>Starcraft (1998) >Starcraft: Brood War (1998) arguably the best RTS ever made >Diablo 2 (2000) >Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction (2001) Arguably the best action rpg ever made >Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002) >Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (2003) top class RTS with the best level editor ever made, spawning the modern day TD, MOBAs, among others >World of Warcraft (2004) >World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (2007) One of the best mmorpgs ever made
Is there a single greater streak by another game developer?
i would have also added Diablo but Lost Vikings was inbetween
Jace Morgan
Only one I really disagree with is brood war. C&C games were much better and actually had interesting units and single players.
Grayson Johnson
I disagree about SC and BW, everything else is correct. It's funny how both Valve and Blizzard went to shit at around the same time.
Justin Hill
starcraft isn't the best RTS ever made. It was simply a well polished one taking place in a unique setting.
Also
Relic has a similar streak but doesn't have the PR machinery.
>made ganes like >Impossible creatures >dawn of war >homeworld >CoH >Spess Mahreen.
Cameron Perez
>best level editor ever made
I don't work in the gaming industry but I owe my employment to this fucker. My first introduction to programming and so much more: compression and archives, different graphical formats, modeling and animations terminology, the importance of staying organized in a large project and collaborating with others, just to name a few.
Michael Wood
Don't forget >greatest online FPS over made
Xavier Roberts
>those games >good
Says fucking wjo?
Owen Hill
Lost Vikings was a joint project anyway
Dylan Morris
Nintendo, Capcom, SEGA, a shitton of other companies.
Nicholas Lewis
nice games you listed there, oh wait...
Elijah Moore
At least Blizzard has picked themselves up a little with Overwatch and a new SC expansion. Valve has just been jerking themselves off for the last five years under the Steam(TM) money chute
Isaac White
SC 1 is actually a pretty shitty game. It's not even popular until Blizz got recognized years later
It's only popular because the koreans picked it up and turned it into memesports
Grayson Edwards
(you)
Jayden Gutierrez
lol
David Hughes
Lost Vikings is fucking great
Jaxon Rogers
Even if people give it shit, it's honestly the most fun I've had playing an online FPS in years.
Hunter Ward
>implying rednecks in space isn't the tightest shit ever the fuck outta here you yankee
Jordan Collins
>WoW >One of the best MMO's ever made. WoW single handily killed the MMO genre with their cazualization and kid friendly designs.
Jaxson King
Starcraft 2 is fucking great with LotV too
Eli Peterson
SC2 was never anywhere near as good as the original, and the competitive scene went to shit and stayed shit way back in WoL when they introduced the queen patch.
Even the layout of archaic b.net 1.0 was better than what we got with SC2.
Bentley Ward
>A company that outright copies and steals all their "unique" designs from another company. >Ever making anything good. Warcraft is just a shitty kid friendly copy of Warhammer. Same shit with Starcraft and WH40k
Brody Martin
spotted the casual, BW is so far above any other RTS ever made it's not even close to a contest
Robert Bell
I said LotV. WoL was a disaster which killed a lot of the player base but LotV is good
Lincoln Torres
There has never been a good Warhammer RTS game. They're fucking trash compared to Starcraft and Warcraft and even C&C and AoE.
Sebastian Price
AW HELL JIMMY I M M Y
Andrew Young
What's Blizzard going to do for Diablo 20th anniversary?
Cameron Torres
I know you said LotV, and I'm saying you're wrong. It's even worse than HotS, which was worse than WoL. Blizzard has continued to double down on making everything super fast and all about mobility because they're idiots who can't understand that what made BW great was hard macro that limited army control and mobility which in turn emphasized map control and selective, extremely precisely managed attacks and maneuvers.
Christian Harris
Starcraft 1 has a lot less redneck feel to it compared to Starcraft 2
i agree and disagree, C&C was far to slow and imbalanced in multi but the single player was REALLY good
Noah King
I'd say Bioware gives it a run for its money. As well as Obsidian, and Rockstar.
But hey I guess its really a matter of opinion.
Christian Morgan
it didnt randomly become a e sport you clown it was REALLY good and deep so it became one
Joshua White
it's really not wow's fault for being popular and subsequently imitated a dozen times over by uncreative hacks
Thomas Perez
i strongly disagree, maybe go watch all the cut scenes again you have no idea what youre talking about
Eli Martin
Reminder that Starcraft was one of the games that started the whole "e-sport" competitive shit that is currently ruining today's gaming market.
James Roberts
quake was the OG e-sport title
Jayden Diaz
It wasn't that bad because you could enjoy the game and not have to associate with the scene, I think LoL is what truly made the current competitive scene toxic
Tyler Perry
You get a transmog piece for Diablo 3.
Joshua Moore
>tassadar
i didnt come here to feel feels man, i will never forgive blizzard never
Mason James
Thats not really their fault though, I mean they couldn't have known that was going to happen. Plus its not really true, Quake 3, Command and Conquer, hell even Smash or Warcraft custom games could be equally blamed for modern competitive gaming.
Levi Roberts
Starcraft didn't start esports, it just happened to be an exceptionally well designed game with a great multiplayer function that a bunch of gooks turned into a sport. The hacks who inherited Blizzard after the real talent left were the ones who tried to design all their subsequent games around esports.