OT: Starcraft II announced! - Page 3

Artaud · #1 June 1st, 2007, 10:06 PM

I loved the original Starcraft.

I see that unfortunately, the new version will have system-hogging 3-D graphics. Which means that I won't be buying it.

I have a pretty powerful CPU and a nice graphics card. But I've never encountered a game that was actually made better by being 3-D. The latest piece of 3-D junk I stupidly spent my money on was Caesar IV.

Even though my system is way beyond what the box says the minimum specs are, the game is so "mushy" and cursor control is so difficult that I've actually re-loaded Caesar III and re-discovered what a great game that is.

Game designers just don't get it.

Or maybe I'm just too old, and more impressed by addictive gameplay (remember that?) than pretty 3D graphics.

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 June 1st, 2007, 10:49 PM

Homeworld has 3D graphics and they contribute to gameplay, too. So does Half-Life.

se5a · #3 June 2nd, 2007, 12:55 AM

supreme commander?

Yimboli · #4 June 2nd, 2007, 12:12 PM

Time will tell, but my guess is starcraft 2 will not fall short of "addictive gameplay".

Civ4, imho, was noticeably enhanced by the 3d gameplay. Whether the enhancement was significant enough to warrant me buying a new graphics card, well my jury is still out there.

I can't wait for starcraft 2... looks like they'll have to give the terrans something beefy to handle those immortals if their shields block such a large portion of siege tank blasts.

BlueTemplar · #5 June 7th, 2007, 05:00 PM

Since Blizzard wants SC2 to be a competitive game, it will probably run very smoothly, especially if you desactivate most of the spacial effects. (But since my computer has a hard time running even SE5, I think I'll have to buy a new one anyway).

GuyOfDoom · #6 June 22nd, 2007, 01:30 PM

Due to nostalgia I reinstalled SC1 and have started going back through the original campaign. Once I get to Brood Wars I think I'm going to take my crack at battle.net, but I'm certain that years of natural selection have left everyone on b.net in the rush mode that I left it.

I'm sad to hear the Blizzard is tuning SC2 to be a quick pace game such that they predict an "average" game to last 20-30 mins and "Pro" games should last 15.