Sid and Blizzard

[Zardos]

quote: Blizzard Entertainment "I have enormous respect for those guys. I'm not sure who is behind their talent, but they're amazing:" --Sid Meier

Being an avid fan of WarCraft, StarCraft, Diablo (I and II), Civ (I and II), and the ideas behind CTP I and II, it just struck me that a strategic alliance between Blizzard and Sid Meier to produce a real time historical strategy game could potentially blow the socks off anything in the market.

Here's to dreaming

Z

[- Groucho -]

The only drawback would be that if they announced that they were developing the game today it would be what, 2007? before it would be released. CivIII has been kicking around for how long? Four years? And Warcraft III has been sent back to the drawing board so many times the little orcs are getting dizzy (The sounds of "Unk? Hook-ah" must continually echo through Blizzard studios as the orc grunts march back and forth from E3 to Gamespot to the re-write desk and back). These guys are all great designers but they are hell on those of us waiting - the last thing we need is for them to team up. My heart can't take it.

- Echinda

[Zardos]

LOL!!!

Too true, too true.



Maybe if they didn't tell us about it until they were starting a beta test, it would help.

Z
[This message has been edited by Zardos (edited April 06, 2001).]

[airdrik]

But then they wouldn't get all the wonderful input from us apolytoners (unless perhaps we don't get to discuss it in which case we don't really care)

[Lord Maxwell]

quote: Originally posted by Zardos on 04-06-2001 11:37 AM Being an avid fan of WarCraft, StarCraft, Diablo (I and II), Civ (I and II), and the ideas behind CTP I and II, it just struck me that a strategic alliance between Blizzard and Sid Meier to produce a real time historical strategy game could potentially blow the socks off anything in the market.

Uhm, Sid has had his one good idea (tm), and it doesn't seem that any new ones are forthcoming. Well Civ 1.3 is in the works, oh, my bad, Civ 3.0, it's apparently new enough to get a real number.

Ok, I will play for a few hundred hours, maybe even a few thousand, but I don't expect anything earthshaking new from it. I actually have more respect for Blizzard, even though they are given over to warming up old food also, but they are REALLY GOOD at figuring out what the lowest common denominator of good-sales-games are. (Unlike their eternal shadow, Westwood, who always gets things wrong.)

That said I must say that I actually love the Civ series (Civ, Civ II and SMAC, though two out of three were made by Brian Reynolds, a man with one less good idea in his life than Sid.) And I am much a fan of the Diablo series, Real Time Micromanagement games such as Starcraft have never been my cup of tea. Sure the single player campaign is fun, and occasional headbutting with other sunday players is fun, but it takes 4 hours playing per day and reaction speed that is high enough to get you into a career as a fighter pilot to actually play them seriously. Hmm, seems I forgot to turn of the cynic mode after all...