Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter
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Firing up the new Starcraft shooter, the female voice in your coms says: "Run down this hallway, you're going to need to prove you know how to crouch and jump over obstacles before you can learn how to switch weapon modes!"
yeah, I am gonna need something really special to get excited about another FPS shooter no matter what the wallpaper looks like.
FPS shooter
First Person Shooter shooter
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FPS shooter
First Person Shooter shooter
go step on a partially melted ice cube in your socks.
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Wait a sec... Brood war is the expansion for sc1.
Are you telling me that there's still a competitive sc1 scene? Holy fuck. What are the metas even like in that game now? What level is the meta even at??
There very much is still a scene and it's pretty popular! The meta continues to change which is insane for such an old and allegedly "figured out" game. I see pros using units in matchups that I thought were completely unplayable. There's a new funky half-island map (Roaring Currents aka Screaming Seas) that has shown some really wild games. I'm rambling, please check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/@SOOPesports_EN
I play Starcraft 2 today, but freely admit that Brood War is way more entertaining to watch!
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There very much is still a scene and it's pretty popular! The meta continues to change which is insane for such an old and allegedly "figured out" game. I see pros using units in matchups that I thought were completely unplayable. There's a new funky half-island map (Roaring Currents aka Screaming Seas) that has shown some really wild games. I'm rambling, please check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/@SOOPesports_EN
I play Starcraft 2 today, but freely admit that Brood War is way more entertaining to watch!
I'm not privy to the, now, decades-long evolution of competitive StarCraft. Why is Brood War more interesting to watch?
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Will it have cloud? What about A.I.?
..and more importantly, what about NFTs?!
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Blizzard hasn't been good since they sold out to Activision.
This is a slight historical re-write.
Blizzard’s parent company since ‘98 (Vivendi) was the larger of two companies at the time of the merger in ‘08, and put forward $2b towards the merger vs. Activision’s $1b.
Vivendi remained the majority shareholder of the new entity, and chose to appoint Bobby Kotick as the CEO.
Activision-Blizzard didn’t buy-out majority control until ‘13 - well after the enshittification began.
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go step on a partially melted ice cube in your socks.
I suppose your username checks out!
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The what to what that what?
ZeroSpace is to Starcraft the same way Tempest Rising is to Command & Conquer.
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I'm not privy to the, now, decades-long evolution of competitive StarCraft. Why is Brood War more interesting to watch?
I watch both and I think Brood War is more interesting to watch because there are more fights that last longer and the RNG factor means you can't tell how the fight is going to go before it happens. There are a lot of tense and exciting moments in Brood War compared to SC2. How many shots will miss when shooting up a cliff? Will this mine detonate and kill 3 dragoons? How long will it take the player to notice that a DT is slaughtering drones without a notification? Will the reaver shot connect or dud? Will the scourges connect?
Basically SC2 is a lot easier to play with very little RNG. Pro players don't even attack each other early anymore because every cheese is solved. Brood War has a really good rock/paper/scissors balance that has shockingly lasted 25 years with no real balance patches. Also the game was remastered and the graphics are beautiful now.
