Valve to Vivendi: Bite me.

[Soukyan]

Edit: GOLD.

November 16th. About fucking time.

The only thing that makes me happy about this is that Vampire: Bloodlines can finally be shipped. Wooha!

[WonderBrick]

Why the fuck do I have to remind people of this. IT'S THE SLEEPER SHOOTERS THAT SHOCK AND AWE, THE SLEEPER SHOOTERS!

STALKER might be the next sleeper shooter.  Semi-RPGish/Morrowind-ish in a modern FPS world.  Based loosely on The 1979 Russian movie by the same name, it will almost certainly have a sci-fi/fantasy twist.

[Rodent]

STALKER might be the next sleeper shooter.  Semi-RPGish/Morrowind-ish in a modern FPS world.  Based loosely on The 1979 Russian movie by the same name, it will almost certainly have a sci-fi/fantasy twist.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R is a sleeper now? It's being pimped quite vivedly over here. I was a bit upset when they cut co-op out of it though.

[Zetleft]

Still waiting on Call of Cthulhu.

[schild]

Stalker is actually based on the movie? Hmmm...I'll believe that when I see it. They may SAY THAT but there's just no way.

[WonderBrick]

True, STALKER has been pimped alot, over time.  But I don't think alot of people have caught on to the potential unique gameplay it might end up having.  Strangely enough, at one point, the devs did not even seem to have a firm grasp on how to get the gameplay to work.

And it is supposedly based loosely(keyword: loosely) on the movie.  I think that this aspect is fairly guarded, due to wanting to keep the game's story fresh.  I hope that means that the game possibly plays a bit different each time it is played through completely.  They have also gone to great lengths to recreate some of the looks that the film had.  Hopefully I am not reading to much into things said in the past.

[Samwise]

Still waiting on Call of Cthulhu.

I don't dare get my hopes up.  It could be really awesome, or it could crash and burn spectacularly.

[Rodent]

Still waiting on Call of Cthulhu.

I don't dare get my hopes up.  It could be really awesome, or it could crash and burn spectacularly.

I keep myself in a "This game will suck more than Enter the Matrix"-mode in order to keep my hopes from being crushed. I could way too easily fall into fanboihood over anything Cthulhu-related.

[Liquidator]

Ok, so I'm a sucker for having the original box, documentation and all the other goodies that come from a retail product - I collect them.  But here I am faced with the Collector's edition that comes on a DVD, unfortunately, I don't have a DVD-ROM drive.  So if I want to get a boxed copy not only do I have to spend $80 on the game itself, but I've got to buy a DVD drive.  Fortunately, those can be had for around $25-35 dollars now.

So do I feed my desire for boxed originals or go with the Steam version?  What are you all planning on doing?

Edit:

Soukyan brings up a good point that Vampire: Bloodlines can now be shipped - that was something that I hadn't thought of, so this news is twice as good.  Is Vampires: Bloodlines even finished?  I haven't been keeping up on its development.

[schild]

I'm buying the box when it hits store shelves. I may preorder to get the silver version. The only way I'll get the $90 one is if the hat is really really fucking cool.

I actually wouldn't even get the game if I could find my original Half Life 1 key. Found the cd, just need to find the manual.

Meh, I'd like to play through HL1 with the source engine though. I really hated the original engine. It ruined all the great multiplayer mods that came out for it for me.

...

Vampire: Bloodlines comes out the same day as Halo 2. Now that's a pain in the ass. I was looking forward to playing Halo 2 MP with the guys at the office and now that I know Bloodlines is coming out, I'm unhappy....to say the least.

[schild]

New Vampire: Bloodlines trailer available. I'm looking more forward to this game every day.