Shadax the wizard
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Warcraft 4 seems logical. In an alternate universe however I would want them to make a new Dungeon Keeper.
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What's next for Blizzard/What would you like to see from Blizzard after Overwatch?
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RoninChaos
Member
Anyone who thinks there's going to be a WoW 2 is crazy.
Soooo just a new expansion to WoW?
What is supposed to change in WoW 2?
Arkam
Member
Would love to see them tackle a genre of game that is currently not very popular. Their last three new IPs (Heroes, HS & OverWatch) were all their take on the most popular gaming trends (LOL, Magic & COD/BF/CS/FPS). That is great and all (no sarcasm) but how about proving your talent by blazing some new trails and open up some markets.
They doubled down on WoW lore with Chronicle rewriting most of the race's origin stories and the motivation behind the Legion, so that's not happening soon.
What? Blizzard knew they could make bank with that kind of strategy game. They already did exactly that with Warcraft and Warcraft 2. Blizzard had loads of experience with strategy games at that point in time and there was a big market for these games. There was nothing risky about Starcraft. I don't see how deciding against 3d was any kind of risk. While the industry was slowly gravitating toward 3d, saying 2d RTS didn't sell anymore in 1998 would be completly false. Case in point: Age of Empires, Total Annihilation and countless other 2d RTS that released around 1998.
While I agree that Warcraft 3 did loads of new, interesting stuff and is probably one of the more interesting games Blizzard have released so far, it still was the third entry in a well established and beloved franchise in a popular genre. So again, I don't think the game was all that much of a risk as it was expected to sell through franchise recognition alone.
But everyone jumped on the MMO bandwagon back then. No one thought Everqest was as big as MMOs would get. Everyone was banking on MMOs to get bigger. Blizzard was one of the many and they pulled it off best.
The only new franchise Blizzard has released in the past 20 years. Everything else has been Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo. And even then Overwatch looks exactly like you'd expect a SciFi AAA Blizzard game to look like artistically speaking. Same old comic look they go for in every game they release nowdays. It pains me Blizzard just can't get out of their comfort zone.
Now, I didn't say Blizzard was the Michael Bay of developers. That would be indeed silly as I have said, Blizzard is more than capable of making competent, well polished games.
I'd like blizzard to remember its roots and start making cutting edge games again. I'd also like them to abandon the WoW art style for something different. Make anything but start taking chances again. Get away from the safe moves.
Honestly I'd like them to make a space MMO like a mix between EVE and world of Warcraft. But that's just me.
Honestly I'd like them to make a space MMO like a mix between EVE and world of Warcraft. But that's just me.
This what was Warcraft 3 was originally. 5 races, no real base building, much more focused on small scale fights with heroes. They ended up canning that idea because they just couldn't make it that fun, and they found it limited them in what they could do design wise.
Safe moves? I feel like Blizzard has been at its most experimental recently. Rather than just crank out sequels they made a new IP FPS and a collectable card game. Those both seem like risks to me.
Sgtpepper89
Member
Capcom X Blizzard fighting game.
TatteredHat
Member
I thought about it but I can't really come up with anything that would really excite me.
Diablo 4, maybe? This time with a bit more effort put into the story. I dunno, either way it wouldn't see the light of day for many years with Diablo 3 still being supported.
Warcraft 4 is probably more deserved, but I have no idea where they'd start off with the story or if they'd just ignore WoW all together.
Diablo 4, maybe? This time with a bit more effort put into the story. I dunno, either way it wouldn't see the light of day for many years with Diablo 3 still being supported.
Warcraft 4 is probably more deserved, but I have no idea where they'd start off with the story or if they'd just ignore WoW all together.
Pewpewlazors99
Member
I want World of Warcraft 2.
But I have a feeling Blizzard is never going to make another MMO. Compare the costs of creating and supporting a MMO compared to those of Hearthstone. Hearthstone also makes a lot more money than that MMO would make. Who in their right mind would approve another MMO when its clear that smaller projects like Hearthstone are the way to go.
Realistically though, I would have to guess the next "thing" coming from Blizzard is going to be WC3+WC3:FT Remaster(Remake? ~ probably not). Especially considering the upcoming Blizzcon also represents Blizzards 25th anniversary. What a better way to celebrate that than re-release possibly their most important game ever made. I also hope the next Diablo project is D4 and not another expansion. Although I wouldn't mind an expansion, I just want a full scale game more.
But I have a feeling Blizzard is never going to make another MMO. Compare the costs of creating and supporting a MMO compared to those of Hearthstone. Hearthstone also makes a lot more money than that MMO would make. Who in their right mind would approve another MMO when its clear that smaller projects like Hearthstone are the way to go.
Realistically though, I would have to guess the next "thing" coming from Blizzard is going to be WC3+WC3:FT Remaster(Remake? ~ probably not). Especially considering the upcoming Blizzcon also represents Blizzards 25th anniversary. What a better way to celebrate that than re-release possibly their most important game ever made. I also hope the next Diablo project is D4 and not another expansion. Although I wouldn't mind an expansion, I just want a full scale game more.
Trickster
Member
We're not getting a WoW2 obviously. But this reasoning is just...what?
Guess we never needed warcraft 2 or 3, they should have just been warcraft 1 expansions?
Or diablo 2 and 3?
