Blizz exec hints at Starcraft 2 News
PC News by Tom Bramwell
One of Blizzard's gold-encrusted execs has said that he "hopes" there will be another StarCraft game in the near future.
"As a Starcraft player I can tell you that I hope it wouldn't go a decade - we launched Starcraft in '98 - I hope it wouldn't go a decade before we stand here and celebrate the next Starcraft together," Itzik Ben Bassat told crowds gathered at World of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade's official launch event in London last night.
"Don't forget that we have two more franchises that we love - Diablo and Starcraft," Bassat had declared.
"We haven't forgotten that we have these two franchises, and what I can tell you is that I look forward to stand here in a few years, or whenever it's going to be, and celebrate with you the launch of the next Starcraft or the next Diablo."
According to our people on the ground, the Blizzard PRs "looked a bit uncomfortable" around this point. So that's welcome to the Internet the hard way, really.
Whether all that means Bassat knows something that we don't though, or whether he's just teasing or speculating, is impossible to say - but Blizzard is notoriously secret and perfectionist about its work, and it wouldn't be a massive surprise to discover a sequel lurking in development somewhere.
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Have_to_Speak_Up
16/01/07 @ 09:13
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The Blizzard PR look permanently nervous anyway... they have those collars fitted like in Battle Royale. If anyone mentions anything concrete about an un-announced game... boom!
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Eighthours
16/01/07 @ 09:16
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Was Ghost ever properly canned? I saw a newer preview for it in Edge only a few months ago...
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I've been waiting for many years for SC2, but I feel now that the moment is lost.
I've never felt 3D RTSs really make for good games (excluding the Total War series). In the hidden sequence in WC3 where you can see Zergs as they would look in the WC3 engine, I honestly thought "God, I hope they don't do that". An isometric RTS would never sell, though; so they'll have to do 3D - but I don't hold any high hopes that they'll find a decent way of doing that. Also, I can't even imagine what you'd do to improve or extend SC. The feel, control, and balance of the game was so good - that's why it has endured as a favourite of many RTS fans (myself included). |
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An isometric RTS would never sell, though; so they'll have to do 3D
3D and an isometric perspective aren't mutually exclusive. Age of Empires 3 or Rise of Legends (or Titan Quest, to name an example form another genre) all look gorgeous, and play as well as any isometric game due to the mostly fixed cameras.
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I don't think they really need to speculate tbh. With all the cash they're raking in, and the worldwide popularity of both franchises they could make a Starcraft or Diablo platformer and it'd likely sell amazing.
They need to blow their millions somewhere and it ain't all going on WoW patches and upkeep, that's for sure. |
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InfiniteFury
16/01/07 @ 10:34
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There's an actualy possibility however slender that I would actually and very physically blow my wad if they annonuced World of Starcraft.
I mean an old-school Starcraft would be awesome but, gah, I dare not even think it for fear of breaking my trousers. |
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NthSimulachum
16/01/07 @ 11:05
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WOS?
How would that even work? Mining Quest: Hello there, GAYLESBOSTEN, We Require More Vespene Gas. Goal: 0/1000 Vespene Gas Kill three critters. |
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About fucking time. I mean really. Hurry the fucking fuck up!
Mixed feelings though. Although I've been after more Starcraft since... well since SC Brood Wars, I don't know if I want Starcraft to be in proper 3D. Or a goddamn MMO or something. A lot of hardcore Starcraft fans including myself will be watching for announcements very closely! Don't ruin the game, please. |
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D3 was kinda confirmed a while back I recall... then went back under wraps with an unknown source saying it had to go back to the drawing board. Wouldnt surprise me if that was true as EG quite rightly pointed out they are perfectionists.
However... bring on some new stuff Blizzard only because I miss the Blizzard logo... to me that produces the *great film tingle* only for games... Only Valve manage to get that same reaction. |
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@UncleLou - True, I was being lazy and using 3D to describe a complete free viewing system a la WarCraft 3.
I generally find being forced to move the camera in every axis in order to control troops makes RTSs like WC and SC much harder and less appealing. It works well enough in the Total War series because these are truly tactical RTSs where the action is much more... life-like (if you'll let me have that). A 3D-rendered fixed-camera RTS might work; but what would that add to the series other than a new coat of paint? (Which isn't a bad thing, I suppose.) I can't think of much that could be improved on the original. |
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Yey, unofficial anouncement of Starcraft 2. Now all we need to wait if for another year for an official anouncement, then another year for first screenshot, then another year for a movie, then another year for beta, and another year for polishing and its here.
Yepeee for us, unless Iran developes nuclear warheads by that thime and start doing fallout on every non muslim. sp. 2D pixelgraphic would be better for me also
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Poorandugly
16/01/07 @ 19:05
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I'd like to see Blizzard attempt a story driven single-player rpg. The cut scenes in diablo II still makes the hair on my fore arms stand up.
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