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sinha on 03 September 2007

Starcraft 2 was the PC game I was most looking forward to, until I saw this video:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/video_player.html?id=dXM7kjuq5bkLvTXW


I look forward to playing Crisis when I buy a PC that can handle it... in 2010.



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crazynarutard on 03 September 2007

The day that they announced Starcraft 2 has to have been one of the happiest days of my life. I'm already building a new PC for Starcraft 2, have been planning it since Starcraft 2 has been announced =P I just hope it is as good as we all hope it will be. Since the last big game I looked forward to on the PC was Age of Empires 3, and that for me was a huge dissapointment. Let's just hope Blizzard spends more time on SC2 rather than WoW so we could have an earlier release ;D



 

Sqrl on 04 September 2007
sinha said:

Starcraft 2 was the PC game I was most looking forward to, until I saw this video:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/video_player.html?id=dXM7kjuq5bkLvTXW


I look forward to playing Crisis when I buy a PC that can handle it... in 2010.


 I didn't think crysis was too bad considering how nice it looks....

 Minimum Requirements:
  • CPU: Athlon 64 3000+/Intel 2.8ghz
  • Graphics: Nvidia 6600/X800GTO (SM 2.0)
  • RAM: 768Mb/1Gb on Windows Vista
  • HDD: 6GB
  • Internet: 256k+
  • Optical Drive: DVD
  • Software: DX9.0c with Windows XP
Recommended Requirements:
  • CPU: Dual-core CPU (Athlon X2/Pentium D)
  • Graphics: Nvidia 7800GTX/ATI X1800XT (SM 3.0) or DX10 equivalent
  • RAM: 1.5Gb
  • HDD: 6GB
  • Internet: 512k+ (128k+ upstream)
  • Optical Drive: DVD
  • Software: DX10 with Windows Vista
Everything there is pretty doable honestly, especially on the minimum side. 

 
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Fuzzmosis on 04 September 2007

Blizzard is an amazingly high quality developer, but they definately take their time.
ID has made leaps and bounds for FPSes, you could consider them the father.
Valve Took what ID did and improved it.
Epic did, umm, well, a pinball game that was pretty fun, One Must Fall 2097, and oh yeah, Unreal, which was a competitor to Quake. They still feud on occasion.

In terms of History, ID and Blizzard are the most important, in terms of Quality, Blizzard/Valve are the best, in terms of spreading out types of games, Epic and Blizzard are about the same. So, by those 3 categories, Blizzard takes the win in my book, even if the others definitely cannot be overlooked.



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Lost tears of Kain on 04 September 2007

One of my favorite games of all times has a sequal coming out

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Astrodust on 04 September 2007

I like the Starcraft and Warcraft series. Could never get into Warcraft 3 though. I would like to see Blizzard bring Starcraft to the Wii because this is the area that has been unexploited on the Wii so far. RTS. I'm sure you cant to everything that you could on the PC but it would make other companies consider making RTS games for the Wii. I don't think it would cost them very much and the Wii userbase is growing.



 

 

routsounmanman on 04 September 2007

PC gaming does not need to be saved. Oblivion, Bioshock, Medieval, etc... PC gaming is not in danger people; anyways, looks amazing; cannot wait.



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Bodhesatva on 04 September 2007

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Mnementh on 04 September 2007
Warlord_ said:
naznatips said:
Warlord_ said:
The game does look like fun but nothing really new or amazing. During the video's they keep saying new this and new that but the units are nothing new, all they did is change the name, that air ship that tranforms into a goliath lol, and that thor thing looks like crap, all the terran units and buildings are all just boxes, one would think they could of added more to the game after 10 years or whatever its been since the original starcraft. That protoss walker is the exact same thing from the war of the worlds movie or whatever its called.

This game has been a joke so far, lets hope they do something better with the Zerg.

You have no appreciation for quality.  What the hell are you judging this game on?  Starcraft is the greatest RTS of all time and Blizzard is one of the greatest developers of all time.  Everything points to this game being something truly amazing.


I'm judging this game on all rts games that have come out, this game is nothing amazing and only slightly better then the original.  Starcraft one is judged way to high in the rts community, the game is old and boring and shows it.  The original starcraft might of been good when it game out 10 years ago, but not now.


You're right if you say the game is old. You're wrong if you say it is boring. The thing is: even if it is that old, it is continously one of the most important e-sport-games. All the time, no other RTS came out, that delivered the same or better multiplayer experience. I think it's the balance - not only between the different factions, but also between different strategies. A rush, a dropship attack, big armies, attack with multiple nuclear bombs, ... - all of this can be successful. Thats why Starcraft is never boring, every match is different. No one else was able to make a game like this. I fear, that even blizzard is unable to make such a game again. But I will hope.



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Mnementh on 04 September 2007
Astrodust said:
I like the Starcraft and Warcraft series. Could never get into Warcraft 3 though. I would like to see Blizzard bring Starcraft to the Wii because this is the area that has been unexploited on the Wii so far. RTS. I'm sure you cant to everything that you could on the PC but it would make other companies consider making RTS games for the Wii. I don't think it would cost them very much and the Wii userbase is growing.

Yes, Wii should become good RTS, but not a simple PC-Port. RTS are too complex, that you can simple port the input-scheme to the wii. Think about how many keys you use, if you are in a heated Starcraft-battle. I wish some well-made RTS designed for the Wii.



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