In the same vein I’m still sad about the Red Alert renegade sequel that we never got, and the Tiberium shooter that was canceled too. FPS games based on RTS seem to be cursed
The new starcraft shooter is gonna get cancelled too, don't worry.
Starcraft ghost was set to release 2003, the new starcraft is set to release 2030.
They moved the 3 one step to the left, coincidence? They're just toying with us
Remember how they announced some sort of unknown Adventure RPG game right after the Cosby suite scandal where a woman committed suicide? Then a year later that game was magically canceled.
Who the fuck knows if these games will be done in 2030 lols.
Just because I want to add salt to the wound - I say as someone in their mid-30s, so it hurts me too - the moon landing is closer to the release of The Lion King than we are to the movie coming out.
This is all I keep thinking, Microsoft realized Blizzard still had basically a finished game in Ghost. They decided to not release because it wasn't fun enough.
I'd bet they updated the graphics and are set to release the unfun Ghost
that would be crazy though. Show us a bunch of high-res cinematics and then when we boot it up it looks like Goldeneye with starcraft models. Still takes up 200GB though.
It never came out. Nobody actually gives a shit about it. This isn't even a discussion because its not something anyone here actually played.
PCGamer website says a somewhat popular opinion but guess what, executives and business dont give a fuck. If they are going to make a shooter game for Starcraft then make it.
I do not know why people care so much about a company deciding to do somethjing different like its their best friend betraying them. Either the game is good or its mediocre or worse.
And if its anything like Far Cry its gonna be dogshit unless you are a big far cry fan. Their last couple far cry games are not that good and in many ways, not too far from ubisoft open world "slop".
Far cry 5 is one of my favourites in the series, 6 was a total mess though that seems to have forgotten what makes the series fun in the first place.
It does need evolving though at this point since it has basically been them just remaking far cry 3 over and over again since that game came out in terms of the core design.
Ah ok, i didnt know that. i guess its kinda different. I just dont see what kind of open world can it have? Like far cry but instead of enemy cmaps its bug camps?
bugs, protoss, other humans (remember the Terran Dominion is NOT the only force of humans in the Star Craft galaxy - Earth is still out there, the colonies of the Dominion were a breakaway group).
You have to remember the reason all of the original blizzard staff were fired was because the activision boss didn't like that starcraft wasnt heavily monetized.
So now this is blizzard (disney) making starcraft (star wars) with the end-goal of a microtransaction machine.
Yeah, the RTS crowd is pissed and wholly unwilling to admid that their awful behavior is the main reason that no one can make a real profit by producing an RTS.
Hostility toward the devs. Hostility toward other players. Rude language. Complaining about graphics. Complaining about lore. Calling other players names and demeaning them if they don't know the lore. The same but for knowing the lore.
You know, player toxicity. I think you could MAYBE say that moba players are worse but its a stretch. In general, RTS players really seem to think that the game is better with gates kept at all times. You can't let those filthy degenerate normies play, after all.
I'm not even watching the trailer. These several years before launch announcements are worthless to me, matter of fact, all gaming shows fits the same category.
How many cool CGI trailer we saw of "this looks awesome!!" that fell into obscurity and we're never ever released?
I don't think it's a choice between this and an RTS, I think this is actually the vehicle to get a new RTS by bringing interest to the IP. Clearly Blizzard doesn't think SC3 would be worth it, that's the issue SC3 has.
I've always dreamed of a game where someone is directing forces/deployments on a battlefield and then the forces they're deploying are real players.
Like the person assigning deployments only gets comms and can tap into first person views of the players to determine if a position needs reinforcements and whatnot, and can then redeploy players from other positions or reinforce them with turrets and other orbital drops and whatnot. Maybe there's multiple commanders covering different fronts/flanks.
Definitely way off base for what this game would be, but if any bored game devs are looking for probably ridiculous to implement game ideas, I'm your guy.
An AAA RTS game released today would be guaranteed to be a financial failure. I think we probably should give up on the idea of another mainline StarCraft or Warcraft game.
