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"Spork" <no@no.com> wrote in message news:<Gk%jb.798995$YN5.796917@sccrnsc01>...

I'm with you on this one.   I tagged StarCraft as the best game ever
for me.  I know there are plenty of other really good games out there
and have actually played many of them.  Even like W3, though done
well,  I just couldn't seem to get sucked into it like SC.  I own 2
copies of W3 with the expansions and yet my kids always go back and
play good ole StarCraft (Broodwar).  I've often tried to figure out
what it is that we like so much about it.  The only thing I can come
up with is that the game really is done very well.  The sounds, the
voices, the music, the colors, the design... all of it.   One nice
package.

Are you a "planner" or "strategic" type player?  Maybe that is it?   

Couple dozen guys here at work use to play SC every Friday night. 
Most of them have drizzled off and don't play anymore and are off to
some of the newer games already mentioned.  But if you look at the few
die hard SC players, the ones still playing SC, they all seem to have
one thing in common.  They all like slow, 1 or 2 hour games with
strategic planning and slow well planned attacks and good defense
plans.  Most of the guys who have moved on were the "rush'rs" of the
games.  They all liked the fast and furious 15 minute games.

(BTW, I too have gotten my backend handed to me on every stink'n game
of W3 I have ever played.  Every last one.  I just can't get the game
to allow me to slow build and plan.  Probably why I just can't seem to
get into it?   Blizzard.. I wish you would put in an option for us
analytical slow thinkers....   StarCraft could be played both ways. 
Fast or slow.)

Chiz  
  


> Not trying to be a troll, but after seeing some of the responses to this
> > post it makes we wonder,
> >  what features of StarCraft would make it better than some of the more
> > recent RTS games such as AOE/AOK or RON or Empire Earth. What about
> > HomeWorld2 ?
> >
> > data64
> 
> actually I dont know why I like it so much. It could be because it was my
> first rts and the one me and friends played so much or maybe I just like the
> units in the game better?  I tried the age of empires games and it just
> wasnt my thing. I plan to try RoN and TA very soon.  I should finish up the
> exp for warcraft 3 this weekend.  The single player missions are fun but I
> just couldnt get into war3 multi either.  I hear a lot of people complaining
> about race imbalance. the few games i did play i just got the crap beat out
> of me. maybe the game deserves another try online?