SC2 HOtS.

[Malakal]

Oh damn, you guys werent joking about the campaign being dragon ball. Just finished THAT mission. Good they didnt destroy Namek.

 

[TigerKnee]

For the campaign, WoL was much better in terms of scope and ideas of gameplay I think. HoTS wasn't fun for me whether in terms of just actual mission gameplay or the strategic upgrades layer compared to WoL.

Plot still dumb in WoL, but it seems like the dumbness is drowned out by all the "sidequest missions" that add nothing to the plot.

HoTS on the other hand, drowns you with constant "important" stupidity 24/7 all the way up to the end.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

It's a fuck off awful single player campaign. WoL really was way better, if you can believe that. Heck, Supreme Commander's SP is better.

 

[Average Manatee]

Gameplay-wise (and what the fuck else are you going to compare SC2 games on?) I thought HotS was better for missions w/ base. M&M was just too boringly overpowered to the point where once you got to 100+ supply you'd won the map.

OK, arguably you'd win in about the last third of HotS as soon as Kerrigan shows up, but the army side certainly had more variety otherwise.

 

[Raghar]

Oh damn, you guys werent joking about the campaign being dragon ball. Just finished THAT mission. Good they didnt destroy Namek.

Do you mean that mission where Kerrigan screamed at xxx, stop beating up Protos, concentrate on imporatant things?

It's a fuck off awful single player campaign. WoL really was way better, if you can believe that. Heck, Supreme Commander's SP is better.

We should be really happy they didn't get money for a single player campaign in PA.

 

[Malakal]

Oh damn, you guys werent joking about the campaign being dragon ball. Just finished THAT mission. Good they didnt destroy Namek.

Do you mean that mission where Kerrigan screamed at xxx, stop beating up Protos, concentrate on imporatant things?
.

Yea, thats the one where they fought with super x-box laser-psychic beams.

 

[Kraszu]

What is wrong with CP in Supreme Commande I was about to play it, or is it better to skip it, and just play the add on?

 

[spectre]

Supreme Commander is a true successor to Total Annihilation in that even its campaigns are sucky.
The main problem (and this applies both to SC and FA) is that the missions drag on forever, leaving you with a persistent base and units throughout the mission, while additional sections of the map are revealed.
There are several problems with that, you either know in advance how the situation develops and build up with impunity,
or you are taken totally by surprise, because a big ass chunk of land with a big ass enemy base appeared out of fucking nowhere just to your right.

Simply put, the campaign gets pretty tedious and boring. Not to mention, the story is nothing special.

Skirmish and Multi is where Supreme Commander really shines, so I'd recommend to play the campaign for the tutorials and just move there.
SC campaign starts out slow, but FA just drops you into the thick of it, so you can start with SC if you need a tutorial.

 

[Havoc]

Damn, I have the urge to play some SC2 multiplayer like I did with SC1, but I don't have the game.
Being poor sucks.

 

[Raghar]

What is wrong with CP in Supreme Commande I was about to play it, or is it better to skip it, and just play the add on?

The original campaign is so stupid it burns. FA shows they were forced to build on something that stupid, thus you have second conclusion.
SupCom 2 story is even worse.

 

[spectre]

Damn, I have the urge to play some SC2 multiplayer like I did with SC1, but I don't have the game.
Being poor sucks.

Dude, seriously

Location: Poland

Just do the potato thing and go for Hamachi.
Although SupCom2 was bad, you might be stuck with skirmish, for what it's worth.

Or scratch that, do the potato thing, see how bad it can be and go back to SupCom1 like a bro.

 

[Angthoron]

Another amazing replay.

 

[Goat]

Damn, I have the urge to play some SC2 multiplayer like I did with SC1, but I don't have the game.
Being poor sucks.

You can try the Starter Edition, which is like a demo. https://us.battle.net/account/sc2/starter-edition/
Terran are the only playable race, though, no ladder, no UMS, it says, that you can play with anyone who has the full game, but I haven't tried it, only played it against AI and other people who have the Starter edition.

 

[Brotherman Bill]

Damn, I have the urge to play some SC2 multiplayer like I did with SC1, but I don't have the game.
Being poor sucks.

I got 3 guest pass keys when I bought SC2, each is for 7 hours playtime or 14 days whichever comes first. I could give you those if you want to.

 

[felipepepe]

Got those as well, but I think they are only for the BR version of the game...

 

[Kane]

Damn, I have the urge to play some SC2 multiplayer like I did with SC1, but I don't have the game.
Being poor sucks.

you wont be able to stop making you even poorer

 

[Borelli]

Another amazing replay.

I was sooooo rooting for the Zerg. Losing when having a hard counter for an opponent's unit/strategies is a pet peeve of mine in Starcraft.

 

[Kane]

I was sooooo rooting for the Zerg. Losing when having a hard counter for an opponent's unit/strategies is a pet peeve of mine in Starcraft.

you can always lose in sc2. that's why the game is successful. It's also kind of funny to watch how they navigate themselves into doom, as if they have someone telling them where to go.

 

[Angthoron]

I was sooooo rooting for the Zerg. Losing when having a hard counter for an opponent's unit/strategies is a pet peeve of mine in Starcraft.

With 25 mutas he could've afforded to split forces into defense/offense if he felt he had to protect his base, that spazzing out was just hilariously bad, so it was really his own fault there.

 

[Ulminati]

Huh. Zealot counters Mutalisk. The more you know...

 

[DeepOcean]

Another amazing replay.

I was sooooo rooting for the Zerg. Losing when having a hard counter for an opponent's unit/strategies is a pet peeve of mine in Starcraft.

Actually, no, the zerg player is just retarded.

 

[pan]

While mucking about in bronze league after stat resets I like to try winning by building nothing but probes and cannons. I'll of course get the armour and shield upgrades for my probes. Anyway, the bronze leaguers are so pacifist at the start, and bad at everything else, too, that it's almost possible to win by doing this. Cannons can defend well enough and two hundred 0/3/3 probes can function as a decent field army against,like, 10 marines and a medivac (or whatever bronze leaguers muster). But a problem arises when going in for the kill, which is that it's basically impossible to get probes up the enemy ramp. You have to rely on surrounds to kill anything off, even with vastly superior forces and upgrades, so being forced into the narrow confines of a choke is an assured failure. That is why I can only almost win, but not quite.

Using zealots instead of probes is noob shit. decline of bronze league.

 

[Malakal]

You should send him a reply where you actually win as probes and cannons. That would be hilarious to watch.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

You can win in plat with only marines TvZ. When the Zerg third succumbs to the marine train he's beyond fucked.

 

[Brotherman Bill]

My hots just got dispatched from amazon.co.uk, got it for only 20 pounds. With luck it's here on friday.