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MedievalDragon reports on a possible slip-up from a Korean keynote over at our Diablo 3 sister site. Nova from StarCraft: Ghost might still be alive and kicking inside Blizzard HQ.
Some background: We all know by now that Mike Morhaime admitted during BlizzCon 2008 that a new MMO is in the works over at Blizzard. We don’t know if they have any additional projects at the moment but as they have their three main franchises, and a Battle.net 2.0 dev team on top of the unannounced MMO, it’s probably not a 5th dev team hidden. The reasoning for this is that Blizzard like to keep things tight. A StarCraft: Ghost game type could possibly be an MMO.
It might not be. It might indeed be a 5th team or outsourced project, or just a strange choice of words on the keynote…
The keynote in question was at the Korea Gaming Conference (KGC 2008), and this is a snip from MD’s news item:
Jeff Kang’s keynote is scheduled to happen on Friday, November 14th between 10:30am to 12:30am. Curiously, he shares stage and time with Ritchie Corpus (AMD) who has a speech about the latest AMD technology titled Cinema 2.0: Convergence of Graphic Realism in Movies and Games Recently, AMD and Blizzard Entertainment issued a press release announcing their partnership.
Jeff Kang is also Concept / Environment Artist of Starcraft 2 and Starcraft Ghost. Did Starcraft: Ghost get accidentally revealed as one of the secret projects in development? Oops!
View the Diablo III Design keynote itinerary here.
Remember that the Blizzard/AMD cooperation was reported by us a few months ago, as well as revealing new screenshots and the Graphics Requirements for StarCraft 2. Is this a second related leak?
The official line from Blizzard is that the game is “indefinitely put on ice”, and has no work done on it, whatsoever.
"A StarCraft: Ghost game type could possibly be an MMO." Duh. Remember all the other "World of Starcraft" posts you guys have made in months past. I don’t know about you guys but when I heard Ghost was "delayed", my main disappointment was that I wasn’t gonna get to play the multiplayer, and if that multiplayer was polished it could very easily be a TPSMMORPG or perhaps a FPSMMORPG. If there is one thing I have learned from WoW is that people want more PvP based game play, or at least a niche of players do, unfortunately a game would have to be built from the ground up in order to really develop an astounding PvP experience. Personally, my prediction is that Blizz is looking at PvP in WoW and other MMO’s (Warhammer for instance)learning what is working and what is not and going forward making something PvP based, and I couldn’t think of a better franchise to build a PvP based MMO than Starcraft (though I’m sure they’re wold be a PvE aspect as well). Here is the link to the Ghost multiplayer video, just to inform you of what you are watching in the Ghost multiplayer you choose from a Marine, a Firebat, a Ghost, or a Technician/Engineer (A class able to drive Goliath’s, Siege Tanks, and Vultures) and them go at it in a Halo/UT type Death Match. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQyH16h9jew
"A StarCraft: Ghost game type could possibly be an MMO." Duh. Remember all the other "World of Starcraft" posts you guys have made in months past. I don’t know about you guys but when I heard Ghost was "delayed", my main disappointment was that I wasn’t gonna get to play the multiplayer, and if that multiplayer was polished it could very easily be a TPSMMORPG or perhaps a FPSMMORPG. If there is one thing I have learned from WoW is that people want more PvP based game play, or at least a niche of players do, unfortunately a game would have to be built from the ground up in order to really develop an astounding PvP experience. Personally, my prediction is that Blizz is looking at PvP in WoW and other MMO’s (Warhammer for instance)learning what is working and what is not and going forward making something PvP based, and I couldn’t think of a better franchise to build a PvP based MMO than Starcraft (though I’m sure they’re wold be a PvE aspect as well). Here is the link to the Ghost multiplayer video, just to inform you of what you are watching in the Ghost multiplayer you choose from a Marine, a Firebat, a Ghost, or a Technician/Engineer (A class able to drive Goliath’s, Siege Tanks, and Vultures) and them go at it in a Halo/UT type Death Match. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQyH16h9jew
The multiplayer side of Ghost was a lot more interesting then the single player screenshots, it’d be great if Blizzard was to tweak and polish it to todays standards.
[QUOTE=Camtron;7795]Here is the link to the Ghost multiplayer video, just to inform you of what you are watching in the Ghost multiplayer you choose from a Marine, a Firebat, a Ghost, or a Technician/Engineer (A class able to drive Goliath’s, Siege Tanks, and Vultures) and them go at it in a Halo/UT type Death Match. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQyH16h9jew
Also, according to gamespot, the Infantry/Technician/Engineer can build sentries! Invasion mode (where you upgrade to higher classes) also sounds pretty good.
The multiplayer side of Ghost was a lot more interesting then the single player screenshots, it’d be great if Blizzard was to tweak and polish it to todays standards.
[QUOTE=Camtron;7795]Here is the link to the Ghost multiplayer video, just to inform you of what you are watching in the Ghost multiplayer you choose from a Marine, a Firebat, a Ghost, or a Technician/Engineer (A class able to drive Goliath’s, Siege Tanks, and Vultures) and them go at it in a Halo/UT type Death Match. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQyH16h9jew
Also, according to gamespot, the Infantry/Technician/Engineer can build sentries! Invasion mode (where you upgrade to higher classes) also sounds pretty good.
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I don’t understand where the slip is?