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My intake on Blizzard from beginning to end

posted 20 years ago by Ryo7
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I used to love Blizzard and thought they made the most top of the line quality games around...The following is a review of them from the beginning of the time when I had discovered them til now.

Warcraft - A great real time strategy game involving humans vs. orcs, lead on to make a great sequel.

Warcraft 2 - Awesome game, first one from Blizzard I ever played from a demo disc. Good units but not much diversity.

Warcraft 2 - The Dark Portal (was that what it was called?) - Expansion...not as great as the original, but gave me something to do to kill time while I wayed on Diablo.

Diablo - Their first crack at a role playing game and quite frankly my favorite RPG for years to come until the sequel.

Hellfire - Not by Blizzard, but Sierra, another former favorite in RPG games. Very pleased with added levels, but new added class was just weird.

Starcraft - WARCRAFT IN SPACE! Now my favorite RTS game from my at the time favorite gaming company! Diversity in the races, but it seemed decisions were always made for you and you always got the short end of the stick and had to climb your way back up to the top just to be knocked down again.

Brood War - Well, the story goes on. I must say I loved the new units, but feel one of the races was given way too much more (the protoss with mind control and able to produce dark templar...). I love where the storyline kept going, a great continuation in story to a great game.

Diablo 2 - Awesome game, by far Blizzard's best of all if you ask me with starcraft a close second.

Diablo 2 - Lord of Destruction - UNDERRATED if you ask me!!! I loved the new classes and levels. Harrogath ruled! Baal certainly was weird looking in the ciematics, but still as badass as he was at the end of D2.

Warcraft 3 - What the hell is this supposed to pass for? So now it's Warcraft in anime...wonderful *notes the sarcasm*. Animation looks like something out of a kid's cartoon and not the same old type of Warcraft I remember at all...While the cinematics were beautiful and the two new races a good touch, not to mention the diversity of the game was a plus which the sequels both lacked...the storyline was bland and the in game animation sucked so bad...

Warcraft 3 - Frozen Throne - No thank you...I was not pleased enough with the original to give this game consideration, and I hate that SOB that is on the cover.

Warcraft 3 - Reign of Chaos - Yet another expansion for the ones that actually liked this game...a bad sequel to a bad sequel is all I think it is just like frozen throne.

Starcraft Ghost - I got one thing to say...What the friggin HELL?! Console Only?! What in god's name are the people at blizzard smoking?! Screw console systems...they are nothing but glorified gaming PCs hooked up to the television...Hey blizzard, no one played your stupid playstation version of Diablo, they all own it on PC cause it's better...you started on PC now stick to what you're best at...Dear lord you really pounded nails in your coffin with this one. I for one am not buying whatever god forsaken console system this game is for for hundreds of dollars then the game for damn near 70 dollars just to play it...I got a top of the line gaming PC and want to use it...now sure I can download a console system emulator to play it but that was not what it was made to do...It just pisses me off that they would even consider doing such a thing with no satisfactory justification? Why? Why blizzard? Why console only? 'We hope to revisit the starcraft universe on the PC some day soon' Well why not with this one?! Port it for god's sake! This is sadly one of the biggest mistakes I feel a gaming company has ever made, and now Blizzard ranks on 'one' of my favorite gaming companies...shame on you blizzard...

World of Warcraft - Well, wonderful...pay to play? Screw you and your everquest copying asses...If I can't play a game single player then I would rather not play it at all. Though I play EQ and am signing up for EQ2...still though, I cannot afford to pay to play ALL of my games...whether or not it merits mad patching and antihacks...D2 was fine, so why bother?

"Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the Gun" - Army of Darkness - Ash (Bruce Campbell)

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[–] ervty 19 years ago

Rock on, Ryo7! I knew I couldn't be the only one who favors computers over consols. Computers are just better in every way, most notably the ease of control of the mouse. Mice are designed to be easy to move. Consol controlers are designed for top down games. Why couldn't they make Ghost for PC? Westwood Studios did an excellent job on Renegade, which is very similar in a lot of ways to the Starcraft universe. Maybe someday they'll make Ghost for PC...I hope.

[–] Ryo7 19 years ago

Quite frankly I could care less if they do or not, it looks so animated like wc3 I don't even wanna touch it

"Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the Gun" - Army of Darkness - Ash (Bruce Campbell)

[–] murasmas 19 years ago

....you do realize Warcraft 3 = Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos. They are the same game, not an expansion pack. WoW is great, it's p2p BUT it offers incredible amounts of content. No one is forcing to you to play that genre. If you like strategy games, then don't play WoW. WoW = online RPG. I didn't like war3 as much as war2 for the same reason as you. I loved war1 and war2 lore, but war3 was kinda wishy washy. I didn't like the fact that the orcs were really a peace loving people controlled by some other evil power. That was just stupid.

[–] Ryo7 19 years ago

Then you see it too man...Blizzard is losing it...their stupid anime-ish graphics for in game play piss me off...I'd rather have grainy realistic looking graphics like the original Diablo which for it's time and even by today's standards for all it requires are sincerely amazing...Diablo 2 was more animated and fast paced, but in a good, tolerable way...I actually loved D2...favorite by blizzard thus far even though they botched the spell system in it as compared to the first Diablo which followed the classic spell system of all RPGs and it should have stayed that way.

