A Legacy of Distinction - Page 3
Forum Index > Final Edits |
scwizard
United States1195 Posts
| ||
SlayerS_`HackeR`
United States190 Posts
| ||
drowned
79 Posts
though you compared sc and painting, i found the paintings rather distracting and not fit to the content | ||
Mikilatov
United States3897 Posts
| ||
eMbrace
United States1300 Posts
| ||
brie.mihai
Romania95 Posts
| ||
Icysoul
Canada254 Posts
| ||
boesthius
United States11637 Posts
| ||
JWD
United States12607 Posts
All hail SC:BW, the greatest game ever made! On April 08 2009 03:36 scwizard wrote: I thought the next FE was going to be OSL wrapup Wow are you a prick. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
| ||
stk01001
United States786 Posts
man imagine if it was still like that today.. Bisu would be taking out entire armies with just a shuttle/reaver. | ||
amOKchen
Denmark7 Posts
| ||
checo
Mexico1364 Posts
| ||
nataziel
Australia1455 Posts
I hope starcraft 2 is good, otherwise competitive gaming and esports are going to take a massive blow. | ||
d34gl3r
Korea (South)92 Posts
nice read - thanks | ||
Prose
Canada314 Posts
On April 08 2009 07:07 nataziel wrote: The last bit made me sad Yeah, I was so excited reading through the article, until I came to the heading + Show Spoiler + Curtain Call Props, well-written. | ||
ghermination
United States2851 Posts
| ||
Arrian
United States889 Posts
On April 08 2009 03:18 Tom Phoenix wrote: I am sorry, but...that is simply untrue. Infact, 1998 was probably one of the best years for PC gaming. There was a great deal of successful titles released that year and a grand majority of them found their home on the PC platform. Baldur`s Gate, Thief: The Dark Project, Grim Fandango, Fallout 2, Half-Life...I could go on. And this is not mentioning a great deal of successful PC games (including Blizzard`s) which were released in the late 90`s in general. To put it shortly, the PC market was nowhere near dead when StarCraft was released. Infact, PC gaming back then was at the height of it`s power and StarCraft was a part of it`s golden years. Keep in mind--I'm talking about the PC market, not the titles. I personally think '97/'98 were some of the best years in gaming ever, but as far as the money being spent on PC vs console games, it isn't even close. The short answer is that yes, there were a number of successful PC titles, but there were way more successful console titles. The titles released for PC were good, but at that time if you were going to try and sell several million games, you were developing for the Playstation, N64, even a Sega console. In more than a few ways, StarCraft's sales numbers were rather surprising. Obviously, I'm speaking relatively, and I'm speaking in a grandiose fashion in the TLFE, but this is the reality I'm trying to convey. Some actual figures of the money spent on console games and PC games in '98/years to and after: Console: -1997 - $5.1 billion -1998 - $6.2 billion -1999 - $6.9 billion PC: -1998 - $1.8 billion -1999 - $1.9 billion So not only, in 1998, was the console market bigger, but it was growing much, much faster than the PC market. This is supported by empirical observation, as well. At that time, consoles were far more powerful, far more established, and far more developed for than PCs. The real leg up that PCs had on consoles was online capability, which at the time consoles could not do. Before 98, and even through 98, the internet and online play was quite new (in fact, I encountered arguments which said that StarCraft basically pioneered online play, but I don't exactly buy that), so that advantage was not quite realized yet, and one of the things StarCraft did was help players realize that advantage, and make it standard. | ||
Lazzarus
Faroe Islands106 Posts
| ||
MutaDoom
Canada1163 Posts
I'll never forget when I was a complete noob. Me and a friend, Dave, picked up those hideous N64 controllers, only to the shock that a 2v1 comp on Island Hop turned into a 3 hour nightmare, where our last stronghold was the tiny island on the right packed with turrets and enough room for one building: The Starport. We slowly clawed our way back to victory. It was tremendous. It was ghastly. It was the last game I ever played on Nintendo 64. | ||
| ||