Posted by psych at May 17th, 2007

*Press Enter*

*Input ‘operation cwal’*

*Press Enter*

*Click on Scout portrait*x5

“It is a good day to die.
It is a good day to die.
It is a good day to die.
It is a good day to die
It is a good day to die.”

Brilliance. Totally random, but the main part of my post. I’m here. Today. To talk about Starcraft. Thats right. The first game I ever played. Ever ever ever ever ever. And one of the best since. I actually read the cd-book thing before I started the game. Something I will never do (now that I’m not as sad as I was eons ago). The story captivated me. Even though I didn’t understand the better half of it. Played the game. Wrote down the mission objectives (simple ones. Like build this and build that kinda thing) on a piece of paper. Lame. But adorable? Then, realizing that as a primary school kid with no previous introduction to the RTS genre, I did the only thing that made sense.

“black sheep wall” “there is no cow level” “something for nothing” “operation cwal” “power overwhelming”<-733t!!!! “medieval man” “the gathering” “war aint what it used to be”

Cheats. Believe it or not, haven’t touched Starcraft in years but those came from some crevice in my brain. Some long-forgotten  storage chest filled with strategies which include but are not limited to: zergling rushes, protoss fast tech, zergling rushes.. and did I mention zergling rushes. Yea gay i know but thats the only thing I actually mastered. From 8 years old onwards, you pretty much get shaped by what you do and what you like. That game.. plays a much bigger part in my psyche than I wouldve thought possible. I can barely recall the warcraft story and I’m sure I played it through more than once recently. I didn’t even really like starcraft cos it kept kicking my ass. Then some buddies.. Averdim, San.. are the ones I can recall. Just got me into it again. Well, the expansion kicked ass. I think I played the base game through with cheats and didn’t really understand what was going on anyway. The second one was made with kids in mind. Coz I got it. Like teletubbies on speed and crack. The hot new unit (the flying russian chick YOWZAH) was a nice touch. LL starcraft. I miss it so.
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