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Blizzard Re-Releases World of Warcraft Classic

posted by chromas on Wednesday August 28 2019, @01:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the If-we-had-gone-to-the-gym-instead-we-would-be-so-buff dept.

"Chocolate" writes:

Due to popular demand Blizzard has brought a new version of World of Warcraft online that closely resembles the original version: WoW Classic. Some players already have access, and the rest of the world can go queue.

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  • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday August 28 2019, @05:02PM (1 child)

    by meustrus (4961) on Wednesday August 28 2019, @05:02PM (#886881)

    Is it really that hard to make an engaging game (almost certainly)?

    Yes.

    There are good games now, certainly. Using "popular" as a proxy, Fortnite, Super Mario Maker 2, Overwatch, Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto 5, Mario Kart 8, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, are all pretty good new-ish games.

    There are also tons of "meh" games. Just scroll randomly through Steam.

    We shouldn't be surprised that people still like classic games, though. Just because The Martian was a great movie doesn't mean we don't go back and watch Forrest Gump.

    And much like movies (and books, and pretty much every artistic medium), there are eras for different kinds of them. If you like Westerns, you're probably going to be watching the classics, because there are so few new Westerns and they will never be the epitome of the genre like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly was.

    Similarly, there was a time for the Real-Time Strategy game, and that time is not now. Go play your Age of Empires 2, your Starcraft, your Red Alert. Because those games aren't being made anymore.

    We'll have more good games in the future. But I have absolutely no reason to believe Candy Crush should make my love of Super Metroid disappear, just because it's newer. Even with all the great new Metroidvanias right now, I'm not throwing away the classic just because now I have Axiom Verge or Ori and the Blind Forest.

    ...oh, and yeah, games are super expensive now. Good 3D takes waaay more time to draw and rig than good 2D.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday August 28 2019, @06:28PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday August 28 2019, @06:28PM (#886923) Journal

    ...oh, and yeah, games are super expensive now. Good 3D takes waaay more time to draw and rig than good 2D.

    The costs could take a dive in the future with a little machine learning.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW1_Sidq3m8 [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTup-cvELK0 [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL6U6iasUxs [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxzKLrCpyk [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjwhMDhbqAs [youtube.com]

    And if there's enough orders of magnitude of improvement on both the software and hardware sides, you could see "AI" practically making the games from scratch.

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