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Blizzard's cancelled 'StarCraft: Ghost' leaks in playable form
Blizzard's cancelled StarCraft: Ghost has been the stuff of gaming legend. It was supposed to mark Blizzard's big leap into 3D action games, but it never came to pass -- delays, changing developers and evolving game platforms led the studio to put the game on "indefinite hold." Now, however, gamers appear to be getting a first-hand look at what they've missed. YouTube users Leers Meneses, Delso Bezerra and others say they've obtained a playable build of Ghost for the original Xbox through a leaked developer kit. It's unsurprisingly broken (the first two missions don't work properly, Meneses said), but appears to have been well into development -- you can fend off Zerg and engage in Metal Gear Solid-style chats.
StarCraft: Ghost was announced in 2002, put on "indefinite hold" in 2006, and officially cancelled in 2014. Blizzard is attempting to squash the leak:
In January 2020, videos appearing to be from the Xbox version of the cancelled game started appearing online. On February 16, 2020, numerous videos showing different missions, areas, and gameplay were uploaded to the web. Reports of the Xbox development version game files leaking to the public started to emerge. Journalists at gaming publications such as Kotaku verified the legitimacy of the code that began to disseminate online. Throughout the day, infringement notices were issued to channels hosting footage of the game on YouTube, resulting in many videos being removed. Eventually the files widely disseminated online through filesharing methods such as public torrent trackers. This was the second time a playable, albeit unfinished and rough, version of a Blizzard game has leaked online, after Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans being leaked online in September 2016.
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(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday February 17 2020, @09:43PM (10 children)
I disagree. Japanese games are always just superior. That's an objective reality for me, not a bias.
Just like, certain political perceptions of, say, Russia, are objective reality to Western media and not considered bias by them.
I just keep to their paradigm of opinioning. Western games are decadent. Always.
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2020, @09:52PM (2 children)
jRPGs are pretty much always inferior to RPGs. Final Fantasy was one of the worst series ever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 18 2020, @12:58AM (1 child)
Your opinions are like ogres. They have layers. Layers of stench.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday February 18 2020, @03:37PM
Someone doesn't like Onions.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 5, Touché) by tangomargarine on Monday February 17 2020, @10:02PM
Fatal error: incompatible terms used in declaration. Compilation halted.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday February 17 2020, @10:12PM (3 children)
That is the kind of thinking that led to World War II. Which the Japanese and Germans lost. Thus, proving that they aren't always superior. Too harsh? I think not.
FYI, the only Japanese people I have known are/were nice people. Are you Japanese, just trolling, or both? There's all kinds of people everywhere.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Tuesday February 18 2020, @12:37AM (2 children)
We will see, what the non-World-War-II-thinking media of yours will do to Julian Assange, one of their own, very soon, in just couple of days.
My affinity to Japan is cultural. When I wanted to play Japanese games, it was a necessity to understand all the complex culture, so I began to study it, long time ago.
I am Czech. And I very well remember through my family history and fates, how the West, our Allies, betrayed Czechoslovakia at the table and gifted it to Hitler in 1938.
That's why I hate Britannia, from the depth of my heart. Same, as I hate Germany. And that's why I respect Russians, for it was they who liberated us for the cost of their blood.
But more, in 90's, I spent several months in India, where I learned many witnessed stories about British atrocities over there, many surpassing even what Hitler did in Europe.
So, not trolling at all, my wrath on Saxons is real and rooted in experience and my genes.
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 18 2020, @10:11AM
Minor nitpick, not all British people are of Saxon descent..in fact, I leave it for you ponder the origins of the name British and that of the bit of the British Isles that is fair infested with these pseudo-germanic immigrant buggers...England.
And, regarding the Japs, if we're talking atrocities, have a word with the Chinese, Koreans etc. etc. about some of that 'complex culture' the Japs charmed them with in the second world war...
I may be trolling...
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday February 19 2020, @04:10PM
Julian Assange's goose is well cooked, if he ends up in the USA. There's no way he ends up here and not in prison. Well, I guess, he could end up here in a pine box, but that'd be less than ideal for him too.
I can't say much about World War II with regards to things that happened, before the USA even entered into the war. Most of Europe was essentially steam rolled and even Great Britain was nearly lost during WWII. I've never heard anyone refer to the United Kingdom as Britannia and the only time I've heard that term thrown around was in the Ultima series of games. The leader of the Russian people was sacrificing his people and committed atrocities on his own people, so I don't have respect for him.
Regarding the revered leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during WWII:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin [wikipedia.org]
The Soviet Union was the enemy of my enemy during WWII. I can see why you could hold respect for the people who bled to fight your enemies, but I would think Stalin, the secret police/KGB would have turned you into a little less of a fan of the Russians in general.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 4, Funny) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday February 18 2020, @03:56PM
Mojibake: Somebody set us up the game.
Freeman: Main reply turn on.
Lawn: All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us.
Lawn: You have no chance to argue make your time.
Mojibake: Move 'Absolute'
Freeman: For great justice!
This sig for rent.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Booga1 on Wednesday February 19 2020, @03:40PM
May I introduce you to this little gem: OneChanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers [wikipedia.org]
I bought a copy on a lark seeing it on the shelf in a Game Stop for like, $1.73. It should have been less. The entire series has averaged around a 3/10 scale for reviews. It's got weak game play, the level designs are all over the place, and the dialogue is like so corny I think they're actually trying to make it "so bad it's good." I did laugh and it makes a little conversation with other gamers that haven't heard of the series.
Here's a video of a typical arena stage. [youtube.com] Some of them spawn all the zombies at once and can be finished in as little as 17 seconds.
Shovel-ware games are made for every platform from every continent that actually has a game developer on it.