Blizzard finally remembered it owns the StarCraft franchise. Unfortunately, it forgot it’s an RTS series as the next game is an open-world shooter, simply titled StarCraft, and it’s targeting Spring 2030. The announcement came during ... Read more

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[–] 32 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Nah, Blizzard can fuck off

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago

    Starcraft 2 had shitty writing but a great multiplayer RTS game, so it was ok.

    Take away the RTS game and you just have shitty writing in a generic space setting.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    oh good, another old favorite franchise going to be ruined for guaranteed nostalgia money

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    2030? No chance this doesn't get canceled amidst a gaggle of layoffs.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Because it worked so well for Marathon to come back as something completely irrelevant to the series

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    They're finally finishing Ghost?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    lol i could be dead by then but also open world shooter? No

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    They should just go ahead and make the next Diablo game an RTS to complete the loop of not giving a rats ass about the fans.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I'm happy to continue not buying Microsoft products. I was never a huge Starcraft fan, so this will be easier than skipping Diablo 4. Diablo was The Game for a few years in my youth. But now: fuck em.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Ewww.

    Not everything needs to be open world! It took me a while to appreciate BotW, and I really didn't think elden ring was going to be as good as it was. So I'm glad there's some experimentation, but it really seems like they're trying to shoe horn it into everything.

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