morolf: I don't think there's much chance for Warcraft IV, at least in the foreseeable future, and hasn't the RTS genre pretty much declined into insignificance anyway?
I also wouldn't trust Blizzard anymore with creating something really great...I've never been that much of a Warcraft fan, but really liked the original Starcraft. I did play through Starcraft 2's campaigns, almost up to the end of Legacy of the void...but that last instalment of the series totally killed my interest in the Starcraft universe. The story was idiotic, full of stupid retcons and mystical mumbojumbo about prophecies, none of which made sense.
EDIT: Since you were sort of asking about SC2: Personally I somewhat enjoyed Heart of the Swarm, its missions felt closer to the original Starcraft/Brood wars than WoL had, and you got a real sense of the power of the Zerg, overrunning all opposition in endless waves. That was fun (though not as great as it could have been). But the last part of the series, Legacy of the void, really sucks badly and is horribly boring. Mission design is still ok, if somewhat repetitive, but the story couldn't have been worse.

DaCostaBR: How about we share some of these games that captivated us and whether or not they lived up to expectations?

Matewis: I'm not holding my breath no. I wouldn't say rts is insignificant these days though. Not that the rts scene is anything like it used to be back in the day of course. Still, a few big ones have come out in recent years and are still incoming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRUxTHW-w64
Dawn of War 3 especially has grabbed my attention, but there are a few things that worry me : no sync kills and Gabriel Angelos sounds stupid compared to how he sounded in DoW1 and 2.

Glad to hear you at least found HotS to be enjoyable. But I wouldn't consider it a plus if the levels are closer the original SC's or Broodwar's levels. Several of the Zerg levels specifically felt very repetitive to me back then. Ugh and let's not forget that damned difficult final broodwar mission playing as the Zerg.

Matewis: Glad to hear you at least found HotS to be enjoyable. But I wouldn't consider it a plus if the levels are closer the original SC's or Broodwar's levels. Several of the Zerg levels specifically felt very repetitive to me back then. Ugh and let's not forget that damned difficult final broodwar mission playing as the Zerg.

DaCostaBR: Have you ever heard of Absolute Drift?

It has a top down view instead of behind the car like DriftStage, but it's very drift focused as well, as you may guess from the title. It could interest you while you're waiting for DriftStage.

DProject: Cuphead. Originally it was supposed to come out in 2015, first footage of actual gameplay was released in 2016, current release date is who knows when.

UnrealQuakie: Looking into this, So far it looks real cool and will give it a shot. thanks for the link

Tyrrhia: Thank you for reminding me of Cube World! I hadn’t checked its situation in a long while. Nothing really new, though. Oh, well . . . maybe next time! ^_^

morolf: I think I never played that final Brood War level, the 8th Zerg mission or so was as far as I got.
Personally I didn't really enjoy WoL's missions that much, you're always under some time limit and there are very few missions where you can build up a varied army composed of multiple unit types and just crush your enemies (admittedly that mission design was fitting for the story since you're playing as Raynor's rebel force which is pretty much always outgunned by their opponents). HotS by contrast had some missions where you can build up vast Zerg armies and just mercilessly steamroll all opposition :-) I enjoyed that, and I thought its story was the strongest of all the parts of SC2 (though others disliked it a lot apparently).
Legacy of the void was really horrible though...I had disliked the way the story was going since WoL (that stupid retcon...so the Overmind was actually a good guy??? wtf), but LotV really killed Starcraft's universe for me, not interested in it anymore.

Breja: I always hated playing as the Zerg. I'm not sure why, if it was the levels or something about the zerg themselves but I nevergot through the Zerg campaing in the original Starcraft other than by cheating, because I simply hated playing it. I didn't even get Heart of the Storm. I liked Wings of Liberty fine, but it didn't wow me, and after playing it I felt like I'm "done" with Starcraft. Maybe if the Protoss were next I'd pick it up, but I definately didn't feel motivated enough to buy and play a game with nothing but the Zerg :P

Matewis: But yes, I'm not a huge Zerg fan either, though I like them more than the Protoss. It really bugs me in an RTS when I have units that can't be healed in any way. Which was a nice tactic to use with the Zerg when playing against protoss. Using the [url=http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Defiler_(StarCraft)]defiler's[/url] plague ability you can, in effect, permanently halve any protoss unit/structure's health. Ie full shields but only 1 hp.