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On E3's Missing Cavalcade Of Games
Thanks to the Gaming-Age forum regulars for discussing "notable games not actually shown at this week's E3 show", despite the insane flood of new titles, with particularly noticeable no-shows including Raven-developed PC FPS Quake IV, Sony's "oft-rumored [PlayStation 2?] sequel to ICO", Nico, as well as Microsoft/Level 5's "massively multiplayer Xbox RPG" title True Fantasy Live Online, in addition to Sony's PSX hardware, with the PS2/DVR combo now heavily rumored to have had its U.S. release canceled. Is there any other hardware/software you've been disappointed not to hear about, besides the obvious?
There were enough games to make me happy, IMO (IANAL)!
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Including some new Thief game and Half-Life 2, anything else pales in comparision
to see Doom III PC there. Also, Halo 2 was only being shown to the press and other extra special people today. Guess I'll just have to stand in line for hl2 again...
Seriously. "New Super Mario" and Mario 64x4 is nice and all. But I need the goods.
In case you hadn't heard, http://www.filerush.com/ has torrents of a lot of interesting E3-videos.
I personally was looking forward to seeing the mysterious GC hardware peripheral that Nintendo was theoretically going to show at E3. Hopefully, whatever it is, it won't do a 64DD and be poorly marketed in Japan and never release stateside.
I had heard they were going to be showing Mother 3 this year.
Well if today is the last day, maybe some news will make it out.
Otherwise, there's always Spaceworld.
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Now #2 on the current list of most vaporous vaporware titles, behind only the obvious.
This is the NFL, which stands for "Not For Long" if you keep making those bulls*** calls.
In 2001 I swore we'd have that ellusive title by Christmas with the E3 video they gave us. The game looked practically finished. I have no idea what happened to the game that they showed at 2001 E3 but it is obviously not going to be the game that ships.
I'd like to know when Fire Emblem is going to make it over here. I saw a blurb in a gaming mag a couple months ago that said it was coming, but that's about it. There's not very many turn-based strategy or RPGs on consoles, especially the Cube (the only one I have). Besides Gladius, which rocks, I don't know of much else.
Is there any other hardware/software you've been disappointed not to hear about, besides the obvious?
Anybody who's still disappointed about the non-appearance of Duke Nukem 4 needs to re-evaluate her priorities. Really. Duke Nukem 3D was nice, but given the recent Duke offerings, I can't imagine that DN4 would be the life-expanding experience that it's vapor-fueled hype has promised. Valve has a better track record than the progenitors of the Duke franchise. Valve.
Yawn. Now, if anybody can tell me how to play Duke 3D on OS X, I'd be glad to hear the tale.
Mare Crisium was developing this for ages, a sequel to the original "Stars!"... couldn't find a publisher... seems like MOO3 would be kind of similar to it, but I tried it and yeah, it's the same. Except with all the good parts taken out and replaced with crappy parts.
I think the most recent news on their site last time I saw it was 2001 sometime... and now the site seems to be down. Damn. Seems like it's totally lost...
Flashpoint 2 was supposed to get releast this year, they also said they would be at e3 but i haven't hurd a thing about it. anyone hear anything in respect of flashpoint 2? heres a quote from there web site
OPERATION FLASHPOINT 2 CONFIRMED
Bohemia Interactive today confirms that Operation Flashpoint 2 , a true sequel to the million-selling military simulator, is in development. The setting and theme for the game will be revealed at E3, the global games expo (Los Angeles Convention Centre, May 14-16). Operation Flashpoint will be published by Codemasters, the publisher of the original Operation Flashpoint and Operation Flashpoint: Resistance
I haven't heard a bit on Psychonauts. Any word from the floor?
Same with the sequel to Freedom Force? Lost in the crowd perhaps?
It's amazing to consider how Shigeru basically carries Nintendo. It's also unfortunate that games we want to see take so long to come out because they depend on Shigeru's involvement, and he's just so damn busy.
I want to buy Civilization 4. Or Civilization IV. Whatever they want to call it. I'm hooked on that game, and would love to see what they come up with next.
I heard they actually dropped terrorism from CIV3, I think it would be an interesting addition to add to the game, especially for smaller/weaker countries to attempt to at least slow down bigger countries' growth.
More technology would be fun as well. And add Fundamentalism back to the choices of government.
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I saw it on an unconfirmed Capcom E3 games list but so far have yet to clap eyes on a preview.
Anyone seen it about?
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