Starcraft 2

[Leeko]

BTW: This game price, or rather: Price for 1/3rd of what Star Craft 2 should be (cause *** Blizaard splitted the game into 3 parts instead of one) is ridiculous. Many better games were priced less... we're paying for the Blizzard logo in intro? What the....

Think of it this way. Starcraft 1 was 30 missions, with three campaigns. SC2: Wings of Liberty is 28 missions, which are not only much more diversified but contain much more plot development and much more polished and well thought out cinematics and such. But it's just one campaign. Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void will be full price, but they'll also be ~30 missions with only one campaign. With how blown away I am by Wings of Liberty's campaign, I have to think it would be awful if they compressed it all into one game the same size as Starcraft 1. And if they made it larger to accomodate this...

If they did it differently, wouldn't the game still be in development and be less polished overall? (because of people wanting it naow! + no money from releasing the first one)

I'd like to add, though, that with the money from World of Warcrack (11 million strong ) they wouldn't need money from SC1... but moving on.

Will they come with multiplayer improvements/game modes? (Like Dawn of War) Or will it just be a new story?

Yep, just like in SC1: Brood War we'll get new toys to play with as well. So the multiplayer will get more interesting too. Aside from that, you can count on blizzard to maintain the game until 2030 or so when SC3 comes out. Starcraft 1 was still getting patched and rebalanced a decade after its release.

Got another question. Does the Single player require internet connection to run? e.g. can you phsically unplug your ethernet jack, start up single player campaign, and it works?

You have to register it online but then you can play it whenever you want I think. I'm not entirely sure, but you either have the option to "Play as Guest" or sign in to battle.net. If you get disconnected after logging in to BNet you don't get booted out of your single player game though. Found that out thanks to a power surge and a battery backup power strip.

[SquareSphere }12thVR{]

As far as i can tell the SP only uses the internet to track and record achievements, otherwise it plays normally... i think

[=KoS= Tripod]

Forgot about warcraft funds

[Leeko]

As far as i can tell the SP only uses the internet to track and record achievements, otherwise it plays normally... i think

What's your Real ID address brah?

Also, yay you put your old picture thingy back. I missed the pancake chef.

[=KoS= Tripod]

As far as i can tell the SP only uses the internet to track and record achievements, otherwise it plays normally... i think

What's your Real ID address brah?

Also, yay you put your old picture thingy back. I missed the pancake chef.

I missed him too

[Jerik]

Loving this game so far. Single player isn't as big of base building as the original, because lots of buildings are already provided. As for multiplayer, there is a special league for noob's to learn to play and get owned, so you don't have to feel bad for getting repeatedly destroyed. And there's no feeling quite like destroying everything another player worked so hard to create  (but maybe thats just me) 

[Deathbane]

Lack of lan -> no purchase.

Seriously.

Battle net has, and always will be, utter fail, and im a steam user!.

Ill possibly 'acquire' it to see what the singleplayer is like, but the lack of zerg and protoss campaigns means bleh to me.

[Pikey]

Its so expensive because this game has actually been made out of Win and God.

Best game I've played this year and infact for quite a few years. Great character and plot development and with added features of being able to use Merc units and purchasable tech. But somehow they managed to keep it feeling just like SC1. Another thing is how well its been optimised, no stutter on graphics whatsoever even with thousands of Units on screen (Protoss finale  )

Is a shame about not being able to play over LAN but no big loss.

[^sPikE-]

Bought it the second it came out, because blizzard never fails. Every game they release is just packed with epic win.

Quite frankly with all the new units, the way they are balanaced, the way the single player campaign is structured, with sooo many insanely cool custom maps people are making, and the way battle.net is incorporated in all of it, this must be one of the best games of our time.

When they said no lan without internet i was a bit dissapointed, but we all know crackers will get around that soon.

[(TLL)CapperDeluxe]

i just found out you can play SC2 single player offline by using one of three "Guest" accounts, where multiplayer is disabled.

[~SJ~ Karuik]

i had my doubts, but this game has turned me to the light.

obviously the dev team conducted rituals of the wingodsofleetmagicpowah over the first copy of this game, and forever blessed it with win.

[(TLL)Siilk]

Planning to get it soon. I loved SC back then and I hear mostly positive feedback on SC2. Looks like Blizzard got that one right.

[~SJ~ Karuik]

other than being split into three games, yeah they did right. 

[Leeko]

other than being split into three games, yeah they did right. 

See my post. Be an optimist.

[Gravecoast]

Best game I've bought all year. Feels like SC1, but with improved graphics, a long story (man I missed a good ingame story) and the multiplayer is superb, with the n00b league and the placement matches to get you to players of your level *hint you will get owned in a few placement matches*
This was well worth the money and the 12ish year wait. Plus like other have said, blizz is probably gonna support it for years. Plus probably gonna be yearish wait for each expansion.