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should blizzard make star craft in to a mmorpg?????
Kaotic121
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this idea hit me last night when i was looking at the new sc ghost game i though what if in a couple of years they made sc in to a great mmorpg. (note) there is no evidence of A SC MMORPG i am just wondering if it has ever crossed there mind sc was a great game and i hope they return to it. for the sc fans i downloaded a blizzard press meeting and they did say after the release of wow and sc ghost they are going to return to the world of star craft and who knows what they we release
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Er...yea....
And we'll all be playing Marines , and we'll be killing Zerg, just like in Starcraft, only in an MMORPG! :P
Starcraft cant be made into an MMORPG, because it just isn't that kind of game.It could be done into an action or an adventure, but not an MMORPG!
So just forget about it. To be honest, when i heard about World Of Warcraft I was quite supprised ,because i never expected an MMORPG from Blizzard, so you're lucky we even got one! :P
Yeah, Blizzard is stuck in a rut. They have too much on the line to try something new. I'm looking forward to a new company who will keep trying interesting things like Capcom and Konami. NCSoft subsidiaries (even though I hate them) is another one too, but who knows?
SC can be a very good MMORPG it already has the races down tight and some of the classes. Frankly, personally, it might be more interesting to see a SC mmorpg rather than another dwadling fantasy themed MMORPG like WoW is.
Blizzard, in a rut?
Dunno about that, they're still sellin' new copies of SC, WC3 and even Diablo 2 in stores. Granted Diablo 2's gone down to the cheap rack, but it's still sold new in stores, and people still buy it. WC3 and it's x-pack are still at pretty close to their original price.
As for SC the mmorpg. I highly doubt it, so few ppl are into sci-fi mmorpg's. SWG was probably the best attempt, though it's recieved a LOT of bashing, the most recent patches have changed the game drasticaly, betcha didn't know there was space combat coming up in SWG, and vehicles and mounts now, and a revamped Jedi system.
To be honest though, I didn't even like the idea of a WC based mmorpg. Gave me the same sick feeling in my stomach a mmorpg based on Star Wars did. However they've done a great job and WC offers the right kind of environment for it to work. SC you'd just be on desolate planets the whole time, there arn't even cities, how would they find a way to put NPC's etc in? What about the Goliaths, tanks, and aircraft you saw during the combat, they'd have to leave most of that out in a mmorpg.
However a multi-player FPS SC game would be pretty damn awesome, and I'm betting they're putting a good deathmatch system into SC Ghost. We'll just have to wait and see though.
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I don't believe that Blizzard is in a rut. I think they are banking on what their fans want. They don't just jump out to something truly different from what they know fans like and love. That sounds very sensible to me.
Starcraft could make a good MMO if it was done like some I have seen where there is a map showing what is controlled sort of like Planetside. I don't know if it would have to be FPS but I don't know if they could do a RPG. I likedplanetside but I think that there needs to be a skill system (at least from when I played right after it came out). It would be cool if it was one where the servers reset to a start point after one side won so much space or just beat the other sides.
Early in the World of Warcraft developement I read an interview with the developers and they were noted saying "As of right now we are solely working on World of Warcraft into a MMORPG. Depending ont he success of World of Warcraft we will hope to bring the other series into a MMORPG series as well"
Even though it would be a tough job, i'm sure that they would make it so that i worked fine. Just give it time, it's MANY years down the path but its still worth waiting for!
KillerTwinkie - That one guy who used to mod mmorpg.com's forums.
Well lets look at it this way. No expected blizzard to make a mmorpg. They tried an adventure game with warcraft, and well that never went anywhere. Plus WoW is still in beta, and its been getting nothing but praise from game reviewers everywhere. Now for a starcraft mmorpg. That would probably do great. I mean if you go to battle.net, you'll notice that till this day starcraft is still being played. And the release of starcraft ghost is coming closer. Plus the space genre has been down lately. Earth and Beyond will be gone soon. Starwars hasnt exactly been all that. And the other space mmorpgs havent done anything for mmorpgs. There's alot of ppl out there that would love to be able to play as a zerg, or a terran. I know i would want to be a protoss dark templar. We can only hope for a starcraft mmorpg.
Not their sales but their creativeness. WoW has nothing inovative to offer but just another FFXI. It's going to be more polished I give it that but, been there done that.
I want someone to make a FPS MMOG with a Guild Wars built engine where you go on versatile missions in a dynamic world. Where as you don't just click places on a map but has realistic traveling routes such as by ship or transport. I'd get something creative like that in a heart beat, but no all there are in the PC MMORPG market are Everquest babies.
Obiyer, you might want to look into Face of Mankind. Maybe d/led the video and read a little about it, sounds a lot like what you described.
