Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter

[pistcow@lemmy.world]

"Now with less SA" -Blizzard, probably.

[regdog@lemmy.world]

[Two years from now]: "Don't you guys have phones?"

[network_switch@lemmy.ml]

Question will be if there's going to be a single player component. Back then StarCraft had a beloved universe and characters. Post StarCraft 2 - the universe and those beloved characters aren't so beloved anymore. SC2 and expansions may have been worse than Veilguard for their fanbases in terms of universal disappointment over the stories

[dupelet@piefed.social]

I'm just glad I got a tiny bit of closure for Raynor and Kerrigan before Blizzard went full enshittification

[jakojakojako13@piefed.social]

ZeroSpace you're our only hope. Please be the Tempest Rising to Command and Conquer that StarCraft needs.

[sundray@lemmus.org]

Sure, why the heck not

[teft@piefed.social]

Give us Ghost you cowards.

[don_alforno@feddit.org]

Weird idea but bear with me: They could, and this will shock some of you, I hope you're sitting in a safe position ... They could revive Starcraft as fucking Starcraft!

[bishoponarope@lemmy.world]

Was it really so poorly received? I gotta admit I enjoyed SC2 and was happy to finish out the story, but was much less critical of games etc in my younger years, and have not gone back to play it again since. The ending on diablo 3 though, boy was I unimpressed.

[gravitas@lem.ugh.im]

So are they going to do another game thats pretty much just a reskin like when they turned that chinese mobile game into a diablo game?

[grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works]

After everything they've done to their other key franchises... Surely no one is going to fall for this, right?

[rainbowblite@piefed.ca]

I want an awesome RTS, like Wings of Liberty, but I would absolutely play a StarCraft shooter with a really good story and gameplay. I have zero interest in another Overwatch or extraction shooter. I expect another low-effort reskin.

[ameancow@lemmy.world]

Firing up the new Starcraft shooter, the female voice in your coms says: "Run down this hallway, you're going to need to prove you know how to crouch and jump over obstacles before you can learn how to switch weapon modes!"

yeah, I am gonna need something really special to get excited about another FPS shooter no matter what the wallpaper looks like.

[ameancow@lemmy.world]

Pay to buy, pay to play, pay to get upgrades, pay to get the best ending, pay to not play. (You will have to use premium currency to set the game down for more than a day or lose all progress.)

[dai@lemmy.world]

You can play it on the original Xbox, there was a leak maybe 2020 of a prerelease / wip.

I should grab some screencaptures of the ingame, but I'm sure there are plenty out there.

[muhyb@programming.dev]

Do you guys not have phones?

[muhyb@programming.dev]

First time hearing about this. It sure looks promising.

[bakkoda@lemmy.world]

Do you even cell phone bro?

[atomicorange@lemmy.world]

Let’s take everything the fans love about Starcraft and throw it away. Once we have a soulless aesthetic husk remaining we can slap it in to any piece of shit and count on nostalgia to bring in the buyers!

[washbasin@sh.itjust.works]

StarCraft Brood War pro scene is still going strong! I encourage anyone curious about SC to dip back into the active pro scene. A new season of ASL (GSL of old) is going to start in the next month, or so. And for the sickos, Artosis has a daily YouTube of matches. His enthusiasm is unmatched.