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FSNiseH · Mon, 16th-Jul-2012, 5:18 PM

I like it because when spectating, I know what both players are doing while they themselves don't, which gives a feeling of tension depending on the game. As a player, when I played sc2 compared to when I play another game, I have to focus 100% of my mind on the tasks at hand. Every win gives me a feeling of relief and a rush of adrenaline as my hands calm down from the many actions performed in the game. That, coupled with the fact that I heard some people in higher leagues are better than me (working on fixing this!) gives me the motivation to keep clicking that find match button.

iM yang · Mon, 16th-Jul-2012, 6:22 PM

I was always felt like i couldn't play as much as I want to previously.. FPS teams need 5 people to play and I couldn't get enough..

SC2 swung around and I could play as much as I wanted to without relying on any other people.. really the first time that's been able to happen and I just can't get enough

Malice · Mon, 16th-Jul-2012, 6:27 PM

Practising consistently, then pulling good results in tournaments is what does it for me. Whenever I pull decent results in tournaments, or beat good players, I get a feeling that cannot be fulfilled by anything else.

While playing, it gives you a much higher appreciation of the game to those pro players when watching. You've been there in the game, and know how hard it is to pull off some of the things they're doing, for example, MarineKing's marine splits, and how insane they look.

**TheGentleman** · Mon, 16th-Jul-2012, 6:47 PM

DotA: Relying on others is always good fun til someone on the enemy team gets first blood, double kill, mega kill, etc... on your carry who doesn't farm or your support who doesn't buy wards.

WoW: It's a great game, but of all games this one made me rage the most. This game is incredibly asymmetric that Blizzard decided the way to balance PvP was to make all classes equally capable of killing each other... naturally this isn't really all that easy or possible. The smartest play was to balance it based on class counters but you see it's little rants exactly like this that caused me to stop playing the game in the first place. Suffice to say I would have all these ideas to make this game better... 6 months later Blizzard would implement versions of my original ideas which should have been implemented 6 months ago cause there are newer problems now... etc...

StarCraft: Balance. And if you lose (in 1v1) you have no one to blame but yourself.

Edit: I'd play FPS but I suck with guns... Medic is my class of choice in TF2

VB_Rhuubarb · Mon, 16th-Jul-2012, 7:01 PM

Apart from the obvious competitive and intellectual aspects others have said, one of the greatest things for me is that it is 'safe' for me to get addicted to it because I'm constantly needing motivation to practice rather than other games (WoW) that just consumed me and have affected my life fairly negatively.

RicocheT · Mon, 16th-Jul-2012, 7:03 PM

Partly the competitive aspect of it.
Partly because it's fun.
Mainly because of my homies in FaDe, huge bunch of awesome dudes and dudettes in it.

VB_WhiplashJC · Mon, 16th-Jul-2012, 7:20 PM

Not so much SC2; RTS in general.

I like figuring things out. Obviously I don't get into it as much as the pros but I enjoy my little world, ad I enjoy watching pros and ppl who are generally better than me figuring things out.

I love when I scout something and have limited time to prepare for it. Then the attack hits and I get a huge rush in micro mode.

eCKoa'coolbeans · Mon, 16th-Jul-2012, 7:45 PM

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Originally Posted by VB_WhiplashJC

I love when I scout something and have limited time to prepare for it. Then the attack hits and I get a huge rush in micro mode.

ohhhhhhhhhh that feeling. When storm finishes just in time to land on 30 marines. yummmmyy

xGKingdelete · Mon, 16th-Jul-2012, 11:15 PM

agree with the thoughts of people above, I always felt limited in team games with friends like dota (doesn't mean that they aren't fun though!) because there's the need for cooperation and teamwork, which isn't something I can instantly identify and fix. Starcraft, being a 1v1 game, doesn't have this problem.

I feel like starcraft isn't really a fun game - it's more stressful and frustrating if anything - but it taps into the competitive side of me and the desire to improve and win makes it enjoyable. Enjoyable. Not exactly fun itself, but a different kind of fun.

A more rewarding, addictive kind of fun

ToRSpookToR · Mon, 16th-Jul-2012, 11:17 PM

I used to play CoD 1 heaps and like yang said its hard to get 5 people together then find another 5 to play against. Now in CoD 1 it was 4.00PM to 2.00AM play time and that was pub only if you wanted to play outside those hours you where playing on NA servers and they where ******* shit modded and all that crap, besides the ping haha. Being able to play when ever and how ever much i want is amazing. Community, community is ******* amazing i wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the community the same as my CoD 1 days i would go into a server and everyone would say "hey Spook hows it going man!" its the same here in chat box and on bnet people say "hey spook you **** how is it going" but ya community is amazing that's the main reason. I can't really put it into words but "for me at least" its nice to be apart of the community, kind of a "special feeling" idk. holy crap first serious post on these forums MVP please

Meatex · Tue, 17th-Jul-2012, 12:11 AM

The community and social aspects keep me in the game. SC2 community has some cool people in it unlike FPS communities
Shout outs to awesome FaDe guys

personally i don't actually like large portions of the game and really only play it because of an obsessive compulsive desire to progress or something
That and other games I did enjoy playing a lot died or are unplayable from Korea

eCKo`Switch · Tue, 17th-Jul-2012, 6:05 PM

It's the only game that I've enjoyed enough to get mad at when I lose, also the people the community is 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000x better than any other game I've played. Plus it's a nice outlet for competition outside of footy.

eCKoa'coolbeans · Tue, 17th-Jul-2012, 6:18 PM

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Originally Posted by FaDeMeatex

...only play it because of an obsessive compulsive desire to progress or something

A common requiring theme, I for one have always enjoyed the game, even losing sometimes to great strategies. If only we could use some of this compulsive disorder to get better at work aha