Bill Roper of Blizzard - Part One Comments by Gestalt

Hooray yet another rts
can hardly wait

Cynic. :p

zug zug.

Yeah but this is Warcraft and it's from Blizzard. For anyone who ever got into the originals and Starcraft they will know that they were very well structured and balanced games.

I'm definitely looking forward to this - it will make a nice change from all the FPS games I've playing lately. Medal Of Honour is good and it's great online but there's only so many times that you can play it before you need a change.

Yeah ok it's warcraft and I loved warcraft II.
But I doubt that my P3 900 with gforce 2 mx will be able to run this.

Kinda stupid that it has to be in 3D isn't it ?
The best rts games still are 2D games.
Handeling the camera in rts games is a bitch most of the time.

Kinda stupid that it has to be in 3D isn't it ?
The best rts games still are 2D games.
Handeling the camera in rts games is a bitch most of the time.

Ground Control - Best RTS ever. Nuff said.

Go Sweden! :)

I think the self destructing units were the Dwarven demo team. D'ya like haggis? or something like that.

"huh, what was that for?"
He mentioned Ground Control, Swedish game.

Great game from a great country.

The RPG elements they're grafting onto the game are whta im really looking foward to. Coupled with blizzard's humour and immense budget we should get a good game, in the end.

WC3. The Mac users will be happy then ;-)

Quite looking forward to this, any Blizzard stuff is top of my list of "must haves"

But I doubt that my P3 900 with gforce 2 mx will be able to run this.

You reckon? This would piss me off in no small measure. Seems only yesterday I forked out a very large sum of money for this P3 600 with TNT2. :( This is one train that I'm getting off. I'm getting me a console for 200 notes and changing my focus, and anyway I have plenty of old games for my PC that I've not finished. There comes a point when you have to stop throwing money at the PC gaming habit... Per hour of gameplay I've actually enjoyed I honestly think I'd have had more value for money sniffing coke off the arses of high class prostitutes...

Blizzard are the mutts nuts.

Generals video

Huh?? Where? Gimme!

Plenty of excellent budget games out there Otto.

I haven't bought a full-price game for months.

You're absolutely right, & this is the one big advantage of the PC, but it's still depressing to think that your nearly new system won't run the latest games (which will be out on budget in 6 months or so...)

He means the generals video from the new C&C game.
Say otto i donnow what the minimum specs for WC3 are, and I think it depends on how high you set the video settings, but I always want to play with everything set to max in 1024 x 768 in 32 bit color.
And i donb't think my pc will be enough for that.
Sure you can turn the resolution down, but I noticed that you lose your strategic overview when you do that.

"I honestly think I'd have had more value for money sniffing coke off the arses of high class prostitutes..."
My last months bills where about the same for the two.

Seems only yesterday I forked out a very large sum of money for this P3 600 with TNT2.

You either have an extremely messed up sense of time, or you really were ripped off.

LOL Moonie, I was thinking the same thing, but didn't dare say anything, 'cuz I thought I might hurt otto's feelings. :D

Yeah well for you kids two years ago seems like an eternity but for someone my age it really does feel like I only just took it out of its box...

otto and feZZ - I've got a p3 450 voodoo 3 right now and I can run almost all new games on it, FPS and so on, so I doubt a RTS on a faster computer will matter, maybe some slow down, but not too bad. And if they don't allow computers with under 1ghz proccessors to play the game then I doubt the publisher will be too pleased. Saying all this, I'm getting my new pc delivered tommorow so no problems for me. :D

"Saying all this, I'm getting my new pc delivered tommorow"

LOL! So why are you upgrading? ;)

"this is going to be THE BEST thing to come out of Blizzard since the Diablo II expansion"

Er .. they haven't released anything since the Diablo II expansion pack, so that shouldn't be hard. ;)

Dammit with the cell shading. Should've stuck to the gritty unit art from StarCraft. Oh god, if they ever do a sequel to SC they'd better not louse it up or someone will crash a bloody harrier on 'em!

Peej

Dammit with the cell shading

What cell shading? Use of primary colours is not cell shading.

OK point taken but it still looks cartoony.

Peej

Sure, but aren't all Warcraft games a bit cartoony? Including the never released Warcraft Adventures and the upcoming MMRPG.

The colour-palette always was a tad happy.

SWEDEN SUX

Care to qualify this? Or are you just finnish or something? (Referring to the game yesterday, for those who aren't with it.)

"If it weren't for the US, the Europeans wouldn't be here"

Yeah, we'd all be speaking Russian. :p

GIVE IT A REST.

GOD BLESS THE USA! (AND NEW JERSEY)

Is New Jersey not in the USA any more?

No, didn't you hear? They seceded last week so that they could vote through a law to allow hillbillies to marry their sisters.

>:p

They need a law for that? ;-)

with our army about 1/5 or so the size of the English army with bad training and equipment, beat the English army, at that time the best in the world

Interesting how you decide to opt out of presenting all the info on that one, such as:

1) Our troops there were pathetic in size and not very well trained.

2) You were on home ground.

3) France supplied all your weapons (without them there would be no USA, so it is kind of ironic that they hate you so much :) )

4) Britain really didn't give a major toss as to what happened, it was too busy dealing with the French.

You honestly believe that if we really wanted to, we couldn't have crushed the terrorists (yes, I use that term, because they were terrorists in that day and I'm also making a political statement here as to the US's current policy around the world :) )?

I thought the US labelling Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism was rather ironic as well, given that the CIA have been trying to knock off Cuba's leader for the last thirty years. ;) *cough* Bay Of Pigs *ahem*

During the war, the British sent thousands of troops from England to America, well equipped, trained, and rested.

Using your American history books are you? :)

Yes Britain sent a few troops, but they weren't well equipped at all. It was rather a half-arsed job.

One reason why the US hates him is that he told the US that he would make Cuba's government a Democracy, yet, he instead made it Communist. Being so close to America, he is considered dangerous.

Hahaha. Don't make me laugh. Do you know anything about Cuba or that which goes on outside your borders? The reason the US dislikes Castro is because it took away all the American industry operating there. It had nothing to do with "democracy" (which you're a) not a very good example of anyway and b) have a habit of destroying).

But I must applaud Britain for sending troops to help us out. Not that we could have gotten the job done ourselves, though.

Well applaud alone, because many of us here in the UK want our troops back. I'm certainly not going to help you create a bigger mess.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Am I the only one who finds this funny? The "terrorists" (although history may recall them as freedom fighters, who knows?) scream "Praise be to Allah!" and the muppets opposite them yell back "God Bless America!". lol. You two deserve one another. :)

"Being so close to America, he is considered dangerous"

Fidel Castro? Dangerous? Maybe if the Russians had managed to install nukes there back in the 60's, but what's he going to do to America today, invade you with a bunch of poorly trained soldiers armed with AK-47s using a fleet of rubber dinghies and fishing boats? Or do you think he's somehow going to subvert America with package holidays and cheap cigars and turn you into a communist dictatorship if you open up your borders with Cuba?

What I enjoyed was reading Bush's response to Carter suggesting the embargo should be lifted. Bush claimed that one of the reasons it should be maintained is because Castro is violating human rights.

Sure there are human rights issues on the island, but its not [just] in Castro's territory. :)

Is there a union for these guys? Do they come here on some sort of a crusade? What vile evil do they spawn from?

Wait...don't tell me. (and don't mention the war).

C'mon, it's Warcraft. Quite possibly THE defining RTS of the genre, next to Starcraft of course. Blizzard have proven themselves time and again in this field and I, for one, am on tenterhooks waiting for this game to be released.