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      CommentAuthorWookiee
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2010 edited
     # 1
    Who's with me? I go by owook.
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      CommentAuthorstilton
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2010
     # 2
    Oh great, I turn my back for a minute and the kids start speaking another language.
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      CommentAuthorscot
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2010
     # 3
    I got that sinking feeling we're talking about some kind of momrororgpggg
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      CommentAuthorJeff
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2010
     # 4
    I need to get this. I still blame the original starcraft for my flunking out of college. So I'll probably lose my job over this one.
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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2010
     # 5
    I'll wait until it's a) cheaper, and b) you don't run into this kind of crap when you pay $60+ for a piece of software:



    24855 days is about, what, 70 years?

    I'll vote with my dollars, thanks. Not worth it for me to pay a premium for that.
    • CommentAuthorsal
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010
     # 6
    it's because they've brainwashed millions of starcraft fanboys with the basically ready to play beta and the forums and blah blah. there are THAT MANY people trying to buy SC2 this second.

    i played the warcraft 3 RTS and spent most of my time making pretty night elf towns with no defenses cause who the fuck cares about that? i bought the new stuff expansion for sims 3 instead. i am such a girl.
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      CommentAuthorWookiee
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010 edited
     # 7
    I activated at lunch yesterday, had 0 wait. Is that a screen cap from like 12:05am yesterday?
  1.  # 8
    Posted By: SpecialK24855 days is about, what, 70 years?


    24855 sounds like an integer overflow fuckup rather than an actual waiting time, but maybe I misestimate.
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      CommentAuthorWookiee
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010 edited
     # 9
    Posted By: batterpunts24855 sounds like an integer overflow fuckup rather than an actual waiting time, but maybe I misestimate.

    In seconds: 2147483640
    Power of 2: 2147483648

    You are correct sir. Their estimated time doesn't show the 8s, BUT IT'S THERE.
  2.  # 10
    You win for doing the math. I just did the hunch work.

    Hey K, send the shot over to The Daily WTF, for its Error'd category.
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      CommentAuthorsole
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010
     # 11
    This hurts me in my hurty place so bad I'm seriously tempted to drop a couple Gs for a system to play this on.

    It's my birthday on Friday. That's a good enough reason, right?
  3.  # 12
    Seriously, what's with all the fawning over this RTS?
  4.  # 13
    Then again, I'm in love with Fallout 3.
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      CommentAuthorscot
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010
     # 14
    is this a game where you look at maps and decide how a bunch of treasure trolls are gonna get fed?
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      CommentAuthorWookiee
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010
     # 15
    This is a game where you look at maps and decide how you're going to blow the whole thing up.
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      CommentAuthorscot
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010
     # 16
    that sounds good on paper, but my heart tells me you are FOR SURE glossing over a bunch of orc management panels.
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      CommentAuthorsole
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010
     # 17
    Orc management panels are a positive good when deployed in the service of blowing shit up.

    I have purchased a new machine. Starcraft will be mine.
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      CommentAuthorJeff
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010
     # 18
    I can't get the downloader app to work on my mac. It just does nothing when I launch it. jaksldjfkl;sjfkl
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      CommentAuthorGeorge
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010
     # 19
    Posted By: scotorc management panels
    What?
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      CommentAuthorsole
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010
     # 20
    Panels for managing orcs.


    What? You think they're going to manage themselves?
    • CommentAuthorsal
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010
     # 21
    orc peons are notoriously lazy and require serious management, usually with a beatstick.
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      CommentAuthorstilton
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010
     # 22
    What, you can't hire some orc supervisors and orc middle managers?
  5.  # 23
    Darwinia has that, but then you have to manage the managers, so...

    So, what's so special about Starcraft, really? Is it a different experience from things like AoE and C&C?

    Because here's the deal: I don't like RTS mostly because there's too much shit to keep track of, and I'm personally very poor at that. The reason I love Fallout but hate WoW/Lineage, despite them employing the same principles, is that Fallout 3 is simpler and more manageable to my mind. It has the same, but less of it.

    Similarly, there was this old Playstation (I) game called Wargames where you'd get like two or three units at the start of a map and that's it. I enjoy doing more with less.

    Unless it's Zerg, in which case I can imagine the fun of swamping the enemy in fucktons of units.
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      CommentAuthorGeorge
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010
     # 24
    Posted By: soleWhat? You think they're going to manage themselves?
    It's more that I thought they were largely unmanageable.
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      CommentAuthorscot
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010
     # 25
    fuck... I thought fallout was supposed to be a run and jump game and now you are implying that there is city planning and wheat rationing involved.
  6.  # 26
    I said WoW and Lineage.
    • CommentAuthorsal
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010
     # 27
    wow does not have orc management panels or boar meat requisition tables.

    you might enjoy the campaign in SC2 wil, but the online competitive stuff is dominated by asians with insane twitch reflexes who will have an entire army descending on you before you've had time to build a barracks. it's rough.
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      CommentAuthorscot
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010
     # 28
    so... is fallout about running and jumping, or what?

    does the main character step on turtles to progress? Y/N
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      CommentAuthorWookiee
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010
     # 29
    Butterpants - WORLD OF Warcraft is a totally different animal from Warcraft 1/2/3.

    You will probably have the same annoyance with Starcraft, it also annoys me, but it really only an issue when you play matches against korean kids. The campaign is actually very involved and entertaining (where you go on missions and story unfolds and you're playing against scripted AI). The live PVP vs friends who are not world experts is fun too. You can play in a slower mode so you can actually react before getting roflstomped.
  7.  # 30
    We seem to be having a small communications glitch.

    Posted By: WookieeButterpants - WORLD OF Warcraft is a totally different animal from Warcraft 1/2/3.


    Yes, I know.

    I said that WoW/Lineage employ the same principles as Fallout, yet I dislike Wow/Lineage. It's a quantity thing, mostly.



    Posted By: WookieeYou will probably have the same annoyance with Starcraft, it also annoys me, but it really only an issue when you play matches against korean kids.


    This is sad. :(
    I was hoping for a Different Kind Of RTS. I think such games have been made with contemporary army stuff, but I can't really remember sharply. Commander Thingy or something similarly cliche'd.
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      CommentAuthorbatterpunts
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010 edited
     # 31
    Posted By: scotso... is fallout about running and jumping, or what?

    does the main character step on turtles to progress? Y/N


    Yes.

    Turtles.

    Rather, the turtles step on him, but it employs the same principle, so to speak.

    It's also about shooting. Lots and lots of shooting. Also V.A.T.S., which is basically like, "Hey game, target that fellow" -> GAME PAUSES -> You click on the left leg and confirm. An animation plays out where you hit the guy's left leg. Or not-- depending on your personal stats such as weapons skill, weapon condition, level, perks etc.

    You are free to ignore that feature, though, but I like it, because it conserves ammo due to lack of gangsta-style More Dakka shootouts and, unfairly, deals more damage.
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      CommentAuthorJeff
    • CommentTimeAug 4th 2010
     # 33
    GAH still can't get this to run. Actually. I can't even get the blizzard downloader.app to run to even install the goddamn game. What a fucking waste of $60. I should have just stole the game.
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      CommentAuthorWookiee
    • CommentTimeAug 4th 2010
     # 34
    I had no probs on a Macbook or WIndows 7 box, though both are fairly new machines.