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**Playing Starcraft 2 on Budget: Is it Worth It?**

If you're looking to play Starcraft 2 without breaking the bank, there are options available for you. You can purchase the original Starcraft game, which comes bundled with The Battle Chest, along with the strategy guide for $10 on Amazon.

"I recommend definitely going do so," the author says. "Obviously, it's very, very cheap. Should run pretty much any computer, especially if you're already playing Starcraft 2."

However, if you don't want to spend that much money or prefer not to buy the first game, you can still jump straight into Starcraft 2. The game does a good job of explaining the story and background information through flashbacks and other means.

"I've had a PSP Go," the author mentions, "but it just didn't go with me. I'm not really too much into digital downloads right now, I'd rather have something physical."

Regarding motion controls, the author is skeptical about the PlayStation Move and Connect systems. They haven't had the chance to try them out yet, but based on what they've seen, they don't think it's worth spending money on.

"Two totally different games, both equally dangerous," the author says with a chuckle. "Starcraft is one of my favorites, I don't really touch World of Warcraft."

**Minimum System Requirements for Starcraft 2**

If you're wondering what the minimum system requirements are for playing Starcraft 2, the author recommends checking out a reliable source online.

"I can play it on lower settings," they say. "I'm able to play Starcraft 2 with my Core i3 laptop and integrated graphics, and it runs pretty much just fine."

In summary, if you have a decent computer, you should be able to play Starcraft 2 without breaking the bank. The original game is available for $10 on Amazon, and while digital downloads may not be for everyone, they can be convenient. However, motion controls are not something the author is excited about, and World of Warcraft is a different story altogether.

