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New Starcraft: Ghost Trailers

Posted by michael on from the too-bad-they-sued-bnetd dept.

Bobartig writes "Blizzard Entertainment has put up gameplay trailers for their upcoming console title, Starcraft: Ghost. It looks hot. It's available both in both Quicktime and DivX, with plenty of mirrors."

185 comments

  1. Interesting by Harbinjer · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Blizzard has never made an FPS as far as I know. THis will be a good test for them.

    1. Re:Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's not a fps it played in 3rd person perspective, see on consoles there are more than just the FPS and RTS genres.

      Looks cool though, my Gamecube is going to get a lot of use in the next year.

  2. It LOOKS good... by blitzoid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, it looks good... but how does it PLAY? I'm waiting till the release. Blizzard pretty much outsourced most of the work to Nihilistic, so it might not have the same 'feel' as blizzard's other games. But I guess it would be hard to capture the feel of RTS games in an FPS anyway, heh.

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    1. Re:It LOOKS good... by jcsehak · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It probably plays something like Bungie's "Oni," which was really fun. Except it looks even cooler. One thing I loved about Oni (and warcraft III, too) is that the models were somewhat blocky, but at the same time really fluid and beautiful. They moved like a real person (or a real cartoon), and were nicely proportioned. It looks like Starcraft:Ghost will be no different. This is where Everquest fails for me. Their models are like robots from the '50s.

      And kudos to Blizzard for releasing it on all consoles at once. Now if only they'd make a PC version. Not likely, esp. considering the fact that my definition of PC specifies to "Mac."

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    2. Re:It LOOKS good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Jeezus. Some idiot who said, "looks good, but how does it PLAY" got moderated as "insightful?" Fucking western hemisphere moderators must all be sleeping. Mark my words: in a few hours, when the civilized world wakes up, this comment will be moderated back to the stone age.

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    3. Re:It LOOKS good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Their models are like robots from the '50s.

      They had robots in the 50's?

      You're an idiot, aren't you? It's okay, you can admit it. There are lots of idiots on Slashdot. You'll feel right at home.

    4. Re:It LOOKS good... by chamenos · · Score: 3, Funny

      yes her bondage catsuit she's got on looks spanky alright but the question is, how does she change her tampon?

    5. Re:It LOOKS good... by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: 2, Funny

      The suit is pure defense.
      I don't know about you, but I couldn't shoot a girl(troll ethics and all).
      If shes fully covered in armor, its kinda hard to tell she's a girl, so she's easier to kill.
      Now, if you can see her happy fun places at all times, there is no way you could kill her.

      The huge hole also helps air out her stanky playground, which i assume gets pretty bad in a suit like that.

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    6. Re:It LOOKS good... by moonbender · · Score: 2

      I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov, first published 1950 - so yeah, they had some sort of concept of robots in the 50's, and it is that very concept the original concept is referring to.

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    7. Re:It LOOKS good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As per the old joke...

      She probably uses the one you need to hammer in with a mallet...

      ..for those who don't know the joke:
      A woman asks a cashier how much the Tampax are...the clerk announces over the loudspeaker "Price check: Tampax"...the employee doing the check misunderstands the announcement, thinks it was for "Tacks" so he calls back "Do you want the kind you push in with your thumb, or hammer in with a mallet?"...

    8. Re:It LOOKS good... by rufo · · Score: 2, Informative

      Considering that every single game that Blizzard has released for PC has also come to the Mac, if by some chance it does come to a computer, Mac gamers won't be left out in the cold. Indeed, Blizzard's last two releases have been simultaneous for the Mac and PC, and even shipped in the same box using the same CD. Blizzard has their own in-house porting team, and in interviews often raves about how simultaneous cross-platform developement finds bugs on both platforms a lot faster then does working on one platform. (Not claiming this is true, just regurgitating what's been said.)

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    9. Re:It LOOKS good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You fool! He obviously means the 1950s, not the 50s AD.

      The robots of 1950 was notorious for being blocky. In fact, we used to call them "Everquest-like robots" because they were so bad.

    10. Re:It LOOKS good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I know it must seem like an alien world to you, but REAL women have to remove or undo some clothing to change their tampons, too.

    11. Re:It LOOKS good... by crotherm · · Score: 2
      Yes, but the robots in I, Robot were androids that looked very human and could even pass as humans.

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  3. So.... by Lord+of+the+Fries · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How long before I get it running on that super wicked IBM super computer?

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  4. Another point... by blitzoid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Something I notice on their site is that they'll specifically mention Linux on the trailer download page... perhaps they see Linux (Or *nix/BSD users in general) users as a potential market? One can only hope.

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    1. Re:Another point... by kikensei · · Score: 1

      I'd wager big money linux is not in the release picture. I'd bet its only 'cause the divx player is available on linux.

    2. Re:Another point... by rampant+mac · · Score: 1

      It wouldn't surprise me, Blizzard's been very good about simultaneously releasing the Windows & Mac versions of their products for years.

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    3. Re:Another point... by DevilJeff · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually, this is a console only game. They mention Linux on the download page, because divx can be played in Windows or Linux (Yes, I know it can be played on Mac, too...but that's what quicktime is for)

    4. Re:Another point... by PhiberOptix · · Score: 2, Funny

      the options are:
      pc/linux (divx format)
      mac (quicktime)

      i bet they must be getting lots of email from angry windows users...
      -damn you blizzard, first you go consoles, now linux and mac only?!?! wtf!?!?

    5. Re:Another point... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes I guess so, especially since Quicktime is impossible to view in Windows

    6. Re:Another point... by Chanc_Gorkon · · Score: 2

      That's cause of Divx. On another point....WHY ARE THE FRIGGIN CLIPS ZIPPED! Zipping a Divx file gets you practically nothing. IN fact it probably adds to the filesize.

