En taro adun! Starcraft II?

[matgb]

D'you know what the very first thing I ever did on a PC was? We're going way back now, before I owned my own, before hte internet was common, we're talking '95 or '96. I was working in Games Workshop Torquay, and one of our part timers invited me back to his to play some games. So I didn, he had two PCs, and he taught me how to play Warcraft II. I was hooked; it became a regular thing, most weeks after work, I'd give hima lift hom, his mother would cook us a meal and we'd play one of the best early RTS games.

Then Starcraft came out. Oh boy. We played it regularly, and at one point a bunch of us hired a local cybercafe (again, before the internet was common) for a weekend, and played it pretty much constantly. Considering I didn't ever get to play except at Sy's, I got to be pretty good. Eventually, I got my own PC, and bought a budget pack with both WarII and Starcraft with Brood War. I still play each of them occasionally, and my PC has the two-headed ogre We're ready master / I'm not ready as the boot up sound. I don't play World of Warcraft because a) I don't have a good enough connection and b) I know what I'm like, and you'd never see me leave the house ever again. Those Korean guys that are found dead in 'net cafes? I relate to those poor gits; there but for the grace of bloody strong willpower go I.

The point of this article? I'm doomed. No, really, I'm in real trouble. There's so much cool stuff, and the even have some videos! (via)

I suspect my fairly new PC will be below spec for it, but so much pretty! And, let's be honest, I'll spend at least a few games building every unit possible and clicking on them until they say something silly. Because I'm like that.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Starcraft 2... right, must get house move sorted out before it appears else I lose myself for weeks :)

[sexygoldfish-uk.livejournal.com]

Doh, it would help if I signed in before commenting!

[matgb]

Yup, but no real matter, I've had a few anons recently, and I'm wondering if I should turn on the screening thing to warn people. Not keen on it but it might help, never sure if it's a mistake or not.

Seriously, go watch the videos, the Protoss charge move is so cool...

[matgb]

Um, cool. And you are?

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

"I don't play World of Warcraft because a) I don't have a good enough connection and b) I know what I'm like, and you'd never see me leave the house ever again."

I did that once one weekend. Didn't hardly move, let alone leave the house. Mark was away, I couldn't be arsed to do any work, what else was I meant to do?!

[matgb]

Eat food?

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

I think I remembered to eat.

[fairylaura.livejournal.com]

Given that Starcraft can run on pretty much anything, hopefully Starcraft II will follow the same pattern, just a few years further on.

Mind you, I haven't moved on in five years, so I expect Starcraft II to be far out of my reach. *sigh*

Actually, that's a bloody good idea. Just what I need to distract my from the god-awful installation hell going on upstairs.

[matgb]

Well, if you will play around with multiple 'nix distros you're asking for trouble anyway. Although I am planning to give Ubuntu another go at some point in the future.

But you're right of course, blizzard aims themselves at the mainstream, not the bleeding edge, so odds are I won't need much more to play it. Hopefully. Besides, I won't buy it immediately anyway.

[fairylaura.livejournal.com]

I'm not playing with them any more- since Ubuntu didn't work straight out of the box (or off the disc...), I've left it in the hands of Richard, who's gone back to the distro that he knows.
Unfortunately we needed my PC running Windows in order to burn a CD as I've got the only CD-R drive in the house. For some reason the CD keys that I've used for about four years have stopped working, so we looked for a few more- and now R's PC is running programmes to get rid of the damn trojans that he picked up along the way.

At least once that's sorted, we know where we are. Installing across the network is out of my domain but thankfully in his.

Anyway. Starcraft. Definitely worth keeping a dual boot for.

Off t' pub. Beer is good.

[fairylaura.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the best thing: they'll release it 'When it's ready'.

Brilliant.

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

It's Blizzard, what did you expect?

[susumu.livejournal.com]

Oh man. And there'll be a Mac version. Oh double man.

[malkavelli.livejournal.com]

My favourite was the Protoss Archon.

I too am doomed.

[matgb]

I'm currently resisting hte temptation to play the game again. Just.

I have the disk next to me having dug them out. I may be in trouble.

[(Anonymous)]

I, too, have dug out the disks. This may be the third time I have re-installed in as many years.

Damn I shouldnt have watched those vids.

I am quite tempted as I actually never finished the Expansion....

[malkavelli.livejournal.com]

The above is me. /sigh @ LJUI

[js84.livejournal.com]

The Zergs look cool.

I played the Starcraft demo a lot. It was at a time when we thought we couldn't live in Cornwall anymore and were packing to move house, so I don't have the happiest of memories associated with it.

[nadriel.livejournal.com]

Hee. Heehee. Heeheehee.

Go team Protoss!