AppleSmack
Banned
How does Metzen stay on as the writer when people have despised his work for every game he wrote this entire gen. I don't get it
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//: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm |OT| Like Riding a Bike
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funny enough, there are slight changes and they come in term of deletion. 2 years for that, ladies and gentlemen!
Cpt.Underpants
Member
Maybe because he's bff's with the higher-ups?
Does negative criticism matter when your work still sells?
AppleSmack
Banned
Weird. Tons of people considered WoL campaign as a tutorial when the game came out but you would think that they would really step up the challenge for the expansion. Especially since just about the entire audience should be at least somewhat experienced with Starcraft gameplay. Maybe it's just the first few missions?
AppleSmack
Banned
Sc rely doesn't sell for its story. If anything that seems to detract sales from some of the comments people posted around here. The BFF argument seems more likely
Old boys club. He's been there from the start.
Lessee, 4 missions in into WoL and you were just past the hold out where you got the amazing tech of bunkers?
"His" work selling? He is selling from the shoulders of giants (Broowars and Diablo 2), both two franchises and universes created by far more talented people than he could ever hope to be, and with a whole apparatus of copetitive e-sports and multiplayer designed by David Kim, to boot. The story could be written by Stephenie Meyer and people would still buy it, for God's shake. Hell, I will be buying it HoTs too, but it will be despite of Metzen, not thanks to him, make no mistake.
But why would they need a new turtorial section for so long. Broodwar went right into action. It's not a standalone expansion, so I don't see the need for an extra elaborate turtorial.
RPGCrazied
Member
Going in just for the campaign. Not an RTS player, but I like the StarCraft universe. Never touch multi.
Try the Arcade see if you like that.
Cpt.Underpants
Member
demosthenes
Member
You should get something like the google drunk e-mail preventer. Every time you type > 50 letters in like 10 seconds a screen should pop up asking "do you really want to post this?"
Got home last night @ 10 from work and passed out (didn't even get to watch life vs flash), hoping I can get out a little earlier tonight so I actually have time to play HotS
I dunno * shrug*. SC1 had campaigns for all races so a small tutorial is to be expected for zerg singleplayer, but HotS definitely veers into the "click here to make stuff happen" category of tutorials.
AppleSmack
Banned
Only thing I can think of is that Zerg is a very unique race compared to other RTS titles so blizzard thought that you had to be very thorough for people who never touched multiplayer and just played campaign only.
Chris Metzen is the killer argument against why capitalism doesn't work.
Just started playing the campaign. Done the first 3 mission. Enjoying it so far. I really, really hope that Kerrigan doesn't become the Queen of Blades again. To me that would be a copout reset. I hope she stays as a mentally fucked by ghost, giving the ending of WoL a sense of permanence. That would be a far more ambitious continuation of the story rather than the reappearance of the Queen of Blades again. I strongly expect that I will be disappointed.
Go play multiplayer
Moff
Member
did you juist confirm that she will be queen of blades again?
I think I'd rather get out of this thread until I finished the game myself.
Diablo III was truly weird in this regard. The main story sucked big time, but the sidenotes and some of the NPC conversations were great. It could be felt that there were different people working on the story and on everything else.
NekoToshiro
Member
>Buy HotS
>Decides to beat WoL
>Doesn't play HotS for days
I'm horrible at playing games.
>Decides to beat WoL
>Doesn't play HotS for days
I'm horrible at playing games.
AdventureRacing
Member
Really enjoying the gameplay so far (trying not to pay to much attention to the story my god). One problem i'm having is this damn overheating issue. I tried a hot fix i found online but still if i put my graphics on anything but the lowest setting my laptop starts overheating which really sucks.
I only got it a few months ago and made sure i got one that could run SC2 better (so i could finally play on ultra). Now i'm stuck on the lowest settings cause i don't want to wreck my laptop :/.
That mission is to easy i think. I usually go out and try and kill every zerg unit or building on the map just to have something to do. I wish those missions were actually harder.
I haven't finished yet but i disagree with people saying it's easier. I'm more experienced with zerg but i felt like this campaign was harder (still incredibly easy overall though). Also do you go for achievements? They can really make the levels a lot more challenging.
Gears of war had FAR superior dialogue compared to the dialogue in WOL and HOTS and it actually fit the tone of that universe in my opinion. The dialogue in the SC2 campaigns is schlock and it's almost insultingly bad. Can't believe they expect people to lap this shit up.
