PC Games for 2007.

[Fabricated]

Too many pictures for me to even want to do a C&P job. Deal with it.

http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=24525221

Of course, I'm questioning how many of these will see the light of day, but there's a lot more coming out than I thought. Jagged Alliance 3 + Silent Storm creators? Yesplzkthx.

[schild]

Top 5 games for me of 07?

1. Society (Serious.)
2. Battle Lord (Better not have StarForce or I will go apeshit.)
3. Portal
4. Metronome
5. UT3

[MrHat]

No TF2 Schild?

[stray]

Hmm, more things of interest to me than than I thought:

Tortuga
UT3
HL2: Ep 2
TF2
Portal
Spore
SotSE
JA3
Insecticide
Metronome
More Sam and Max stuff
Vampyre Story
Crysis
Silent Hunter IV
Heavy Rain


Here's hoping at least one of those space sims turn out to be good too.

[EDIT] OK, I'll admit that I'll probably buy AoC too. Maybe Fury. Maybe even STO, if it's released.  :-D

[eldaec]

There isn't much that really jumps out this year (no Total War after all), but lots of stuff worth considering. The reemergence of the space-fighter-game and the adventure-game is interesting, also, even more RTS games than usual, hopefully one of them will find something new to do with the genre.

Dropship I have half an eye on, though not for any rational reason. I suspect I'm still waiting for someone to do Laser Squad/X-com properly with modern production values.

HL Episode 2 will get bought, not least for all the stuff that Valve likes to bundle.

Obviously there is Warhammer, if Mythic can convince me that the game is worth the pain of GOA.

[Stormwaltz]

My interests (not including games already released, or unlikely to ship this year):

Spore
Sins of a Solar Empire
Theater of War
Pirates of the Burning Sea
Project Offset
Storm of War: Battle of Britain
Spaceforce 2 (called Spaceforce - Rogue Universe since being signed by JoWood)
Battlestar Galactica FS2 mod
Knights of the Sky
Bioshock
STALKER
Hearts of Iron II: Armageddon

I also saw several things on that list that might be interesting, but I hadn't heard of before. It's interesting how many games are based on the works of "famous Russian authors" who are entirely unknown in the West.

[Yoru]

Lots of cock being sucked here. (Ragnarok Online 2, "one of the best"? Really? Really?) Still, a good resource.

My pants are wet:

Spore (duh)
Sins of the Solar Empire
Dragon Age
POTBS
Alliance
They Hunger: Lost Souls
Left 4 Dead
Heavy Rain
TF2/Portal

My interest in piqued:

Drakensang
Enostaa
Grafan
Abbey
Undercover (WW2 spy adventure game? Hell yah)
Vampyre Story
Sinking Island (Benoit Sokal! Wacky Frenchy fun)
Eduardo the Samurai Toaster
Black Sky
Ascension
Alpha Prime
Collapse
Alan Wake
Metronome

[Yegolev]

It's hard not to get excited when I read "Jagged Alliance 3".  For the rest, I can probably avoid getting my hopes up... even for Bioshock and Society.  Hey, I like Stardock, if nothing else.  Also Sins of a Solar Empire.  And Mythos, because Fate was lots of fun and the character system was great in my opinion.

The idea of HistWar is scary, but I'm glad those games exist even if I don't have the backbone to play them.

I will probably get the Titan Quest expansion, but I'll feel used and dirty when I stop playing it a week later.

Since I am going to get HL2:#, I guess I can get excited about TF2.  Until I get killed into not liking it.

Looking over that list, I'm now curious as to what awesome PC games I have managed to miss out on for the past two or three years.  Of course, awesome is relative since I get excited about traditional isometric turn-based RPGs.

[Sky]

1. Spore
2. Dragon Age
3. Bioshock
4. Divine Divinity 2
5. Anything from the OpFlash guys
6. Crysis (Far Cry 2 as well?)

I really got into Disciples 2 for a while a few years back, though I never got the expansions for it. Kinda bummed Strategy First seems to have handed off the franchise to a third party dev house. JA3 by the SS team? Oh hell yeah. I hope 'running on highly modified Silent Storm engine' means widescreen support.  Sacred 2 should be fun. The 'sounds interesting' list:  Pox Nora, Witcher, Dropship, Afterfall, Starfall, Offset (if they can make a game out of it), Enemy in Sight (Mafia was a cool game), Alliance, Tortuga, BSG, Assassin's Creed, Left4Dead, I'm just going to stop there. Tons of cool looking stuff in there.

