Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait

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• Janx@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh? I’m releasing Monopoly as a survival horror game. It’ll be just as good and meaningful…

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  • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s already a survival horror game with the wrong people.

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    • decolo@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well the original Landlords Game was about the horror of surviving the whims of landlords…. (kinda, if you squint)

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  That dominion trailer hits pretty hard though

  Blizzard never skimps on cinematic storytelling

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• spy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Still out of ideas for new games then.

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• vrek@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hate when they remake classic games as a totally different genre. Imagine if they did that in other media… “We are making a new breakfast club movie… It will be a space opera!”… “everyone loved hit me baby one more time by Britney Spears, we are remaking it as a mumble rap”… “the taming of the shrew by William Shakespeare was successful, what if we made as an animated TV show like Rick and morty?”

  I’m all for remaking starcraft but keep it as an rts with updated graphics and modern features.

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  • Sina@beehaw.org ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    “We are making a new breakfast club movie… It will be a space opera!”

    I would love to watch that actually …

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  • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the taming of the shrew by William Shakespeare was successful, what if we made as an animated TV show like Rick and morty.

    I hate to be the guy, but Simpsons at their peak retold a number of classics including Lord of the Flies and Hamlet.

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  • tuckerm@feddit.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m OK with it because some of them have been good, like the Metroid first-person shooter games. (I haven’t played them, but I know that people liked them.)

    I think one of the reasons it doesn’t work well with movies is that changing the genre of a movie also changes its tone. But with games, the gameplay genre is different from the narrative genre. You can make a strategy game, platformer, or shooter with the same tone, and so it stays “true” to the original setting, and it makes sense as being in the same fictional universe.

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  • missingno@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I miss the days when development cycles were short enough that spinoffs could be released alongside main series games without feeling like one was detracting from the other. I miss the days when every big IP had a goofy and experimental straight-to-handheld companion piece.

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  • xylol@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That sort of happens a lot though

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    • vrek@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not nearly as much as in gaming. It does I music a lot but mostly small productions like a single person making a blue grass cover of a metal song, not here’s 100 million budget and a full nationwide ad campaign.

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• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh, Ghost 2.x.

  Hopefully it goes just as well as the original Ghost.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This one will actually get released, but it will suck major donkey dick.

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is a confusing game series for sure.

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• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I dont think turning StarCraft into Destiny is a good idea. But then again StarCraft has never had any original ideas in the IP.

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  • kyTdKZx9PtDQ9e56u06@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    StarCraft was supposed to be a Warhammer 40k game if memory serves me. But GW said nah, and so blizzard made StarCraft. Old story, could be bullshit, but the similarities are sort of obvious.

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  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To be completely fair, Starcraft: Ghost was originally teased in 2002. Obviously a different game, but they did sow the seeds for a starcraft IP shooter long before Destiny.

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    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To be totally completely fair that game was canceled and is over 20 years old. Whatever seeds it planted are scarce by now at best.

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  • VivianRixia@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When they said open world shooter, I was thinking more Far Cry than Destiny, but of course this being Blizzard they will pick the option that tries to monetize it the most.

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    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I only thought Destiny because StarCraft is just a hodgepodge of SciFi shit from other IPs. So I thought of the biggest name “open world” SciFi shooter that recently existed and I would say Destiny is it unfortunately.

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    • Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The dude who was on stage during the announcement, Dan Hay, was apparently a producer on all the FarCry games since 3, so that tracks, but as you said, how can they extract a billion dollars from that.

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  • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it live service? I’ve only heard open world. More Just Cause than Destiny.

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    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is it 3rd person? I assumed 1st.

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    • Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Far cry maybe would’ve been a better example than just cause, but that’s the issue with classifying it as “open world shooter”. It could be Far Cry, it could be Destiny, it could be anything between. It could even be Just Cause because we don’t even know if it’s first or third person.

      The whole announcement is a nothing burger.

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• ThunderComplex@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If I can’t spend $100_000 to win in this game im not interested anyway

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