In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last several years, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
is coming out this week. This will be the biggest PC game release of 2010 and one of the world’s most important games. I’m pretty sure the release is a national holiday in South Korea. On consoles, hardcore fighters have a treat in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
. Last but not least is Arc Rise Fantasia
for Wii. These are the only three releases that I thought would interest you. I was going to include Clash of the Titans as a joke…but it’s not that funny.
Any of you picking up new games this week? Are you attending any midnight StarCraft launches?
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I'm activating SC2 tomorrow at noon. I've already pulled the client down last week. Oddly enough, I doubt I play it online. I'm much more interested in the story and SC lore.
It's interesting, but not too surprising, that this isn't a bigger deal here. SC2 is a HUGE release! Most of the stories here and most of the interest is geared towards consoles, which is why I'm not surprised.
@BSU
Define structured.
@Ray
I cannot wait for this game lol
@Smartguy
I never played Red Alert much because I always like AoE better. But when I did play I remembered more mission oriented game play. I would be building things only in order to complete a specific task. Ex) build a small army big enough to defeat the area ahead of me without killing the person I was trying to save. Things of that nature. That structure just didn't appeal to me or seem fitting for this kind of game style. I wanted freedom to dominate my opponents and build my nations on their bloodied land.
@BSU
I imagine this game will combine classic SC gameplay and rpg elements from Warcraft 3. Great storytelling will influence the single player. I can only say that this is the only dev that has never released a bad game. Safe purchase.
*crawls out from under his rock*
That game comes out this week?
I'm not even joking XD
@Smartguy
Just because, I wikied Blizzard's games. In the last 15 years, Blizzard has not released a game not called Warcraft, Starcraft, or Diablo.
P.S. They made a LoTR game O_o?
@Sandrock
Those franchises are solid and awesome. No sense in releasing garbage every year right? I have always gotten more than my money's worth with them.
They are also working on a new IP though. Should be some more info at this year's blizzcon. No, they did not make a LoTR game. They made "Lost Vikings" a long time ago though.
I have always wanted to play these games, but I don’t know that my laptop could handle the added pressure of a game with everything else that I normally keep running on here, which really isn’t intensive, there is just a lot of if. Right now for instance I have four different windows on two different web browsers all with plenty of different things up on them. The smallest window only has 5 tabs open. Plus other programs.
Out of curiosity, is the game more open ended like Age of Empires? Or structured like Red Alert?
@Sandrock323 Also keep in mind that Blizzard follows a very deliberate development schedule. It doesn't rush products to market.
@Mr. Padilla;
Neither does 3D Realms.
Zing!
-M
@Ray
True, but for someone who says they don't through away any of their prototypes, they sure have a lot of similar games. Quality is always good to focus on though, so that's not really a knock to them. They have their talent and they stick to it.
@sandrock
Kinda like Valve. I don't think they could excell at anything other than an FPS. But stick to what you do best. Blizz makes highly immersive and fun games that tell great stories. Not a bad thing
@smartguy
I agree, I would be a little worried about a Valve game that was not a FPS. However, I would probably try it out pretty eagerly.
Forgot to mention that SC2 was waiting for me at home after I got back from super secret project. After watching Raw, I was too tired to play. Ha!
@Ray
I already activated mine at lunch and did an offline skirmish. So engrossing!