StarCraft 2 announcement on the 19th of May

[Wolf]

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Yeah, I know it's been comming for a while, but that's something almost solid :P

Edit by Trippy: took off question mark, fixed spelling

[Ironwood]

Hmmm.

[MrHat]

Or, more appropriately:

Mmmm.

[Roac]

I can't believe it's taken them this long to come to a sequel.  But if the rumor holds up; yey.   

[Sky]

I don't know why I clicked on this thread.

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[MrHat]

I bet the new race announcement is Dranaei.

[Ironwood]

Shaman Vs Zerg.

FIGHT.

[Wolf]

Do you know what I find refreshing? The distinct lack of mention of any sort of heroes. They mention a new race and new units... but no heroes. It'd be so good if it didn't have any. They're irritating :)

[tazelbain]

I'd like heroes. But they should be promoted from ordinary units.

[Trippy]

Do you know what I find refreshing? The distinct lack of mention of any sort of heroes. They mention a new race and new units... but no heroes. It'd be so good if it didn't have any. They're irritating :)

I don't mind heroes -- it's creeping that I hate.

[Wolf]

That's what I meant Trippy - Heroes in the sense of Warcraft 3 and how they're different from heroes in, say, Dawn of War :)

[NiX]

I hate RPG shit being thrown into an RTS. I just wish they wouldn't do it. Hopefully they don't fuck this up if it is true.

[Yegolev]

There will be so, so many broken faces when Blizzard announces Diablo III instead.

[schild]

I, FOR ONE, WOULD PREFER DIABLO 3.

THERE ARE AT LEAST 3-4 DECENT RTS TITLES RELEASED EVERY YEAR.

NO ONE HAS GOTTEN DIABLO LIKE.

Caps just don't convey the excitement that would cause. Seas would rise, blood woud boil.

[Sky]

SCHILD WANT DIABLO LIKE

[schild]

YARYARYYARYARYARAYRYAARYARYARYAYR

[Strazos]

yar yar hump hump for D3?

[NiX]

As much as I'll admit Blizz would rape if they announced Diablo 3, why? Like you said, Schild, no one has come close to it. Why bother? They can re-own the RTS market if they release SC2. For another decade at that.

[schild]

Starcraft probably still sells more than Diablo 2.

[Nonentity]

Interesting.

But to be honest, I'm with schild on this one. I'd rather have a new Diablo.

Because in all honesty, I will play a little bit of Starcraft 2 and enjoy it, and then after a few months, I'll just play custom maps exclusively.

Can you imagine what the DotA for Starcraft 2 would be like? Ho ho ho.

[schild]

By the way, My Diablo statement comes on the trails that they're probably 75-80% done with Starcraft 2. They've been in development on it for... well, a looooooooooong time.

[bhodi]

where the hell did they pull another race from?

[NiX]

The Starcraft Ghost fiasco is probably why they'd pick SC2 over Diablo 3. The amount of people that killed the poor server that hosted the Starcraft 2.com website way back when they first announced ghost is reason enough.

[Murgos]

Either way they are printing money hats.  It's almost certainly SC2 though because didn't the majority of the Diablo team go over to Flagship to make Hellgate?

[schild]

Well, Blizzard North was completely dissolved.

But that's not why, once again, the goddamn game (SC2) has been in development since 2004.

[NiX]

Regardless of when they started, they made a decision 3 years ago to start SC2 over Diablo 3. Blizzard knows full well that when they start something it could very well take 5 years to finish just cause of their policy on shipping a relatively polished product.

[Samwise]

where the hell did they pull another race from?

There was a side story in Brood War about a third race created by the Xel'Naga that combined traits of the Protoss and the Zerg.  That sounds like the safe money.

Another possibility would be the Xel'Naga themselves; maybe some of them were able to escape being eaten by the Zerg and they've been hiding out somewhere trying to come up with a way to undo the damage.

(edit) I almost forgot the most important part:

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

[eldaec]

where the hell did they pull another race from?

1) Walk into GW store.

2) Throw rock.

3) Copy whatever you hit.



Sorry, too easy.

[Trippy]

where the hell did they pull another race from?

1) Walk into GW store.

2) Throw rock.

3) Copy whatever you hit.



Sorry, too easy.

Squats!

[Ragnoros]

YAY! HGL is close enough to D3 for me so this is just gravy. Heres hoping it's fun tho. Supreme Commander really let me down, and while CC3 was fun it's replay value -read: strategic options- was low. Also don't get me started on the whole heres the same game from 5 years ago only shiny that was AoE3.

[Strazos]

Actually, I think AoE3 added/changed a lot of the mechanics of the game.

[Sky]

I'm considering AoE3, the first two weren't bad (for rts which I dislike in general), but I like the injuns and paying $80 to play a game in a genre I don't like is insane.

[Calantus]

Also don't get me started on the whole heres the same game from 5 years ago only shiny that was AoE3.

You just got me interested in AoE3. I'd take AoK:TC++ over AoM2 thankyou very much. :P

Now I gotta go check it out.

[Triforcer]

Is there any chance SC2 will be as good as SC1?  I believe that when you get balance that fantastically right over the long term (where the factions have nonidentical base abilities) it is mostly luck.  Lightning can't strike twice- even a small advantage by one faction will be strategized to hell and the game will become trivial.

[Yegolev]

Is there any chance SC2 will be as good as SC1?

Negative.