The Batlord

Yeah, it's not exactly a newbie friendly game. It's fine if you're just playing the campaign (which is awesome, even if the latest expansion was kind of a letdown), but if you have any intention of doing multiplayer then you will get the **** kicked out of you, probably for a good long while until you can get your head and muscle memory around the basics of the game.

Just maintaining your economy at any kind of competitive level takes lots of practice and diligence, and then you have to know when and when not to build units, structures, and upgrades, and then you have to actually learn how to play against human beings who will likely have more experience than you. I've only played four online games and have lost all of them without being able to put up much of a fight. Not to mention there's learning to effectively use the keyboard without having stare at the keys (if you don't know how to use the keyboard you will die like a little bitch online).

So yeah, if you don't have the time and/or inclination to spend weeks learning all of that, and probably months actually getting good at it, then SC2 might not be the game for you. Unless you just want to play the campaigns, which are definitely fun as hell and don't require you to become Douglas MacArthur.

On a lighter note, there are few things more satisfying than building a massive army in an RTS game and coming down on your enemy like the wrath of god.

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