Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm
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Starcraft release date: March 31, 1998
Starcraft: Brood War release date: November 30, 1998
8 months between them.
Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty release date: July 27, 2010
Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm release date: March 12, 2013
4 months shy of 3 years.
Holy crap it's really almost been three years? Time needs to slow down.
Already got my CE pre-ordered. I love me some hot RTS action.
Already got my CE pre-ordered. I love me some hot RTS action.
Don't forget that Starcraft 1 had 3 full campaigns. Brood War was a true expansion with 3 more campaigns.
Starcraft 2 was just part 1 with one campaign.
Okay this always kind of bothers me. It depends so much on what you consider a "full campaign".
StarCraft 1 has three medium sized campaigns, with each one focused on a certain race. At most each race has 10 missions each, equaling 30 missions total.
StarCraft 2 WoL had one long campaign, but it focused pretty much entirely on the Terran with some Protoss sprinkled in for good measure. All in all, the whole campaign had 30 missions and dozens of cutscenes sprinkled between them. I would call that a full campaign.
Personally, I loved the focus SC2 had on characters, it allowed me to get to know them better, rather then having to introduce a whole new set of racial heroes in the first two missions of the race campaign while all the others fall off the map. Remember how Raynor only appear twice after the Terran Campaign? Remember how Kerrigan just entirely disappeared and didn't do anything in the final battle?
Really, I think what is killing SC2 when it comes to release speed is the extra focus on character cutscenes and action. It was a lot easier to throw together a dozen missions when all you had to do was have a sprite on the screen and a little "monitor" with a face going "wah wah wah wah wah".
Now they have to make all the crap that is in this trailer, 75% of which is all using the in-game engine.
Three years, goddamn. I thought those releases were supposed to be annual.
Didn't buy WoL, not buying this. I think Blizzard might by overestimating people's love of StarCraft lore.
Didn't buy WoL, not buying this. I think Blizzard might by overestimating people's love of StarCraft lore.
I'm personally holding out on getting them until they release all 3 before I purchase them. Preferably in a get all 3 in one package deal.
Not in my case, I've been biting at the reins to see what happens with Kerrigan.
Me too. Then again I am a sucker for all of Blizzard's stories since I grew up with them.
I haven't even picked up WoL yet, meant to but the whole unemployment thing put a damper on that. Maybe they'll start up some sale down the line to get both for like 50-60 bucks once I have money again. Never cared much for SC multiplayer but I love the single player.
I'm only interested in the single player campaign. I have many other much better RTS games to play multiplayer with.
Yeah, like Brood War
The only thing I really liked about SC1's multiplayer was the custom maps, like the ones that were RPGs and you leveled up and such. I even made a few at one point, they were a lot of fun.
You mean like Defense of the Ancients, which eventually spun off into its own genre and became League of Legends?
(play LoL with me)
So the cinematics were leaked.
Broke down and watched. No idea where they plan to take the Protoss story from here. Don't worry, not posting any spoilers.
The ending for HotS was actually leaked not long after WoL came out. I ended up watching it and spoiling it, but I figure now that I know what will happen I might as well enjoy the game from this point forward without spoiling it further.
Yeah I saw that when it came out too. They've changed it a little, though.
I really do want to play this, but considering my huge backlog of games, I really can't justify buying it at full price. I considered pre-order, but I think I'll wait for summer sales or some such. I'm interested, but I simply don't have the game time available to warrant a $50 expense. At that, I'd probably save it for a new pc, then buy SC2HotS.
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