Starcraft: Ghost Not Cancelled, Remains On Hold

[Chad Brumfield]

I'm pretty sure that things like Starcraft: Ghost are kept locked up in Blizzard's Applied Sciences Division.

 

[ShirowShirow]

JUST LET ME PLAY THE DAMN GAME ALREADY

I DON'T CARE WHAT GEN THE GRAPHICS LOOK LIKE

JUST LET ME PLAY IT

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!

Seriously, Metal Arms: Glitch in the System was awesome.

 

[ArcossG]

It'll probably have always on DRM and microtransactions so why bother

Not to mention that Blzzard is incapable of making gameplay advancements anymore

2) Blizzard isn't about advancement, they never have been, they're about refinement and polishing to a mirror shine. Starcraft defined the RTS genre, but it didn't really do anything that hadn't been seen before. WoW did the same, perfecting (for the time) a genre that was an absolute mess. Diablo was the very apex of the hack-and-slash dungeon crawler, to the point that any other game in the genre was (and often still is) referred to as a Diablo clone.

Every game Blizzard made up until 2004 was a huge step forward for it's genre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdBtkZJSmd4&list=ELoXHYDisTeLc

Starcraft 2 on the other hand was an exact copy of the first one

Diablo 3 was a actually step backwards from the Diablo 2 and I am not just talking about the auction house
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I22Ivb8ELzQ

Blizzard is just milking nostalgia now and sadly it's working very well for them, I honestly have no idea why development times are so long

 

[Atmos Duality]

Right. And someday, Ted Williams will once again walk the Earth.

 

[templar1138a]

I was beaten to it, but oh well:

Starcraft: Ghost will be released a week after Half Life 3.

 

[nomaner]

All I hear is this: http://youtu.be/Sh8mNjeuyV4

 

[Zigot66]

It'll probably have always on DRM and microtransactions so why bother

Not to mention that Blzzard is incapable of making gameplay advancements anymore

2) Blizzard isn't about advancement, they never have been, they're about refinement and polishing to a mirror shine. Starcraft defined the RTS genre, but it didn't really do anything that hadn't been seen before. WoW did the same, perfecting (for the time) a genre that was an absolute mess. Diablo was the very apex of the hack-and-slash dungeon crawler, to the point that any other game in the genre was (and often still is) referred to as a Diablo clone.

Every game Blizzard made up until 2004 was a huge step forward for it's genre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdBtkZJSmd4&list=ELoXHYDisTeLc

Starcraft 2 on the other hand was an exact copy of the first one

Diablo 3 was a actually step backwards from the Diablo 2 and I am not just talking about the auction house
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I22Ivb8ELzQ

Blizzard is just milking nostalgia now and sadly it's working very well for them, I honestly have no idea why development times are so long

I would argue that Blizzard's early games (not counting console games, just to be clear) were only big steps for their genres because they took normally niche games and made them popular with a much broader audience. This trend held from Warcraft 2 (1995) to World of Warcraft (2004). Beyond that though, their success has been their undoing, Starcraft can't change because the most popular e-sport has built up around it, WoW is the consistent moneyspinner that allows them to continue, and their attempts to improve on Diablo produced a game that was, as you said (and I agree), not as good as its predecessor.

All that being said, I also believe that people are a bit unfair to Blizzard, they produced great games in the past, but we have magnified them through nostalgia, and we complain that their new stuff isn't meeting our standards. If anyone else had released Diablo 3 or Starcraft 2 we would have praised them for it, not held it against them.

 

[Sneezeguard]

Starcraft ghost the game that died several years ago but refuses to accept it and move on and occasionally haunts us.

A fitting name indeed.

 

[fwiffo]

A blizzard game isn't news until at least a year after release. This is when the "blizzard polish" kicks in, not when its shipped. So let me know 1 or 2 years after ghost gets released...then I'll be excited.

 

[V da Mighty Taco]

Starcraft ghost the game that died several years ago but refuses to accept it and move on and occasionally haunts us.

A fitting name indeed.

Heh, reminds me of Star Wars: Battlefront 3. Isn't that... *snif* funny. *runs off crying*

 

[mad825]

So in translation: we want another COD with a starcraft skin? Doesn't really matter, it will sell on the name alone.