Favorite Upcoming Video Game

[Sheynat]

The console generation will be officially over in a little less than a month, and I wanted to know if any of you had a next-gen game you were looking forward to. I'm waiting for Oblivion, Gun and the new Bioware RPG.

[Alfonia]

Always waiting for the next game in the legend of zelda series...

[Goldenloser2241]

Price tag for next gen is the only thing keeping me from being anxious about any game. If the price tag didn't disgust me then Gears of War would definatly be my game.

[Sheynat]

The next Zelda game is going to be excellent. It's got the typical creative-gameplay-dynamic that the series is so good at. And Goldenloser-I know. Insane. Sixty dollars a game.

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

Age of Empires III....i'll have to wait about another year before the mac platform though....

[Coultgar]

Definately Will Wright's "Spore", the chance to completely design and guide my own species through the world, then watch it grow into a civilization eventually leaving it's own galaxy, then having it interact online with other people's species (though, it won't affect your single player game if your species gets wiped out online) is just too good to be true. =)

Wright, Meyer and Molyneux, definately my three favourite game developers. =)

Buy Black & White 2 if you haven't! Brilliant. =)

[totenmoor]

I can't wait for Blue Dragon to be released in the USA...so I can import it...

Sakaguchi is such a genius so I'm optimistic that he'll create a second "Final Fantasy"

[Alfonia]

sinn said:

Age of Empires III....i'll have to wait about another year before the mac platform though....

Uhm yeah... age of empires always was an entertaining series, fun, yet simple enough for most people to grasp. I do hope they include more advanced formations in this game... I'm pissed because they left out sweden though, back in the 1600's Germany didn't even exist and we were the leading north european superpower:/ Or maybe i'm just feeling a bit grumpy and nationalistic for the moment...

[Sheynat]

coultgar said:

Definately Will Wright's "Spore", the chance to completely design and guide my own species through the world, then watch it grow into a civilization eventually leaving it's own galaxy, then having it interact online with other people's species (though, it won't affect your single player game if your species gets wiped out online) is just too good to be true. =)

Wright, Meyer and Molyneux, definately my three favourite game developers. =)

Buy Black & White 2 if you haven't! Brilliant. =)

Holy crap, how could I forget Spore? That game is gonna be brilliant.

[Sheynat]

totenmoor said:

I can't wait for Blue Dragon to be released in the USA...so I can import it...

Sakaguchi is such a genius so I'm optimistic that he'll create a second "Final Fantasy"

I hope he does make a few story changes. It's kind of formulaic for my tastes. FF7 was excellent, but eight, nine, ten, and ten-two are just seven's plot reheated.

[Goldenloser2241]

sinn said:

Age of Empires III....i'll have to wait about another year before the mac platform though....

I have it on PC the campaing in there (I haven't come near finishing) has thus far been good fun. Single player is also preety damn sweet. Your victories in the skirmishes finally mean somthing since your trying to build up your home city.

[TheSensitiveNewAge]

Warhammer and its expansion. Basically, they're what Warcraft 3 should have been.

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

thesensitivenewage said:

Warhammer and its expansion. Basically, they're what Warcraft 3 should have been.

yeah i never did like Warcraft Three. I prefered the terrible graphics of Warcraft II...

[Alfonia]

me too!

[Elgarve]

I'd like to get Shattered Union.

It's a wargame about the fall of the US into a bunch of nationstates(!).

[Coultgar]

What didn't you like about WarCraft III? I thought it was great! Though a little unbalanced at times.

[TheSensitiveNewAge]

I just felt everything focused on the heros to the point there was no strategy. If there weren't any champions, I think it would have been great.

[Alfonia]

My biggest problem with it was the way it looked, way too bright colours for my taste. When i think about it I did not enjoy the graphics at all. Maybe i just didn't play it enough...

[Sheynat]

elgarviandelegate said:

I'd like to get Shattered Union.

It's a wargame about the fall of the US into a bunch of nationstates(!).

I usually avoid strategy, but I'm probably going to make an exception for that. It'd be the fourth strategy game I ever owned, after Warcraft II and III and Starcraft. And I preferred Warcraft II to III gameplaywise, although the story in III is richer. World of Warcraft beats 'em both.

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

thesensitivenewage said:

I just felt everything focused on the heros to the point there was no strategy. If there weren't any champions, I think it would have been great.

Thats true. I also didnt like the way it looked, and the graphics werent quite good enough. Probably more to do with my computer than anything else, but the point still stands.

Also in relation to the previous post, Starcraft i loved much more than either warcraft.

[TheSensitiveNewAge]

I felt Starcraft was better designed with the different sides have different strengths and weaknesses, but Warcraft II shall always hold a place in my heart for the exploding critters and soldier sayings.

[Alfonia]

Yep warcraft II was good indeed. So was diablo II by the way, hack and slash-game made funny because of the general humour of the game and the excellent item system (love the way it's not uncommon for a sword to have like... 6 magical attributes:D) I seriously hope that there will be a sequel but somehow i doubt it since that game would have to compete with WoW, and i don't know if that would be a smart move by blizzard...
anywayss...

I know the last game in the series kind of sucked (it had more bugs than a broken refrigerator in the middle of the jungle), but i would like a new Tomb Raider game, i used to love those games. Bit like super mario. Except the hero is a girl with unproportionally large breasts. And she has guns, too!

[Coultgar]

Eh, I can understand the point about the hero, but especially later in the game, some of the normal units (e.g. Human Sorceresses/Mortar Teams, Undead Statues/Frosties, Orc Firebats) could really shift the balance of the game in WCIII (Depending on your strategy). Not that I don't see your point, I guess you just didn't get as heavily into the game as me and my friends. Then again... I hated StarCraft when it came out, kept playing Red Alert back in those days. =)

... and I played Allies, the maligned of the teams, heh. =) Nothing gets through my wall of medium tanks and rocket troops. ^.^

I was always more of a Half-Life person myself though. Any FPS'ers here? Up until recently I was active in Counter-Strike: Source, till I lost my good cable connection and ended up with this "relatively" alright DSL connection. Half-Life 1 is still my favourite game of all time. =) Deathmatch + Team Fortress Classic + Day of Defeat + Natural Selection + 100 other (probably more) games = the best game of all time. =P

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

thesensitivenewage said:

Warcraft II shall always hold a place in my heart for the exploding critters and soldier sayings.

Amen.

[TheSensitiveNewAge]

I've got Halflife 2 with Source (Halflife with some advanced graphics) it's just at a friend's house.

I loved the squad aspects of the Opposing Force expansion, done much better and earlier than Halo ever did tag-alongs.

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

Half life two is great. Very nice graphics and game play....didnt like the way they left the ending so open. Now we have to buy the sequel (asuming one is made)

[Coultgar]

Their making an expansion, should be out soon I think.

[Sheynat]

I believe the expansion to HL2 is actually out. I'm not sure if it can be legally acquired, but I am pretty certain it's out there.

[Greek People Nation (GPN)]

I like NCAA Football 2006. It is awsome

[Alfonia]

I see, shocking perhaps but i have never played an american football game, would be cool to try it out, seems like a good way of understanding the game.

As you have it, if I could ask a question it would be nice...

How does it compare to other games out there?
As I have understood it, EA's footy game series, FIFA has been losing ground to the Pro evolution soccer series, the last game Pro evolution soccer 5 recieving higher reviews than FIFA 06 almost everywhere. Just wondered if the same thing was happening to the other sports games they produce.