Ah, sorry about that, I must've become stupid for a moment.

Let's just chalk it up to lack of sleep and forget I ever said that...

But you still need to keep a drone or two around, don't you?

The Protoss' thing was always having few, expensive, powerful units as opposed to the Zerg's cheap, wimpy units in mass numbers, with the Terrans (naturally) somewhere in the middle.

I imagine we'll be seeing new toys for the other two races over time, as they release more teasers. Note that you really didn't see much of anything for the other two races; the Zerg had maybe three units on display, total, counting the "Nidus Worm". They're either not done yet, or are holding back information for the slow trickle of teasers to come.

Also, in reaction to the doctored screenshot: Realistic equals brown!

I guess not if you're going all out like that.

I like how in some pictures there is dirt in explosions on metal. LOL realism

Well, i'm pretty much sold on this one. Environments look well done, the units look ok (a little cartoony but i can look around that). I'm assuming that each race is going to see new units of their own.

Now the only two things that need my approval to make this a buyer are story and population limit. Warcraft 3 was ruined but it's pop limit of 90, and the retarded upkeep system. If they're gonna do the same kinda thing with SCII then i may pass this one up, pending on the story. Story is what really sells a game for me.

Speaking of story, does anyone know of a place where i can get a detailed time line, or just a written account of Starcraft? I wanna see if i've got everything straight.

Wikipedia. Click through the bottom links to get all the info.

That was worst case scenario obviously, it's potentially possibile.

I personally wouldn't ever build more then 12 groups, since you can only bind 1 to =. I wouldn't really be able to use the other err...250+ units very efficiently.

Haven't had a chance to view the ingame video but we all know its SC2. That alone makes it worth checking out. Blizzard has been known to consistently put out top quality games without screwing up. Only downside is that they spend A LOT of time working on them but it kinds of evens out when you see the quality of work done.

I'm on a ridiculous Starcraft high right now. If this was available already (at least for pre-order), I'd so impulse buy it.

$250, 17 pounds, 18 inches tall: https://us.blizzard.com/sc2collectib...aft2/menu.html

https://us.blizzard.com/sc2collectib...layout/ss1.jpg

Hot.

For 250$, that piece of paperweight junk should be life-sized, not 18 inches.

That's hardly what I'd call an impulse buy, unless you're a fucking millionaire.

Haha, yea same here when I first saw it. But once reason kicked I realized I don't collect statues and that they're nothing more paper weights.
Actually, $250 is the standard price for an 18" statue and is quite reasonable, in the eyes of a statue collector anyway.

Haha, anyway I think I'll hold out till they make a more affordable action figure. Be sweet if Medicom could make one.

I'm sure it is, though being a 'statue collector' is not reasonable in the first place. Must be a fun life paying 250$ for upgraded action figures.

I remember when you could buy real-life-sized Lara Croft or the dude from Halo in our local store for about 500 bucks each, that's a better deal than half of that for an 18 inches statue, but I guess Hantei-dude is right, it's the collector's value that counts. It's the same with coins and stamps.

I just saw the Seoul demonstration moments ago.
Does anyone else get the feeling that these added "checks and balances" and specialized strengths between the races has the potential to make this game suck hairy balls, much like Empire Earth?

Well, pretty much any tweaks to Starcraft has the potential to make the that suck ass if it's not done properly.

Worst case scenario, someone will use the campaign editor that Blizzard always packs in to recreate the original game units, and we just roll with that.

Well the editor just allows you to create your own levels and scenarios, not units. However what I think you meant is that it will allow you to set the values to that of SC1, am I right?

There was an advanced unit editor someone made for SC that allowed you to modify pretty much anything you want about all of the units, so I imagine as long as there's enough units around you could change them to fit the stats of original SC units.

Gamestop/EB Games/Babbages is now taking pre-orders, just to let everyone here know.

Gamestop and EB are taking preorders on Duke Nukem: Forever, as well.

After watching the demo on starcraft2.com, I can safely say I may want to buy this.

What I wanna know is, what are the system requirements for this game. Do I have to buy a new video card to enjoy the new StarCraft goodness? Or an entirely new PC?

Which is puzzling to me.

I've worked at Babbages for the last 7 months, and this company is the definition of oddity. When I asked the District Manager, when he came through our store, about why we aren't taking reserves for games like Super Mario Galaxies or Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the reply was "Oh, we don't have a date set in stone."

Yet, we haven't had dates for a plethora of games were reserving, but yet, we still take peoples money. Not that I'm complaining, I'm getting SC2, reguardless if I have to upgrade my computer or not.