Dammit.

My rant on Halo 3: Recon is still fresh on my fingertips and already I find my fingers typing venom at Blizzard’s announcement that StarCraft II is going to be three games instead of one.  Obligatory personal color / backstory paragraphs (only two, I swear) before we get to the meat:

StarCraft is the shit.  Easily ranks in my (hell, most people’s) top five games.  I’ve replayed it within the past year, because I love it so.  WarCraft and its first sequel were good games, but they never hit me with “great”.  StarCraft did.  The characters were more formed, the universe more inventive, and the play more epic.  And for the past decade I’ve waited for the day that Jim Raynor could slit the Queen of Blades’ throat– so the announcement of StarCraft II was seen by me as a good thing… save my increasing distrust of Blizzard.

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