DanJW

yeah, don't hold your breath. Not unless you can hold it for 3 years. The season finale of Heroes was strangely dissapointing, #ia gree with you BigJKO. It came so close and then just kind of wimped out. It needed another dose of epic, as seen in the future episode. I still enjoyed the series and am still looking forward to season 2 though.

What really surprises me is that complete strangers keep turning up and resurrecting this thread after it's been cold for weeks.

The video calls might be fun. Well when I say fun I mean "futuristic". It's like the PDAs you find in a certain type of scifi. I think it's an effort to raise the general street-cred of the brand. For a company that pretty much owes it's entire market share to being "cool", it's lost a hell of a lot of that to Ninty in the past couple of years.

That probably makes sense in hollywood, since both nazis and english people are evil. Is it a horror flic? The setup sounds like Return to Castle Wolfenstein What was that other WWII supernatural horror? Oh yeah, Deathwatch. One of those films that has a good trailer but you can tell that's the best thing about it.

Does it need to be? We're getting intot that mindset again of "I don't want that car unless someone has gone to the trouble of inventing a new wheel for it"

Yeah the dark ending was shown in cinemas on the 28th day of release.

Was Descent really not true 3D? It felt mind boggling enough to be. I remember trying to work out which way was "up" after a fight and becoming completely disorientated. Great stuff.

Quake 1 deathmatch still plays well even today. Every game since has just been adding bells and whistles :oldman: Wasn't System Shock the first true 3D engine, or was that faking it too?

Really? TA bores me to tears. Matter of taste I guess. But yes the original starcraft remains the most balanced yet most asymmetrical RTS. It's probably going to be said a lot by unimaginative games journalists, but maybe Blizzard will do with Starcraft 2 for RTS what WoW did for MMO's. The sum may be greater than the parts.

What would an "innovative" RTS be exactly? The only one to have been called that in many years was Company of Heroes. You forgot to mention the "new tricks" on that list though. Those two words might contain some fun stuff.

Heh, well it always was reminiscent of a particular dark future where there is only war. From that cinematic it looks like the sequal might be even more space-goth. I wouldn't worry though. Blizzard aren't known for making errors of judgement when it comes to style.

Wasn't Invisible War panned, a bit? Is this, in fact, a good idea? Having said that I only ever played the demo of the sequal. What was wrong with it exactly?

Warcraft 3 was a great game, and still to my mind the best single-player RTS (what with the storyline, cut-scenes, scripted events etc). I have no reason to believe that Starcraft 2 will be anything other than a step forward from that.

I can't believe no-one has said it yet, so: ZOMG!!!11

Halo went ballistic because it was the first console FPS that worked, with a decent control scheme and mechanics that fit the pace required of a console. As long it still feels smooth, that's all that's required really. Most devs making FPS games for console still haven't got it. PS playing Halo on PC really shows you how different PC and console FPS are. I watched a video of halo 3 yesterday and wound up thinking "it still doesn't look as much fun as counterstrike or quake".

Liksang. Oh, wait...

Isn't here a saying about never letting the drummer handle the money...?

I applied! My star name is 5 Shilling (the pre-decimalisation gangsta).

2007 is an uncool year? Aw man. I was kinda looking forward to it last year. Oh well, only 6 months until 2008. It had better be dayum cool.

Rusalka Quarterly? That sounds like one of those, er, top shelf publications.

Get that Witch Touching game, and tell us what it's like.

James Masters is awsome. He appeals to my inner teenage girl. I wish I had an outer teenage girl.

positive threads suck

Egotism or cry for help?

My god I'd completely forgotten about Duke Nukem. Is that still not cancelled? I swear in 50 years time I can imagine sitting round a capfire telling my grandchildren grandnephews & grandneices the tale of "ole Nukem Forever", said to swim in the deepest waters of 'tinternet.