KojiKnight
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Those were from the April Fools joke from... what... 2014 or 2015...
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What's next for Blizzard/What would you like to see from Blizzard after Overwatch?
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Those were from the April Fools joke from... what... 2014 or 2015...
*Shrug* I only know them from the arcade machines in Overwatch.
Slamtastic
Member
I can't believe no one quoted my fighting game post and replied with
An MMO with as much content and polish as WoW would be pretty insane on console, that's for sure.
Blizzard has been releasing some patches for Diablo 2 recently. 1.14a was released in march from this year and few days ago with the ladder reset 1.14c was released.
The patches didn't contain any noteworthy changes. Mostly compatibility stuff for newer operating systems.
So yeah, I only want them to keep working on diablo 2
The patches didn't contain any noteworthy changes. Mostly compatibility stuff for newer operating systems.
So yeah, I only want them to keep working on diablo 2
Hari Seldon
Member
Overwatch needs private servers and custom maps if they want it to have legs. FPS is just too competitive a market.
Also I wonder at what blizzards most profitable game is. I'm guessing Hearthstone. It wouldn't surprise me if blizzard tries another PC/mobile streamer friendly competitive game.
Also I wonder at what blizzards most profitable game is. I'm guessing Hearthstone. It wouldn't surprise me if blizzard tries another PC/mobile streamer friendly competitive game.
The problem with console wow, as I've brought up when it comes up before - the console players will be night and day disadvantaged from PC users, both due to controls as well as moddability/UI customization. I can't imagine them making a game that you are an actual shit tier pleb in if you buy the console version on consoles. I think future games will be more friendly to this style of play for sure.
Souldestroyer Reborn
Banned
World of Warcraft on consoles.
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
good writing
They already have some of my favorite genre titles with Starcraft 2 and D3 but both these are so heavily tarnished by bad writing it's a pity. These Overwatch animation shorts are also like a 9-10/10 animation quality and 3-5/10 writing.
Everything else Blizz is top tier at, so yeh.
They already have some of my favorite genre titles with Starcraft 2 and D3 but both these are so heavily tarnished by bad writing it's a pity. These Overwatch animation shorts are also like a 9-10/10 animation quality and 3-5/10 writing.
Everything else Blizz is top tier at, so yeh.
ShadowFox08
Member
No more WoW shit. I want a RTS Warcraft 4.
yanipheonu
Member
Desperately need a new MMO from anyone, the genre is pretty damned stagnant at the moment. Whether it's WOW2 or something original, I'd be down,
Herbspiceguy
Member
Online multiplayer, arcadey, competitive Rock'n Roll racing with lots of (cosmetic) customization and licensed music.
The Rocket League of the sorely missing "battle-racing" genre.
The Rocket League of the sorely missing "battle-racing" genre.
Yeah, much as I love both wow and overwatch as they are...
it kills me to know that Overwatch COUDLVE been an mmo.
spacemonkeynation
Member
If Overwatch was built from scraps of Titan I want them to give that another go. The characters and world we've only seen a small glimpse of show an amazing amount of potential. I'm not a fan of MMOs-honestly the only ones I've liked have been action focused and "light," such as PSO and Destiny. I would love playing an MMO that retained the action gameplay of Overwatch.
MMaRsu
Banned
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
A significant WoW addon for once.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
What big risk did they put into Hearthstone? They made the game on the cheap.
Plus, wasn't a lot of the art originally recycled from the TCG?
Overwatch was hardly a "risk"
they had millions of dollars of art assets developed for Titan sitting around and a relatively small team (by blizz standards) fashioned an MP shooter out of them.
Sadly I think 80% people if not more have no idea that this was originally associated with titan.
CertifiedFP
Member
Another vote for World of Starcraft. Though I'd say the opportunity to steal TORtanic's thunder is passed.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Can't blame them. There is nothing to go on for titan other then word or mouth and the scant few things Blizzard mentioned about it
like.a.ser
Member
Warcraft character action game a la God of War. They have a nice stable of characters to choose from for this.
Tertullian
Member
Where are they Blizzard ):
Dylan Sexbang
Banned
From this thread
Give me Overwatch PvE. Titan was scrapped and salvaged for Overwatch, I want to see what they can pull for PvE with it.
Overwatch is such a good IP and so ripe with potential that I would like to see Blizzard start "small" and iterate upon it with co-op missions (like strikes ala Destiny) and any other ways to bring players into the setting/narrative fold through iterative content experiences. The entire structure of the game screams modular expansion to me, and they could just handle that at their own pace.
While this is happening, and since Blizzard has basically built an adamantium shield of invulnerability vs failure around themselves at this point, I would like to see them pour resources into a new kind of MMO that takes the genre to a new and better place. No one is gonna kill WoW any time soon, but in a couple years it will make sense (imo) to move on and "kill it themselves before anyone else does." Could be WoW2 for all I care... I just feel like there are very few devs in the MMO game that have both the talent AND the resources to force a paradigm shift, and Blizzard is foremost among those who can do so.
