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Originally Posted by Comus
As for living up to the hype, teamliquid.net have already approved the beta as awesome. And they're the ones blizzard was hoping to impress.
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fair enough i guess, it's nice that Blizzard is paying attention to what a small and vocal minority of the gaming public has to say, the rest of us have played other games in the 12 years since Starcraft came out. my thing is a desire for something new, not just something that looks new.
the RTS genre has come a long way since the last time Blizzard released the last expansion for Warcraft 3 (back in 2003).
it's nice that Blizzard is paying attention to what a small and vocal minority of the gaming public has to say, the rest of us have played other games in the 13 years since Starcraft came out.
although it was freaking awesome to dust it off a few weeks ago to start playing through the campaign again hehe. basically, there was a much smaller hill to climb and become king of when Starcraft came out; in order - Dune 2, Warcraft, Command and Conquer, Warcraft 2, and Total Annihilation, those weren't tops, that was the entirety of the genre at the time.
i don't doubt they'll be on top again when SC2 releases, but they'll be a much smaller king on a much bigger hill.
in retrospect i goofed earlier as well. Starcraft wasn't the first title to have 3 races, the original RTS - Dune 2 had three races. although they were all 'human' and relatively similar, but still.