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Topic: Blizzard starting work on 'Next-Gen MMO'? (Read 94909 times)
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Trippy
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SnakeCharmer
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Well, dev-heads of MMOs everywhere sighed a collective breath of relief.
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schild
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Fuck Blizzard.
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schild
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Just realized this thread wasn't about Starcraft Online. But rather Diablo for the 360. My bad.
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Trippy
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LOL, hope springs eternal.
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Nonentity
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Well.
Theory for Second RTS game, then MMO seems to be well founded so far.
So... Diablo MMO? DS DIABLO?
FUCKING NEXT GEN CELL PHONE MMO DIABLO SHIT I DONT KNOW GIMME
I love Starcraft. Don't get me wrong.
But.
I'm with schild on this one.
It is no Diablo.
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But that Captain's salami tray was tight, yo. You plump for the roast pork loin, dogg?
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Signe
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I don't much like RTS games. I guess I'll just stand in a dark corner for the week everyone here is interested in it.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Xerapis
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Yeah, when I first saw this screen on the trailer, I was SOOO thinking MMO. Looked like a character creation screen. Korean bois behind me were thinking the same thing. Since Korean for MMO is...well...MMO.  |
..I want to see gamma rays. I want to hear x-rays. I want to...smell dark matter...and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me...
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Lantyssa
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Meh. I don't care about an RTS.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Miasma
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I'll buy and play the hell out of it, but I won't be happy  . |
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El Gallo
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This post makes me want to squeeze into my badass red jeans.
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Simond
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I don't much like RTS games. I guess I'll just stand in a dark corner for the week everyone here is interested in it. Just a week? Heh. |
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Akkori
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I'm underwhelmed. Didn't even make any real graphic advances? meh
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Trippy
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I'm underwhelmed. Didn't even make any real graphic advances? meh
This is Blizzard we are talking about here. |
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Alkiera
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The best part of SWG was the easy account cancellation process.
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I'm underwhelmed. Didn't even make any real graphic advances? meh
It's graphically advanced... this one is 1024x768!! And 3D! Blizzard has always been a fan of last-year's graphics engines. -- Alkiera |
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Numtini
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And with the zillions and zillions of dollars and years of experience, it still won't be as good as TA.
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If you can read this, you're on a board populated by misogynist assholes.
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hubertgrove
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Eh, I think Diablo would be too similar to WoW, at least in the basic "swords & sorcery" theme. With this, they would be cannibalizing themselves too much.
Starcraft, on the other hand, has the potential to be different enough in theme to bring in the sci-fi audience. And they could take the gameplay in a more action-oriented direction to make it even more different than WoW.
I think at this point, a Universe of Starcraft would be a no-brainer for them. I wouldn't see it releasing any sooner than three years from now anyway, at which point WoW would be old enough to be losing significant subscribers to the various latest & greatest MMO's that come out between now and then. A Starcraft MMO would hit just in time to bring the masses back into the Blizzard fold.
I, a noob, concur with your prognosis. I am hoping that Blizzard will decide that Starcraft will be different to WoW not just in genre but in playstyle - that Starcraft will be what Star Wars Galaxies once was, an open-ended, non-linear, no boundaries, skills-based experience, an 'online world, not just an online game' that takes its core players from the other massive but, in gaming terms, almost unknown MMORPG, Second Life. But of course they won't. |
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Ironwood
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And with the zillions and zillions of dollars and years of experience, it still won't be as good as TA.
# Ain't that the fucking truth. It's like TA just fucks anything over from beyond the grave. |
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Typhon
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And with the zillions and zillions of dollars and years of experience, it still won't be as good as TA.
# Ain't that the fucking truth. It's like TA just fucks anything over from beyond the grave. Maybe I was burnt on RTS by the time I got to TA, but I thought it was a distant third to SC, and CC. In fact, I even liked the "Age of" games more. Go figure, eh? |
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Teleku
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Yeah, thats almost exactly my feelings, but that could also be due to the fact that I was getting burnt on RTS and TA didnt really stand out as terribly different to me. Maybe if I go back and play it now I can get a more unbiased view of it, heh.
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Ironwood
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Neither of you played it properly.
Heh.
You listen to Jimmy, but you can't HEAR Jimmy.
/patronise.
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