Remember how hyped you first were?

In terms of Starcraft Brood War to Starcraft 2 vs Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction to Diablo 3, they fucking nailed it with Starcraft 2.

>8v1 comp stomps back on old school blizzard servers
Good times. I don't even understand why those kept getting made. All you did was gather resources for like 10 minutes until someone gives the signal and you rush with like 10 marines and win because it's fucking 8 on 1.

it was 7v1 because the game was 8 players first of all, secondly it was the quickest way to get to 10 wins so you could play ladder or at the very least have the 5 star accolade in the public chatrooms

Now it all makes sense. I was too much of a stupid kid back then to care much about the multiplayer. I probably would have gotten wrecked if I played against anyone 1v1 so I always took those comp games.

i didn't really care for WoL and dodged the bullet

they also showed up as wins on your profile so if you only played comp stomp games then people would see an insane record. at that point it was more for bragging rights anyways but nobody gave a shit unless you had a number next to your name anyways
of course, if you saw a nigga with numbers instead of the star accolades next to his name and a good winrate then you knew that dude really play was the real deal cause he had hella wins in ladder.

Still got a physical copy.

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you never played use map settings games as a stupid kid? those were the best

Yeah I remember those, but I played the offline ones usually that had CPU opponents and custom storylines to them.

Is the scene for Starcraft Remastered alive online? I haven't played Blizzard games in decades and I'm hesitant to download and set up the launcher, but if I can relive my stupid SC1 days like a filthy boomer maybe it's worth it.

thanks for the cd key

not sure about the remastered version but sc:bw is still alive. i played it not too long ago. its not nearly as dead as youd expect, just like diablo 2 is also not even close to dying

no lol i stopped caring about blizzard when they ruined warcraft with a shitty mmo

I recently got back into sc2 after seeing that video of the deep mind AI shitting on some western pros. Seeing Artosis again made me nostalgic.
Been enjoying laddering again though, surprisingly short que times in platinum league

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Them pushing e-sports so hard was what led the game to its ruin. Brood War developed as an e-sport because it was popular and a good game, so the competitive scene emerged organically. Blizzard tried too hard to force a competitive 1v1 environment for SC2 for the e-sport people, when it turns out 90% of people only wanted to play Brood War for UMS and casual games, not 1v1 omg hardcore ladder shit that gives everyone anxiety. Secondly, Korea lacked the support because Blizzard tried to take broadcast rights from Korean broadcasters which pissed them off, and the game itself wasn't made for PC bangs, where most people played Brood War

This. Also felt like it had scale to it. You got a sense for how utterly massive the UED Expeditionary Fleet was just from shots like this where you realize each of these ships is a fucking battlecruiser.

I don't think we ever saw scale like this in SC2, everything just felt like it took place in a couple star systems at most instead of an entire sector involving billions and billions of lives.

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I still remember when Tastosis was a thing. Feels like a lifetime ago now.