So WC3 and WC3 - Reign of Chaos are the same thing...I don't care...they were both absolute crap so much that when my friend barrowed the copy I had just paid 60 bucks for a week prior and beaten it, his brother played frizbee with it and shattered it off the wall...and I said I didn't really care cause I wasn't getting my money back anyway and would never play it again...

"Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the Gun" - Army of Darkness - Ash (Bruce Campbell)

[–] DoomHK 19 years ago

Your Stupid Ryo7 all blizzards games are excellent...and der..Reign of chaos isnt an expansion..its the actual game of warcraft 3..so get ur facts right

[–] Ryo7 19 years ago

At least I can properly spell and punctuate. Warcraft 3 lacks the taste that made Wacraft 1, Warcraft 2, Starcraft, Diablo 1, and Diablo 2 such excellent games. The newest cartoony graphics they have been using make me sick. Have fun with them and masturbate you 14 year old DBZ reject.

"Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the Gun" - Army of Darkness - Ash (Bruce Campbell)

[–] canadian_whitewolf 19 years ago

Blizzard first started making games for consoles, not the pc. so the 'you started on pc' part of your rant, isn't right.

I can only see the console ghost as a intro for xboxer to the SC universe, maybe adding some padding to blizzard's wallet while sucking in new customers. All lead up to SC2(rts) for all systems/consoles, including linux and mac. well not mac, just linux.
I can hope anyways...

[–] CombatWombatt 18 years ago

Who the hell cares if they look cartoony, it's the gameplay not the graphics style that matters! Starcraft was pretty cartoony too.

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[–] Sahmushie 18 years ago

I think you guys are taking this conversation too seriously. It's a game. Even I know that. -.-

Then again, I though WC and D2 sucked. But I <3 SC.

[–] Mr_125 18 years ago

I agree with you about Warcraft. I haven't played the first two, but right off the bat, I couldn't really get into the cartoonish style. But keep in mind, it was the first time they were trying a full 3D RTS unlike others they've done before. Also, I can't really think of any other 'hack and slash' RTS game not done by Blizzard that really tops it. Maybe there are now, but before?

But I totally love the mood and atmosphere set in Starcraft. Dark and brooding. I don't mind if they leave the style the way it is if they ever create a sequel.

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[–] dwight-37 17 years ago

Well, Blizzard just can't make a game that would suck! Just like it happened to Lord Of The Clans. The game was good, but not good enough, so they closed the project. You can still find some beta files in internet and play it, that game was weak, that's why Blizzard aborted it. The comes Starcraft, perfect from the earliest alpha version, I tell ya! Diablo is awesome! And WC3 is awesome too, just because it has a nice gameplay; leave the graffics alone, maybe it's cartoonish, but it rocks! Ghost... too bad... WOW is awesome! I played a lot of MMORPG, but this one is the best!

[–] Ryo7 17 years ago

WOW is just as mindless as every MMORPG is out there. Idiots flock on them and pay per month to send eachother stupid chatspeak messages while 'raiding' or 'questing' or 'lvling'. Once you reach that high level...then what? Nothing...Wait for a year til they come out with a +5 max level cap and then gruel for 5 more levels, and let's not forget waiting for another year for another one to come along.

I tried EQ, WOW, EQ2, Star Wars Galaxies, and even a bit of Guild Wars. None of them impressed me and several had differences but all ended up going that same brainless route that all MMOs do because of the multiplayer capability...too much lore and rewards are sacrificed for that. Give me Oblivion any day where I can get something worth my while for my accomplishments that won't be useless to me in a level or two.

Yeah, Ghost sucked. And the reason I attack Warcraft is because that is all Blizzard is doing. They just dropped Diablo and Starcraft and went all Warcraft. Diablo 2 is still one of the most popularly played online games despite it's repetitiveness (if that's a word) it still has great replay value for some reason.

Starcraft and Diablo have been better and can be better than Warcraft. Sure it was there before either of the others were, but now they are taking a back burner. They should be working on them all simutaneously, or just take a break on warcraft for a while.

"Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the Gun" - Army of Darkness - Ash (Bruce Campbell)

[–] luckyloser18 17 years ago

Ryo, my friend, you are absolutelly right.
Anyway, WOW is simply bringing them way too much money to move from it.
As was possible to see, they make 5 WOW patches and 1-2 expansions to it before they make one more patch for sc:bw.
It is embarassing, and it is a real shame they never really thought of making SC2, althought i never really loved the idea of making no.2

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[–] dwight-37 17 years ago

I gotta disappoint you, they are going to announce SC2 and Diablo 3 next month. No *beep*

[–] luckyloser18 17 years ago

Well, my friend...they announce them every month just to bring people some hope in better days. I play sc:bw online 3 years (i know thats not much, but...) and I dont like the idea of them making starcraft 2, just make patches for current one, fix bugs, *beep* cheaters must be stopped, etc.
However, D3 would be nice addon to their collection of great games, not everyone likes MMORPG, I prefer RPG.

"Cry for all those who choose light over darkness"

[–] JustSomeRandomBat 16 years ago

I disagree, the story must continue.

What of Jim Raynor?

What has Kerrigan been making these past four years? The Story MUST continue!

And it shall :) Although SC2 looks a lot like WC3, the gameplay (from the Blizzcon demo) was superb. Can't wait for it.

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