I'm looking forward to Hellgate. If Blizzard makes an anouncement regarding SC2, I probably won't much care. Of course, it will provide fuel for many an online fire, I'm sure.

 

I was looking forward to Hellgate a lot more before they announced that you'd have to pay a monthly fee to use decent items and have convenient storage space. They don't sound like they're doing enough to justify a monthly fee, and instead are going to crapify customers that only give them fifty bucks. That doesn't really make sense to me.

I'm looking forward to Hellgate. If Blizzard makes an anouncement regarding SC2, I probably won't much care. Of course, it will provide fuel for many an online fire, I'm sure.

 

I was looking forward to Hellgate a lot more before they announced that you'd have to pay a monthly fee to use decent items and have convenient storage space. They don't sound like they're doing enough to justify a monthly fee, and instead are going to crapify customers that only give them fifty bucks. That doesn't really make sense to me.

 

Good Lord. That's what I get for not following these games during production. I think I'll have to reevaluate this purchase. Damn. Grrrr :Cant's hitting folks with chairs and causing mayhem in the streets icon:

I take the Elite anytime and anywhere, because I prefer to stay on the winner side, n00bs!

Isn't there going to be a singleplayer campaign?

Isn't there going to be a singleplayer campaign?

It's a Diablo clone, is there really a difference?

Isn't there going to be a singleplayer campaign?

It's a Diablo clone, is there really a difference?

 

Think what Meta meant was that players will get access to all the stuff on offline play that elite players will on online play. Think would be ok I guess but multi-play is half the fun of these types of games.

I think he's saying it's a sign of how we now expect every big game to go multiplatform, or rather, onto consoles. I don't think that's the case here, but I think that's what he's saying.

 

That said, people who eat Rare are animals.

yeah... pretty much, the fact that they felt that it would be warranted to add that this is not going to be a multiplatform because, among other things they don't seem to have a good control scheme down for RTS's that would allow for the reaction times of a keyboard and mouse. You just wouldn't be able to handle an entire battle with the single controller.

 

Now I haven't seen the C&C3 control scheme or felt it so I don't know how it's worked out but From everything I've seen RTS's just don't work on consoles.

On a sidenote, I'm certainly no graphics whore, but that really doesn't look 2007-ish at all.

 

But I guess gameplay is what Blizzard excels at.

Running on everyone in the universe's machine is also what Blizzard excels at.

Blizzard is on a role, that's all I can say

On a sidenote, I'm certainly no graphics whore, but that really doesn't look 2007-ish at all.

 

But I guess gameplay is what Blizzard excels at.

Running on everyone in the universe's machine is also what Blizzard excels at.

 

and bless them for it

 

Having download the "Uber" quality gameplay video off Blizzards site, I have to say the graphics arn't too shabby. Less cartoon-ish and grittier than I originally took away from the Youtube vids. It's just the Terrans that seem to have a "comical" edge to some of their units/structures.

 

That said, I hope the "Nuclear lazer pointer" isn't being replaced by the giant neon nuclear signs they show in the video. Half the fun of nukes in SC was trying to find that damn little red dot after hearing "Nuclear Launch Detected"

Edited May 22, 200718 yr by kumquatq3

That said, I hope the "Nuclear lazer pointer" isn't being replaced by the giant neon nuclear signs they show in the video. Half the fun of nukes in SC was trying to find that damn little red dot after hearing "Nuclear Launch Detected"

 

For extra sneakiness, you target the Red player with your nukes. The little red dot is even harder to find when everything around it is red also.

Sawyer has a point... Blizzard's games will run on anything, and that is a major benefit... I may even go as far as to state they're a casual games company to some certain extent.

Sawyer has a point... Blizzard's games will run on anything, and that is a major benefit... I may even go as far as to state they're a casual games company to some certain extent.

One of many reasons why most Blizzard games kick ass.

I don't need pc-eating graphics, but I am a sucker for style, and I don't like that art style.

 

That said, I agree that Blizzard's ability to make fun, addictive games that don't require a beefed up, souped up pc is definitely one of their biggest success features. From my limited tech-standpoint, their MP hosting is another one, imo. I've played many games that might've had a bigger or longer lasting following if their MP aspect/access hadn't been so limited/terrible.

The games need to have good frame rates on most machines for something like a RTS, especially multliplayer.

How did I not know about this?

 

Should be a lively bout of ass kickery. I'm not much for RTS's (which is pretty much heresy at this forum), but Starcraft was always was fun to play to kill time.

Edited May 23, 200718 yr by Draken

I'm not much for RTS's (which is pretty much heresy at this forum)

Not as much as you might think. It's much more difficult in places where they don't take games seriously.

It's much more difficult in places where they don't take games seriously.

 

You mean the adult world?

It's much more difficult in places where they don't take games seriously.

 

You mean the adult world?

/shudder

The games need to have good frame rates on most machines for something like a RTS, especially multliplayer.

I remember how Majesty's huge size maps, with their constantly monster-spawning den-points, on single-player could lag up your machine some if you didn't have the hardware - but the rest of the map sizes were fine, even with max units/monster and such.

 

Did SC have big MP maps, generally? I never got very far in the game ... and never tried it on-line. Have no idea.

It's much more difficult in places where they don't take games seriously.

 

You mean the adult world?

Most adults play more games than they are even conscious of ...

I don't know, it seems Blizz is pimping up their models with this game... you might need better comps than usual. Ah well, guess I'll just play it in 640x480 resolution...

 

 

Well, at least they didn't do something as low poly as Warcraft 3... Seriously, if you've ever tried texturing those damn horrible UV wraps, you would know... /shuddering

In their defence, they were learning as they went as it was their first 3D Game.

Surely they would have done alot of research first?