When a list of canceled Blizzard titles emerged at this year's DICE, MTV's Stephen Totilo noticed one game conspicuously absent:
Starcraft Ghost, which we probably all assumed was dead. But Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce told MTV "It never was technically canceled. It's just a focus thing for us right now." ... Umm, confirmed?
Yes, we've
heard rumblings about a
Ghost rebirth before, but so far absolutely nothing has come of it. That leaves us with one question: If a game almost assuredly isn't coming out in your lifetime, isn't it pretty much canceled anyway?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Count Noobula @ Feb 13th 2008 12:30PM
Hmmmm, this would be a good game for Xbox 360 and PS3 owners. Maybe they could port the original works of it for the Wii.
*Shake Wiimote for Cloaking ability*
Farseer (GDI) @ Feb 13th 2008 12:30PM
Of course it's not dead. We'll see World of Starcraft and the World of Starcraft: Ghost expansion before 2010. Hell, Bilzzard can only milk WoW for so long...
Farseer (GDI) @ Feb 13th 2008 12:31PM
Whoops, I forgot:
/don MMO flamesuit
Intentless @ Feb 13th 2008 12:31PM
umm *Shake Wiimote for Cloaking ability* .. uh no...
Anyway I think we should use Duke Nukem as the control group. Unless the game is in "development" as long as it without official confirmation it is cancelled we shouldn't give up on it...
SF Legend @ Feb 13th 2008 7:40PM
I'd shake my wiimote.
Noshino @ Feb 13th 2008 12:35PM
I seriously don't get it, all the previews of the game showed it as pretty much done, and hell, it looked amazing...
...WHY BLIZZARD! WHY DELAY THE FUCKING GAME!
Arturis @ Feb 13th 2008 1:00PM
StarCraft: Ghost got delayed because of bad timing, nothing more. The game was very near completion as an XBox title right around the time that the XBox 360 was launched. Blizzard realized that they could do so much more with the next gen systems and decided to put the game on hold until they can refocus their energy on it sometime in the future.
Speaking from experience, having played SC:Ghost multiplayer at BlizzCon '05, they definitely still had a lot of polishing to go in order to make it a Blizzard quality game. The multiplayer was incredibly unbalanced in favor of the Zerg - none of the Space Marine's weaponry had enough stopping power to keep the Hydralisks from chewing your face off.
paragraph @ Feb 13th 2008 12:35PM
All i have to say is: Starcraft 64....
Don't rush blizzard... please... for the sake of humanity...
I guess on topicish;
If a game is not officially "in development" but not cancelled, it's not cancelled... sure, Ghost may be on the back burner, but someone there at "The Bliz" wanted to keep it alive... there is a tiny ray of hope...
jimmygotsmack @ Feb 13th 2008 12:42PM
Sure rushing them would be bad, but something that was announced in 2002? Six years would hardly be rushing.
jimmygotsmack @ Feb 13th 2008 12:37PM
From what I heared, the original game was practically done. If anything, they should include that version with the new version of the game as a bonus, so all that time and effort would not be wasted. Like it was with Warcraft adventure.
Arturis @ Feb 13th 2008 1:28PM
Draco, that would be a picture of a model dressed as Nova, the main protagonist from SC:Ghost. Not Kerrigan. Nova has yet to appear in anything but SC:Ghost, though many are hoping she will play a role in StarCraft 2.
Arturis @ Feb 13th 2008 3:20PM
Sorry, reply went to the wrong subthread
LiK @ Feb 13th 2008 12:38PM
one of the hottest game babes without a game. shame...
upz @ Feb 13th 2008 12:46PM
Is that a wax statue or a real person?
Trev @ Feb 13th 2008 12:51PM
I want to quick throw in a "Does it matter?" before Jerk Face gets here and does it.
Noshino @ Feb 13th 2008 12:52PM
upz, that was a real girl, I think it was at the last BlizzCon
Draco @ Feb 13th 2008 12:58PM
Kerrigan had a game...
She was the main character on both Starcraft and Broodwar.
LiK @ Feb 13th 2008 1:33PM
Draco, that's not Kerrigan. her name is Nova...
Jerk Face @ Feb 13th 2008 1:48PM
GOD DAMN IT TREV.
JUST GOD DAMN IT.
Mike @ Feb 13th 2008 12:46PM
HOORAY!! This game was fun as hell at blizzcon a few years back! I'm so happy blizz hasn't officially given up on it!
mike @ Feb 13th 2008 12:50PM
Starcraft ghost, the new duke nukem forever?
