Instead, it is about games I want to play that aren't out yet. First off, you know I love Roper, so I gotta pimp his pet project:

Hellgate, woo!

Forget that it's not really close to done yet. Let's talk, instead, about how very much I can't wait to play this game in spite of the fact that the gun models are so enormous as to take up a full third of my viewing area. It has demonic looking crap and gates that quite possibly lead to hell. There isn't enough occult stuff in gaming or cinema these days, by my count. I need more spooky demonic crap in gaming and cinema, darn it! (Preferably without Keanu Reeves, though...)

Also, I want to play Prey, because it still looks pretty badass and my sources tell me it is. Quite so. Speaking of Prey, it reminds me that there is a near-complete lack of decent spooky space movies to go along with the generally crappy offering of the occult. Space and underwater movies are the best suspense movies. People should know this by now. Space generally wins by a landslide on sci-fi factor, unless the underwater movie is set in the future and not starring Dean Cain.

So. More space movies and games (Freespace 3 :socar:). More Lovecraftian or Non-Exorcist-spinoff occult-style movies or games. (Also...while mentioning gaming and movies, I should once more harp on my point that people with a brain in their head should quit letting Uwe Boll buy rights to shit. Seriously. He cast Christian Slater as Edward Carnby, set it in the wrong timeframe, and ditched everything occult about the game in favour of an alien or hellboy ripoff. Also, I'm pretty sure he screwed up BloodRayne royally and is well on his way to butchering anything that was cool about Farcry, but I refuse to watch his movies unless forced, so I'll have to hear from others.)

Back to gaming.

And maybe Spore. I still want to play Spore, but only if I can create dong shaped, carnivorous creatures that will be auto-downloaded to the PC's of innocent children who will find their cutesy little fluffball colonies being ravenously devoured by things their parents will be mortified to find in the game...

The simple thought of such glorious possibilities gives me goosebumps.

Yeah, Spore seems cooler to me by the day, really. I love the idea that my creations could appear in someone else's game...eating their creations and making their lives miserable.

The King's Quest and Space Quest games are supposed to come out eventually in $20 compilation packs that will play on Windows XP. I really hope that comes to pass, because those were all fun games and I never got to finish King's Quest 6, back in the day. I keep checking for them and they keep not upping any new information, so I'm sad. :(

Also, I continue to hope that Xenosaga 3 actually comes out, because I love the whole storyline behind the games. I want to see that whole line finished for the same reason I want to see Elder Scrolls 6 come out, in the end. Not many epics in gaming that aren't simply watered down expansion packs for full cost...over and over again. (*Cough* HL2 episodic content. *Cough*) $20 for 4 hours more gameplay and a tiny bit more plot? Bastards.

I need to hook up with a hybrid combo of Square/Enix and Rockstar to develop a quality RPG in which there is no pretense of being a good guy whatsoever. GTA is done to death. As much as I love Final Fantasy in almost every (multiplayer burn in hell) incarnation, I long for a game in which I am not a hero, but a quality, badass villain. (To you people who read that and immediately thought "oooh..I wanna play as Sephiroth"...get the hell out of my forum and go . Thank you.)

Back to what I was saying, though. I don't even want to have an option to be a good guy at all. Screw getting to choose good or evil, like in KOTOR or perhaps Fable. Kids can go play Super Mario 27 and save the day all they like. I want an RPG in which my goal as a character becomes an unadulterated and hateful destruction on a global scale. It doesn't even have to be a quest for righteous vengance or something justifyable in the least, he can just be a completely deranged ass of an individual.

On second thought, I should probably just write a book, instead. Game developing in the modern era is getting damn near impossible without corporate interests screwing the fun out of things for the bottom line. (RIP Interplay.) American parents already bitch about how the gaming industry and cinema is raising their children for them (:lol:), so it's just as well I'm not allowed to mass produce anything I'd greatly enjoy playing.

I gotta go play Chrono Cross some now. You have to be a good guy, but it's okay, because it's a Squaresoft game and remains quite interesting in spite of their occasionally fuzzy quantum mechanics. It's the last of my "unfinished PSX game collection" that I need to polish off so I can get to my large, unplayed stack of PS2 RPG's. I'm hoping to finish at least a couple of those before PS3 comes out with all new badass RPG's for me to lust after.

Cheers, people.

