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Are you aching to blab to someone about your most anticipated game?

Well, do it here. Maybe you'll get some unknown upcoming gems on other people's radar!

I guess you could treat this as a "Recently Anticipated", but that s**t is lame. Seriously.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Well crono, I am looking forward to GTA 4. Also Halo wars, an rts for the xbox 360 is another one that should be good. Also looking forward to arrangemode for the goldsource engine.

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Aaron's Stuff

You're not going to f**king believe me, but ... I actually want to play a Halo Wars ... on computer, of course.

I think Halo would be much better suited to the RTS genre than FPS. And it's also being made by Ensemble Studios!

I forgot to slap up mine.

Contra 4: So manly, it'll get your girlfriend pregnant.
Assassin's Creed (PC): Their cop-out response to releasing a demo makes me weary.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Seriously, there's a level editor now? Stop it, this game will ruin my life.
also Bionic Commando and Street Fighter IV, I don't even know what it looks like and I already want it.

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I for one am looking forward to World in Conflict, looks like a ton of fun. Starcraft 2 should be good as well.

But most of all I'm looking forward to the end of exams so I can get a new machine and play all these games I've missed (ep2 and portals to start with).

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

Oh I believe it :biggrin:

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You're not going to f**king believe me, but ... I actually want to play a Halo Wars ... on computer, of course.

Nooo, don't encourage him! :biggrin:

I guess all the bigger games these days are hyped to a point where it's impossible for them to stay under people's radar. And the alternative underground games usually aren't publicly announced until they're out.

So here's my hyped-out list of games I look forward to:

Assasin's creed: Awesome crowd-scenes and freedom of movement. I'm just afraid the PC will be treated as a second-rate platform again.
FarCry 2: Looks almost better than Crysis. I just hope they won't go overboard with the "realism"
Spore: Never before has the word "procedural" been used so often to describe a game. I love games that give you total freedom.
GTA4: It's GTA4!
Crysis: It's not out yet, remember!

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I'm looking forward to Assassin's creed and Spore as well, and i just recently discovered this cyber-viking melee/ranged weapon game.

Looks pretty sweet.

I wanted fury too, but I'm tired of mmorpg's, even if it's supposed to be revolutionary and all that stuff, still looks like a somewhat fun game, as opposed to the grindfest that is other mmo's.

Assassin's Creed for PC isn't coming out until like March of '08. They're doing that to optimize and tweak it.

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Can't say there are any really new games that I'm looking forward to, other than of course StarCraft 2 and Left 4 Dead (oh hell yes!)

I am, however, greatly anticipating the "walking patch" for EVE Online that was originally scheduled to launch in November, dunno if they've changed the date or not. I'm also looking forward to snagging a copy of the original Duke 3D for the PC. As of right now, the only full versions of the game I have are for the Sega Saturn and N64.

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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

L4D, of course! I almost forgot.

This reminds me of a similar Valve Co-Project... "The Crossing" It's quite a unique style of gameplay according to trailers. Never fully understood the concept, though.

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Well in all honesty the only game I genuinely wait for every time (bar HL updates!) is Civilization. And number 5 hasn't been announced yet!

Operation Flashpoint 2 (whatever is happening to it) could be interesting too!

I for one am looking forward to World in Conflict, looks like a ton of fun.

Yar, I'm installing it right now...

Farcry 2.. the new engine is awesome, and it comes with tools!

i'm really looking forward to ut 2007. i'd downlaod the beta demo, but i don't have enough ram. :biggrin:

Starcraft 2, MGS4, Left4Dead, Spore, The Force Unleashed. Nothing else has really caught my eye.

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When will Spore be out? Definitely will get it when it is.

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

April 2008, I think.

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Ep3 and whatever Valve makes next is all I care about.

G.Ballblue said:
I am, however, greatly anticipating the "walking patch" for EVE Online that was originally scheduled to launch in November, dunno if they've changed the date or not.

Good god that game sucks. After playing it and WoW I've given up on MMOs ever being good for at least the next decade. My dream of the 'ultimate game' (mmo fps/sim, basically X-Wing and Jedi Knight mashed together on a persistent world) is dead, and apparently justifiably so. :sad:

Ah, I almost forgot, Br?tal Legend.

So damn awesome.

Far Cry 3

definitely crysis.

Something else just caught my eye: SunAge

SunAge website said:
SunAge is a PC realtime strategy game developed by Vertex4, where the player can experience immersive gameplay with 3 different races, each with their own arsenal of units, buildings and upgrades. The game takes place in a futuristic setting across 2 different worlds, ranging from a lush alien planet to desolate wastelands and through industrial cities.

* Dual combat modes for all units: 3 races featuring dozens of units with dual functionality for greater tactical depth
* Multiplayer: Oldschool multiplayer with focus on gathering 4 kinds of resources and outsmarting the opponent in battle
* Command queuing: Command your units to prone, build or attack where you want them and WHEN you want them to do so.

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Another one I totally forgot to mention: Alan Wake.

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I'm totally going to try some tech-stuff like what's in Alan Wake (the streaming data from disk to memory and memory to GPU)

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Starcraft 2, Street Fighter 4 (cool trailer on youtube for it), the new TNA game, GTA 4. Actually quite a lot of games really. Hopefully they'll be good. Games have sucked recently.

Starcraft 2, since there doesn't seem to be any warcraft 4 coming... ever.

