Did Starcraft 2 seem like a disappointment to you?

[LawlessSquirrel]

It wasn't as good as Starcraft was, that's for sure. The gameplay was all there, but...there's something they missed, I can't put my finger on it. Perhaps it just feels like more of an homage to the original than a great game on its own.

Gotta wait for the rest of the story before I can judge it though...which is kind of disappointing.

 

[JackKrauserFtw]

....It wasnt a re-skin of War3, it was a re-skin of Broodwar, and thats because they didnt want to significantly change anything, dont fix whats not broken

 

[Frankster]

I'd consider it a disappointment, despite it being a massive commercial success.

Judging from the hype this was going to be god's gift to rts kind, a game that will sweep all other rts beneath it's tide of awesomness.
That didn't happen imo, and a few months later now that the hype is gone sc2 doesn't look like the bestest game/rts ever some were proclaiming it to be.

Oh and the story definitly needs to be commented as one of its weakest aspects. When people have to say "i'll wait until parts 2 and 3 before judging the story" you know there's trouble.
A good book/film/game trilogy doesn't have to excuse the weakness of its first act by promising the next acts will make up for it.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

It's sort of terrible. I mean, I bought it almost on release date as well and after completing the campaign I tried to get into the multiplayer but unfortunately it was just plain boring and way to competitive for my tastes. In the lower leagues there was no scouting. You built your units, he built his and the person who got lucky would win. Then there were the cheaters who would just hide buildings all over the map in unreachable position, especially terran, so you couldn't win. As I got to the higher leagues, specifically gold, it all became way to competitive. Unless you spent your time learning the correct builds it was hopeless.

I spent an entire week playing the custom maps since they were just plain more fun than the leagues themselves which I suppose is the main gist of the multiplayer. I haven't touched the game in about 2 months.

 

[Spy_Guy]

I could safely say that I dislike RTS games. I have tried many of them, got bored, uninstalled them and thought of them as a waste of good money.

However, I like SC2, and that baffles me. I've never cared for any RTS before.
I still don't play it, because it stresses me out no end, but I like it.

I don't recall hearing much about it when it was released, so it passed kind of under my radar.
Despite this, I strongly doubt it's a flop, though.

 

[Slash12]

I'd consider it the best RTS that I've ever played. I've never been into RTS games and even disliked the first Starcraft, but I've still kept playing SC2 fairly regularly to this day and I bought it on release. It's also getting a pretty big Esports following and I think thats pretty great too.

 

[terraswrath]

I think its only failing is that it never lived up to the hype, but let's face it, few things do. It wasn't the be-all-and-end-all of RTS' like it was made out to be by the press, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad game. Many games thrown into the spotlight have this problem, and between that and the nostalgia SC2's fanbase rightfully holds encouraged the mindset that the game would be some kind of second coming. And hey, a crap-ton of that fanbase love it. A crap-ton don't. It's those who built up a pre-conception of the game before release who were disappointed the most. I can't see how, beyond that, it can be regarded as a flop.

 

[roger moores eyebrow]

I really enjoyed it, thought the production values were immense and it probably had the best RTS campaign I have ever played through. Then again I haven't played the original so don't know how it compares to that.

 

[Thedutchjelle]

I know this is wayyyy late but I remember a time when I was just itching for Starcraft 2 to come out. When I saw the first official trailer I was all excited and couldn't wait for it to come out. Finally it came out, I went and bought it on the first day it came out, and I haven't been able to get into it. At least not the way I thought I'd get into it. It felt like they just re-skinned Warcraft 3 with a Starcraft title and added better 3D modeling and a physics engine.

Maybe the hype over the years built up this bar that was impossible to achieve? But it seems like the game has disappointed me completely. I still have more fun playing the original SC than I do SC2. Maybe it's because my computer can't handle the game at max settings? Maybe because the first SC seemed more simple and less bloated? What are your guy's opinions on the game, for those of you whom have played both?


