Starcraft 2

[CornMonkey]

After years and years of waiting, you Starcraft fans can rejoice!

http://www.starcraft2.com/

[RoniMan]

curses! i was just about to post this too!

it looks sooooo good.

and just when i thought i was over my addiction known as starcraft...

/goosebumps

[Thesifer]

I played a bit of StarCraft the other day. We were looking for something all of our friends can play, and some of them for some reason have some Legacy computers :(

Can't wait for the new one. It looks pretty sweet.

[DaFunkyUnit]

... the Korean nation rejoices....

[TofuNinja]

whoa.... This is gonna be sweet. I should have seen this coming with all the new books they have been putting out

[mcs328]

aw man....my wife sure is going to miss me while I'm gone. On the other hand I do need to get a new computer.

[SteveB]

This looks very cool.
Must resist.
I spent way too much time on the first one.

[ArkiStan]

... the Korean nation rejoices....

More malnutrition/sleep deprivation related deaths of Korean youths in cyber cafes!! Yay!! :dead:

[yippiekiyeh]

SC2 I've been waiting for the story to continue! SC2 nice!

[Thesifer]

Well no one can seem to get the Koreans to stop playing StarCraft 1 , so maybe this will do the trick! 24/7 Channel is probably already being set up for playing of StarCraft II.

[TofuNinja]

I thought the Koreans also play Diablo 2 where they run around saying stuff like PK PK PK PK PK Kill! PK PK Die die die pk pk pk

[Maarchk]

zerg rush. k k k k k

Actually i started playing with a few friends again.. we are really bad cause its been 5 years but i'm re-learning and playing way too much.. maybe sc 2 will save me? oh wait nope.. i'll just play more.

[Airencracken]

Yes.yes.yes.

[ski]

I wonder what percentage of the WoW population will break away to play this...

[Thesifer]

I wonder what percentage of the WoW population will break away to play this...


seeing as its not a "MMORPG" I don't think it will necessarily BREAK them away. They will go play a game or two, then go back. And go back and forth. If it were WoS, totally different ball of wax.

As for me, I broke mainly away from WoW and play LOTRO right now.

WoW is always there if you want to go back, like a Motel 6.

[g222leav]

my buddy just texted me that blizzard made an annoucement today...ign is so slow, i can even get a good cripst flow of video but i'm already salivating. i think this game could have single-handly have cause me to almost fail undergrad. i'm almost tempted to build a new box to prepare for the new game...always looking for an excuse!

[Grafalgar]

Interesting. Blizzard has a very very very high bar set for them. I'm not a fan of Starcraft in the least, but I do know that the game is ridiculously popular and Blizzard has an insane amount of expectations to live up to.

Here's hoping they can pull it off =)

[CornMonkey]

speaking of koreans...

http://cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20070521

[Thesifer]

Interesting. Blizzard has a very very very high bar set for them. I'm not a fan of Starcraft in the least, but I do know that the game is ridiculously popular and Blizzard has an insane amount of expectations to live up to.

Here's hoping they can pull it off =)


Well seeing as how they have had Success After Success, it's a good bet.

And since they made the first one......

[YellowCoffee]

This looks very cool.
Must resist.
I spent way too much time on the first one.

Me too. :disa:

I'm going to try really hard to NOT play this (only because my self-discipline sucks). I was going to get a new computer in a year or two, but I may just wait another 4-5 years so that I won't be able to play this game =). I'm getting too old for vid games anyways :)

I watched a video clip of these two korean teens going head-to-head in starcraft and I was amazed at what a big event this was. There were fans cheering, indepth bios on the players, all these ridiculous endoresments, etc. Pretty pathetic if you ask me. I can understand vid games as leisure fun, but not the blown-up competitive event that it is in Korea. :spock:

[sho.gun]

SC2 I've been waiting for the story to continue! SC2 nice!

lol, remember our G|A SC tournament waaaaaay back when?

[Thesifer]

I watched the 449 mb video of the new SC2. I would suggest watching it. Looks pretty awesome!

[shocky123]

/me drools

cant wait for it!!

do we have a release date?

[sho.gun]

I watched the 449 mb video of the new SC2. I would suggest watching it. Looks pretty awesome!
By that do you mean the narrated gameplay video from the korean convention or some other video I haven't seen yet? Linky us anyway :)

[Thesifer]

By that do you mean the narrated gameplay video from the korean convention or some other video I haven't seen yet? Linky us anyway :)


The narrated one :) I just downloaded it from StarCraft2.com

[Grafalgar]

Well seeing as how they have had Success After Success, it's a good bet.

And since they made the first one......

Well, a big part of the "Success After Success" is Blizzard's insane fan population. Which isn't bad, it's very good for them. There are many people who will buy anything Blizzard puts out. The entirety of Korea comes up =) Many people will also overlook faults of a Blizzard game because of the Blizzard name.

I don't doubt that SC2 will be a good game, my concern is that if you're known to 22 carat blocks of gold, and one day you come out with an 18 carat block of gold .. it will be noticed. Or not? Who knows?

Anyway, I'll reserve my excitement until I get my hands on some gameplay. The RTS genre has been pretty stagnant over the last number of years, and they'll really have to come through for this to be a (massive) success. Or not? Who knows =) Never underestimate the power of Korea =)

*shrugs*