games you look forward to in 2008 and beyond

[vladgd]

new super mario bros wii (what a fucking stupid name)

it's like ive wanted a "new, 2d, console mario game" since the snes days, and they finally do it. 

im going to try and get ahold of a wii and this game one way or another, i have to play this.  i mean if you don't count tomba! 2, super mario world is my favorite platformer, and this game looks like that, only "new". 

now that i think of it, i never played "new super mario bros" on the ds...going to have to borrow that from my sister and give it a play.

[OmegaOmni]

L4D2.

[MortifiedocAlot]

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-new-super-mario-bros/17-1633/

Okay, this game looks fucking awesome.

Also has anyone here tried Horizon shattered?


http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/50985/Shattered-Horizon-Priced-Dedicated-Servers-Free-DLC-Promised

Looks rather groovy.

[vladgd]

http://www.giantbomb.com/gyromancer-the-launch-trailer/17-1663/

at first i didn't think much, then im thinking "this looks a lot like puzzle quest"

now remembering that puzzle quest is fucking awesome, this could be pretty ok.  i reckon ill check out the demo, but i would prefer to read some stuff in this bad boy before getting it. 

i mean if it's like puzzle quest, how is it different and whatnot.

[vladgd]

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so adon is like vega meets sagat right?  anywho, i like him.

but uhh that was super street fighter 4, this next one is mass effect 2.  

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not confirmed, but, y'neverknow.

[MortifiedocAlot]

so adon is like vega meets sagat right?  anywho, i like him.

He has the same fighting style, so yes, maybe.

[Eggman]

Adon is nothing like Sagat. Absolutely nothing like him. The closest they get is both having a form of tiger knee. He's honestly very hard to explain. A very offensive Vega I guess? But even there, the only similar move he has is the leap to the wall, kick across the screen. They're giving him the ability to do a j. kick into jaguar kick though (he does this in the video with the kick to big circular kick) so that's a huge plus for him. If he stays as he was from Alpha, he'll have strong normals with a lot of range on his kicks so he'll fit right in the poking crowd and with great anti-air from his jaguar knee and hopefully jaguar kick still normally goes over fireballs because it used to.

He should be a beast. They all should be. I'm really really hoping they all turn out way stronger than the normal SF4 console characters.

And they should redo Cammy. Make it so hooligan can throw people out of crouching like it used to and give her cannon strike out of hooligan back. That's really all she needs. It's way too easy for Balrog to just block in a corner because Cammy's only option LITERALLY her only option is to try to lure him into screwing up because every move she can do is too punishable by him. You can't even jump in and hope for mixup because oops buffalo headbutt beats everything.

[Ulti]

Shattered Horizon looks pretty cool, and it's gotten good reviews thus far, and it looks super snazzy, but I don't really think I have the hardware to run it that well. I might pick it up at some point since it's fairly cheap and I'm super gay for anything sci-fi.

Also MOTHERFUCKING CALL OF PRIPYAT JESUS CHRIST I WANT THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION SO BAD. >:|

[MortifiedocAlot]

Adon is nothing like Sagat. Absolutely nothing like him.

They're both "Muay Thai" fighting style.

[Eggman]

Yeah, but they don't use the style the same way at all.

[MortifiedocAlot]

I always found it funny that Sagat throws fire alls and calls himself "Muay Thai".

[vladgd]

biotics...not sucking?

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/adept-combat-mass-effect/59489

i may actually use them this time around...until they announce what the soldier gets making him so stupidly durable it doesn't matter.  anywho, certain weapons have ammo in this game so i would think some kind of "ammo regeneration" would kind of fit the soldier.  just estimating from what little i know of the game. 

[Eggman]

Yeah, if the Soldier doesn't get some form of massive health (shouldn't really matter since you shouldn't be getting hit that much anyway...) or ammo conservation or something, it's going to end up completely useless just because the Adept can equip everything.

[vladgd]

(shouldn't really matter since you shouldn't be getting hit that much anyway...)

says who, my soldier can take rockets to the face like a champ thanks to master immunity with improved immunity and stupidly high health regeneration.  it's broken in my opinion since immunity protects you from like 80% of all damage and with improved immunity there's a three second window where you don't have immunity up, you literally don't take damage because the 20% damage you take is mitigated by health regeneration, this health regeneration not even from armor mods which i don't use because i don't need them.    

but im not worried, the vanguard/adept got some new toys, so it's safe to assume everybody is going to get something cool.  if anything, im worried about what they are going to do with the tech abilities, since they were kind of weak in the first game save for opening crates and whatnot.  i mean, if you choose to be an engineer, you are essentially the weakest class in my opinion.  

but yeah, it looks like they revamped the combat a good deal.  i mean there seems to be only 4 ranks of each skill from the adept video i linked, so who knows what else is under the hood.  


*edit*

"Engineers and allies who are "heavy tech power specialists" will now be able to use drones in combat. These drones will attack enemies that the controller selects and then auto-select their next targets. Their intended role is "to distract, suppress, and lock down enemies."

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_2

i am no longer worried about the engineer, shit's awesome.

*edit*

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/engineer-class-mass-effect/59735

video of the engineer

shit's awesomer than the adept

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so i look forward to star trek online since i am a star trek nerd

my purchase of this game heavily relies on if i can be a borg or not

YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

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so like even if borg are one of the enemies in this game, and if they aren't available to select, i can just create my own fucking borg.  but uhh, now that i think of it, borg are made up of other races...so uhh...ill shut up

still, the video he says andorian.  NERDGASM

[vladgd]

this requires double post

http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/d2-v1.13-patch-hits-the-test-realm/

i'm speechless, this is good.