      That and the game companies buy into the Gamespy Fileplanet thingy that I REFUSE to sign up for just to look at game video clips! Did they not make enough money from Diablo, Warcraft and Starcraft to buy a decent webserver of their own??

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    7. Re:Another point... by platypus · · Score: 2

      That's cause of Divx. On another point....WHY ARE THE FRIGGIN CLIPS ZIPPED! Zipping a Divx file gets you practically nothing. IN fact it probably adds to the filesize.

      Yes I'm offtopic, but I'd blame that on internet explorer. Sometimes the best (easiest) solution for preventing it from opening the file in an external app (Movieplayer in this case) without asking the user is to zip the file. I guess they don't want one million people sending them angry mails because the "streaming video" is so slow.

    8. Re:Another point... by Chanc_Gorkon · · Score: 2

      Um, most users can also figure out how to download the whole thing too. (right click link, save target as) At least the ones interested in Starcraft would. Also, why aren't they on a streaming server? Why in the world would you want to keep this marketing pap?

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    9. Re:Another point... by platypus · · Score: 2

      Um, most users can also figure out how to download the whole thing too.

      I assure you, most is not enough in most cases. People left klick, some movie player pops up, and they wonder why the movie is so slow on their 56k. And starcraft is not a good enough criterium to filter out enough "lusers".

      As for not being on a streaming server, well, this won't help for 56k too, but you are right, I wouldn't want to keep this marketing pap on my HD too. Maybe they think that people will pass it around etc., and that streaming is more expensive, I don't know.

      What I wanted to just point out is that zipping is not always used for compression only, nearly always thanks to braindead internet explorer.

      See for yourself, but beware, it will make your brain hurt.

      I

    10. Re:Another point... by swv3752 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      One other point, zips are more likely to be allowed through numerous firewalls than other file types. Maybe better to say proxy servers, but you know what I mean.

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    11. Re:Another point... by dupper · · Score: 1

      Oh, RMS must be pissed. Not only does no one prefix "GNU/", but some new bit "pc/" player gets all the credit, now.

  5. Nihilistic by kmac06 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Its a third person shooter, not first, and although Nihilistic is doing most of the work, Blizzard is still watching it closely.

    Also, Nihilistic was started by a group a programmers that left Blizzard after working on StarCraft.

    1. Re:Nihilistic by Longinus · · Score: 3, Informative

      Its a third person shooter, not first, and although Nihilistic is doing most of the work, Blizzard is still watching it closely.

      Also, Nihilistic was started by a group a programmers that left Blizzard after working on StarCraft.

      Actually, Nihilistic is a bunch of ex-Lucasarts guys who left after doing Jedi Knight I.

    2. Re:Nihilistic by KikassAssassin · · Score: 5, Informative

      Robert Huebner, Nihilistic's president and lead programmer, did work on StarCraft at Blizzard before he founded Nihilistic. That's one of the reasons Blizzard chose them to work on this project.

    3. Re:Nihilistic by Pxtl · · Score: 2

      This comment keeps bugging me - I've played many good games that move smoothly between first and third person perspective. Sure, from a visual perspective they're different, but in gameplay they're pretty much the same. Behind view and first person are really just views, not gametypes. You don't actually start making changes to the gameplay until you go to 3/4 or top view or something.

  6. Console only title....? by kikensei · · Score: 1, Troll

    I really don't like consoles, and the gameplay looks awfully stiff, as I expect from those platforms. /me waits for Deus Ex 2 and Doom III.

    1. Re:Console only title....? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If the game's done right, the move to FPS can actually be interesting. I remember cursing profusely when I found out GTA 3 was going to be in full 3D, and it turned out to be surprisingly close to the original's gameplay.

      As for the consoles... well, I'd sure hate to play it on those analog joysticks. RTS games absolutely need a mouse.

  7. Cool weapons but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do I STILL have to wait 30 seconds to use the nuke?!

    1. Re:Cool weapons but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, Iraq is a long way away.

      - Rumsfeld

  8. Direct download link by nstrom · · Score: 5, Informative

    Direct download link for DivX, worked for me:

    http://www.nforcefiles.net/afilesa2aa/movie/Ghost_ Gameplay2002.avi.zip

    1. Re:Direct download link by governorx · · Score: 1

      Isn't nice to see the difference in file size. Notice that the trailer using divx is approx 13 megs while that for Mac (quicktime) is nearly 34 megs.

      Seems to me that either the folks at quicktime are behind or us pc/linux =) users are getting jipped. Hopefully it isn't the latter.

    2. Re:Direct download link by berniecase · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Ya know, they could've just used MPEG-4 on the Quicktime file and saved themselves a lot of bandwidth and time.

    3. Re:Direct download link by Inda · · Score: 1
      This is the same link I downloaded. It's nice to see that someone took the effort to ZIP it up and save a few hundred kilobytes.

      When are some web developers going realise that a lot us of have fat enough pipes to have this sort of media streamed?

      [End of rant]

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  9. Starcraft as FPS? by Sean+Riordan · · Score: 1

    Looks good. Starcraft as an FPS. Different, but interesting. Too bad it's a console game. The only game console I ever had was the Coleco Vision back in the 80's. Anyone heard any news on Starcraft 2?

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    1. Re:Starcraft as FPS? by Mitreya · · Score: 1
      As of June there was not much :(

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      Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:32:33 -0700

      From: Sales
      To:
      Subject: RE: starcraft question.

      Blizzard has not announced any plans for further development of the StarCraft series. All of our game designers and development teams are currently working on other projects.

