Monday, February 09, 2004

Quickly men, we must forge a war!

I've just been informed of a life changing, time wasting, glorious, beautiful, delicious escape from life known as Warcraft 3. Yes, this is a Real Time Strategy game and, another yes, it is indeed located exclusively on the PC. Furthermore, this game, this addiction, is still being played, nay, devoured by many ravenous gamers around the world.

I concede defeat in this field. Words were said, by me, that were rather derogatory towards not only PC games as a whole but specifically the dead genre that is RTS games. Clearly, this genre is not dead, as at least one true fan has spoken out against my lies.

But, while this game is surely the RTS utopia the genre has strived to reach for years, it's already a couple years old and, guess what, still the top of the genre. And, with no foreseeable threat on the future, it may stay that way indefinitely.

So, I admit that, yes, there are still loyal fans of the genre, or more specifically the game, but the genre is still in its death throes. EA has killed Westwood, the only competitor Blizzard ever had. Blizzard has been deemed king, and no one will ever be able to take that away from them. So, while people still play WC3, still love it in fact, with the series now shifting to MMORPG with WoW, the nail in the RTS genre is about to be pounded securely in place.

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