games you look forward to in 2008 and beyond

[MortifiedocAlot]

I hate to be "that guy" but I never really saw the appeal of Mortal Kombat, and it honestly makes me upset when people try to put it on the same level as SF. I really do hope the new game is good, but I've never liked MKs inputs, they have absolutely no flow to them (forward forward button press for a slow projectile? really?).

[NewF]

I didn't really like that either, but a better way to do it, is when you're jumping forward or backwards, input the forward forward or back back button combo, and once you land, hit the attack button to unleash the special right away. Also, I stopped playing MK when the deadly alliance and all those others came in. But this new one looks fucking amazing and can';t wait for it.

[MortifiedocAlot]

Yeah, it definitely looks like they're getting their shit together.

I'm not an MMO person, but this definitely looks promising. Also watching a tourney for MK9 gave me some respect for it, it looks worlds better then basically EVERY mortal kombat previous to it.


must spam dead website.

Shit looks really good, and I've yet to replay Epic Yarn. Might go to a gamestop tomorrow and look for old wii games (still want to play no more heroes 2, probably a few more).

Edited since some of the games already came out.

Real glad I still own a Wii, Skyward Sword and the new Kirby game look fantastic.

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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-11-zelda-skyward/720574

[MortifiedocAlot]

bumpin, but I'm stocked about this.

http://gamingbolt.com/dark-souls-prepare-to-die-edition-coming-to-pc-in-august

Also xeno blade seems to be awesome, really should snag that.

[vladgd]

lol my thread is still here.

tekken tag tournament 2 (steptember)
virtua fighter 5 final showdown (summer)
xcom enemy unknown (fall)

gotta get in dat 3d fightan space, long as they keep the good netcode of soulcalibur 5, ttt2 should be pretty dope. 

[Bobbias]

A fighting game with good netcode? That exists?

[vladgd]

super street fighter II hd remix
street fighter 4
anything on ggpo or supercade
sfxt netcode seems acceptable now
soulcalibur v
skullgirls (uses ggpo, so refer to above)

i wish i could put mortal kombat on that list, but despite being a really fun game, the netcode is very poor. 

[K-Mann]

Skullgirls seems really fun so far (for about the 10 minutes I've played)

Looking forward to Assassins Creed 3 and Borderlands 2. Maybe Far Cry 3

[vladgd]

im going to hold off on giving an opinion on skullgirls until i put more time into the game. 

feels like blazblue, with some mvc2 elements.  whether this is good or bad, i will say after i put some 40 or so hours into the game.  im not much of an anime game player, but i give every fighting game a chance now a days. 

visually however, the game looks fantastic. 

[MortifiedocAlot]

Thanks actually, one of my biggest pet peeve's is someone forming an opinion too quickly.

[Bobbias]

http://0x10c.com

Notch's new game.

Basically, the idea is that you are dumped into a nearly dead galaxy in a spaceship mostly consisting of 1988 era technology. You have a fully programmable emulated computer that runs even when your offline available.

Not much else is known about it, other than specifications on how the CPU and some basic hardware will work. There are people who have built emulators for it.

http://0x10co.de is one of them with an online interface where you can write code and have it run and debugged right from your browser.

The thing about the computer is that EVERYTHING must be user written. Notch will not be writing programs for you to use. Of course, there will be plenty of people who don't know how to program, so he has plans for some out of game (and likely in-game as well) distribution system where people can exchange programs written for the computer.

I've been playing around with an IDE/Emulator environment someone put together and am learning how to get stuff working right now. I've got about 330 lines of assembly language code written so far.

[MortifiedocAlot]

Glad to see Diablo 3 launch go so terribly, always on DRM is terrible and this is one reason why.

[Bobbias]

Can't wait till a stable b.net private server emulator pops up.

I wonder how much of D3 is server side anyway...

[MortifiedocAlot]

I'm still on the fence over Diablo, I'm hoping Max Payne 3 is good since I found a site selling it for dirt cheap, I'm just waiting for some personal feed back from people I know (sup guys).

Outside of that, Guild Wars 2 and Planetside 2 look like they MIGHT be amazing. Still waiting on the Dark Soul's PC port to come out, I just really hope it's decent.

HEART FULL OF CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM.

[vladgd]

N-N-NECRO POSTT

simcity

that is all (maby sc2 expansion, but...cmon, simcity)

tekken tag tournament 2 (steptember)
virtua fighter 5 final showdown (summer)
xcom enemy unknown (fall)

may as well add to this since i bought all of these since then

tekken tag tournament 2 is very good and i would play it more if i wasnt lazy and if my fightan partner would fucking buy it

virtua fighter 5 final showdown is also a good game, has a great training mode, and great netcode...but i dont like the game

"bu bu bu you said it was good vlad"  yeah, i can admit it is a good game, but it doesnt mean i have to like it.  feels a bit too guess oriented for my tastes

xcom is fucking good and you should buy it, yeah i said buy it as in pay money for a new copy of the game so firaxis will get money and make another one