Will HOTS top WOL?

[JackhammerIV]

I Don't like the poll, all choices are negative,

Yes (means u did NOT like WOL)

No (means u have no good expectations 4 HOTS)

Only story wise (Means u did not like WOL story)

It will suck even more (mens u think WOL SUCKED and HOTS will even top it)

Even a crappy facebook game can top WOL (Means that ur out of ur f'''in mind)

There was no poll about anything positive at all, therefore not even worth doing...

(I like the WOL story and look forward 2 see what HOTS will give in to the story and gameplay)

They're not all negative. The poll is phrased as "Will HOTS top WOL?" so..

Yes (means you think HOTS will be better than WOL. Doesn't say anything about whether you like WOL or not.)

No (means you think HOTS won't be as good as WOL. Still doesn't say if you like WOL or not.)

Only story wise (means you expect the story in HOTS will be better than that in WOL. Still doesn't say if you think WOL's story is good or not.)

The last two options are the normal DB negative, blizzard sucks, WOL sucks options we've come to expect. Basically imagine the poll was "Will BW top SC?" back when BW was about to come out. The first 3 options don't mean you hate SC but instead have some expectation of BW's quality and how it will add to the game. Alternatively think of it in relation to a book series. e.g. It is asking if you think the second book will be better than the first book.

[SinsWage]

I wasn't being sarcastic and if he was I totally missed it. I'm driving back from Florida and am on my 23rd hour in a car. I'm not at full capacity.

[RamiZ]

Every Blizzard expansion of previous games has topped their original titles. So, in my opinion, and with the facts, my answer is yes. Every expansion is better and more balanced, if we look so far. And I seriously can't understand people that say that WOL sucks, by any meaning(ok maybe campaign isn't that great, SC2 is multiplayer game, campaign is just an addition...), and I hope for HOTS to be fucking great balanced game, and last expansion(forgot the name) even better!

[Triceron]

I don't know why it wouldn't. What Blizzard expansion has ever paled in comparison to the original?

Tides of Darkness - Brought in many more heroes that are well known and brought to light even now in WoW

Brood War - Refined the balance of SC, adding new units and upgrades to lesser-used units to make things more interesting. Also had an epic campaign.

Throne of Destruction - Rune sockets and runewords, more character classes and much better balance overall compared to vanilla release. This expansion didn't really 'change' much as much as patches evolved the gameplay though.

Frozen Throne - More streamlined gameplay, many more units, and an epic campaign. Addition of creeps and tilesets helped bolster the mapping community as well.

[Gradius]

there is nothing here to top, that is point 1
and it will suck even more, that is point 2

I remember you said you only played 600+ games of SC2 b/c there was no way for you to get your money back and you were just trying to get your money's worth in whatever way you could. So since HoTS will suck more than WoL I take it that you will not be purchasing HoTS or LoTV? Because you playing & discussing the game here with us after months of talking about how you were going to boycott it was pretty amusing. Good times.

So will we have another spychi boycott (lol) on our hands? x)

[Arkalis]

I don't know why it wouldn't. What Blizzard expansion has ever paled in comparison to the original?

Tides of Darkness - Brought in many more heroes that are well known and brought to light even now in WoW

Brood War - Refined the balance of SC, adding new units and upgrades to lesser-used units to make things more interesting. Also had an epic campaign.

Throne of Destruction - Rune sockets and runewords, more character classes and much better balance overall compared to vanilla release. This expansion didn't really 'change' much as much as patches evolved the gameplay though.

Frozen Throne - More streamlined gameplay, many more units, and an epic campaign. Addition of creeps and tilesets helped bolster the mapping community as well.

For the same reason I expect big from HotS, not much of what it will add, but what it will changefrom the gameplay experience.

[dustinbrowder]

Personally I'm hoping they improve the story and bnet 0.2, but I have very low confidence in Blizzard to do anything right and even if they do improve it, I'm afraid they are going to introduce some bad limiting features that will once again need 7-8 months to fix even slightly.

I hope for the best, but I'm expecting the worst.

I just can't imagine not doing the same cheesy and lame kind of story and on the bnet side, I can't see them improving the custom maps screen, I can't see them redesigning a good hosting map screen and I have a feeling the clan features are going to suck.

I would like to be surprised, but as I've said I have almost no hope of it being any better than WOL.

[MulletBen]

I can't see them improving the custom maps screen

It's a shame the PTR is only available in the US.

[Caliban113]

I remember you said you only played 600+ games of SC2 b/c there was no way for you to get your money back and you were just trying to get your money's worth in whatever way you could. So since HoTS will suck more than WoL I take it that you will not be purchasing HoTS or LoTV? Because you playing & discussing the game here with us after months of talking about how you were going to boycott it was pretty amusing. Good times.

So will we have another spychi boycott (lol) on our hands? x)

Oh mahn.....thats was a hefty lolz. I love it when people on here (particularly the ones who came over from the Blizzforums) just sort of think everyone's gonna forget disscussions and points they've made in the past.

- My only real complaint with the storyline really lies in the 80's 'Chuck Norris' level dialog (revolution...overdrive) - The plotline just seemed to be mostly a vehicle for the missions (which most RTS games usually are)

Was it really that bad where people feel the need to constantly get on here and point it out? Do you really feel the game is now irreversibly ruined because of a weak storyline?

Not really calling out Spychi here; there's a few people on the forum now that seem to be doing this.

People did the same thing with WC3, and to be honest, while the story wasn't earthshaking, I don't think it was as bad as people made it out to be. The one thing I was disappointed by, was the decision to mainly use the game engine for a majority of the cutscenes; there were more than a few key moments in the story that really would have benefitted from a rendered scene instead.

[RamiZ]

People did the same thing with WC3, and to be honest, while the story wasn't earthshaking, I don't think it was as bad as people made it out to be.

Of course it wasn't bad, it was copy-paste of Starcraft story...