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Interesting, I think most RTS players would point to StarCraft 2 as the apex, and they'd probably be correct given how its still played so much today.

What makes Warcraft 2 the apex for you over StarCraft 2?

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Funny how many people think Starcraft 2 isn't even better than Starcraft 1, especially when you add in Brood War.

The game's campaign being what it was made it so people never warmed up to it, the big hero-focused storylines and then mishandling of said characters (Kerrigan's abortive humanization and then rushed redemption, the Protoss being framed in entirely the wrong tone, the half baked epilogue) just made it so that the campaign didn't stick as Brod War's did, even if the gameplay was superior.

Buildings as walls and using spawn points to jump through terrain are fun mechanics in WC2.

I remember creating a moat of farms around my town hall.

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