White Gold (and Precursors) also sounds interesting, did anyone here play Boiling Point?

I'm not into adventure gaming (mostly the interface), but it looks like a veritable smorgasboard of adventure.

[Fabricated]

Ahaha, the guy who made the original GTA series is making a GTA-ish MMO. That's NEVER coming out.

[Morfiend]

I would take a bet that 30% - 40% of the games on this list dont make it out this year.

[Bunk]

Ok, without reading anyone else's list, here's what on there that interests me off the top of my head:

Spore
Hellgate: London
Dragon Age (oh, hells yes)
Star Trek Online (morbid curiosity)
WAR
Tabula Rasa? maybe...
Portal - if its cheap or bundled
HL:Ep2

Games I've never heard of but intrigue me:
APB

This shows me how far out of touch I am for keeping up with what's coming out.

[Strazos]

I'm not going to make a list, because there was a shitton on that list that looked interesting to me. Even if it was only a screenshot.

I might buy about 3 games on that list, give or take. 

At least PC gaming isn't Quite dead yet.

[Trippy]

That guy needs to check the release dates.

[Trippy]

Games I know something about that I'm looking forward to:

Huxley
Bioshock
Spore
Age of Conan


Games I know nothing (or almost nothing) about that look interesting:

Galtrix - Reach for the Stars by SSG was the original Space 4x game and assuming they are the same ones making this game this could be very interesting.

Sins of the Solar Empire - A more modern looking Space 4x. Also could be interesting.

Infinity - Could this be the spiritual successor to Starflight? I.e. a space exploration game with a huge universe to explore.

Starfall - Like Infinity with more RPG elements?

Ascension - I loved Tribes before skiing ruined the game for me. Maybe this game can recapture some of that magic.

Alliance - Very pretty screen shot :D

Project Offset - The graphics engine looks amazing but I have no idea what the gameplay is going to be like.

Sacred 2 - I enjoyed Sacred. Could this be the game Titan Quest tried to be?

Society - No idea what this is about but we need more MMOs that aren't RPGs.

Mythic Wars - Inspired by MoM? Hmm...


Edit: typos

[Sairon]

Intresting that a lot of people have Metronome on their list, since they're sitting in the same building as I. Last I heard they had problems getting a publisher to sign with them. They have a trailer which is pretty cool though. I don't know if the actual gameplay will turn fantastic, but the mood and art direction is pretty unique.

[Ironwood]

Apart from ongoing WoW, PC Gaming is dead to me.

[stray]

Damn. I thought I was tired of PC gaming....But even I made a list.


Are you being serious?

[HaemishM]

Combat Misson: Shockforce
Mythic Wars
Jagged Alliance 3
Theatre of War
Dragon Age
Dropship (Ex-Troika guys, SF turn-based game and Source Engine - more plz)
Warhammer Online
Pirates of the Burning Sea
Armed Assault
Project Offset
Call of Juarez

I've no idea if most of that list will make it in 2007 or at all.

[Ironwood]

Damn. I thought I was tired of PC gaming....But even I made a list.


Are you being serious?

Yes.  Totally.  I'm fed up with my hobby being a job.

I'd heard that Supreme Commander had some patches that didn't make it suck quite so much ass, so I went to do a reinstall.  CRC Error after error.  So I popped on a new Drive and tried again.  It installed first time.  Then I went to patch.  Patch fucked up and made me uninstall.

Tried again.  CRC Errors on my new drive.  Once I used a CRC checking tool to copy all down to the drive, I installed again.  Downloaded a 'guaranteed' patch from the boards and it fucked up the isntallation again.

Now do that around 20 more times TODAY ALONE and realise that you went through the same shit with both NWN2 and the other fucking game I can't even remember now because it too was a pile of buggy an untested shite that has a 100mb + patch and you slowly get a picture that amounts to a bunch of fucking pus seeping blood-cunts of the highest order.

And, no, my machine is fine, cause I used Christine's only to find the same pile of shite.

Currently, SC is installed and works fine, but unpatched.  I know if I patch it, it'll break and if I don't, I won't like it.

Fuck PC Gaming in it's ass.

I'm buying a 360 and a copy of Dead Rising when my 5k bonus comes in and using my PC for WoW and Work.  Real work.  That pays me to do it, rather than the other way around.

You cannot imagine my frustration right now....

[Rasix]

If giant robots somehow make it into JA3, I'm going to be very upset.  Could be very, very cool though if done correctly.

