3rd May 2010, 8:26 PM
... You don't like Blizzard RTSes? That's very sad... :bummed:
I'd happily have Diablo 3 cancelled or delayed for years if it meant Warcraft IV coming sooner.
I got Diablo II for my birthday in 2000, had fun for the 8 days it took to complete on normal in single player and then I didn't really play it again until the expansion came out. Then I played that and then stopped again. It's a fun game, but nothing which keeps me interested after it was over, and the online play has never interested me at all. I just don't quite see why it grabbed people so much... I mean, it's fun, and there is depth, but even in online it's still pretty much a mostly single player game, and the whole point is just "getting better items and stuff". There's not much else to do. That's not too interesting, what interests me is completing things, beating the game, mapping out areas... but those things don't matter much online, apart from levelling. Maps are randomized every time, etc. It's also very stupid that it deletes Battle.net characters after three months, I've never had a character last at all because of that stupid requirement (as if the game is interesting enough that I'd actually log in every three months? No way).
Starcraft and Warcraft III, though, are the two best games ever made and are by far my two most played games of all time. There's no way I could ever possibly ever guess the number of hours I've played of those games... they are infinitely adaptable, variable, and deep. No other game has anything the equal of Custom mode, for instance. That they are so amazingly brilliant is also why I don't play other RTSes much... I mean, sure, Supreme Commander or Age of Empires II are really great games, but when I could be playing something even better like Warcraft III instead, why should I?
That's why my third most played RTS of all time is NetStorm, it's so utterly different than anything else that playing it doesn't make me want to play a Blizzard RTS instead. There's no other game in existence quite like Netstorm.
Oh, my third most played game ever is Guild Wars, which is orders of magnitude better than any Diablo game ever will be. The game was, of course, made by a company founded by ex-Blizzard members... and they made a game better than either Diablo or World of Warcraft. :)
I'd happily have Diablo 3 cancelled or delayed for years if it meant Warcraft IV coming sooner.
I got Diablo II for my birthday in 2000, had fun for the 8 days it took to complete on normal in single player and then I didn't really play it again until the expansion came out. Then I played that and then stopped again. It's a fun game, but nothing which keeps me interested after it was over, and the online play has never interested me at all. I just don't quite see why it grabbed people so much... I mean, it's fun, and there is depth, but even in online it's still pretty much a mostly single player game, and the whole point is just "getting better items and stuff". There's not much else to do. That's not too interesting, what interests me is completing things, beating the game, mapping out areas... but those things don't matter much online, apart from levelling. Maps are randomized every time, etc. It's also very stupid that it deletes Battle.net characters after three months, I've never had a character last at all because of that stupid requirement (as if the game is interesting enough that I'd actually log in every three months? No way).
Starcraft and Warcraft III, though, are the two best games ever made and are by far my two most played games of all time. There's no way I could ever possibly ever guess the number of hours I've played of those games... they are infinitely adaptable, variable, and deep. No other game has anything the equal of Custom mode, for instance. That they are so amazingly brilliant is also why I don't play other RTSes much... I mean, sure, Supreme Commander or Age of Empires II are really great games, but when I could be playing something even better like Warcraft III instead, why should I?
That's why my third most played RTS of all time is NetStorm, it's so utterly different than anything else that playing it doesn't make me want to play a Blizzard RTS instead. There's no other game in existence quite like Netstorm.
Oh, my third most played game ever is Guild Wars, which is orders of magnitude better than any Diablo game ever will be. The game was, of course, made by a company founded by ex-Blizzard members... and they made a game better than either Diablo or World of Warcraft. :)
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