**Conclusion**

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys and welcome to this week's episode of d3 live so today we're going to be talking about starcraft 2. now of course starcraft 2 wings of liberty has come out fairly recently and it has really been a fantastic success of a game now personally i've played it a lot and really i think blizzard did a just a great great job with it i mean it's a really in-depth game you know there's so much on the multiplayer i mean you know you're just looking past look at past versions of starcraft you know the multiplayer has gone for years and years and years i think the starcraft 2 has made a lot of key improvements you know to you know keep it going keep it really nice and fresh but of course the main campaign was really really really great in my opinion you know all the cinematics were great there was a lot of variation i mean it wasn't a lot of you know a lot of games like starcraft kind of get into the same sort of like you know build a base defend build a base attack you know kind of get some really you know narrow sort of missions however wings of liberty really didn't follow any of that i mean just was great varieties you know so really i think wings of liberty was a fantastic game of course though guys starcraft 2 is a trilogy and that doesn't really make any sense but basically they're going to be three versions of starcraft 2 not three four and five but um basically of course there's starcraft ii wings of liberty which actually is i've got right here um this is just the standard one it does follow the terran campaign however there are actually going to be two more so the first one that will be coming out is going to be starcraft 2 heart of the swarm now this is actually going to follow the zerg and i'm sure a lot of you guys have heard of this but i'll go ahead just recap if you haven't basically it's going to go ahead and follow kerrigan and the zerg through all of you know whatever whatever the campaign and all that kind of stuff um so basically today i'm going to be talking a little bit about that and also kind of my thoughts and my opinions as well as want to get some of your guys's feedback on what we think blizzard should incorporate in the next starcraft 2. um so of course the next one is going to be focused on the zerg on kerrigan um which i think is going to be pretty interesting because you know usually you know obviously we've been following you know the story and everything of the terran so kind of to move over it's gonna be pretty interesting um but some of the things i'd like to see is definitely you know more variety more units and a really really solid story so as far as the multiplayer goes because obviously that's probably one of the biggest things about starcraft 2. now i think blizzard has done a great job so far they've had a lot of really interesting you know unit types you know the the galaxy map editor is just insane i i think it's going to take a long time to really for people to fully use it um but i'd really like to see some more unit variety now i'm not to say anything against starcraft 2 already there are so many units for all three races i mean it's a really really great meta game however i think that there's a lot that they could improve on you know i mean there if you just take a look if you play through wings of liberty just take a look i mean for all races there are quite a few different really cool units that you don't get to see in the multiplayer so just taking um some of the for example like mercenaries i think that's a really cool thing that could really be useful in the uh in the multiplayer and then there are a lot of just units that just aren't just what kind of just got the cut you know and it the same goes true for both zerg and protoss as well so i'm not looking forward to them adding some new units while still keeping it very balanced and fair which is something blizzard really knows how to do well um now continuing on with that i really want them to make sure that it doesn't i don't want it to be you know like a short little story or anything like that i mean really wings of liberty was a fantastic for an rts it was a fantastic story um you know the cinematics were really really just amazing looking especially the ones that were pre-rendered i mean those were those were really great i'd love to see them do more of that you know let us really just draw us into the story of what all's going on with the zerg um you know keep it keep it in interesting fresh and of course just go ahead and you know where they keep the cinematics then do a mission that really fills it out because a lot of the time you know it's really easy to go well you know we're just going ahead and let you fill in the blanks yourself but blizzard does a great job of making a very cinematic experience make it look like a movie so absolutely hope that they won't skimp on that or anything like that which i'm sure they won't but you know now some of the other things is that people have kind of been not 100 sure i don't even know if blizzard is fully decided yet whether it's actually going to be an expansion pack or it's going to be going ahead and just be a full standalone game now to be honest for me i don't really care so much either way i'm obviously an expansion pack would be kind of nice because most of the people who by then because it will be out a little while um we'll obviously have uh you know the standard starcraft 2 and you know it's not going to be a big deal to you know save some money and buy the expansion back however on the other hand you know maybe not everybody has it and you can go ahead just buy the full game so really to be honest i don't really care either way as long as they really do keep the story up keep all the great elements they don't you know try to just make an expansion pack and just you know add like five missions or something really small which i'm sure like i said guys blizzard they're not going to do that they their starcraft 2 is so huge they're going to really do it right um so guys as far as when we can expect heart of the swarm it's really hard to say really blizzard has just now started on it um you know they've probably been working on for only a few months really hardcore so knowing blizzard it'll probably be out in the next seven to eight years well okay probably not it'll probably be out here and you know maybe the next year or two um but guys that's actually comes down to probably the most important part of