    2. Re:Starcraft as FPS? by Gubble · · Score: 1

      That quote is misleading. Blizzard have not started producing a Starcraft 2 yet. Whenever they point this out they also hasten to add that they will defiently make another starcraft game some time in the future. And no, Ghost is not that future game.

    3. Re:Starcraft as FPS? by m4ik · · Score: 5, Informative

      Blizzard currently denies any SC2 plans but if you finish Warcraft 3 on hard, you'll see some Space Marines, some Space Orc-Flamethrowers and alot Zerg Hydralisks, all running in the WC3 engine. They are shooting and killing each other, so I assume that it won't take long to do Starcraft2, as the engine is ready and even some models are already done .

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    4. Re:Starcraft as FPS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      http://www.blizzard.com/ghost/faq.shtml

      Q: Will there be a StarCraft II? When?
      A: Although we have not made any announcements and do not have a development or release timeline, we do fully intend to revisit the world of StarCraft on PC at some point in the future.

    5. Re:Starcraft as FPS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The problem with this is the wc3 engine SUCKS.

      For starcraft 2 if they fail like they failed with war3 then the project lead should be hung out.

      War3 is all micromanagement and takes away from what people like about the current sc. And thats the chess-like play of the game.

      I still play sc brood war all the time and its an awesome game (cept for the rampent bnet cheating) but thats only because it plays like chess.. you can send a group of marines and medics with very little management till the battle actually begins. With war3 its totally a pain in the ass to maintain a base and the units and fight at more than one front effectively. Its a crappy game as far as gameplay goes really really crappy.

      Not to meantion the fact that to get around memory limitations they made the psi limit _REALLY LOW_ ... 80 points with large creatures taking 8 points themselves... Now think a 10 unit game ... boring micro crap.

      Hopefully sc2 will be mostly like sc1 but with improved maps/units and abilities...

      Personally i'd like a top-view but with good textured maps. With hillsides etc. Sc1 has a lot of the concepts of higher/lower terrain but at like only 4 levels land ground mountain and air. Theres no grey areas. SO in that sense theres a lot of room for improvement.

      If they make it a whole warcraft like thing the game will bomb. Personally I think ghost will too but thats only cuz blizzard is totally virgin in making fps and its gonna have to compete with doom3 and we all know it cant come close.

      $0.02

    6. Re:Starcraft as FPS? by hkmwbz · · Score: 2
      Whoa! Hold on there for a sec! Won't take long?

      What on earth makes you think they will use the WC3 engine for SC2, and what makes you think that "a running engine and a couple of finished models" means that it won't take long to complete a game?

      It takes time to create the technology as well as the contents, you know. Not to mention alpha and beta testing, and tweaking, tweaking and yet more tweaking. This is Blizzard, after all.

      Not to underestimate the creativity and amount of work which goes into a model, but creating a single model doesn't take that long! And besides, they've already got the SC models built. They used them for the cutscenes in SC, remember (and maybe even as basis for the 2D characters in the game itself).

      The ending in WC3 is just an easter egg of sorts, and says absolutely nothing about SC2. And it sounds like you don't even know what you are writing, because the exact story you are replying to now is a 3D game based in the SC universe, and it actually has 3D models of Hydras, Zealots, etc.. Why on earth do you start talking about SC2?

      And the WC3 engine for SC2? I hope that is not the case.

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  10. Ghost in a shell? by baywulf · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I used the AAlib library (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/), can I get ghost is a shell?

    1. Re:Ghost in a shell? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That was the funniest thing I ever read on Slashdot!

  11. Early for Blizzard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Strange that Blizzard would release a trailer showing a fair amount of gameplay not much more than a month since the game itself was announced. Remember how long Warcraft 3 was in development?

    1. Re:Early for Blizzard? by Gubble · · Score: 1

      You know, they have outsourced the game.

  12. love/hate blizzard by nebenfun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn! I lost my schedule again.
    Could someone please remind me if we hate blizzard this week?
    thanks.
    nbfn

    1. Re:love/hate blizzard by Have+Blue · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's Saturday, so you should be able to drool over this movie for... ::checks calendar:: 3 days. Then start the boycott.

    2. Re:love/hate blizzard by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 1

      'Could someone please remind me if we hate blizzard this week?"

      Well, Blizzard hasn't sued anybody attempting to do stuff they really shouldn't be doing, so you can focus on the important part which is making good games.

      (Ah, good thing I killed the lead Orc. Now I have +3 Flame protection against comments like that!)

    3. Re:love/hate blizzard by eyez · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Yes, of course we hate them; They're an evil company trying to take our rights away to create interoperability software.

      But, jesus, that game looks sexy. It's very VERY hard to keep up your morals when the companies do that to you; I hate blizzard, and I've sworn off Diablo, warcraft AND starcraft because of what they've done. But it's going to take every last drop of willpower left in my body to stop me from buying this game when it comes out, and there's a chance that it just won't be enough.

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    4. Re:love/hate blizzard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We're hating blizzard this week. Why else would they link to the 13.1 MB movies? >=}

    5. Re:love/hate blizzard by Wraithlyn · · Score: 2

      We hate Blizzard because they didn't mention PCs at the end.. only consoles.

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    6. Re:love/hate blizzard by richieb · · Score: 2
      Bnetd. We still hate it!

      HIH

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    7. Re:love/hate blizzard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What do you mean "we," kemosabe?

      Why don't you try making up your own mind, and stick with that, instead of trying to shame the hive-mind into falling into line with your point of view, okay? Thanks.

  13. Re:Another point...File size. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Also noted. DivX was about half the size of the Quicktime file. I guess that makes QT the "Texas" of file formats. Y'all likem big.

