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In the Gold Mine  added on Jul 10 2008
by Lipton, Level 54
Last updated at May 1, 2008, 12:16 pm
Don't believe me? Watch, or rather listen to this video:


Korean girls


Thats a whole-lotta Psi-storms and crazed fans!

Pimp->

     
15 comments
Isolee
Isolee May 1, 2008 at 12:25 pm
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Teach me and my friend to play starcraft, we both really want to get pro but we suck :(
Isolee
Isolee May 1, 2008 at 12:39 pm
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I actually checked that out from your previous post and some of those videos have been way helpful, but I don't want to pay for SC lessons :/

Maybe one of them wants to learn to play rogue so we can trade...

:(
Duncan
Duncan May 1, 2008 at 12:36 pm
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Ah.. good old Starcraft =]. But recently I can't stop playing Warhammer DoW ;s...
Lipton
Lipton May 1, 2008 at 12:43 pm
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I've tried DoW and CnC3 and SupCommander, and Company of Heroes and even the Total War series...

none can compare to SC :O

With DoW it just bugged me so much that my first squad of low level units has to take 3 years to kill buildings, requiring higher level tech to finish off a game in a short amount of time.

CnC3 is ok, just the feel and responsiveness isnt SC, Sup Commander just sucked ass... hate it and its UI, Company of Heroes was decent, but its not economy based and its WWII.

Total War 2
was cool for the first hour mainly because I'm a History War buff, but the time-based part of the game just ugh! I even bought the expansion, but haven't and probably won't even play it.




My personal favorite RTS games outside of Starcraft include and in order: Warcraft 3, Armies of Exigo and AOE II

Oh and I loved Cossacks
Opet
Opet May 1, 2008 at 12:47 pm
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Check out soulstorm, the majority of automatches can be ended in tier 1 if you are convincing enough!

Also company of heroes is definitely economy based, it's all about strangling your opponents economy in the stranglehold of strangliness!
Bethryn
Bethryn May 6, 2008 at 9:17 am
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With DoW
it just bugged me so much that my first squad of low level units has to
take 3 years to kill buildings, requiring higher level tech to finish
off a game in a short amount of time.


I can't really say I see that as a bad thing. One of the stupidest things about RA2 and AoE2 was the effectiveness of low tier units. Conscript or Skirmisher rushes ended games, with little more than 5 minutes in them. Starcraft isn't quite such a culprit because, although you can do the same, it requires much more micro to succeed in doing so, and so when either side fails, unless one has a significant advantage, they'll often return to eco/tech.

But the reason I think DoW got it right by not letting T1 units dominate the game is simple: it actually means there's a good reason to have T2 and T3. There is no point in a game having higher tiers if all people are doing to win is to trade T1 units until someone comes off better (through better concaves, micro, or whatever), and then reams their opponent's economy.

Now, I'm not saying pure T1 isn't fun or isn't good gameplay in itself. Rather than, if you're going to include higher tiers of development, give players a good reason to reach them.
TehJerk
TehJerk May 1, 2008 at 1:00 pm
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bookmarking for a future jerk...
Duncan
Duncan May 1, 2008 at 1:17 pm
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Opet says the truth Lipton, you should try Soulstorm expansion. Quite fast paced action.
entrails
entrails May 1, 2008 at 3:13 pm
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jangbi psi stormed the whole map with his hacks, it was awesome.  if there's a pimpest plays 08 those storms should definitely be in it.

(i really like CoH and AoE I/II as well)
Lipton
Lipton May 1, 2008 at 3:17 pm
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I liked the AoE series :) me and Pillars (old top Protoss player) were like top ten in AoE II for a bit

I'm not sold on AoE 3, anyways just busy to pick up another game right now...
entrails
entrails May 1, 2008 at 4:14 pm
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i haven't gotten to try AoE3 at all, i had to long of a break between when i stopped playing AoE2 and when it came out i just wasn't that interested.  and now sc2 is around the corner, so really who gives a ****!
Limewire
Limewire May 1, 2008 at 4:34 pm
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Zafyra
Zafyra May 2, 2008 at 3:25 am
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abyss111
abyss111 May 1, 2008 at 10:03 pm
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Wow.....they really get into that. Starcraft 2 is gonna murder them all.
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