Starcraft: Ghost

[Craftstar]

Originally posted by krillin1986


I am just gonna buy the really awesome games
Ghost IS awesome

SFA
Ghost looks better

TimeSplitters 2
Ghost looks a LOT better

Mario Party 4
Ghost looks WAY better

Zelda
Ghost looks better

Four Horsemen!!
Four who?

Not just my opinion, an actual fact.

 

[Jango Fett]

So COOL! Blasting Hydra's heads off close up! Can u ride in Seige Tanks and Golaiths ?

 

[RossMan4Life]

I'll be getting my hands on a copy of this game one way or another. Regardless of what the game is like, I will be ready for any bit of info in the Starcraft world. I certainly hope there's at least crossover play with the xbox version, I hates them tiny split screens.

 

[krillin1986]

Originally posted by Craftstar


Not just my opinion, an actual fact.

Ok, just cause I stated my opinion, ya don't have to put it down... Ghost may LOOK better in a few of the games, not all of them, but does the gameplay beat it? No one knows yet... We'll just have to wait and see.... back to fear factor!

EDIT: Oh yea, Four Horseman of the Apocalypse is a Mature game that's coming out to gamecube next year by 3DO, it will have a lot of gore and stuff like that, and even brief nudity lol...

http://planetgamecube.com/previews.cfm?action=profile&id=226

 

[Craftstar]

Sorry if I insulted you, only an insane Starcraft fan could understand why I did =)

 

[krillin1986]

Lol yea, no prob... SC used to be sweet, but now it's old... but when this new game comes out, I'm sure I'll DEFINATELY rent it... but It's just not in my budget to get some games that look good... I want games that I know will absolutely be sweet (even though I know this will be awesome lol....)

 

[Revolutions]

Four Horsemen actually looks good, if only because of the concept. But at this point, I'm definately leaning towards Ghost. The idea sends chills down my spine (as if there really was a ghost in the room [watching me {shudder}]).

 

[Craftstar]

Is would be obvious from my name, not onli is Starcraft my favourite game (Brood War being my favourite expansion pack), but the Starcraft Universe is better than any other game universe in my opinion. I just love the storyline, the characters, the races, the technology, and just the way it is, and I could never miss a Starcraft game. However, when you look down at Ghost, you see how good it would be even WITHOUT the Starcraft Universe. The game has MGS style gameplsy, sneaking in and out of installations doing several missions. Also, it features things like massive scale warfare, being able to call in nuclear strikes ect. If that wasn't enough, the game invoves several vehicles (including air-based vehicles) and will have open-ended gameplay like GTA3. Sound to me it takes the best parts of games like MGS, GTA3, Max Payne ect, adds new ideas, and places it all into the Starcraft universe. That is why Ghost looks so amazing.

It's coming out later 2003 so that should be enough time for you to save enough to buy this amazing looking game.

 

[krillin1986]

Yea, hearing that it's gonna be like MGS2 makes me maybe wanna get it... but I'll just have to wait and find more info on the game... I always find a lot of info on a game before i make a purchase... I also loved the races in SC, I liked the Protoss, even though the Zerg are the best...

 

[Revolutions]

Originally posted by Craftstar
Is would be obvious from my name, not onli is Starcraft my favourite game

*Smacks self upside head* How did I not make that connection? I feel like such a moron.
Now when you say open-ended game play, does this mean that, if you feel like it, you could, in a mission that required you to sneak across the city and enter the Terran Rebel Base without being spotted, you could just open up on innocents without automatically losing the mission? Cause that would be cool.

 

[Craftstar]

Well obviously, I'm not 100% sure on the details, but judging from countless interviews, outdoor environments will be quite detailed and massive.

 

[Crimson King]

Feeling a little bored, here is a ton of Screenshots, some new some old.

 

[Revolutions]

I'm sorry, but that Zerg seems kind of funny-looking, as opposed to intimidating.

 

[Craftstar]

I think that when the zerg are flying at you with blades swinging through the air, they won't look so funny.

 

[Revolutions]

I'll grant you that, but when one is smiling at you like he just spit in your hamburger at a truck stop in Alabama, it's funny.

 

[Jango Fett]

Riding Golaiths would be extremely fun . Blowing up things , running over zerg and protoss creatures . This game is so COOL!

The next StarCraft game is StarCraft : Marine! J/K!
Do you have to pick up ammo like GoldenEye ?

 

[Crimson King]

You know this for a fact the next Starcraft game is Marine?