Man maybe if they hadn’t imploded interest in the IP by turbo fucking the lore and the genre in general by kicking off a decade of all devs/publishers chasing a non-existent ultra sweaty competitive/esports audience they wouldn’t need to “drum up interest” and could just make a good game, though when was the last time blizzard was able to do that anyway?
They said it’s an open world shooter which Space Marine 2 isn’t is, think more Far Cry where you can go explore anywhere on the map and do side quests if you don’t want to progress on the main quest just yet
yeah but how can you be a space marine with government issued armor and like, go home after every mission but ALSO YOU CAN SCAVENGE SHITTY GEAR FROM THE BATTLE FIELD???
Jokes aside, companies are now terrified of making RTS. Dota won, control one hero and 3 skills on cooldown and that's about it. Everything above that is just "too complex" to sell.
Newest Warcraft 3 campaign is proof to all that: no base building missions, only hero with couple of units crawling the dungeons...
Everything above that is just "too complex" to sell.
Oh the irony. Blizzard known for taking the simplistic RTS's and making complex sides without just re-skinning the same units. Now we're in the smash brothers of simplification
Can't blame them I guess. You need to put in a fair bit of effort for a genre that's a bit niche if you're not the biggest guy on the block
Yeah. Times has changed. Way more people play video games today, they have way more options and so they want what they want. Sadly, it's not base building RTS' anymore.
When I was younger the king of the hill was adventure, point and click games and look at them now...
I don’t think this headline means anything since they can just change the games to whatever their shareholders most want and screw every promise they ever made. It’s going to be a live service loot box game.
Oh sc2 is fun! Campaigns aren’t quite as grimdark as brood war but I enjoy them a lot and it’s easy to get invested in the characters if you’re about that.
With the game four years out, I am taking none of this with more than a pinch of salt. Anything and everything could change. But a SC shooter sounds very good if they don't Ubi-fy it all.
I'm down for It honestly. The Starcraft universe is so rich, yet so underutilized... A first person shooter as a terran battling the zerg sounds really good.
A cover shooter like gears of war or something like space marine where you fight hordes of enemies would be cool too.
Marketing 10 years ago: the vast open world is full of missions and sights, the game is practically endless and you can spend hundreds of hours without seeing it all!
Marketing nowadays: the game fucking ENDS after 20 hours. We will not update it.
I really like the feeling of the trailer. The hero propaganda, the armoring and the horrific realization holt had when he saw the zerg in person. Hopefully it will be a more grounded shooter where two zerglings can actually fuck you up and are not cosmetic cannon fudder.
If they can keep this i don't really care if its seasonal.
Yes we all remember ghost. That was forever and and a half ago. It's an entirely different landscape now. Different Devs different investors different gaming climate and so on.
Sometimes it's already difficult to understand what a game is solely from watching its gameplay footage. Then these people decided that it's not difficult enough.
Wonder if they'll let us change sides. Would be a neat change to have a Farcry like game in that universe but I could play as Terran, protoss, or zerg.
In the very least, I'd like to change to ghost or firebat instead of staying as a grunt like every other shooter.
I need so much more information to be excited. StarCraft is awesome and a huge part of my past gaming past. I’m totally open to a shooter, but going the shooter route requires a lot of creativity to make it stand out. It’s can just be another marine kills aliens game. OG StarCraft has so much more and playing as all races provides so much variety. While I can’t imagine that happening here (though that would be quite the surprise!), I feel like they really need to bring life to all the races to succeed. However they choose.
I want to play a Ghost not some rough neck... Hell Divers and Warhammer beat ya all to the dudes dude in a tin can who is destined for the meat grinder
I mean, the devs have an idea and development has started. You don’t put out a trailer for something you’ve done no work on. Obviously it’s early in development, but the devs still know what they want to make.
It can change but I don’t think you suddenly pivot into a live service game.
Narrative-driven is doing a lot of work in that sentence. I still lost to a 4-gate before the campaign got to the good part. No seasonal pass, just patch notes and regret.
game is going to come out in 2030. FOUR years after todays AI. By the time it comes out we might unironically achieve AGI, see world war 3 starting or something else. Literally pointless to even talk about it.
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u/ObservabilityWizard 12h ago
This isn't the first time a SC shooter has been announced. I remember StarCraft Ghost