What is really new?

[Nerfix]

Why the Blizzard dislike? They've made quality games if you ask me.

[Graeme Dice]

Nerfix said:
Why the Blizzard dislike? They've made quality games if you ask me.

They've made many quality games. They've also entered the Dikumud style MMO market, which is guaranteed to leave a large proportion of their customers who quit playing WoW hating them.

[Morkilus]

Of course Blizzard makes great games. I still have Diablo 2 installed for when my brain is too fried to play anything else. However, they wouldn't touch something like Dominions with a 10-foot Ethereal Pike, and if they did, it would... well... not be Dominions. What do you mean by DikuMUD? I thought that's what WoW was; is something new coming up?

@EMH: Have you checked out the AAR's yet?

[Nerfix]

True true.

Also, 10-foot Ethereal Pike, haha, shouldn't that be 10-foot Robopike?

[okiN]

Morkilus said:
Of course Blizzard makes great games. I still have Diablo 2 installed for when my brain is too fried to play anything else. However, they wouldn't touch something like Dominions with a 10-foot Ethereal Pike, and if they did, it would... well... not be Dominions.

That pretty much sums it up. Also, they cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Envy.gif[/img]

[Graeme Dice]

Morkilus said:
What do you mean by DikuMUD? I thought that's what WoW was; is something new coming up?

No, WoW is what I'm referring to.

[PhilD]

Let's face it - more units, more spells, more whatever, is NOT what makes me await Dom3. I mean, obviously Dom2 already had many more than I ever used.

Dom2 was a great game that I played for almost 2 years - one year almost to the exclusion of all other games. That was excellent value for what I (OK, not I, my girlfriend) paid for it, and Dom3 will freshen it a bit, renew my interest, and maybe bring in some new players more likely to be close to my own (bad) level. IMHO, that's well worth the price that I (OK, not I, my girlfriend again - it's not my fault if they release close to my birthday!) paid for the new game.

Plus, it means supporting an independent publisher and developer, and that's also a good thing in my book (but then, I can perfectly understand if some people want value for their money - which I think they will with Dom3, but if you're only a solo player, are happy with Dom2, and tight on the money, then maybe you should stick to Dom2).

[NTJedi]

Nerfix said:
Why the Blizzard dislike? They've made quality games if you ask me.

Blizzard has made some good games, but they're a little slow on being an effective business. The original Diablo was a smashing world-wide success yet look at how long they took to develop the sequel. Just stupid management to ignore a gold-mine for so long.
Also even tho I was a big fan of Warcraft_2 I never purchased Warcraft_3 because the company was purely focused on graphics and the maps were only 96X96 at maximum.(way too small)

[Nerfix]

Well, Warcraft 3 is fundamentaly pretty different from WC2. Much faster paced. Might have been an intentional move you know.