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  1. I see your perspective, and I agree with your statement to an extent. I think StarCraft is a game that has various levels to it. If I were a casual gamer, even when I first started playing, I remember that there was a lot of clicking and Spawn Broodling'ing Siege Tanks would take forever and most likely they would be killed by Irradicate or Air units before you got them all off. However, you can do what you said about WCIII in StarCraft once you group your Queens (Say Ctrl Grp 1) and by using the Shift+Select key you can run through them very fast. Here is an example. Boxer vs Nal_ra - At a casual, play for fun level I believe that WarCraft III is more simplistic and straight forward, probably a lot easier to understand what's going on in the interface where as all the StarCraft buttons are the same color, yellow. However, I do think that the speed at which you perform / react would still play a factor in WCIII in terms of Micro Management. I don't want to come off as if I'm taking anything away from WCIII, I've played it a little and it was alright, I didn't find it as fast paced as StarCraft and that kind of turned me off. I also didn't care for the defensive options the game held. I think another factor is what you said before, WCIII is newer, the interface is more advanced. However, StarCraft at a competitive, league gameplay (SC ladder was the same as regular melee, except ranked) such as International Cyber Cup, World Game Tour, Team Liquid Tour, etc where general knowledge of the keyboard and hotkeys are second nature is where I want to argue that StarCraft is more strategic and an overall in depth RTS. I totally agree with your take on RTS being intuitive though, and a pretty cool game which loses the base buildings and lets you build from one structure and is based more on positioning and squad makeup vs. opponents is Dawn of War 2. I've really liked playing that game lately, it reminded me of a mix between SC and WCIII without stepping on each others toes. I think my ranting is pretty much a repeat of your post now that I look at it, and I think we should play some SC 2v2 for fun sometime soon! You should also check out DoW2, which I've annoyed the crap out of Ajax with over the last two weeks. But yeah, to each game their own, if we all liked the same thing I guess we'd all be playing the same game. PS: Sorry for off-topic reply!
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  3. I would have to disagree on the StarCraft side of things. Although, I rarely used the mouse to click and only hotkeys, I've played StarCraft since release, I've won Eastern Canada WCG Qualifiers three years in a row and been invited to nationals. I would have to say that the UI for SC is vastly superior to WarCraft III. I can understand the differences, and the non-auto-casting features StarCraft has is what makes competitive gaming so intense, and that's what I love about it. That is why the majority of the StarCraft community wanted it to remain that way for SC II and not take the WC3 approach. However, as old as StarCraft is we are still seeing updates from Blizzard. They are definatly a company that likes to satisfy it's users (except Diablo 1? ) The WoW UI is awesome, the ability to customize it is vastly superior, in my opinion, to any other MMORPG. They really do listen to criticism and what the community wants, it's why community sites like teamliquid.net and gosugamers.net have played such a large part in forming the changes we see coming from Blizzard. So yeah... I agree with pretty much everything you said except about StarCraft! I r haz to defend mah game.
  4. I played it for awhile. I played with Ajax's brother, it was fun but it wasn't as smooth as WoW, the characters moved like robots and the quests were hard to complete in some instances. The User Inferface was awkward and players who started out got bored easily.
  5. I did a quick search and I couldn't find another post that talked about this insanely funny machinima. I have had it as my signature for a few days, but it's small and I think it deserves much more attention due to it's hilarity. It has some vulgar themes and there is a lot of internet slang ("WTF") curseing involved, but I think the story is a unique and funny one to follow. Ajax and I have been watching them for the past few months and love them. What do you guys think about it? Here is the play list to all of the episodes, my personal favorite is the "Conflict" episodes, part 1 and 2. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7BF6D85EEDCD43D4
  6. That sounds very very gross...
  7. My StarCraft would load before I even clicked it!
  8. I think it's going to be awesome. I've been a pretty big Trek fan (I don't dress up and go to conventions ) and enjoy the shows a lot. I've seen all of them and own all the movies, I just hope they do justice to Kirk and his time at Star Trek academy. I'm also wondering if they decided to write William Shatner into the script for a cameo. I know they said it would be a possibility, and I hope they do. I was talking to someone in gchat the other day about Shatner, and when you're talking about Star Trek, he is the tip of the pyramid. It would be nice to see him in the movies, at least for a few seconds.
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