FOXHOUND @ Feb 13th 2008 1:09PM
"Duke? Well, I guess he's your type. Burly, smoker, 30s, human, likes lifting weights and kicking ass when he's out of gum. I'd say his only fault is being late and paying off strippers---
*click*
...Hello? Hello? Eh, sorry 'Nukem. She hung up. Something about Blizzard calling on the other line."
Leilock @ Feb 13th 2008 1:14PM
Winner for most literal game title ever.
paragraph @ Feb 13th 2008 1:38PM
One word: Phantom
Martez @ Feb 13th 2008 1:42PM
Phantom wasn't a game.
paragraph @ Feb 13th 2008 1:58PM
@Martez
But they were/are the makers of all the good vapor ;)
WiNG @ Feb 13th 2008 1:20PM
I just had a sad idea...
Imagine, if you will, that you are still a game when you're 60, 70 or 80 years old. Or that you are already this age and a gamer.
Every time a killer game is announced, you have to ask "Will I still be alive by the time this actually comes out?" Ouch.
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Feb 13th 2008 1:23PM
Depressing.
thethirdmoose @ Feb 13th 2008 5:40PM
Come on! Everyone knows that old people don't play games!
...except, of course, old grandma hardcore
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Feb 13th 2008 1:23PM
This game needs to be on the Wii.
Grimmus @ Feb 13th 2008 1:26PM
It's unfortunate that everyone immediately jumps to the "olo duke nukem" bandwagon for any and every game that's delayed even slightly. Hell, even when the games aren't even delayed, they're just revealed at some media event, everyone starts yelling "Duke Nukem lawlz" if the title isn't out within a year.
FOXHOUND @ Feb 13th 2008 3:06PM
It's only because FOX NEWS hasn't got ahold of the slang term yet. Once one of those yellow journalism fueling asshats get ahold of it, I assure you a new, even more delayed title will be mentioned by the gaming society.
Yourself @ Feb 13th 2008 3:08PM
Maybe, but in all fairness, 6 years is a pretty long time, and considering that this is just an "it isn't canceled" announcement, a few more years before we see the game wouldn't be shocking. It's getting pretty close to a DNF level, and deserves all the vaporware mockery it gets.
capt_carl @ Feb 13th 2008 1:39PM
The year Starcraft: Ghost is released is the same year Duke Nukem Forever is released...never.
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Feb 13th 2008 1:41PM
So, late this year or early next.
Kujel @ Feb 13th 2008 1:50PM
I had been suspicious of this for a few years now, seeing as it wasn't ever really canceled for anything other then the Game Cube. I for one will get this game, hell I'll pre-order whenever I can.
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Feb 13th 2008 2:09PM
I'm sure gamestop would be more than happy to take your money right now.
Kujel @ Feb 13th 2008 11:57PM
I'm sure they would, but SC Ghost isn't even listed by anyone nor have I ever been in a GameStop, also I'm not sure if they even operate in Canada.
Jeff @ Feb 13th 2008 4:15PM
This game is and has always been a terrible idea.
generic @ Feb 13th 2008 5:49PM
This is what it's like when doves cry.
Seriously though, I thought I was the only one. When it was a announced, it seemed a crappy grab at boob-crazed gamers who were ok with the light twisting of a franchise in order to milk them for cash. Funny, I remember more people thinking the same back then too, but we all have short memories I suppose.
Ihavepants @ Feb 13th 2008 6:00PM
How so?
Ihavepants @ Feb 13th 2008 6:05PM
(sorry for double posting)
I loved the idea...not because I am "boob-crazed", but because the world of Starcraft is absolutely awesome and if done well, a game from ground perspective would be soooo uber.
generic @ Feb 13th 2008 7:40PM
to Ihavepants:
I agree, there's an amazing library of characters to create or choose from in the Starcraft universe, and even more possibilities with stories surrounding them. What originally irked me was the character design, in that it didn't REALLY match the rest of the franchise, which to me, screamed "we're trying to cash in on t&a". The painted legs (those are not pants) didn't help their cause either. Puting that aside, the gameplay doesn't jump out at me as very innovative or even imaginative.
I'm not holding my breath, as I may be proven wrong, but it just doesn't jump out at me as a game that others haven't done time and time again.
Visual Emotion @ Feb 13th 2008 7:13PM
Starcraft Ghost is the greatest ongoing April Fools Joke a company can do.
Brandon @ Feb 13th 2008 8:02PM
I'm so much of a Blizzard fanboy that if they released a product called "Blank White Screen" for console I'd buy two copies just in case the first one was lost on the way home from the store.
Seriously, anyway they can get invovled in the console space is something I for one cherish, so I hope this does indicate that SC:Ghost is still alive.....still alive.....
:)
Batzarro @ Feb 13th 2008 10:08PM
No. You are never coming, so stop pretending. I stopped waiting 3 years ago...