  14. Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by realgone · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Blizzard Entertainment has put up gameplay trailers for their upcoming console title...
    Yup -- just so long as by "upcoming" you mean well over a year from now. More likely two years, given Blizzard's track record on meeting projected shipping dates...
    1. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by fuzzygeek · · Score: 2, Interesting
      i would argue that deadlines are easier to meet for console projects as (insert standardized hardware/os argument here). although as they are slated to release for all the nextgen consoles, that argument may be blown out of the water.

      my main issue is that i don't forsee many LAN parties featuring SC:G. while i'll piece together computers and build a LAN in my home office to play multiplayer PC games, i don't see myself going out and buying four (insert console here) and four TVs (or VGA adapters).

      pity.

      although if they were going to port it to PC, the Xbox code might be a good place to start. heh.

      was i the only one that was deeply disappointed by WC3?

    2. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by Guitarzan · · Score: 1

      was i the only one that was deeply disappointed by WC3?

      Nope, you sure weren't. But you were probably among the many (myself included) with ridiculously high expectations. Granted, I wasn't DEEPLY disappointed, but I got bored with WC3 pretty quickly.

      But to be semi on topic, I have a console so I'll probably play this one. However, I'm not expecting much in the way of multiplayer at all.

    3. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by Pxtl · · Score: 2

      Hmm - look at the game - its not designed for multiplayer anyways, its a single player adventure sneaky game - closer to syphon filter or metal gear. Which is also why it belongs on a console. They can keep their single-player games, thankyou.

    4. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "More likely two years, given Blizzard's track record on meeting projected shipping dates..."

      Blizzard can get away with it. They release their games when it's ready to be released.

      Personally, I'd prefer companies take a cue from Blizzard and consider the quality of their games instead of trying to meet trade-shows. With all the crap out there, there's room for companies that actually care.

    5. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      wow, all those expensive, ultra-cool, unmatchable graphics that all the big publishers think are SO important, didn't make the game better?

      Who woulda thunk it?

    6. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yep. Blizzard cares. Twelve sequels and 37 spinoffs. The only thing new is the "we're so #%*&#$@* cool" logo at the beginning of the trailers.

      Blizzard cares. Sure thing.

    7. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They release their games when it's ready to be released.

      You mean like Daikatana? And Duke Nukem Forever?

    8. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by Guitarzan · · Score: 1

      Graphics weren't the big deal at all. Everyone knows that 2D graphics look better.

    9. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can they really afford two years in an industry where consoles seem to have a life of about five years? They'd be releasing in the third year of that lifespan, and by then I'm sure developers will be stretching the limits of the system (ala DKC 1,2,3 on the SNES and Perfect Dark on N64... sorry, I'm a Nintendo fanboy). If they DO take that much time, let's hope they make adjustments along the way to keep up with the competition. Just my 2 anonymous cents.

      BTW, this seems kind of late to be posting this story. Do they queue them to post at specific times or something?

    10. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by Hott+of+the+World · · Score: 2

      So I should try before I buy... I have ways..

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    11. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by fuzzygeek · · Score: 1

      Nope, you sure weren't. But you were probably among the many (myself included) with ridiculously high expectations. Granted, I wasn't DEEPLY disappointed, but I got bored with WC3 pretty quickly.


      true dat. i was hoping for a game i could play for the next couple years -- a game that had a similar lifespan to starcraft. heck, i'm still playing starcraft, six years later. i think i stopped playing WC3 within six weeks, if not days.

      heh.

      as far as multiplayer for SC:G, i could envision some co-op sneaky mission type things that could be interesting. or even melee battles where you could play various characters (the models are there, the algos are there, so why not pop the player into the body of a zerg or toss?).

      heh, BF1942 style action with SC models anyone?

    12. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by Mac+Degger · · Score: 1

      Well, that beats Bungie with their PC/Mac game title "Halo". By a long shot; marketing trick like that have always pissed me off.

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    13. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by Mac+Degger · · Score: 1

      Thery're not so much meeting trade show deadlines, which are nice, as trying to meet holiday buying seasons, which are 'essential'. But I'm always happy when I see a company which puts gamer-satisfaction over accountant satisfaction.

      The odd thing is that somehow a lot of companies don't realise that one translates into the other (i.e. gameplay/satisfaction==$)

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    14. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 2

      "You mean like Daikatana? And Duke Nukem Forever?"

      No, I mean like Star Craft, Warcraft III, Super Mario 64, Diablo II (I think that one was late....), etc.

    15. Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch by jxg · · Score: 1

      Funny, I'd say the exact opposite: the console is really designed for multiplayer games (though not FPSs), and better story-based single-player games should come to the Windows/Mac/Linux P.C. market.

  15. sellouts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Blizzard is a sellout for going console-only. It makes no sense why they can't develop for the PC if they're developing for the X-Box, outside of a contractual agreement.

  16. Re:Good vid! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Looks more like a 3rd person shooter. Too bad consoles dont have a mouse and a keyboard (by default) so that fps's play well. =/

    And thats why console games have autoaim.

  17. Re:Another point...File size. by Alex+Thorpe · · Score: 3, Informative

    The QuickTime version is in Sorenson format, as I suspected before I even downloaded it. If it was in MPEG4, it would have been about the same size or smaller than DivX, since MPEG4 and DivX share the same video codex, just differing in audio format.

    Took me a while to get the QuickTime version, though. The mirrors weren't working, save perhaps File Planet with its mandatory registration, and I couldn't reach Blizzard's own FTP server with a browser. I used a stand-alone FTP client instead to download it.

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  18. Schedule?!? by laxrox · · Score: 1

    It's not a schedule, it's a secret decoder ring.

    Where have you been? Join the club! (pun intended)

  19. Um... by The+Bungi · · Score: 4, Funny

    OK, I don't want to troll here... or something. But... the movie... isn't that voice the same that used to do the "descriptions" for bad 70's porno films from Sweden?

