disposablewords posted:

We as viewers/players also know that Tychus's suit of power armor was made to be his "prison" carried with him wherever he goes, thanks to the opening cutscene. It's pretty safe to guess that he isn't being punished by being made permanently strong and sturdy, so something must be up about the suit itself other than being welded shut.

V. Illych L. posted:

wc3 custom maps were great, there was a lot of really intense effort that went into them

FoolyCharged posted:

Sc2 had an algorithm that got gamed, and the first couple of maps released dominated it for the entirety of its life. It was always almost entirely desert strike.

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Torchlighter posted:

I would never blame anyone for previously quitting SC2 without trying the Arcade, especially early in the life cycle, from the outset it was loving rough. Blizzard released it too early and well, with Blizzard's whole 'we own everything' clause it was never going to be quite as popular as old WC3 maps. There's a teeming community now with plenty of old WC3 map equivalents and a bunch of gamemodes that show up, and with a bunch of new custom campaign stuff and SC2 being free it's arguably a diamond in the rough or throwback to a much earlier time in gaming, but you have to interact with general chat and well... in general.

mr_stibbons posted:

Finding decade old internet articles is a nightmare, but I recall back at launch there were statistics released that about half of the people who bought starcraft 2 on launch never played a single game of multiplayer, and the active multiplayer community was less than 10%. Now, stats are deceptive, a fair amount of pepole probably dropped the game pretty quickly, things may have changed since 2013, but it is fair to say that multiplayer is niche compared to campaign.

Poil posted:

Ah, yes. That black cross on a white/gray background. Now where have I seen that before?

NewMars posted:

At least the ghost thing is consistent in being utterly useless outfits. In a moment of hilarity, the spandex covers more than the SC1 suits did.



They got like a tabard.. bandolier.. thing... jeans and boots. And nothing over their arms.

Octatonic posted:

There are the same number of essences as Pokémon. 1015

gohuskies posted:

All those missions we spent in WoL turning Kerrigan into a human feel like a super productive way to have spent our time now that she's been turned right back into the Queen of Blades again!

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MagusofStars posted:

The worst one of these that I'm familiar with is Trantor from Asimov's fiction series. The entire 200 million square kilometer world is developed with a population of 40 billion on the world. No doubt "40 billion residents" sounded like an unbelievably huge number back in the 1940's, but then when you actually work out the math of the entire planet being developed/occupied, that works out to a population density of something like one person every 200 square kilometers.

Applied to Earth, that's the equivalent of the entirety of New York City having a grand total of four residents.