I hate Starcraft II.

No, I don't mean I hate the game itself. I've never touched the beta.

What I mean is I hate what Starcraft II is doing to my other favorite games.

Ever since Blizzard announced that they were developing Starcraft II, devs and publishers everywhere shit their pants.

These devs and publishers know that no matter how good their games are, they can't possibly hope to go against the Starcraft II juggernaut.

It's bad enough that Blizzard doesn't even give a proper release date, so everytime Blizzard says they gonna finish and ship SC2 'soon', devs and pubslishers shit their pants and rush their games just so they don't have to compete with SC2.

This happened to DowII, and recently CnC4.

And for what? Starcraft II isn't revolutionary in any way. It's just the same game ten years ago with shinier graphics and some new units. In fact, Warcraft III was better. At least that game introduced the Heroes system and has 2 new races. What new things does SC2 got?

i dunno why i'm writing this here. maybe it's because i'm just emo after spending the last 5 hours downloading a patch to bad Company 2 only to have it crash and do it all over again. yet another game ruined by SC2.

This post has been edited by mylife4nerzhul: Mar 23 2010, 10:39 PM

i open this here because i don't want this to be drowned out by l33t tards who think using the [attack move] command is beneath them.

This post has been edited by mylife4nerzhul: Mar 23 2010, 10:56 PM

If that is the case, then Red Alert 3 should be more famous than Starcraft 2. Red Alert 3 was balanced, and supported with patches for a long while.

On top of that, Red Alert 3 had many great ideas and implementations, among them an increased focus on naval battles, a refined rock-paper-scissors unit countering system, an easier resource collecting system, etc. From what i see from youtube, Starcraft II boasts none of that. In fact, Starcraft II is really a stepback from Warcraft III in terms of gameplay.

Yet, there were many l33t tards who always found things to biatch about 'how EA ruined Red Alert', or how 'Westwood CnC was better.' To a lot of people, the exceptional quality of the game seemed irrelevant compared to EA's bad reputation.

I guess at some point EA had enough with all the whining and said, "Okay fine, you pricks think we're an evil soulless corporation out to destroy your games for profit, well fine, have it your own way. Here's CnC4."

This post has been edited by mylife4nerzhul: Mar 24 2010, 07:40 AM

Brag about High APM = add 10+ to e-penis

Declare that Attack-Move is for n00bs = add 20+ to e-penis

Hates Multi Building Selection = add 30+ to e-penis

This post has been edited by mylife4nerzhul: Mar 24 2010, 10:51 AM

Me too. In fact, it's probably gonna be a great game and sell millions.

But that doesn't mean other devs and pubs should chicken out and rush their games. This is especially true for EA. The last time I checked, EA is the LARGEST game publisher in the world. They shouldn't fear Blizzard and their new partner SatanActivision

They could have put more work on CnC4, heck, release it after Starcraft II even. CnC itself is a respected franchise that existed longer before Starcraft. They could have made CnC4 a whole lot better - better than StarCraft II even - if only they man up and ignore Starcraft II instead of chickening out and rushing the game.

I mean look at SC2, just the same vaniall SC1 with shineier graphics. Heck, If I were the CEO of EA or lead designer of CnC4, i'd say to myself, "I think I can do better."

This post has been edited by mylife4nerzhul: Mar 24 2010, 12:38 PM

Very true. RA3 has +9000 crazy ways to win over your opponent. Unlike SC, it is possible in RA3 to make a comeback even after losing most of your units and base. I saw a replay once where this Jap player was left with nothin but a single generator, a shogun battleship and one or two other units, yet managed to come back and destroy his opponent's Allied army and base and winning the game.

Good times.

This post has been edited by mylife4nerzhul: Mar 24 2010, 01:34 PM

lol epic win

Starcraft 2 has none of that by the way.

lol

"Ranger, use your rifle barrage ability on enemy unit id:5298!"

"Combat engineer, I would like you to build our supply depots in such a way that it will block the only access ramp into your base."

"Tank commander, fire at the enemy, and when the enemy engages you, retreat your armored division a little back until you are out of range, and then fire at the enemy again."

"Operator, I have gained enough experience from killing many enemy units in this battle, so i am entitled to call down an off-map airstrike that can hit anywhere i want."

"Squad, concentrate your fire on the enemy commander. He is giving off insane defense auras."

"The enemy squad is composed mainly of riflemen. Rifles are ranged weaponry, so the most effective tactic to counter ranged weaponry is to rush head on with our machete and other close range weapons!"

nope. i iz whine because earlier coldn't patch Bad Company 2 and suddenly went emo

WHoah whoah guys, what's with all the hating?

When i opened this thread, i complained that I hated Starcraft II because it's ruining other potentially good games such as CnC4, DowII, SupCOm2.

I never said Starcraft II, the game itself, is bad. In fact, I'm probably gonna be among the first ones to buy it. I just think that it is irresponsible for Blizzard to not give a release date, since this forces other devs and publishers to rush their games and release them with inferior quality.