My take on Blizzard so far
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)