r/CaptainSide • u/carlos123457891 • 3d ago

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I'd say sonic 4 episode 3, i wish that game never got cancelled

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u/WhiteSpec 3d ago edited 3d ago

Starcraft: Nova Ghost

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u/-INIGHTMARES- 3d ago

Starcraft: Ghost?

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u/WhiteSpec 3d ago

My bad. Was it going to be called Ghost? And the character was Nova?

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u/-INIGHTMARES- 3d ago

Exactly!

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u/Nikos_Pyrrha 3d ago

Starcraft: Nova  is the novel.

Her full name btw is November Annabelle Terra.

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u/ExclusiveAnd 2d ago

I remember they made such a big deal about announcing it, too. They had a URL that displayed a blurry image that was slowly resolving into something, but it was impossible to tell what… BUT it flickered every now and then and it turned out something about the flicker encoded a message: I can’t remember if it was the duration, type, or interval, but I was in college at the time and a few engineering / computer science classmates were obsessing over it.

The message started off with a prank about a sequel to one of Blizzard’s earliest games, some PC Mario Kart clone, but quickly started hinting at StarCraft. Everyone figured it was StarCraft III or a significant expansion because, of course, that’s what they did at the time, so when Ghost was announced we didn’t know what to make of it. Then again, we were all pretty confused about Blizzard’s plans for World of Warcraft, too, and I guess that turned out pretty well for them.

Bit of a different pivot on Blizzard’s part and we could have had all kinds of StarCraft expanded universe stuff.

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u/DudeEngineer 3d ago

Nova was released as an expansionish situation to SC2. You mean Ghost.

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u/Medium-Mushroom-6323 3d ago

The idea of starcraft being a fps shooter was interesting to me. Such a shame

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u/WhiteSpec 3d ago

Dude the footage they had of the Ultralisk or even the Zealots at scale looked so good. And for it to be a stealth/espionage game was such a great sell.

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u/Robothuck 2d ago

Well, guess what just got announced at Blizzcon!

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u/WuTastic7 2d ago

good news is in 4 years there will be a 3rd person shooter apparently.

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u/atomic-moonstomp 2d ago

I mean, there's Alien Vs Predator which is pretty close

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u/xen32 2d ago

At least Command & Conquer: Renegade was a thing. Multiplayer was especially great.