But I’m going to skip it, not because of the quality of the game, but because as I said, Starcraft never really stuck with me. There’s a big expansion on the way (practically another game entirely) which is sure to reignite interest in the game. In my opinion, Starcraft II is probably the only modern Blizzard game deserving of anyone’s time. Instead, I found my home with another Blizzard franchise, but more on that in a bit. I beat the campaigns, played a some multiplayer, but I never really got into it. It was so well made in fact, that in South Korea it was (and probably still is) the most played game in the country, and probably the widest spread activity amongst the country’s youth.īut for me, it never really stuck. While the single player campaign was a compelling sci-fi story about humanity struggling against and two hostile alien races, it was the multiplayer where the game’s brilliance shone. The original Starcraft is widely regarded as one of the best-balanced games ever.
TIDES OF NUMENERA BORROWED AND LOST PC
Well, in order to explain myself, let’s take this one franchise at a time.Īdmittedly the one of three major Blizzard series I played the least, but still and extremely important series, both to myself and to PC gaming as a whole. Now, 8 years and a few million subscribers later, Blizzard has cemented itself as one of the greatest game developers of all time thanks to WoW’s success.Īnd I’m totally done playing their games. Then, finally, in 2004, Blizzard unveiled what is arguably the most successful game ever made, the MMORPG landmark, World of Warcraft. Throughout the remainder of the ’90’s they released classic after classic: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Diablo, Starcraft, and the expansions Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal and Starcraft: Broodwar, and in the early 00’s Diablo II, Warcraft III, and their expansions. Starting out with 2D sidescrollers like Lost Vikings and Blackthorne on the SNES, the studio unleashed their groundbreaking hit in 1994, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. Fargo subsequently co-designed Interplay’s early RPGs, including the critically acclaimed Wasteland.Growing up as a PC gamer, there was always one developer you could count on for absolutely amazing games: Blizzard Entertainment. After the release of Mindshadow, Fargo hired an old high school friend and started work to create a role-playing game Bard’s Tale for the Apple II and C64 for a then-new publisher Electronic Arts. In 1983, Fargo founded Interplay Productions prior to landing his first contract in 1983 with Activision for Mindshadow, a graphic text adventure game for the Apple II and Commodore 64. His debut work was Demon’s Forge, a graphic text adventure game he designed and marketed himself, and educational games for the World Book Encyclopedia. The only child of Frank Byron Fargo and Marie Curtis Fargo, he attended Corona del Mar High School, where he participated in track and field and developed a desire to create video games after his parents bought him an Apple II computer in 1977.įargo started his career in the video game industry in 1982. The Bard’s Tale II: The Destiny Knight (1986)Ī descendant of the family that created the banking giants Wells Fargo and American Express, Fargo was born in Long Beach, California, and grew up in Whittier and Newport Beach.Tales of the Unknown: Volume I – The Bard’s Tale (1985).
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