StarCraft 2, for really really reals.

[Slothy]

Please don't tell me this is just on PC...

I would have thought it to be obvious. You couldn't pay me to play an RTS designed for the PC on a console.

[Jowy]

Real Time Strategy doesn't translate very well to console.

I couldn't imagine playing Starcraft 2 on anything other than PC.

The n64 version of the original was awful.

I liked Starcraft 64. The interface was a bit sloppy compared to the PC version, but we still had some great multiplayer nights out of it.

[Madame Adequate]

The Korean aspect made Starcraft 2 painfully obvious; if anything else had been announced then the poor Blizzard employees would have been murdered, raped and had their entrails used as jewelery. If they were very lucky, it would have happened in that order too.

It could also have been an MMO or a reactivated Ghost project.

[Discord]

We'll finally have Heroes in Starcraft, e.g. Protoss mothership.=D I just wonder if they'll also get level-ups...

The Protoss Mothership doesn't really strike me as a "Hero" unit. Yeah, it's really powerful and you can only have one of them, but usually the heroes are specific units, while the mothership just seems to be a general use unit.

Anyway, we've had heroes in Starcraft before: Tassadar, Raynor, Zeratul, Fenix, etc... It will be interesting to see if Warcraft III's hero system will be used, though.

I think it can be a hero. I mean, it doesn't really matter what it's called in the multiplayer, but in the SP it could well be some character flying it.

[Lindy]

It could also have been an MMO or a reactivated Ghost project.

Koreans play Starcraft like it's a sport, imagine the angry response if the Super Bowl was cancelled and the angry beer-fuelled riots of American Football fans.

Now multiply that by two hundred and you have the response to anything other than Starcraft 2.

Also, Blizzard MMO style is too easy in comparison to the kind that Koreans love.

[Discord]

I wish they did publish Ghost though or at least open sourced the code...

Splinter Cell/Thief/MGS in StarCraft universe would've been great.

[Lindy]

Last I saw of Ghost, it was a vile run-and-gun affair, rather than a tension-fueled psychic stealth epic.

[Discord]

Last I saw of Ghost, it was a vile run-and-gun affair, rather than a tension-fueled psychic stealth epic.

Hmm... well, it looked like one to me.

[bipper]

THERE IS A GOD

WOO HOO OHH BABY

I PEED!

[Nominus Experse]

2008 looks to be a very good year:

Starcraft II comes out
Bush is forced to step down
My girlfriend graduates
I'll have moved to a new city

[Tavrobel]

Starcraft II comes out 2008

LOL no.

[fire_of_avalon]

I never played Starcraft, but when my boyfriend and I saw the trailer this weekend he kind of shook a little. I lol'd.

[Slothy]

It could also have been an MMO or a reactivated Ghost project.

Except that Ghost wouldn't be a big announcement at this point having gone through the hands of at least two developers, and a couple of revisions. Blizzard have also said in the past that they don't want to be known as an MMO company only, making a Starcraft MMO unlikely (at least as far as this announcement was concerned).

Hmm... well, it looked like one to me.

Like I said, it went through a couple of developers and a few major overhauls throughout development. I think more of a stealth game was the original intention, but the reason Blizzard pulled the plug was because the devs they had working on it couldn't pull it off in a way they were happy with.

[Discord]

Well, it wasn't the first time. They've also cancelled that Warcraft adventure-game where you solve puzzles with Thrall. Seems like Blizzard is going for quality rather than quantity.

I really think it's a pity that they just dump the games though. If you look at Ghost, it does have a look of an alpha-test already. Smooth animation, special moves, prerendered intro, a large number of levels and so forth. I doubt that it'll ever come out for the 7th gen. consoles, but just rust somewhere in the archives.

[Freya]

I jumped with glee. Me and my friend were thinking about our lan parties we had in 5th grade. This is going to be cool.