Seems farfetched to me as they Blizzard never doubles on release dates. Starcraft: Ghost is expected for late 2003 and World of Warcraft is expected for 2004.

 

[Craftstar]

When he said Marine was the next game, he put a j/k next to it, meaning that he was just kidding.

 

[Chaotic Yoshi]

So CraftStar, i know you said SC if your fav game, but how good are you? I'm guessing the best on smashboards, wanna fight tonight?, 6pm EST, US West, channel Smashboards.

Does anybody else find the idea of seeing thorugh walls a little cheap? I mean, where's the surprise, where's the suspense?

 

[Crimson King]

Acutally, he added that after I posted my message.
I know what that means.

 

[Jango Fett]

That is true . I added it after i posted . But back on topic , Blizzard's release dates are funny . They take forever to make a single game . If the release date says 2003 it will be 2004 .

http://cubemedia.ign.com/cube/image/ghost_art_005.jpg

Extremely SRRY! That I stretch the screen!
It this a Dark Templar , Zealot , or a new unit ?!

MKiller Edit: Another time when a picture is this large, just post the url. Always think what would be in favor of the boards and not stretching the site-_-

 

[Crimson King]

That depends on the developer. See, not all branches develop one game.

 

[Gerudo Knight]

I do belive that thats a Zealot in the pic.

 

[Hawaiianbum007]

I think it was a dark temp. Zealots have more armor or what every on them and look like there part of an army not a rogue. But it could also be a new unit.

 

[Chaotic Yoshi]

It's an uncloaked dark templar, there's little amour and the blade is longer and single bladed.

 

[Craftstar]

It's a stylized zealot picture, Dark Templar do not look like that.
You can tell it's not a Dark Templar because:
It's not a DT's warp blade, as Warp Blades are attached right over the hand, instead of on the wrist. The blade itself is too straight and doesn't look at all wobbly like you see warp blades look. Obviously, no cape. And it does resemble a zealot more that anything else. Like I say, stylized Zealot.

 

[firaga01]

keep in mind the the msyerious warrior bears a striking resemblance to Zeratul.......


i think its a dark templar because theres already a screen shot of a zealot walking out of a trans-dimensional portal. the blade looks like a templars, and you can see far less armor that its khalai counterpart.

i mean, come on. he even looks more sinister than a zealot.

also, onto the protoss storyline:

the dark tempalr, as mosty of you know, were banished from aiur by the conclave because they did not submit themselves to the khali, a new form of a psychic-conenction, formulated by KHAS who uncovered the khaydrin crystals, that allowed brethern to tie themselves to each other mentally. in doing so, the DTs shattered their bond with the khali brethern and looked to harness the black infiniteness of space and chaos rather than the more subtile way of the Khala.

this is why the zealot glows blue in the pic and why the DT glows green. blizzard was always detailed on its art

 

[Craftstar]

It's artwork, it looks like a zealot, and I'm 99.9% sure it is a zealot.

 

[firaga01]

then what is the unit in the last screenshot on blizzard's webpTHAT is a zealot; this is a DT. without further evidence, though, this debate will continue in a deadlock

 

[Jango Fett]

There is a SLIGHT chance that it could be a new unit but I doubt it . I think it is a Zealot merged with a Dark Templar . It looks like it wants to kill you .

 

[Resting_Fox]

I must say that this is a game I have been wanting to come out for uite a long time. The visuals look great and I think Blizzard will manage to pull the game off nicely. Though they are just publishing the game (Nihallation [sp?] is the development team) I think It will still be a good game. For funny commentary look up Penny Arcade's comic about.

 

[Craftstar]

Yes, THAT is a zealot, and this is either A) Just a Zealot drawn differently, or B) A special Zealot hero. Remember Fenix? He was a Zealot, but was different that the other Zealots.

EDIT: Although Nihilistic is doing artwork and coding, Blizzard is doing some work such as character design, storyline, and all of that kind of stuff.

