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I always preferred Westwood Studios to Blizzard.

KojiKnight said:
Blizzard has never been innovators... They have never created or even substantially changed games their genres come from, they are however masters of polishing both visuals and mechanics.

I'll give you that Westwood was the more innovative of the two, but there is no denying that Blizz's polish won the day (plus not being eaten by EA certainly helped the latter).
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Who made Diablo before Diablo?
 
Yuri's Revenge was my jam, and still is to this day. Don't even come out with another one, just port RA2 / YR to a modern engine, and maybe even offer a graphical makeover in the vein of Halo Remastered, and allow switching to classic graphics. I think I'd die of happiness.

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soxinthebox said:
Who made Diablo before Diablo?
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From what I understand Blizzard bought the studio making Diablo and branded them as Blizzard North. Someone correct me if I'm wrong please, I'm not 100℅ sure and I'm on my phone.

To be honest though, I prefer Blizzard. Innovation is overrated.
 
Valnen said:
From what I understand Blizzard bought the studio making Diablo and branded them as Blizzard North. Someone correct me if I'm wrong please, I'm not 100℅ sure and I'm on my phone.
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Um, no. They were purchased by blizzard before Diablo even released.
 
I loved both for different reasons. RIP Westwood. Between the two I'm glad we still have blizzard as they are my favourite.
 
Cobra84 said:
Source? I find it hard to believe they would go from suing to shipping a map editor with Red Alert 1 in the year between C&C1 and RA1.
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Hard to find considering this happened about 20 years ago, but it did. Westwood was worried about custom maps eating away into the profits of their expansion packs.
 
Yeah throw me in the Westwood camp.
Their rts style always hooked me more than blizzards. Especially with the no limit cap on units.
 
Valnen said:
Right, but as I understand it Diablo was already in development right?
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Yes but if it wasn't for blizzard, Diablo wouldn't have been the same game. it was a combination of both companies.

I miss Westwood and I do love the C&C games.
 
Ok I give you that Diablo was something new..
And also the things they developed pre-Warcraft like Lost Vikings, Rock & Roll racing and Blackthorne were pretty cool.

Nothing they ever did had the same kind of impact to me as the first time I played Dune 2 or Blade Runner.. Those games just felt so fresh as well as being really well made and polished.

Of course that's all subjective though.

Oh and Frank Klepacki was an amazing composer.
 
Tiberian Sun was so great, and damn hard. I never really struggled in Starcraft, but I had to replay tons of missions in Tiberian Sun.
Loved that game. Chemical Missiles were so awesome.
 
Loved the series but once they left ea and made petroglyph games their quality went to crap.
They are also the ones making Grey Goo
 
Vigilant Walrus said:
Well, at least Homeworld is coming out soon. It's going to be beyond sick.
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Really can't wait. I dug out my Homeworld CD in preparation for the remaster, and the gameplay is still mindblowing... Can't wait to see the remastered version in action, as all the footage I've seen points to a major graphical overhaul.
 
bsod said:
Westwood sued modders for making custom C&C maps, Blizzard included a map maker in SC. Blizzard wins.
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Citation needed, a quick Google search shows no results for this.

Also, Westwood were my gods growing up. Sad to see Nox getting little love in this thread.
 
People also need to remember that Kerrigan was a direct response to Tanya

Initially based around the character Tanya Adams in the Command & Conquer: Red Alert series, Kerrigan was named after Nancy Kerrigan, who at the time was involved in a feud with Tonya Harding.
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While I disagree in general I will say back in the day my crew got over WC1 rather quickly while we played the shit out of C&C on Kali.

DAT GDI APC Engineer Rush! Much backdoor. Very bank. So quick win.

If you failed though NOD would crush. LoL
 
Westwood, any day. I hate you EA :'(

Grey Goo is great, but man its hard to hold it at the same level of C&C. Not sure it will ever be matched.
 
Lands of Lore was amazing... I will always remember that amazing teaser trailer that was haunting me for like 2 years (on a demo CD) before the actual Lands of Lore 2 was released ... and brought its fair share of disappointment for me :( (hate the way they went with video capture mixed with background CG).


But yes, Westwood was great back in the days, between Eye of the Beholder (great Amiga version), Lands of Lore, Dune 2 and Command on Conquer (my favorite in the series is still the very first one).
 
Westwood played a huge part in my childhood and general love for games. Looking at the FMV in Command & Conquer today the stories may seem cheesy and laughable, but as a little kid I loved those sequences just as much if not more than the actual missions. They made me feel like I was an actual general being briefed and taking part in the war.
 
Dune 2000 was the game that got me into RTSs, and Tiberian Sun the game that cemented my love for them, back in the day. Westwood was amazing.
 
Glad to see Im not the only one. :)
Lots of excellent posts here.

It always seems Westwood doesn't get as much love and respect as they deserve. They basically created one of the biggest genres of the 90's and just the general quality of their library is really impressive.. especially looking looking at how many games they made in several different genres.

Grey Goo looks interesting. Have to get it just to support ex-Westwood people. I did try Universe at War and it seemed pretty solid even if it didn't grab me like the Westwood classics did.
 
The original Command & Conquer is one of my all time favorites RTS games. It's a shame that the franchise was destroyed.
 
SPAAACE!

I really like the early C&C and the Red Alert games, but Blizzard are and will always be my favorite.

It's a shame Westwood are gone, but the series was going downhill pretty rapidly. It's probably best left to the ages.
 
Westwood are possibly my most loved PC developer of all time aside from maybe Lucasarts so yes I agree. All the RTS's up to RA2 where wonderful and I've fallen away from the genre since they died, little had that C&C magic.

Also a special mention for Blade Runner, my PC at the time probably ran it at 10fps but I loved it all the same. Beautiful game, and the system of the replicants being different in each playthrough added the sort of replay value you still don't get in modern adventure games.
 
Yes Westwood was the best. For some reason Petroglyph was not able to rekindle that love in me though.
 
C&C Red Alert was a contest of who could build tanks faster and deploy them efficiently. There was no time or reason to expand your base beyond one huge tank factory.
 
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