[QUOTE="Ml2_Berry"]

What is the best rts that wil run on my laptop

ati hd 3200

4gb ram

amd athlon x2 dual core 1.9ghz ql-60

windows vista

250gb hd

df853

Starcraft >>>>> Any other RTS

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whatisazerg

[QUOTE="biggest_loser"][QUOTE="PunishedOne"]

Ever heard of the phrase "If it ain't broke, don't fix it?"

SpaceMoose

I haven't seen anyone in this thread saying anything negative about any games other than Starcraft II actually. It's a little odd to make some generalization that the people who are praising Starcraft II are also the people knocking those other games. Yes, I'm sure that happens, but where is it in this thread that you are calling people hypocrites? (Unless they are making games themselves, that's not "hypocrisy" anyway.)

Anyway, regardless, there's been a whole entire ONE Starcraft game (and an expansion of course). All of those other games used as examples have sequel after sequel after sequel. There thus far has not been a new Starcraft every year (Call of Duty) or over a dozen of them (Final Fantasy.) Yeah, if someone is going to put out game after game after game after game in a series, people are going to start getting tired of the same old, same old more than if there if there was only one game and it was ten years ago.

Bottom line, a lot of people think of Starcraft as the best multiplayer PC game ever made. It wouldn't exactly make sense for them to say, "Okay, we have a good thing here. People love this game. Some people revere this game. A few people practically eat, sleep, and breathe this game, even though it's a decade old. Let's piss them all off by making some other game entirely and calling it a sequel."

I honestly do not know what people expect. It's a sequel. It's not like they said, "Oh, hey, look at this brand new game idea we came up with." People keep saying it's too much like the old one, but then they never really specify what it is they would like to see done differently.

To be honest, I never bought into the Blizzard hype (I own the firstStarCraft andBrood War, and that's it), but my friend and all of his friends are major Blizzard fans (they have almost all of the Blizzard PC games and play WoW religiously). In truth I'm more of a C&C and Dawn of War player.

What I find hilarious is that all of these feature cuts and DRM malware in recent games are actually intended to prevent or stop piracy:question:. I could see a LAN hack/mod coming out a week to a month after the game is released or leaked.

xerxes5678

anyone who is mad at blizzard for this just doesnt see it from their point of view.........here is a post from team liquid which explains a little more why they took out lan.

The reason lies in pirating and particularly in China. First of all let me do a quick introduce about the backbone of Chinese SC/WC3 gaming platform in China: As we already known Chinese SC players are among the best outside of Korea, and I can guarantee you that most of Chinese SC players don't even play on Bnet. They play on a gaming platform called Haofang(and few others but Haofang is the 1st and the biggest)

A few thing about Haofang: It is biggest gaming site in China, it has millions of users for many games including SC and WC3. It is free and using LAN(TCP/IP protocol) to allow players to play.

How Haofang works: You download a small program for Haofang, run it, tell it where your SC folder is. You join a room(max 255 players because TCP/IP can handle max to 255)then hit RUN, the little program will load your SC up and instead of log on to Bnet you go to LAN, and can find many games their to play since 255 players in the same room is a lot.

Why it is bad: Cos millions of players in China were/are/going to using pirated SC/WC3 to play without any limitation.

Why Blizzard cares: Of course they care, if even SC2 is going to last only half the life of SC the next big market is definitely China(cos Korea is given). If things going on like SC/WC3 Blizzard is going to lose tons of money.

Did Blizzard do anything about it: Yes they did but failed. A few year back Blizzard sued Haofang but lost and Haofang is continue to grow and now become the most recognize site in China(among gamers of course).

Why is Haofang able to sneak pass Blizzard: Haofang told that they only allow players play via LAN(TCP/IP) they do not do anything to mess with Blizzard Battle.net and thus can not be judged. I know it is **** since it allows players with pirated copies play multi play which is the life SC, but it holds true in the EULA and Blizzard can do nothing about it.

[QUOTE="Legendaryscmt"]

Modern Warfare 2 says hi.

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