Monday, May 28, 2007

I Can't Click Fast Enough

On May 19, Blizzard announced that they were going to be releasing StarCraft II. The first StarCraft was released back in 1998, and has somehow managed to keep a very large devout following all of these years. In Korea, it is a bit more than just passing fun, as up to 700,000 people attecnd StarCraft competitions each year. Personally, I think that's just insane.
When the original came out I never really got into it that much. I played some games, but never StarCraft. Since Blizzard made this announcement, I thought I'd dust off my old copy and give it a go. I serched through my CDs and found the one I needed. After a quick insteall (ah the days before needing a DVD or 6 CDs for a game), I was up and playing. I started up a skirmish and went at it. I was promptly killed. I haven't played this for a number of years so it made sense I was rusty. Three more quick deaths later, I thought that maybe it wasn't just rust that was my problem. I gave it a break for a while, and came back to it later. Two losses. Ah, I got a win! Three more losses. At this point, I remembered why it was that I never got into the game. I suck at it. I'm way too economically minded for this thing. I can amass a massive amount of resources, and build a bunch of guys, but I still just get trampled. Oh well, it's no real loss. I never was a big fan of the game anyway.

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