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Thank God for Cold Fusion.
Heroes Of The Storm is the greatest MOBA ever created, and the only one I've ever found to be remotely playable. I will die on this hill.
Hard agree, they made a moba that was easy to balance, stripped out the tedicious shit mechanics, and had multiple cool maps. And if you were a Blizzard fan, all the amazing characters for the cherry on top.
same for me. And it still has a lot of active players. They should revive development. I think there is a lot of potential in it.
HOTS 3.0 is one of my most wanted things. Besides trans rights.
What about Awesomenauts?
Not the greatest MOBA imo, but definitely one of the best Blizzard games and one of the greatest MOBAs.
Yeah, Overwatch definitely wasn't a peak, but IMO HOTS is really onto something. I originally dumped thousands of hours into Dota 2, which is a much more robust game, but HOTS really does take an awesome, albeit different direction. Shame they pulled support right when they were starting to find a groove. My partner and I still play it nearly daily.
Today's Blizzard would have released Star Craft: Ghost and the War Craft Adventure.
Because they would be good enough to make those games work or because they wouldn't care how good or bad a game is?
If you mean the latter, even current Blizzard has shown, they just cancel projects, they think will not work, like OW PVE or that Survival Game, that never saw the light of day.
I worked at ABK when the unnamed survival game was cut. That decision came from the C-suite directly. Everyone at Blizzard wanted to make it happen
The latter.
Still doubt it, because current Blizzard doesn't release any game, that isn't a live service title and makes $1B+.
They are already doing War Craft Adventure. Retail is very... kid gloves.
I enjoyed D3 quite a bit. Sure, it wasn't as doom and gloom as the other diablos, but it was still a fun game.
It did, however, start the slide into think less and pick bigger number.
I never played D1 or D2, and only for into D3 after the expansion. Did quite a lot of seasons and for me the game had a zen like quality when playing.
Blast through the rifts and grifts watching numbers go up. I could just almost play it trance like.
I enjoyed the colors and the feel of the game. I never got really into D4, but that has more to do with me having more obligations as a parent.
Edit: and DH Engineer with stationary pets should be explores as third WoW-DH class as a DPS/support class.
I have only heard good things about Heroes of the Storm tbh
Inexcusable The Lost Vikings 2 erasure here.
Also anything before SC1.
Man blizzard had an amazing run. Warcraft 3 was my game. Vanilla wow? buying burning crusade in lane, at midnight in the town mall? Hype. I remember still the moment I felt blizzard was done and wow was no longer my game, during wrath of the lich expansion.
I tried years later, BFA I think, the boss is called the janitor, he's a robot. And I had to spend time in hell or maw, farming for some stones...played 2 weeks and never again since.
Shadowlands, RIP you came back for arguably the worst expansion ever.
I don't think it's even arguable. I'll take pandas n shit over Shadowlands any day of the week.
The apex is Activision.
No more battle.net, now we get Facebook account integration!
No more private chats, now we get real money auction house!
Goodbye placeable stat points, now we get cookie cutter builds that must all be viable!
Goodbye soloable content, now all the bosses get enrage timers!
I thought it was very symbolic that after the demo of D3, (imo the last thing blizzard created, act 1 of D3, the only slightly decent part of the game) the first thing that happens is they kill deckard cain.
Blizzard is just a skin puppet, same as every other great developer that the Activision cancer has consumed.
I still have mixed feelings about the real money auction house. Sure, it sucks that it enables gold farmers, but it was awesome when an item dropped that was so powerful that it paid for my collectors edition copy of the game plus another $40 extra to cash out via PayPal.
I liked HoTS, but do admit it wasn't a continuation of bkizzard's winning streak
Maybe a unpopular opinion but i do not think WoW is a great game.
It was revolutionary at the time it came out and it deserves to be a classic.
But these days it is just bad nostalgia and like most subscription games just holds you hostage. Have not played in a long time, since i noticed many antisocial mechanics that other MMOs just do better.
Then again i hate gear grind so i prefer gw2 for that reason alone.
where is blackthorne and lost vikings?
SC2 was the start of the decline, what with them adding mtx to the co-op multiplayer.
WotLK was pretty agreed upon to be the fall of Blizzard, and when i stopped paying attention
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