For the strange, strange people who loved the first one:

[theweaselking]

Watch on YouTube

I wonder if they'll manage to make the interface something other than COMPLETE shit, this time.

Comments

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Well, with any luck they'll make this one suck so badly it'll last through umpteen hardware generations too.

-- Steve wasn't that big a fan of the first one, but that trailer gave him chills.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The first game was neat, but it had an abysmally bad interface. There's a reason why multiplayer Starcraft favours twitchgamers; the person with a better memory for hotkeys and you can go to whatever's going to finish and then give it new orders the fastest, wins. There's no strategy involved, just pure clicking faster than the other guy, and the faster rush wins.

Starcraft was released more than two years after Total Annihilation, and not only did it learn nothing from the near-perfect interface of TA, it was actively worse, making deliberate design decisions to *hamper* the player.

[matgb]

Um, TA was released September '97, Starcraft was released early '98, they were in development at the same time. I'll give you TA was technically better, but Starcraft was more fun. There were many compare/contrasts in my friends gaming mags at the time, and it always seemed to be a score draw.

Plus it was the second RTS I ever played after Warcraft.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I'll give you TA was technically better, but Starcraft was more fun.

Only if you liked total shit interfaces with decisions deliberately made to restrict the player.

And no improvements, with the expansion.

Or with Warcraft III.

Or, indeed, with any RTS before Supreme Commander.

[buck-x.livejournal.com]

fuck starcraft.
they need to get to work on diablo 3

[jagash.livejournal.com]

I adore blizzard cinematics, damn.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Hey, Jason, log into gmail or just check your damn email, already.