[QUOTE="AzatiS"][QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="AzatiS"] [QUOTE="jangojay"]Blizzard.mjarantilla
Blizzard making 1 every 3-4 years not 1 :P
That one game they make every 3-4 years revolutionizes the entire genre it belongs to for the next 3-4 years until their next game comes out. I'd say that's a damn sight more impressive of an accomplishment than turning out one good but otherwise inconsequential game every year.
1) ANY doubt that ANY of the BIG companies are out there that if they spend 4 year for a single game could be revolutionary?
2)Revolutionize a genre ok.Agree... What about companies like Capcom or Konami that made a whole NEW genre. Like resident evil for example.Or metal gear? Not to mention what genres revolutions we have seen from these companies thru the years (SF2 for example)Upon their games many other companies made similar games? Any doubt for that?
3)How many well known worldwide characters have been created by Blizzard? Dont forget that Blizzard is a PC game maker.Except some characters from Warcraft like Illidan or Warden (that is a rip off of warhammer lore),what character you remember from any other game of blizz? Barbarian ?
4)What if Blizzard in 4 years was making more or equal games like Capcom or Konami ? Would be that great all of them?
5) I loved Diablo and Starcraft no doubt well done games,but 1 game every 3 or more years doesnt make you big company even if its AAAA titles. IMO
1) Oh, sure. Put enough effort into any game, and it has a good potential to be revolutionary. But has any other dev company done it with Blizzard's regularity? Blizzard's continually revolutionized every genre they've made a game for since the first WarCraft. That's a flawless record fourteen years long. Even Nintendo can't claim that.
2) Capcom didn't invent survival horror. Ever heard of Alone in the Dark? Predates Resident Evil by four years, made by Atari. I'm sure there are other examples. RE only popularized it. And Metal Gear didn't invent stealth games, either. Castle Wolfenstein (not Wolfenstein 3D) in 1981 was probably the first stealth game. You give too much credit to where it's due. If Capcom and Konami invented survival horror and stealth, then Blizzard invented the dungeon crawl hack'n'slash genre with Diablo. (They probably didn't, but since what you consider to be "invention" apparently is "popularization," then I can claim the same.)
3) Who cares about this? Blizzard games involve a cast of dozens, all of them as prominent as the next. They make story-centric games, not character-centric games. Games like MGS, Halo, Mario, and Zelda all have a central hero to identify with. Except for Diablo 1 and 2, Blizzard games don't, and even with Diablo the hero is a nameless generic character. But everyone remembers Blizzard's GAMEPLAY. And in the world of GAMING, that's a much greater feat.
4) Blizzard is a much smaller company than Capcom or Konami.
5) I never said "big company." I said (or rather, I meant) "best developers." That's a qualification of the company's skill, not its production volume.
Please .
Do not bring this up again.
It has been done to death and in the end is doesn't matter. The more people who take advantage of Games Workshops excellent 30 year background the better.
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