Washington post made big post about stormgate sorry for link but it disables the paywall notification : https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2023/03/31/stormgate-rts-frost-giant-starcraft/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjIwNzYwNzU2IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4MDIzNTIwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY4MTUzMTE5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjgwMjM1MjAwLCJqdGkiOiI4MzI5ZmRmNi01ZmIwLTRjMjctOGU3OS0xMjhjODEyYTYyMTIiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vdmlkZW8tZ2FtZXMvMjAyMy8wMy8zMS9zdG9ybWdhdGUtcnRzLWZyb3N0LWdpYW50LXN0YXJjcmFmdC8ifQ.P4Zfq-xE-jGHLbWFNaJHQqRkaMIYFi_BqpXes7tQ7C0
archive, homosexual. i ain't clicking that shit.
>pictures are all 90% white or asian males, a couple white chicks with normal hair
>focusing on drawing in new blood with casual pandering game modes like coop vs AI rather than the continuously failing pandering to tourneygays
>pays lip service to the "Blizzard was a heccin bigotry" just to get people off their back
Mild hopes
>>pays lip service to the "Blizzard was a heccin bigotry" just to get people off their back
Insisting it's lip service is pure cope. They really believe that stuff.
>Both Morten and Campbell said they hadn’t seen the kind of behavior alleged in the lawsuit while at Blizzard
Lipservice
These guys look like the ones in porn videos who watch theirs wives being railed by men of different ethnic backgrounds
How do you know that?
>Cara LaForge, head of business operations, >chimed in to say that Wargate, one of the >options, “sounds like RTS.” The two-syllable >structure, she pointed out, might draw parallels >to Warcraft and StarCraft, seminal RTS >franchises. (LaForge’s sons, Nick “Tasteless” >Plott and Sean “Day[9]” Plott, are fixtures in >the StarCraft esports scene).
This family connection is new to me, and lmao.Rofl. RTS Mom.
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oh no I give up
Why would anyone start posting on 4chain In god's own year of 2023?
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Tasteless and day9 are related?
Frickin nepotism
That screenshot reminds me of when Starcraft 2 was in development, people complained some of the models looked too plasticky.
Hopefully it rekindles the dying RBT genre
Soulless design
I'm impressed by how little the article manages to say considering how long it is.
implying there's anything to say and they're not just scamming the investors
I like it. Good art coherence, you can identify units from far away.
i hate that art style,soulless cartoony, washed up colors from mobile games
it was a different time
Pure soul
Simple as
are you implying its anything like OP pic?
>bright colors and cartoony = mobile
Stormgate is not even the kind of cartoony that is popular on mobile and you know it isn't
Are you blind, moronic or both?
Mobile game
I seriously do not understand why companies do this. Did they run some market study that determined that shitty phone graphics have more broad appeal than an even remotely interesting artstyle?
What is wrong with sprites? Everybody thought SC1 looked great and SC2 looked like shit, so why are they spending time and money 3D modelling these ugly ass 1995 lego set looking buildings and uninspired unit designs when they could just stick to 2D? Or even better, do 3D but with competent art direction?
Because sprite based RTS can be made by one guy now (see DORF rts)
Why would a big company make something like that and put it in a box for 60$, people would laugh at them
AAA rts games are in the realm of f2p now and they look like f2p games, too big surprise.
This is obvious, I'm asking why they go for the fortnite look instead of making something remotely interesting or cool. It's almost like god himself has forced every game to be shit. Wanna have good gameplay? Cartoon graphics, frick you, SC2. Is that a cool looking game? Atrocious gameplay, go frick yourself, see Iron Harvest.
Red Alert 2 and Brood War are the only flawless games in this genre
sprites are ancient tech now /vr/ tard. Stop beating the same moron drum.
>Did they run some market study that determined that shitty phone graphics have more broad appeal than an even remotely interesting artstyle?
The primary demographic for video games grew up playing mobile games. What do you think? As far as the industry is concerned, you are now too old for your personal tastes to matter anymore.
>SC2 looked like shit
says who?
SC2 looked like shit because they shifted the art style from that of 80/90s scifi to that of warcraft. Also spriting then and now is still fricking hard to do and a lot of the sprite RTS games where actually done in 3D first and then converted to sprites. RCT and AoE2 did this which is why they still hold up so well. Secondly the phone graphics are both cheap and a lot easier to read.
Looks like a phone game.
It's a live service game.
DOA.
Terrain looks like Dota 2, which isn't a bad thing. Units look way too bland. That building doesn't look like anything at a glance other than a mess of sci-fi tech, which is a problem I also think Starcraft has, unlike AoE for example where you can easily identify something as a stable or archery range.
>That building doesn't look like anything at a glance other than a mess of sci-fi tech, which is a problem I also think Starcraft has, unlike AoE for example where you can easily identify something as a stable or archery range.
Funny, I think the opposite. For me it's pretty easy to differentiate Starcraft buildings at a glance and know exactly what a player has while all the AoE production structures have much more differentiation between races and ages than between the structures themselves which makes them much harder to differentiate.
That's probably just an issue of familiarity though.
I mean, they are pretty different from each other on both games. I just mean that in AoE I look at a building with horses on it, or a building with a bunch of shooting targets, or a mill, or a crane with a bunch of lumber around, and I know what they're used for. But the building in the OP could be where you make infantry, or maybe airships, or maybe it's an economic building, or a research one.
good point.
starcraft has shit like the starport which is obviously an aviation building but other than that i agree completely. i don't see why a barracks has to be a barracks or the engineering bay an engineering bay.
and the things in op are undecipherable. turbines, a ring?
and i know it's hard to make a unique looking basic human unit but those are literally sc marines
It looks exactly like Terran. Even the vent fans look like supply depots.
Not that I care so much. I basically just want Starcraft 3 anyway. Or more accurately Broodwar 2.
Fun Fact
There was not as single inteligent or coherent post, that used the word "cartoony"
Include your post with that
can someone name one dead genre that was successfully ressurrected?
arena FPS never managed to
Commmandos games are in full swing after Shadow Tactics dug up the corpse and easily made the best one up to that point.
Baldurs Gate style CRPGs
Well not really, I think all the new ones suck but the target audience likes them so they make money.
Fighting games were almost dead (in the west at least) due to declining arcades and no online. Then came Street Fighter 4.
walking dead revived point and click