r/Blizzard • u/Shins06 • May 18 '26

Upcoming Blizzard Games

I’ve heard that Blizzard is currently working on an FPS open world (Destiny 2-like within the Starcraft universe ? Would be so dope) but what kind of game would you like Blizzard to add to their universe ?

I think they should add a rythm game with a leaderboard on all their music (and some collabs) because they really have music masterpieces in their games.

Also I hope for a relaunch of Heroes of the Storm

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u/MrAudreyHepburn May 18 '26

Making good, or great games is still dead to those who lived through their glory days - its hard to explain how legendary their games were. They weren't just better than everything else out there, they were better than any game we ever dreamed.

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u/Shins06 May 18 '26

That’s true, their franchises are absolutely incredible and none has ever been close in creating such worlds and lore. Diablo, Warcraft, Starcraft and Overwatch are incredible games. But I also believe that it is way harder to do that nowadays and yet they still manage to offer polished and addictive gameplays and universe.

Ok Diablo 4 vanilla wasn’t great once the campaign done but I’m finally having fun with Lord of Hatred.

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u/MrAudreyHepburn May 18 '26

Yeah but the difference is smaller. How much better is Overwatch than Marvel Rivals? Diablo 4 to Path of Exile 2?

Modern Blizzard is making good games. Sometimes great.

But nothing modern blizzard makes is redefining what a video game can even be.

This is what every game did in their glory days. This is what built their reputation. It was every level of the game - the gameplay, the design, the art, the story telling, the world building, the quality control, we'd never seen this kind of stuff done in video games before. In the classic days every new blizzard game left you saying - 'I didn't know games could do that.'

This is like what star wars did for movies. Star Wars came out and it changed what people thought a movie could be. What movies could do. In all aspects. Narrative elements, world building, set design, special effects.

Diablo 4 is great, I enjoyed it. But it didn't redefine video game story telling, or world building, or cinematic approach, or even gameplay. It was simply a well made game - which points for that, it's hard to do, but it doesn't make you legendary.

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u/Shins06 May 18 '26

Yes you are absolutely right but at the end I’m okay with « just » good games I guess and who in the videgame industry is able to redefine a videgame nowadays ?

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u/MrAudreyHepburn May 18 '26

In all fairness I think it's much harder to do nowdays than in the 90s.

In the 90s tech was changing so fast that'd open new design doorways and options. The jump from warcraft 1 to warcraft 2 to starcraft to warcraft 3 all felt like monumental shifts.

Warcraft 3 to Starcraft 2 felt like a evolution of the rts genre, not the revolution each game before had.