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Im hyped althought it doesnt look much better than Diablo3.
Its diablo it have to be good

Diablo 3 looks great. Still holds up today, imo.

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The real Pog in the room.

Blizzard can do good Trailers, the WoW Shadowlands trailer is also top notch, but gameplay is meh as always

ahha exactly what i was thinking

starcraft 2 overwatch diablo wow, they seem to put 70% of their efforts on cinematics, stories, gfx, but they didn't made a single very interesting game gameplay-wise since war3 TFT

most of their games are now like a very good looking and shining packaging but with nothing inside :D

their last good game was hearthstone imho.

These were their monumental titles imho:

1995 Warcraft 2
1996 Diablo
2005 World of Warcraft
2014 Hearthstone

Very good titles:
1998 StarCraft because of Multiplayer and adoption
2000 Diablo 2 because of Multiplayer and adoption

Overwatch I would put into category good titles together with Rockn Roll Racing, but it is also only famouse because of the big name imho.

You could say blizzard was monumental up until the release of WoW in 2005, then things went downhill and rehash after rehash appeared, with the only exception of hearthstone in 2014. So one good game in 15 years, you can see how strong their brand is that they still are able to make so much money.

PS: Funny blizzard 2nd games was battle chess in 1992, I know that game still from Amiga, cool to know they have some chess roots.

Hearthstone dumbed down card game?

How many succesful online card games do you know? (Games, no Poker Money game).
They are first one to establish such a game, although this would have been possible technically in 1995 alteady

Good or popular, that is the question

Blizzard was Blizzard North. The company has gone to shit since 2005, when North was closed due to corporate politics and the company wasnt able to produce anything good since then.

I dont expect that to change with D4, but at least it looks ... dark. The question is how much are they going to fuck up with catering to casuals.

"Blizzard was Blizzard North"

Exactly!!! What a legendary company it was! Only the name remained but good people left. All what remained is a pile of shit ruined by money.

They made Starcraft 2 in 2010. The hardcore Broodwar crowd can say what they want about SC2, but they made a 1v1 game that is still somewhat successful in todays teamgame and moba world. If ID had only 5% what Blizz has, quake wouldnt be as dead as it is.

Sc2 killed all that scbw had established for the franchise, esports and gaming. The leagues in south korea lost all live audience within a month. Considering what Sc2 should have been and what it actually was, it was a huge flop.
Even from a marketing point of view sc2 didnt do well. The two-expansion model didnt prove to be any sucessful and Blizzard had to keep pumping huge amounts of money into prizes to retain at least mild twitch audience.
They have no idea how to continue their legendary franchises, which is why they're just remastering everything they can.

And I sure wouldnt compare the current idsoft to anything or anyone. Ive never seen such incompetence, ever.

Bobby Kotick, Activision Blizzard, Inc. - President and CEO
"I don't think it is specific to video games. I think that if you look at how much volatility there is in the economy and, dependent upon your view about macroeconomic picture and I think we have a real culture of thrift. And I think the goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks that we brought in to Activision 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games."

"I think we definitely have been able to instill the culture, the skepticism and pessimism and fear that you should have in an economy like we are in today. And so, while generally people talk about the recession, we are pretty good at keeping people focused on the deep depression."

these quotes are from 2009 so sc2 was an extension of this, pretty much every franchise after too. absolutely fucked up quotes to be seen from a highly profitable video game company. i try my hardest not to support Activision/Blizz but i still buy their games every 5 years or so. once upon a time they were a legendary company before the Activision buyout.

Professional BW in Korea on its own wouldnt have survived the MOBA-hype, sc2 or not. It was already on its last legs. And making a successful competitive 1v1 in todays environment is a feat on its own. Sure they are pumping money into esports, but that alone isnt enough by a long shot. An example of a purely artificial esports would Heros of the Storm, the scene was immediately gone after Blizz stopped paying. That wouldnt happen with SC2 if the pro-scene were to die.

you're delusional about sc2, the multiplayer is shit, that's all. BW remastered is better on almost any level gameplay-wise. But the only almost perfect RTS they ever made was and is still war3 TFT, that's one they're remastering it aswell. Think of BW as QW and war3 TFT as Q3.

the only good thing about sc2 are the relatively light engine that can run well on anything, and very smoothly on good pc setup, the graphics, that are still good by nowadays standards if maxed out, and the single player campaign, that is a masterpiece, but story-wise and "gameplay"-wise.
sc2 mp is shit, deal with it :>

professional BW in Korea would have survived just like formula 1 is still more than surviving after all those decades, if blizzard had made starcraft/bw remastered alongside of sc2, and put sc2 only as a single player experience with up to date graphics etc.

sc2 should have been for the casuals since day 1, and bw remastered idk why the hell the only did it like 2-3 years ago ? wtf, fuck blizzard, or let's say, fuck activision.

a little unrelated but we could have actually had some kind of updated source port of BW a few years ago before blizzard decided to remaster it https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comme..._from_1998 The OP actually returned it, RIP!!!!.

BW in Korea on its own wouldnt have survived the MOBA-hype

You say that based on what? No other game ever came close to what Starcraft Brood War was, even the money monstrosities such as LoL, Dota 2 or PUBG always were just closed circles where players watch other players, games without actual outside audience or cultural significance.
Scbw on the other hand was actually gaining on popularity for over a decade - and it sure wasnt anywhere near to dying before Blizzard shut down Kespa. On the contrary actually, the european battle.net was more alive than ever in the late 2000's, when the south korean bw craze got here.

But even if you were right, how does it change the fact that Sc2 killed the Starcraft cult within a month simply because it was just another casual rts?

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enjoyed d3 but regret playing it and should have stopped after the auction house left as that's when it went down hill

Played the d3 demo. Thought it was shit an and never touched again. D4 looks better but i already heard that it is even shallower than d3. Will not even consider. Last good game was brood war. I don’t know much about wc3 or wow though.

Blasphemous who wants d1 atmosphere and even something refreshing and to remember.

Too much backtracking. They got the atmosphere right, but the constant +back killed it for me.
Try the Darkest Dungeon if you like morbid ruguelikes.

didnt like the backtracking too would have much preferred a linear platformer because why do i need artificial freedom which isnt freedom anyway. but yea, the atmosphere made it for me.

didnt like darkest dungeon. too grindy for my taste. always stressed out heros, too little money, weird atmosphere. i dont know, my emotions did not like it.

they're trying to copy the original atmosphere of d1/d2 but the lighting on the maps is so bad. it just looks like diablo 3 but with new graphical technology that doesn't actually add anything to the game or its experience. blizzard ceo's are practically trolling every ip in their possession at this point.