Its kinda meh for me. I was never a fan of "melee" where you build a base, harvest resources, and fight your opponent. I would rather play a game like Elemental for resource management and strategy where I have enough time to think out each move.

What I really want from Starcraft 2 is to play awesome maps on battle.net... sadly nothing is out yet thats much fun. I play a bunch of maps from SC2mapster... and I also make maps... my maps are much more fun than the other stuff I have seen (at least for me). So hopefully after a few more months some great stuff will come out... but for now... I am playing other games!

If you're being overwhelmed, try suiciding hellions to kill the probes harvesting terrazine. This worked very well for me.

This is definitely one of the game's most challenging missions, particularly if you attempt it too early.  It's doable, but you're asking for trouble if you don't have siege tanks and vikings unlocked.  I think it's worth it, since you want to have those first few Protoss tech bonuses unlocked for the other missions, but definitely you're going to have a fight on your hand for that on the highest difficulties.

The hardest thing about this mission is that most of the attacking Protoss waves aren't built, and instead spawn in spontaneously.  This means you can't use your own sense of timing to gauge when the next Protoss attack will come; it's completely arbitrary, and this makes it really easy to get caught offguard.  Save often and reload if a group of Protoss appears out of the blue.  Secondly, try to take that second resource site early.  The terrazine can wait; if you're losing too many units trying to nab it, the Protoss will just steamroll you once their attacking waves show up.  This is a really fast-paced mission, so you cannot afford significant casualties.

Overall, I'd say this mission easily makes it into the top 5 for difficulty.  Personally I'd rank it at #4 overall, after "All In", "In Utter Darkness", and "Supernova".

Anyways, I digress...

Starcraft II is a great game, but it doesn't break new ground.  There's still plenty of time for Blizzard to patch, refine, and expand on the game, but currently I'd say Warcraft III is the better title.

Four non-identical races (Undead, night elves, orcs, and humans) plus other misc races that are almost their own group but have not actually been made as such.

Sheep still blow up if you click on them too much, but not other things.

starcraft 2 would melt my computer

I love Starcraft 2, though  haven't played much since I got Elemental. I've never enjoyed multiplayer against random people that much though, and since I only know 2 people IRL that have SC2, I don't play alot of multi. I hate losing against random people who win simply because they rush better than me. I do enjoy a regular coop though, but that gets boring since the pc does the pretty much the same thing every time. The campaign is pretty good as well, and if you add the achievements, it can keep you playing for quite a while.

I honestly regret buying the game.  Don't get me wrong, I loved the campaign but I haven't touched the game since I finished the campaign.  So it really wasn't worth the $60 I spent on it.  One of the disappointments I had with the game was here I spent all this time playing the Terran units in the campaign and when it came to multiplayer units like the medic, firebat, goliath were not available.

It kinda funny being a mostly casual non-multiplayer type person on every other RTS(and game of any type really), but i have become absolutely sucked in to the entire e-sport aspect of SC2. I watch tourneys almost every weekend and enjoy them much more than watching what most would consider real sports. I've also met some helpful diamond level players who have been great in helping me improve my play. Not gonna lie I still suck, but have a blast just playing custom with friends once I finished the campaign(twice). I used to play several different games a day sometimes, but in the last few weeks none of my other games have even been started up.

btw: if you have trouble with the terrazine mission, or any missions teamliquid.net is the place to go to find out anything you want to know about SC 1 or 2. Just look under the singleplayer section of the SC2 forum for some great advice and many progamers post there regularly.

People get so turned off my the initial rushing and blocking rushes in multiplayer. Its only the first stage of the match. Once you have your opening strategy down you can take people to the mid/late game where the real strategy gets going and you have more options with which to act and counteract. The matchmaking system seems to help keep games relatively fair so you're not constantly running over noobs or getting destroyed by vets.

No its not nearly as complex as alot of the games discussed on here but I think there's more strategy woven into this game than people care to admit. Nothing new as far as gameplay goes, its still Starcraft and its still good.

BTW unless you're new to Starcraft or this type of game in general the campaign does very little to prepare you for multiplayer IMO. Skirmishes can help but the campaign mostly just deals with controlling and upgrading units more than build orders and such.

That much is painfully obvious, but the fact is the system is a complete disaster for solo mappers.  Basically unuseable for us.

Map "protection" in the Warcraft III editor was actually a bug that rendered the map unreadable by the editor, but still playable in game.  Most third party editors didn't have this bug, and had no problems reading the "protected" map.  It's not like it was encrypted or anything. 

Great campaign, but dated gameplay. I can't say exactly why after finishing the campaign I lost interest in playing it.