Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Nuclear Launch Detected.

So....... it's finally here! After waiting for 12 years, Starcraft 2 is finally out!!

As the comic strip Foxtrot so humorously puts it:

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(taken from http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/)

hahaha i love Jason he's my favourite character from this comic strip! I think this is probably my favourite one, after Garfield lost its funniness over the years.

So anyway... back to business:

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MINE MINE AND MINE.
hahaha. This is the box cover of the game! And it comes with a SC2 T Shirt (which I'll totally wear although the stupid SC2 /Blizz logo looks like a sticker pasted on.. dunno why they didn't make it nicer), a huge SC2 poster (which is the above marine guy.. why they never make more different types huh? Like kerrigan? or of other units?) and a SC2 dogtag!! Which has the number '1337' on it haha.

It's supposedly only for the first 1337 people who purchase the game. And 1337 means LEET (the numbers look like the word) which means elite which means pro, in case you don't know.



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This was when i arrived at 10.15AM!! Siao eh!! The event was scheduled to start at 12.30PM btw.
To give you a better picture.. the event was inside Funan, the atrium area. And that entire area already had a queue snaking to cover the whole floor. Then it went out the side entrance, outside to here, and snake more to cover the whole area (you'll see in later pictures), and all the way to the main entrance of Funan.
THIS WAS ONLY AT 10.15AM.

Later on the queue went all the way past funan to the side road, loops back twice i think. When i left at 2+ it was still looped at the end of funan.


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Throngs of crazy gamer geeks


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One not-so-crazy-gamer-non-geek-who-just-is-just-there-so-early-because-his-friends-are-there-and-he-is-accompanying-them-really-really!.

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moments before we entered the 'inside queue'.


It was quite cool inside, they were having a live match shown on the screens of two unknown players (maybe they're quite famous local players just that.. i do not know them) and a guy was shoutcasting it (commentating). Then the crowd will like ooh and ahh when one player does something well, etc.

All in all i spent like.. 4 hours queuing? gosh i'm nuts. I probably won't do this ever again. Not for Diablo3, i'm not that big a fan.

Gee installation's taking so long. only 39%... hurry up please k thanks.