Or any sequel ever
Hearthstone was very low risk. They had something like 2 people working on it. HOTS was low risk, they chose a game using familiar Blizzard characters in the most popular genre in the world. Also, Overwatch was created from their failed MMO, Titan. So they didn't have to build everything from scratch in that game. Titan was a risk, because it was an MMO and that's a very risky genre but I'm not sure that any of their recent projects that they completed were all that risky.
Some suggestions
*Completely redone graphic overhaul to match what's current for this generation.
*Less cartoony, more gritty.
*New classes
*Improved and more engaging combat.
*More story driven, and less repetitive quests with full voice acting and cutscenes
*A whole new world to explore at the size of Azeroth
*Everyone starts over completely fresh
*Should be released after Warcraft 4 which will push the story forward and set the foundation for WoW 2
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
I have zero idea why you would want this from Blizzard's writing team.
clockworkinyou
Banned
I see Blizzard doing a Kart style game with their universes. KartCraft - combat racing.
echoshifting
Banned
Why? What's wrong with the cartoony style? It holds up fairly well, gives it character, makes it stand out a bit more, as opposed to just looking generic.
Indeed. MMO's with a realistic style seem to get more ugly looking as time goes on (Ex. EQ2, GW2).
Yes,yes,yes.Just imagine a Blizzard fighter with all their characters that isn't a MOBA.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Diablo vs Warcraft single player lore based RPG.
I'm in the minority but that's what I want.
I'm in the minority but that's what I want.
Not in the slightest.
WOW expansions are just fresh coats of paint on top of a rust covered car. They desperately need a full on reset to get rid of a decade of mistakes they are incapable of fixing due to the nature of a game made 11 years ago.
They drastically revise, scrap and create new mechanics every expansion and make major overhauls to the engine.
It's a radically different game than it was 11 years ago.
Warcraft IV by a mile.
I've seen a couple posts wanting Diablo to be made to work better on modern systems which I think is great but anyone who is interested in this should download the Belzebub mod. It adds 1080p, faster movement in town (if desired) waypoints, and many more changes. Looks and plays beautifully on Windows 10.
Would also love a Diablo 4 but ditch the fantasy tone for horror like the original title had.
I didn't agree with your first post but I think this is pretty close to the mark. I find the stories in their older titles a lot more fun than what we've seen lately. There is much more writing and dialog in games like D3 and SC2 but they're nowhere near as interesting as their predecessors. I find myself waiting for cutscenes to end now where before I hung on every bit of story and lore older titles offered. I'm sure part of it is me being older, but the stories now come off as bloated and take themselves too serious.
I've seen a couple posts wanting Diablo to be made to work better on modern systems which I think is great but anyone who is interested in this should download the Belzebub mod. It adds 1080p, faster movement in town (if desired) waypoints, and many more changes. Looks and plays beautifully on Windows 10.
Would also love a Diablo 4 but ditch the fantasy tone for horror like the original title had.
I didn't agree with your first post but I think this is pretty close to the mark. I find the stories in their older titles a lot more fun than what we've seen lately. There is much more writing and dialog in games like D3 and SC2 but they're nowhere near as interesting as their predecessors. I find myself waiting for cutscenes to end now where before I hung on every bit of story and lore older titles offered. I'm sure part of it is me being older, but the stories now come off as bloated and take themselves too serious.
Robottiimu2000
Member
Whats the source on this one? I remember reading that they were planning on making Titan something else than a MMO, but I wasn't aware it was OW!?
This is really interesting, it would explain the very high quality of the gameplay and character desing the game has, even though the relative development time (from announcement to release) is fairly short.
On the subject. I wouldnt mind the doing something very different for a change, brong that Blizzard-magic to a new genre... Perhaps do a reboot of Rock'n Roll Racing... (And also bring them to HOTS already... Damn you lazy devs
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-MD-
Member
I mean, you're not wrong, and I think to try and deride it as 'fresh coat of paint' is incredibly derisive, but if they made a NEW MMO they could do so much more. The very very basic elements of wow can't really be changed without making it a different game, which would be stupid. A new game would give them a chance to do something crazy and surprising.
Radiant Chipmunk
Banned
World of Starcraft or any other sci-fi mmo. A new RTS would be cool.
I don't disagree if we're talking a whole new MMO, the genre's open to a whole lot of ideas just waiting to be epxlored.
But I don't think anything valuable is gained from scrapping WoW for a hypothetical WoW 2.
I would like to see Titan committed to again in a way that builds upon the mechanics that Overwatch has established. A reset and re-realization that utilizes better solutions for high-load networked play that will be ostensibly-available
Think a MMO based upon ability loadouts that are more customizable but still play like OW. Set in the OW universe.
(Is Overwatch going to be acronymized that way? Would be funny since it's just WoW minus a W.)
Think a MMO based upon ability loadouts that are more customizable but still play like OW. Set in the OW universe.
(Is Overwatch going to be acronymized that way? Would be funny since it's just WoW minus a W.)
I'm expecting D4 next. They've clearly been hiring for it, or another expansion at least. It's their only existing franchise that isn't on the downturn. I don't think they'll be doing any traditional MMO any time soon, if ever, and the RTS genre is circling the toilet these days. New IP, or existing IP in new ways make sense as well.
Justice_Bolt
Member
I want Diablo 4. Warcraft 4 would be cool as well.