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Activision Blizzard "keenly aware" of "Battle Royale" popularity, says company is "fast follower"
- Thread starter Nirolak
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The China-only release of Call of Duty has such a mode already, so it would be easy to speculate about the western mainline series to also get it.
I'm fully expecting some kind of battleground to be just that.
I can see it now, crates will be called care packages and will contain all the usual along with perks and rarely killstreaks.
Man Blizzard and Epic getting into the battle royale gimmick would give pubg a run for its money. Fortnite kind of already has but another huge game would be funny.
Heroes of the storm like Battle Royale.
Extensive character creator.
A map thats like Overwatch's Blizzard World and is a combination of Blizzard games.
Items are from Blizzard games.
$$$.
Heroes of the Storm got me into MOBAs for a while. Hearthstone into Card games. A Blizzard BR game would destroy me probably.
Extensive character creator.
A map thats like Overwatch's Blizzard World and is a combination of Blizzard games.
Items are from Blizzard games.
$$$.
Heroes of the Storm got me into MOBAs for a while. Hearthstone into Card games. A Blizzard BR game would destroy me probably.
I mean, there were 3rd person shooter mods for SC2 so it's possible if they wanted to go that route.
But i mostly meant a third person BR game using the pool of heroes from HOTS.
Blizzard has enough of a loyal fanbase to pull a Battle Royale game and make it lead the charts. They can take a little time but if they dont do things quickly a situation like HOTS might happen again.
they probably could tack it in on any of their shooters but cod is the one they needed yesterday imo
I think the ship has sailed for this trend. It's by no means a dying trend, I just feel like It's a little too late to the party at this point.
Fortnite & PUBG have been imprinted in peoples heads as definitive BR experiences, and that's not a simple thing to change. Sure we will see tons of variations of the genre, but nothing like these two.
Fortnite & PUBG have been imprinted in peoples heads as definitive BR experiences, and that's not a simple thing to change. Sure we will see tons of variations of the genre, but nothing like these two.
Not keen on Destiny 3: Battle Royale, but definitely keen on Bungie: Battle Royale.
Do Bungie still own the rights to Marathon? That's an option if they felt determined to slap an IP on it.
As you say, too late to the party so the market will be diluted.
Will someone make a better game? Almost by default.
PUBG has an absolutely awful default ruleset. It would be hard for a game to be as bad at being a BR game without cribbing the basic rules directly from PUBG, as Fortnite: BR does.
Do Bungie still own the rights to Marathon? That's an option if they felt determined to slap an IP on it.
Will anything be as successful? Possibly not.
As you say, too late to the party so the market will be diluted.
Will someone make a better game? Almost by default.
PUBG has an absolutely awful default ruleset. It would be hard for a game to be as bad at being a BR game without cribbing the basic rules directly from PUBG, as Fortnite: BR does.
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I'd LOVE to see Treyarch tackle a BR game mode for either multiplayer or zombies in Black Ops 4.
Everybody will jump on this bandwagon and nobody will A) finish one other than PUBG and B) won't make a true AAA PUBG Battle Royal title.
I can see Overwatch adding it. They love adding throwaway game modes into the Arcade or event whether they fully work with the gameplay or not
They were working on both Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 when LoL/Mobas got popular. While they released HotS a year later than other attempts (Dawngate, Infinite Crisis etc.), at least they survived :)
Better late than nothing, a game by Blizzard is usually among the top in terms of production values and support, unlike 90%+ of current attempts at the BR genre like Darwin Project or Paladins BR.
There's apparently a massive amount of drama and internal politics related to the reluctance to enter the MOBA sphere and with the tepid support for HOTS.