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

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• spy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still out of ideas for new games then.

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• Janx@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • decolo@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh, Ghost 2.x.

  Hopefully it goes just as well as the original Ghost.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is a confusing game series for sure.

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• vrek@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That sort of happens a lot though

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    • vrek@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Sina@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • vrek@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But totally different from the original movie

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• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • kyTdKZx9PtDQ9e56u06@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And Warcraft was meant to be Warhammer Fantasy!

      but the similarities are sort of obvious Absolutely, watch the trailer for this new game and tell me it couldn’t be a Space Marine game

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It feels pretty reductive to say something doesn’t have original ideas. Pretty much every story has been told in one way or another at this point in history, especially if we get really reductive about it. It doesn’t mean things can’t be interesting or unique.

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    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Its Warhammer 10k and it feels like it.

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  • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is it 3rd person? I assumed 1st.

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    • Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Man. Hyped and then apprehensive. If they went with a Helldivers style gameplay I’d be OK with it. But I was hoping for an RTS. Oh well.

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• normalentrance@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bummer. Had me in the first half. I

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• remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good thing I didn’t get my hopes up.

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That dominion trailer hits pretty hard though

  Blizzard never skimps on cinematic storytelling

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  • Newsteinleo@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah but, the Blizzard of old is gone, it’s now a shell of it’s former self.

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    • its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      True. I do wonder if there’s a bit of a second wind after getting out from under EA. Not the same as the Blizzard of the 90s and early 00s, but something a bit refreshing at least.

      Either way, I’m thankful a staple of joy in my childhood didn’t meet the EA executioner. RIP Westwood, Bioware, et al.

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• danielhanrahantng@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This looks like they are reviving starcraft ghost from cancelation, is this starcraft ghost or no.

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• mohab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am reviving Quake as a fighting game.

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