What do we have on the front?
Well, let us start with what is already passed. The Burning Crusade. Now a lot of you may hate WoW, but TBC broke all PC records when it comes to selling games, they sold about 2.4 million copies during the first 24 hours, excluding Asia. Those are ridiculous numbers. If I remember right, Guinnes Book of World Records had Diablo II selling 1 million copies in the first 2 weeks. www.woldofwarcraft.com
What comes next? We may be getting a D3 annoucnement this ear, but if we don't, we can always fall back On Hellgate: London when it comes out. Contrary to popular belief, it is not an FPS. The developers have said so themseves, and there was an outcry amongs FPS-players when they found that out. As a result, Flagship Studios included some weapons more appealing to FPSers, but it remains an RPG. BUy it when it comes out and you'll see. www.hellgatelondon.com
Third we have SUpreme Commander, a game that promises strategy to come back into RTS. As it has been put before, Starcraft, Command & Conquer, Age of Empires and Dawn of War are more about tactics than actual strateg, meaning they take place on too small scales. Here however, we will have hundreds of units, all to scale. Small light tanks to huge base-building carriers. It is looking promising. www.supremecommander.com
Then we have a movie game. Now never get your hopes up for a movie game, but when it's Tranformers, you have to notice it. There's not much information about it so far, IGN are basically the only ones who know about it, but supposedly the movie is a huge money sink. Which doesn't say anything, but we can at least hope that some of that money scrapes of onto the game itself
And if we are lucky, we may even get Spore. Mos likely we won't, but nevertheless, this game looks promising. Desing your own race however you wish, lead them towards perfection, and do whatever. I can't wait to play this! www.spore.com
Now I realize tha tI have missed games here, so feel free to add.
PlugY for Diablo II allows you to reset skills and stats, transfer items between characters in singleplayer, obtain all ladder runewords and do all Uberquests while offline. It is the only way to do all of the above. Please use it.
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The ridiculous numbers are the reason to hate WoW... ^^ With all that money, Diablo 3 must have astounding graphics, astounding patch support, and should in general be astounding.
Hellgate seems like a cheap game, mildly interesting. I don't like real-life or sub-real life weapons with strange effects on them unless it's really well done. If they went sci-fi, it would have been interesting. And the game seems to be very murky and damp and boring-looking, like Quake or something. heXen II remained to be gloomy without all that horror/demon rubbish.
You already have Total War for large scale fighting, don't you? Or is it not statistic (I'm not a fan of strategy games).
SupCom looks nice, though, except the screens on official sites are, as always, small...
In the RTS genre, I'm hoping for Perimeter 2, Perimeter was great, but so far KDV released Maelstrom, and KD-Labs don't seem to be too active at the moment, they didn't even announce Perimeter 2 yet...
Spore is probably something that I will check out but not play much simply because making everything at once and making it well is impossible without simplifing and dumbing down...
What I'm really looking forward to:
http://www.incrysis.com/
Crysis, of course, or, FarCry 2. FarCry is one of the best games I have ever played, so I'm very excited about what Crysis would be. They also said something about adding new abilities to the suit, and since FarCry cloned Chrome, I suppose Crysis clones Chrome: Specforce, they had some interesting stuff in there, it should be OK. Specforce had speeding up, improved armor, time slow, and invisibility as special armor properties, I expect something of the sort with Crysis.
Among looooong term projects, sorry for the advertising, my expectations are:
www.projectoffset.com
The first fantasy FPS ever since heXen II. I hope it won't be a slasher like DM. The graphics so far looked awesome - check the videos - but the updates on the game ceased after they got a publisher. The game seems to have a lot of multiplayer support, too. So far it has some RPG elements - like classes, but that's it about the info. And most information was removed from the site and put on the forums - the game was quiet for about a year now ever since they made the videos...
www.fl-tw.com
Infinity The Quest for Earth - a MMORPG project that is planned for far-far future. The first, and probably last MMO that interests me. It is based on Elite somewhat, it may be a bit close to such games as X, Freelancer, and, especially, Eve. But I didn't play anything except X3, so I don't really know. The developers claim they have more than enought differences with Eve Online. The game has great graphics, it also has planetary landing and stuff, and the space in game is actually proceduraly rendered, e.g., infinite. What worries me is that the game is developed by one programmer and he's not looking for new programmers. But, they are not without empty hands, they have plenty of screens and videos, they made the ICP for that, which you can check out here: http://fl-tw.com/Infinity/infinity_combat_proto.php It's quite fun, and if you are into space flying and want to have some fun combat, you definitely should check it out, it's a LOT more fun than X3.
