For those Attending Blizzcon: Diablo 3 Warning

[Azazel]

The scope of Starcraft 2 is so big that each campaign is a seperate product? But they all end the same way?
(everyone will buy it anyway, i'm not sure who the fools are)

   

Ah well, I don't really give a shit about RTS in general or Starcraft in particular.

Back in the day I played SC1's human campaign until I got to some mission where I had to fight other humans on some kind of floating space platform, but they kept nuking me before I had a chance to do jack shit. That was the end of my SC fun, and also my SC experience. I did spend AU$20 to get the Battle Pack about 6 months ago, since that original copy was a pirated one. I still haven't opened that BP of course, but now I no longer eye them off in the game shops when they're heavily discounted.

[schild]

   

Unnecessary bilking of your customers.



How you do it right.

Of course there are examples of both.

[Megrim]

Yea, the 'pay 3x for the one game' thing they've done with Star2 has me puzzled. I realise "episodic content" is the new zoot suit, but honestly, do they really need the money that badly?

[Ragnoros]

Sorry for the Kotaku link. Diablo Shirts Full of  .

[Ingmar]

Hokay. I may not have anything coherent until Monday, as I am totally tired tonight and have to drive from Anaheim back to the Bay Area tomorrow.

I can give you the TLDR version though: Diablo 3 is totally fucking awesome. 

[Amarr HM]

There's a new video on wizards out today.  I'm sure it doesn't spoil anything.  Spoiling stuff is good for you, though.  It builds character.  I even found a chart regarding it.

What about Virgins?

[apocrypha]

What about Virgins?

Their chart is a lot more boring?

[Amarr HM]

  

[Murgos]

More fuel for the angst machine:

With the single-player portions of StarCraft 2 now split into three distinct games, Blizzard lead producer Chris Sigaty has revealed that the individual titles could be released a year or more apart from one another.

[schild]

lol

[kildorn]

Someone failed episodic game design.

Though if we use the game trilogy rule, it means terrans will be playable, and the other episodes will be scrapped.

[Azazel]

It's Blizzard!

If he's hinting at a year apart, it could be two years apart each.

As an aside, do I smell the "Annual Franchise" taint of Blizzard's Activision Overlords?

[Jain Zar]

Starcraft 1 was shit anyhow.  Command & Conquer Red Alert was the Win 98 RTS of choice.

Let Blizzard think their success gives them the right to skullfuck their customers.  They will reap what they sow.

That being said I would so wear that Diablo 3 shirt, provided there is something snarky on the back.

Like:

"This is Hell for your average teenage boy or neckbearded manchild."
                                    "COMING XX XXX XXXX"

[ahoythematey]

It doesn't need anything on the back, considering that it's an injoke that you either would definitely get or not know anything about and not find funny beyond maybe the "looniness factor".  Putting that terrible line on the back would detract from it.

[K9]

Starcraft 1 was shit anyhow.  Command & Conquer Red Alert was the Win 98 RTS of choice.

wat

[Calantus]

AoE2 was better than any in the C&C franchise.

[Jain Zar]

AoE 2 was awesome as all get out, but it was a couple years after them both IIRC. 
(IMHO once the expansion came out it became nearly perfect as far as an RTS can get.  Though I still think RA has a better interface overall.)

It does however make Starcraft's continued popularity look even worse though.

[Ironwood]

Starcraft 1 was shit anyhow.  Command & Conquer Red Alert was the Win 98 RTS of choice.

yeaaahhhhhh....

You should really add "In My Opinion" to the front of that totally fucking ludicrous sentence.

[Jain Zar]

Starcraft 1 was shit anyhow.  Command & Conquer Red Alert was the Win 98 RTS of choice.

yeaaahhhhhh....

You should really add "In My Opinion" to the front of that totally fucking ludicrous sentence.

And its Korea's opinion that Starcraft is.  Doesn't mean I give a fuck.
The most important (or at least it should be the most important) opinion to me is my own.
And thus Starcraft can go eat a fat dick because its not fun.  The interface is poor, the design is weak, the gameplay is plodding and dull.

[ahoythematey]

You are telling me that the gameplay is plodding and dull in comparison to Command and Conquer?  Are you for real?

[FatuousTwat]

The most fun I've had with an RTS was AOE2. I enjoy being able to build up an impenetrable base and playing indefinitely in one game.

Starcraft bored me on the computer, but I played it a ton on the 64 with friends.

[Ingmar]

You guys are all wrong, the best RTS of the era was Total Annihilation by a longshot.

That said Starcraft was a great game. I'm really not getting the hate at all.

[Brolan]

Starcraft 1 was shit anyhow.  Command & Conquer Red Alert was the Win 98 RTS of choice.

yeaaahhhhhh....

You should really add "In My Opinion" to the front of that totally fucking ludicrous sentence.

And its Korea's opinion that Starcraft is.  Doesn't mean I give a fuck.
The most important (or at least it should be the most important) opinion to me is my own.
And thus Starcraft can go eat a fat dick because its not fun.  The interface is poor, the design is weak, the gameplay is plodding and dull.

I get it, he is from that opposite world where Vanguard kicked WoW's ass.

[Ratman_tf]

You guys are all wrong, the best RTS of the era was Total Annihilation by a longshot.

That said Starcraft was a great game. I'm really not getting the hate at all.

I think all the cool kids diss on popular shit. Fo shizzle.

[Calantus]

But only the absolute coolest kids point out that the cool kids diss on popular shit.

[lamaros]

You guys are all wrong, the best RTS of the era was Total Annihilation by a longshot.

TA was rubbish multiplayer.

[Margalis]

Of course each campaign will come with new units and tweaks that you need for multiplayer. Yes, I'm aware they said they wouldn't do that but of course they will. Expansion comes out, it has new units, obviously people want to play them in multiplayer and obviously you'll need the game for that. It's a stealth subscriber model.

The idea that you need three different games for three different single-player campaigns is just ludicrous. That's more single-player Starcraft than anyone needs and we're talking Starcraft, not Nabokov.

I hate hate hate it when companies are talking trilogies before they even put out the first title. Rarely ends well - counting your chickens before they're hatched and all that. Instead of grand scheme for a breakfast cereal, a card game and a set of bedsheets just make a single good game.

[Ironwood]

You guys are all wrong, the best RTS of the era was Total Annihilation by a longshot.

That said Starcraft was a great game. I'm really not getting the hate at all.

See, I happen to agree with this.  My point is that you can't just say 'This was THE BEST FULLSTOP' without expecting that others, may, you know, have like a totally different opinion dude.

[Draegan]

Shoots and Ladders was the best board game ever.  Candyland was a piece of shit.

[Calantus]

Oh for fuck's sake. It's Snakes and Ladders. Fucking Americans, can you get nothing right? You don't have to butcher every goddamn thing that comes from England you know, the War of Independance was over long ago.

It is apparent to me that we are by far the better colony. And we were the prison!

[schild]

You're still the prison.

Also, chutes or snakes, but never shoots.

[Signe]

Shoots and Ladders is some Korn song, no?  Shoots and Ladders.  HAHAHAHA!  I don't know why, but it's killing me! 

[Lantyssa]

Maybe the shooting part?  Make it stop.  We don't want you killed.

[Goreschach]

Snakes and Ladders doesn't even make sense. Who the fuck would try to slide down a snake?

[MrHat]

Fuck you guys.

Diablo 3 bitches!  DIABLO 3.