>> ^EMPIRE:

I gotta be honest... that was rather lame.
I play minecraft, and it didn't take him much time to do that. At least the guy could have tried to do something a little more impressive.


He works for Bioware...so he might be one of the morons working on ruining Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Yes it's gonna be total shit.

I wish that he had of showed atleast two good ones in the late stages. Like Rogue Squadron (a launch title and deservedly so), which still has a very good score (the real one) and a engine that STILL holds it's own. Same with all of the later PC games: Knights of the Old Republic, KOTR part II, Jedi Acadamy II (it even had an awesome multiplayer), and then even the MMO was decent; better than Everquest II. Anyway...

>> ^MarineGunrock:
^$60? Holy shit. Whatever happened to $50 for a new release? And anything below 8 hours in completely inexcusable. Even 8 hours is a slap in the face. I don't think 14 is asking too much, even 16 for sixty fucking dollars. Take Mass Effect - well over 30 hours. How about Knights of the Old Republic II: My average run-time for that game is over 100 hours. Now THAT'S a game.


I am amazed at Modern Warfare 2, been out forever, yet they still demand $60.

^$60? Holy shit. Whatever happened to $50 for a new release? And anything below 8 hours in completely inexcusable. Even 8 hours is a slap in the face. I don't think 14 is asking too much, even 16 for sixty fucking dollars. Take Mass Effect - well over 30 hours. How about Knights of the Old Republic II: My average run-time for that game is over 100 hours. Now THAT'S a game.

>> ^Stormsinger:

The biggest flaw in this "analysis" is that these same claims were made -before- WoW. EQ was the big dog then, and "the market for MMOs has been pretty well capped at 2-3 million" WoW made it absolutely clear that 2-3 million was not the entire market, and that it most definitely is possible to make money even on unimaginably large development costs.
Actually, I didn't hear -anything- new in this piece...these claims have been being made for the last 10 years, every single year. Even though not a single one has ever proved to be correct.


I always was surprised that EQ's dominance lasted as long as it did. I think the designers for EQ had some serious sadistic tendencies, and they got so enamored with their own success that they essentially never responded to player feedback about anything, and refused to change the gameplay in any real way.

WoW on the other hand seems to have been designed from the ground up to be colorful, simple, and fun, and to go to great lengths not to frustrate people. EQ had been losing subscribers for years when WoW came out, and there was a mass migration to it. After that, all those network effects (i.e. all my friends play WoW, so I can't leave) worked in WoW's favor, as people dragged over their friends, and tried to bring in new people who (understandably) found EQ pretty hard to get in to.

Now, I do sorta have this feeling that WoW is in that slow decline mode now -- I haven't really played in over a year myself, and I can't remember the last time Blizzard made a big splash about how many millions of people they have subscribed.

I kinda think Star Wars: The Old Republic has a chance to really spark another mass migration. It'll probably draw in a new, untapped audience too; it's Star Wars! And unlike Sony's Star Wars: Galaxies, I think SW:TOR will actually be good.

Mostly though, he has a point -- WoW wasn't a clone of EQ with minor changes around the edges, it was a major upgrade of the genre. Just having prettier graphics and a different fantasy setting isn't really going to get people to pull up roots and move to a new game.

I'm also wondering when they're going to announce World of Starcraft, now that Starcraft 2 is out. I guess Blizzcon is coming this fall...

Maybe I'm too easily suckered by gimicks, but I'm looking forward to the 3DS. I think I enjoyed the DS more than any hand-held to date. It just had lots of great games, versatile controls, and critically the system and games cost about 30% less than their competitor. The same thing, only with a bigger screen, higher resolution, better processor, analog stick, accelerometer and gyroscope would have been enough to get my pre-order. But the glassesless 3D really does sound sort of cool. I've been wanting that ever since that bit in Back To The Future 2 were the holographic shark eats Michael J. Fox. I'm pretty sure it will be just like that.

All of other games I'm looking forward to are due to the developer track record, The Old Republic(Bioware), Portal 2(Valve) and Warhammer 40k: Space Marine(Relic). Though with that last one I seem to be alone.

>> ^cybrbeast:

X-COM? They raped it? NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!!!!


Did they ever. Don't try to look up screenshots or watch video of it with sharp objects in your hands.

>> ^Xaielao:
Rage (shown on PC), Portal 2, Crysis 2 (show on PC but they lied and said it was xbox until a crash proved otherwise), Civ V, Deus Ex, The Old Republic, Witcher 2, Brink, Shogun II, Fable III among others. Mind few of these are PC exclusives but they were shown/demod on a PC or have clear PC leanings (or in the case of Fable, were announced for PC when the last one completely avoided it hehe).


Yeah, I suppose it's hard to define what a PC game is anymore. Did think Deus Ex looked very promising, and Brink has always looked good, so I hope they manage to release it eventually. Games of show were Portal 2 and Deus Ex in my opinion. It's a shame they didn't do a public showing of the Deus Ex demo.

>> ^Xax:

>> ^Xaielao:
PC gaming was pretty solid however, and that is nice to see for a change.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH?!?? How in the hell was PC gaming anything but sorely lacking at this E3?


Rage (shown on PC), Portal 2, Crysis 2 (show on PC but they lied and said it was xbox until a crash proved otherwise), Civ V, Deus Ex, The Old Republic, Witcher 2, Brink, Shogun II, Fable III among others. Mind few of these are PC exclusives but they were shown/demod on a PC or have clear PC leanings (or in the case of Fable, were announced for PC when the last one completely avoided it hehe).

>> ^curiousity:

dead - terms of use violation.


Fixed and thanks.

>> ^Sigh:

look another MMO to fail against WoW!


The sad part is you are 100% correct. Pretty much every MMO since WoW has tried far too hard to dethrone it and wound up fading into obscurity a year later. You have to maintain your own niche of players otherwise you will fail miserably. EVE Online does this right, many others do not.

A key example is Warhammer Online itself. It had a strong first month showing (so much so as all the servers were overloaded and they added more frantically) and looked like it was going to do well. Problem is, once you hit maximum level (40) in that game there was little else to enjoy, and the tier system was lopsided from 31-40. People quickly vacated the game in droves and servers merged, making things even worse with population screwups.

They went from a half dozen or so servers at launch to like 50 when it was doing well, and now its back down to 6. Ouch.
Warhammer closes 43 servers
(The game had barely been out half a year)

This goes for you too, Star Wars: The Old Republic. Just because you have a good license like LOTR does not mean automatic win.

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>> ^demon_ix:

This trailer is awesome, but actual gameplay footage of the game is so utterly disappointing


....really??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsO30_RXIow


'k, well I'm all over this game.

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