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2 months ago
Fulcrum_
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First of all hi to everyone. I will introduce myself a bit to put you in the picture:
Im a Quake player, 18 (turning 19 soon). I play Quake 3 (when Im on shape) at very high levels. I have played top players and did pretty decent, but I never attended lans. This is because various factors: First, I was too young to attend any lan at the time (where there was a lot of Q3 1v1 lans, since im a 1v1 only player) and second, when I had the opportunity to finally attend a lan tournament, those tournaments started to dissapear, because of the stupid game industry replacing Q3 (the best 1v1 FPS) for other useless, not ready for competition games. I know Q3 is kind of comming back in the last months with ESWC and stuff, and I would loooove the attend those, but I haven't been in the right place and in the right moment, and again I wouldn't be able to attend any mayor event this year. Now, I would love to see Q3 being used the next years, but I really, sadly, doubt this will happen. The only hope is QuakeLive, but im not really sure about anything regarding Quake, as it always have been so unstable tournament wise, again, because of it being replaced by mainstream useless bullshit games.
Now, the question to you SC gosus: Is it worth for me to give SC a try? (with SC2 in mind). Do you think is possible to go pro? (or gosu, as you prefer)
My SC experience is very limited (any RTS at all). I always admired the SC community, and I think that what happened with SC in Korea is just beyond words to explain. I think the SC community is the best because how passionate it is about the game and they had the luck to have SC always being featured in mayor tournaments. What I need is some stability. I mean, If I know I will always have these mayor tournaments every year, then I would train like a psycho for it, but If Im risking lots of hours put in practice to then see in the news after a year or two: "Your lovely game has been replaced" (which is what happens with Quake) then there is no possibility to develop some kind of stable "progammer career" or whatever you want to call it.
I've always seen the possibility of playing at a high level of SC kind of far, the "SC dream" where you finally get signed by some Korean team. But at the same time you know is not inpossible (I know a spanish guy who got an offer from a Korean team: a travel and a place to live in Korea if he played for the team). Or in my Quake experience, when I started years ago thinking "that guy is impossible to beat", and after years of practice, that guy gets owned. (so I already know what training hard means)
Im just asking if there is a possibility to catch up with the top players if I start playing SC now, with very little RTS background (I've played plenty of SC matches and spected top matches, but I count that as nothing). Again, I know that with SC its practically impossible, but what Im really looking forward is SC2, and I guess there isn't a better preparation but playing SC:BW until SC2's release.
I also would like to know the actual state of the SC community, what important things that have happened arround the years should I know etc, just to put myself in situation.
Thats all, I await your replies.
Thanks in advance. |
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2 months ago
Eddie_Tyler
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2008-07-03 01:03:58, Corvi wrote:
play wc3. much easier to learn. training bw will give you a good macro, that you won't need for sc2. wc3 will give you a decent micro, that you most likely need in sc2. it also has a 3d look and is a bit slower - like sc2.
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No offense man, but you say "you don't need this in sc2 and that's like sc2" like that game was finished already and you have experience with it. Let's just stick with the facts known for 100%.
Back to topic:
I think you're used to clicking fast and pushing buttons fast, with playing Quake so intensively, right? If that's the case, maybe you can have advantage against other beginners, though an rts and an fps is completely different, but maybe you can learn to move around the map and do stuff a bit faster.
Anyway, learning SC takes years and we'll never know if we have years or just a year, or even less, before SC2 comes out. It could be really different from SC, but who knows... it never hurts to have some practice in SC, imo. I remember, whenever we tried out some new rts with my friends, I advanced way faster in that game compared to my friends who don't play SC as much as I do. |
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