Kane and Lynch: Dead Men. Looks promising. Of course I'll be getting GTA 4 first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnIOhCV1Ouo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBm7K9LF28E

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I haven't really been following whats coming up in the gaming world of late, will probbably get a 360 at the end of the year/early next, and definitely be getting GTA IV.

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Crysis / Spore

Just got Assasins Creed, Call of Duty 4 and Mass Effect (K-mart jumped the gun), the 3 games i was waiting for. Also waiting for Left For Dead.

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Holy crap, you got lucky! So is Assassin's Creed out officially in Aus? Its out on Friday here, and as I preordered I'll probably be getting it on Thursday, but getting it already? Lucky man :smile: Mass Effect is even more remarkable, given it isn't out here for almost 2 weeks yet. I had heard it had its street date broken in the US but didn't realise it had elsewhere too.

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Man been playing Assasins Creed since my post till now its awesome the
cities are so huge, and the fighting is way better than most 3rd person
games. I'm finishing it before I start Mass Effect since that is going
to take a while to finish I think. Story in Assasins Creed is pretty
good too so far and one of the few action games where I play sometimes
just to see where its going. It's not "officially" out in Australia,
but some stores have it stocked like Gametraders and sometimes copies
just go missing :smile: . Also Call of Duty 4 is very, very short but I thought it was quite good and the multiplayer is the best yet, it has a lot of good ideas put into it.

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Ahhh, mass effect, I read a pre-release review about that game and it seems mad.

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Just finished Assasins Creed, clearly a couple of sequels coming our way.

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Hanging for Mass Effect. Bioware = God in game development.

diablo said:
Hanging for Mass Effect. Bioware = God in game development.

DABLIO! I MISSED YEH BUDDEH!

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Just clocked Mass Effect, the game is the best I've played in a long time. A little too similar to KOTOR, but I liked KOTOR a lot so I don't mind. Action is a lot funner than I would have thought, but there is an issue that if you don't pick soldier as a class, be prepared for a harder time getting through the game on normal difficulty.

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A friend showed me a few minutes of 'Hellgate: London', and it seemed pretty nice. I read about it on gamespot though and it appears the game suffers from repetition and various glitches, but hopefully they'll fix that with a bunch of patches.

Has anyone tried it?

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OtZman said:
A friend showed me a few minutes of 'Hellgate: London', and it seemed pretty nice. I read about it on gamespot though and it appears the game suffers from repetition and various glitches, but hopefully they'll fix that with a bunch of patches.

Has anyone tried it?

I bought it a couple of weeks ago. It does get a bit repetative. I'm finding it better to play in smaller doses.
At the moment the game is very buggy. Lets hope a couple patches do the trick.

I went and purchased Assassin's creed yesterday, quite possibly the best console game I've ever played, I loved the prince of persia games where you could jump around and such, but compared to AC, prince of persia is nothing, ac is just so amazing when it comes to moving around freely, you don't have to find the correct route, you can just go where ever you desire.

Highly recommend getting this game.

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diablo said:
<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting OtZman</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>A friend showed me a few minutes of 'Hellgate: London', and it seemed pretty nice. I read about it on gamespot though and it appears the game suffers from repetition and various glitches, but hopefully they'll fix that with a bunch of patches.

Has anyone tried it?

I bought it a couple of weeks ago. It does get a bit repetative. I'm finding it better to play in smaller doses.

At the moment the game is very buggy. Lets hope a couple patches do the trick.</div></div>
Ok, that sucks. :sad: Wonder why these "half done" games are released. The first version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R also suffered from a ridiculous amout of bugs, which reduced the playability quite a bit.

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I never finished stalker. Every time i saw a rat the game would crash. It also crashed randomly in cretin areas. Vary disappointing. I hope to play it again when i get a new system. Hope it fixes the problem.

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I'm halfway through unpatched STALKER and I haven't encountered a single crash, though that's probably through supreme luck. Plus I hear it gets more unstable in the second half. It's really awesome though and totally worth playing.

Yeah, awesome game. I also played the unpatched version, 1.0, and it was possible to play through it, although I recommend saving often. One particular mission, that had to be completed, never turned 'completed' even though I had finished all the tasks. It sucks that all save files from v. 1.0 are useless if you update the game, otherwise I would've updated.

I know quite a few patches were released quite soon after the initial release of the game, so I'm sure the game will be a lot more stable if you try the game again, RedWood.

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I loved the game. I won't mind starting over again when i get the new computer.
The area with the zombies was the worst for crashes. For me at least.

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I can't recall the game crashing for me, perhaps once or twice, but nothing I can remember. It was mostly graphical bugs etc. The game ate resources though, especially if you wanted dynamic lightning. If you buy a new system you'll be able to enjoy all the sweetness.

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Street Fighter IV

I'm one of the few whom actually likes where they're taking the style. It still looks hand animated, but it's 3D with a lot of shaders. Which is really cool, actually.

It looks like, however, that only the playable characters are getting that treatment.

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That looks awesome like some of the art used to promote Street Fighter, but they should take out the people in the background for 2 reasons: They look dumb and break the feel of the game when you see to lower quality background characters, and I don't really think anyone is going to stick around while people are shooting blue fire and teleporting around.

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The China level has always had people in it.

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So did one of the Indian ones I think, but I've always considered people in the background unnecessary.

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