As it turned out, Winzen's mod was so impressive that Blizzard thought he was developing a game outside of its platform. Everything he had developed so far was made entirely using StarCraft II's extensive built-in modding tools. He didn't see how he had done anything that wasn't explicitly encouraged by the game's maker.
Activision Blizzard had it pulled down, on suspicion of copyright infringement. Within a few days of announcing World of StarCraft and racking up 150,000 video views, Winzen's video disappeared from the web. As it turned out, even Activision Blizzard didn't understand just how transformative its own tools could be. "You can do pretty much anything you can imagine," Winzen said. Even Blizzard itself released StarJeweled, a StarCraft-themed Bejeweled-style matching puzzle game, again played within StarCraft II.
That’s our Queue for this week! I hope you all have a fantastic, spooky weekend ahead of you, and that you keep the spirit of Halloween alive well beyond October.Another developed a card game called BarCraft, a multiplayer tabletop-style game that is played within StarCraft II.
I was inspired by machinima like Exploration the Movie and Nogg-aholic, and it really showed in how I played. I spent more time in vanilla WoW (pre-1.9) wall-walking and going out of bounds to places like beneath Orgrimmar than I did on any other part of the game. Zul’Gurub is a good example, because you can jump over the instance entrance, explore parts of Stranglethorn, experience the weird “Ortell’s Hideout” cave that should only exist in Silithus, and even make your way to instanced Deadwood Pass to see the smiley face beneath Karazhan. When Demon Hunters were in beta, I actually almost put together an entire article showing how they can break the game and get out of instanced content. Even now, I still spend a lot of time doing this sort of thing just to see what I can break. Q4tQ: Back before they added flying and ruined the fun, did you ever go exploring to see what kind of corners you could poke into?
Bloodborne is my favorite spooky game (even if it’s a different kind of spooky). Everything I said above it still true, but it’s Bloodborne. Oh, actually, I’m dumb and should read my own answers. I also love fun-spooky, though, like Mad Monster Mansion from Banjo-Kazooie. In particular, the doll house section from RE Village, the opening haunted house section from RE7, and just a lot of parts of RE4. It made moving through the same hallways over and over far more exciting than it probably had any right to be, and it made use of its atmosphere incredibly well.ĭifferent parts of Resident Evil games get a shout-out too - but only parts, since the games tend to turn into action movies by the end. I really should have a better answer, given how much I do love spooky things but it’s just so hard to pick one!ĭespite having never been able to play myself, I love PT for how subtly creepy it managed to be using a limited, repeating space. Q4tQ: What is your favorite spooky game of all time? So maybe she went somewhere else, where all the innocent souls can just live in peace and have a second life they never got the chance to have wherever they came from.
That just leaves Night Fae, and while it’s probably a close match tonally, I don’t see her being that in tune with nature. Venthyr might scare her, Kyrian would mean she’d have to lose her memory of her father, and Necrolords are… well, I hope they don’t employ children into their army. Give me a game that is all Drustvar and I will be happy.Īs for Pamela, I’m not actually sure I see her joining one of the four Covenants. Other places that didn’t necessarily spook but which ARE exactly my kind of spooky: Karazhan’s Upside-down Sinners room and basically all of Drustvar. It was a very cool, unexpected effect that really solidified the idea of Old Gods whispering in your ear, trying to make you doubt your path. Was it another program? Did others hear it? If it was part of the game, why wasn’t it in my chat log? Will it happen again? WoW isn’t exactly a game with jump scares, but I will say, the first several times C’Thun whispered to me (and only me) way back in vanilla WoW, I was a bit taken aback. Are there any moments play WoW that have actually spooked you? And, where do you think Pammy went in the Shadowlands?