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Post by Suncho »

doktrin wrote: post #14
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. ;)

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…

The term "Zerg Rush" is based on the term "Grunt Rush" from Warcraft II. A Grunt Rush is when you build your Barracks first before your Town Hall to start churning out Grunts as fast as possible. It's a degenerate strategy that's pretty much indefensible. The term was coined by a player named Tou in 1996. The Zerg race in StarCraft were particularly good at attacking with many units early in the game, so this term was coopted by StarCraft players and it became "Zerg Rush."

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Post by petrosalema »

martindale wrote: post #125
petrosalema wrote: post #123

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I was able to rack up a score of 1032 actual zerg kills ( https://plus.google.com/u/0/105804947146425070365/posts/LKju... ) using simulated mouse clicks on the zerglings. It's not that hard: https://gist.github.com/2514407 . There are relatively simple guards one could engineer into the zerg rush program to prevent simple hacks like this though, if one cared to. Fun stuff!

I showed my good friend my approach, he came up with this: https://gist.github.com/2513841

Nice :D

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Post by ansgri »

tallanvor wrote: post #42
archangel_one wrote: post #24

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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.

Why did I not hear about this Herzog Zwei when I had Genesis?! Feel like soon I'll install gens and try it out.

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Post by ansgri »

krelian wrote: post #54
mkup wrote: post #44

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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…

I thought the SC2 missions were great and had a lot of variety. The missions were very original compared the usual you get from RTS campaigns. On the other hand, and I can't explain why, the atmosphere of the SC1 was a lot better. I don't know if it's the music or the graphics but it really had a great feeling of "you are alone in space and everything is hostile".

Same with Diablo II compared to more modern RPGs. It's just like low-resolution (yet masterful!) graphics and absence of effects for effects' sake make you think up the details of the game universe.
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