Interview with Dustin Browder @ BlizzCon 2011

Kennigit sits down with Blizzard's Dustin Browder at BlizzCon 2011.

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[MrHav1k]

When I saw the shirt, I turned off the video. All I needed to see.

[HLinHD]

I'm glad to hear this guy. He seems like a smart dude and they definitely know what they're doing. It's not as simple as noobs on the internet may feel.

[brendonnel]

how can he say they made a balanced game in a short amount of time, good fuck its been like more than 10 fucking years.....

[LevennaBat]

I love that this is my cousin!!!! He is so cool!!

[DurNizzle]

RIGHT!!!

[dnsoalce]

cough in hand. offer a handshake. hmm

[ceanover]

This guy is awesome!!!! He invented some of the most popular rts games of all time: red alert 2, generals and starcaft 2

[Lucky466]

The raven has those missile turrets, great for harassment. You can use the seeker drone to force armies to run backwards or into the direction you want them in order to avoid. for example you could go around and "pinsir" with seeker drones so that they run into your siege tank range of fire. Is this hard to pull off? Yes! But it's the type of thing we zergs and protosses have had to come up with since launch. If i played terran, i would make a point of using ravens, and i know id win. :D

[neozxa]

I don't think so. It's partially because some of the Terran units serve little to no (major) role in certain matchups, especially the Thor and the Raven (IMO). I mean, can you think of a way to use the Ravens aside from the extreme lategame?

[Lucky466]

Actually no, it's the fact that using those units require strategy and skill. A much easier alternative is to spam tier 1 units MMM. :) The Difference is that Protoss and Zerg don't have these alternatives.

[Dreamer066680]

Also defiler and corsair are being coppied from Broodwar that is 100% sure, he says "it was just an accident or maybe we are not that creative after all" offcourse its the second and how you not copy when you make a unit that has the same ability as other that you perfectly know. Now lets say a word about the shredder, just look at the unit from Red Alert 2 called desolator, its the same guys! Army movement will be never improved because they did not want that, they are fine with deathballs!

[Dreamer066680]

It seems to me that he is definitely dont know what to do to improve the game at least on the level of its predecessor Broodwar. From what he says, its obvious that he did not understand both BW and SC2 and is trying and trying to figure out what is the solution for sc2 to be better, unfortunately he has no idea what to do. From the start of the interview begining with boasting his game is like defensive reaction, because he knows he failed. Continue ->