this video um what are you guys looking for uh in the next version of starcraft you know i mean obviously blizzard they're just starting working on this i guarantee that they're looking around you know trying to figure out well what what what does everybody think so guys absolutely feel free to leave in the comment section below what do you think what are you looking forward to what do you think they can improve on what do you think that they need to stay away from definitely leave all your thoughts and comments in the section comment section below okay so for the second segment of d3 live i'll be taking live questions so we do have a lot of people in here on blog tv all watching it live so let me go ahead and take some questions kind of answer and just kind of hang out a little bit the starcraft 2 focusing on all the races i thought they would make separate games for each race that's actually a good question um now each one yes you're right there are going to be three starcraft 2 games obviously wings of liberty which focuses on the terran it's already out there's going to be heart of the swarm as well as the protoss so there are going to be three different ones however each one will have each race so for example you go ahead and you buy wings of liberty today now while the campaign focuses on the terran and the multiplayer you can play as any of the three races and i expect with each one of the next two uh expansion pack slash sequels whatever you want to call it um with each one of those there actually will be you know additions more units obviously a campaign that focuses on each race but in each game you can go ahead and in the multiplayer and everything you can go ahead and play as all races um how am i why do i like my game boys so much uh well i i it's kind of a long story basically i like game boys a lot this is like some of my first consoles so i kind of collect them a little bit but you know uh starcraft starcraft collectors or regular regular version for a first time starcrafter uh to be honest probably the regular uh now some of the collectors edition there's a lot of cool stuff but to be honest if you're just getting starcraft if you've never played before or you know you don't you're you're not really a hardcore starcraft fan i'd probably just go with this standard i that's what i bought now i don't know i know i mean the collector's edition just really didn't seem all that you know special to me i mean i just i just have to play the game but uh you know i'd probably just go with the standard one i mean it's just kind of a personal preference but you know it is recommended playing starcraft 1 before starcraft 2. um yeah do you actually um yes and no i guess uh yes it actually you probably should um especially because you can go ahead and get starcraft brood war um as well as i believe there's uh the i think it's called the battle chest don't quote me on that but uh you can go ahead and pick it up with the original starcraft as well as strategy guys for like 10 on amazon um now i recommend definitely go do so because obviously it's very very cheap should run pretty much any computer especially if you're already playing starcraft 2. however if for whatever reason you don't want to do that if you want to spend that much money or you know you don't you don't feel like it you can go ahead and jump straight into starcraft 2. uh you know you won't understand everything but they did blizzard did a really good job of filling you in as you go there's lots of flashbacks there's lots of uh well well done story telling so while you might as well to go ahead and just buy the first one just because it's so cheap if you don't you're really not missing out on that much you you you'll be able to get the grass to the story pretty quickly um while i buy the psp go uh no i i've had a psp before the psp go really just kind of didn't it just didn't really go with me just because you don't have the umd and digital downloads well i mean i don't mind digital downloads right now i'd rather have something you know physical just because you know it's a lot easier you can go ahead and you can buy used stuff you do a lot more today so i'm not really too much into the you know the digital downloads but you know that's just kind of my opinion right now um connect versus playstation move that's that's a good question um obviously i actually have done a video a few months back talking a little bit about it um but of course playstation movies just come out connect should be coming out here fairly shortly um basically the short of it i'm not a huge fan of pretty much any of the motion controls um i do have a way and you know obviously you know everyone's played the wiimote and all that kind of the motion controls for a while um now i haven't been able to play either playstation move or connect yet so i really can't say 100 about any of them but what i've seen what i've heard i'm not really all that impressed i just don't know if it's worth spending all my money um but i might just go ahead and just have to try out them just kind of just give you guys some videos and stuff so you might want to watch out for that but um i'm not really all that impressed i guess um starcraft or world of warcraft uh two totally different games uh both equally dangerous but i play starcraft i don't touch world of warcraft not really my kind of thing but i definitely do love starcraft quite a bit um what is the minimum requirements of starcraft 2 uh now for that i don't know off the top of my head you can go ahead and just look it up like maybe google it or something i will say though that they're pretty low um for example i'm able to play starcraft 2 on lower settings i'm able to play starcraft 2 with the core i3 laptop with the integrated graphics and it runs pretty much just fine so really if i can do it with integrated graphics if you have any kind of decent computer at all you should be able to play starcraft 2. so while i go ahead and check you know the minimum requirements because obviously you don't want to pay 60 for a game and not be able to use it but most of you should be able to play as long as you just don't have like a really old laptop or something anyway guys that's it for this episode of d3 live i hope you guys enjoyed um and if you did feel free to subscribe i do lots more video game technology content all that kind of stuff on a very very regular basis in addition to doing d3 live we can go ahead and watch me live on blog tv every saturday um so