Blizzard Countdown [Sep 19, 2002, 12:34 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The countdown is underway on the Blizzard Entertainment
Website (thanks Hanzo) where they started the clock ticking yesterday for
their promised big announcement (story). Meanwhile, the mailbag
here at the Blue Tower has been filling up with entries from folks excited to
see the same countdown on www.starcraft2.com
(thanks StarmiT) which would seem to be an indicator of what today's announcement
from the Tokyo Game Show will center around. Just to clarify, while the
announcement may well indeed be about plans for a StarCraft sequel to satisfy
those eager for such a project, the countdown actually appears on other domains
Blizzard owns currently pointed at the same server, so you will also see this
dramatic countdown (at 7-some odd hours as of this writing) on warcraft.com,
as well, so there's no reason to be certain the announcement relates to
StarCraft.
To Smellfinger:
You say before Voodoo 1, Consoles had better 3D then PCs? I don't know about that Mr. Finger. Let's look back to our wonderful Dos embracing, pre 3D card era, say...1995-ish.
Let's see. The PCs had Duke Nukem, and soon, Descent. Both great games visually, for their time.
Now, look at what the Consoles had. The very best 3D came from the Sega Saturn. What did they have in 1995? How about Virtua Fighter 1? Have you seen that game on the Saturn? Yuck!
How about the eventual PS1 port of Duke Nukem two years later? Or the half-arsed port of Doom on the 32X?
Come on. PCs have always been ahead of the consoles. Even now. One look at the two Morrowind Versions will prove that theory, as well as Max Payne.
Yes, PCs are infinitely more difficult to program for, but still, that adds further weight to my arguement that, quite simply, PCs have always been ahead of console games...at least, Visually. (I'm not here to debate gameplay)
This comment was edited on Sep 23, 04:36.
You say before Voodoo 1, Consoles had better 3D then PCs? I don't know about that Mr. Finger. Let's look back to our wonderful Dos embracing, pre 3D card era, say...1995-ish.
Let's see. The PCs had Duke Nukem, and soon, Descent. Both great games visually, for their time.
Now, look at what the Consoles had. The very best 3D came from the Sega Saturn. What did they have in 1995? How about Virtua Fighter 1? Have you seen that game on the Saturn? Yuck!
How about the eventual PS1 port of Duke Nukem two years later? Or the half-arsed port of Doom on the 32X?
Come on. PCs have always been ahead of the consoles. Even now. One look at the two Morrowind Versions will prove that theory, as well as Max Payne.
Yes, PCs are infinitely more difficult to program for, but still, that adds further weight to my arguement that, quite simply, PCs have always been ahead of console games...at least, Visually. (I'm not here to debate gameplay)
This comment was edited on Sep 23, 04:36.
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