Thursday, July 29, 2010

A stone killer

That is what Starcraft II single player is. I’m about two thirds through and enjoying it far more than I anticipated. The story is a little boring (but that is basically because a video game will never tell a story as well as a good book), but the missions are really varied and do not encourage turtling nearly as much as I feared.Screenshot2010-07-29 15_32_25The midnight launch event was great as always. I’ve tried to photograph similar events before, but it is really, really difficult. Especially when you are also eager to get your copy and get home to SC2MidnightReleaseplay. I tried nonetheless, but don’t know well this photo conveys 40+ young men waiting in line at a Gamestop shop about 10 minutes walk from my apartment.

I saw about 4 girls and maybe one of them was actually there to pick up a copy for herself. The 3 others clearly weren’t. I, as usual, was the oldest guy around and I was even wearing my 12 years old Starcraft I t-shirt (which is pretty worn down by now). In other words: I took the liberty of geeking totally out this one night.

Right now I’ll concentrate on completing the campaign and then play ladder. It may take a couple of more days.

Posted by Fafner at 17:02
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7 comments:

  1. MichaelJuly 29, 2010 at 5:54 PM

    I bought the game on amazon the day it came out, I waited too damn long for this game not to play it. I coul'nt wait until it's shipped so I downloaded a crack and finished the campaign last night. I beat the whole thing on Hard difficult, accept the last mission. That was so damn HARD and frustration OH God!

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  2. Morten WittrockJuly 29, 2010 at 7:32 PM

    Couldn't agree more. The singleplayer is awesome.

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  3. MichaelJuly 29, 2010 at 8:09 PM

    For clarification, I took the nydus worms out so I had to fight the air stuff. Damn broodlords and that flying hero thing rocked my socks off. I don't even think it's beatable :-(

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  4. AiurAdunAugust 1, 2010 at 3:36 AM

    Hehe Michael i had the same expereiense just with the nydus worms instad of flying units and let me tell ya it was frekaing annoying!, but after a few attempts a long break and a few atempts more i finished it on hard and even got the "hard" archivement as well.

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  5. FafnerAugust 2, 2010 at 5:34 PM

    I had to try 6 times to complete the final mission. I took the air-stuff out so I had to deal with nydus worms all over.

    In the fifth attempt I lost a group of banshees in 2 seconds lack of attention. If not for that, I think I could have made it in only five tries.

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  6. wow goldAugust 3, 2010 at 5:43 AM

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  7. AiurAdunAugust 4, 2010 at 3:41 AM

    Yeah its quite hardcore. I hope the few tips i gave payed off hehe. In my speed run of around 6:10 on normal. it was just a breeze getting through that last mission no effort required at all compared to hard mode, i am sooo _not_ looking forward to brutal

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