In the wake of the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last week, it’s understandable that people would look to place blame. Many in the media have been quick to suggest a link between shooter Adam Lanza’s interest in videogames and the violence he perpetrated. Does the evidence support their claims?
Jason Hall, currently an indie developer and former Blizzard employee, has been sharing some really interesting stories from his long career in the industry for a while now. Some of them are truly insightful, while others may seem depressing.
I’m a little shocked that StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty sold only around 6 million copies. The original StarCraft did over 11 million. Maybe Blizzard was too leisurely in releasing StarCraft 2? Starcraft 2 came out 12 years after it’s predecessor.
Im surprised too. Starcraft was still a huge name in 2010. It was kinda the only new RTS around and other genres like MOBAs hadn't really kicked off yet. I do remember at the time sentiment around the game was
pretty angry the game was being split into 3 but I doubt that would have impacted sales to that degree
For a long time I believed StarCraft II sold on par or better than its predecessor. There was so much hype for the game. Plus it had a pretty strong E-Sports scene for a few years.
Myself and half a dozen friends all bought StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and played it religiously for a full year. While I bought the expansions, most of my friends did not. RPGs seem to be a generally low selling genre.
I'm not shocked at all. This was an early example of Blizzard being greedy. Instead of releasing a complete experience, splitting Starcraft 2 in 3 parts so it could make us purchase it 3 times if we wanted to know the whole story and play story mode with the other races.
I originally had that stance. However, Wings of Liberty, was just as long, if not longer than StarCraft 1. The expansions were of decent length too and added a good amount of additional content.
and people wonder why we are having mtx in everything. i blame the people who actual buy them.
It's interesting he used Brazil as an example of the importance of regional pricing. Nowadays many companies on Steam are setting their prices in Brazil as high as, if not more than, their price in USA. I simply refused to buy a few games when I noticed that's the case.
The best sci-fi games ever made range from diving into the depths of humanity to finding hope among the stars.
Don't really agree on Dead Space being number one. But usually come down to preference. Alot of good games on the list. I was hoping to see Aliens vs Predator by Sierra on the list, as it was a great game. Anyways for me the number one is still Halo but Mass Effect was really good up to the infamous ending of the third game.
I would put Flashback on my list. Its got such a great tone and background design. The cutscenes were pretty good too.
DEAD SPACE 2 as number 1? Really? I've only ever played DEAD SPACE 1 (without finishing it) and, sure enough I liked it a lot, and have been yearning for getting to grips with an hd remastered trilogy for the PS4/XBox One/PS5/XBox Series X/S, but what about Deus Ex Human Revolution & Mankind Divided? Alienation (to quench our thirst for twitching fingers' top-down dual-stick shooters)? Or even Cyberpunk 2077 (once the game has been re-released and all the kinks have been ironed out)?
If not at the #1 spot, it seems to me these games deserved to be on the list somewhere.
But what really strikes me as unfair is, if you're going back to the PS3/XBox 360 era with DS2, how could you forget to mention Killzone 2 & 3? The Resistance games? When it comes to Sci-Fi FPS, it's inadequate not to pay your respects to those stellar franchises! Heck, even the Crysis trilogy should've been there IMHO.
A team of modders is working on a Starcraft Remake in Starcraft 2, and has released a brand new version of it.
I will say this as long as people keep submitting these media clips: If they keep focusing on video games as a reason for this guy killing those at this school and his mom, they will never reach the reason why the kids were targeted and why the guy snapped. It has NOTHING to do with video games.
Starcraft is a RTS game not a shooter.
If they want to talk about banning video games then they might as well ban every violent rated R movie.. hell even ban albums with explicit lyrics.. I'm tired of the media and failed parenting pointing fingers every where else except themselves.. maybe lock your guns away from your kids.. hey even stop being selfish and think ..maybe I shouldn't keep this gun in the reach of my mentally ill teen.. or in any case any child. Fine lets get rid of all guns.. then you know what happens next.. you will see stabbings rise.. they need to get to the core of the problem which is mental help..
well something similiar happened in the uk in 1996 and they banned guns and guess what, there have been no more school shootings.
heres the link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthi...
The media should take a long hard look at itself - for years psychologists have been saying that the sensationalising these mass murders can often act as a catalyst for the next one. The best way to report it is to keep it low-key and DON'T discuss the attackers motives, lifestyle etc, focus on the victims otherwise you're enticing future murderers with notoriety.