I'm also waiting for 2 DooM III mods - heXen Edge of Chaos and Dark Mod, modifications after heXen and Thief, so if you are interested in either games, here are the links:
heXen (1996/1998) is a puzzle fantasy/medieval FP shooter with RPG elements, ID software and Raven Software.
Thief (1999/2000/2004) is a tech/fantasy/medieval FP (t3 is TP but not much fans liked that) sneak game, similar to Splinter Cell but a lot harder, Looking Glass Studios.
The ridiculous numbers are the reason to hate WoW... ^^ With all that money, Diablo 3 must have astounding graphics, astounding patch support, and should in general be astounding.
Blizzard uses alot of the money we pay in server maintenance (i'd like it better but its still alright). Customer support (24/7 online, in-game and more), many servers, additional content on almost monthly basis. Still should have alot money free for other projects and thats the best part of it. They also dont "have" to rush into sending a still unfinished game in the market. Result may be delay to release but in general a better game.
What i cant wait to get my hands on atm is Command and Conquer 3 (didnt check for a link yet). I'm pretty fed up with rpgs atm and i dont think anything better than WoW will come out before Diablo 3 anyway.
Armored Core 4, God of War 2, Killzone 2, Silent Hill 5 (rumor)
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----------------------- "What man, anywhere under Heaven's high arch, has fought in such darkness, endured more misery or been harder pressed?" -Beowulf
You already have Total War for large scale fighting, don't you? Or is it not statistic (I'm not a fan of strategy games).
The difference is that SupCom is played in an engine that doesn't do static calculations for everythign.
Take Starcraft. You shoot, and unit X does exacly 20 damage, and unit Y has 5 in armor, so he gets damaged 15. All the time. (Of course this is simplified)
In SupCom though, what ahpens is that all units can miss at any time, movement affects accuracy and damage, size affects speed, and not because the developers wanted it to be balanced, but because bigger size means slower movement. It seems really good.
I don't like real-life or sub-real life weapons with strange effects on them unless it's really well done. If they went sci-fi, it would have been interesting. And the game seems to be very murky and damp and boring-looking, like Quake or something.
So what if it is well done?
I don't think it's necessarily bad if a game is dark, tons of games are. It's the same as with every other game, if it's good, nothing else matters.
PlugY for Diablo II allows you to reset skills and stats, transfer items between characters in singleplayer, obtain all ladder runewords and do all Uberquests while offline. It is the only way to do all of the above. Please use it.
Supporting big shoulderpads and flashy armor since 2004.
PlugY for Diablo II allows you to reset skills and stats, transfer items between characters in singleplayer, obtain all ladder runewords and do all Uberquests while offline. It is the only way to do all of the above. Please use it.
Supporting big shoulderpads and flashy armor since 2004.
Well, let us start with what is already passed. The Burning Crusade. Now a lot of you may hate WoW, but TBC broke all PC records when it comes to selling games, they sold about 2.4 million copies during the first 24 hours, excluding Asia. Those are ridiculous numbers. If I remember right, Guinnes Book of World Records had Diablo II selling 1 million copies in the first 2 weeks.
www.woldofwarcraft.com
What comes next? We may be getting a D3 annoucnement this ear, but if we don't, we can always fall back On Hellgate: London when it comes out. Contrary to popular belief, it is not an FPS. The developers have said so themseves, and there was an outcry amongs FPS-players when they found that out. As a result, Flagship Studios included some weapons more appealing to FPSers, but it remains an RPG. BUy it when it comes out and you'll see.
www.hellgatelondon.com
Third we have SUpreme Commander, a game that promises strategy to come back into RTS. As it has been put before, Starcraft, Command & Conquer, Age of Empires and Dawn of War are more about tactics than actual strateg, meaning they take place on too small scales. Here however, we will have hundreds of units, all to scale. Small light tanks to huge base-building carriers. It is looking promising.
www.supremecommander.com
Then we have a movie game. Now never get your hopes up for a movie game, but when it's Tranformers, you have to notice it. There's not much information about it so far, IGN are basically the only ones who know about it, but supposedly the movie is a huge money sink. Which doesn't say anything, but we can at least hope that some of that money scrapes of onto the game itself
And if we are lucky, we may even get Spore. Mos likely we won't, but nevertheless, this game looks promising. Desing your own race however you wish, lead them towards perfection, and do whatever. I can't wait to play this!
www.spore.com
Now I realize tha tI have missed games here, so feel free to add.
Hellgate seems like a cheap game, mildly interesting. I don't like real-life or sub-real life weapons with strange effects on them unless it's really well done. If they went sci-fi, it would have been interesting. And the game seems to be very murky and damp and boring-looking, like Quake or something. heXen II remained to be gloomy without all that horror/demon rubbish.
You already have Total War for large scale fighting, don't you? Or is it not statistic (I'm not a fan of strategy games).
