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Starcraft 2 to be three games, internet to explode
KvP:
Read it, bitches!
--- Quote ---Blizzard drops bombshell and says real-time strategy sequel is now three separate games.
ANAHEIM--Blizzard dropped a bombshell at the 2008 Blizzcon today by announcing that StarCraft II, the highly-awaited sequel to the smash hit 1998 real-time strategy game, StarCraft II, has been split into three. The company said that StarCraft II now consists of three different stand-alone titles--one for each faction campaign. The first of the StarCraft II trilogy will be StarCraft II Terrans: Wings of Liberty. The second will be StarCraft II Zerg: Heart of the Swarm, with the third and final installment of the main trilogy being StarCraft II Protoss: Legacy of the Void.
Blizzard says it made the change to make each story that much more epic and to flesh out the StarCraft universe. By splitting the game, the company says that players will access more story content, more characters, and more customization. Rob Pardo, executive vice president of game design, said that each game will be approximate in size to the original StarCraft. Each game will be a stand-alone installment – not an expansion. No release window was announced, but the only thing we can be sure of is that these games will ship, as Blizzard likes to say, when they're ready.
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Well, I'll probably only be getting the Zerg one, then. Eff this noize.
David_Dovey:
--- Quote ---Blizzard says it made the change to make each story that much more epic and to fleHUGLBLAGSH lots of money
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Storm Rider:
I guess Blizzard got so used to making obscene amounts of money off WoW they decided to get Starcraft fans to bend over too. The only thing that saddens me more than them charging 150 fucking dollars for this game is how many people will pay that amount.
Not to be melodramatic about it, but I'm pretty much washing my hands of Blizzard entirely at this point. 95% of my gaming is done on consoles at this point, and my interest in Starcraft 2 was peripheral at best since I'm not a huge RTS fan, but this has just torpedoed any enthusiasm I had left at all about both this game and Blizzard's business practices in general.
KvP:
In this case, given the general slack-jawed nature of battle.net I'm going to get the games... second hand, for the single player campaigns, which I don't expect to be any good. The last good product Blizzard produced was the original Starcraft, and from the looks of it the sequel is going to be chock full of the same ruinous wank that Warcraft 3 introduced. Micromanagement of single unit abilities in real time just isn't all that enjoyable.
No studio's worth that sort of blatant through-the-nose fleecing. Not anybody, certainly not Blizzard.
Ikrik:
I wonder how the Koreans are going to react.
Why yes, three games is a WONDERFUL idea, didn't you guys love how LoTR is 3 movies instead of just one 12-hour one? I know I did. It's certainly much more epic this way.
In all seriousness this sounds like a giant load of wank. There is absolutely no reason why this could not be one game (obviously). I like the fact that people will be able to pick up the race they enjoy playing with most (mine would be Protoss) but I have a sickening feeling that they'll be charging full price for each installment.
I wonder what's in the future for Diablo III
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