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For the longest time, I stubbornly resisted the transition from BW to SC2. To me, what was SC2 but just another cheap knockoff of the game that defined years of my life? The late nights staying up rooting for Bisu, Flash, and Jaedong in the OSL, the connection I felt to the players – I thought it could never be recreated.
Uell, I was wrong. I love SC2.
1. Cooler units in SC2
-Kick-ass-ness: The Goliath may be a giant robot suit, which is cool and all, but come on guys – the Thor? Fucking giant robot gundam suit doesn’t give a fuck. Shit’s cash. Nothing beats Thors except more Thors.
-Kick-ass-ness 2: Ultralisks actually look ultra in this game. Nice and fat. Not some deformed cow shit.
-Interesting units: Banelings. They blow up. Not like Infested Terrans and Scourge, but they actually blow up instead of running around with dumbfuck AI and then get killed without doing anything.
-Actual alien feel to Protoss: Colossus? Mothership? Void Ray? Shit’s straight out of War of the Worlds. The races have a much more unique and distinct identity in SC2, or at least Protoss does. Terran is same as always, OP as fuck. Zerg is meh.
2. New blood: We get a chance to see players from other ESPORTS like WC3 switch over, as well as a new generation of SC players. It keeps things fresh, and SC2 has a chance to be a truly global, long-living ESPORT.
3. “Terrible, terrible damage,” or, more memes and catchphrases: Now, memes are potentially a very bad thing when overused and abused, but in the case of SC2, it brings the community closer together. Day9’s Trumpets, Destiny’s stream antics, Idra (or should I say the Gracken?) rage, are just few of many examples of ways the community has bonded over seemingly banal events
4. Excitement(related to new blood) Let’s be honest – watching Broodwar get dominated by the same handful of Koreans repeatedly gets old. In SC2, we can see foreigners go toe to toe with Koreans, and taking their fair share of tournament wins. Instead of MC and MVP winning everything, we can see foreigners on foreign teams like Hero and Puma win tournaments too!
Starcraft forever!!!
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I agree but some aspects are worse in SC2 than they were in Brood War, but they are different games.
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when i was reading the title of this thread i was thinking "what a full of shit obvious troll" but now im thinking what an awesome thread this is
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You had me at "shit's cash". Very good sir.
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I love it. While I love BW as well, I just see them as two different things which each have goods and bads to them. Thanks!
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ALLEYCAT BLUES51084 Posts
I'm still not sure of your motives on this post cheep....
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Absolutely love ultralisks.
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Pretty much
Prefer watching BW, prefer playing SC2.
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we can see foreigners on foreign teams like Hero and Puma win tournaments too!
ROFL! I hope you'll still show the Koreans some love. Like Huk for example 
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Hey, I don't blame you - I was a former BW elitist myself and was even unhappy for a bit when SC2 was announced. But now, after watching so much GSL, I can't get enough of SC2 and consider it a superior game!!
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What do you think of zvz in sc2? how is it better than bw zvz?
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On January 12 2012 15:50 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
we can see foreigners on foreign teams like Hero and Puma win tournaments too!
I'm not sure if this was a typo or you were trying to make a funny. Sorry to nit pick =/
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I don't understand the reasons for you posting this, but I laughed.
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I played Brood War, and I never really understood much of it until right around when SC2 entered Beta.
I heard stories of Boxer's rise and fall, the Bonjwas, the magic of Savior and the unbridled awesome of Flash. But these to me were just stories, there was no magic there for me.
But then something happened, StarCraft 2 came out and I began to watch some pro games here or there. But then something happened, I watched Fruit Dealer defy all odds and do something awesome. I know what you mean about having that connection to the players and feeling something in my chest when my favorite player comes up to bat. I love this game, to me it means more than BW ever will outside of that nostalgic feeling of course. The return of legends like Boxer allows me to re-live these old stories as something new, something I relate to. They're not stories anymore to me, it's real and happening. It's the Brood War that I never had.
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On January 12 2012 15:56 StorrZerg wrote:
What do you think of zvz in sc2? how is it better than bw zvz?
IMO sc2 zvz can actually have more than one dimension...bw zvz was just muta scourge into just muta. ;;
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I'm with Cheep.
Recently, with word of BW players transitioning to SC2, I decided to watch a few player streams. It's a lot of fun, I wish I hadn't judged it so harshly because I was bad in Season 1, and it was SUPER imbalanced. I'm probably top 5 BW fanboys on Team Liquid but I really feel like SC2 has a lot more good in it that we are willing to see, especially now with the game a lot more balanced out.
It's about time BW elitists started taking off their blinders and really gave this game a chance, instead of shitting on it because it's not Brood War.
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