In Jason Schreier’s Play Nice, it’s noted that at one point, Blizzard were working on botha God of War-style game starring Thrall as the protagonist (canned when Afrasiabi was fired, as he was the director), and a Minecraft-esque game called Avalon also set in the Warcraft universe (cancelled due to changing market conditions IIRC). In addition to a Pokemon Go-esque augmented reality game.
With all these prototypes and concepts, I wonder…
What would your ideal Warcraft game be, one which isn’t in the mould of Warcraft 3, or WoW?
Citybuilder , something like Anno. Let me build my wow city, trade or do battle with neighbouring nations, somewhere out on Azeroth.
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Let them improve on what they already have first…
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Weird to say but sounds like afrasiabi did at least one thing right. A gow style game just sounds inherently awful.
I like the idea of a baldurs gate style rpg set in the Warcraft universe, though I doubt blizzard could deliver on the concept very well.
Overall just a Warcraft rts again, they supposedly tried making them but kotic kept ending the projects, and ms loves an rts so maybe it’ll happen now.
Well, apart from some fun game where teams of five battle against each other…
I can only respond with what I play. I’m aging enough that I’m not in the market for inventing new stuff.
- Travelling & Racing: Truck, Train and Sportscar simulators are quite popular. Mirage Raceway was heavily influenced by Star Wars pod racing, which was a game. Not sure about its longevity, though. Could be a fun thing to invent a country / route in the above games, though.
- Puzzles. Strictly speaking you can take screenshots and use one of those games cutting it up. Yet, if not a standalone game, a puzzle pack for the major titles could be fun.
- City building maybe, but there is a simple genre classified as strategy, where you have a few builders, collect stuff, construct buildings and combat (technically: buy) foes.
Not sure I’d want to deviate, though. I feel WoW itself fulfils a lot of roles, the only issue is that we can’t agree on difficulty (my level appropriate lock was deleting mobs in 2 seconds each). But we have pet battles, strategic quests, bombing runs, all that. Professions can also act as a collection simulator, except skyriding is a bit of a conflict.
Main issue with most of these games is replayability.
I also used to enjoy map building, which is similar to housing. It could be fun to build our own islands or cities, using the assets of WoW. I did so for RTS purposes. The main difference from the garrison is that you can place anything anywhere. Plant a tree, decide between cobblestone, dirt or elven roads, pick bushes and flowers for your garden, place a little house for your dogs, build a mechanic shop for your mekgineer’s chopper.
As for the environment, you could have a Stranglethorn-like home, or maybe a cottage in the Scandinavian woods. Unless you’re the type that builds a pyramid.
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I don’t want Blizzard to make it, I want Koei-Tecmo to make Dynasty Warriors: Warcraft.
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Dating Sim with all the different faction leaders.
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An CDPred like RPG set in the Time between Warcraft 2 and 3.
Where you can explore all of EK. in a more Skyrim like scale.
it would flesh out a time in Warcraft’s history with little to no coverage.
You will be a Human from Lordearon, in the mids of the Fall of the Alliance, as kingdoms are fighting over how to detain the orcs. You have raiding Orc clans who had escaped or never seen imprisonment, that you can interact and or fight with.
in These 8 years most of the fan favourite characters introduced in warcraft 3, are still alive and becoming who they are in warcraft 3. and the fan favourite characters who survived the second war would still be around as well. so it could be Cameo’s galore.
This could act like a Warcraft Andor of sorts. and use a lot of Book lore to flesh things out.
I’ve cleared up some of the vague wording. Afrasiabi was the Third-Person Action Game’s main director, the project was cancelled when he was fired for misconduct.
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A BioWare style single player RPG with an expansive, well-written, detailed codex.
Truth be told, I mostly want it for the codex.
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My DW: Warcraft suggestion was the ‘real’ one I wanted, but a few more less serious but ideas I’d kinda like to see:-
Resident Evil: Stratholme. Survival horror against the Scourge set just after the Culling, RE2/3make style.
An X-COM-like with the Gob Squad. Obviously goblin lives are eminently replaceable and disposable, so if you happen to lose a gob because your 95% accuracy shot missed and the 30% retaliatory shot hit, who cares? Just get another gob in.
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Make a dating sim visual novel but with all the big name characters. Not just the main cast, but things like Ragnaros, Bwonsamdi and Nefarian too.
No smut, it would be purely lighthearted.
Total War: Warcraft could be nice.
Just with better game mechanics than in Warhammer and perhaps a proper city planner thrown in there too (I know it’s not a thing in TW).
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They should just finish lord of the clans.
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A 2D-fighting game.
I’d prefer it in the style of Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter or Darkstalkers rather than pure Street Fighter, but I’d also take Killer Instinct-style gameplay. You could make up existing characters of spec archetypes, or use existing established characters for traditional fighting game archetypes - Jaina as a zoner, Lilian Voss as rushdown, Stitches as a grappler (lol) and convert cooldowns/spells into cinematic super combos of a sort.
On a completely unrelated note, lol 2XKO.
Boltgun but you play as Broxigar the Red solo’ing the Burning Legion.
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A Starcraft FPS could be pretty cool.
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A single-player / cop-op game taking us through the War of the Ancients
I hope they’ll never bring WotA as a time-travel thing into WoW beyond what we already have (e.g. an expansion throwing us so far back in time), but I’d love going through the events in a separate game, with the graphics style referencing the original WoW cinematic:
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There was the old Starcraft: Ghost where you’d play as Nova, but that got canned.
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