Blizzard vs Relic (the escapist competition)

[SlickR]

Closed

 

[Gausslander]

Relic is better, IMO.

 

[Crusad3r91]

Relic is better, IMO.

True that.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Relic will get owned by Blizzard fanboys anyway.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Relic will get owned by Blizzard fanboys anyway.

Yeah, those guys never play fair..

 

[Captain Griffen]

Both make awesome games. Both have epic support. Both are very quality oriented, don't screw over their fan base, etc. Tough choice.

 

[Gilles]

What about Valve? : (

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Half-life 2 was too boring for me to ever consider Valve a great company.

 

[Gausslander]

Valve's games are not as of high-quality graphically, or gameplay-wise IMO.

 

[SlickR]

Valve has essentially created 2 games on their own, Half-Life which is a classic and Half-Life 2 which is a quality and fun game, but can't compare to its predecessor half-life.

I feel that their modding community made their name for them and essentially buying that portal students developer.
All other Valve games have previously been mods actually.

 

[Crusad3r91]

You shouldn't also forget that Valve made Steam which is used by many companies now.

 

[Pins]

Steam is a goddamn cancer.

Oh and about the subject, I'd go for blizzard but WoW+Pandaren, so Relic.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Thats not a pro.

And of course Blizzard is better, relic is very known because of only like 2 games, all using nearly the same engine, due to be created in short period of time. Blizzard is doing games already for a long time, so they covered all periods. Dawn of war may have more entertaining standard games, but blizzard's are very moddable so custom maps bring more variety and extends the life of the game a lot more.

And after blizzard I would put Bethesda.

 

[Crusad3r91]

Well, I think I have to make a better analysis to explain my point a bit more... xD

I like Blizzard a lot, they make very good games and, like Mechanical Man said, very moddable.
Relic, on the other side, is a smaller company, but makes high quality games too; its philosophy is also different: Blizzard tries to make 3 brands more perfect with the passing of the time (Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft), but they are always the same thing; Relic is trying to make different games with a wider selection of titles but they are often imbalanced due to the innovations they always make.

At this point, it's a very hard choosing for me, so it's time to view it from my personal point of view: I prefer Relic's a lot more in this case. Sure, Blizzard's Warcraft III's WE is a great thing, but I've never been impressed a lot by the skirmishes (and Starcraft's too); on the other hand, I always liked a lot Relic's games and I prefer a lot more their features, factions (WH40k of course) and such.

Anyway, it looks like that Relic won in that competition: 3026 votes against 3012... a very small difference, afterall. =)

 

[redmarine]

Oh well, Activision-Blizzard lost.

I voted for Relic the next round.