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8th January, 2004 at 05:03:29 -

Maybe some of you have heard about Interplay shutting down Black Isle last month, but I just did. And really, I think it's the dumbest move they've ever made. For God's sake, most people would've have even heard of Interplay if it wasn't for Black Isle, Fallout, and Baldur's Gate.

So, now I wonder, what's left to see in the hardcore gaming community now that they sacked the guys working on Fallout 3? Interplay's focusing on Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, which means that the world's best RPG publisher is now going CRPG. It's bad enough with that CRPG Lionheart but now the most hardcore of titles is going softcore??? The only decent CRPG I've ever played was Divine Divinity.

And then there's this problem with violence. I don't mind violence in gaming, but now, violence has become too common. There's nothing wrong with blood splattering from a wounded guy, but these days, wounds cause FOUNTAINS of blood. Even a little bullet can knock off limbs. Game characters are becoming like rubber blow-up dolls pumped with red water.

So what is there left to look forward to? I suppose Black & White 2 would still be cool (if my comp could handle it). But besides that, there's only business sims and The Sims 2 for me to look out for. But besides that, I'll have to around scrounging for freeware to furfill my lust for non-combat based RPGs (cept maybe Kingdom Hearts 2). Even the Final Fantasy series seems to be getting worser.

I'm so darn sick of all those companies selling out. If this keeps up, I'm staying with edutainment.


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8th January, 2004 at 08:21:23 -

"So, now I wonder, what's left to see in the hardcore gaming community now that they sacked the guys working on Fallout 3"
u mean Fallout 4 Online.
Fallout 3 - Tactics is old...


 
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8th January, 2004 at 08:51:14 -

well, this year we have Half Life 2, Halo 2, Doom 3 all coming soon... from my end, the future looks bright (maybe as i love violence so much)

 
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8th January, 2004 at 09:04:05 -

I lost track of modern game industry years ago. I am only playing "outdated" games.

 
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8th January, 2004 at 09:44:01 -

*sigh* Hayo..

 
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8th January, 2004 at 10:23:32 -

Like Hayo, I no longer play new games. I dunno why but I just prefer older games...

 
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8th January, 2004 at 11:23:50 -

or u dont wanna use $ on updating ur machines

 
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8th January, 2004 at 11:39:39 -

well my computer is pretty new..bought it 6 months ago or so.
all new games work on it, but most of them just aren't fun. maybe I am just too old,
can u imagine a history teacher playing videogames?


 
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8th January, 2004 at 11:42:26 -

Pete Nattress:
Don't forget Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater on PS2

 

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8th January, 2004 at 12:28:46 -

no daniel, i'm TRYING to forget it. for me MGS2 was dissapointing and i don't think adding the ability to eat snakes is going to prevent an inevitably dreadful and drawn out story.

fishead, i sure as hell can't imagine my history teachers playing video games

 
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8th January, 2004 at 15:45:54 -

Metal Gear Solid seems to be a sort of Emperor's New Clothes style situation... the media are saying how great it's going to be, but I can't really see anything special about it.

To a lesser extent, the same thing happened with MGS2 - it just doesn't seem to fit together as a game as well as the first MGS did.

I'm still playing the original Prince of Persia. Now that's quality. My best time's just over 20 minutes <¦-)

Ratchet and Clank 2 isn't bad either, but it's still nowhere near the classic platforming days of Sonic and Mario.

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8th January, 2004 at 16:41:33 -

The Ratchet & Clank series rules. (I got to interview one of Ratchet & Clank's designers for a school project last year (I'm telling the truth))

In a few years, the big companies will be so big that the smaller companies(like everyone here at DC) will never probably never get a piece of the glory of the game industry. On the other hand, most of the new games are becoming crap. So the competition with the old schoolers won't be that hard.

 
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8th January, 2004 at 17:47:53 -

Never played Ratchet and Klank 2 just played part 1 and it rocked.

 
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8th January, 2004 at 18:21:16 -

i buy games too often nowadays and mostly never finish them.
the last game i finished was sonic adventure dx and it wasnt the most fun game ive ever played.

 
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8th January, 2004 at 18:27:02 -

I don't really like those new sonics for gamecube and stuff (the ones for GBA are good) as much as the old genesis one.

 
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8th January, 2004 at 18:54:01 -

The only good thing about the new one is the speed and the graphics i prefer the old ones like sonic 1,2,3,knucles,etc than Adventures,well adventures 1 was good but that 2 battle thing for the gamecube wasn't that good i liked it but not as much as the classics.

 
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8th January, 2004 at 18:56:14 -

All the game companies are thirsting for money, and the money is in blood that pours like a waterfall out of a papercut. But we all know who is keeping the real gaming alive, us. None of us are making any serious money, so we make games for a whole different reason. No matter how bad games get, we will be here (Hopefully) keeping the oldschool gameing alive. If theres anybody who doesnt apreciate oldschool gameing, then they are not worthy of talking to me, lol.

 
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10th January, 2004 at 01:40:02 -

I'm not too fond of the true old skool hack and slash games, but all the new ones have been pretty crappy lately. So far, the best ones I've seen are the ones around the late 90s and a few recently. Ya know, Dungeon Keeper 2, Fallout series, The Sting!, Simcity 4.

