Starcraft II Wings of liberty

[Wolfehunter]

Originally Posted by Dowly

IIRC, back in the day, Blizzard tried to get the rights from Games Workshop to make a Warhammer game, which they didn't, so they changed a few things and made Warcraft instead.

Ah.. I wondered about that. there relationship is very close two worlds.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Wolfehunter

Ah.. I wondered about that. there relationship is very close two worlds.

Blizzard struck a deal with Games Workshop to create a a PC version of the "Warhammer" table top miniatures game. After completing work on the game, the deal fell through, and Blizzard, left with unfinished and unpaid work on Warhammer, created "WarCraft". WarCraft's factions of Orcs and Trolls versus Dwarves and Elves bears many similarities to the Warhammer factions. This does not explain the correlations between Warhammer 40,000 and StarCraft however. For example, the Zerg and the alien hive mind Tyranids of 40K look similar and are nearly identical in concept, and Space Marines are literally named the same in both games. In "WarCraft III", if you repeatedly click a griffon rider he will say "This Warhammer cost 40K", 40K being a shortening of 40,000.

From http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Blizzard_Entertainment

[papa_smurf]

I'm just waiting for Diablo III

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

I'm just waiting for Diablo III

Same here, and hoping for a Warcraft IV (RTS!!!)

HunterICX

[Castout]

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

I'm just waiting for Diablo III

Same but would only buy it as long as a Paladin is one of the playable character/heroes. It's either holy smite or no smite at all :-D

[Wolfehunter]

Originally Posted by Dowly

From http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Blizzard_Entertainment

Thanks. hey Dowly whats with the hot chick pics.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Wolfehunter

hey Dowly whats with the hot chick pics.

Gotta have one.

Ow and anyone planning on getting SCII thru the Blizzard Downloader, here be a tip, go to View->Preferences and disable the peer-to-peer thing. This results in *MUCH faster download and your internet doesnt get bogged down by the outgoing traffic.

*MUCH as in from 12hrs down to 2hrs.

[SgtPotato]

Man... I got the game from the midnight opening and started installing it. I couldn't stop playing and I have to make up a excuse for a day off from work!

[Spike88]

I totally want to get it, but I'm unsure how well my computer would handle it.

Too bad there isn't a demo.

[Crécy]

Originally Posted by Spike88

Too bad there isn't a demo.

That^

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Spike88

I totally want to get it, but I'm unsure how well my computer would handle it.

Too bad there isn't a demo.

Unless you have a pc older than this one you might have problems

cpu - Athlon XP 2.6ghz
2.5gigs ram
GF 7600gs 256 ram <-- at the time playing the beta i had this card
WinXP

Game ran fine the beta only allowed multiplayer so i had to have the internet running while playing, that right there is a shattering experience but SCII ran okay for this old beast - had graphics on low to some medium resolution 1280x1024. Just have to turn alot of the eye candy down but it still looked good at low settings.

Its the ingame cut scenes that will unfold the story as you play that is going to be the best thing for me, infact thats really what im looking forward to is the story its going to be grand Maybe i should just wait for someone to put up the story on Youtube save me a $100 bucks

Oh one thing i should mention there is no LAN support for SCII