Today at BlizzCon, Blizzard dropped the proverbial bombshell. The highly anticipated RTS Starcraft 2 will be split into three distinct stand-alone titles, each featuring a different race in order to keep the “epic” scale of Starcraft 2’s storyline intact. It’s a trilogy, except the middle to this one won’t suck as bad as The Matrix: Reloaded did.
The first title to hit stands is called Terran: Wings of Liberty. Following that will be Zerg: Heart of Swarm, and Protoss: Legend of the Void. Details on pricing, dates, and inclusion of multiplayer are unknown at this time. What is known is that each title will feature 26-30 single-player missions without a cliffhanger in sight.
If handled appropriately, I can see how this might be pretty hip. I only hope that all three of these titles don’t hit within months of each other. We'll keep our ears to the ground for more information as BlizzCon unfolds. In the meanwhile, are you happy with this announcement Starcraft fans?
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8:34 PM on 10.10.2008
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Prepare for bitter fan comments starting...now!
In either case people will buy this game, it's as simple as that. It's Starcraft for the love of God. They could charge $100 and people would buy it.
QFT
If I feel the single-player for one release is equivalent to the single-player for SC Vanilla, I won't feel cheated. Otherwise.. I might get angry with Blizzard for the first time. Ever.
Why are you laughing?
but paying for the game 3 times does suck
"I won't be paying full price for something that should just be one cohesive package...I want to play as the protoss now not later."
I tend to agree with both of you.. but I'm willing to give this a shot. With branching missions, bonus missions, new singleplayer game elements, and 30-some main missions.., one campaign just might be equivalent in game-time as all of vanilla SC. However, if the content is really weak, or if the prices of the latter two games is too expensive.. count me out.
I never thought I could say count me out about Starcraft 2.
OH THE HUMANITY
I, for one, am glad they did this.
Fuck that shit.
If I get this, I'll wait for the inevitable Starcraft 2 Battlechest and get the full game for less than the price of one. Sure, it won't be out for a few years, but I'm a patient lad.
It sounds like theyve already completed a lot of the campaign content, but at some point during development, some wise guy was thinking aloud at a board meeting that they would totally make a titload more money if they cleverly split the meat of the game into three pieces.
But honestly? It's probably going to come out to $250 Canadian if the dollar keeps shitting itself. I love Blizzard, but I don't $250 love them.
I "$250 love" your mum.
I hear you about the dollar- bloody Aussie dollar is all screwed up, and it's because of the American market.
Dude I don't even $70 love them. If my game purchase doesn't net me the full package, then I'll simply buy a more complete game at full price.
Why not split each of the campaigns in three and then release 3x terran/zerg/toss campaign discs if you absolutely must release 3 of them...
I think they're trying to deliver more coherent and unique packages for each campaign this time. I've heard rumors that the different campaigns will unfold differently. Trying to accomplish this while cutting each campaign up into pieces.. likely fail.
Also, I'm guessing they're further into the Terran campaign than the others.. by a large margin.
I'm not fantastically happy about this either, but I'm not entirely out of hope about this. This -COULD- be a decent thing
Yeah... I dont like it either.
But yeah, it's still Starcraft. I guess it's gonna be 1 multiplayer purchase and a lot of internet bittorrent traffic for a lot of people eh?
According to one of the devs, supposedly this move is to avoid amazingly long delays and get you the Terran campaign a lot earlier than you'd get all three at once.
If it has enough content to make it a worthwhile purchase as a stand alone game then I will take the proverbially shaft from Blizzard and fork out the money.
Quoted from above - "each title will feature 26-30 single-player missions. That's exactly the same amount as in the original Starcraft (it had 30).
Think of it like they're releasing Starcraft, then Brood War, then another expansion. This is episodic content done correctly.
I trust Blizzard enough to put together a quality game (or games).
Since this seems to be three distinct, continuous, full length experiences, I think its a pretty excellent move, if you're a Star Craft fan. I'd love it if Suda 51 stepped out and said "Well what we didn't tell you is that we've prepared a trilogy of No More Heroes titles, instead of the one sequel you figured you were getting. Go Nuts"
SHIT LIKE TIS IS KILING PC GAMING!
......
Am I kidding, or not?
Blizzard makes there own Pokemon .
NExt up starcraft red blue, ruby and sapphire.
and the new slogan.
"Starcraft the only PC game where the fans are dumb enough to buy it 3 times like a pokemon or a console game."
If they charge 30 bucks or so for the new campaigns... then I could see myself doing it.
To compare it to Brood War, Brood War was only 30-40 when it came out. Sure, you needed the original, but Brood War also provided new elements to multiplayer. Essentially, Brood War will be MORE VALUABLE to someone who owns Starcraft than Campaign 2 or 3 would be to someone who owned the Terran campaign.
Basically, RELEASE THEM AS EXPANSIONS, DON'T ACT LIKE THEY"RE FULL GAMES!
I'm going to buy all of them, I'm going to enjoy all of them.