But maybe JonWoG's right. It's probably just a little drop... hopefully. I'd just like to see a really good RPG that I wouldn't have to work on. Knowing every single secret and every reaction in a RPG kills half the fun, but I guess that's replaced by the fun in making one. Maybe someone will make something from the engine that Temple of Elemental Evil uses.

I'm not really one for shooters anymore. All you do is shoot someone, then run around shooting someone else, and so on. Too repetitive. Hopefully, HL 2 is as good as it looks.

But I guess Snerlin's right too. The big companies will just overshadow the small companies or buy them out. I still despise Infogrames (now Atari) for buying out Microprose and completely killing off the X-Com series. X-Com still had plenty of power in it... they just threw it away with that X-Com Enforcer piece of crap. Who knows, maybe Wizards of the Coast will be bought out by the new Interplay, meaning that most of us won't even be able to enjoy good old AD&D.


Tina:
Fallout Tactics was no Fallout 3. Cool game, best engine I've seen, but no RPGism. I wouldn't call the upcoming Fallout: BoS a part of any Fallout game; it's just a gimmick.


Rycon:
We're not keeping the gaming alive. It's those PS2 and Xbox fanatics who are. As it is, they're completely brainwashed by ads, which means like easy-to-make games where they just run around killing people. Not a problem to me, if only there was more to it.

 
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10th January, 2004 at 01:47:03 -

buy a gba and get golden sun 1and2 and breath of fire 1and2

 
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10th January, 2004 at 02:02:32 -

Really just ,Golden sun,Golden sun 2,and Breath of fire 2 are the good ones, Breath of Fire 1 aint good.

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11th January, 2004 at 04:33:49 -

games are gettin crustier than danish bread.
But theres always Dues Ex 2 and Half Life 2 to look forward to.
If ofcourse you want to spend $2000 upgrading your nVidia driver to run them.
See the real problem here is nVidia and more recently ATI. They buy off developers with their amazing chips and make all us gamers fork out great wads of cash.
I doubt im going to play Half Life 2 until 2005 becuase specs will be just too high.
Game developers have really got to get their priorities straight!

 
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11th January, 2004 at 04:50:56 -

half life is supposed to be able to run on a really low spec machine (700mhz). but obv. you'd need a higher end one to see it in GLOURIOUS full details. i might invest in some more RAM + a new video card for my comp. i need them anyway .

 
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11th January, 2004 at 06:27:09 -

Hayo, you teach retards, and the way you always mention yourself as a teacher makes me wonder if you're really 48 rather than 20..

Just because you are a teacher it does not mean you have to be totally mature, drink coffee and be a total prick, I mean if you're good enough to sell pot, get stoned and make games based on girls no one care about, surely you're good enough to play modern video games..

 
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11th January, 2004 at 12:37:27 -

jon, that was a joke. But I am getting too old to really get into most of the newer games, plus I don't have time too play them cuz I am too busy drinking coffee, selling pot, act like a prick and creating games dedicated to friends.

 
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11th January, 2004 at 12:50:13 -

I honestly think that the better games (for the most part) are coming out on home consoles. The computer game industry has been rubbish lately, only HL2 and Sims 2 seem to interest me. It's strange though, PC games started becoming more like console game, and at the same time Console games were becoming more like PC games.

 
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11th January, 2004 at 13:07:28 -

Muz, you talk like that and your givin up right now. lol Yeah your right. But I still think we are the ones keeping true gaming alive.

 
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11th January, 2004 at 13:16:17 -

lol Hayo

 
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11th January, 2004 at 14:36:07 -

couldnt have agreed more rycoon

 
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11th January, 2004 at 15:16:39 -

The klik sites are the main things keeping retro gaming alive. We don't sell this, we don't sell out-we make games for fun. Also, f you get 3D oftware, the range of visualeffects makes you horribly abuse it. And dave, I hate square. They bought enix, which killed the dragon warrior series ( i think). And in my opinion, the gore isn't too bloody unless it tops manhunt for PS2. God, that game is gross.

 
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11th January, 2004 at 18:25:41 -

Doh! Its Rycon, lol. (Damn racoons)

 
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11th January, 2004 at 21:08:38 -

I saw some screenshots of Fallout 3 when they got sacked. It looked so awesome it made me cry

 
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11th January, 2004 at 21:31:34 -

I think the gaming industry is far from dying, Zelda: WW, Metroid Prime, Mario Kart DD all lived up to there 2D classics standards, if not better.

 
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11th January, 2004 at 21:36:45 -

Yes there's alot of good games out there today, but not as much as there was in the old days.

 
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12th January, 2004 at 00:03:16 -

just tried the World Of Warcraft Alpha on Blizzards server. Im gonna play it until its going retail! Already preordered god damn! This is worth $ they are gonna sell monster! I think theyll go platinium in only 2 weeks.

 
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12th January, 2004 at 01:01:54 -

Ooooohhh... is it like Warcraft 3? or a whole different type of game?

 
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13th January, 2004 at 03:10:40 -

World Of Warcraft is an RPG, tombraider cam. The is only 1 world where all players are, and its HUUUUGE... and u can play even with troll beserker race.. Its so Heap

 
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