Starcraft 2 Announced!

[A Black Falcon]

I didn't really play WC3 hard mode, I played Normal and found it really easy except for a couple of missions... I guess it was kind of nice to actually be able to FINISH the thing, in a way, but... while WC1 wasn't so bad (beat both campaigns), compared to WCII: ToD (hard and I never finished the last mission... brutal! And mission 13 of each campaign kept me stuck for a LONG time too...), WCII: BtDP (hardest RTS ever? Hardest one I've ever played, at least... ridiculous game. I never beat mission 3 of either side, and including cheating to skip levels only ever beat 6 of the 24 missions. Ouch.), SC (finished it.. difficulty was just about right: hard, but not too hard), BW (as expected, harder than SC but not impossible... I never finished the Zerg campaign because it was getting quite hard, but I got most of the way through at least.), Normal mode in WCIII was pathetic. I guess I could have played Hard, but I knew that I'd get stuck and frusterated that way, and I just went with Normal. If "Hard" had been "Normal" and "Normal" had been an optional "Easy" mode, things might have been different... but I played it at the default difficulty setting, and it was dissapointed.

And as I said, it just felt less original than SC's story. Some of the things seemed so similar to things that had happened in SC...

As for the FMVs, I'm not sure. While I do agree that the four BW cutscenes are amazing, and probably better than anything from the original game, SC's ones are great too... true, they are kind of campy, but that's not so bad; the sense of humor is great... :) The one with the marines in the infested ship is the best one in the original game. :D

What do you want, it all to be serious? Blizzard never takes itself completely seriously... I like the humor in SC and WC, and that includes the somewhat silly Starcraft FMVs.