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Starcraft 2
DavidGrohl:
--- Quote from: Caleb on 27 Jul 2010, 17:15 ---Ok DavidGrohl so that is not paying less than $60 that is paying $80 for the CE and getting joint custody.
For all the people telling me to go fuck myself bear in mind I almost NEVER pay full price for video games. (The exception being RE4) I am just a cheap piece of shit.
My main gripe is that NOBODY is having any specials on this game. Generally I can find a reduced price somewhere or SOME sort of incentive to buy the game. But there are no worthy sales. The only thing is the Kmart thing where you get an extra $20 certificate to spend on other games from Kmart. (And there was that Dell thing for $15 off which I missed out on)
That pylon joke is GOLD dammit. Gold.
--- End quote ---
No, that's two copies of retail regular Starcraft 2 for $80. One for myself and one for a friend split two ways, $40 a piece. That was a few months ago.
Dell was selling pre-orders for $45 last Thursday with free shipping.
Newegg.com has a combo option with SC2 : http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/37282/thermaltake-element-g-(black)-atx-mid-tower-case-starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty-(pc)-game
KMart has a deal going on : SC2 for $60 with a $20 KMart giftcard towards future game purchases : http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/37268/starcraft-2-wings-of-liberty-$20-kmart-credit-for-future-game-purchase
If you didn't look for specials, don't complain about there not being any.
Caleb:
I was thinking it was the CE for $80 you were talking about for some reason.
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=268508
In any case there will probably be a deal somewhere next week.
snalin:
Hell yeah! Got the Collectors edition today. The single player is pretty damn awesome, and the art book is pretty nice. I think I'll wait with the making off until I'm finished playing though the game, and I'll read the comics before I sleep today, so I'll get back to that tomorrow.
SPOLIERZ ON GAMEPLAY
Between each mission, you go to your ship (for the two first missions or so, it's a pub), and get as much plot exposition as you want. There's the support characters to talk to, a TV to watch (the propaganda machine only works halfways, there's a bit of humor in that), and so on.
You can also spend the money you earn on missions (there's a price set, no other fancy way of earning anything) on either upgrades for your units and buildings, or on new mercenary companies to hire. The merc companies can be trained in a special building, and are available in all missions after you've hired them. They're improved standard units that come at a rather high mineral price, and with a cool-down before you can use them again.
There's also the lab, where you research the protoss or zerg. You gain research points in during the missions by doing optional missions - kill some überzerg or steal some protoss thingy. If you fail to do this the first time, I think you can do the mission again to pick up whatever you missed out on. When you get enough points, you can pick between two upgrades, like making your units shoot faster, get a new turret, and so on. Between that and armory upgrades, a lot of the stuff in single player is way more powerful than in vanilla multiplayer. My bunkers can have six marines in them, and has an additional mounted turret atop of it, and they all have a +5% firing speed. Ca-ching! Some stuff, like the marauder's concussive shells, can only be gotten this way.
The missions are pretty fun as well, they've even managed to make an escort mission that was just plain fun, not a hassle, and you always have at least two to choose between. The story is playing out pretty well, the voice acting is... varying, but all over good enough, I guess, and all in all I'm happy with the game. It's starting to look pretty awesome.
DavidGrohl:
Thanks for the mini-review. It's better than anything I've read on the game so far (description-wise).
ackblom12:
One minor quibble is that I lost battle.net connection in the middle of a mission for some reason, and I never got my achievements for that mission and the one I did after. Punks.
Campaign is quite a bit of fun thus far though.
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