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• • Tomorrow is the 100-year anniversary of a mysterious event

  • The evidence points towards a large meteor. :-P
    
    
    -- Brede

  • Posted: 6/29/08 11:28 AM
    General Discussion
• • The future of gaming will return exclusively to PC says XBox exec

  • I think the idea behind the console is a good one, but it's one based on the idea of a closed system. That sort of design won't work when even the construction of factories devoted for the initial and final stages of electronics production run in the billions (that's excluding import/export duties and tax exemptions) of dollars and possibly higher as labor even in third world countries increasingly has higher than normal local demands (Electrical engineers are about to get scarce even in Indonesia from what I've read...). So expect consoles and PCs to merge, not necessarily wipe the other out.
    
    Modular components are cheaper to maintain and if standards in interfaces are designed within the next five years I suspect it won't be a huge leap to see a console being upgradable much like a PC in storage, and graphics capabilities. I would even bet you will be able to daisy chain similar models of consoles together to parallel process higher end games. All of this sits on the crux that both consoles and PCs are inevitably forced to accept that computing parallelism and virtualization will make the hardware agnostic to the software be it the OS, applications, or games that compiled for the environment(s) in question. Such a technological 'merging' would be profitable and cheap to maintain as to reduce the need to think of improvements in computing power in 'generations' and more in terms of simply scaling the same base modules.
    
    
    -- Brede

  • Posted: 6/27/08 6:30 PM
    General Discussion
• • BLizzard's Next Game Diablo 3?

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    Originally posted by Raizeen
    

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    Originally posted by ladyattis

     
    

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    Originally posted by Pappy13
    The more I think about it, the more I’m beginning to convince myself that this is not WoTLK, World of Starcraft nor DiabloIII.  I think Blizzard is about to announce a new IP.
    Consider that all the runes are from different IP’s.  One from each of Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft, Pax Imperia and Lost Vikings.  That hints that the next rune is from a different IP, perhaps a brand new one.
     
    Consider also that Harbinger is a foreshadowing of things to come.  I think we are seeing the dawning of a new era.  A new IP for Blizzard.
     
    Consider the fact that while Blizzard has not come out and said it directly they have hinted the new MMO is not simply taking an existing IP and making it into an MMO.  We know for sure that Blizzard is working on an unannounced MMO and Blizzard has said that it would be amazing.  Blizzard doesn’t do this kind of stuff for just anything, it’s big.  I’ve got to believe they are announcing their unannounced MMO and it doesn’t get any bigger than a new MMO that is NOT based off an existing IP.  A new MMO and a new IP.  That’s huge.  That’s worthy of 5 days of lead up.
     
    Consider the fact that the image is set to a background of stars.  This hints that’s there’s a whole complete universe that is being revealed.
     
    I’m pretty sure they aren’t going to do another Fantasy MMO.  Just because it’s not Starcraft doesn’t mean it can’t be Sci-Fi.  The Sci-Fi MMO’s currently out are sorely lacking in my opinion.  Could this be the next Earth and Beyond that I’ve been wanting someone to come out with?  Please, please please let it be so.
    

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    Personally, I hope so because it doesn't look like WOTLK even though it would be an obvious guess. As for Diablo 3, I still think that's at least a year away considering how much time they're pouring into the WoW expansion and the next installment of the Starcraft series. I think their work ethic hasn't changed so I expect this teaser is indeed something new. Or at lest I hope so. Even though I love the Diablo series, something new is a far better thing in my book.

    
    -- Brede
     
    

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    blizz aims for the noobs so theyl do either a sc or diablo mmo for sure
     

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    You mean low hanging fruit. Yeah, pretty much everyone does until the market becomes competitive, then people get smart and find better sustainable niches.
    
    
    -- Brede
    

  • Posted: 6/27/08 5:07 PM
    General Discussion
• • BLizzard's Next Game Diablo 3?

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    Originally posted by Pappy13
    The more I think about it, the more I’m beginning to convince myself that this is not WoTLK, World of Starcraft nor DiabloIII.  I think Blizzard is about to announce a new IP.
    Consider that all the runes are from different IP’s.  One from each of Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft, Pax Imperia and Lost Vikings.  That hints that the next rune is from a different IP, perhaps a brand new one.
     
    Consider also that Harbinger is a foreshadowing of things to come.  I think we are seeing the dawning of a new era.  A new IP for Blizzard.
     
    Consider the fact that while Blizzard has not come out and said it directly they have hinted the new MMO is not simply taking an existing IP and making it into an MMO.  We know for sure that Blizzard is working on an unannounced MMO and Blizzard has said that it would be amazing.  Blizzard doesn’t do this kind of stuff for just anything, it’s big.  I’ve got to believe they are announcing their unannounced MMO and it doesn’t get any bigger than a new MMO that is NOT based off an existing IP.  A new MMO and a new IP.  That’s huge.  That’s worthy of 5 days of lead up.
     
    Consider the fact that the image is set to a background of stars.  This hints that’s there’s a whole complete universe that is being revealed.
     
    I’m pretty sure they aren’t going to do another Fantasy MMO.  Just because it’s not Starcraft doesn’t mean it can’t be Sci-Fi.  The Sci-Fi MMO’s currently out are sorely lacking in my opinion.  Could this be the next Earth and Beyond that I’ve been wanting someone to come out with?  Please, please please let it be so.

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    Personally, I hope so because it doesn't look like WOTLK even though it would be an obvious guess. As for Diablo 3, I still think that's at least a year away considering how much time they're pouring into the WoW expansion and the next installment of the Starcraft series. I think their work ethic hasn't changed so I expect this teaser is indeed something new. Or at lest I hope so. Even though I love the Diablo series, something new is a far better thing in my book.
    
    
    -- Brede
    

  • Posted: 6/27/08 4:48 PM
    General Discussion
• • Lets re-think how MMO should be?

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    Originally posted by JackDonkey
    Quests are stupid.

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    This.

  • Posted: 6/26/08 3:52 PM
    General Discussion