Think Starcraft II is not a GOTY Contender? Think Again...

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Khuutra said:

Helios said:

routsounmanman said:

Galaki said:

It's not my cup. I don't want to take it.

That's totally understandable and I accept it, you cannot claim "more of the same" though. Hell, not on Starcraft you can.

I wish it was more of the same. Starcraft 2 has nothing of what made the original so great. It's a good game in it's own right, but it's not Starcraft.

From most I would take this as being like a complaint from a Zelda fan (yuk yuk yuk), but you saying this has made me intensely curious, especially since I wasn't a big Starcraft player.

What's wrong with the sequel?

It's really different.  In fact, I'm baffled by Joystiq's statement that it hasn't changed because it's so timeless.  I mean, I agree that the original StarCraft is timeless, like chess or Tetris.  But StarCraft 2 is nothing like StarCraft 1.  I'm not complaining.  It's just... really really different.

I don't have the game yet though, so I haven't played the campaign.  I'm hearing the campaign is awesome, and the level editor is better than ever before, which should make for endless replay value.  I only played the multiplayer in the Beta, and let's just say the games are different enough that my skills didn't translate to the new experience whatsoever.  At E3 I was kicking ass at the new GoldenEye, dominating like I did on the N64 when I was 15.  But after dumping the best years of my lif einto SC1... SC2's Beta kicked my ass every match.