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Nothing will beat the Prince of Persia trilogy, though.

I am nervous about the new title for 360…not digging the ‘illustrated’ look. I’ll try to reserve judgment until I play it or my buddy reviews it on his site.

That bastard keeps asking me to review games for him - and he gets them pre-release! - but I just dont’ feel like driving an hour each way to get to his place (his “office”) to play a game for hours and then sit down and write a long ass review. He needs to led me a damn console, that SOB.

Thank god his wife is an awesome cook and gamer as well. I might have to make weekend trips up there to visit…

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[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Travacolypse wrote:
Speaking of complete bullshit, did anyone else see the announcement that Blizzard is splitting Starcraft2 into three separate games? Not one game and two expansion packs, but THREE SEPARATE GAMES (with three separate $50-60 price tags).

Milking the hype is one thing, but this is a whole new level of greedy.

What?! I had to go look it up after I read your post.

Gamespot had this to say about it:

[i]After bemoaning the fact that Starcraft II was shaping up to be an undertaking far larger than the previous game, Pardo said the first game in the series–subtitled Wings of Liberty–will focus on the Terrans.

Specifically, it will seek to resolve the conflict between Jim Raynor and Kerrigan, which was the crux of the original Starcraft. The second game, Heart of the Swarm, will focus on the Zerg, while the final game, Legacy of the Void, will be devoted to the Protoss.

Pardo noted that each release will be a fully fledged campaign, featuring 26 to 30 missions apiece. The celebrity World of Warcraft designer also noted that while the ending of each game will be set, the middle of the game will play heavily to player choice, allowing for branching storylines.

Pardo also said that the second two releases could be considered expansion packs, but that “we really want them to feel like stand-alone products.”[/i]

While I’m not wild about it being three full games. If they are done well and spread far enough apart, I’ll still probably end up getting them all.[/quote]

I want to know how they’re going to handle this in combination with competitive play. If I need all three games to play with the full range of features online (since I read they’re only doing one race per game), screw them.

They know full well that almost everyone is buying this for multiplayer, so adding extra single-player content to justify an increased pricetag is beyond lame. Starcraft didn’t stick around for x number of years because its campaign was good. This is just milking it for all its worth.

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[quote]Vegg wrote:
Travacolypse wrote:
Vegg wrote:
Anyone else looking forward to Far Cry 2?

Looking forward to it, but I’m skeptical. If it’s as graphically demanding as Crysis, I won’t bother (still haven’t shelled out for crysis). I’m sick of developers pushing the graphics envelope so far beyond current-gen software that a year later people still can’t play it with everything maxed out.

Console developers are always happy to squeeze a little extra performance out of their platform of choice, so I’m fed up with PC developers making $300-500 graphics upgrades a necessity every couple years.

That’s what graphics settings are for… The requirements for Far Cry 2 are actually pretty low.[/quote]

The only games I’m willing to drop graphics down for are games I play competitively (CSS and AoE3).

The designers envision the game with max graphics in mind. If I can’t get the full experience on my current setup (which is actually a pretty decent rig), I won’t bother. Doom3 and FEAR come to mind as two games that lose a LOT of their ambiance once the graphics sliders start going down. Crysis is another one – at low settings the game looks awful, and the gameplay itself isn’t good enough on its own to justify the hit to IQ.

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Or just release the fucking game on DVD…a dual layer disc holds what, 9 CDs worth of info? That should be in just one package, not three.

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So which is better, Crysis or Far Cry? Isn’t Crysis the most graphically demanding game right now?

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
So which is better, Crysis or Far Cry? Isn’t Crysis the most graphically demanding game right now?[/quote]

Oh yeah. Crysis is TOO demanding (or coded sub-optimally… take your pick).

Define better. Personally, I think the gameplay in crysis (and in farcry1; obviously don’t know about farcry2 yet) feels flat. It’s not super immersive unless everything is cranked up at a high resolution. Even then, combat just doesn’t feel satisfying.

For my money, half-life 2 and hl2 episode 2 are still the benchmarks for what a good fps should feel like. Incredibly interactive environments with physics that respond like you’d expect. HL has massive replay value. FarCry? Meh, I finished it and uninstalled. It’s on a shelf somewhere.

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
Or just release the fucking game on DVD…a dual layer disc holds what, 9 CDs worth of info? That should be in just one package, not three.[/quote]

I don’t think they’re worried about the size of the game in that aspect, but more it’s correlation to development time. My understanding is that they want to get the first game out because it will carry the multiplayer/skirmish platform(with all 3 races, no worries there). The fastest way to do that with how much they want to expand the storyline(30 missions per race is 3x SC1) would be either the way they are doing it now, or to make SC2 with 2 preplanned expansions, 10 missions per race per game.

Now personally I don’t really agree with the way they’re going about it, I do think they’re milking it for some extra money and spinning a rational story to make it more acceptable. Me and pretty much every gamer I know is planning on buying the 1st for our BNET cdkey, and then pirating the 2nd and 3rd for the extra storyline missions and whatever little perks they have.

