27th January 2003, 11:02 PM
If you liked WC2, then I think you will LOVE SC. Seriously, you don't know true differences in forces until you play SC or WC3. WC2 had like a few spells different, but everything else was just a mirror image in each team (ogre and knights were the same unit, as were elves and trolls) but SC and WC3 have totally different forces that you really have to play differently. Ya say you are bad at multi tasking? Join the club :D. If you only played the DOS version of WC2, then be happy because they added lots of keyboard stuff that makes managing all those forces so much eaiser to do, not to mention lots of other unit managing tricks. Of course, this means you have to actually touch the keyboard, which is always something that takes finess, but hey I'm sure you can adapt. I myself am not the best at SC, in fact I have only won matches against my friend, who is actually worse, or was last I beat him.
Oh, and yes WC3 really limits your units. There's a 90 food cap (after making all the food making places to get it that high), and since most use more than 1 food (like 3 average) that means you have even less of an army after that. There's also penalties for having your army above 40 (small tax on your cash and above 70 (huge tax on your cash). It's still very strategic though, especially with heros that level up and collect items. Unlike WC2, and SC even, heros can't just camp back at the base because they are so much more powerful and diverse than normal units that you would be slaughtered without using them.
Besides, I wanna play a match against you some time. If you can't play WC3, get SC, like I said. I'm sure you'll love it despite the sci fi. It's not star trek-like if that's your beef though, it's actually got a very great storyline to it that has some similarities to Metroid Prime's story bits and some of Fusion's story bits, assuming you liked that. I just hope you don't mind the unimaginable moisture of the zerg.
Oh, and yes WC3 really limits your units. There's a 90 food cap (after making all the food making places to get it that high), and since most use more than 1 food (like 3 average) that means you have even less of an army after that. There's also penalties for having your army above 40 (small tax on your cash and above 70 (huge tax on your cash). It's still very strategic though, especially with heros that level up and collect items. Unlike WC2, and SC even, heros can't just camp back at the base because they are so much more powerful and diverse than normal units that you would be slaughtered without using them.
Besides, I wanna play a match against you some time. If you can't play WC3, get SC, like I said. I'm sure you'll love it despite the sci fi. It's not star trek-like if that's your beef though, it's actually got a very great storyline to it that has some similarities to Metroid Prime's story bits and some of Fusion's story bits, assuming you liked that. I just hope you don't mind the unimaginable moisture of the zerg.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)