I’ve been playing in the Starcraft 2 Beta for the past few weeks on and off. I got my code from a preorder on Amazon that I received when Tina so kindly reserved the collectors edition for my Birthday. Yay, July 27th can’t come soon enough! Anyway, I decided to document a little bit of my experience. At least – the highlights!
Highlight number 1! I’m first in my Copper League!
Ranked 1st in my SC2 Copper League
While this might make it look like I’m awesome… I’m really not. There are 7 leagues in Starcraft 2… (I think?)
Pro
Platinum
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Copper
Practice
Not to mention, each league is only broken up into groups of 100 – so I’m only number 1 of one of MANY copper leagues… but damn, it still feels good! I applaud Blizzard for allowing people to feel great even though they really are the bottom of the barrel =P
While I did play starcraft a lot when I was younger, it was never in a personal setting on my own PC. At the time of the original Starcraft, I just didn’t own a computer so I was always forced to play at friends houses who had the game. Now that I am older, I of course have my own PC, a pretty kick ass one at that (Thanks M2J), and I made it my mission to be ready to play all the new Blizzard games that come out on their respective launch days.
Even had I owned Starcraft at it’s popularity peak, I doubt I would have been really great at it. I’ve learned that while I love RTS games passionately (especially Blizzard made ones), I kind of always suck at them right off the bat. I usually always end up meeting someone who is 20 times better than me who then shows me the ropes on gameplay improving my abilities overnight. Soon after I will then play for a few days straight doing much better. This is no exception.
For those who do not know, Starcraft requires a lot of skill – both mental and technical. You have to control a lot units in an army, calculate risk vs reward, and be agile enough to scout your enemies to counter whatever attacks they might muster up against you. It’s very fast paced. Starcraft 2 does a very good job of making the game more “Noob” friendly, which is awesome, but it’s still a very hard game to master no matter what your skill was with it’s predecessor.
It doesn’t help that I played Warcraft 3 a lot. While both are RTS games, the fundamental strategy is totally different in terms of massing units and expanding. Plus the hero aspect really makes it easier to play.
Oh well. I’m still having a blast playing the game.
