I've played so much of this over the years, but still not at all good at it.
This is, without a doubt, one of my all time favorites and I think it always will be.I heeded the call of nostalgia today, and played some StarCraft: Brood War. It scratches the itch where Starcraft 2 doesn’t quite do it.
Although I’m still having a debate on my mind if I’m getting 60hz vs 144hz monitor for added glory. I reinstalled this the other day and now I’m replaying it in all its pixelly glory on my huge new widescreen monitor. Was it the fact that all three races, despite being so different from each other in playstyle, were all perfectly balanced? Was it the atmosphere? The music? All of the above? I’m going to go with all of the above. It’s very difficult to explain what, exactly, was so magical about this game. I wrote (horrific) fanfic and dreamed of going to South Korea someday so I could watch those proto-eSports celebs work their magic. I loved it I memorized every detail I knew all about the lore and the characters but most importantly the mechanics. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours poured into it. I had a summer job and I did it and then came home and played this stupid game. So that summer after I graduated was absolutely amazing. That summer Starcraft was all I did because now I could use my own computer and run this gorram game like 14 hours a day. I was using gaming computers under 1000 but I got my first “real” computer as a high school graduation gift in 2002. Disregard high school, acquire the greatest RTS game ever made. It was basically all I played for like the next three years. I stumbled across Starcraft not long after it first came out – this would have been, oh, 1999 or 2000 or so.
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