woah it is faster!

am i the only one who noticed http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/b/new-idea/23524/i-breastfeed-my-dad/ ?

wtf??

did no one at THQ realize the genius that was Rise of Nations and green-lit a proper sequel? wtf!

Also, regarding Volition... just look at Saints Row and how well that GTA-clone came out. It's even better than GTA! Does no one at THQ remember that Volition was responsible for bringing us Descent and later, FreeSpace 2 and maybe... maybe greenlight a sci-fi shooter franchise for them to do?

Does no one at THQ realize they could be printing money off these companies talent yet they DON'T

ugh

great game, haven't gotten the expansion though

First they took my beloved Volition (creators of FreeSpace 2), and then the makers of Rise of Nations, my favorite RTS of all time!

don't screw it up THQ

when the dumb helicopters decided to hover above me at 10,000 feet all it did was give me a better chance at taking them out... you just have to be very accurate and judge for physics when you launch a rocket at them (to complete the objectives)

so they're making another Renegade?

meh

Netscape Navigator 9 = Firefox 2

okay two things

1) Crysis is a great game with a great storyline, unlike this Area 51 game
2) Backed up by reviews? Cut the bullshit: http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/931665.asp

also the rest of you need to seriously chill the fuck out

it's just a news post of the same type that Blue's and every other gaming site and blog have been posting since the beginning of time - except this time it's about the resurrection of a legendary IP (at least to my generation)

OMGZ GHOSTBUSTERS!!!!!!!!

i can't wait! =)

@Hump - i'm 24 so you're wrong on both accounts

Chill out guy, there are more important things in this world than games.

Just enjoy them.

STARCRAFT 2 will rule! Can't wait!

sorry guys just wanted to get that in so that self-centered, single-minded prick doesn't get the last word in in a thread about my beloved StarCraft

now let's see if he clicks all the way back to this thread to reply...

look who it is!

i see you're back to the same old bullshit "i hate every game but Tribes" debate

talking about the same old things too (Halo, Diablo, MMOs), in a thread about Starcraft 2 no less! how boring...

you're not even worth replying to really

This comment was edited on May 20, 10:07.

inkjet is a crime

Jerykk, you act like I'm attacking Tribes and am not in fact a veteran Tribes player myself. That through analysis of Tribes can be done for any game worth its gameplay, and I'm sure many can write about the layers upon layers of complexity in end-game WoW for 200+ pages if they wanted to also.

Of course I won't because like Beaner stated, taste in video games is subjective.

Oh and BTW as I have to get this off my chest: Skiing was not an actual feature initially, it was a bug found in beta that resulted from a reduced-friction surface put in place to circumvent excessive sniping. When they figured out how useful it was because it allowed you to transverse the large maps quickly, they tweaked, balanced, and left it in the game at the request of vocal players.

Modern games like Counter-Strike: Source and Halo now use similar ground techniques to modify movement.

actually if you've ever played WoW you'd understand the immense amount of strategic knowledge that goes behind making "groups" (also the main way to socialize) function properly so as to be able to take down your opponents successfully. every class in the game has a distinct role (or roles) to play and not all combination of classes can work all the time for any particular dungeon or mission; and the hybridization and specializing amongst individual classes adds an incredible amount of gameplay changes in which the mechanics of the gameplay itself differ completely from one character to the next

also, and this goes for all MMOs, the higher you level the more elaborate the game content becomes (in WoW you go from solo-ing, to 5-man groups, to 25-man raids). the game content in games like these is in itself the reward and in the case of the Warcraft universe; the art direction, extended storyline and narrative also serve as key factors to keep on playing

think of it as playing a game with the classes (such as chess) while reading a book and watching a movie at the same time, and having them all correlate with each other

well, i just can't fathom the idea that WoW or anything as complex as an MMO is playing to any sort of "lowest common denominator". Counter-Strike and games like it play to the older way of multi-playing, with a slight roleplaying slant (Counter Terrorist vs Terrorist, real-world weapons). UT2004 and CS are two very different games based on the same "fundamentals", as you call it, so to say one is flawed is to say all FPSes are flawed; in reality when one is considering which is of "better quality" the only factor really in play is which one is playing to your personality better (big action like in UT) as opposed to something that isn't going to (the pseudo-realism of CS mechanics maybe).

and as for pride and greed: what game doesn't play to those two emotions... amongst countless others? emotions are what drive our pleasures and we do play games as an outlet for these emotions, and this is true of all games, even the bad ones
This comment was edited on Apr 29, 12:33.

Jerykk, the draw of games like WoW lie mainly in the social aspect of it (think of it as a massive chat room were everyone is playing a game, as opposed to a game with chatrooms) and also the competition at endgame were your loot is what makes your character better or worst than the next lvl 70 (the lvl cap in WoW), i.e. the more you play the better, and more unique, you are in the game world

BTW that generalization about people who enjoy games like CS and WoW, myself including, was ridiculous and unthoughtful

i think you're being sarcastic

they're all legacy games because none are coded in DirectX 10, no games are yet

This comment was edited on Feb 1, 02:54.