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Preview of New Games at E3 2005
Joystiq (once again answering my hailing frequencies) has up a preview of some of the new titles that will be seeing the light of day at this year's e3. A smattering of some of the games: "The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, D&D Online, UFO: Aftershock, Battlefield 2, Black and White 2, The Sims 2: Nightlife, Guild Wars, Metroid Prime Hunters, Shadow the Hedgehog, Destroy All Humans" This year we're going to have an E3 topic for your browsing convenience.
Atelier Iris ~Eternal Mana~ and Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome, were under the nintendo section? When both are for the PS2?
Shadow the Hedgehog. Packin' some heat. Laying down the lead.
I have high hopes, like maybe he'll put some bitches in their place or jack a sweet caddy to roll in.
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Will Wright's latest brainchild should have more people drooling over the idea, not just us already rabid fanbois. :)
Graduate of the LeRoy Funkified Badass School of Soul.
Is there anyone out there waiting for Black and White 2?
Also, has Peter Molyneux made a good game since Syndicate? I mean he's clearly hard working, he's willing to take risks on high concept games, and his graphics and tech are of good quality, but in the end, the gameplay is always as week as American beer.
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Buy a console. It's cheaper than a decent video card, and runs more games than PCs. A modded Xbox is highly recommended.
said it all: "2004 was truly a banner year ... how many years can we have that contain UT2004, Doom 3, Painkiller, and Half-Life 2?" (here)
... It's hard to expect anything even close to 2004's precedent again. I'll probably be recycling 2004 for a long, long time.
Not to mention LOTR: Battle for Middle-earth, Katamari Damacy, Prince of Persia
However if you consider, for example, Elder Scrolls series (both current Morrowind and future Oblivion) - PC gives you pretty much free pass for whatever modding you want. Just look at what Morrowind's mods have done to the game when it comes to graphics (both textures and models), gameplay (AI and additional functions like meaningful combat combos, etc) and environment (sounds, towns brought to life with scripted NPCs, etc). Plus 5-6 good content mods. Something you will not achieve on console for a long time (if ever).
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The sad thing is that I think these games will get underrepresented because of the new hardware and their respective next-gen games. This is a shame, because as recent releases clearly show developers are finally getting a handle on the systems, moving beyond pretty graphics, and really putting out some great stuff.
This is actually the best time to own an Xbox, PS2, or Gamecube. They're cheap - they'll probably drop again this fall to compete - and the software is now top-notch.
"This year we're going to have an E3 topic for your browsing convenience."
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Does this mean that there will be an entire section on Slashdot for E3 links? This brings to mind an idea I've had for a while...Slashdot needs sub sections. Just as games is a "section" of slashdot.org, there should be different sub-sections of the games dept. Like this for example could be either e3.games.slashdot.org (maybe a lil too confusing?) or you could have games.slashdot.org/e3/?
Sadly enough, the games section of Slashdot doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves. The games section should have as many posts as the rest of the site combined (because there really is that much news/reviews/etc everyday in gaming) if not more... I want a fps.slashdot.org, a rpg.slashdot.org, a platformers.slashdot.org, and more. Over half the "tech" news on the internet involves gaming, so how come there's so little on here? [/rant]
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