The Week In Games

39 responses to “The Week In Games”

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   Bish

   July 26, 2010 at 9:09 am

   What’s a StarCraft?
   Is that like a god-game, but for the universe or something? I really like Sins of a Solar Empire, is it like that?

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      ripoff996

      July 26, 2010 at 7:53 pm

      *Facepalm*

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   Awnshegh

   July 26, 2010 at 9:10 am

   Just waiting for that magical call to go and pick up my CE. Playing the BEAT certainly helped pass the time but I can’t wait to see what Blizzard put Jim through this time.

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   Alex Walker

   July 26, 2010 at 9:18 am

   Glad to see the journos are excited too. Have you been able to review it yet?

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      David Wildgoose

      July 26, 2010 at 9:22 am

      Nope. No media has yet had access to the final game for review.

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         matt

         July 26, 2010 at 9:56 am

         thats a worry, iirc, it was starcraft being released early to the critics, and promptly getting savaged by them, that prompted them to go completely back to the drawing board. if it wasn’t for that we would have ended up with literally warcraft II in space.

         it is also a worry that the graphics are already out of date… if they look average now… what are they gonna look like in 10 years time when we are still waiting for starcraft III!??! more to the point: what are they gonna look like when we are still waiting for Starcraft II to be complete! (i.e. the other campaigns to come out!?)

         Disclaimer: I am the biggest starcraft fan evar.

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            Dunnowhathuh

            July 26, 2010 at 10:11 am

            Yeh, sometimes early reviews is the difference between a stunning success or big flop for high profile games. Lets hope Blizzard keeps their good track record for this one.

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         Brewer74

         July 26, 2010 at 1:36 pm

         I heard some gronks at Big W Sold some copies early in the center im at, about 7 I think. They still cant play, just get a screen that says “come back on the 27th”. I wonder what penalties Big W and the employees at fault would apply? A delay or higher price point on the next Blizzard game? Pretty big stuff up, not for Big W though…

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4. 

   Ryno

   July 26, 2010 at 9:27 am

   david, may we please have a matchmaking post later in the week for starcraft? i would enjoy the oppurtunity to match wits with other readers.

   now let hear it, state your race peoples:

   i love Zerg, i cant play zerg very well in SC2 for the moment so expect me to run a terran army.

   also people who have not seen starcraft 2 gameplay i present you the best match of the SC2 king of the beta tournament:

   http://day9tv.blip.tv/file/3917155/

   after watching that match i finally understood why starcraft makes a good spectator sport.

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   1. 

      Hieronimus Kava

      July 26, 2010 at 6:57 pm

      I’ve played Terran since StarCraft 1, so that is the race I’m maining again this time around. However, in SC1, I was also very fond of Zerg, but in SC2 I’m really liking the new mechanics that Protoss have, so I’m going to considering branching out into that territory.

      Hehe, in terms of being a spectator sport…I just love Husky and HD’s enthusiasm when it comes to commentating (I realise they are not the most in-depth and they make mistakes horribly often, but they do it with so much gusto xD..)

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5. 

   Riavan

   July 26, 2010 at 9:28 am

   The only thing I’m upset about is that we won’t be able to play with Americans at release.

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6. 

   Dean

   July 26, 2010 at 9:29 am

   StarCraft? StarCraft, StarCraft. StarCraft StarCraft StarCraft, StarCraft! StarCraft StarCraft?

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7. 

   OT

   July 26, 2010 at 9:36 am

   CANT WAIT TOMORROW STARCRAFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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8. 

   Mr Explody

   July 26, 2010 at 9:37 am

   Stacraft.

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9. 

   Chuloopa

   July 26, 2010 at 9:43 am

   What, no new Imagine game?

   Damn it…

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      The Cracks

      July 26, 2010 at 4:24 pm

      Well, you can *imagine* one, can’t you? 😛

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10. 

    Lincoln Tanner

    July 26, 2010 at 9:44 am

    I pretty pissed i order the StaCraft 2 CE 2 months ago at EB because I work there right and the bastards jip my copy because where one down what was the point of ordering it damn you EB lol 🙁

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    Qumulys

    July 26, 2010 at 9:46 am

    I’ve never once played StarCraft. Is that odd?

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    1. 

