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Well I am looking forward to this games and I bet they have a strong background story like other Blizzard games.



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Games with moba-ish elements are a thing this gen. Looks quite cool. Action was nice and fast. Colour me green (exited). Signed up for the beta.

Goblins Vs Gnomes expansion for Hearthstone. This game came out of nowhere and became my most played game this year. Looking forward to Heroes of the Storm. Thrall and Jaina announced for that.

Not sure what they announced in Diablo panel. I guess they can wait as they just launched Reaper of Souls. Haven't had much time to explore the adventure mode. The campaign was solid.



vkaraujo said:
Chars are bit too cliche. And really, another shooter?

I know everyone likes to consider Activision and Blizzard different companys because reasons, but one more shooter wasn't what i was expecting from a Blizzard new IP.

I will keep an eye, it will really be about how it feels playing.

Blizzard has never done a shooter before, they *could* break some new ground.
It could also provide them with some experience to put towards their other IP's. (I still wan't my StarCraft Ghosts!)

Although Blizzard games aren't that innovative in their current releases they *did* set the standard for the MMO's, RTS and Hack and Slash Genre's, which is nothing to scoff at, one can only hope they will do the same thing for the FPS genre which is stale.



Also thread title is wrong.

Blizzard "announced Titan" at one point, so it has been less than 17 years since the last origional IP announcement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Blizzard_Entertainment_project)




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Pemalite said:

Also thread title is wrong.

Blizzard "announced Titan" at one point, so it has been less than 17 years since the last origional IP announcement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Blizzard_Entertainment_project)

Did they ever officially announce Titan?  All that link you posted said is that they kept talking about the game in broad terms saying they were working on an MMO to co-exist with WoW, which never had a single screenshot released.

Seems a bit different to the situation here, where they have a huge blowout of information and a release window (i.e. beta in 2015).



Kresnik said:
TruckOSaurus said:

I do count WoW, Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm all as new IPs. Blizzard seems to employ the Nintendo model: make new IPs with existing characters/universes.


Hmm.  Hearthstone I'm struggling with, but you consider World of Warcraft a new IP too?

It's literally a continuation of the story of Warcraft 3, just delivered in a different genre.

So if we're stretching that logic, do you consider Guilty Gear 2 a new IP compared to Guilty Gear 1?  It features the characters of GG1 and continues the story, but is a complete genre shift from the first game.

Can't comment on Guilty Gear since I don't know what those games are but Warcraft is an RTS and World of Warcraft a MMO, to me that a different IP (like say Super Mario Bros vs Paper Mario)



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Kresnik said:
Pemalite said:

Also thread title is wrong.

Blizzard "announced Titan" at one point, so it has been less than 17 years since the last origional IP announcement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Blizzard_Entertainment_project)

Did they ever officially announce Titan?  All that link you posted said is that they kept talking about the game in broad terms saying they were working on an MMO to co-exist with WoW, which never had a single screenshot released.

Seems a bit different to the situation here, where they have a huge blowout of information and a release window (i.e. beta in 2015).

"Announce" means to make "Publicly or known".

Blizzard made Titan's development, public, thus it was "Announced".




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Pemalite said:
vkaraujo said:
Chars are bit too cliche. And really, another shooter?

I know everyone likes to consider Activision and Blizzard different companys because reasons, but one more shooter wasn't what i was expecting from a Blizzard new IP.

I will keep an eye, it will really be about how it feels playing.

Blizzard has never done a shooter before, they *could* break some new ground.
It could also provide them with some experience to put towards their other IP's. (I still wan't my StarCraft Ghosts!)

Although Blizzard games aren't that innovative in their current releases they *did* set the standard for the MMO's, RTS and Hack and Slash Genre's, which is nothing to scoff at, one can only hope they will do the same thing for the FPS genre which is stale.



Also thread title is wrong.

Blizzard "announced Titan" at one point, so it has been less than 17 years since the last origional IP announcement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Blizzard_Entertainment_project)

Blizz and Activision are owned by the same parent company, called Actvision Blizzard. I don't know how far from the tree this apple is going to fall, but every year that goes by, the feeling that blizz and activision see the market by the same glasses increases.

That's why i said another, i'm counting CoD and Destiny on the same boat.



Titan was cancelled so how would it count as a new IP anyways?



The Blizzard guy himself said that it was the first new IP in 17 years. If you have a disagreement over that tallk to Blizzard. :p



phaedruss said:
Titan was cancelled so how would it count as a new IP anyways?


It was an IP announcement.

Read the title.




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