Considering it's the same voice actor, this should be a given.

I guess I haven't heard his voice in a while then

I don't think 10 years is going to be ENOUGH for me to fully enjoy SC2. I may have to live past my 30s. Fuck you Blizzard, prolonging my life!

Ten years definitely won't be enough. We're still enjoying a 2-part, 56-mission game after ten years, and SC2's gonna be 3 games with like 90+ missions.

I'm just using the word "isometrical" (I know it's not 2D) to describe the terrain's usual diagonal, now with horizontal and vertical shaped cliffs on the terrain.

Judging from the in-game screenshots and the videos, you can make squares (horizontally and vertically), diamonds (diagonally), trapezoid, octagon (And any anything else fitting the category of diagonal, horizontal and vertical in a bird's eye view) shaped terrain (Excluding doodads appear otherwise) as seen from a default camera than an absolute circle aside from hill raising and hill holes as they are not recognized as cliffs.

sc2 looks siiiick. cant wait till its released.

So wait, for the entire trilogy will it be 180$?

I doubt they'll make the other 2 cost $60. Since they're just new campaigns with a couple more units and stuff, it's basically like an expansion pack. I hope it's like $30 or something.

I think it would make more sense for each to cost 30$, or at the very least, the first cost a little more than the other two. But if Blizzard does do 180$...I'm sure people would still buy it, including me. But I'd probably wait aloooooooong time before buying the other two at that price. >_<

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Fuck that, I'm pirating. You fuck with my StarCraft, I ain't buying shit.

I think the new Battle.net Real ID system is in place to prevent pirating. You can't just make new Battle.net accounts anymore like you can in SC, and everything you do requires you to log in to Battle.net (even single player). It would be like trying to use a pirated version of WoW to play on official servers (except free after game purchase).

I'm in it for multiplayer, I probably won't play singleplayer. So I just want one.

No it doesn't, it has been confirmed that internet access is not required for single player.

Eh, sort of. To clarify, I guess, you can play single player but you get nothing for it, and your progress (achievement-wise) wont be saved when you then connect to Battle.net. The developers were making jokes about how few people actually don't have internet access, and so essentially you have to connect to get the full experience. You also need to connect to Battle.net to play maps from their marketplace (though they said nothing about playing custom maps offline like you can in SC). They also eluded to the fact that in order to share maps, you have to connect to Battle.net - though I don't know how they will implement this yet.

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And I guess ultimately my point was that pirating gives you nothing more than the campaign mode without progress.

In both WarCraft III and StarCraft, there were profiles in Single Player and it holds all of the unlocked levels in that profile and is able to be transferred to another computer. Since Blizzard is trying to make Battle Net 2.0 similar as and to improve on Xbox Live, Steam, Facebook, twitter, Messengers, and so on, offline Xbox 360 players (No, not the Silver Accounts) were still able to earn achievements and they have an option to "Join Xbox Live" (Whether Silver or Gold) while keeping their unlocked achievements. Though I'm not certain if this is the case of "Guest" in StarCraft II since I consider Guest as a single, limited profile, but if offline players are able to create profile, and at any time if they have connected to the internet with a chance to "Join Battle Net" with that profile, then it certainly should not be a problem.

If the Real ID is like Steam/Messenger, where you have an account name that is likely anonymous to the public while using and able to change their nickname at anytime (Though this too is flawed if used to grief other players anonymously/impersonating [such as the author of the map]), then that's better than having players smurf.
If Real ID uses a method of Diablo II, a main account having a set of individual characters (Aka profiles with their own set of stats, items and name), then that's good too.

Since (I heard) that Battle Net 2.0 does not record losses, I assume not only it improves moral of playing melee again and again than stop playing, it would actually stop players smurfing to "keep" their main accounts with high statistics, away from losses.

At the Development Panel I saw, they specifically said that anything unlocked offline will not transfer online. The closest thing I can compare it to is Steam, where you log in the moment you start up the game and go from there. There isn't really a "Join Xbox live" option in this case, as the game is basically supposed to be enjoyed online. I have no idea why, but they want Battle.net to be like a gaming Twitter/Facebook social network.

The Real ID is basically your e-mail address. I believe you can set your name to whatever you want, but your friends (people with your Real ID on friends lists) can change your nickname as well so they can easily recognize you. Like Facebook or MySpace, the new friends list is an "add friend" system where you have to accept or decline friend invites. This obviously means you can no longer add anyone to a friends list without them knowing.

The example they gave is essentially a scene involving one friend playing WoW and one playing StarCraft 2. With the Real ID system, the friend on StarCraft 2 can message the friend on WoW (regardless of what character or server that friend is on) and they can chat in-game. The same goes for Diablo 3. Essentially it is like Diablo 3 in that characters are bound to an account.

Yeah, basically they set up different ranks of players based on melee skill. If you're the lowest level, you should only be put against players in that same rank. A cool new feature is that it also records pairings, so if you play in a 2v2 with a friend and you guys kick ass together, your team rank could go up separate from your individual ranks. If you play another 2v2 with a different friend, that team's rank is also different from your individual rank and the previous team.

Apparently, I'm right about the roads. But it's more simple: Just click one spot, then click another spot while the road is selected.

If they do make it $60, they should at least make it so they'll update the campaign later on. I'd pirate anyway (if this is the case).

And as Syphon pointed out, you can play single player offline (though without achievements). So pirating lets you play campaign mode over and over again.

So wait would it be possible to download the files (pirating the other campaigns) THEN login to your current account?