I'm surprised everyone still fights about this. One system has games, the other has some other games, that's the way I think of it. Just because that other system has other games, doesn't mean we should do comparisons that mean nothing. Let's just leave it at this, one system has this game, the other system has this other game.
I'm actually shocked at some of these operations, who has time to spot them out? Call of duty for example, i'm too busy being shot at to take a gander at the ground to care for texturing. The stock of my gun? I'm too busy looking down my gun to care.
@ thisisreallybor That's true, put your comment in conjunction of what I just said and we get an awesomely true counterpoint to what I was trying to say to vk16, dude... High five! @vk16 You obviously haven't heard of Command and Conquer... Or for that matter, Half Life, or Total Annihilation, or Dawn of War. Offense as a defense can be countered with an army of high-quality defense lines, so I am not the best, neither am I the worse, i'm a compotent strategise that can take you down, probably just not out. Speaking as a universalist, I like all games, or all types, but to call Blizzard games the best, and most original sort of makes you come off as a fanboy, which I believe somewhere in this post you outlandishly claimed, contradictory of what you are saying and doing. Starcraft has a big audience, but so does Total Annihilation, Command and Conquer, etc. Diablo can go toe-to-toe with Planetside. World of Warcraft could be beaten by Guild Wars, only because of free online play, i've never played it, but regardless. @sammoth Now the fight ends... High Five.
@Sammoth How did you know? :) You know... Coming to think of this whole post, I believe this was a bad idea to create this blog of the convention, I mean, it's a bloody warzone in here and you know it. @Hauteon It's interesting, but so is Supreme Commander, Dawn of War, and Sins of a Solar Empire. Personally on my part, all RTS games interest me for different reasons, may it be the way you need to strategise, or may be it's the story... On Starcraft, the story drew me to it, not the gameplay, suffice to say, all our opinions vary greatly, I don't want a fight to spark between us, I respect your opinion, really, i'm just commenting on your opinion. @vk16 I've played quite a few blizzard games, not many aside from Starcraft interested me, Warcraft is fun, but I play with friends, not online. WOW isn't great, played it, and wasn't a big fan. Ok, I suck at blizz games, but I don't hate them, I just don't find them too enticing to play. Starcraft isn't the most original game out there, there are plenty of very original titles, take Warhammer 40k, that's fairly original, and the gameplay along with it took a huge risk, but paid off. The first command and conquer was very orignal, for all we know, Starcraft took inspiration from C&C because it came out 3 years before it, you or I don't know. Maybe Total Annihilation was an influence on Starcraft, came out 1 year before it. Don't just go about saying that it's the most original unless you can back it up with some evidence. I'm kind of shocked you said Dawn of War was horrible, how can you say that? Did you play it? Dawn of War was one of the many RTS that took a big risk in not letting people turtle up, it's all about frontline combat, taking points, not about turtling up and waiting for people to come to you. It was the first refreshing changes of pace for the RTS world. @Genralbold Well... If you think about it, in SupCom, experimental units took alot of resources, but it was worth in the end was it not? :)
@Sammoth I agree, Starcraft wasn't the best, but it was certainly the most popular, along with C&C. How can you really say Starcraft was the best RTS out there? It's popular, but certainly not the best, it just does everything and RTS should do well. What about Total Annilation? That was definately a great RTS that still has a huge following... Relic did some fantastic ones, Dawn of War and Company of Heroes for example... Stardock/Iron Clad's Sins of a Solar Empire did a very good RTS... I could name a bunch of RTS that could go against Starcraft on equal terms. You claim that games steal there ideas, ok... When did Starcraft use Naval combat? Did Starcraft event the concept of little to no basebuilding? Nope, Did they build the idea behind Giant battlefields with lots of units on screen? Like Supreme commander no... Sins of a Solar Empire unoriginal because they used space as their setting? So you mean Sins is unoriginal because Starcraft uses space as their setting ok... Please, if your gonna argue, please back it up with some meanful evidence, and perhaps with a better opening statement, their are alot of games that are inspired by Starcraft, but their take is probably much more different, may it be gameplay, story, etc.
You can't stop pirates, they are always going to find better ways around the DRM, if anything, don't bother, if they want more games that they torrent out of the companies, they will buy it. I actually respect Pirate groups out there, mainly because they want you to support the companies who make the software, they say it as if they were giving you a demo of the full game, thats pretty awesome on there part.
A bit spiffy... Seems too... Good to be true. If it happens to be real, and releases, awesome, saves me the time to not have to bother with more hardware in my pc, possibly means I can run Crysis on very high on an HDTV possibly...
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