No reason what theyre doing is bad. It looks very different when you have a bit of business perspective.
The Warcraft/X-Craft label will mean their product gets immediate market recognition. You dont just throw that away because you want to seem like you arent doing sequels.
Sequels and franchises are what keeps the only stable companies in this business stable. The unstable companies dont have franchises, and so have to hope that each game is a hit on their own. Often because of that, they cant afford to put the time/money into a game to make it really bug and play tested.
Blizzard is doing smart business as well as making really polished games, it doesnt matter if all the hard-core game critics bash them for this or that, cause they are staying in business and quite frankly, on top of the PC game world, regardless of the nay sayers.
-Geoff
I think the idea of role playing strategy is great. Nobody cares how many of your grunts get squished in age of empires, but if each had real personality, individual names and attributes, it matters so much more, gets the player more personally involved in the game.
I havent played Warcraft myself, but I agree that Blizzard have as much right to change genres as anybody else. Nobody complains that Dark Forces wasnt the same genre as X wing, even though they are both Star Wars games. if anything, this encourages game players to try out genres they havent dabbled in before, and thats good.
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I havent played Warcraft myself, but I agree that Blizzard have as much right to change genres as anybody else. Nobody complains that Dark Forces wasnt the same genre as X wing, even though they are both Star Wars games. if anything, this encourages game players to try out genres they havent dabbled in before, and thats good.
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It seems like the next logical step in RTS and Roleplay development. Tamagotchi (sp) proved that it pays to make your players care about your electronic artificial life and getting this to work on a more grand scale seems a good challenge.
My one and only game design (currently and forever in progress) is based around the same idea.
There''s always room for more involvment, more immersion, more interaction and more emotion in games.
After all it''s better than making a game ''next-gen'' by increasing the polygon counts by 10%.
My one and only game design (currently and forever in progress) is based around the same idea.
There''s always room for more involvment, more immersion, more interaction and more emotion in games.
After all it''s better than making a game ''next-gen'' by increasing the polygon counts by 10%.
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