While this is happening, and since Blizzard has basically built an adamantium shield of invulnerability vs failure around themselves at this point, I would like to see them pour resources into a new kind of MMO that takes the genre to a new and better place. No one is gonna kill WoW any time soon, but in a couple years it will make sense (imo) to move on and "kill it themselves before anyone else does." Could be WoW2 for all I care... I just feel like there are very few devs in the MMO game that have both the talent AND the resources to force a paradigm shift, and Blizzard is foremost among those who can do so.
keltickennedy
Member
Another Diablo expansion with a new class. Warcraft 4 would be great but I don't think that will happen.
Would love to see them try an action RPG with a similar style to Overwatch.... But where would the money be in that?
Would love to see them try an action RPG with a similar style to Overwatch.... But where would the money be in that?
Another fantasy mmo in a new universe. I'd be up for WoW 2 but only if they went about it the right way. Of course it would never happen because they would never want to directly compete with themselves; having multiple mmos to run.
WoW legacy servers. Let me relive the past!
Warcraft 4. For new stories within the Warcraft universe.
They tend to make games as a service so I wonder what other genres or games they could even tackle that could fit within that model.
WoW legacy servers. Let me relive the past!
Warcraft 4. For new stories within the Warcraft universe.
They tend to make games as a service so I wonder what other genres or games they could even tackle that could fit within that model.
Movalpolos
Banned
Diablo IV will be next I think.
AnathemicOne
Banned
Warcraft 4 please
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Maybe they'll allow PC players to play Diablo 3 offline and I'll buy it there.
Yyyyyyyep.
Considering how long this new IP took to be created (I don't mean from 1998, but from when it was started as the Titan codename MMO), it might be a long ass time before we see anything new IP wise. They will most likely go back to one of the other IPs, but here is where it gets tricky.
Starcraft got its last expansion last year, and while it still sells a lot because it is starcraft, a lot of the market for RTS games has shrunk since 1998, let a lone from the time wings of liberty got released. This also kinda suggests that Warcraft 4 might not be their next thing yet. RTS is a dying genre, and yes, it's blizzard and it's warcraft, a name synonymous with RTS so it will still sell, but will it be massive? I don't think so. Blizzard are known to update mechanics of old genres to make them fresh so they could think of something to make RTS great again with War 4, much in the same way they had to update War 3.
Wow expansions will come out every 2 years like clockwork, despite them trying to do it every year.
Diablo 3 has hit its stride, so would they want to shake that up for a new one in the series?
I think for the time being Blizzard will buckle down with the IPs its got going and just pump out updates in terms of items or expansions depending on the games.
War 4 might actually be their next game release that isn't an expansion or update but it might be a while.
Personally I am happy that they were able to make something that seems like it's going to be a success with Overwatch when they found that the MMO they were building around it failed. I am also glad that they ventured out of their comfort zone in genres and did something really good, specially on their first time out.
I would like to see them try to go back to the third person genre that they left behind when they cancelled Nova, take a stab at that or perhaps something stealth related.
Starcraft got its last expansion last year, and while it still sells a lot because it is starcraft, a lot of the market for RTS games has shrunk since 1998, let a lone from the time wings of liberty got released. This also kinda suggests that Warcraft 4 might not be their next thing yet. RTS is a dying genre, and yes, it's blizzard and it's warcraft, a name synonymous with RTS so it will still sell, but will it be massive? I don't think so. Blizzard are known to update mechanics of old genres to make them fresh so they could think of something to make RTS great again with War 4, much in the same way they had to update War 3.
Wow expansions will come out every 2 years like clockwork, despite them trying to do it every year.
Diablo 3 has hit its stride, so would they want to shake that up for a new one in the series?
I think for the time being Blizzard will buckle down with the IPs its got going and just pump out updates in terms of items or expansions depending on the games.
War 4 might actually be their next game release that isn't an expansion or update but it might be a while.
Personally I am happy that they were able to make something that seems like it's going to be a success with Overwatch when they found that the MMO they were building around it failed. I am also glad that they ventured out of their comfort zone in genres and did something really good, specially on their first time out.
I would like to see them try to go back to the third person genre that they left behind when they cancelled Nova, take a stab at that or perhaps something stealth related.
immortald3ath
Member
Warcraft 4 or WoW 2.
That hidden camera angle/setting that was just discovered looks console worthy.
mysteriousmage09
Member
People saying Diablo III xpac. Fuck that noise, give me Diablo IV on a non shit engine.
StrategyFan
Member
I would probably play a
Warcraft MMO even though I'm not a huge fan of how that game ended up
Hearthstone: Heroes of
I'm also in for Diablo 4 but what's wrong with the current engine?