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Richard A Moore wrote:

>    Being a list along the spectrum of all time we do have to cosider 
> they're historic weight and influence.  If it was this years awards then of
> course new is better.     While I totally agree that starcraft owns Warcraft
> in all aspects and areas(I hold starcraft as one of the only near perfect
> games ever developed), half of starcraft came from Warcraft and the impact
> Warcraft had gamewise/genre wise was different as it created and starcraft
> renovated.     So I can see them giving more weight to cames that cracked the
> mold than to cames that added or even blew open the crack.     For example I
> am playing a Max Payne clone right now just cause its a clone of a cool game
> though its rating is significantly lower becuase its just that, a clone.  Its
> all done that and been there with a few more bells and wistles.  But if Max
> payne hadnt been invented this game would have blown some minds.  So I could
> see Starcraft surpasing Warcraft easily if warcraft was never invented.
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Weird logic...how can you have a clone if there is no original? If Max Payne
had never been out, I bet the ppl who wrote the *clone* you are playing (wonder
why there is no name for this clone, huh?) will not have thought of the
features in Max Payne (that made it a deisred target for cloners) in the first
place. Copiers are normally not Innovators.


I wouldn't call Starcraft a clone of Warcraft, but rather a branch of evolution
with better/stronger gene. It's done by the same company, even may be by the
same team (I'm not sure). Would anyone call Red Alert a Command & Conquer
*Clone*? There will be no Starcraft if Warcraft is never "invented" by
Blizzard. If indeed Blizzard have came out with the idea of "Space themed RTS"
first rather than "Medeaval themed RTS", than there will be no Warcraft to
compare with.

Regards.

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