Campaign Creations

Desler wrote: I've thought about this a bit, and decided its a very good thing.  As someone pointed out before, Half Life 2, Half Life 2 Episode I and II, both 'expansions' were worthy of plucking down more money even though it was the same basic game.  An RTS is drastically different from a first person shooter, and its going to depend largely on Blizzards ability to go beyond simple build and destroy RTS gaming.  I'm not angry or anything by this choice, and am actually glad they are doing this.  If anything, it will extend the life of the game significantly.  In other words, we've already been promised 2 extensions to the games life. 

Do you guys honestly believe that Blizzard of all companies somehow screwed up on this one and is simply being greedy or won't provide a good pricing structure for the relative gaming experience they offer?  Give them a lot more credit then that.  If they want to take the scope of their single player experience to the extent where they believe it will require 3 distinct releases, I say all the better for us.  My goodness, this is the heart of the StarCraft campaign community for crying out loud.  If anyone would have been excited for a load of single player content, I would say it would be here.

I welcome this news, and I'm sure they'll handle it correctly.

Desler wrote: I'd rather have the option of getting the game sooner rather than later Legion.  If you have to wait a 'year or two' for the additional missions, thats time you'd have to wait for anyways, just without any of the game.

AA7Dragoon wrote: Again, there is more than what they are telling us, but regardless, I don't want to wait two years to finally play the Protoss campaign (which is also my favorite race).  In addition, part of learning how to play the Zerg and Protoss is done within the campaign.  It seems so awkward to receive the full game, be exposed to the design mechanics of the Terran race, but have no tutorial for the Zerg or Protoss.  Does this also mean we will not have a chance to play the Zerg or Protoss in the Terran campaign?  Perhaps the Protoss, but I cannot imagine a scenario where you would get to play the Zerg on Raynor's storyline.

mAc Chaos wrote: I'm not sure how to feel about how the story is probably going to go.  It's probably going to be yet another "everyone teams up to fight the super bad guy" story.  I always love those, especially with the Overmind because he was so awesome, but the Xel Naga have less "development" as a bad guy and it's been done so so many times before.  Maybe they'll develop it more over those 90 missions.

What I want to know is what incentive are they going to give for the multiplayer crowd to buy the expansions if their main focus is on the singleplayer campaigns.

Doctor Doack wrote:

What I want to know is what incentive are they going to give for the multiplayer crowd to buy the expansions if their main focus is on the singleplayer campaigns.

Well for starters they've confirmed the expansions will be adding new units.

SC2 was REALLY fun to play. I think that if you approach SC2 from a non competitive standpoint and are playing because you love gaming/starcraft then you will thoroughly enjoy the game. It has beautiful graphics, the AI is clever enough that the learning curve is not too steep because micro is essentially done for you at times (Zergling auto-surround, etc) and you can just have a lot of fun playing the game and fooling around with abilities and shit.

From a competitive standpoint I think the game has a LOOOOOOOONG way to go before it can be close to what BW has been. Watching SC2 competitively was not nearly as exciting as watching BW games, and playing competitive SC2 games wasn't nearly as stressful / demanding as playing a competitive BW game is.

Also a problem I had with the game is that they need to rework the color schemes. It is really difficult to see zerg units on creep, and also it really gets hard to differentiate your own units. For example, zealots and templars end up looking really similar if they are clumped together; same thing with the terran melee units.

I would say that I really like SC2, but it is far from being ready as a competitive game to replace BW. I hope that Blizzard is patient and keeps working on it and doesn't release it any time soon.

2 more years until we get a perfect product I'd say!