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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: NeoHunter on January 22, 2002, 08:16:00 am
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I'm sure most of us, if not 100 percent all of us, hve played Starcraft before in this lifetime. I must say that it is the best game I have ever played yet. Did you know that it is still the most popular game being played online?
But after so long, I'm sure some of us are wondering if Blizzard Entertainment would ever get down to doing a sequel for the game. So far, they have always concetrated on Warcraft series.
I was wondering if anybody here has any thoughts or rumors to share about this topic?
P.S: I know it is off topic. No need to remind me. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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WoW and Warcraft III are better, live with it (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
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Theres been talk of this over at the Relicnews BB. Blizzard isnt working on anything from what I hear.
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Then are they going to leave the Starcraft story hanging like that?
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Originally posted by NeoHunter:
Then are they going to leave the Starcraft story hanging like that?
nah, don't think so: warcraft and diablo both sold well, so they mad a sequel (and they both had an open ending), Starcraft is not different. There will most likely be a SC2, but knowing blizzard, there's no need to wait for it, coz it won't be soon.
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Not to mention be delayed.....
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It will get made, because its very likey that it will make a profit.
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SC sucks, buy HW 2 (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
We know IT'S coming out at least *biggrin* (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif) (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
[This message has been edited by Unkown Target (edited 01-22-2002).]
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Originally posted by Unkown Target:
SC sucks, buy HW 2 (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
We know IT'S coming out at least *biggrin* (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif) (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
Well SC dosn't suck, but yes im going to buy hw2 anyways. Everyones sick of asking of sc2 is comming out, Blizzard has 2 projects going on right now, and the team that would normally work on sc2 is working on war3, i got that strait from the source. Maybe when war3 is finished they will start sc2, but more likely they will help the WoW team however they can to accelerate her launch date.
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Need I say it? Really really loud?
*ahem*
Earth 2150 owns SC
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Originally posted by NeoHunter:
Then are they going to leave the Starcraft story hanging like that?
The freespace story was left hanging and look what happened.
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Earth 2150 owns SC
Need I say more? (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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Did you say anything? (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/tongue.gif)
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Originally posted by Stryke 9:
Need I say it? Really really loud?
*ahem*
Earth 2150 owns SC
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT STARCRAFT SUCKS EARHT 2150 RULES, EVEN RA2 SUCKS MORE THEN EARTH
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I played the demo of Earth 2140, and I have one word to say about it:
BLEAGH!
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ughh... yes 2140 is c*** but you see 2150 is YEARS newer...
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Originally posted by PhReAk:
The freespace story was left hanging and look what happened.
It wasn't left as hanging as was Starcraft's...
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Originally posted by WMCoolmon:
Originally posted by PhReAk:
The freespace story was left hanging and look what happened.
It wasn't left as hanging as was Starcraft's...[/B]
The difference, of course, being that Blizzard's publisher isn't looking to screw them over.
Oh, and Earth 21what? Is that another Starcraft (and therefore Dune2) knockoff? Pass. Gimme Starcraft, a friend and two networked PCs and life is good. Who needs anything else?
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actually E2150 is unrelated to StarCraft. The only relations are the common RTS concepts (build building, build units kill enemy) and the fact that it has 3 factions (not species unlike some of the corny SC ripoffs which always have an organic, advanced and terran race)
I'm actually not going to say E is better than Star Craft because I like both of them (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif). E for its new look and Star Craft for its nostalgia.
Oh if you want a cool RTS in developement go to www.teridianshadow.com ("http://www.teridianshadow.com") (it looks quite cool)
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[This message has been edited by Kamikaze (edited 01-22-2002).]
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Originally posted by Kamikaze:
actually E2150 is unrelated to StarCraft. The only relations are the common RTS concepts (build building, build units kill enemy) and the fact that it has 3 factions (not species unlike some of the corny SC ripoffs which always have an organic, advanced and terran race)
I'm actually not going to say E is better than Star Craft because I like both of them (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif). E for its new look and Star Craft for its nostalgia.
Oh if you want a cool RTS in developement go to www.teridianshadow.com ("http://www.teridianshadow.com") (it looks quite cool)
See, you missed my point. RTS bites, with Starcraft and Homeworld being the exceptions. Starcraft is the most refined RTS there is. Its simple and to the point. Homeworld avoids sucking by, you know, being innovative (its a shocking concept).
So like, what's the point of the rest?
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--Mik
http://www.404error.com
ruhkferret on ICQ/AIM
"Your guy was a little SQUARE! You had to use your IMAGINATION! There were no multiple levels or screens. There was just one screen forever and you could never win the game. It just kept getting harder and faster until you died. JUST LIKE LIFE." --Ernie Cline
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Originally posted by venom2506:
There will most likely be a SC2, but knowing blizzard, there's no need to wait for it, coz it won't be soon.
Yeah, knowing Blizzard, SC2 wont have come out until after the sun has imploded on itself sucking the earth into a black hole.
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Originally posted by mikhael:
See, you missed my point. RTS bites, with Starcraft and Homeworld being the exceptions. Starcraft is the most refined RTS there is. Its simple and to the point. Homeworld avoids sucking by, you know, being innovative (its a shocking concept).
So like, what's the point of the rest?
I gather you've never played much else. SC, for your information, is NOT the most refined, the engine itself is so ridiculously oversimplified that an 8-year-old could sort out how to imitate it (Weapons that never miss? Two or three floors of terrain that has no effect other than occasionally being impassable?). It's the MOST POPULAR game however, and thus the most fully explored and modded, because Blizzard has the kind of 2D and (for that time) 3D skills that give techies wet dreams. Their cutscenes are still rather nice, even compared to the mind-blowing ones produced nowadays, and the game is how old now? On the other hand, there's games like Earth 2150- the sorta stuff maybe you wouldn't play if you didn't wanna think much or spend an hour freaking out about everything that might go wrong, but it's the kind of game you'd expect a general to appreciate- almost excessively realistic, down to attacking by cover of darkness and occasional rainstorms getting your troops bogged down in the mud. Try playing it once- if you're interested in strategy as strategy, rather than a lot of things blowing up, you'll never get over it. Oh, and if you wanna try a real strategist's game for a change, DON'T get the Earth demo, and DON'T watch the opening movie before you play- it's the sort that would make Ed Wood get up outta the theater halfway through. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
I don't know how anyone can object to E2150 after seeing the UCS ad movie, though. That thing's golden. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/lol.gif)
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