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Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait (www.engadget.com)
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[–] -2 points 3 days ago (24 children)

I dont think turning StarCraft into Destiny is a good idea. But then again StarCraft has never had any original ideas in the IP.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    To be completely fair, Starcraft: Ghost was originally teased in 2002. Obviously a different game, but they did sow the seeds for a starcraft IP shooter long before Destiny.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    To be totally completely fair that game was canceled and is over 20 years old. Whatever seeds it planted are scarce by now at best.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Doesn't matter, you said original ideas, not completed games.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Lol okay. There is nothing in this current project from 20+ years ago of a game that got canceled. I doubt they even have any preliminary builds around anymore to pull from. This is something being built from the ground up.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Obviously. Your statement was that StarCraft had never had any original ideas in the IP; I was just pointing out that the idea of a StarCraft IP shooter pre-dates Destiny (and FarCry). I'm not sure why we're still discussing this.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 days ago

    Well I assumed it had some relevance, but it really doesnt. It doesnt really prove that StarCraft has original ideas just because they had a canceled game that was before Destiny. Looking at the time period that one was probably because Halo did so well. So it was probably going to be like Halo.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    When they said open world shooter, I was thinking more Far Cry than Destiny, but of course this being Blizzard they will pick the option that tries to monetize it the most.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    I only thought Destiny because StarCraft is just a hodgepodge of SciFi shit from other IPs. So I thought of the biggest name "open world" SciFi shooter that recently existed and I would say Destiny is it unfortunately.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    The dude who was on stage during the announcement, Dan Hay, was apparently a producer on all the FarCry games since 3, so that tracks, but as you said, how can they extract a billion dollars from that.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    StarCraft was supposed to be a Warhammer 40k game if memory serves me. But GW said nah, and so blizzard made StarCraft. Old story, could be bullshit, but the similarities are sort of obvious.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    And Warcraft was meant to be Warhammer Fantasy!

    but the similarities are sort of obvious

    Absolutely, watch the trailer for this new game and tell me it couldn't be a Space Marine game

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    It feels pretty reductive to say something doesn't have original ideas. Pretty much every story has been told in one way or another at this point in history, especially if we get really reductive about it. It doesn't mean things can't be interesting or unique.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Its Warhammer 10k and it feels like it.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    10k? Well that's pretty original, because I've never heard of it.

    But on a more serious note, it's just too reductive to say "there is nothing original in StarCraft because it feels like Warhammer 40k." All media is inspired by media that came before it. Lion King is similar to Hamlet, does that mean there's nothing original in it?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Did I miss all the musical numbers in StarCraft? The thing about "inspired by" is you actually have to add new things. StarCraft just has Not Imperium of Man, Not Tyranids, Not Old Ones, and Not Eldar. This is a hill I am more than willing to die on.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Is it live service? I've only heard open world. More Just Cause than Destiny.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    Far cry maybe would've been a better example than just cause, but that's the issue with classifying it as "open world shooter". It could be Far Cry, it could be Destiny, it could be anything between. It could even be Just Cause because we don't even know if it's first or third person.

    The whole announcement is a nothing burger.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    Is it 3rd person? I assumed 1st.

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