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Games => Video Games => Topic started by: FirstMateJack on February 07, 2007, 12:01:25 AM
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http://pc.ign.com/objects/850/850126.html
Apparantly Blizzard let it on (according to IGN) that they might be working on Starcraft 2.
Personally, this was my favorite RTS of all time for its day (I like more now, but not as much as I liked Starcraft then)
So, I can only hope that this is true as I feel kinda jaded that they did a second Warcraft theme (that I don't even play) before going back to Starcraft.
I am very stoked at this possibility. :D
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From what I've read in interview of Blizzard peeps the next game they're working on is a MMO but not an RPG and that "it would be great if Starcraft 2 is out before 2009" so I would easily venture a guess that Starcraft 2 is a MMORTS that will be on-line only (and require a monthly fee).
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Huh, so... I would make a base.... next to 250 others playing around me.. and have to make alliances and destroy other bases that are all around me?
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Most likely it would be something like Shattered Galaxy, where you don't have to always be online to defend yourself--you could hop on, build up, fight, and then log off when you're done.
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I could see them using the StarCraft world, races, etc, but I think the strategy would have to change significantly for an MMORPG. Expand into questing and such where you'd have goals besides just the build, defend, expand. I'm personally interested in seeing what they come up with. I love SC and we still tend to play in the evenings at work. Na bad for a game that's over a decade old.
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So, Starcraft 2 was finally announced yesterday! This will be the first game I buy since Diablo II came out.
http://www.starcraft2.com
It's not an MMORPG. It's basically just Starcraft, updated, with new units and stuff. I can't think of anything Starcraft fans could want more.
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/me takes it home and puts it on his shelf
I cannot say how great this is to hear on a Monday morning.
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Honestly, I couldn't be more excited about this. It isn't some new MMO, it doesn't have freaky hero units you have to level up. It's just Starcraft 2, an update to the most perfectly balanced RTS ever made.
And man, this isn't an announcemend of just *working* on it, you can find actual gameplay trailers on the site. This game is functional! I'm sure it will still be a while, but dang, I have no idea how they kept his under wraps for so long.
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My understanding it that this game was being worked on when WoW was still in Beta, several of the Blizz employees talked about "the next game", that it was playable and fun but still quite a ways off. Of course that could be a game that got canceled, but from looking at those alpha shots I wouldn't be surprised if this game has been around for quite some time.
I'm also pleasantly surprised to find this isn't a monthly fee game because that's the route so many are taking, even though I'm not a Starcraft or RTS fan.
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Hooray, huzzah, hooray! I find it very bizarre that they're sticking with just three races, but I'm not going to complain. It's freaking Starcraft 2!
edit: I just watched the gameplay video, and holy crap. That's all I can say. I was squealing like a little girl the whole time.
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Me too. I was just drooling.
I watched the trailers on IGN, because they had the gameplay up there before it went up on Blizzard's site. There's just the one gameplay video, but they broke it into 4 long sections, and a few shorter clips here and there. They had one clip that was the end of the video, but recorded with audience reaction when they showed it on the big screen in Korea. When the GG came up, everyone laughed and cheered. Made me wish I was there.
I love those jumping marines, and those War of the Worlds walker things (Colossus). Sweeet.
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Hooray, huzzah, hooray! I find it very bizarre that they're sticking with just three races, but I'm not going to complain. It's freaking Starcraft 2!
edit: I just watched the gameplay video, and holy crap. That's all I can say. I was squealing like a little girl the whole time.
That surprises me too. Since there are several built in possibilities to the story already. You could separate the Earth forces from the Terrans. Still the same "race" but it seems to me that separate development would come up with separate technologies. The same for the Zerg. You could resurrect the overmind, and then Kerrigan and the Overmind could control different types of zerg mutant creatures. Plust the... whatever you call 'em... the creator race could come back.
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It has since occurred to me that we're just assuming three races because they haven't shown any more--I don't think they've come out and said that there won't be new ones. They did the same thing with Warcraft 3: they announced just two races, and then slowly revealed the other two as it got closer to launch.
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Actually, they have come out and said there will be 3 races. They mentioned that the Xel'Naga will play a big part in the story campaigns, but won't be a playable race.
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Again, though, that's what they said about Warraft 3.
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/sigh
Why do you make me do this?
"The sequel is confirmed to feature only the original three playable races from the previous games: the Protoss, the Zerg, and the Terrans; there will be no fourth race, not even the Zerg/Protoss hybrid that appeared in a mission in Brood War."
from:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/starcraft2/news.html?sid=6171179&mode=recent
You really need to obsess about this more.
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I am obsessed, I'm just obsessed with hope instead of facts. It's more fun.
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Yes!!!
I am glad there are no plans for MMO.
Also, looks like they are making the best part about starcraft better. Supposed to have massive army capabilities.
one of my favorite things to do with Zerg is get huge huge swarms.
Noticed the Xel Naga supposed to be a big part. I wonder if it is what they did with the Demon Race. Was supposed to be playable, but in order to balance the game, they had to make them only in the single campaign.
Obviously the hybrid will be super powerful, you couldn't balance them really since it is all the good things about Zerg and Protoss together.
I am just excited. But... since it is Blizzard, probably have to wait 2 years before it comes out.
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I'd bet this will be out for Christmas. Blizzard knows their reputation for endlessly delaying games, so they obviosuly didn't even tell us about this one until it's a long, long way along. Based on the gameplay video, I bet the units are pretty much done and balanced, and now they're just working on the campaigns and maps.
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Could be. Especially easy if they did as they said, cut and paste the old units basically and throw in a few new tricks.
But, I never give Blizzard benefit of the the doubt when it comes to release dates. Although, I prefer that to the typical EA strategy, throw as many games at the wall as physically possible and hope a few of em stick, maybe even create a version 1.2 for some of em and of course a pricey expansion, but nothing else.
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If it makes it out before the 10-year anniversary of Starcraft, I will be surprised.
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Hate to rain on your parade, Fell, but Blizz VP Rob Pardo said today that the only certainty about the game's release is that it won't be in 2007.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6171790.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;3
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They also say that there won't be a fourth race.
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Fools, all of you!
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So there are hero units in starcraft 2, they're just simpler to use, more about it here
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/21/new-starcraft-ii-details-from-pc-gamer/
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There have always been hero units in SC, it was the extreme micromanagement and required leveling of the WC3 heroes that bugged me.
More distressing to me is the line about keeping the 200 unit control hard limit. I was really hoping to get some absurdly epic battles in SC2.
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Ok.. unlimited unit grabs.. FINALLY Blizzard took one from C&C's book.
Do you have any idea how annoying it was to make 10 unit groups of zerglings just to run them into a base behind some ultras and hydras?
I hated that.
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The terran section is up now, but there's no new movie, just some unit descriptions.
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I loved StarCraft, great game!! I liked using the cheats too! 8)
I can't wait for the next game to come out ^_^