toxicitizen Posted February 27, 2013 Report Share Posted February 27, 2013 It goes on sale fairly regularly nowadays. If you stay on the lookout, you'll be able to grab it pretty cheap sooner rather than later, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 So when is Blizz gonna sell the first SC2 for under $20 to entice all us newbies into getting HotS? Ask and you shall receive http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=1100001122 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 Has anyone played this yet? Mine should be arriving later today (I prefer to have discs cause I'm weird like that). I'm stoked. Although I might have court tonight at 6, and if so won't get home till like 7 or 8, in which case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 I'm in the same boat. Looking at tracking, I can see my copy got home a few hours ago, but I'm stuck at school until 5h30 Really looking forward to playing the first few missions tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 Conveniently (for me) the client I'm supposed to have court with is in jail in another jurisdiction, so I may not actually have court anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 If you do, just blow it off! The Swarm requires more minerals! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 lmao, I automatically read phrase "requires more minerals" in the Protoss interface voice. Guess I know what race I play as the most... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luftwaffles Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 Shit. I want to grab this, but I can't really afford it right now. Plan on picking it up within the month I'm thinking. Hard copy of course, I do like my Blizzard funboxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 There's not really anything in the box. There's the disc, a quick-start guide ("insert the disc to install the game"), a couple of WoL and WoW trials, and a zerg-themed notepad, which is a little nifty but ultimately kind of weird. The box itself is nice looking though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 Arg, missed the post and the WoL sale! Seriously, it's still $40? Jesus, Blizzard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 (edited) lmao, I automatically read phrase "requires more minerals" in the Protoss interface voice. Guess I know what race I play as the most... Yeah, I play Terran so I wasn't 100% sure what the Zerg phrase is. Arg, missed the post and the WoL sale! Seriously, it's still $40? Jesus, Blizzard. Damnit, GOH! I quoted you SPECIFICALLY so you wouldn't miss it! Don't you check your notifications?! But yeah, just got home. INSTALL FASTER, DAMNIT! Also, I'm confused. What's the point of still including guest passes for SC2 and WoW? Both games already have Starter Editions. Guess they must've printed a shit load of them years ago and are stiil trying to get rid of them. Edited March 12, 2013 by FLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baconrath Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Are all these iterations of SC2 standalone or would I have to go buy Wings of Liberty before I got Heart of the Swarm? I'm assuming the latter because of $. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 It's an expansion, so yeah, you need WoL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Wow, it has been some years since these wee announced wasn't it, cos I'm having flash backs to discussion about it being expandalone (as in a "it should be" than anything as announced at the time). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Huh, I really thought it was an expandalone, but I just looked and it's not. That's stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 (edited) Why is it stupid? Expansions require their base game because, wait for it... they expand it! Seriously, though, I always find it weird when an expansion doesn't require the base game. I get that it's to make it more accessible and I guess it makes sense for something like, say, Shogun 2 where Fall of the Samurai was a completely different setting and it's not story-based. But for something like this, it makes no sense to skip the first one. Unless you're only interested in MP, I guess. In which case, you can still buy WoL and play it online without HotS so it's kinda moot. edit: Almost forgot. Just played the first four missions. Holy crap, it's awesome! And as is usual with Blizzard, the cutscenes are absolutely fantastic. Edited March 13, 2013 by FLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 It just seems like it's enough different that it should have been standalone. Entirely subjective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 Well, I bought the damned thing. Heading over to the appropriate thread to announce my b.net info. The Wings of Liberty campaign is fun, very old-school but pretty. I am enjoying it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 (edited) Yeah, it's the most fun rts campaign I've ever played. There's just so much variety to the missions. And being able to unlock permanent upgrades instead of having to research them every single time takes a lot of the "work" out of it. The original was a great game but I played through it and its expansion last year and holy shit all missions are the same: build a base, build an army, kill all the motherfuckers. It got really old after a while. Only reason I stuck with it was for the story and my insistence to not just read a summary of it. I did end up using cheats to finish the last 3 missions of Brood War, though. Holy fuck, those were hard. Edited March 19, 2013 by FLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 power overwhelming operation cwal show me the money Makes the campaign of the first game go a lot faster if you just want the story. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 Well I used the cheats in an act of desperation. I refuse to just read the story and I normally also refuse to use cheats to get past a difficult part (that one's mostly stubborness). But I had to be realistic. There was no way in hell I was ever going to beat those missions on my own. First, I am not korean. Second, even with the cheats, I had to rebuild my entire army like 5 times during the very last mission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalCaveman Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 I used cheats for the missions that don't allow you to build a base because I suck at keeping dudes alive so it was easier to just make them invincible, I played the rest of the game normally except for a couple other missions were the enemy didn't give me enough time to build an army. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 Yeah, the non-base missions in the original can be brutal. Lots of save and reload. And even in the base ones, sometimes you have to be crazy fast if you don't want to get raped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 I refuse to use cheats on a first time through (on older games, newer games don't even have cheats so it's a non-issue), but if I'm replaying something just for the story I'll use cheats/exploits/whatever to make it faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 It was my first time. I think I had only played the Terran campaign back in the days. Wasn't really into RTS back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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