 

[firaga01]

craftstar, HOW????

im not meaning to offend you, but r offering no solid support to back ur statement up. the pic looks like he's wearing little armor. and, look at his shoulder blade; it seems to contian some kind of crystal. now, we know that zealots dont carry khaydrin crystals on theri sodleirs, so that cant be.

also, if u ever lost a game as the protoss, look closely at the warp blade. its is part of a arm "psychic-strenghtening" device that further intensifies the blade to the point that a warrior's very mind is dealing damage to the enemy. this pic shows no arm-strengthener. also, if u look at Zeratul's wallpaper(get it from blizzards compedium URL for SC) , u see that the blade is coming from an enhancer located near the wrist and is almost half the size of the zealot's enhancer


true, u may argue that he is a hero unit an therefore has his own cutsom-made enhancer, but realize that the dark templar are not to resourceful or abundant in resources of manpower or the minerals that compose the enhancers because theyre a nomadic ppl. what i believ is that power comes through age; this has been demonstrated if u look at the very back of ur BROOD WAR instructions manual that shows how old the heroes r. with the exception of artanis (which is about 200 and some odd-years old), this proves my theory on the protoss hero-heirachy



also, did any of you guys really look at that zealot pic (not the art i am discussing)? it kinda looks so..........undetailed. do any of you see any non-blurred lines? the figure is a little wide, also, dont you think? sure, the backround looks awesome, but everything si blurry-ish........of course, this may just be the result of a bad-scan, but then what would such a bad scan be doing on blizzard's homepage?

 

[Craftstar]

Well, it's obvious that this issue is getting quite heated, and this is a Ghost topic, not a Zealot vs. DT topic. So I say we keep the issue as "unresolved" until it gets announced. Still, the standard DT has a cape, ect, and this ones armour still looks more like a zealot, not to mention the blade is to straight and steady... But oh well, we'll just wait it out.

 

[Hawaiianbum007]

Im sorry if im going againest any rule or unresolved thing but saying every dark temp. has a cape i like saying every one from arkansas is stuiped. How do you know every dark temp has a cape. Just because the character models in the game all have capes doesnt mean that that is how the entier race is dressed. We all have to remeber this is not Starcraft RTS, blizzard can do more with it to expained every race in the areas of culture difference and such things as that. Another thing is their blades being not striaght and conected to their hands. Where did you get that idea? You cant say that from what you know of Starcraft RTS because thats going to be changed by this game. I dont if its a dark temp. or a zealot but im just trying to point out that Ghost is going to elabrate on all the races to levels no RTS can go to.

 

[Revolutions]

^Are you from Arkansas? Because if you are, it doesn't help your case that you spelled "stupid" wrong.
As far as the whole photo thing goes, I choose to remain neutral at this point anyway. I was just playing the original StarCraft, and now I'm all excited. *Dances around like a giddy schoolgirl*

 

[Craftstar]

Originally posted by Hawaiianbum007
Im sorry if im going againest any rule or unresolved thing but saying every dark temp. has a cape i like saying every one from arkansas is stuiped. How do you know every dark temp has a cape. Just because the character models in the game all have capes doesnt mean that that is how the entier race is dressed. We all have to remeber this is not Starcraft RTS, blizzard can do more with it to expained every race in the areas of culture difference and such things as that. Another thing is their blades being not striaght and conected to their hands. Where did you get that idea? You cant say that from what you know of Starcraft RTS because thats going to be changed by this game. I dont if its a dark temp. or a zealot but im just trying to point out that Ghost is going to elabrate on all the races to levels no RTS can go to.

If you wanted to make an intelligent response telling me why I am wrong, then I think you should try again.

 

[Hawaiianbum007]

First of all, i would like to point out i am from Arkanasas and that i have problem with spelling that i cant help. its like a brain problem and im also a little dyslectic.

Second of all, I would like to say to craftstar that i was trying to say that you cant base your knowledge of what the characters look like because of the character models in Starcraft RTS ie all Dark Temps. having caps and messed up blades. Ghost is not going to make generic models so that every DT looks the same and they all have caps. Blizzard is most likly going to try to make the races more realistic meaning their not going to make all DT's have caps and messed up blades but make them look more of an individual. Basic saying all DT's look the same is wrong and saying a DT was a cape and messed up warp blade is not a good enough arguement to the topic at hand, in my own opinion. Please dont take this as a flame im just try to clear up what was saying. Again i really dont know what it is and i dont care. im just trying to state what this game is going to do to the Starcraft universe.

 

[Craftstar]

Yeah yeah, I get you. However, I don't think warp blades are going to look all that different, and that weapon doesn't look like one. Even the armour looks like a zealots.

OKAY, No more discussion on whether or not it is a DT!

 

[Hawaiianbum007]

i just wanted to redem my self thats all.

On a better note, Starcraft: Ghost screen shots look a whole lot better then the first ones. They just keep getting better and better