anyway guys thanks for watchinghey guys and welcome to this week's episode of d3 live so today we're going to be talking about starcraft 2. now of course starcraft 2 wings of liberty has come out fairly recently and it has really been a fantastic success of a game now personally i've played it a lot and really i think blizzard did a just a great great job with it i mean it's a really in-depth game you know there's so much on the multiplayer i mean you know you're just looking past look at past versions of starcraft you know the multiplayer has gone for years and years and years i think the starcraft 2 has made a lot of key improvements you know to you know keep it going keep it really nice and fresh but of course the main campaign was really really really great in my opinion you know all the cinematics were great there was a lot of variation i mean it wasn't a lot of you know a lot of games like starcraft kind of get into the same sort of like you know build a base defend build a base attack you know kind of get some really you know narrow sort of missions however wings of liberty really didn't follow any of that i mean just was great varieties you know so really i think wings of liberty was a fantastic game of course though guys starcraft 2 is a trilogy and that doesn't really make any sense but basically they're going to be three versions of starcraft 2 not three four and five but um basically of course there's starcraft ii wings of liberty which actually is i've got right here um this is just the standard one it does follow the terran campaign however there are actually going to be two more so the first one that will be coming out is going to be starcraft 2 heart of the swarm now this is actually going to follow the zerg and i'm sure a lot of you guys have heard of this but i'll go ahead just recap if you haven't basically it's going to go ahead and follow kerrigan and the zerg through all of you know whatever whatever the campaign and all that kind of stuff um so basically today i'm going to be talking a little bit about that and also kind of my thoughts and my opinions as well as want to get some of your guys's feedback on what we think blizzard should incorporate in the next starcraft 2. um so of course the next one is going to be focused on the zerg on kerrigan um which i think is going to be pretty interesting because you know usually you know obviously we've been following you know the story and everything of the terran so kind of to move over it's gonna be pretty interesting um but some of the things i'd like to see is definitely you know more variety more units and a really really solid story so as far as the multiplayer goes because obviously that's probably one of the biggest things about starcraft 2. now i think blizzard has done a great job so far they've had a lot of really interesting you know unit types you know the the galaxy map editor is just insane i i think it's going to take a long time to really for people to fully use it um but i'd really like to see some more unit variety now i'm not to say anything against starcraft 2 already there are so many units for all three races i mean it's a really really great meta game however i think that there's a lot that they could improve on you know i mean there if you just take a look if you play through wings of liberty just take a look i mean for all races there are quite a few different really cool units that you don't get to see in the multiplayer so just taking um some of the for example like mercenaries i think that's a really cool thing that could really be useful in the uh in the multiplayer and then there are a lot of just units that just aren't just what kind of just got the cut you know and it the same goes true for both zerg and protoss as well so i'm not looking forward to them adding some new units while still keeping it very balanced and fair which is something blizzard really knows how to do well um now continuing on with that i really want them to make sure that it doesn't i don't want it to be you know like a short little story or anything like that i mean really wings of liberty was a fantastic for an rts it was a fantastic story um you know the cinematics were really really just amazing looking especially the ones that were pre-rendered i mean those were those were really great i'd love to see them do more of that you know let us really just draw us into the story of what all's going on with the zerg um you know keep it keep it in interesting fresh and of course just go ahead and you know where they keep the cinematics then do a mission that really fills it out because a lot of the time you know it's really easy to go well you know we're just going ahead and let you fill in the blanks yourself but blizzard does a great job of making a very cinematic experience make it look like a movie so absolutely hope that they won't skimp on that or anything like that which i'm sure they won't but you know now some of the other things is that people have kind of been not 100 sure i don't even know if blizzard is fully decided yet whether it's actually going to be an expansion pack or it's going to be going ahead and just be a full standalone game now to be honest for me i don't really care so much either way i'm obviously an expansion pack would be kind of nice because most of the people who by then because it will be out a little while um we'll obviously have uh you know the standard starcraft 2 and you know it's not going to be a big deal to you know save some money and buy the expansion back however on the other hand you know maybe not everybody has it and you can go ahead just buy the full game so really to be honest i don't really care either way as long as they really do keep the story up keep all the great elements they don't you know try to just make an expansion pack and just you know add like five missions or something really small which i'm sure like i said guys blizzard they're not going to do that they their starcraft 2 is so huge they're going to really do it right um so guys as far as when we can expect heart of the swarm it's really hard to say really blizzard has just now started on it um you know they've probably been working on for only a few months really hardcore so knowing blizzard it'll probably be out in the next seven to eight years well okay probably not it'll probably be out here and you know maybe the next year or two um but guys that's actually comes down to probably the most important part of this video um what are you guys