As for WoW not offering anything new, I hear that a lot, and I used to nod my head to the whole "they're making it better" thing. Yet now I'm starting to think isn't making something that was broken WORK introducing something new? Now just as an example, nothing tested/proven here, just an example. Say every mmorpg to this date had crafting, but crafting was always the same, get supplies, click button, craft then succeed/fail. Now say you made it so that you had to do quests to get some of the supplies, or maybe you could only craft at certain locations, or what ever it would take to make ppl find crafting insanely fun (assuming EVERYONE, and I want to use an absolute for this example) hated crafting to this point. Now wouldn't "fun crafting" be something new? Since all we had known to that point was "boring crafting"?
Aside from that, the mixing of great features from other mmorpg's into 1 mmorpg is innovative enough in it's own right. If it's not broken, why fix it? DAOC had what I felt was the best PvP environment to this date, yet I've only seen a FPS mirror it (Planet Side). Aside from that, WoW does offer things that havn't existed in other mmorpgs, or at least not mainstream ones or ones I've played (and I've played quite a few, will list if you like). I really like the pet system, UO after all it's many patches has one closer to what WoW says they will offer. SWG was sort of close, but still not exactly like WoW's, where the Hunters (the pet class) get 1 pet, fight with and keep that pet (if they choose) for as long as they want, and develop a bond with no doubt.
So taking that into consideration, if you're just going to call all those "variations" of things that have already existed in mmorpg's. What do you really expect? Honestly I don't think 1 great never before seen feature (like "aging" something a few mmorpg's are throwing in) is going to make or break the game. I can't even think of some never before seen non-existant feature that doesn't exist in at least 1 mmorpg, granted certain nice features only exist in some really poor underdeveloped games, none the less, they still exist.
Don't let me rain on yer dreams though Obiyer. We all have that 'perfect' mmorpg we dream of. Seems like more of a myth, but with a little luck, and a little magic... and with enough of them little mushroomy things, anything can come true.
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Well said, it is the many little things which makes up an idea. However the "idea" is stale to me, and to the genre. Gnome/Goblin races are preety interesting, but hardly a selling point. If this was another company then yes, this is a 'good' solid title. However, this is Blizzard, I was hoping for something more innovative from them.
BTW: If it was easy everyone would do it, and Blizzard is doing it. I hope a new company comes up and proves they aren't everybody.
I completely agree Obiyer, and maybe I'm just burnt out on mmorpgs. It's hard to believe that's there's not even ONE mmorpg out atm that I like playing anymore.
So lately I've been reading about a lot of the MMORGP's with release dates of early to late next year and some of them sound pretty damn amazing. If WoW doesn't come out BEFORE them it'll be a hard decision for me to make to buy WoW. However if WoW comes out first, I'd like to buy and stick with that one for a while if it's good. Yet all the titles people talk about arn't really a threat to the people who will play WoW, I think it's the ones that are coming out AFTER, the ones people havn't even begun to look into. Like Tabula Rasa for example. Face of mankind also has what looks to be some pretty inovative features, just isn't the fantasy setting I like to play mmorpgs in. So I'm quite eager to see WoW come out, and hopefuly it'll be entertaining enough to keep me from heading over to another title. I want an mmorpg I can stick with for a while. Blizzard knows how to do good updates among many other things, so hopefuly the WoW community will be one I can stick with longer than 6 months.
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They are most likely going to focus on Starcraft 2, after Ghost and WoW.
Regarding WoW, if WoW is just going to be a mix of all the features of current mmorpg`s with an upgraded/more interesting combat system and a bit less bugs(due to good solid beta testing perhaps), it would revolutionize the mmorpg genre. Even though people claim they want new features and original content, what they really want is a solid all around balanced mmorpg which doesnt get boring in 2 days. I think Blizzard are gonna pull it off.
-Pi
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I object your honor, how can one person possibly to attest to the desires of 26 million people?
The only blizzard game i hate is star craft so i really hope blizzard won´t go further down because of that pice of crap!!!
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I think they should do a MMOFPS like Planetside or something like C&C Renegade's multiplayer.
*Raises hand and yells*
I object your honor, how can one person possibly to attest to the desires of 26 million people?
The people are wrong!
Example: SWG has original content and unique features, but nonetheless has horrible gameplay(this
combination applies for other mmorpg's as well), thus people has left SWG.
-Pi
You people are thinking too much. Starcraft cannont be made into a "massively multiplayer online role playing game" for the simple reason... that it is not a role playing game.
Think about it. What skills could marines possible develope? How could gun damage be effected by attributes? What role do zergs possibly have in an rpg? What different equipment can there be?
It just couldn't work... and if it did work, it wouldn't be starcraft anymore.
Darky
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"With every post, I lose just a little bit more of my sanity." -Dracius
a starcraft mmorpg would actually be pretty cool. haven't you seen starcraft ghost? just make that a MMORPG version, and that would be pretty cool. but then again...they'd have to make many many more enemies...
it's...scary. very, very, very, scary...the world we live in...that's why i love the virtual world.
Lacks creativity to have one!!!
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