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Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on November 20, 2007 09:19 AM:
 
I was looking at the new units posted that will be in StarCraft 2 (if they ever get around to bloody announcing a bloody release date, and probably not even then...) The new "mothership" unit of the Protoss caught my eye - it really reminds me of Ancient city-ships like Atlantis. It's primary weapons, those blue firefly-like things, even seem kind of like Drone weapons. Big floating city like that that's really an interstellar spaceship, has a big shield, cloak field...

http://www.starcraft2.com/features/protoss/mothership.xml
 

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Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on November 20, 2007 09:45 PM:
 
Atlantis is bigger.

Mark
 

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Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on November 20, 2007 09:59 PM:
 
Okay, I don't care about Starcraft at all, but the way they did the background of that web page is COOL! (Scroll up & down at the bottom of the page to see what I'm talking about.)
 

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Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on November 21, 2007 12:05 AM:
 
This game may warrant a buy, even if I do suck at the original game.
 

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Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on November 21, 2007 02:47 AM:
 

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Originally posted by Mars Needs Women:
This game may warrant a buy, even if I do suck at the original game.

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You Require More (Frn'ech) Lesbian Ass.
 

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Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on November 21, 2007 03:23 AM:
 
Uh...Okay?
 

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Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on November 21, 2007 03:54 AM:
 
I haven't played an RTS since the days of Red Alert 2 and Ground Control. Never could get to grips with the newer 3D ones, I was forever loosing my sense of direction. Hence my current preference for crowbars and portal guns.
 

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Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on November 21, 2007 05:58 AM:
 
Starcraft and Broodwar weren't 3D; SC2 will be, but its release date is still TBA. Mark - the scale is off in-game; most of time your individual soldiers are roughly the same size as your supposedly kilometers-long capital ships.
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on November 21, 2007 01:37 PM:
 
I use to play SCBW online all the time back in the day. I'll be getting this one right away. It doesn't bother me that the units aren't to scale since your soldiers would be tiny and your ships filling a large portion of your screen. I remember a mod I had for Star Trek Armada that made units to scale and the spacedock was massive.
 

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Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on November 21, 2007 03:34 PM:
 
I loved Star Trek Armada, but it was unstable on my machine and crashed every hour or so. Never played the sequel either...

I still play SCBW online. Usually it'll be a month or two of intense every-other-day for 8 hours, then three or four months of hardly touching it. The pattern's held for about 5 years now :-P
 

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Posted by OverRon (Member # 2036) on November 21, 2007 04:16 PM:
 
Heheh, love the theory there, plus the Protss also make Stargates as well.

Since I heard about SC2 I just had to pick up my original Starcraft and Starcraft Broodwars, and play them again. Being stuck at that low resolution is horrible though!
 

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Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on November 21, 2007 11:20 PM:
 
Funny I still play Armada 2, though I'm eagerly awaiting a BSGmod for it.
 

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Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on November 22, 2007 02:37 AM:
 
We could *really* stretch this to the breaking point and say the Zerg Queen's Parasites are Goa'uld...
 

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Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on November 22, 2007 07:27 AM:
 

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Originally posted by Daniel Butler:
We could *really* stretch this to the breaking point and say the Zerg Queen's Parasites are Goa'uld...

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Originally posted by Mars Needs Women:
Funny I still play Armada 2, though I'm eagerly awaiting a BSGmod for it.

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