I also remember having to stand by and watch all my friends play SC2 because my Dad wouldn't let me buy it until after the year of school was up. I did worse in school than this year and those 6 months of no SC2 killed me :'(
I was playing Counter Strike 1.6 back then, and cod 4.
Then I bought sc2 and I was so bad at it at the start, not evne know wtf a build order is. I would stop making scvs after I trained like 9.
Then a cloacked banshee would fly into my base and I would only have 2 marines. But then I never got pissed and I learned about huskystarcraft's video about a terran standard opener and fom then on I just started playing normally. Then I learnt about Day9 and became a better gamer. Now im in mqaasters league dam sc2 has been a good friend
I remember playing a custom game as protoss against the AI, and made a void ray. They were so fking awesome and I just void ray rushed every ladder game and got thrown into silver. lol...
I remember when i first started playing (near the release date).. i didnt know AI hard-very hard-insane collect minerals faster then you.. i spent hours trying to copy their build second for second but never could.. so frustrated -_- (bronze). i was like wtf how they do that so fast.. and id be like.. i probably didnt make stuff fast enough and redo it all over again
When it first came out I was visiting my gf in brisbane and about to head to splendour in the grass (a 3 day music festival) as soon as that was over, picked up a copy of SC2 in brisbane, flew back to sydney, installed it and played for about 3-4 hours straight. Oh and no campaign crap i just jumped straight into 1v1's.
I had finally gotten into an endgame raiding guild on WoW after months of grinding the required ilvl.... SC2 got released and I never logged on to WoW again.
come to think of it.... i sorta miss it... now that i stopped sc2...
I had no idea what Starcraft was last september, I blindly bought it at EB games without any knowledge of the community and epicness that comes with the game. I ran home got it installed but my laptop couldn't run it.. =/ i had the game for about 5 months before i could play it on my new computer. I purchased Brood War as i couldn't handle lurking B.net forums for another month :/ Brood War is awesome, but my excitement playing sc2 for the first time after marvelling from the sidelines for half a year was the sweetest game experience ever.
I then proceeded to lose all my placements and join my pals in bronze
My flatmate brought the game at release, and kept pestering me to buy it. I didn't get it until we were at the very end of season 1 - and I proceeded to jump straight on the ladder.
My flatmate hadn't actually played multiplayer yet, so we spent a couple months playing 2v2's as a TT bronze team - we didn't realise how good stim was, and refused to use it because it took away health :P
I remember Kowi was telling me how he was having trouble with this Terran called RedArchon. My PvT was beastly back then so I was like look PvT is easy, ill show you! Then beat RedArchon 5-0 and sent kowi the reps, with a different build each game. Now its a different story though, i think i'm 2-18 vs redarchon in our last 20 games oh how the times they are a changing. FML!
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