Nameless Voice on 16/8/2010 at 19:11
Quote Posted by Matthew
Most MMOs charge a fee though; are they directly comparing the service to that?
Yeah, but Starcraft 2 isn't an MMO, and the new Battle.net 2.0 is more like Steam than anything else. Steam lets you change your name every five seconds, for free, but your underlying username remains the same.
To be completely honest, I don't actually care, because I don't want to change my name more than once. Give me enough character space for the full "Nameless Voice" and let me change it to that for free, and I won't want to change it again anyway. I just hate the principle of charging for it.
Quote Posted by Assidragon
Cue NV bashing my head again for posting here. :sly:
No, no, at least now you're admitting it's a sequel, instead of the hours of arguing we had where you insisted it was just a glorified expansion pack with fancy graphics! :D
Assidragon on 16/8/2010 at 19:23
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
No, no, at least now you're admitting it's a sequel, instead of the hours of arguing we had where you insisted it was just a glorified expansion pack with fancy graphics! :D
Actually I still stand to that point of mine, but arguing that in an SC2 thread would get my head on a pike faster than you can say "Kerringan!" :cheeky:
june gloom on 16/8/2010 at 20:06
Quote Posted by Assidragon
Don't misunderstand. Creating the original Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft were nothing less than a revolution, essentially defining roughly half the games in their respective genres. The teams working on those were/are real geniuses.
Ha ha ha are you serious? I'm not denying their impact but plagiarism is not exactly a difficult thing.
(excluding Diablo of course)
Nameless Voice on 16/8/2010 at 20:07
I'm sure you'll love that new "Bioshock" game, since your head is clearly already in the clouds.
Assidragon on 16/8/2010 at 20:15
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Ha ha ha are you serious? I'm not denying their impact but plagiarism is not exactly a difficult thing.
(excluding Diablo of course)
The story in Warcraft was a clear rip from Warhammer; of course, that might have to do with it starting off as a Warhammer game, originally.
Starcraft, however, is influenced by a number of creations, some admittedly, some not so. But that's how the industry works. It's not like Games Workship didn't go around stea--- plagiralizing stuff when making their own games, like Warhammer 40K. See the Tau. Or the necrons (who rip Terminator to the point of using the phrase
"We'll be back" as a race ability). I don't think anyone has ever made a single game that didn't take a ideas from some other media/games. Okay, I saw some, but those were closer to an LSD induced dream than actual game theme (like Sacrifice, which a major wtf all along).
The real genius for which I praise them though, is that those games defined a gameplay that was imitated in the entire genre afterwards.
june gloom on 16/8/2010 at 20:15
I love how that's gotten to be an insult around here. "bawww you like bioshock your opinion is invalid!!! who wants to see my tattoo of mickey mouse blowing himself?"
Nameless Voice on 16/8/2010 at 20:18
No, the insult part was the "head in the clouds" part.
Eldron on 16/8/2010 at 20:46
If only other companies could afford the amount of polish that blizzard can put into their games.
I know the lack of it can drive companies and games down into the ground.
Assidragon on 16/8/2010 at 20:58
Yeah, but polish costs a lot, and the high budgets are one of the reasons the gaming industry is becoming a soulless pit where only the safest projects can succeed. :erg: I would rather have my gaming industry of cca 1998 back, please...
Sulphur on 16/8/2010 at 21:07
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Ha ha ha are you serious? I'm not denying their impact but plagiarism is not exactly a difficult thing.
(excluding Diablo of course)
Diablo was, basically, a linear rogue-like dungeon crawler with superior graphics for the time, and bucketloads atmosphere. It's what Blizzard always do best - take the basic idea, then buff and polish and refine it into something that sparkles.
