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Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait
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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2026
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I hate when they remake classic games as a totally different genre. Imagine if they did that in other media... "We are making a new breakfast club movie... It will be a space opera!"... "everyone loved hit me baby one more time by Britney Spears, we are remaking it as a mumble rap"... "the taming of the shrew by William Shakespeare was successful, what if we made as an animated TV show like Rick and morty?"
I'm all for remaking starcraft but keep it as an rts with updated graphics and modern features.
I hate to be the guy, but Simpsons at their peak retold a number of classics including Lord of the Flies and Hamlet.
I'm OK with it because some of them have been good, like the Metroid first-person shooter games. (I haven't played them, but I know that people liked them.)
I think one of the reasons it doesn't work well with movies is that changing the genre of a movie also changes its tone. But with games, the gameplay genre is different from the narrative genre. You can make a strategy game, platformer, or shooter with the same tone, and so it stays "true" to the original setting, and it makes sense as being in the same fictional universe.
I miss the days when development cycles were short enough that spinoffs could be released alongside main series games without feeling like one was detracting from the other. I miss the days when every big IP had a goofy and experimental straight-to-handheld companion piece.
That sort of happens a lot though
Not nearly as much as in gaming. It does I music a lot but mostly small productions like a single person making a blue grass cover of a metal song, not here's 100 million budget and a full nationwide ad campaign.
I would love to watch that actually ..
But totally different from the original movie