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Starcraft 2 split into 3 games

Discussion in 'Gaming and PC Discussion' started by MrMucus, Oct 12, 2008.

  1. BioPlague

    BioPlague The Senate DLP Supporter

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    Yeah. Next-gen consoles suck. PC Games have sucked. I'm sticking to the gym with racquetball and golf, myself. Now we have assholes clamoring for CoD5.
     
  2. World

    World Oberstgruppenführer DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    If they want to fight piracy, making the games cost more is somewhat ... stupid.

    Now, if the playing time was truly long and the price not that of a fullprice game, I'd deem it okay...
     
  3. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    I just finished Crysis on hard am am very, very unimpressed. Eyeball orgasm was nice with it on high quality, but it took me maybe 12 hours of fucking around and exploring the island to beat it.

    Yet, if I'd bought the game new, I'd of blown 60 bucks. Not worth it. if it had multiplayer like tribes or something, sure, but if I'm going to spend 60 bucks, it needs to be 40 hours long.
     
  4. Chime

    Chime Dark Lord

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    FPS's don't generally have long single player modes... original Halflife 2 excluded (and even HL2 only felt like it dragged on... damn ravenholm).

    Far Cry 2 will supposedly have an 18 hour campaign, which is the longest "new" FPS to come out (vs Halo/Crysis which have 10 hr long campaign modes). Oblivion with guns... who knows how that will shape up (from what gameplay footage you can get off of youtube, it looks pretty good, but it's hard to say, if it's anything like Oblivion...).

    As for SC being split into 3 games? Not enough info for me to judge yet, but this is probably bad news rather than good.
     
  5. MrINBN

    MrINBN Unspeakable

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    Three words.
    *ahem*

    Fuck you, Blizzard.
     
  6. The Mysterious Nobody

    The Mysterious Nobody Auror

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    This pisses me off too. Even though nowadays, we still pay (much) less for games than with the SNES, the prices are still illogical and out of orbit.

    It's not fair to pay the same for a 40 hour long game, with a good production value, than a fucking three hour party game, to spend some time with friends. And that pisses me off even more here in Europe, because in the PAL market we are videogames' bitches and the price for games con go up from 60€ (81$) to fucking 70€ (94$)
     
  7. Gizmore

    Gizmore Minister of Swedish Affairs DLP Supporter

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    They could've solved the piracy bit pretty easy. They are just milking the game.

    Ninjaedit: btw, who the hell play starcraft for the singelplayer experience? Thats just sad.
     
  8. Glernaj

    Glernaj Stab Executive DLP Supporter

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    WRRRRRYYYYYY?!
     
  9. Militis

    Militis Supreme Mugwump

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    These. ^^

    Still, I'll probably end up getting them all, one way...or the other. *shifty pirate eyes*
     
  10. Zarent

    Zarent Seventh Year

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    I would like to add one more. ^
     

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  11. Dark Syaoran

    Dark Syaoran No. 4 Admin

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    ...Well shit. Looks like I won't be buying Starcraft 2 anymore.

    I wonder if this applies to online-play? I wouldn't think so, since that would just fuck everything up, having to have a certain CD just to play a certain race.
     
  12. Agnostics Puppet

    Agnostics Puppet Professor

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    Since we seem to be blizzard bashing here, this might make or break your day.

    There is talk about Blizzard making Battle.net for Diablo 3 a pay service too.

    Enjoy.
     
  13. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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  14. aledeth

    aledeth First Year

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    This image perfectly describes the emotion that the contents of this thread has left me feeling.


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  15. LogrusMage

    LogrusMage Supreme Mugwump

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    ::claps::

    This is called participating in capitalism.

    But I'm still buying the games. As long as each one is individually as long as the first one, I'll be one happy motherfucker.
     
  16. Dark Syaoran

    Dark Syaoran No. 4 Admin

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    Fuck them if they do. Assholes.

    As for recent games... I've been disappointed in games for a long time. Gone are the days of anything resembling a difficult, long game. Everything is so short and to the point these days.
     
  17. Mage

    Mage Chief Warlock DLP Supporter

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    An update about D3 (bit old but some people might not have seen it.)
    - No PK'ing
    - No LAN
    - All stats are auto-assigned
    - In order to reduce chaos on screen, the game is currently geared for 4 players, but that's not set in stone.
    - Gold is the fixed currency AKA trading can only done with gold.
    - Everything that is not underground will be static. Only dungeon maps will be dynamically rendered.
    - Town portals have also been removed.
     
  18. Mindless

    Mindless Big Boss DLP Supporter

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    Well. I don't think I'll be purchasing Blizzard games any longer. Can we say series RAPE?
     
  19. aledeth

    aledeth First Year

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    What. The. Fuck.

    The massive piles of bodies was one of the best parts of DII. How can they take that away?

    Edit: Oh yay, more running.
     
  20. Gizmore

    Gizmore Minister of Swedish Affairs DLP Supporter

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    ORLY? This is from blizzcon 2008
    And all the facts elvin) pointed out is not finnished, they're still working on them. Thats just how it is now, I'm sure it will change again.
     
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