Comments on: Actard Official At Last

By: michael

michael — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:04:49 +0000

That was a wonderful pun, Alec. It really made my day, so thanks!

By: Talon

Talon — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:19:07 +0000

It’s Actilizzard Blizzvision, btw.

By: Tak

Tak — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:14:13 +0000

If they don’t basically leave Blizzard alone, this is getting screwed up. What needs to happen is Activision’s IPs need to be handled with Blizzard style, or at least, an attempt at it. Longer development cycles, more focus on testing and QC, less ‘this is the most popular thing! do it!’ and more ‘this is the best way to make the game work, do it’

By: Stromko

Stromko — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:13:49 +0000

Out of the three companies, Blizzard is the only one that hasn’t released whole truckloads of crap onto the gaming scene, so I’m a bit worried that they’ll be ever more marginalized now.

By: espy

espy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:26:39 +0000

Activizzle ^^

By: The Shed

The Shed — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:00:07 +0000

That’s like seriously the most awesome blog post image I’ve ever seen. Screw you, EyeMessaiah!

By: skalpadda

skalpadda — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:29:25 +0000

Bactilizards?

I apologize.

By: Skaal-tel

Skaal-tel — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:04:00 +0000

“I always felt the CoD ambiance was one of silent acceptance that you had to cross ‘x’ point to get the infinitely respawning enemies to stop.”

oh wow, yes. It only got worse as the series went on.

I loved Activision back in the interstate 76 days… it was all gold. I think I’ve got a huge pile of massive game boxes with their logo all over em..
Hopefully with blizzard type money I’ll see some new fun titles :)

By: Erlam

Erlam — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:37:33 +0000

“no one’s ever done fantasy with the kind of intense clouds-of-fireballs-zooming-overhead CoD ambiance.”

I always felt the CoD ambiance was one of silent acceptance that you had to cross ‘x’ point to get the infinitely respawning enemies to stop.

Or, well, that was my interpretation of the ambiance.

That said, Actiblizzion will hopefully take over from EA for ‘Most Overlordly And Industry Ruling.’ I find their harsh rule slightly less draconian than EA’s ;)

By: Creep Colony

Creep Colony — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:35:52 +0000

Or a magic-’em-up like Catacomb Abyss. But Dark Messiah with squad combat* and more explosions would be cool.

If you think about it, realistic medieval games are rare, because it was a pretty boring era to be in. And yet everyone apes it when they do fantasy. Odd.

*good squad combat, not the “you idiots stay back here and I’ll kill them” version it has

By: EyeMessiah

EyeMessiah — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:19:18 +0000

That is some pretty weak photoshop work.

By: Dolphan

Dolphan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:14:57 +0000

That’s actually not a bad idea. The whole ‘battles and explosions and scripted stuff blowing up everywhere’ could work for some sort of fantasy FPS (presumably ‘sword-em-up’ rather than shooter – bows and arrows are a bit rubbish).