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Post by Songlian on Apr 7, 2014 14:04:28 GMT
Who here has played the Starcraft games along with Warcraft series? And how do they compare?
I am interested in starting to play Starcraft II after stumbling completely by accident on a story fragment involving Valerian Mengsk and his father.
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Post by Gileadan on Apr 7, 2014 15:01:17 GMT
I played StarCraft II a while ago, so this is from memory and possibly not very exact. Generally speaking, the core gameplay is extremely similar. Build a base, produce a huge horde of units and overrun the other guys. Differences between WarCraft III and StarCraft II include the following (this will be focused on single player): In WarCraft III, you had individual hero characters like Arthas that were more powerful than average units and leveled up to gain better abilities. In StarCraft II, this depends on the campaign you are playing. In the Terran campaign "Wings of Liberty", you upgrade the Terran army as a whole by pursuing certain research paths between missions. Completing side objectives during missions can speed up this research. Research can gain you extra units or unit abilities or extra buildings. You may have hero units in certain missions, but they're merely stronger versions of existing units. You can also hire mercenary units that are typically stronger than their normal counterparts but are only available at an extra cost and in limited numbers per mission. In the Zerg campaign "Heart of the Swarm", you can play short extra side missions that steal new gene material from your enemy, which can be used to upgrade certain zerg units. Kerrigan herself also earns experience that can be spent on extra abilities for her personally. The Terran campaign will have missions where you can pick a side, gaining favor and certain advantages (and pissing off the other side in the process). The Zerg campaign will give you more freedom about when to go where instead - you basically can pick which planet to attack, depending on which secondary objective you find more important. Single player missions are more story driven now - almost every mission has something that makes its gameplay special, so you hardly ever get the standard "build your base, kill everything" mission any more. For example, on a terran mission the map is slowly burning up and you have to keep moving your base forward while your units clear out a way ahead for it. Both campaigns have one or two of Blizzard's trademark full motion videos, but continue to tell the story between missions in normally rendered 3D graphics. Surprisingly, even some Zerg can get good one-liners! Voice acting is pretty good, but the story can be a bit cheesy at times. And since the 3rd campaign isn't out yet, you can't get to the final ending right now. If funny achievements are your thing, both campaigns have those in spades. There's a zerg mission where you have to butcher some creatures and use drones to feed some with the meat... if you pull it off without losing a single drone to the enemy, you get the achievement "A Game of Drones".
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Post by Songlian on Apr 7, 2014 15:36:59 GMT
Hehe, ask a guy about a game and he will get right into the mechanics! Thanks, hun! Now how about the story? Is it as good as Warcraft's? Does it have great characters? Will I end up sobbing my eyes out at the end? Ehm, not necessarily in this order.
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Post by Gileadan on Apr 7, 2014 15:50:48 GMT
Oh. Eh. *clears throat* Yes, the story sure matches WarCraft's, quality wise, in fact, it is probably more intense since you get to be more active between missions, interacting with other characters and such. It sure has some great characters and great moments, and some of those are pretty sad or moving. Not sure about the sobbing at the end, but let's just say that I won't guarantee that there won't be any sobbing involved. The Terran characters are probably much easier to relate to, but one of the Zerg things is the funniest critter in the entire game. I felt well motivated by the story throughout both campaigns. Actually, there is a certain parallel between the stories of WarCraft III and StarCraft II: the previously clear line between "good" and "evil" factions gets rather blurry in some places as the story goes on... which is a good thing. Being familiar with the story of StarCraft I is generally a plus since this is a direct sequel and builds up on what happened in the first game.
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Post by Songlian on Apr 7, 2014 16:13:17 GMT
I see... Well, this sounds really nice. I'm gonna give this a try for sure! Thanks again!
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Post by Magpie on Apr 7, 2014 23:30:24 GMT
I have played WC II and Started WC III...Haven't finished it. I love it though! And I love WoW. I highly recommend ittttttt~
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