    1. Re:Um... by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 3, Funny

      If you are able to pick out a voice from bad 70's Swedish porno films, shouldn't you be more worried about what that says about you and not what that says about Blizzard?

    2. Re:Um... by styxlord · · Score: 1

      I don't see any Swedish 70's porn in his filmography but you never know ... yes his work in Blizzard trailers in uncredited but is unmistakable.

    3. Re:Um... by mshiltonj · · Score: 4, Funny

      He was Optimus Prime! Cool!

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    4. Re:Um... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Optimus Prime did 70's Swedish porn?! I must've missed a few transformer episodes...

    5. Re:Um... by The+Bungi · · Score: 2

      No, not really. Why, you got milk?

    6. Re:Um... by Quino · · Score: 1

      Don't know about swedish porn (does it come with recommendation? :P), but to me it sounds like the same voice used in the "2001 E3" Warcraft 3 trailer (pretty cool clip, IMHO):

      http://www.blizzard.com/war3/movies/

  20. FPS==First Person Shooter by Russellkhan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This doesn't seem to be a first person game. It's an over the shoulder, third person game.

    What's up guys? This story has been up for close to an hour with lots of graphics and BIG data files and I was still able to download the trailer with very nice speed. Is slashdot losing its magic touch?

    Russ

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  21. I'll buy it if... by EvilStein · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..we can still click frantically on the terran units and make them say funny things. :P

    1. Re:I'll buy it if... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ok ... Alright ... As you wish ... On my way ... STOP BUGGING ME

    2. Re:I'll buy it if... by Kirruth · · Score: 1

      It's in the pipe, five by five.

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    3. Re:I'll buy it if... by winne+too · · Score: 1

      click me baby, one more time :)

  22. Re:More Mono Trolling, Don't You Folks Get Tired? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    > Well, Blizzard hasn't sued anybody attempting to
    > do stuff they really shouldn't be doing,

    And who the hell tells people what they should and shuldn't be doing? Blizzard? Uh, no... So you're wrong.

  23. EDITORS: REVOKE MOD PRIVLEDGES OF UPMODDERS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The parent post is most certainly neither funny nor original.

    1. Re:EDITORS: REVOKE MOD PRIVLEDGES OF UPMODDERS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      EDITORS: REVOKE MOD PRIVLEDGES OF UPMODDERS

      Yeah. That works. Sheesh. Fuckin' noob.

      (Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
      Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.)

    2. Re:EDITORS: REVOKE MOD PRIVLEDGES OF UPMODDERS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Who's the newbie now, Mister 'I need to copy and paste the lameness filter text in order to get around it'?

  24. ...at least 8 glasses of fan service a day... by fenix+down · · Score: 5, Funny

    I never knew that the SOUL of the WARRIOR had so much to do with wearing form-fitting wetsuits and posing suggestively...
    Will there be dramatic netative-color fade-outs that make her ass crack glow in the game too? If not, wanna run out a patch for that? Thanks.
    Fwoosh! Blinded by da booty! Take that, Zerg overlord!

    Goodnight everybody!

    1. Re:...at least 8 glasses of fan service a day... by Krach42 · · Score: 1

      Yeah, it's good to know that in the future, "genetic enhancment" == "big breasts"

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    2. Re:...at least 8 glasses of fan service a day... by IndependentVik · · Score: 1

      And they said scientific progress was getting us nowhere ;)

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  25. /me wonders... by Wes+Janson · · Score: 1

    Will there still be that effect where every second or third shot misses for no apparant reason, yet every other hits precisely on-target? I guess this one has permanent auto-aim, or *gasp* continuity is broken!

  26. Become-A-Zerg by Wes+Janson · · Score: 1

    It'll be located on the control panel. Click to become infested, click again to make all Terrans die.

  27. Did I download the wrong trailer file? by the_other_one · · Score: 0, Troll

    All I got was a circular fog thing with a voice, bad music and let me restate REALLY LAME GRAPHICS.

    I was expecting something some thing that would make me want to play this game.

    The seven minuite trailer that I saw last night for Doom III really made me want to buy it (not wait for christmas).

    This thing makes me think that a release of Geriatric PAC MAN would be a better choice.

    Blizzard should really consider a new advertising agency.

    I think that there is one that used to work for Microsoft.

    They could use stock photos and do a I switched from freecell and Installed my own game type of ad.

    They could even try to get some mileage with a diatribe from a stoned teenager

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    1. Re:Did I download the wrong trailer file? by the_other_one · · Score: 1, Troll

      Am I missing something?

      or Did the (-1 troll) moderator work for Blizzard, Micosoft, Apple, or related law firm or advertizing agencey

      I am only trying to ask if I have the correct trailer????

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    2. Re:Did I download the wrong trailer file? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If the moderator works for a law firm then
      You will be geting a letter hand delivered soon.

    3. Re:Did I download the wrong trailer file? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Download the DivX decoder. At least you will see actual video instead of "circular fog".

  28. a bit disappointed by selderrr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    apart from the cool cloaking effect and the fish-eye view, I see little or no revolutionary stuff. From what a trailer can tell, I'd put it in the oni/halo category, which happens to be a rather crowded one.

    It's been a while (since the doom3 trailers actually) since I've had a 'wow... this shit is awesome...' reaction, and SC-G doesn't trigger that for me.

    Then again, I might have played just a bit too much fps games to get wowed anymore. All I see in those trailers is cannon fodder :-)

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    1. Re:a bit disappointed by snicker · · Score: 1

      By "oni/halo" category, do you mean "Bungie game"?

