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Re: Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg

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Post by wlesieutre »

DanBC wrote: post #19
doktrin wrote: post #14

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Yeah, the 'zerg' meme originates from Starcraft. It's been commonly used (often pejoratively) in gaming circles to describe situations in which superior numbers dictated the outcome of an encounter. On an unrelated note, it's rather depressing to think of the original StarCraft game as being something 'old people' remember. I'm 29. Edit : I was kind of surprised to see this meme explicitly explained. I've always thou…

> On an unrelated note, it's rather depressing to think of the original StarCraft game as being something 'old people' remember. I'm 29. Do you remember a time before Google? Google was started the same year as Starcraft was released - 1998. (Weirdly Armageddon and Deep Impact were released in 1998) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_in_film ) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998 )

I think Lycos is the earliest search engine I remember using

Re: Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg

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Post by tallanvor »

archangel_one wrote: post #24
iconfinder wrote: post #21

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"I'm so old that I remember the first Starcraft game" I remember when Dune 2 came out - the father of all RTS games.

What about Herzog Zwei, you young whippersnapper ;-)

Dune II was definitely influenced by Herzog Zwei, but not everyone had a Genesis, and I don't think Herzog Zwei really had a concept of base management or resource gathering, which have obviously become integral to the RTS games today.

Re: Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg

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Post by wlesieutre »

conradfr wrote: post #37
reitzensteinm wrote: post #35

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Also, the infrastructure already exists for serious reasons, eg Googling for "suicide" will give you a hotline number to call. So it's not like they added the extra complexity for a laugh!

That's a great idea but I tried and it gave me nothing. Oh well, time to leave.

It looks like http://i.minus.com/ibbwHvK38EiDQB.PNG for me. Are you in the US?

Re: Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg

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Post by mkup »

stoolpigeon wrote: post #26
ehamberg wrote: post #12

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Well, I would say that it refers to the Starcraft series. I'm so old that I remember the first Starcraft game – and I'm quite sure it had Zerg. ;)

remember Starcraft? I play it all the time. What's to remember? My home machine isn't set up for games and I own SC2 but it doesn't run well - and I enjoy the original more anyway.

Yes, I find original Starcraft more enjoying too, as there is no implicit or explicit time limit in most missions as in SC2, so player doesn't have to rush through all the game and has time to explore the map, try various units and strategies without load/save loop, enjoy the humour, music, look&feel of the units/buildings etc.

This "war against the time" approach was my deal breaker for SC2. The general idea may be fine for training people to fight online, but for single player mode/campaign it's just inappropriate.

Typical SC1 mission is "destroy all enemy bases when you like it and how you like it", typical SC2 mission is "disarm the ticking bomb in time". It's OK to have 1-2 such missions in the campaign, but when entire campaign is made of time-bomb missions, there is no satisfaction from the game.

Re: Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg

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Post by hackermom »

LinaLauneBaer wrote: post #9

This easter egg is referring to the game StarCraft 2 by Blizzard. There are three fractions in StarCraft 2: Protoss, Terran and Zerg. Imagine the Zerg like aliens. Zergs have a unit called "the Zergling" which is a small creature that usually attacks buildings and enemy units in groups. If you have a lot of Zerglings and run to your opponents fast this can be called "a Zergling rush". There are also custom maps that…

I think it's also referring to the phenomenon as it exists today in every single online multi-player game that features open PVP as well as closed battleground type PVP, not just StarCraft.

The "zerg", as it was commonly known to all players, presented itself to me in the beginning of 2002 in a well-known and still active MMORPG called Dark Age of Camelot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_age_of_camelot). DAoC-players refer to a mass of ungrouped, uncoordinated players joining in on the large battles between the realms of the game as a "zerg", and to individual players making up the "zerg" as "randoms" (random players; ungrouped) and sometimes as "zergers". The term certainly sprung from the first StarCraft game, but the phenomenon is today embodied not just by NPC units in this or that game, but by actual groups of players, and is seen in practically every MMORPG with PVP.

Re: Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg

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Post by mattmanser »

wlesieutre wrote: post #43
conradfr wrote: post #37

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That's a great idea but I tried and it gave me nothing. Oh well, time to leave.

It looks like http://i.minus.com/ibbwHvK38EiDQB.PNG for me. Are you in the US?

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