Judy’s summer vacation mission accomplished :P
It took all weekend, but around 2AM Kelvin and I both finished the main Starcraft campaign. Now we’re celebrating with a victor’s feast of instant ramen before we go pass out :P It feels good to finally beat this game, tho I was already happy to just get past where I was last time I played (which apparently was the 4th to last Protoss mission). While we did regularly shower, Kelvin and I are both feeling pretty basement-nerd-ish right now; our complexion has suffered a bit (and the McDs for lunch didn’t help). Luckily, I still have another day to recover.
That’s our computer setup at my place (laptops on dining room table). Kelvin is watching Tassadar blowing up the Overmind (ending movie), while my screen is showing the credits. (Even tho I was taking a painfully long time, I beat this last mission before Kelvin because he spent a lot of time generating a giant army so he could see what it was like to nuke them all at once.) You can see all our beverages and food wrappers on the table.
Kelvin gave me a lot of good tips, so hopefully I’ve improved somewhat. Aside from the second-to-last mission where Kelvin gave me a lot of (non-literal) hand-holding, I accomplished it on my own. And since I never got past the 4th-to-last mission before, I must have improved, right? I even beat Kelvin in terms of time for finishing a couple of the missions, but that’s only because Kelvin is uses his heroes aggressively (heroes dying = game over) and he has poor savegame habits. I was disappointed with the last Protoss mission tho; the computer didn’t give much of a challenge after being a total pain in the ass for the 3 missions prior. I enjoyed the story, and the game is still a lot of fun for a 9-year-old game. The graphics are dated (particularly those rendered cinematics), but not painfully dated like 3D games from that same time. I look forward to trying Brood Wars; hopefully I’ll get to it and finish it before StarCraft 2 comes out. Maybe I’ll try online play sometime, but I still need to get better. Particularly with hotkeys… I still have this strange tendency to kill my own guys…
New thing I learned today: “En Taro Adun” means “In Honor of Adun” in… Protoss language, with Adun being the name of a respected warrior in Protoss culture. The phrase is used as a greeting, farewell, and battlecry.
