So how do you top that?

Everyone played Starcraft. You would be hard pressed to find someone that didn’t. For chrissakes they made a book about how Starcraft had a significant positive impact on  Korean economy. Googling yields spotty results at best but it certainly was out there circa 2000 and published by a company named Softbank. Of course if you don’t read Korean you won’t be able to read this book. But there’s a good chance some of you reading this are Korean. Anyway I digress. My point is that whereas Warcraft made a seismic shudder within the psychological landscape of young gaming minds worldwide, Starcraft hit with the force of an imploding star, sucking in EVERYONE making even REMOTE contact with it. Like your mom... I kid, I kid. The gameplay was so tight you could bounce a quarter off of it. The graphics were lush and vivid. The art direction was amazing. Hell. Even the audio cues were top notch. Nothing exemplifies I’m about to kick your ass up and down the block!

Wait, what was I talking about? Oh yeah so we’ll skip over Warcraft’s expansions and even Warcraft 2 (although great additions to the series in their own right) and move along right to Starcraft. I know some of you right now are trolling me for including Starcraft within the Warcraft “series” but, well, it is. It may not have the same storyline but Starcraft is a spiritual successor to Warcraft. Though there are variations within gameplay between the two games, they are essentially the same. Which can especially be said for Warcraft 3, which had many elements of Starcraft gameplay within it, but that’s another article entirely. Let’s talk Starcraft. An event so epic it moves in slow motion, consuming valuable life force world-wide. Taking otherwise productive human beings and infesting them like a zerg parasite, turning them into nothing more than hosts forced to sit in front of a computer screen  24/7 playing  Blizzard games.

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I’ve been playing Blizzard games since the first Warcraft. I still remember cracking open the brand new manual with its sweet, intoxicating new ink and plastic smell. I remember reading the back story and admiring the artwork of a gaming series that would really set the bar for gaming in general. I remember what it felt like, especially the multiplayer. We didn’t have the fancy battle.net everyone plays on today. We had to dial up another computer and connect to that single person to play multiplayer. Yes it was laggy and choppy but it was me versus my friend, locked in tense metaphysical combat, vying for dominance on a digital battleground. It didn’t matter that it stuttered and we dropped connection often. It was EPIC. Before EPIC was epic. It was anyuerism-inducing, mind expanding, bionic monkey sex in space. Which is like...

Hey everyone. How's it going. I'd just like to introduce myself. I'll be working with CoolMage on the site. I write, create edited videos of in-game footage and will be contributing regularly to the live cast along with my friends. So stay tuned kids. The video below this post is actually some of my work. Be sure to check the second part of it out! That's when things get interesting!  

Watch us fool around, lose a lot and learn to play SC2 :)