    2. Re:a bit disappointed by selderrr · · Score: 2

      no, just that it's yet-another-third-person-shooter. Bungie indeed makes little else these days. As does 90% of the console game makers apparently.
      Maybe it's just me : i used to play Q3A a lot (as well as Q1 and Q2) but the last few months I got bored with the repetitiveness ('finally' says my wife, until she saw I got hooked on warcraft)
      chris should run a poll on the fps and 3ps games :
      - lov'em
      - never loved'm
      - bored with it
      - loved, then bored, now in love again

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    3. Re:a bit disappointed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually, I think it falls into the Metal Gear Solid or Thief category more than 1st/3rd-person shooter.

    4. Re:a bit disappointed by Ricofencer · · Score: 1

      Hmmm, cloaking and fisheye view were both in Aliens Vs Predator. How revolutionary.

  29. cup by selderrr · · Score: 5, Funny

    is this just me, or are her boobs to small for an average digital female warrior ?

    big fat ass tho... might spurr ideas...

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    1. Re:cup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      i hear they're getting jennifer lopez for the movie.

    2. Re:cup by Nintendork · · Score: 2

      You didn't see the action scene from the "Spank that booty" level?

  30. OT: Random missing by andfarm · · Score: 1

    Random misses occur for low terrain to high terrain shots on all units.

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  31. Just imagine.... by standsolid · · Score: 1

    Imagine the FPS of this running a beow...

    -1: stop using that joke...

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  32. Re:BIG ADS! by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 1

    (Insert why don't you subscribe joke here)

    Actually, I'll insert the de rigeur "haven't seen an ad on Slashdot since I started using OmniWeb" remark instead, if that's okay with you.

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  33. Re:Another point...File size. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If it was in MPEG4, it would have been about the same size or smaller than DivX

    Woulda looked like crap, too. MPEG-4 is for little children. Sorenson is for stuff that actually needs to look like it was made by people who draw a paycheck.

  34. Blizzard's direction by DavidTurner · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Actually, I for one am rather disappointed with the direction Blizzard is taking. They made great RTS games (Warcraft I/II, StarCraft), and great RPGs (Diablo)... and then they decided that if the two genres were so popular, they ought to mix them.

    Warcraft III was like Shakespeare writing a comedy-tragedy. Romeo and the Merry Wives of Windsor, anyone? From what I gather, Ghost is more of the same.

    1. Re:Blizzard's direction by theefer · · Score: 2

      I find it funny you call Diablo an RPG, but let's not troll.

      Blizzard hasn't invented anything with its game. There was Dune2 before Warcraft. Their business lies in improving existing genres. See Starcraft. Nothing really new in that game, but it was so great because of the fantastic gameplay.

      I don't see SC Ghost as a revolutionnary game either, but who knows what the gameplay will look like, maybe it'll just be the next reference in the genre. 'cause, imho, Warcraft 3 isn't.

      I'm *glad* Blizzard is approaching new kind of games, and not yet another Warcraft/Diablo.

      We all know how rare it is that radically new games (Populous, Homeworld, Myst, etc) are released. This is just business, they won't take risks if people keep buying Doom 19. The best we can expect is real improvement in existing genres (B&W, RCT), or mixed genres (I see Warcraft 3 as a failed experiment).

      If they want to try some new orientations in game design, fine, let them do, 'cause it can't really be worse than a stupid clone.

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  35. Re:In case comments get slashdotted: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0



    damn, forgot to hit privew. :(:(

  36. hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    looks like a solid snake affair but with jubblies.

  37. Re:Just another politician ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Autofellatio Mister Roboto

  38. Don't underestimate the source material... by Wraithlyn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That Hyrdalisk that was right on top of him was pretty cool though :) Think of all the cool Starcraft shit that could be in the game... Lurkers and Battlecruisers and Goliaths and Archons.. thousand of zerglings.. :) could be a fun game.

    But of course, who really knows. As with everything, have to wait and see...

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  39. Which console to buy? by Versix · · Score: 0
    I have been tempted to buy a console for a while before this was announced, and after the initial disapointment when the countdown at blizzard.com finished (...or more correctly, once their site came back online after they effectively self-DoS'd) I figured this game was a good enough excuse.

    But I don't really know which console is the best, and (surprisingly) a quick search at google didn't result in many comparisons between the three consoles. Right now I'm leaning towards a Gamecube (mainly because I had both a NES and a SNES when I was younger, and the Resident Evil remakes), but what do others here recommend? BTW: I have no interest in running Linux on my console :P

    1. Re:Which console to buy? by syphoon · · Score: 1

      Doom 3 -> X Box Tux vs Clippy -> X Box Need any more reasons?

    2. Re:Which console to buy? by theefer · · Score: 2

      Actually Doom3 is on PC too, isn't it ? Or did you mean SC Ghost instead of D3 ?

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    3. Re:Which console to buy? by syphoon · · Score: 1

      Yes Doom 3 will be on the PC, but if you're not prepared to upgrade your machine to handle it, John Carmack has stated repeatedly that the XBox is the only console he's prepared to confirm a port for.

  40. ONI // Ghost by sICE · · Score: 1

    It's surely looks like ONI to me. ONI was missing a lot of details and the 3d world was kind of block shaped, but i hope it will be the same 'genre'. Things i loved about were the anime style 3d, and the fact that it was running very nicely on my old laptop (a 333Mhz).

    Well, StarCraft ghost looks far more beautiful, i hope they'll be a dozen of combo to do. Btw, a funny thing is that ONI means ghost or demon in Japanese... So, is this StarCraft - ONI? ;-)

    Check the web for some shots, scripts and maps at ONI Central and ONI Res. Btw, you can download the demo it's not that big, and i guess i'll playing it in some minutes again.

    freddo

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    1. Re:ONI // Ghost by sICE · · Score: 1

      btw, does anyone knows about games with a gameplay like ONI?

      freddo

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  41. Ren & Stimpy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Mr. Horse: No sir, I don't like it.
    That is what came to mind when I saw the preview to this game.

