Man I'm glad I was having delerious fever dreams all day or otherwise I would've witnessed basically what I knew would happen.
1) riled up people get told whats up
2) people assume issue is done and leave
3) those who remain get loud and start talking out their ass about opinions
4) the point is missed
People wonder how I can be so judgemental, well here goes:
The point of this thread was pretty fucking obvious, as I stated it in the original OP. From there, when people want to tell me NUH UH SC5 IS SO DIFFERENT, I'm FORCED to draw the conclusion that people did not play the previous SC's in depth enough to know the difference. Therefore I'm forced to draw the conclusion that their opinions on anything related to gameplay in the slightest are under-informed and extremely lacking.
I don't trust soccer moms who tell auto mechanics how to do their jobs. "The lights worked yesterday, it rained, and now they don't. It was clearly the rain." is the kind of logic I see from people complaining. If you cannot understand how that is offensive and incenses a person, you need to check yourself. Also, I will say this, again. Opinions can't be "wrong", but they can be ignorant.
Now, the 4 of you who learned the lesson, good job.
The 8 if you who all like each others posts and have stupid anime avatars, carry on too.
So if SC5 can be considered "guilty" of anything, it's having it's changes out on the surface rather than underneath the hood. Otherwise, it's not really too drastic a departure as far as I am concerned.