Comments on: StarCraft 2 Beta Defended from Zerg Rush of Criticism

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:38:34 +0000

First off this has definitely been up for a while now but I just stumbled across it today. Fruzsina Eordogh, man your opinion could not be less valid in terms of assessing StarCraft as a strategy game. The bestselling RTS of all time, not to mention the beginning of pro-league competitive RTS in Korea speaks naturally to the popularity and success of the first game.

Now as most people know betas are designed to test out the games dynamics with a basic rubric. There’s a corellation between what goes and what stays for the release which public forums influence surely, but ultimately game dynamics in the beta versus the release are two different pies. Now if the overload ability of the phoenix from the beta was kept, mutalisks would never be built against protoss players. The graviton beam is cool, but that overload ability would have come in handy in some games I’ve played!

By: kenno

kenno — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:51:47 +0000

Thank god they kept the same formula. This is truly an awesome game. I was scared that it would be ruined in the same way Command & Conquer was by messing with some of the original elements of the game.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:42:52 +0000

Same old, same old, with better graphics. Love the commercial – they should make an anime movie.

By: A Nony Mouse

A Nony Mouse — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:11:29 +0000

If you are asking yourself this question, you should search the internets for the answer. Blizzard stated that they did not start on the game development (not artwork) until ’05. After development started, resources were diverted to WoW and developing its next expansion, which took about a year. To your comment on the game being exactly the same, I say, kind of. Those of us who have not been able to play the campaign have only been able to experience the multiplayer, which is very similar to the original in many aspects. However, the single player campaign has been flooded with new play systems. If you are curious to what those are, again just search the internets. It would not be convenient to mention those here in much detail.

By: john

john — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:20:43 +0000

This game is StarCraft. If you played StarCraft when it first came out or you are still playing it, you will enjoy SC 2. So many games change up their formula way too much. Thank god Blizzard realized, “Hey people still play the first SC after 12 years – maybe we should keep the basics.”

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:02:18 +0000

I’ll put my massed hydralisks with defiler support against your air units any day of the week.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:24:04 +0000

I’m really, really looking forward to SC2. I’ve watched dozens of Beta games but have yet to play. Although a great game, I would enjoy more strategy around terrain. The high ground and depot blocks are cool, but perhaps swamp land that only affects some units would add more depth?

The more strategic elements to the game the better.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:08:47 +0000

This game is l33t – I poo my pants when I see it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 May 2010 09:10:23 +0000

And story? If you play the sequel for the story, explain to me why you’re researching so many technologies that you had to in the first game? (siege mode, personal cloaking, armor and weapon lvls 1, 2, and 3, etc.)

It’s ridiculous. I’m not saying that it’s not a good game, but it’s not at all what the first was in its day. If blizzard thinks that stuffing it with DRM will widen its appeal, they’re sorely mistaken.

Paying a lot for a beta key doesn’t mean that it’s a good game. Still being able to buy it in stores 11 years after it was released means it’s a good game. Given how there are many RTS games are already out that are better than this, doesn’t speak well for its staying power.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 May 2010 09:02:44 +0000

It’s a game where learning about each of your possible tools to victory is a must otherwise you might very well get outplayed.

The learning curve is steep but once you get there, it’s hella fun. I didn’t play the first SC and I am not a fan of RTS in general, but SC2 is very good already at the beta stage and it will get better.

Once again Blizzard doesn’t break the mold and gives us a well packaged game with mechanics we are familiar with and we like. Blizzard NEVER innovated a lot but they took concepts we had seen before and made them work very well.

No reinventing the wheel here, just giving us a very good system that has been proven to work.