And the crowd goes mild!
Oh look… It’s 40K Space Marine
Microsoft Starcraft 2030
Remind me to be excited in 4 years.
remember ghost, peppridge farm doesnt.
If they were announcing Starcraft 3 (and it was going to be an RTS game) I can understand there being some excitement around it even four years in advance because there’s so few RTS games being made.
But a Starcraft shooter? Meh.
It’s an open-world shooter.
Christ on a stick.
They’re hounding after that damned MMO shit like every other publisher is. Sony wants it, EA wants it, everyone wants it, and nobody can fucking make it work. Hell, even Bungie couldn’t pull it off with Marathon.
Why do they keep letting the market dictate what kind of games they should make? Just make a good fucking game. Stop consulting some market specialist who tells you, “Well, gamers are really interested in live-service engagement loops right now.” No shit, Brad. Gamers are also interested in games that are actually fun.
It’s like every publisher looks at the last five disasters and says, “Okay, but what if WE do it?”
Like it hasn’t worked for literally any of them. Why would it suddenly work for a fucking megacorp like Blizzard?
And it’s coming out in four fucking years.
Four years!
I don’t care what’s coming out in four years! I barely know what I’m doing next fucking Tuesday. You’re telling me I should get excited about a game that won’t exist until 2030?
I’m sure they’ll announce Diablo 5 in 2069 and tell us it’s going to revolutionize the genre with an innovative blockchain-enabled social extraction MMO where you spend 45 minutes farming a dungeon just to unlock the ability to farm another dungeon.
Just make a good goddamned game.
That’s it.
You don’t need to reinvent the fucking industry. You don’t need a market trend. You don’t need an engagement strategist. You don’t need a ten-year roadmap.
Make a good game.
Then make another one.
Jesus Christ.
Surprise. They announced Diablo 5.
Is that also an open world shooter? 🤔
☹️
I mean, if you’re a ranged class in any of them you’re already playing an open world shooter. It just isn’t 1st person 🤷♂️
FPS mod incoming.
will it just be mephisto and diablo returns, or is it just BAAL “returns” or it will be the lesser lords hell as well. i suspect “andarael” that was revived will be in it.
FPS suppose to be a good money making game.
Lol.
Expedition 33 was a turn-based jrpg.
I’m just saying these publishers have lost the plot.
Genuine question, what was the last time Blizzard released an actually good game, much less a new good game? Because by my reckoning it was over a decade ago with Overwatch, and that leaves me with exactly zero expectation that anything they could make would be with the time to play it.
I was going to say Starcraft 2 wings of liberty, that came out in 2010. They then proceeded to release two expansions that fell short in both the story telling and game play.
God, I was so pissed when Kerrigans solution was… To undo the events of WOL and just become a zerg before, indistinguishable, but somehow “primal”
and then become a xelnaga/zerg hybrid at the end, and completely ignored the protoss part of the game.
This gets an exasperated “meh” from me
A game being announced for years in the future and all they have to show is a cinematic screams vaporware to me
I remember the last time Blizzard announced a really cool StarCraft shooter. Anyone else play StarCraft Ghost? No? Yeah, exactly.
I’ve played StarCraft Ghost at E3. So I have that going for me.
Do you mean the first time they announced StarCraft Ghost or the second time?
So this is actually the third time they’ve announced a Starcraft shooter.
remember diablo immortal, that was just a money grab.
Dude. Don’t you have a cell phone?!?
That just flopped because we didn’t have phones
Straight outta Todd Howard’s playbook.
For all their faults Blizzard has never made a bad cinematic.
Granted!
StarCraft II is one of my favorite games ever, but I have no faith in modern Blizzard to make a game that isn’t wrapped in trappings that would piss me off. Back in 2010, it was extremely annoying that the game required an internet connection and made us go through all sorts of wacky solutions just to have a LAN party. Nowadays, an online-only game is a non-starter for me. The story in SC2 jumped the shark after the Wings of Liberty campaign anyway.
they got bought out. diablo is pretty much a disaster
I played through Diablo 4, and honestly, the frustrating part is that there’s a genuinely good game buried underneath all the live-service bullshit.
The core gameplay works. The combat feels good, the classes are fun, the world is well designed, and there’s a solid Diablo game in there. If Blizzard had simply made it a traditional single-player Diablo game with optional online multiplayer, I think it could have been fucking phenomenal.
Instead, they decided they needed the live-service model.
And that created a massive problem: there was barely an endgame. Once you finished the campaign, the game basically became a loop of running the same types of activities over and over again, waiting for Blizzard to drip-feed additional content through seasons and updates. The live-service content wasn’t arriving quickly enough to justify the structure they’d built the entire game around.
That’s what pisses me off about modern game development. Publishers keep chasing the idea that every game needs to become an endlessly monetized platform. Sony wants it. EA wants it. Everyone wants the next Fortnite or Destiny, despite the fact that most of them can’t actually pull it off.
Diablo 4 didn’t need to be a live service.
It just needed to be a really fucking good Diablo game.
There was a damn good game in there. They just built the wrong fucking business model around it.
that is true, the lack of content after endgame is lacking.
The cinematic was fire, but I wasn’t getting “open world shooter” from it. Rather, I thought this was “Helldivers 2 with Starcraft window dressing,” which would be awesome I won’t lie.
Same. Smells like a (fairly generic) co-op shooter to me. It might end up being good, but with the state of blizzard and microsoft these days I’m not really excited for this.
I’d love a Helldivers type game where I don’t have to worry about it frying my computer. A CTD or something I can stomach, but a full system freeze? In this economy?
i dont think fsp would be good with SC, should just say they have another sc3.
Bold of them to assume that there will still be electricity, world wide web and freedom to play video games in 2030
Or a Blizzard, with the way Microsoft is handling their gaming division…
Blizzard is apparently their top earner, even more than Activision, so I would hope ms isn’t stupid enough to shutter them
Microsoft: hold my beer!
On stage at Blizzcon they said it’s an open world shooter
Ah well, I’m out. Love the cinematic, but man I would’ve loved another star craft rts that was refined or better.
I have no faith that current Blizzard would be able to beat StarCraft 2 anyways, they would just hurt the scene by dividing the playerbase more and SC3 would likely fizzle out sooner
Ain’t it a shame. Makes ya wonder if the folks who make these games actually even play em.
Hell, that should be a law for gaming. You have to play your game at least 3 to 4 times a month atleast to see the bullshit and fix it.
diablo 3+ has left a bad taste in peoples mouth about blizzard overall.
