Tuesday 19 July 2011

I miss Starcraft 1!! Don't you!?

I got the chance to play with an old friend of mine from my old clan in starcraft 1! Man it has been so long since I've played starcraft 1, but it is still an amazing game! I have played starcraft for so many years, yet it never gets boring.
Starcraft is the one game that never seems to get old. There are endless possibilities of strategies.
Not only that but through the map editor, the possibilities are endless. People have come up with so many amazing maps that have become almost games in themselves including sunken defense, evolves, fastest possible map, rpgs like Dragon Ball Z, you name it! And now with the release of Starcraft 2, the map editor is so powerful, a person can even make a first person shooter style game! Imagine that in an RTS! Basically anything you can think of is possible, you can make a game as in-depth as you like.
I personally love 1v1 in Starcraft. The strategies are endless, and the possibilities of what can happen in a game are limitless. I've played games where it came down to a base-race where each players' army is on the opponent's end of the map, trying desperately to illiminate every one of the opponent's buildings first.
One example of a strategy that is extremely effective in Starcraft 1 that have always found EXTREMELY annoying is when Zerg players (when against Protoss) will build a spore and two sunken colonies at each one of their bases. (Spore colonies and sunken colonies are zerg defense structures, one attacks ground, one attacks air and detects invisible units.)
Then they burrow a whole bunch of lurkers all spread out, which are invisible underground unless detected, and shoot out spikes in a line, dealing major splash damage to the enemy's units.

Here is an example of this set-up in a screen-shot (above).
What makes the strategy so annoying is even if you are winning by a long-shot in economy, army, technology, you name it, you just can't seem to kill their bases no matter how hard you try. Even if you bring in a massive army of zealots, archons, dragoons, and high templar, you can still get completely wiped out by only a small handful of lurkers and a spore colony. Whenever you try to bring an observer in to detect the lurkers in attempt to KILL the zerg's base it just keeps dying to the spore colony and then all your army runs in and dies almost instantly to the lurker's amazing splash damage. I've played games that have lasted hours against my Korean friend before he moved away, where he would just continually grab more and more bases, putting only a few defenses with a spore and some lurkers at each one and I would be pulling my hair out trying to kill him even if I doubled him in food count.
Anyways I have been playing fastest possible map with a good friend of mine, and man it's so hard to get used to needing like 30 gateways to spend your money, and when gateways take up half the screen it is EXTREMELY hard to find space compared to starcraft 2. We have been 3v3ing it with a girl who also plays SC1 and pwning some noobs who go for a 6 pool strat, and forget the pool. Always a fun time!
In the future I hope to share of my evolution of strategy in Starcraft 2 specifically just to show how I've learned from my mistakes in all matchups over the past year or so that Starcraft 2 has been released, and update strategies I'm trying and things I'm learning. And epic fails that I do with screen shots to show how badly I sucked! But it's always nice to go back to good old Starcraft 1 every once in a while just for kicks!

23 comments:

  1. We all miss starcraft 1...
    I think I'll play it now.
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  2. starcraft 1 was so beast, haha.
    i was zerg player in 1.

    and see Hydra raging in sc2 is so good, but i dont play starcraft 2, dont want to buy it, even knowing its worth it.

    i think im gonna watch some replays, this post made me miss sc1, :(

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  3. I know its amazing hydra is doing so good when he's blind in one eye. Why don't you want to buy it if it's worth it?

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  4. im lazy, and i think my mom would not give me money to buy an online game, but i even didnt tried.

    and i have good f1p games to play yet, League of Legends, TF2, and i am playing diablo 2 again :D

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  5. Haven't played it but I think I may check it out now. Followed.

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  6. My roommate played world of starcraft it was amazing.

    followers who give me good feedback will be followed in return! i love bloggin, yo

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  7. oh god! i love this game!

    +following

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  8. @Sono it's only a one time payment of 60$ for infinte use map settings games, multiplayer games, full ladder system with like 7 different leagues. For me i am willing to buy games as long as there is no subsription like WoW.
    @Mike Do you mean your friend played World of Warcraft? There is no world of starcraft although they attempted to make Starcraft ghost which was to be a first person shooter.

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  9. This is great!

    http://afdreview.blogspot.com/

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  10. Mmm, never played this game, so I would probably start with the newest release of starcraft. But I know what you mean, the feeling and gaming experience of the first game can sometimes be more important than the latest graphics.

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  11. I don't know what but as a PC gamer of 14 years, I've never liked Starcraft =/

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  12. Probably because I was so obsessed with the MSN gaming zone and , Jedi Knight, and Asheron's Call at the time

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  13. I am missing the oldschool feeling in general :/

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  14. The good old days of Sc1 and Total annialation. Now man, those were games :D

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  15. Starcraft 2 is actually really similar to the old game, but I get that you're nostalgic :). We all have that right.

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  16. Well... I've never played Starcraft I... haven't had the oportunity, but always wanted to try it

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  17. Indeed, the game was great.

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  18. I made a map in sc1 that was pretty popular. i called it impossible heroes and i had so much fun making it! it always would fill up instantly when i made games :) i wonder how many people still get on bnet now with sc2 out.

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  19. @Desk Was and still is great. @Electric Addict Yeah I might have played that map before it sounds familiar. And that's awesome! What's really cool now is if you create a map in Starcraft 2 that is really popular, it can be sold on battle.net for a small price every time someone downloads it.

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  20. Haven't really played it properly mytself but I think I may check it out now.

    Followed!!

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  21. whoa! you have some mindblowing stuff in here, as always! good job!

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  22. I remember my brother playing this game when he was growing up! Thanks for the memory

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