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Helloween · Local time: May 18, 2007, 03:02 PM

Warcraft 3 and WoW (are) pissed/ing me off. I found Warcraft 3 to be almost unplayable, and i played a while on my friend's WoW account, and it was just battlenet all over again. Those losers, depicted in Deni's post who spend their entire lives on the game and turn into the kinds of people i don't want to be with on or off the net.

Right now, the only way Blizzard can win me back is with a single player Starcraft experience.

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BlueMikey · Local time: May 18, 2007, 06:14 PM

1UP has a Starcraft 2 page up with a release date of 11/20/07.

http://www.1up.com/do/gameOverview?cId=3159435

Still no official word from Blizzard though, so I wonder what prompted this.

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nazpyro · Local time: May 18, 2007, 06:25 PM

The new game announcement is expected to be made at 4AM EST. I'll be up til then... most likely playing Starcraft. :3

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Solis · Local time: May 18, 2007, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by BlueMikey

1UP has a Starcraft 2 page up with a release date of 11/20/07.

http://www.1up.com/do/gameOverview?cId=3159435

Still no official word from Blizzard though, so I wonder what prompted this.

Quote:

LATEST UPDATES: StarCraft 2

Number of Players: Massively Multiplayer

Well, that would be a twist...guess we'll find out in...uhh, how many hours from now until 4AM EST?

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BlueMikey · Local time: May 18, 2007, 07:55 PM

Haha, MMORTS.

Everyone just runs around with their little armies doing quests.

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YeOldeButchere · May 18, 2007, 10:09 PM

OR you actually conquer an entire planet in the name of the swarm, which would be pretty damn fun if done correctly...

In any case, if it's Starcraft and it's a RTS, I should be happy.

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SouthJag · Local time: May 18, 2007, 11:28 PM

Originally Posted by YeOldeButchere

In any case, if it's Starcraft and it's a RTS, I should be happy.

QFT. I'd really just like to see a true sequel to the original Starcraft. New units, a new story, maybe something like Warcraft III's hero system, all combined with the near-perfect gameplay of the original game. That'd be sweet.

Speaking of Blizzard's RTSs though, all this talk makes me wonder "if/when/how" about Warcraft IV.

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Guru · Local time: May 19, 2007, 12:53 AM

MonkeyKing... I think you're a bit off-base when you say that WoW is only successful because of battle.net. I know dozens of people who never even played a single computer game before they played WoW, and that's just my little social-sphere in the huge population of people that play. WoW is a game that transcends the conventional norm for gamers. It attracts casual players who haven't played a game in their life, hardcore gamers and everyone in between. That's where Blizzard found their success, and they're making millions of dollars from it.

I do agree, though, that it would be somewhat foolish for them to make a Starcraft MMO in exactly the same vein as WoW. If the game followed exactly the same leveling system, exactly the same play system, and offerend nothing new aside from a new story and a new environment, it would be means for many players to quit WoW and opt only for the Starcraft MMO.

But that's where I think Blizzard is going to try and change things up. I don't think they're going to make the Starcraft MMO an exact clone of WoW. I think they're going to shoot to make it different enough that they can potentially attract people to subscribe to both of their hugely successful online games (because you know no matter how the Starcraft game turns out, people are going to flock to it in droves). I can guarantee you that that is one of their primary goals, especially when you consider the board room meetings the lead developers from Blizzard are having with the Vivendi executives.

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arch_slayer · Local time: May 18, 2007, 10:21 PM

Starcraft 2 officially announced! It's an RTS.

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Cheezeman3000 · Local time: May 18, 2007, 11:29 PM

ARE YOU F'ING KIDDING ME? SOURCE, NOW.

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Kairi Li · Local time: May 18, 2007, 10:44 PM

http://pc.ign.com/articles/788/788627p1.html

Here ya go.

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dagget · 01:51 AM

3:00 - FMV sequence in a spaceship - looks Terran - zooming in on a metal door - door opening - reveals a guy with a cigar in chains - prisoner - door shuts behind him - there's so much bass the room is shaking - guy steps into some kind of metallic devicce - legs are strapped in - guy rising toward ceiling - Korean text on screen got people very excited - another part of the machine is dropping metal arms on him - machine whirring - applying armor to his torso - extremly detailed visuals here - now guy is strapping on gloves - armor is molding together - seems like a Terran marine - rockets turn on - zerg now onscreen - Marine delivers a line - StarCraft 2 officially announced.

http://tvpot.daum.net/clip/ClipView....al&lu=l_head_1

Opening FMV. It's being hit HARD

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JazzFlight · May 19, 2007, 01:50 AM

I just want to see how the gameplay looks.

Essentially, have they gone high-end 3D or what?
(I would have loved high-res 2D sprites, but I'll take what I can get...)

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Cheezeman3000 · Local time: May 18, 2007, 11:51 PM

Was anyone really expecting anything different?

Now I gotta see screenshots...

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Free.User · Local time: May 18, 2007, 10:51 PM

I just came. This announcement is 8 years overdue.

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JazzFlight · May 19, 2007, 01:54 AM

Looks like 3D, but hard to make out too much else, really.

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PiccoloNamek · Local time: May 18, 2007, 11:54 PM

Starcraft II? Oh my God. I just came in my pants a little. I might have to build a new PC just for this.

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Cheezeman3000 · Local time: May 18, 2007, 11:57 PM

Ok if the game looks ANYTHING like those blurry screenshots, we've got something to seriously look forward to.

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Yggdrasil · Local time: May 18, 2007, 10:57 PM

I'm just glad its now finally in stone that Starcraft 2 is under development. Then again for the most part a lot of people had already seen it coming.

I was speaking idiomatically.

JazzFlight · May 19, 2007, 01:59 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUXoekeDIW8

YouTube link for the CG intro.

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Hantei · Local time: May 19, 2007, 12:59 AM

OMFG! I just heard the news too! YES!!! Thanks for the pics and vids guys!!! I knew it had to be StarCraft 2, especially since they were having the event in Seoul.

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YeOldeButchere · May 19, 2007, 01:59 AM

At long last! Lord Cthulhu be praised!

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Free.User · Local time: May 18, 2007, 11:03 PM

Now watch SCII get delayed and eventually abandoned.

:blizzardmode:

Jam it back in, in the dark.

BlueMikey · Local time: May 19, 2007, 12:06 AM

It's pretty cool to watch that video and hear how the crowd reacts.

I wanna know what the Korean text is that makes everyone go nuts the first time.

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BlueMikey · 02:14 AM

Images from IGN.

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/imgs_1.html

How ya doing, buddy?