looking for uh in the next version of starcraft you know i mean obviously blizzard they're just starting working on this i guarantee that they're looking around you know trying to figure out well what what what does everybody think so guys absolutely feel free to leave in the comment section below what do you think what are you looking forward to what do you think they can improve on what do you think that they need to stay away from definitely leave all your thoughts and comments in the section comment section below okay so for the second segment of d3 live i'll be taking live questions so we do have a lot of people in here on blog tv all watching it live so let me go ahead and take some questions kind of answer and just kind of hang out a little bit the starcraft 2 focusing on all the races i thought they would make separate games for each race that's actually a good question um now each one yes you're right there are going to be three starcraft 2 games obviously wings of liberty which focuses on the terran it's already out there's going to be heart of the swarm as well as the protoss so there are going to be three different ones however each one will have each race so for example you go ahead and you buy wings of liberty today now while the campaign focuses on the terran and the multiplayer you can play as any of the three races and i expect with each one of the next two uh expansion pack slash sequels whatever you want to call it um with each one of those there actually will be you know additions more units obviously a campaign that focuses on each race but in each game you can go ahead and in the multiplayer and everything you can go ahead and play as all races um how am i why do i like my game boys so much uh well i i it's kind of a long story basically i like game boys a lot this is like some of my first consoles so i kind of collect them a little bit but you know uh starcraft starcraft collectors or regular regular version for a first time starcrafter uh to be honest probably the regular uh now some of the collectors edition there's a lot of cool stuff but to be honest if you're just getting starcraft if you've never played before or you know you don't you're you're not really a hardcore starcraft fan i'd probably just go with this standard i that's what i bought now i don't know i know i mean the collector's edition just really didn't seem all that you know special to me i mean i just i just have to play the game but uh you know i'd probably just go with the standard one i mean it's just kind of a personal preference but you know it is recommended playing starcraft 1 before starcraft 2. um yeah do you actually um yes and no i guess uh yes it actually you probably should um especially because you can go ahead and get starcraft brood war um as well as i believe there's uh the i think it's called the battle chest don't quote me on that but uh you can go ahead and pick it up with the original starcraft as well as strategy guys for like 10 on amazon um now i recommend definitely go do so because obviously it's very very cheap should run pretty much any computer especially if you're already playing starcraft 2. however if for whatever reason you don't want to do that if you want to spend that much money or you know you don't you don't feel like it you can go ahead and jump straight into starcraft 2. uh you know you won't understand everything but they did blizzard did a really good job of filling you in as you go there's lots of flashbacks there's lots of uh well well done story telling so while you might as well to go ahead and just buy the first one just because it's so cheap if you don't you're really not missing out on that much you you you'll be able to get the grass to the story pretty quickly um while i buy the psp go uh no i i've had a psp before the psp go really just kind of didn't it just didn't really go with me just because you don't have the umd and digital downloads well i mean i don't mind digital downloads right now i'd rather have something you know physical just because you know it's a lot easier you can go ahead and you can buy used stuff you do a lot more today so i'm not really too much into the you know the digital downloads but you know that's just kind of my opinion right now um connect versus playstation move that's that's a good question um obviously i actually have done a video a few months back talking a little bit about it um but of course playstation movies just come out connect should be coming out here fairly shortly um basically the short of it i'm not a huge fan of pretty much any of the motion controls um i do have a way and you know obviously you know everyone's played the wiimote and all that kind of the motion controls for a while um now i haven't been able to play either playstation move or connect yet so i really can't say 100 about any of them but what i've seen what i've heard i'm not really all that impressed i just don't know if it's worth spending all my money um but i might just go ahead and just have to try out them just kind of just give you guys some videos and stuff so you might want to watch out for that but um i'm not really all that impressed i guess um starcraft or world of warcraft uh two totally different games uh both equally dangerous but i play starcraft i don't touch world of warcraft not really my kind of thing but i definitely do love starcraft quite a bit um what is the minimum requirements of starcraft 2 uh now for that i don't know off the top of my head you can go ahead and just look it up like maybe google it or something i will say though that they're pretty low um for example i'm able to play starcraft 2 on lower settings i'm able to play starcraft 2 with the core i3 laptop with the integrated graphics and it runs pretty much just fine so really if i can do it with integrated graphics if you have any kind of decent computer at all you should be able to play starcraft 2. so while i go ahead and check you know the minimum requirements because obviously you don't want to pay 60 for a game and not be able to use it but most of you should be able to play as long as you just don't have like a really old laptop or something anyway guys that's it for this episode of d3 live i hope you guys enjoyed um and if you did feel free to subscribe i do lots more video game technology content all that kind of stuff on a very very regular basis in addition to doing d3 live we can go ahead and watch me live on blog tv every saturday um so anyway guys thanks for watching