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BlizzCon 09 Interview: StarCraft II

Brad talks single-player, Battle.net, and more with Lead Designer Dustin Browder.

Aug. 22 2009

Posted by: Drew

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Brad interviews are the best!

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The lore panel was awesome. Raynor's original voice actor back made me happy.

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Brad really gets how to make interviews interesting.  Great stuff!

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@Julius said:
" Brad really gets how to make interviews interesting.  Great stuff! "
True that  
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NICE
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Yup, Brads the best interviewer :P

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brad is by and large the best interviewer there is.

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Dustin seems like a really nice guy. Really a superb face outwards for StarCraft 2. He instills alot of faith in me. Super down to earth and clearly the man loves what hes doing.
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Jeff and Ryan are great, but Brad definitely makes the most interesting interviews.

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Keep up the hard work Brad and Drew, you guys rule.

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Eff Battlenet, eff the low-end optimizations; if it's that much done already, I'll gladly pay for it now, in the state that it's in, and download some patch later on to add in the rest. I wouldn't say that about too many games, but we've all been waiting more than 10 years now.

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Looks like he hasn't had sleep since the begining of SCII

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Someone will have to make a montage of Brad getting shot down by Blizzard about release dates.

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I personally played the starcraft game mainly for the single player, i never bothered with online because the storyline was what really had me stuck in the game. 
Always enjoyed makin lil what-if scenarios with the map-editor at that too xD.
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Great interview......can't wait for SC2

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@Jimbo_N said:
" Dustin seems like a really nice guy. Really a superb face outwards for StarCraft 2. He instills alot of faith in me. Super down to earth and clearly the man loves what hes doing. "
Definitely.
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  "It's about a year for us to make an expansion pack, which is kind of how we are thinking of these games in terms of the amount of content."
 
Great, so we are getting full priced expansions?

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Got mad respect for our man Brad!! 
But made laugh how he starts out addressing this shaved head man as one of the "big wigs" on the game :-D

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Edited By ArbitraryWater

Brad seems kind of mellow in this interview. Maybe he's tired?

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man Brad you should be on CNN with your interview skills good job!!

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This...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

...is Jimmy.

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I may never play this but...  big ship with missiles, giants?  *drool*

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A whole year between expansions? Fucking Blizzard. You make me so angry sometimes. I guess I should really blame your customers for convincing you it's okay to dick them around a bit.
 
Shame on you, Blizzalos!
 
The expansions better have significantly more content than just extra missions if they're taking more than a whole damned year each.

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Interesting interview as always Brad.
However, we shouldn't forget about the man behind the camera - Drew.
Keep up the hard work duders!  :P

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Brad is a interviewing machine!

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@VooDooPC said:
"   "It's about a year for us to make an expansion pack, which is kind of how we are thinking of these games in terms of the amount of content."   Great, so we are getting full priced expansions? "
Where did they say they will be full priced?  Nowhere?  That's what I thought.
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@Food said:

" @VooDooPC said:

"   "It's about a year for us to make an expansion pack, which is kind of how we are thinking of these games in terms of the amount of content."   Great, so we are getting full priced expansions? "
Where did they say they will be full priced?  Nowhere?  That's what I thought. "
You honestly think they won't? They know people are going to buy the game, they will probably get as much money as they can for it. 
 
Activision is charging $60 for the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 because they know they can, this is no different.
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The fact that Blizzard still hasn't even started on the other races is pretty crazy. I mean, we could essentially be playing Starcraft II until about 2020.

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They must have the races done for multiplayer, I'm thinking they just haven't started on the campaigns yet.

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@VooDooPC said:
"They must have the races done for multiplayer, I'm thinking they just haven't started on the campaigns yet. "

Yep but thats not something you have to think about. Thats a fact. It is the campaign hes talking about.
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This is my most anticipated game... ever.
ARGH IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL AHHHHHHHHH.

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Great interview, full of interesting details.

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@slaneesh said:
" @VooDooPC said:
"They must have the races done for multiplayer, I'm thinking they just haven't started on the campaigns yet. "
Yep but thats not something you have to think about. Thats a fact. It is the campaign hes talking about. "
Can you imagine if you could only play terran in multiplayer until you had the expansions a year and some later? =P That would be the worst thing ever! All those angry Koreans! It would be war =/
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Terrible Terrible Damage

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I am guessing that each successive expansion will have more than just a new campaign, but also a couple new units for each faction.  Personally, considering the size of the campaigns and the massive replay they will offer, I don't mind the expansions being full price at all.  This feels like it will be a trilogy of complete games, rather than just two smaller expansions following behind. 
 
Also, I hope one of the things they are going back to polish up is the voice acting and dialogue.  From the videos I've watched, not all of the actors do a very good job with their parts, and some of the dialogue almost comes across as hokey.  One of my favorite things about the original Starcraft was how much personality the lead characters and even the units themselves had.
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This game will seriously make me get a new computer. Or steal one, whichever comes first.

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I fucking love Dustin Browder!

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Awesome interview... Brad!!  

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Why is there never a criticism of the fact that they have zero LAN support and you have to pay $50, 3 times, for what amounts to one game when you think about it?!?! GiantBomb, come on!

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@Jayzilla: 
-its Blizzard
-they will be full games not one game split into three
-they haven't announced pricing yet
-die in a fire
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@Jayzilla: 
Your one of those people who never actually listen to or reads what developers are saying aren't you? 
Because if you actually bothered to do so you and all the other morons complaining about the same stupid shit would realize how stupid you all sound.   A little research goes a long way my slow-minded friend.
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Brad is the unstoppable interviewer!!!