Official Starcraft 2 Thread

[ImaNihilist]

Bing-freakin-Go.

Which is why I have such a hard time going back to RTS games. They're fun and can be very involving, but the actual strategy is so gamey, that its almost the strategy equivalent of playing Madden online; you don't play actual football the way it would be coached on the field, you have to play the "game" version and find the tricks.

That's not to say its not a strategy in and of itself, it's just not the kind of strategy I can get into anymore.

When I used to be big into RTS it was in the early days of Red Alert and StarCraft. At that time I was playing either with my friends or my brother. Hell, I remember playing Red Alert over the modem... and sometimes games would last 2+ hours if we played large maps.

The games were much more about building a defense first, then and offense and trying to find a weakness in the opponents defense.

Playing SC2 online (finally) seems to be an exercise in, well, hacking the game. It's about attacking as soon as possible, using structures as "sandbags", kiting (is that the term in RTS world?), etc.. I can't tell if I like it or hate it.