  42. All three consoles? by NineNine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've never heard of a game being released on *all three* consoles before. Is this new? And, do they really have the leverage to tell the console makers that they don't get an exclusive lock on the game? This seems pretty strange to me.

    All that being said, I'm looking forward to GTA4 on Oct 29 much more :)

    1. Re:All three consoles? by Moridineas · · Score: 2

      Tony Hawk 4 is an example of a game released for all 3 platforms at the same time (simultaneously nonetheless)

    2. Re:All three consoles? by Zealous_Apathy · · Score: 1

      ummm.... yes, many, many games are released on all platforms... tony hawk 3, spiderman, lord of the rings off the top of my head, and these are only the names that other people will know. :)

    3. Re:All three consoles? by mh101 · · Score: 1

      Don't forget Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (AKA NFS6). It's out for PS2, Gamecube, XBox, AND PC. =D

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  43. Right! by imsabbel · · Score: 1

    I mean, a Linux user cant play any recent games on his computer, so he is more likely to own a console for gaming ... ;)

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  44. DivX not working? by hoggoth · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When I play this trailer I just get the 'key frames' with no motion in between...
    I downloaded and installed the latest DivX codec.
    Anyone else get this?

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  45. consoles are EVIL by KyleKartan · · Score: 1

    great...wonderful...IF YOU HAVE A CONSOLE!!! i dont know about any of the rest of you, but i dont have the odd $200-250 to shell out for an xbox, ps2 or gamecube. guess im gonna have to buy all three in order to play any of the new games that are coming out. course, it would prolly all look better with my p4 2.53 and a GF4, but thats besides the point.

    1. Re:consoles are EVIL by Alzheimers · · Score: 1

      For a crowd that regularly spends $1000-$2000 a year on hardware, including $300+ for a video card specificly designed for GAMES, I doubt a used gamecube ($129) is really that much of a hardship.

      If you can't afford that, then give up the dream of playing DoomIII which will DEFINATELY require an expensive upgrade, no matter what you have now.

    2. Re:consoles are EVIL by PaperTie · · Score: 1

      great...wonderful...IF YOU HAVE A COMPUTER!!! i dont know about any of the rest of you, but i dont have the odd $500-1500 to shell out for a new pc.

    3. Re:consoles are EVIL by KyleKartan · · Score: 1

      well..typically if your posting on /. you have a computer......(unless your at work..)

  46. So fast you forgot bnetd? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I don't matter if blizzard releases another shitty craft-game again.
    You are like child. When bnetd was shut down you cried in anger, and some days later you are happy like a child with a candy when blizzard releases the same craft-shit again.
    Be adult and consistent with yourself. If you don't like the bnetd case, don't buy anything from then, and write them an e-mail explaining why you will not buy their latest game.

  47. what do you bet... by Infernus · · Score: 0

    ...that someone at Blizzard saw the success Westwood had with C&C: Renegade and thought 'hey, we could do that!'...after all, it's essentially the same concept: take the coolest infantry unit in your RTS game and make a shooter about it...

  48. On the 12th Day of Christmas, Blizzard gave to me: by 1WingedAngel · · Score: 3, Funny

    Twelve Arbiters
    Eleven Science Vessels
    Ten Ultralisks
    Nine Battlecruisers
    Eight Archons Burning
    Seven Zerglings Swarming
    Six Zealots Fighting
    Five Newborn Queens
    Fout Hydralisks
    Three Marines
    Two Terran Waiths
    And a brand New SCV!

  49. Tomb Raider meets Halo.. by Frank+of+Earth · · Score: 2

    ... I wasn't impressed.

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  50. Disappointed... by CokoBWare · · Score: 1

    I can't believe this is for a console! I own a PS2, and yes, the game seems made for a console, but I would have thought that this SHOULD have been made for the PC. I will buy it, but I was just hoping to flex my PC's muscles and play this game at my desk with a real keyboard and mouse instead of an awkward console controller.

    It's StarCraft after all...made for and inspired by the PC... what else will the video game publishers take away from the PC gamers who MADE the next generation gaming market?

  51. Short memories by earthforce_1 · · Score: 1

    Remember how they used the DMCA as a club against the bnet.d project?

    I loved their earlier games, I have Warcraft, Diablo, Diablo 2, and Starcraft (all legit, the only reason why I still have a PC at home with windows) but I will not in good conscience buy another.

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    1. Re:Short memories by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I kept my boycott pledge and did not buy WCIII due to their immoral use of Cease and Decist letter backed by the unConstitutional DMCA.

      Instead, I borrowed a copy and found it very unable to maintain a multiplayer connection and laggy oftentimes on b.net even using a fast broadband connection--the whole point of playing online RTS is for realtime playability and Blizzard failed. In single player mode, it wasn't bad but the voice acting script and the 3D model cutscenes were cheesy at times.

      Also, Blizzard massively ripped off the storyline (e.g., forces of good trying to prevent an evil resurrection) and characters designs from Record of Lodoss War.

      Watch Record of Lodoss War after beating WCIII single player, you will see that every race in WCIII stole characters (Orcs, blood lusted trolls, ogres, wolf creatures, sorceress, female good elves, female dark elves, good knights being decimated by the evil forces, the head evil knight with the same type of armor and sword--Blizzard just changed his hair color from long black hair to long white hair, flying creatures with mounted humans, evil minions in dark robes chanting magic around a building, bright lights flying around and originating from trees, a big tree, red dragons, blue dragons, black dragons, purple dragons, and many more). All these character designs and the main plot being just like Lodoss War is too close to be a coincidence.

