Well there are rumours of the Terran campaign being about 30ish hours long with more than 30 missions which I find hard to believe since I don’t believe there’s a single RTS in existence that has a Singleplayer Story campaign that’s even close to half that long.
Damnit, fuck it all to shit… I already didn’t go out that much…
this game is going to consume us alll!
Look at fucking Z go http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41395.html … and yeah, I’d still nail the Queen of Blades
FUCK, I wanted to see Zeratul and the Queen of Blades fight so badly. Alright, so heroes better be like they were in the original SC. That’s my one sticking point, I can deal with using Jim Raynor just so long as he’s just a pumped up marine/vulture and not a leveling hero like WCIII. If Heroes get included into skirmishes I’ll be very annoyed and will probably be enough of a reason for me to just go back to SC.
I want to see Kerrigan die…the story is THAT good.
I want to get hype, but… I’m finding it hard. I feel as if it’s already been years since they announced… Going to be another couple years?
I am actually liking the sound of this, three full fledged games for each race with somewhere in the ball park of thirty missions per race is almost too good to be true. My guess is that the initial Terran game, being the first, will be around the typical PC game $49.99 with the others, being meaty expansions more or less, the typical Blizzard expansion price of $39.99. Perhaps $29.99 if we are lucky but I wouldn’t hold my breath, Blizzard (new) expansions have always been pricey compared to their other PC counter parts but being more of less full fledged games will only drive that up.
Still a pretty cool idea, a little pricey in the long run, but we are getting a lot more content than your typical RTS provides.
There are rumors, mind you just rumors that Blizzard is going to start a montly charge for SC 2 and D3 like they have on WoW.
I still giggle a little when I hear people go on about the story in the *craft games. Look at one and you have the story for the other. The characters in warcraft 3/wow were/are just palette swaps of characters from the starcraft universe. Thrall/Reynor, Kerrigan/Arthas/Sylvanas, The Cerebrates/ The Dread Lords, think about it.
The main issue for me isn’t about the story, but the fracturing of the starcraft community. Having three separate sc games and sc communities is going to bite blizzard HARD in the ass.
I don’t really see it fracturing the community either, that is just far too obvious an issue to trip up a company of Blizzard’s pedigree. The multiplayer is exactly the same by all indications between all three products. All races available from the start on the multiplayer side and any balance or adjustments introduced with the two other games finding their way worked down to the previous iteration via patches, exactly the same way The Frozen Throne’s tweaks and changes worked themselves down into vanilla Reign of Chaos.
So the only thing people would really be “missing” are the parts of the story they chose to buy or not as well as any special units or what not for the single player that wouldnt be in the multiplayer anyhow.
I think that it’ll be a bit harder for new players (to Starcraft and RTS in general) to pick up on the Zerg and Protoss races with the initial release of only the Terran campaign.
I remember back when Starcraft 1 was released, I went thru all the campaigns before tangling in multiplayer. It’s not necessary but being new to RTS games in general, I felt it helped me alot.
My guess is we’ll probably see a lot more Terrans online in multiplayer than the other races initially, but eventually it will start to balance out.
You would see more Terrans online anyway.
Space marine/Humans are always the easiest race for people to identify with (and therefor - Pick up and play).
As long as they aren’t full priced expansions, then it’s not so bad.
Too bad atleast in the first one they are the hardest race to use.
And they aren’t expansions, they’re standalone games. I wonder if it’s gonna have the custom game option so you can atleast practice using other races.
I love Zerg > all, but I’m better at playing as protoss.
I’m not sure why Blizzard chose to say three separate campaigns and give people to wrong impression. If they just said two expansions I think it would have went over a little better with everyone.
There have not been any confirmations of anything yet and people getting upset at the idea of a trilogy is understandable, but despite that people will be getting this game in groves anyways, even me despite how I feel because I’m going to play every campaign regardless and multiplayer is a huge draw.
There’s no confirmation as the games being 3 standalone products and I assume ulovemikeroch got his information from IGN which is often wrong (thankfully this time). Everywhere else it’s billed as basically 3 separate experiences, but we know people will bitch and that bitching will make it a little cheaper. Probably going to end up getting rebates on the next game or something if you buy like each one so that people can pick and choose if they wish or get them all at a cheaper price (which I think most of us would feel is preferable regardless).
Most of us don’t really have much to worry about as the campaigns are really just flavour. I love them for the cinematics and learning more about the story because I just enjoy Starcraft’s world and lore, plus who doesn’t think Blizzard makes some of the best CG videos in the world? I hope people bitch at this, but looking at it from Blizzard’s side, they know how to do both marketing and creating good franchises. They don’t need the money from splitting the game in 3, but they’ll do it just because they can.
I’m a sucker and Blizzard is the only company that’s made me their bitch over this because I know I’m going to end up getting all 3 games regardless of how pissed I am later on when this is confirmed by a box on the shelf that gets glued to my hands as I walk to the counter of some corporate retailer.
Edit: One of the things that does concern me after seeing that interview that I hadn’t thought about before was that during Starcraft they had withheld units for an expansion, but in that case none of the expansion units were shown. The question now is will we be getting all of the units we’ve seen so far or will those units be toned down in size and we’ll end up only getting 12 or 13 units for each race and see the rest come later.
This is bs. Buying the same game 3 times. Just put all campaigns in one box blizz. You can fit alot of dvd’s in a 8’ by 2’ case. I don;t see how any campaign could use more than one anyway.
I thought similar…but then I saw this video.
So if it’s just SC2 and 2 expansions down the line…not a big deal for me.
Well there are reports of like about 7ish CG vids rumoured, so 1 Opening Cinematic, Intro Cinematic, Ending Cinematic and other campaign related cinematics for the game and if they’re all going to have be in different formats if Blizzard decides to try and compromise for HD and SD video quality. Videos and sounds take up a lot of space on a dvd and just the engine stuff can take a lot not to mention everything is now 3D which ups it. The issue isn’t DVD space anyways, we know that Blizzard is willing to ship multi-cd products already, the issue I think they’re taking up with is time. They’re not making any money with this game and I’m assuming that they need to release something to avoid falling into the stale underhype category from previewing too early and releasing too late. If the game comes out early-mid 2009 you can bet that the next 2 expansions will be out a year out unless Blizzard decides to space things up.
You can only figured that everything is already written, they just have to create/balance assets for the campaigns and that should be a lot easier after having completed their engine already. Knowing Blizzard though they might pull a WoW and release the expansions every year citing adding new units and working in new campaign elements (which shouldn’t take them a year, but they can say whatever they want, can’t they?).
Edit: Vids for those who are informed =)