spiralofhope

StarCraft - (1998/2017 game) remains one of the best games ever made.  The quality of gameplay, the low system requirements and most especially the hackability of the maps.

Mind you, I have serious issues with their online game mechanics, because of abusive players.  But when you have a regular group or you play my sort of "Use Map Settings" (UMS) games, it's not as big a deal.  Well, usually.  Ok, it still is because idiots join and then leave and ruin the game.

Here are some fun screenshots.

"Test of Survival" (TOS)

This pretty much summarizes what this game type is like.

The most-feared "Protoss rush".

No those are not my units. That's me getting trounced. Hard. By the computer.

I had no chance.

Then they go for my ally.

Oh man he's screwed.

Oh hell, there's more

Run away! 23 seconds left to rebuild before another rush. We lose.

Starcraft still has a lot of room for improvement, and if I were Blizzard I would have spent some time fixing the remaining issues so that this game would be replayable forever.  I feel like this about most oldschool games and software.  That's one of the things that attracted me to open source.  And yes I've paid people to update open source software that's been abandoned.  I cannot describe the feeling of accomplishment that brings.  But Starcraft isn't open source.  Sigh.

As of this writing, Starcraft still can't be properly played online through Wine.  Sigh.  These guys need to get their priorities straight.  ;)