I have no clue about 90% of what people are listing. I haven't even heard of these games.

The things I've been looking forward to on the PC are mostly just Dragon Age and WAR (kinda).  I plan on picking up a 360 this year so that will cover most of my non MMO gaming.  POTBS and AOC I'm counting on being disasters or just plain disappointing.

I'm just not going to drop a thousand bucks to upgrade my less than a year old rig to play any of this shit.  I'm pissed that some games are already starting to struggle on it (granted, games that have pigish engines).

[stray]

Yes.  Totally.  I'm fed up with my hobby being a job.

Actually, I hear ya. It can be a hassle.

I failed to mention earlier that whatever games on that list that are going to consoles will also be played on consoles by me (UT3, Assassin's Creed, Alan Wake, Heavy Rain, Bioshock, etc). Just for the very reasons you mentioned above.

[HaemishM]

UT3? Why would you play that on a console? Of any of the cross console ports, that would be one to play on the PC.

[stray]

The PS3 version will have PC mod support, mouse and keyboard support, and will run it better than the machine I currently have (and don't plan on upgrading anytime soon).

The only reason I'd want UT3 on the PC at this point is if I planned on creating content.

[EDIT]

And last but not least, the consoles will probably have better matchmaking and servers to play on.

[raydeen]

* denotes strong urge to buy sight unseen or at least devour any and all information related to title. Everything else just looks damn good and/or interesting.

*SPORE
Society
Dragon Age
Witcher
Drakensang: the Dark Eye
*Sacred 2
ENOSTA: Discovery Beyond
Seeker
*Stargate worlds
Starfall
Vampyre Story
*STALKER
*Savage II: Tortured Soul
*Black Sky
*Storm of War: Battle of Britain
BattlestarGalactica: Beyond the Red Line
*Infinity (proceduraly generated universe.....MMMMmmmmmm)
Wing Commander Saga
Knights of the Sky
Precursors
Age of Conan
*Unreal Tournament2007
*Elder Scrolls: Oblivion - Shivering Isles
Overlord
Alan Wake
APB

[HaemishM]

Stuff about PS3 version of UT3

You'll forgive me if I believe it when I see it.

[Strazos]

Unless you normally play your PS3 at a desk or something, good luck with the KB+Mouse. I still don't buy into Sky's solution.

[stray]

Stuff about PS3 version of UT3

You'll forgive me if I believe it when I see it.

Sure, why not.

Some explanations though: UE3 was one of the first things focused on, financed, and demoed by Sony while developing their hardware; UT3 reportedly had kb/m functionality at GDC; Mark Rein's a fanboi; and Epic already talked about the PS3's open content model and ability to use PC mods a long time ago (while contrasting it with Microsoft's DLC approval process).

As for running better than the machine I have: Well... I have a 7600GT, and the PS3 basically has a 7800GTX + GPU power from the Cell + just more hardware efficiency in general than a PC. I don't feel like achieving the equivalent of that on a PC right now or in the near future. I'd end up paying out the ass.

Also, since I have a PS3, I'm simply going to use it. To hell with buying some top end gaming PC for one game when I already have enough as it is.

[Mortriden]

Hearts of Iron II: Armageddon

I think I may have just shit myself.  HOI2 owns my soul.  I've had to force myself to uninstall that game so I could get my life back.

[Sky]

Unless you normally play your PS3 at a desk or something, good luck with the KB+Mouse. I still don't buy into Sky's solution.

Why not? It works.

[Strazos]

I don't buy into it because, personally, I know I would find it uncomfortable. For me, nothing would be in the right place, it wouldn't be stable enoug.

Also, I don't have a couch in my room.

[Ironwood]

This just in :  Supreme Commander, even patched, still sucks donkeys.


Hint :  A Zerg Rush is only funny when it's Zerg and when there are other viable tactics allowed/available.

Fucking Idiots ruined it all.

[Strazos]

You should return it and give the new Command and Conquer a shot. 

[Ironwood]

But then what would I bitch about ?

 

[schild]

Command and Conquer  3 is awesome. Completely worthy title to lift my ban for. I still think EA is a soulless devil, but they're making enough interesting, NEW games that I no longer feel the need to withhold my dollar. Still won't buy anything with an EA Sports tag though.

Spore, C&C3, Army of Two, Skate, Crysis, Half Life 2: Orange Box, Sims DS. Yea, I am OK with this. Enough to give them a chance. They don't get 3 chances like Square and Nintendo though. They fuck up, they're out for another decade.