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    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Blizzard timeline celebrates 20 years of history.

    As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, Blizzard has whipped up a timeline documenting the history of the company and its games. From platformer Blackthorne to cpmic book fighting game Justice League Task Force, it's all there.
    Jul 05, 2012 2:00pm PDT
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    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Blizzard timeline celebrates 20 years of history.

    As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, Blizzard has whipped up a timeline documenting the history of the company and its games. From platformer Blackthorne to cpmic book fighting game Justice League Task Force, it's all there. : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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    • I fucking love Rock N Roll Racing. That game is the tits. : snot3353This person is cool!
    • Oh shit. I remember that first Blizzard web site! Damn. Also, fuck yeah Lost Vikings, love those kind of ... : nodeThis person is cool!
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      When I think back on all the great games Blizzard put out up to The Frozen Throne, and then what they put... : DragonSire
      • Whatever you say Blizzard hipster. : snot3353This person is cool!
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        StarCraft II would like a word with you. : downrightevilThis person is cool!
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          SC2 was definitely a lot better than WC3, which had tons of gameplay and balance issues. One unit could s... : Junktown
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            Umm.. no. Look at how long Warcraft 3 has lasted. Even now, there are many websites which bring out ne... : EternaLife
            • LoL team believes pro LoL will be huge, news at 10 : Serpico74This person is cool!
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              I don't agree that the existence of custom maps with radically different (and superior) gameplay like Dot... : Junktown
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                It certainly contributed to WC3's longevity. Its something they're really trying to address with SC2 1.5 ... : Serpico74This person is cool!
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                  Have they demo'd any of the HotS/Blizzard All-Stars improvements yet? Their timetable seems ridiculous on... : Junktown
                  • There is a 1.5 beta up right now. HoTS was playable at MLG last month and at Blizzcon. BAS was at Blizzco... : Serpico74This person is cool!
            • Really, from what I understand, Starcraft II is still gaining in popularity. : Rice-RocketeerThis person is cool!
            • The main reason there is such continuing support for WC3 is it's ease of piracy and decent (for the time)... : sammylThis person is cool!
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        Can you define what is different or is it just an emotional reason? : PorkasaurusThis person is cool!
        • Yes to both. Story sucks monkey balls now (in all their recent games), especially the dialogue. It fe... : DragonSire
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        Cataclysm was okay, I enjoyed Firelands. Starcraft 2 was very sterile but still a lot of fun. Diablo 3 is... : nodeThis person is cool!
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          I got dragged kicking and screaming through Firelands for long enough to get three guildies that fucking ... : MacemanInTW
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            Heroic Rag is the best fight I've ever done, I think. Dragon Soul, on the other hand, has almost no rede... : valaelThis person is cool!
            • I just spent about 100 times more time in there than I ever wanted to. Tanking, healing, and DPSing acro... : MacemanInTW
            • Everyone is down on dragon soul. I kinda wanna resub and just PUG it on ezmode though. : nodeThis person is cool!
          • Ha, my guild never finished a staff. I still want the drood one for fire kitteh. : nodeThis person is cool!
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          Cataclysm definitely managed to have the least interesting, most monotonous, most disjointed leveling exp... : FlatlineDixay
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            Really? I felt like Cataclysm's leveling experience was great. The lower level stuff suffered a bit if ... : valaelThis person is cool!
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              Even without any leveling stuff you'd finish the zones halfway through and could skip two or three of the... : FlatlineDixay
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                sounds like it was packed with content to me. Though I only played to 83 and got to the desert place and ... : uebersoldat
                • the exception to the rule being Serious Sam. That game 0wns. : uebersoldat
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                  The questing was all extremely linear and super easy. SUPER easy. The only way it was even possible to di... : FlatlineDixay
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                    Leveling has always been easy in WoW from the very start. The leveling content in Cataclysm was excellent... : ZekThis person is cool!
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                      Thinking back, some of the vanilla content wasn't really a cakewalk. Do you remember the first time you w... : uebersoldat
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                        Oh, it was pretty rough all over the place. There were tons of elites, huge camps of monsters, patrols, e... : FlatlineDixay
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                          Exactly. I miss the days of actually having to watch where you were going. Added to the immersion and mad... : uebersoldat
                          • I don't think it added to the immersion so much as it *made it a video game*. It was definitely fun tho... : FlatlineDixay
                    • It was easy in the sense that you'd never get hung up and unable to move forward anywhere, but it was muc... : FlatlineDixay
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                  You didn't have to go there, the only time I did the quests there was when I went to see what it was like... : valaelThis person is cool!
                  • NOW you tell me :p j/k I was pretty burned out so that was 95% of it. I figured at the time there must be... : uebersoldat
      • SC2 is great : Serpico74This person is cool!
    • warcraft 2, first game i ever became addicted too. I even lugged my computer to the lake when the family ... : jrsXThis person is cool!
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      can't forget Blackthorne -- nothing like firing a shotgun behind you like just don't care : PostalThis person is cool!
      • yeah that was such a sweet move. I'm surprised it's never been used again. I guess the lack of platformer... : CabooseThis person is cool!
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      Holy shit they've had a lot of "fastest selling PC game of all time"! Personally, I wouldn't have counted... : GodZillyThis person is cool!
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        It's pretty amazing. I want new ip from them now though, prove they've still got chops to invent from scr... : nodeThis person is cool!
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          give a few programmers a million bucks each to make anything they want. : radulaThis person is cool!
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            I'm surprised with their moneyhats they don't have a few skunkworks projects on he go. Maybe they do but ... : nodeThis person is cool!
            • I think they value their reputation too highly to do that. Everything has to be a AAA mega-hit. : ZekThis person is cool!