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Anyone plan on buying in the 27th when it comes out?

If the commercial was showing what is in the game then I would buy it.

So no.

Nope, for a number of reasons. I've ranted elsewhere and will probably rant again in other threads so I'll keep it short here:

Conditions that *might* motive me to purchase SC2:
1) Full Hor+ support for widescreen and multi-monitor
2) Restoration of LAN functionality
3) All 3 parts of the game in one box for <$20

yeah i'd have to agree if the game play was like the promos then i'd for sure get it. kinda of a let down when u see the acuall game.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704682604575369093457494042.html

Although videogame sales are in a slump, expectations for "Starcraft II" are high. Blizzard's parent company, Activision Blizzard, has spent more than $100 million developing the computer-based game.

That is a lot of cut scenes.

Nope, for a number of reasons. I've ranted elsewhere and will probably rant again in other threads so I'll keep it short here:

Conditions that *might* motive me to purchase SC2:
1) Full Hor+ support for widescreen and multi-monitor
2) Restoration of LAN functionality
3) All 3 parts of the game in one box for <$20

Summed it up for me.

Salute the General!

That is a lot of cut scenes.

That better be for the cutscenes. Otherwise they spent far too much converting SC1 to 3D.

So I made a topic about this on GS... some people just don't get it.

Gamespot Topic

Already pre-ordered it to get in the beta a while back so I'm gonna be at my local gamestop at midnight. The lack of LAN is troubling but not a deal breaker for me. I don't really care about triple wide support for RTS games since I wouldn't play in triple wide anyway (just doesn't work well for games like starcraft). I loved the gameplay aspect of the beta (the game is just fun to play, period), hated what they did to battle.net 2.0, and have mixed feelings about the new custom game system. Hopefully they iron a lot of that stuff out.

As far as pricing goes... all new Blizzard games have been $60 since Diablo 2 at least... this was debated in another forum and beaten to the ground when someone produced proof that Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 were both $60. The next two installments will be priced like expansions, so there's nothing new about the pricing scheme at all. Asking for $20 for all 3 is just silly - good luck with that.

As far as pricing goes... all new Blizzard games have been $60 since Diablo 2 at least... this was debated in another forum and beaten to the ground when someone produced proof that Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 were both $60. The next two installments will be priced like expansions, so there's nothing new about the pricing scheme at all. Asking for $20 for all 3 is just silly - good luck with that.

I see that my list might have been a little misleading. The all-in-one box has nothing to do with purchasing power but rather my interest level in the game. At some point in the future I expect a SC2 Battlechest to be released, and 5-10-20 years from now that product might go for $20. It is *maybe* at this point in time that I will purchase the game.

I am pretty excited to see the Single Player campaign. I never played the original SC but I did play the SC2 beta and it is very impressive. The graphics are whatever but I love the music the gameplay is incredible.. but you would hope so with 100m spent on development alone. I dont care about triple wide at all for this game. I might care about it a little more when D3 comes out next summer (wishful thinking) as far as a blizzard supported game is concerned. But even then its really not important.

The single player campaign is pretty damn good so far.

My hands were shaking and the phone camera sucks, but: :D

You failed to answer the most important question for this forum, is the game play Hoz+ how does it handle it, people would like comparison screen shots too. Personally I'm not to bothered about this game, but then I never played the original so I really "don't know what I'm missing". Besides, I still want to get the expansions for Sins of a Solar Empire, and there are a couple of games on the Wii I don't have yet, but anyway, I digress.

You failed to answer the most important question for this forum, is the game play Hoz+ how does it handle it, people would like comparison screen shots too. Personally I'm not to bothered about this game, but then I never played the original so I really "don't know what I'm missing". Besides, I still want to get the expansions for Sins of a Solar Empire, and there are a couple of games on the Wii I don't have yet, but anyway, I digress.

It's the same as beta: Hor+, but not triple wide compatible. There was a comparison shot somewhere for the beta, nothing's changed.

You failed to answer the most important question for this forum, is the game play Hoz+ how does it handle it, people would like comparison screen shots too. Personally I'm not to bothered about this game, but then I never played the original so I really "don't know what I'm missing". Besides, I still want to get the expansions for Sins of a Solar Empire, and there are a couple of games on the Wii I don't have yet, but anyway, I digress.

I highly recommend playing the original. Great game.

No eyefinity resolutions visible in my options (should have 3360x1050).

No luck here either, even with manually editing DocumentsStarCraft IIvariables.txt which apparently worked in the beta. I know some people got it to work, given the 6 monitor video PC Perspective did and a few other screenshots floating around, but I'm not sure how. This is on Eyefinity with Catalyst 7.7s.

They specifically banned eyefinity as they deemed it as cheating. Don't expect to get anything but the normal aspects (16:9, 16:10, 4:3)

You can try using each monitor in portrait. 3x9:16 will give you basically 16:10, 3 x 10:16 will give you basically 16:9.

They specifically banned eyefinity as they deemed it as cheating.

Wow...

Is there patch notes or a official Blizzard post of some kind that confirm this? I mean, any word at all?

Is there patch notes or a official Blizzard post of some kind that confirm this? I mean, any word at all?

No word about it yet, but they definitely did block it specifically. It worked a few years ago with TH2G but now they just clamped the aspect ratio at 16:9.