Starcraft 2

Have they announced an official release date?

Originally posted by herbbread Yes, I cannot wait until SC2.  I could never get into Warcraft 3 and the whole hero system, creeping, and lots of micro.  I prefer the fast paced, mass-army, macro-scale combat of the Starcraft universe and it seems they've tried to keep that in place in SC2.  I know they took into consideration the whole pro-gamer culture (especially the popularity in Korea) when designing the game, so it'll be exciting to see what it's like.  Battle.net has also been revamped so it'll be cool so see those changes as well. Blizzard has never disappointed.  Their only flop was starcraft ghost.

Which never got released, so don't worry. I also had trouble with warcraft 3. Even though I get owned pretty bad in SC anyways, at least I could easily beat the PC. In WC3, however, its different story

pre ordering SC2 gets u a beta key, with bb/fs and gamestop?

Zerg is the best if you play a fast paced game. 

When the next one comes out, it's bye-bye social life =P

I love SC. Cant wait SC2 come out. I heard they are taken pre-order right now and it will ship in JULY. I love fast pace so i prefer Zerg or Zealot.

The new units look awesome. Protoss has a bunch of crazy new tech.

Can't wait for this game to come out. I've been playing the beta and its just amazing! Just look at South Korea, SC1 is a national past time there!

big game hunters!

i'm waiting for a sc2 dota ;]

terran all the way! Battle Cruisers were the stuff!

All this amp over SC2 but come on hands down Diablo 3! one of the most bad ass games ever!! MAD COW LEVEL + Dual wielding barbs whirlwinding through the mass cow crowd... ALL THAT BLOOD AND SPLATTER! EPIC!

haha but i still think SC2 is pretty dam bonkas! pity World of warcraft got milked out for every drop the game have to provide in regards to excitement.....cant believe they are still dragging out that game.. they literally killed of every well known boss name that existed in the original warcraft story line. Soon they will make random names up and random evil bosses out of their ass then you'll be seeing new race.. ALIENS!

Got my beta key few days back - havent had time to play the ladder yet only few custom games - so far very impressive. Alot of updates from the original.

PROTOSS FTW man. cant wait for SC2 but all my moneys spent on snowabording gear lol.

SC2... damn blizzard... is it true that they're releasing it in 3 parts (for each race)?.. if they are.. WOW.. like they need the extra money.. and as for best race, it has to be.. any of them really.. terran used to dominate (low money maps of course) then all of these crazy korean pros came up w/ crazy strats for zerg/toss, so now terran seems to blow.. but i have to give it up to blizzard, they did one hell of a job making this a SUPER balanced game (lots of fun too )

Originally posted by azn_dan yup, the game is still coming out in three parts, but isn't that more to do with single player?

ya i think so.. it's about the campaign basically, but i have a feeling each version will change multiplayer too.. kind of like BW did.. but the thing about SC2 is.. your computer has to be the SHIT to run the game.. and I'm kind of scared at how laggy it's going to be at first..

Btw if you haven't seen the video of the guy who gets his beta cd key and then his gf rips it up while the guy freaks out.. you need to watch it LOL

actually, blizzard games in general can run on various computer setups, sure it may not look as nice, but a p4 should be able to run sc2 as long as it isn't a dedicated video card. It just won't have all the eye candy and what not. There is a performance review of the game on tomshardware.com, should be the second or third article on the main page.

ive been playing the beta version for awhile now!! its pretty fun!!

you guys hope that star craft 2 is the same as star craft 1?

or would you rather them throw in a whole new different system?

have a couple friends playing the beta already.  ive heard pretty much nothing but good things about it.

It was rumored that they were making a Xel'Naga race. But the korean fans disapproved. So I do not think Blizzard would risk the balance to add another race.

Can't wait, wish I could play the beta

SC2 is pretty much the same feel as SC1.

Though I'm still peeved at the guys at Blizzard for the ZERO lan support for it.

and why do i feel like blizzard has been purposely holding SC2 off for so long? I remember like 4-5 years back when I heard rumors about them making it, then it turned into SC Ghost (FAIL) and now back to SC2.. I feel like they're just milking the money off of SC1 and the betas for SC2.. but maybe I'm also just bitter towards blizzard for being such marketing geniuses/assholes

Interesting quote about the current beta race balancing from an Ars article:  

Originally posted by herbbread Interesting quote about the current beta race balancing from an Ars article: "The Protoss are winning," he tells someone who asked about game balancing. "And they're winning alot." According to their stats, when Terran faces Zerg, or Protoss faces Zerg, the win/loss numbers are within 1 percent of each other. When Protoss faces Terran, there is a five percent advantage to Protoss. He says they're still gathering data, and points out that there are regional differences as well: on the Korean servers, the Zerg seem to need to be somewhat nerfed, as that race is dominating. In the US, the Zerg seem to need a little help. The regional differences are interesting as well. I never realized gameplay styles were so different between Korea and the US.

That is really interesting.. I always thought "foreign" (non-Koreans) just copied the Korean pros.. But, I think the balance needs to be based off the best players (Koreans) b/c that (in my opinion) is how the game was made to be played..

But, 1%-5% isn't that crazy.. The percentages for SC1 probably were similar. When Boxer dominated I'm sure terran had the upper hand, then the saviors, jaedongs, etc. came along and then the zerg win percentages probably went up.. I guess that's what makes the game so appealing, new strategies keep changing it

Originally posted by azn_dan just got into the beta, pretty psyched! Played my first game last night and i can say is wow. Graphics are much better, but alot to learn with the new units and what not. I might be able to get a few keys if anyone is interested in playing.