mr dave

how? that link only opens up a reply window.

diablo 3 looks awesome and if their track record is any indication it should run fine on older systems. the main concern will be the minimum video hardware technology required. the current standard is shader 3.0, i don't think you can buy new video cards that don't support it but if you haven't upgraded in a few years you might want to start considering your options.

i have to assume you've never played the 'Dawn of War' series or the 'Total War' franchise. both are comparable if not superior. if anything Starcraft owes its existence to Warhammer 40k (the basis for DoW). there's more than just a slight resemblance between the space marines / eldar / tyranids with the terran / protoss / zerg.

as for Starcraft 2. it looks really neat. the proposed campaign and upgradable units is cool, it worked really well in Dawn of War 2. the idea of splitting the game into 3 releases *cough*cashgrabs*cough* is pretty effing lame though.

in regards to the hacking that's one of the reasons more and more companies are forcing gamers to register and login to some form of online authentication prior to playing even single player. it's also likely the main reason SC2 was announced to have no LAN support. how awesome is that? even if your buddies bring their computers over to your place to game it up everyone still has to log onto a server and hope there's enough bandwidth to go around... thanks fatties / chinese gold farmers.

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