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Starcraft 2 to be three games, internet to explode
imagist42:
Each game won't add new units to the multiplayer. The idea was that each campaign would have feautres (such as additional units) that aren't included in the multiplayer content that comes standard with every one of them.
I said something about what this means for the development cycle on another forum so I'll quote it here:
--- Quote ---I think an important thing to note here is that they didn't initially plan to do the game this way, but in development their ideas grew so "epic" (for lack of a better word) that they felt the only way to do the campaigns properly was to split them up. This is not dissimilar from Valve splitting "Half-Life 3" (or what was supposed to be Half-Life 3) into episodic content; the idea is to keep giving the fans something to do, without having to wait for such games' (not to mention Blizzard's) traditionally long development cycles to complete before releasing anything for the game. As one of those articles quoted them saying, it was either do this so that they could keep their promises to release "Starcraft 2" (or at least part of it) in 2009, let the game spend years in development hell, or release a significantly truncated version that wouldn't do the game (or the long wait for it) justice.
That said, we will see if the products they release actually do justify this move, not to mention whatever price point they decide to release it at. At least you can reasonably hope they won't pull a Valve and only release each campaign as a bundle with previous campaigns and other miscellaneous software.
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Also note that Blizzard typically spends a lot of development time on its cutscenes, both cinematic and automated in-game stuff, so I kind of don't mind letting them spend time on adding a whole lot of those goodies into each campaign (as they claimed they were doing in one of the articles I read).
Alex C:
--- Quote from: snalin on 11 Oct 2008, 11:14 ---This is definitely a case of download first buy later.
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Provided you're a douchebag, of course. I'm waiting 'till more info is available to pass judgement.
Melodic:
--- Quote ---This is not dissimilar from Valve splitting "Half-Life 3" (or what was supposed to be Half-Life 3) into episodic content
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Definitely was meant to be episodic from the beginning.
Also, I don't see what Blizzard is doing as any more epic than any other expansion-oriented gaming series ever. They've just managed to replace "we're making expansions, woo!" with "the game is so epic we're spreading it across three whole games!" in the announcement. Classy.
Jackie Blue:
I think this is a good thing, because I only play RTS games for the campaign modes, and hopefully this means each campaign will be truly epic.
Thaes:
The same here. If they can truly make each of those campaigns as epic as they were in the original Starcraft, I become strangely deaf towards the whining of my wallet.
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