      Oh by the way, Starcraft stole storyline from Macross (e.g., One ancient race bio-engineering two advanced warring races that destroy the creater and eventually meet the human race also called Terrans!). Fewer characters were directly stolen (e.g., carrier=zentradi carrier, battle cruiser's yamato canon=Macross canon, Goliath=Zentradi battle pod/robocop evil robot, over whelming zerg forces=overwhelming Zentradi forces).

      These anime companies should sue Blizzard for copyright infringement of their characters and storyline.

  52. Re:Another point...File size. by MasterVidBoi · · Score: 1

    Did they go out of their way to look quicktime look bad?

    Anyhow, your right, the Video codec used in the Quicktime file is Sorenson.... Sorenson. Not even Sorenson 3, but Sorenson 1! The difference is pretty much clicking a damned checkbox in the encoder!

    Or even better, they could have used MPEG-4.

    That's not the real kicker though... no, the Audio is even better. Take a wild guess what audio encoding they're using: None.

    That's right, uncompressed audio. They had their coice of a dozen different audio encodings, including aac and vbr-mp3, and chose uncompressed audio. That's 14.3 megs of (POOR QUALITY!) audio for a 1 minute 25 second movie file.

    Glad to know blizzard has a competent video group :)

  53. Re:Another point...File size. by benwaggoner · · Score: 2

    Sorenson Video 3.1 Pro is very competitive against MPEG-4 Advanced Simple implementations like DivX. It supports 2-pass VBR, B-frames, etcetera.

    QuickTime can only decode Simple, not Advanced Simple, so SV3.1 can beat it handily.

    Of course, they used Sorenson Video 1, which is much old and lousy. Presumably this is for backwards compatibility (to QT3), instead of the only months old QT6 which is required for MPEG-4.

    MPEG-4 is awesome, but it is NOT all about maximum quality at small files. Propritary codecs beat all public implementations of MPEG-4 today on this measure.

    Of course, being an ISO standard has other, huge, advangages.

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  54. Re:Hi, I am not a nigger. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "This is what I mean--an anti-nigger machine!" -- Chuck D

  55. Re:Let's see the gape! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    And then you reply! to make to page even longer.

    WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WW WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
    Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

  56. They be /.ed :-D by EMR · · Score: 1

    Hehe Connection Refused when contacting blizzard.com..

  57. 3rd person shoooters are the new platform games by Dreamweaver · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The reason everyone's making 3rd person shooter games is the same one that drove everyone to make platform games back in the NES/SNES/Genesis days. They follow a simple formula, have some level cliches to keep you from having to work too hard on ideas, and with the vast number of others out there it's easy just to copy ideas directly if it gets too hard.

    Everything now-a-days has to be 3d (Why this is, I don't know. I'd really like to play another side-scrolling sprite-based Mario Brothers game), and while games like Crash Bandicoot, Sonic Adventures, and Mario64 did well in certain markets, they're not the kinds of titles that sell anymore. They manifestly lack flashy graphics and things exploding, which are what sells games, apparently. As such, the console market had to move on to something else. FPSes have a pretty tight upper limit as to what you can innovate, and most releases focus on the newer, flashier, more-memory-eating graphics than any actual difference in gameplay. Console game authors can't rely on hardware upgrades to support their latest endeavour, so FPS games are pretty much right out. Third-person shooters (or just 3rd person adventure games in general, to include games like Onimusha that fit the mold but lack the guns) give you a little more freedom to innovate ("In this one you play a ninja frog with 76 secret tongue attacks to unlock!") without really moving Too far away from the "slightly-maze-like levels with plenty of moving things to make scream, bleed, and stop moving" formula.

    So until someone comes up with a new display medium, we'll probably be stuck with an ever increasing selection of 3rd person adventure games and progressively more movie-like RPGs to play on consoles.

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  58. Blizzard Slashdotted? by dunkan44 · · Score: 1

    Wow, I thought a larger company like that would have more resources. I can't even get to their main site. mmmmmmmmmm the power of slashdot.. hah

  59. What about PC? by phorm · · Score: 2

    For some reason I can't access blizzard.com properly (did we manage to slashdot it or is it the screwy gateway on my host being weird again). On the trailer it mentioned all three consoles, but not PC. I assume this is because there's no logo for PC (unless we're going windows symbol and tux for linux, etc), or would they be so cruel as to release it for console before PC?

    There's too much marketing going out to console games right now. I need something other than NWN to test my CPU and video card to the edge.

    (and while they're at it, can they get the Squaresoft guys to bring out FFX for PC too?)

  60. If by hot you mean... by Jack9 · · Score: 1

    a steamy pile of crap, I have to agree. It's not a flame if it's an objective statement by someone who still owns a Texas Instruments console. I have standards ppl and Ghost is almost the exact opposite of a new Halflife mod 'Natural Selection'. No gameplay depth, just pretty colors. That's what warcraft iii turned out to be about.

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  61. This is news here but Wellstone is not? by nial-in-a-box · · Score: 0

    Frankly, I doubt if most people on Slashdot care about Blizzard coming up with yet another game to consume lives. I could be wrong, but it has to be wrong when a game is considered bigger news on Slashdot than the death of a liberal, anti-big-business senator. I think that these are both newsworthy here, but as technology gets increasingly political, the death of a senator involved in one of the key races that will determine who controls the US Senate should be considered news. Senator Wellstone was looked at favorably in his one mentioning on Slashdot. But, I digress. Most people should have multiple sources of news anyway. Since this is headline news everywhere else, why put it here? (But then why did Slashdot do 9/11 coverage this year?) Just some stuff to think about. Peace.

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