Stormgate Review

The problem with games like this whether they are amazing or not is the fanbase. It's just like old people saying "Rock N Roll sucks today give us something for fresh" and then some new 20 year old rock band comes out that sounds decent but since it's a genre that's been dead for decades in terns of evolving cause it's just a guitar, drum, bass and singer the fans will say "Eh this ain't no AC/DC" and go back to playing the same albums again. That's where videogames are at for the most part. Why buy this when you can play Starcraft or Warcraft will be the opinion. It's comfort food. You know it.

This game I'm sure will never live up to Broodwar (nothing really can) but it's also the fans of something that stick to the nostalgia and comfort of what they know.

8/10 ????!!!! Is it a typo or something ? Because this game is clearly, undoubtedly a 3/10.

It's a very mediocre uninteresting game

Stormgate or Tempest Rising? Comment which one you would rather buy (I like both Starcraft and Command & Conquer).

8/10. So it's better than Concorde!

I have played 14 years Starcraft 2 and now i play Stormgate and SC2. Stormgate is very fun to play and i recommend all to download it! Units have own cool abilities and i love Stormgates lot!

Ist this Fortnite RTS ? 🤦‍♂️

Temu Starcraft

you guys deleted my comment about me accusing you of being paid off by Frost Giant to give a good review. You're exposed!

Nothing seems to come near the Starcraft universe. There is a secret sauce that only the artists who created the 3 races have.

Only 12 missions and they call it a campaign? That is quite disappointing. But i guess those who misses warcraft/starcraft multiplayer will have fun with it while it last

compared to sc2, i think the UI and building design is uglier, and the terrain looks too plain?

The game will die before 2026. I guess this is where the last payment from stormgate went. IGN

“I worked at blizzard for 7 years”

Maybe even I can make a mod with the starcraft2 engine and get an 9 from IGN.

The persistent faction meta war mode was something that really grabbed my interest originally, hope they spotlight that more in the future

Likes creep camps and the top bar? …i no longer trust this review ://

I like the storm clippy suggestion

They really nailed it. I hope this game makes it 🙂 I know I'll get it
And I hope they get inspired to get a successor to WC3

I bought the game mostly out of pity, because I know that the game will only be decent at best in three years. My standards are higher, and I also don’t believe that building a Blizzard-style RTS is the right path, because Blizzard-style RTS games don’t only include good things—they also have some very significant flaws.

It would have been better if they had communicated that their goal is to build the best mix of Starcraft 2, C&C Generals, Age of Empires 2, and Warcraft 3—by far the best RTS games on the market. Every RTS has at least one element that makes it stand out and be better than the others.

In recent years, it’s also become clear that they’ve invested a lot of money and time into features that were ultimately completely scrapped or changed, which shows they experiment a lot, even though they know they don’t have the budget for that. I would have preferred to see more competence in this regard. I also think the priorities have been poorly set. Before planning a “Team Mayhem” mode—whose name is also unclear—they should first make sure that regular 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4 matches work, which have been a basic standard since 1998. And this mode needs to be fun with all three factions before they even think about other modes.

The factions being fun to play and the editor for creating new content are the absolute foundation. What we don’t need for long-term fun—and where time could be saved—are new game modes, rewards, skins, a single-player campaign, or objectives like creep camps or stormgates. In a good RTS, the opponent’s bases and the resources in or around them are the objective you fight over. For this, it's necessary that you can harvest certain resources wherever you want, so that bases can potentially be built anywhere—making additional objectives unnecessary. (To clarify with an example: If you could harvest a resource like “Therium” in one place and plant it somewhere else instead of turning it in, and if it continued to grow at the new location, then bases could pop up anywhere on the map.)

I picked this idea because Frost Giant themselves once floated a similar concept, but of course there are many others.

With decisions like these, they’ve unfortunately shown that they haven’t gathered the right kind of experience. In other areas, they do have a lot of experience and have delivered. The graphics and controls are now very satisfying. But even with the graphics, they demonstrated a lack of understanding of RTS design, by making the visuals far too cartoony at first, and only adjusting after strong community backlash. That could’ve been anticipated, saving a lot of time and money. Overall, they’re not using the resources they have well, and that’s why—even if they had more money—the game still wouldn’t become the RTS it could be. They would just keep spending the money on experiments where others already know the outcome.

Is Blizzard going to sue? 🤨