The only thing I’m really worried about at this point, is if they do treat the 2nd and 3rd like expansions with new multiplayer content as well, there will be a huge split in the playerbase between the online players that don’t care about the story and thus never bought the 2nd/3rd games, and the people that purchase all 3. If they do that I’ll be pretty pissed off because at that point pirating the 2nd and 3rd to still play the storyline and get around their “pricing plan” becomes an option only if you want to play the non-expanded MP version with the least units available.

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For those of you who liked the Parkour feel of Assassin’s Creed, you’ll probably be happy to know that EA is making something along the same lines.

Definitely looking like it’ll be a must buy come November.

So many games, so little time…and money…

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[quote]En Sabah Nur wrote:
For those of you who liked the Parkour feel of Assassin’s Creed, you’ll probably be happy to know that EA is making something along the same lines.

Definitely looking like it’ll be a must buy come November.

So many games, so little time…and money…[/quote]

That link doesn’t work. Is there another?

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[quote]En Sabah Nur wrote:
For those of you who liked the Parkour feel of Assassin’s Creed, you’ll probably be happy to know that EA is making something along the same lines.

Definitely looking like it’ll be a must buy come November.

So many games, so little time…and money…[/quote]

Links not working for me, but I assume you mean Mirror’s Edge. Great looking game.

On a side note:

I’m so pumped for this game!

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
En Sabah Nur wrote:
For those of you who liked the Parkour feel of Assassin’s Creed, you’ll probably be happy to know that EA is making something along the same lines.

Definitely looking like it’ll be a must buy come November.

So many games, so little time…and money…

That link doesn’t work. Is there another?[/quote]

Here you go, bro:

http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/207166/mirrors-edge-arrives-november-11/

Looks interesting. I had never heard of it.

Although I despise EA in general, I might pick this one up if I can get my hands on a damn console after the holidays.

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Oh man, Far Cry 2 looks tight.

Anyone yet play Resident Evil 5? That looks amazing as well…

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
Professor X wrote:
En Sabah Nur wrote:
For those of you who liked the Parkour feel of Assassin’s Creed, you’ll probably be happy to know that EA is making something along the same lines.

Definitely looking like it’ll be a must buy come November.

So many games, so little time…and money…

That link doesn’t work. Is there another?

Here you go, bro:

http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/207166/mirrors-edge-arrives-november-11/

Looks interesting. I had never heard of it.

Although I despise EA in general, I might pick this one up if I can get my hands on a damn console after the holidays.[/quote]

I think it looks ghey to be honest, but I am biased in that I prefer playing in the 3rd person view - when she was running around in the trailer it looks a bit comical.

Nonetheless, I have 7 other games on pre-order so no shortages yet.

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[quote]Himora22 wrote:
Christ no one dose CG like Blizzard!
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/intro.xml

[/quote]

That almost makes me want to play WoW again, but I won’t do it. Playing WoW again would probably be the end of me.

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Seven others??? Holy shit, economic recession my ass :stuck_out_tongue:

Which games on pre-order, bro?

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[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Himora22 wrote:
Christ no one dose CG like Blizzard!
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/intro.xml

That almost makes me want to play WoW again, but I won’t do it. Playing WoW again would probably be the end of me.[/quote]

Anyone know what that game is supposed to be like? Wow? An FPS? I can’t tell…

I remember being immersed in Diablo I. That game was awesome. I might pick up Diablo III…

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Himora22 wrote:
Christ no one dose CG like Blizzard!
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/intro.xml

That almost makes me want to play WoW again, but I won’t do it. Playing WoW again would probably be the end of me.

Anyone know what that game is supposed to be like? Wow? An FPS? I can’t tell…

I remember being immersed in Diablo I. That game was awesome. I might pick up Diablo III…[/quote]

I’m very much drooling over D3. The complete days I wasted away on D1 and D2. Maybe I shouldn’t get it…

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Himora22 wrote:
Christ no one dose CG like Blizzard!
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/intro.xml

That almost makes me want to play WoW again, but I won’t do it. Playing WoW again would probably be the end of me.

Anyone know what that game is supposed to be like? Wow? An FPS? I can’t tell…

I remember being immersed in Diablo I. That game was awesome. I might pick up Diablo III…[/quote]

WoW is an MMORPG and Wrath of the Lich King is the newest expansion for it. WoW is a fun game, but it can suck your life away if you really get into it.

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My little bro played WoW. I got him to quit :slight_smile:

Guys, any of you remember the default, shitty resolution used in Diablo 2? It took me months to realize that you can actually jack up the resolution in that game. I thought there was no way it could look worse than Diablo 1 (it did originally), and EVENTUALLY…I was right. That was Blizzard’s fault for setting a stupid default res.

Diablo 3 looks amazing.

Any of you play Baldur’s Gate or Oblivion? Those games look great, too. I wouldn’t mind a good RPG again…and Fallout 3 looks BADASS.

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:

Any of you play Baldur’s Gate or Oblivion? Those games look great, too. I wouldn’t mind a good RPG again…and Fallout 3 looks BADASS.[/quote]

The hubby played Oblivion for like, three straight decades. I don’t play video games (lack the coordination and the patience), but it was actually pretty good to watch.