 (best rank 4000 in world, was playing like 2-3 games per day), but i got retired and then came back to BW.
MACRO
As we all know, macro is the most important thing in BW, as well as in WOL. We need to make workers, build pylons, make units etc etc.
Starcraft: Brood war
Single building selection, doesnt have auto split. Need to pay more attention to your buildings.
In bw, early game was pretty easy when macroing, it was harder and harder when you get to the late game, you just needed to have higher ap m. For me it wasnt so really hard to keep my gateways/hatchery making units or nexus making probes (but as you know every1 is making mistakes), all you needed is to practice and get better at your macro management. Also splitting was important - if you did a perfect split it was good - it gave you little advantage from every beggining. Also in bw you cant select more than 1 building
STARCRAFT 2: Wings of Liberty
In sc2, early game is really easy, you dont even have to split ur workers or control them to gather minerals. Mid and late game are quite easy, because u can select multiple buildings (or press W for warpgates spam ZZZZZ or SSSS, select 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/0 and make marines/marauders etc etc). Also, you dont require alot of multitask to control your probe/drone management because theres auto split (press 5e or something like that
). The hardest thing is : mule managament and larva management, but when you practice it its making easier to use them.Comparison:
Macro in brood war requires more skill than in sc2, good for players that didnt played starcraft or any rts at all.
PLAYSTYLE
BW:
In starcraft brood war theres alot of nice actions, like this one, game was full of reaver drops, awesome control, all-the-time-movement of units, exciting battles, some spells which could make player win if used properly etc.
STARCRAFT 2:
Wings of Liberty is, i gotta say it:
BORING.
Yes, there are some drops, but not so much of them. Players arent moving all the time - they are just macroing and waiting for 200/200 or ending game in early stage. Plus of starcraft 2 is that theres nydus worm and medivac, without it this game would be boring, why? Because it is fight of one blob vs other blob, rofl. Also theres some spells which can decide about battle, some of them are easy in use and some are hard to use, just like comparision of emp and fungal growth.
Comparision
Starcraft 2 is pretty nice, but BW is still more exciting.
MICRO:
BW
in bw theres alot of micro, marine micro, muta micro, vulture micro, tank micro, dragoon micro, etc etc etc
Also microing was much harder.
SC2
easy marine/marauder micro, hard marine against baneling micro, and also the most easiest (idk if i should call it micro, because its too fu**ing easy)
storms,emp,fungal,phoenix micro, splitting mutas against thor (magic box)
The most important thing in sc2 is positioning, and thats sad.
Comparision :
SC2 is way easier than bw.
IMO sc2 is for new players which didnt have rts skill at all. Unless like bw which require some skill. If you want to play mind games, micro and macro harder games - choose sc:bw.
Thank you for reading. cu
