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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
Blizzard is (flame on!) the Shakespeare of gaming. Nothings new, its the delivery. Some of the stuff that went on in their RTS games were incredible.
i'd put hard money on SC:G being just an absolute ball of suck that couldn't pass the quality standards. Its hard to make an FPS original, and thats pretty much how Blizzard operates. Revolutionize the platform or gtfo.
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what have they revolutionized besides their revenue stream?
most of what went on in their RTS games was directly lifted from Westwood (you do remember an old franchise called 'Command and Conquer' right? hehe)
MMOs? you might have heard of this little one called Everquest from back in the day. what Blizzard really accomplished is a way to get around the stigma of paying to play an online game and figured out how to market it to both hardcore and more casual players, while Sony tried to diversify its game worlds by offering more than just medieval fantasy action (star wars galaxy for example)
as for Ghost. it's very possible that it sucked but i figure it's more probable that they recognized that they weren't going to top Metroid: Prime and would be seen as a clear copycat as opposed to an indirect one.