Author Topic: Game of the Year? (Read 2327 times)

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #30 on:** August 10, 2003, 12:16:52 PM »

Rome - Total War in Nov

Animal · « **Reply #31 on:** August 10, 2003, 12:29:10 PM »

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Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
Rome - Total War in Nov

If it is not even available how can you rate it game of the year.

Mini D · « **Reply #32 on:** August 10, 2003, 12:29:46 PM »

Still waiting for the price of BF1942 to drop. Will eventually give that a try.

Seems the Game of the Year award for 2003 should be taken for what its worth. Maybe I'm just getting old, but very little of what I saw this year was impressive.

MiniD

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #33 on:** August 10, 2003, 12:37:43 PM »

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Originally posted by Animal
If it is not even available how can you rate it game of the year.

http://www.totalwar.com/community/rome.htm

"Creative Assembly has seriously outdone themselves with this one."
"Rome ruled the show with an iron fist."
"What we saw of Rome: Total War dropped us to the floor."
IGN.COM E3 preview.

"When we finally witnessed the majesty of Rome: Total War in action, we wet our togas."

GameSpy E3 preview.

"Rome: Total War will expand on just about every aspect of the already-epic Total War series"

GameSpot E3 preview.

From Shogun and Medieval Total war....but bigger.....

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #34 on:** August 10, 2003, 12:52:28 PM »

Forgot to add...

"it simply devastates anything else we've seen"

"It's less of a wake up call for the opposition, and more sneaking silently into their houses and leaving a horse's head in all their family's beds"

"It doesn't just move the goalposts - it hides them in a place where no-one else has shown interest or ability in reaching"

UK PC Gamer Rome: Total War Preview

Charon · « **Reply #35 on:** August 10, 2003, 12:55:30 PM »

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I enjoy America's Army too but for the overall fun factor I found UT 2003 with it's various game types a little more entertaining.

Revvin

The jump in eye candy is great, but I still find the gameplay and weapons in the orig. UT to be superior to the 2003 version.

I'll try 1942 when the price drops, but I'm really waiting for Half Life 2 and Doom 3.

Charon

SKurj · « **Reply #36 on:** August 10, 2003, 12:56:58 PM »

Thought what the hell... reinstalled BF1942 last week....

1. Hmm says can't find file on the CD....

Getting peed off, tried cleaning CD, rebooting, etc still no go...
Finally said fk it and copied CD's to my HDD, now we're away.
(installed latest patch)

For the first game or two, the game works fine.

hmm CTDS's.....

no prob I just start again...

Please insert correct CD and press OK WTF??

Now my cdrom is able to read NO CD's whatsoever... worked fine before using the BF1942 CD.... takes a re-boot to get the cdrom working again.

Oh yeah did I mention I lost my temper?

Dug up a no-cd patch but I can only play the original game, and not mods with it... (did only try the pirates mod)

Game of the year?? not a friggen chance

SKurj

Animal · « **Reply #37 on:** August 10, 2003, 01:00:01 PM »

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Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
http://www.totalwar.com/community/rome.htm

"Creative Assembly has seriously outdone themselves with this one."
"Rome ruled the show with an iron fist."
"What we saw of Rome: Total War dropped us to the floor."
IGN.COM E3 preview.

"When we finally witnessed the majesty of Rome: Total War in action, we wet our togas."

GameSpy E3 preview.

"Rome: Total War will expand on just about every aspect of the already-epic Total War series"

GameSpot E3 preview.

From Shogun and Medieval Total war....but bigger.....

Damn, those are a lot of buzzwords, CLEAR indication that a game that hasnt even been released will be the best game of the year!

Dude, if we are gonna nominate games that are still under wraps, have you heard about a little monster called HALF LIFE 2?

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #38 on:** August 10, 2003, 01:11:38 PM »

Yep all those guys can't possibly know what they talking about and the screenshots and the website are like an amateurs half hour!!

Also the other two mega hits they had really sucked all over the world so you're probably right this is going to be a pitiful game.

Top up your cup of urine?

Animal · « **Reply #39 on:** August 10, 2003, 01:44:00 PM »

Ok, let me try to inject some logic on you.

Can you answer me how can a game be the game of the year if you cant go to the store and buy it?

How can you know a product is the most influential, standard setting, cleanest best programed bug free game of the year if you have only seen screenshots and promotional quotes?

Have you followed the gaming industry? do you remember Duke Nukem Forever? Daikatana? Team Fortress 2? Gunship!? Sabre Ace? WWIIOnline? Battlecruiser 3000? 'Black and White' alone had ten times more pre-release hype than your pick. They even said it was going to change gaming forever.

I hope Road to Rome will be an awesome game. I'm all for good games. But how subjective can you be to compare vaporware to games you can buy and test right now? games people have been enjoying for the better part of the year?

How much enjoyment had you had playing 'Rome - Total War' during 2003? was it bug free? how was the multiplayer? was the combat balanced?

But if you still disagree, then I'd like to also nominate Half Life 2, Deus Ex 2, Doom 3 and Homeworld 2.
All of them played with a Bitboys Oi video card.

SKurj · « **Reply #40 on:** August 10, 2003, 04:31:49 PM »

BTW Drunky, the ground war in BF1942 is infinitely more fun than ww2ol.

At least it was when I first got the game and it worked fine.

I am hoping its just an accumulation of 18 months of junk in XP thats causing most of my probs... (likely not though)

SKurj

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #41 on:** August 10, 2003, 05:00:27 PM »

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Originally posted by Animal
Ok, let me try to inject some logic on you.

Can you answer me how can a game be the game of the year if you cant go to the store and buy it?

How can you know a product is the most influential, standard setting, cleanest best programed bug free game of the year if you have only seen screenshots and promotional quotes?

Have you followed the gaming industry? do you remember Duke Nukem Forever? Daikatana? Team Fortress 2? Gunship!? Sabre Ace? WWIIOnline? Battlecruiser 3000? 'Black and White' alone had ten times more pre-release hype than your pick. They even said it was going to change gaming forever.

I hope Road to Rome will be an awesome game. I'm all for good games. But how subjective can you be to compare vaporware to games you can buy and test right now? games people have been enjoying for the better part of the year?

How much enjoyment had you had playing 'Rome - Total War' during 2003? was it bug free? how was the multiplayer? was the combat balanced?

But if you still disagree, then I'd like to also nominate Half Life 2, Deus Ex 2, Doom 3 and Homeworld 2.
All of them played with a Bitboys Oi video card.

Blah blah blah blah blah blah........I don't care what your opinion is, why on earth do you care what mine is?

Why on earth do you spend so much time and effort over what to me was a meaningless 1 line throway - I have two other of their games - they're pretty amazing - I thought maybe some other people might like to hear about RTW if they haven't already.

Case closed.

Animal · « **Reply #42 on:** August 10, 2003, 05:27:19 PM »

LOL, moron.
Case closed indeed.

Drunky · « **Reply #43 on:** August 10, 2003, 05:36:54 PM »

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Originally posted by SKurj
BTW Drunky, the ground war in BF1942 is infinitely more fun than ww2ol.

At least it was when I first got the game and it worked fine.

I am hoping its just an accumulation of 18 months of junk in XP thats causing most of my probs... (likely not though)

SKurj

Thank you SKurj

I am looking forward to having BF1942 now especially with all the mods I have heard about. I think I'll go look for it on eBay and see what I can find.

Also, do you have much problems with XP? I'm about to updrade from 98 to it.

rpm · « **Reply #44 on:** August 10, 2003, 05:58:09 PM »

No Yahoo Spades fans?