SupCom looks nice, though, except the screens on official sites are, as always, small...
In the RTS genre, I'm hoping for Perimeter 2, Perimeter was great, but so far KDV released Maelstrom, and KD-Labs don't seem to be too active at the moment, they didn't even announce Perimeter 2 yet...
Spore is probably something that I will check out but not play much simply because making everything at once and making it well is impossible without simplifing and dumbing down...
What I'm really looking forward to:
http://www.incrysis.com/
Crysis, of course, or, FarCry 2. FarCry is one of the best games I have ever played, so I'm very excited about what Crysis would be. They also said something about adding new abilities to the suit, and since FarCry cloned Chrome, I suppose Crysis clones Chrome: Specforce, they had some interesting stuff in there, it should be OK. Specforce had speeding up, improved armor, time slow, and invisibility as special armor properties, I expect something of the sort with Crysis.
Among looooong term projects, sorry for the advertising, my expectations are:
www.projectoffset.com
The first fantasy FPS ever since heXen II. I hope it won't be a slasher like DM. The graphics so far looked awesome - check the videos - but the updates on the game ceased after they got a publisher. The game seems to have a lot of multiplayer support, too. So far it has some RPG elements - like classes, but that's it about the info. And most information was removed from the site and put on the forums - the game was quiet for about a year now ever since they made the videos...
www.fl-tw.com
Infinity The Quest for Earth - a MMORPG project that is planned for far-far future. The first, and probably last MMO that interests me. It is based on Elite somewhat, it may be a bit close to such games as X, Freelancer, and, especially, Eve. But I didn't play anything except X3, so I don't really know. The developers claim they have more than enought differences with Eve Online. The game has great graphics, it also has planetary landing and stuff, and the space in game is actually proceduraly rendered, e.g., infinite. What worries me is that the game is developed by one programmer and he's not looking for new programmers. But, they are not without empty hands, they have plenty of screens and videos, they made the ICP for that, which you can check out here: http://fl-tw.com/Infinity/infinity_combat_proto.php It's quite fun, and if you are into space flying and want to have some fun combat, you definitely should check it out, it's a LOT more fun than X3.
I'm also waiting for 2 DooM III mods - heXen Edge of Chaos and Dark Mod, modifications after heXen and Thief, so if you are interested in either games, here are the links:
heXen EoC http://edgeofchaos.planetdoom.gamespy.com/
Dark Mod http://www.mindplaces.com/darkmod/
heXen (1996/1998) is a puzzle fantasy/medieval FP shooter with RPG elements, ID software and Raven Software.
Thief (1999/2000/2004) is a tech/fantasy/medieval FP (t3 is TP but not much fans liked that) sneak game, similar to Splinter Cell but a lot harder, Looking Glass Studios.
Blizzard uses alot of the money we pay in server maintenance (i'd like it better but its still alright). Customer support (24/7 online, in-game and more), many servers, additional content on almost monthly basis. Still should have alot money free for other projects and thats the best part of it. They also dont "have" to rush into sending a still unfinished game in the market. Result may be delay to release but in general a better game.
What i cant wait to get my hands on atm is Command and Conquer 3 (didnt check for a link yet). I'm pretty fed up with rpgs atm and i dont think anything better than WoW will come out before Diablo 3 anyway.
I played Red Alert 2 a long time ago and that was the end of C&C for me... not to mention that it's not Westwood anymore.
That Supreme Commander game Phrozen posted looks interesting, though. Maybe a decent RTS to play while waiting for Perimeter 2.
"What man, anywhere under Heaven's high arch, has fought in such darkness, endured more misery or been harder pressed?"
-Beowulf
The difference is that SupCom is played in an engine that doesn't do static calculations for everythign.
Take Starcraft. You shoot, and unit X does exacly 20 damage, and unit Y has 5 in armor, so he gets damaged 15. All the time. (Of course this is simplified)
In SupCom though, what ahpens is that all units can miss at any time, movement affects accuracy and damage, size affects speed, and not because the developers wanted it to be balanced, but because bigger size means slower movement. It seems really good.
So what if it is well done?
I don't think it's necessarily bad if a game is dark, tons of games are. It's the same as with every other game, if it's good, nothing else matters.
I don't feel I need to hope too much for D3 cause I feel in my heart that eventually they will make it.
Yes, obviously I would really like to play Halo 3 and I also look forward to Shivering Isles for Oblivion.
Siaynoq's Playthroughs
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/328331/halo_3_commercial/
Chaos, Panic, Disastor, my work here is done.
Make it idiot-proof and somone will make a better idiot.
www.zendeath.com
But I've never been that big of a Halo fan, probably because I've never owned an Xbox