I only got it a few months ago and made sure i got one that could run SC2 better (so i could finally play on ultra). Now i'm stuck on the lowest settings cause i don't want to wreck my laptop :/.
That mission is to easy i think. I usually go out and try and kill every zerg unit or building on the map just to have something to do. I wish those missions were actually harder.
I haven't finished yet but i disagree with people saying it's easier. I'm more experienced with zerg but i felt like this campaign was harder (still incredibly easy overall though). Also do you go for achievements? They can really make the levels a lot more challenging.
Gears of war had FAR superior dialogue compared to the dialogue in WOL and HOTS and it actually fit the tone of that universe in my opinion. The dialogue in the SC2 campaigns is schlock and it's almost insultingly bad. Can't believe they expect people to lap this shit up.
Thaedolus
Member
Wait a second...I booted up this morning and had HotS available, cool. But is this game going to continuously download levels as I go to play them? But after the opening cutscene there was a download progress status next to the loading bar, and loading took longer than normal. There's no "download it all now" option?
prodystopian
Member
Does WoL need to be installed on the same drive? How much space does HotS take up?
AppleSmack
Banned
Is the MLG this week? They will be playing HotS?
Catchafire2000
Member
Anyone feel as though the campaign warranted a separate release from WoL, which was Blizzard's argument for splitting of the series into 3 releases?
This game is not a day 1 purchase for me, but I might get it later down the road. I've been milked enough be Blizzard already as it is.
This game is not a day 1 purchase for me, but I might get it later down the road. I've been milked enough be Blizzard already as it is.
Thaedolus
Member
It's all run from the same client, so yes. But I'm not sure how much space it takes up. Right now my SCII directory is 13.2GB, but apparently I don't have all the HotS assets downloaded because they're downloading before missions. Requirements state 20GB.
Moff
Member
I have the same issue
Yeah, I was confused and annoyed by this as well. It was streaming to me prior to each mission.
Yes, and I hope I can attend a barcraft for once...
I play protoss, but fucking cannon rushing is ruining this game. Sure it's easy to counter, but I find (in lower level play) that every time I play against protoss, I have to defend against this scumbag tactic. Photon cannons should take longer to access.
Other than that, HotS is good times.
Other than that, HotS is good times.
Check the Brood War credits. He was responsible for that story too.
AppleSmack
Banned
How you suggest protoss hold off 6 pool if cannons take longer to access?
Hahahahahaha, people are STILL doing that? I remember that in the months after WoL launched. I play Protoss too, and knowing how to defend against Protoss players who might cannon rush was always priority. The best part is when you defend against a cannon rush successfully and then cannon rush the player back. :lol
AppleSmack
Banned
There are actually professional cannon rushers out there. I remember watching some streams. And by "professional cannon rusher", I don't mean a pro-player who just cannon rushes occasionally. I mean a player who specializes in cannon rushing just about every game and is in masters league.
SkyTurnsRed
Banned
How long is it taking people to go through the campaign? My copy comes later, and I'll be going through the campaign first before I dive into the multi.
Does your launcher have a download bar? If it does, you don't have all the files and you can leave the launcher open so it can download the files.
AdventureRacing
Member
IPL was going to be the last WOL tournament, with that being cancelled all the big tournaments are HOTS from now on. Can't wait for MLG, pretty incredible line-up of players.
EU Gaf here. Hopefully HotS will make EU GAF active.
Harlock
Member
You need scout your base and the border of base very early. Even more in 2 spawn maps. Once you see the pylon, send a lot of probes to kill the pylon. And other to kill the probe. Kill first the pylon, because it is what will power the cannon.
In low level is worth put one drone to pursuit the scout enemy drone. The amount of micro your oponent need to do for keep the scout alive will affect your macro play.
Basileus777
Member
I expected the poor writing, but is it just me or is the voice acting of surprisingly low quality? Some of the lines Kerrigan says are just really off.
Moff
Member
on what difficulty are you playing? should be quite easy if you only attack when the flash freeze comes. leave your army in the base between freezes.
What uuuuuup! Join the neogaf channel in SC and if you want a clan invite, PM me your info!
Treemonkeys
Member
Did the first 3 missions last night and the story is fucking great so far.