[CagnacciKid]

Thought I had posted in this thread before, but that might've been "Your Gaming Introduction" actually...

I've never played StarCraft 1/Brood War, my first Blizz game exposure was a demo of WC3 on a PC magazine cover disc. I was absolutely enthralled by this demo but, being only 7-8 years old at the time I couldn't afford the full game. One day my dad found WC2 in a bargain bin so he bought me that and I played quite intensely for a while but eventually lost interest.

Fast forward a year or two and I'm in a newsagents, and I see a magazine with a cover story about the then-soon-to-be-released "upstart" "black-sheep" World of Warcraft (hah!). I was amazed once again, Warcraft was everywhere! Unfortunately my parents disagreed with online gaming at my age so I couldn't get it until a few months before the first expansion came out, when I found some free demo discs as a giveaway and a PC store.

Fast forward another year or two, after getting addicted to WoW I found the WC3 Battle Chest on sale for a really good deal so I bought it, and played the first few missions, once again losing interest (at this time I had also burnt out on WoW but had just acquired an Xbox 360).

Then a friend who had come over and tried WoW at my house wanted to borrow WC3, so I let him, expecting it returned in the next few weeks. He held on to it for almost a year before I could convince him to return it to me. During this time I had another urge to play RTS, and with no modern-ish RTS games available to me I looked to StarCraft.

I had heard about StarCraft before, in Blizzard news, TV reports about the pro scene in Korea, etc, but I never considered getting it myself until SC2 came out. Then it was just the release date coinciding with my urge to play RTS with no WarCraft available to me that ended up with me buying StarCraft 2.

So here I am, stuck in Bronze league with, you could say, years of RTS experience. I occasionally still burn out on the game, re-lapse into WoW or have weeks of PS3 gaming with my girlfriend (I'm selling my Xbox, haha).

Cheers.