2010 GAMING CHOICE

author=harmonic
Blizzard is part of a rare and dying breed of PC developers that makes no apologies and stands on the merits of its game content, which, for the most part, still derives from true inspiration and sheer will + high skill of the dev team. It doesn't need to rely on gimmicks, crappy but somehow highly addictive facebook social games, manipulative hype and marketing, or dubius-at-best business practices such as small paid downloadable content packs that could have/should have just been released with the game, or bundled together with more significant changes in an actual expansion pack.

i miss BioWare being more prominent for the above reasons. the original Neverwinter Nights was incredible and the sequel just does not measure up, not even a little.
they made mass effect, though. that's some pretty incredible shit, and that level of quality is to be expected of BioWare.

maybe he meant KOTOR

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author=Fallen-Griever
Agree with Starcraft II. I don't even make my games anymore, I just play SC2 (badly) and watch videos of overenthusiastic people commentating on SC2 games instead.

Starcraft 2 - 60 dollars you're never getting back.

60 dollars is worth it but I'm getting it for 40.

author=harmonic
Blizzard is part of a rare and dying breed of PC developers that makes no apologies and stands on the merits of its game content, which, for the most part, still derives from true inspiration and sheer will + high skill of the dev team. It doesn't need to rely on gimmicks, crappy but somehow highly addictive facebook social games, manipulative hype and marketing, or dubius-at-best business practices such as small paid downloadable content packs that could have/should have just been released with the game, or bundled together with more significant changes in an actual expansion pack.

Yeah, Blizzard dev's are pretty good, but at one con: Wait time. How long does it take for Blizzard to release a game? The wait is worth the reward, I suppose.

If say like 20 companies took as long as Blizzard to make their games, and the release dates were staggered in such a way that it makes it "feel" like they are coming out in relatively short time from each other then we can start appreciating really well built games.

I think it's also due in large part to the fact that Blizzard decided to hype SCII very early. I mean if TES5 got hype soon after TESIV, then we'd think it's taking forever since 2011 would be a 5th year after the older games release. But because they kept silent until the Game Awards this year, it makes it feel like I've just got one year to wait. And, "oh hey!" It's almost the new year!

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