       Stone

       July 26, 2010 at 10:39 am

       Only if you’re Korean! 😉

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    2. 

       oggob

       July 26, 2010 at 11:31 am

       +1

       The only games that I’ve invested 10hr or more on the PC have been… Doom, Doom II, Sim City 2000, Minesweeper

       100% Pure Console Fanboy

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12. 

    GARRY GREGORY GEORGES

    July 26, 2010 at 10:42 am

    Can’t wait to craft some stars. So sick of crafting worlds of war.

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    oggob

    July 26, 2010 at 11:27 am

    So… that is actually nothing else this week?

    oh well… no need to hit the stores this week

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    1. 

       Jason Padgett

       July 26, 2010 at 3:22 pm

       Not many publishers would have the balls to release a game in the same week as Starcraft 2, the biggest game release of all time.

       This game will reignite the popularity of the RTS genre and possibly PC gaming in general. I can’t wait!!!!!!!!!!!!

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          oggob

          July 27, 2010 at 9:17 am

          I can’t see this getting anywhere near the numbers that MW2 did in it’s first weeks.

          Sure it’s PC only, but it would be hard to suggest this is the biggest release of all time.

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    Aaron Clement

    July 26, 2010 at 11:39 am

    The EB online store (#*$’d my order and have sent it to my old office in Brisbane, rather than here in Hobart. Thus meaning that I can’t play SC2 now until thurs/fri at the very earliest. Luckily the office in Brissy is still there and I can arrange to get it sent down via internal mail, otherwise I’d probably never see the game

    Seriously – What’s the point of having an online store and allowing customers to update their details if you don’t actually check/use said details?

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    1. 

       Andrew Hobbs

       July 26, 2010 at 12:45 pm

       Haha, I’m in Hobart too! Once we both have it we’ll have to add each other on Battle.net for super lag-free games 😀

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          matt

          July 26, 2010 at 2:12 pm

          don’t you guys have NBN now? couldn’t he just get EB to email him the cd key, then you could like, transfer the CD image to him in like 10sec? like over MSN or something?

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          Mitch

          July 26, 2010 at 2:27 pm

          If only. The way battle net work is that all your data has to be sent to the servers and back again, regardless of where the two players are.

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             matt

             July 26, 2010 at 4:55 pm

             I highly doubt that. where did you here that?
             the way this stuff works for everyone else (like windows live ect) and what they eluded to when responding to the criticism that removal of lan play would cause massive lag for people sitting next to each other because of this, is: it will always try to create a P2P connection. for the most obvious reason of saving their bandwidth. very rarely a P2P connection cannot be created, and maybe then they will rout data through their servers. some data will always be going to the servers, but I doubt it would be stuff that would cause lag, if so, that is incredibly lame.

             P.S. you are still incredibly LAME for removing REAL lan play blizzard!

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15. 

    Cymelion

    July 26, 2010 at 2:39 pm

    Shame even if I buy it I will not have time to play it till I am on days off 🙁

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16. 

    gregorian

    July 26, 2010 at 3:18 pm

    Koreans rejoice!

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17. 

    Jesse

    July 26, 2010 at 5:05 pm

    GAME are selling Starcraft 2 on launch day for $79.99! Just got phoned up a moment ago by them (I pre-ordered my copy a while back)

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    Alex Walker

    July 26, 2010 at 8:31 pm

    FYI new players: Protoss have the easiest mechanics to manage if you’re struggling to get used to things. (Warp gates are awesome.)

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19. 

    fully

    July 26, 2010 at 8:41 pm

    Arman van Buren is mad hectic like David Guetta. *doof*doof*

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       OnlineSpellCheck

       July 27, 2010 at 2:56 am

       Armin Van Buuren

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    Nelson

    July 26, 2010 at 9:47 pm

    Brewer74 you’re the gronk as Big W point of sale system will not sell embargo stock. When the item gets scanned (before release date) it shows up on screen “item not for sale”

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21. 

    rpgplayer83

    July 27, 2010 at 2:55 am

    Don’t forget that the NS2 (Natural Selection 2) Alpha is out in a few hours from now too.

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22. 

    rpgplayer83

    July 27, 2010 at 2:57 am

    Don’t forget that NS2 (Natural Selection 2) is out in a few hours also!

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       rpgplayer83

       July 27, 2010 at 2:58 am

       grr chrome is giving me bugs, it says my post didn’t post, then when I posted my other post posted. :\

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