Comments on: Starcraft 2 Art Direction Vid

By: Plant42

Plant42 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:57:37 +0000

Blizzard’s art direction lost me about halfway through World of Warcraft. Cartoony was ok I guess, but for some reason around level 55 armor started being about bigger and bigger shoulder pads… with glowing lights, smoke, spoilers, branches. When they had to outdo the previous tier with larger and larger weapons and still larger shoulder pads and my character started to look like a transformer I’d had enough.

Starcraft has similar problems… when everything is covered in armor details and lights, you don’t focus on anything.

Hint to other developers. Realism can be a good thing, maybe take a clue from games like Oblivion. I can do without the rice personally.

By: sigma83

sigma83 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:15:55 +0000

It’s kind of a brand thing for them isn’t it :D

I lol’ed IRL at The Curse of Zergey Island, only because of the mental image of Kerrigan as Elaine. ‘GUYBRUSSSSSSSSH!!’

By: NegativeZero

NegativeZero — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:06:59 +0000

@Qjuad: I’m the same, I generally don’t like RTS very much, but I’ve always liked Starcraft.

And you’re right, it’s not very original. Nothing of Blizzard’s is that original. Blizzard aren’t about innovation, they’re about execution and polish. You rarely see them do something that hasn’t been done before, but what you do see out of them is so highly refined and perfected that originality really doesn’t matter.

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:31:13 +0000

The guy gets props for his beard AND having the name Samwise…
The video gets props for being interesting AND using the Terran music from SC…
RPS gets props for posting this video…

Good times…!

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:54:14 +0000

He looked excatly as I imagined him to. Are epic beards part of the job specification?

By: Flint

Flint — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:45:43 +0000

Shame Warcraft Adventures (or whatever it was called) never happened.

By: Larington

Larington — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:34:21 +0000

I’m so looking forward to NCTSC2… Err, I mean StarCraft 2. The story/narrative/whatever-they-call-it-nowadays is so well crafted by Blizzard.

I honestly think they should get a team together and have a go at a point and click style adventure game but with their own unique twist on the genre – I have a funny feeling it would be absolutely ****ing awesome!

By: Fazer

Fazer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:20:14 +0000

It’s odd, but whenever he quotes designers saying “OH YEAH! That would be cool!”, I imagine Kool-Aid commercials XD

Nevertheless, NCTSC2 :-P Oh, wait…

By: tackle

tackle — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:30:59 +0000

I’m like you guys, I kinda suck at playing Starcraft, but I do love the art of the whole universe, and those FMV’s they had in the original was awesome.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:07:01 +0000

Me wants to play !!

By: Qjuad

Qjuad — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:52:17 +0000

Funnily enough, my sentiments are pretty much the same. I am *terrible* at RTS games, but I still love StarCraft, especially the single-player. It wasn’t terribly original, but it was a fantastically entertaining piece of space-opera and SC2 looks equally grandiose – especially with the “The Curse of Zergey Island” point and click stuff you can do between missions.

By: Ninja Dodo

Ninja Dodo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:39:20 +0000

I enjoyed the RTS-side of Starcraft and Brood War, if sometimes with a healthy dose of frustration, but I *loved* the storytelling. If they did a solid (singleplayer) action-adventure or RPG in this universe it would blow my mind…

I normally don’t go for sci-fi, but there’s something about Starcraft.