Starcraft Delays Episode
August 15, 2010
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Posted by Dr. Disaster
Funny story. This weeks episode was all recorded and ready to go out. Then I started playing Starcraft, I’m playing through the first one since I recently picked it up from Best Buy. “It’s okay,” I thought “I’ve got four hours to edit the podcast. I’ll just play about thirty minutes of Starcraft and then edit the show. After all the mission can’t take that long.
Three and a half hours later I was still trying to take out the ion cannon and the episode still hadn’t been finished.
Moral of the story? If you make a podcast NEVER play Starcraft. The games just go on, and on, and on. Just when you think y0u’re ready to make your big push the computer counters with eighty siege tanks and a battle cruiser, leaving you a battered imitati0n of your original strike force.
It is a sad feeling friends. But it is war, and war is hell.
Speaking of Starcraft who picked up the squeal? I know Sir Michael did and we haven’t seen or heard from him since the game launched.
Categories: Derp, Podcast, Video Games
The first Starcraft has surprisingly good graphics for such an old game. I have always been more of a warcraft fan myself but starcraft is pretty fun.
I also remember that its pretty hard too. My favorite RTS game is still command and conquer tough. Try out tiberian sun if you haven’t. it has the same feel as starcraft with wonderfully horrible cut scenes.
In marketing for later games they are trying to make it sound as if the script was intentionally bad but cut scenes like those can only come from a serious mind.
Also:
Shame on you for not editing the show!!!
An RTS can suck up time faster than me in front of a plate of waffles. I can understand.
P.S.: I am a waffle vacume. Vacume…..Ha ha ha, old Villainy Inc. refrence.
@Joshua: I loooooooooooooooooooove Tiberian Sun cutscenes. “Best” thing in video game cutscene history!
Never played starcraft myself, but lost many a friend to it. May the rest in zerg rushes.
I have a copy of sc2 lying around tho, not installed it yet tho.
Tiberian sun had the perfect mix where the team knew what kind of cut scenes people liked but didn’t know why.
I shortly played red alert 3 but it was not the same thing.
I think Kane is the most awesome character in video games.
Although I love RTS’, I really suck at them. Also, our computer can’t even run Age of Empires 3 on lowest settings without craching =(
I might check out Halo Wars, though. Apparently it’s a pretty good console RTS.
Hey, Dr. D. I haven’t been on here for a while, but I have a suggestion. Could you tell us when you finish editing everything, and/or if there isn’t going to be an episode that week?
And I’m not surprised Starcraft 2 distracted you at all. Just saying.
Worry not friends. I’m about halfway done editing this weeks episode. I actually haven’t played Starcraft since the day it delayed last week’s episode, that’s how dedicated I am.
The episode will go out tomorrow as planned.
Does anyone else feel like they are incredibly bad at Starcraft? It takes me forever to finish missions, and all my forces get wiped out in seconds a lot of the time.
When I used to play AoE3 (for some reason our computer downgraded so now I can’ play it), my strategy was to play on easy so that I could feel good about myself.
And although I felt bad doing it, the only way I can find to actually win is to just build up a massive force of cavalry and then attack them head-on. Nothing tactical about it, unfortunately….
Command and Conqure 3 Kane’s wrath. Use the unit that can take buildings on an 8 sided battle. An entire army made up of GDI, the brotherhood of Nod, and the Scrin. Let the Britanians burn….. They should make a Code Geass RTS………I think.
@Dr. D-
I entirely sympathize.
I know that I’m good at strategy games. I kick ass at Advance Wars (if you don’t own a copy of Days of Ruin for the DS, DO IT AND DO IT NOW) and more or less any other turn-based strategy game you care to name. Even chess! I can actually beat my computer at the lower levels.
But whenever I sit down behind an RTS, all that disappears. I’m doing the right things, I think- I’m trying to be smart about my decisions, and I’m thinking tactically as well as strategically, but I usually wind up getting rushed by hordes of lower-level CPU-controlled units, and after my force has disappeared, I usually exclaim something along the lines of ‘CHEAP!’, restart, and win by building up massive numbers of units and brute-forcing my way through. As the guy who tries to play these games like an actual commander (I’ve written letters to the imaginary wives and children of the men who died under my command) it’s frustrating to be rewarded for playing the game the ‘wrong’ way.