{"id":25,"date":"2010-03-13T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2010-03-13T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T13:15:00","slug":"screenshots-cannot-do-it-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/13\/screenshots-cannot-do-it-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Screenshots Cannot Do It Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/gdc2010-starcraft2-01.jpg\" alt=\"starcraft 2 screenshots cannot do it justice\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/gdc2010-starcraft2-01.jpg\" alt=\"starcraft 2 screenshots cannot do it justice\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, at GDC 2010, I saw Starcraft II in action for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshots cannot do it justice.<\/p>\n<p>You know, Starcraft has always had a kind of muddy, visually busy, hard-to-grok visual style which made it less impressive in screenshots than it is when playing the game with knowledge.  Starcraft II takes this to a whole new level &#8211; it&#8217;s still busy, but the tiny incomprehensible units are now clearly visible 3D models, and they&#8217;re constantly engaged in animation which displays their personality or explains their shape or just makes them interesting to watch.  And there&#8217;s some new visual filigree which makes it easier to see what your actions in the game will take.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re into Starcraft, don&#8217;t bother torturing yourself with screenshots.  Just get the game when it comes out.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, at GDC 2010, I saw Starcraft II in action for the first time. Screenshots cannot do it justice. You know, Starcraft has always had a kind of muddy, visually&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,9],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-maze-of-twisty-little-passages","tag-game-review","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}