Careful with Chrono Cross, because some think the game itself is evil. I disagree, but that may just be because I don't understand the plot fully. I DO know that the save points are evil though. Somehow. Cheers!

Having absolutely 0 interest in non-MMO titles that aren't moddable to hell and back, I'm looking at a long and barren stretch between TeS4 and whenever NWN2 or Supreme Commander finally get around to hitting store shelves.

I've mostly been filling in the time by playing hex-based wargames. Korsun Pocket in particular. It's like being 12 and enthralled with whatever Civ game Sid Mier had just put out all over again. Hurray for reclaimed magic and pixels dancing circles in my dreams.

That said, I salute Roper and his FPS developer brethren for finding ever sexier ways of blowing up a zombie.

I personally eagerly await a sequel to Freelancer. Preferably with a less linear plot and more options in terms of post-storyline game development, plus more moddability.

viva pinata: the game anmed after microsfot developers watched Zinwrath whilst drunk. Expect to see rare gnome, Tauren, MC and gates pinatas to make special appearances....

back on topic: i can't wait to get to grips with hellgate, mainly for the Occult stuff (i'm surprised Blizzard backed down over a 66.6 dps weapon...not to mention Holy Word...).

E3 and new alliance race next week? I'll save my wacky 'to-be-heaped' thread for when its announced. Also can't wait to get to grips with Naxerramus, and lets be honest the dungeon patches are new games as it were in their own right considering the variety of the encounters

I am playing Chrono Trigger it is good.

Shadows of the Colossus was freaking awesome. But I fell asleep on the last boss and my asshole flat mate finished it without waking me up. That was one of the best games I have ever played... so pretty.

The last boss made me cry the very first time I got past his dress. His right hand never looks like you're able to stand flat on it when you are. Ever.

I'd love to see that too. Once upon a time there was an announcement that Elite 4 was in the works, but since that was way back in 2000 or so and no news whatsoever of any progress has been seen actually ever playing that game is probably a pipe dream.

UFO - Enemy Unknown. give me something like that again please developers.

http://www.ufo-extraterrestrials.com/

snake rattle n roll is the best game ever period.

Chrono Trigger is outstanding; I think I've played through it at least 3 times by now. I played Chrono Cross as well, but I found it somewhat tedious at times and the interface/video got a bit annoying. It did have a massive amount of depth to it, though, much more than CT, but it just didn't grab me in the same way.

I've been playing LMCTF the past few days :o (... when I'm not studying)

This game.

Chrono Trigger was also outstanding, and I maintain a love for the first Final Fantasy game. Nintendo systems had some of the best RPG franchises. Too bad they all moved on or went to shit. :(

Yes EarthBound was the best game I agree with Gilliam

WTB localization of Mother 3

There's this free game called Cave Story I've been playing lately. I'll put it up once I'm back at home.

I've scaled back my non-raiding WoW time lately because I enjoy this game way too much to play to the point of burnout. The "semi-break" has given me time to play through Suikoden V, Grandia III, Tales of Legendia, and to replay a decent chunk of Makai Kingdom. Oblivion is still there, and lately I've been futzing around with EVE some.

Other games can be fun too, and give you an appreciation of just how good WoW really is.

I've been playing the little-known game of Tropico 2. Relwin calls it "Pirate Tycoon" because you have a little island with slaves and pirates. You make the slaves build stuff and serve you, and you make the pirates take ships out to loot and plunder. But you have to keep the slaves in their place and the pirates happy! This involves providing them lots of grog and wenches. :P

There's a fairly long set of scenarios and it's pretty much awesome.

As a wee lad, I once made a Doom 2 mod with textures and sounds stolen from Space Hulk. You know that eerie howl the gene-stealers make when they're lurking nearby? ROOOOoooowwwwww.... Yeah. Better than any Doom sound effect and breathed a whole new life into that game for my friends.

We need more Warhammer 40k games. Hyper-zealous facist space marines exterminating mutants, aliens, and heretics is a winning combination.

For some reason, Zeus was my fascination before WoW. It's essentially Sim City set in ancient Greece, with quite a bit more depth. The number of hours I spent on that game vexes me, but it it still entertaining to this day. :blink:

Edit: Also DoTA.

oh yeah simcity2000
i made the most efficient city ever and left it running on the fastest speed without paying attention to it during a raid or something and i came back to it and it was still going strong at almost year 20,000!

God bless that game. I think I was in fourth grade or something when i got my copy of it... :911: