Seriously? We’re Still Doing Peon Lines?
The gaming community is in a tizzy over Blizzard’s latest announcement. I’m sure you’ve all seen the videos and the screenshots and the wallpapers and the Youtube videos for Starcraft 2. So far it looks like they should subtitle this one Starcraft 2: More Of The Same.
I don’t know if Blizzard has noticed, but the RTS genre has moved on without them. We’re kinda past the whole gathering crystals with little worker units shtick. I demand something a little more strategic and less mind-numbingly stupid for my resource gathering. Oh, I don’t know, like maybe tie strategic resources to actual map real estate, so that I as I take and hold STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES I get more resources. (Yes, like Dawn of War.)
But that’s the problem, isn’t it. If Blizzard changed the core gameplay too much, then they’d have the problem of alienating an entire market, namely Korea. With as hot as Starcraft still is in Korea, even now, it would take an epic amount of idiocy to take the game in a new direction. That’s why SC2 was unveiled in Seoul and not Irvine, CA.
So, we can look forward to a Starcraft sequel as much as we want but don’t expect a lot of gameplay changes. Oh, and I just read over at Gamespot that Blizzard is touting how effective rushing strategies will be in Starcraft 2. Great. Can we do anything else to make this game less appealing? I guess I just like my strategy games to be a bit deeper than a 6 ling rush.
OMG ZERG RUSH