EDIT: My bad flop was the wrong term, I just mean a disappointment. The game was too high grossing to flop

Storywise, I agree with you. The singleplayer campaign story felt terrible compared to the story of SC1 and SC:BW. There wasn't even a big fat manual with lore :\

Gameplay wise, I do not agree. Although I agree that it's more or less Starcraft 3D, the new interface makes playing the game much more enjoyable for me, and I haven't grown bored of the multiplayer yet.

I don't really care about the max settings. I run it on the lowest settings. When I see the higher settings in vids from Husky or HDStarcraft - It looks nice but the amount of effects will obscure my playfield which is very clear to see on lowest

EDIT: Please note that SC2 multiplayer and Bnet 2.0 are two different things for me. Bnet 2.0 is sucking slightly less now that it finally has chatrooms, but it still misses the 'feel' of the Bnet 1.0... can't really describe it.

 

[Imbechile]

Heh, as Yatzee would say:
In short: NO
In long: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[__Anarchy__]

I know this is wayyyy late but I remember a time when I was just itching for Starcraft 2 to come out. When I saw the first official trailer I was all excited and couldn't wait for it to come out. Finally it came out, I went and bought it on the first day it came out, and I haven't been able to get into it. At least not the way I thought I'd get into it. It felt like they just re-skinned Warcraft 3 with a Starcraft title and added better 3D modeling and a physics engine.

Maybe the hype over the years built up this bar that was impossible to achieve? But it seems like the game has disappointed me completely. I still have more fun playing the original SC than I do SC2. Maybe it's because my computer can't handle the game at max settings? Maybe because the first SC seemed more simple and less bloated? What are your guy's opinions on the game, for those of you whom have played both?


EDIT: My bad flop was the wrong term, I just mean a disappointment. The game was too high grossing to flop

The story was pretty boring, i played through it once on normal and that's all that held my interest. The multiplayer however i think is pretty fantastic and addictive.

Ps: Terran are sooooooooo OP

 

[Frankster]

There wasn't anything particularly weak about the story, it's just that it kinda ended on a cliffhanger. Basically like the Terran campaign for the first Starcraft extended to twenty hours. So yea, it's kinda hard to judge on what we've been presented with so far. It'd be like reviewing The Lord of the Rings based only on Fellowship. Is it possible? Yes, but you'd feel like you weren't giving the readers of your review a proper write-up.

That the story ended on a cliffhanger has nothing to do with why I said that, I genuinely do believe the story was weak (as in boring, run of the mill and just plain vanilla), plot was a mess and just doesn't follow from sc1 that easily if not downright going against the game sometimes (i refuse to believe a raynor-kerrigan love was even hinted at in sc1, playing it over again I really can't see it) but these are my own feelings on why I feel sc2 was a letdown, feel free to agree or disagree as you wish.

 

[Tzekelkan]

What jumps out at me is how quickly it seems like the game was forgotten about on forums such as this one. 'Round here, we seem to as a community have our favorites (and those favorites overwhelmingly tend to be RPGs, both western and Japanese), and Starcraft 2 has never once looked like becoming one of them.

Did this community even have it in the discussion at any point when talking about 2010's Game of the Year? I'd managed to completely forget it existed, so infrequently is it mentioned here.

I'm assuming that is because a large part of the community mirror's Yahtzee's opinions exactly. Not everyone, but you can't say that all the threads about HL2 and the Orange Box, all the hate against popular games, all the non-stop whining about chest-high walls, cover combat and regenerating health is entirely unrelated to Zero Punctuation.

Personally I loved Starcraft 2. To me it had a very close feeling to the original, all the while being stunning and amazing for all the things it had. I'm generally not very good at RTS but I'm fairly competent in SC2 (singleplayer, the multiplayer is extremely hard but I like it). I still have my gripes with parts of the story and other details, so it's not perfect, but it's a very fun game for me.

We can objectively say that it wasn't a financial flop, but whether someone liked it or not will depend on personal preference just like with any other thing ever.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Xpac/DLC 10 years due with a Graphic update for full game price? Yes I believe its a huge disappointment. Sorry.

 

[DeSpiner]

Personally, I love it. All of it. Single player, multiplayer, map editor, everything, right down to the cheesy story. I still play both the single-player campaign and multiplayer in ladder and against friends.