This week saw the release of Starcraft II : Wings of Liberty on the PC. At the moment it appears to be getting positive buzz, but we’re convinced that it could be even better on 360. Here’s why:
Jason Hall, currently an indie developer and former Blizzard employee, has been sharing some really interesting stories from his long career in the industry for a while now. Some of them are truly insightful, while others may seem depressing.
I’m a little shocked that StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty sold only around 6 million copies. The original StarCraft did over 11 million. Maybe Blizzard was too leisurely in releasing StarCraft 2? Starcraft 2 came out 12 years after it’s predecessor.
Im surprised too. Starcraft was still a huge name in 2010. It was kinda the only new RTS around and other genres like MOBAs hadn't really kicked off yet. I do remember at the time sentiment around the game was
pretty angry the game was being split into 3 but I doubt that would have impacted sales to that degree
For a long time I believed StarCraft II sold on par or better than its predecessor. There was so much hype for the game. Plus it had a pretty strong E-Sports scene for a few years.
Myself and half a dozen friends all bought StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and played it religiously for a full year. While I bought the expansions, most of my friends did not. RPGs seem to be a generally low selling genre.
I'm not shocked at all. This was an early example of Blizzard being greedy. Instead of releasing a complete experience, splitting Starcraft 2 in 3 parts so it could make us purchase it 3 times if we wanted to know the whole story and play story mode with the other races.
I originally had that stance. However, Wings of Liberty, was just as long, if not longer than StarCraft 1. The expansions were of decent length too and added a good amount of additional content.
and people wonder why we are having mtx in everything. i blame the people who actual buy them.
It's interesting he used Brazil as an example of the importance of regional pricing. Nowadays many companies on Steam are setting their prices in Brazil as high as, if not more than, their price in USA. I simply refused to buy a few games when I noticed that's the case.
The best sci-fi games ever made range from diving into the depths of humanity to finding hope among the stars.
Don't really agree on Dead Space being number one. But usually come down to preference. Alot of good games on the list. I was hoping to see Aliens vs Predator by Sierra on the list, as it was a great game. Anyways for me the number one is still Halo but Mass Effect was really good up to the infamous ending of the third game.
I would put Flashback on my list. Its got such a great tone and background design. The cutscenes were pretty good too.
DEAD SPACE 2 as number 1? Really? I've only ever played DEAD SPACE 1 (without finishing it) and, sure enough I liked it a lot, and have been yearning for getting to grips with an hd remastered trilogy for the PS4/XBox One/PS5/XBox Series X/S, but what about Deus Ex Human Revolution & Mankind Divided? Alienation (to quench our thirst for twitching fingers' top-down dual-stick shooters)? Or even Cyberpunk 2077 (once the game has been re-released and all the kinks have been ironed out)?
If not at the #1 spot, it seems to me these games deserved to be on the list somewhere.
But what really strikes me as unfair is, if you're going back to the PS3/XBox 360 era with DS2, how could you forget to mention Killzone 2 & 3? The Resistance games? When it comes to Sci-Fi FPS, it's inadequate not to pay your respects to those stellar franchises! Heck, even the Crysis trilogy should've been there IMHO.
A team of modders is working on a Starcraft Remake in Starcraft 2, and has released a brand new version of it.
This has to be one of the worst article I've ever read in my life.
Better controls? Are you effing kidding me? Pros play this game at like 500 APM --what the hell do you think console players are going to be able to do with their control pad?
Better visuals? Oh, alright. The xbox 360's outdated hardware is going to out perform the PC's progressively improving graphics cards and processors.
Better online? The whole entire idea of battle.net is to create an online community that interconnects Warcraft and StarCraft. The matchmaking is perfect, the support for custom maps is flawless. Do you think for even a second that Xbox Live would support this?
Jesus. If I could report this article for being abysmally awful I would.
"1. Better Controls.
2. Avatar Integration
3. Better Graphics.
4. Better Online."
It's like the person who wrote this has either:
-Never played a PC
-Has only a console and new to gaming
-Never played SC.
-Doesn't know that BNet is FREE (Why the hell would I pay to play on BNet if it's not WoW?
Something needs to be done about these pointless and brainless articles.
Edit: @disagree No I am NOT approving this article, why should I approve this rubbish? This is poorly researched and written.
Battle.Net is pretty cool and all, but let’s get down to it: Live is a better service than any other. The fact that you had to pay for it should tell you something about its quality, because paying for something automatically makes it better than not. Also, it has been proven by that peer-to-peer gaming is better than dedicated servers
lol
get this guy on tv. He's hilarious.
Its so funny how few of you actually read it. ITS A JOKE. Here are some qoutes.
London Institute for Enhanced Synthetics (L.I.E.S) maintained in his widely acknowledged white paper “Why people on the internet won’t read any of this and go straight to the comments (1986)”
"Imagine an army of Protosstates attacking, all the while armed with novelty lightsabers and Dont B Nervous Talking 2 Girls Backpacks! Or a Zerg rush comprised of $400 pieces of digital Barbie clothing?! "
"The 360 could make Starcraft even better than it already looks: with a 526Mb of RAM (remember, 526 is at least four times the size of the number 8, which is the recommended RAM for StarCraft PC). Imagine it: at 15 FPS and 640p, StarCraft could really fly."
"National Office of Totally Astounding Factually Accurate Computer Teachings (NOTAFACT) has even cleared this, and ex-Nintendo of America boss Julius H Poppycock even went on record as saying: “Don’t you think it’s suspicious that I would even be commenting on a PC game supposedly appearing on an rival’s console? Hmm?”
Then again is should have known better.
LOL at the disagrees, those are real qoutes and its really a joke. People here make me laugh so much at how blind they are.