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Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Gixer on June 01, 2004, 01:44:19 AM
For me the game I'm most looking forward to this year is without doubt Silent Hunter III, subsims have always been my favourite for a non online game and this one is coming along very well.


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Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Sixpence on June 01, 2004, 02:07:51 AM
Strat-o-matic football, can't wait to see what the Patriot's defensive cards look like.
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: _Schadenfreude_ on June 01, 2004, 02:24:20 AM
Rome - Total War

If you haven't got Medieval Total War & Viking Invasion go and buy it today - it's that good, I've had them for a while and have just started playing a long campaign as Germany - struggling a bit with the pesky French who keep breaking treaties and the Italians who are building far too many castles.
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: beet1e on June 01, 2004, 02:25:57 AM
AH3/TFTT?
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Nilsen on June 01, 2004, 03:00:56 AM
Dangerous Waters
AH2
Doom3
S.T.A.L.K.E.R
SH3

A new pc so i can play them all, and time to play them all :(
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Joc on June 01, 2004, 04:00:23 AM
Rome Total War definitly :D
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: -tronski- on June 01, 2004, 04:10:36 AM
Quote
Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
Rome - Total War

If you haven't got Medieval Total War & Viking Invasion go and buy it today - it's that good, I've had them for a while and have just started playing a long campaign as Germany - struggling a bit with the pesky French who keep breaking treaties and the Italians who are building far too many castles.


I second that emotion....

What always annoyed me was the constant "return" of the pope/papal state...loved total:med apart from that..

 Tronsky
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: ravells on June 01, 2004, 05:30:06 AM
If you are looking forward to Rome Total War, have a look at Spartan (Peloponnesian war)

The combat model is quite different. You dispose of your troops before the battle, give them simple orders and then virtually no control over the troops once the battle begins.

Ravs
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: _Schadenfreude_ on June 01, 2004, 06:00:22 AM
There is also a Napoleonic mod for Medieval out there - got the download - can't get the damn thing to work though...
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: ravells on June 01, 2004, 06:12:38 AM
I liked the Japanese version (Shogun) best. Utterly brilliant for its time.

Ravs
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: narsus on June 01, 2004, 07:59:31 AM
Thief 3 - Just came out :)
Rome - Total War
Halo 2
GTR

_Schadenfreude_

Yeah Medevil War Rocks, have doen 3 full campagns so far, The Spanish, English and Denmark (now that was a challenge). Will probably do Poland next.
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Seeker on June 01, 2004, 08:07:16 AM
Maddox/Ubi soft's Battle of Britain
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Gunslinger on June 01, 2004, 08:18:26 AM
Sid Mier's Pirates looks pretty good.
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: airguard on June 01, 2004, 08:47:14 AM
AH2 hopefully :)

and half life 2 (if it ever comes out)

For the time beeing, I have no time for gaming anyway, and can wait :D
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Nefarious on June 01, 2004, 08:48:04 AM
Silent Hunter III

Call Of Duty for Gamecube

Down In Flames
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: FUNKED1 on June 01, 2004, 09:19:15 AM
GTR
GT4 (PS2)
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: SKurj on June 01, 2004, 05:13:26 PM
Pirates of the Burning Sea
GT4  (thinkin about moddin ps2 and getting an import of prologue)


SKurj
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: acetnt367th on June 01, 2004, 05:26:53 PM
lo-mac - patch 2 :-)
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: B17Skull12 on June 01, 2004, 05:31:52 PM
My brother been going on and on about GT4 any pics around yet?
if so can you post a link?
thnx.
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: SKurj on June 01, 2004, 05:37:11 PM
do a google for GT4:Prologue

also check the http://www.racesimcentral.com forums in the console section.


SKurj
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Charon on June 01, 2004, 05:44:53 PM
Doom 3
HL2

a lot of really good looking games like SH3 and Rome Total War out though. Looks to be a good gaming year (if the quality and execution is there).

Charon
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: SunKing on June 01, 2004, 07:45:05 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Seeker
Maddox/Ubi soft's Battle of Britain


and HL2 so I can play the DOD port on the new engine.
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: emodin on June 01, 2004, 08:19:41 PM
Rome: Total War
Half-Life 2

And for you Total War lovers, there was a British BBC TV program called "Time Commanders" that used the new Total War engine.  Basic premise: four friends get together and control one side in a historical battle set in anchient times.

If you want to see them, you can download them here (http://www.legiontotalwar.com/)

Be forewarned: all of the movies are ~300MBs; but well worth the download for a quick RTW fix.

(Almost forgot-you have to register with the site to get to the downloads section where the vids are)
Title: These games...
Post by: RightF00T on June 01, 2004, 09:54:12 PM
(http://www.survo.fi/pictures/ 016c_t.jpg)
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Saurdaukar on June 01, 2004, 10:06:14 PM
GTR

(http://www.bhmotorsports.com/sims/GTR/screenshots/130.jpg)

HL2

(http://www.planethalflife.com/half-life2/screenshots/01.jpg)

Doom 3

(http://img.gamershell.com/imagefolio/gallery/FPS/Doom_3/03.jpg)
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Saurdaukar on June 01, 2004, 10:11:18 PM
War Between the States

(http://www.walkerboystudio.com/assets/images/Screenshot_13_a.jpg)

Pirates of the Burning Sea

(http://www.burningsea.com/images/screenshots/sshot96.jpg)
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Gixer on June 01, 2004, 10:13:44 PM
Quote
Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
Rome - Total War

If you haven't got Medieval Total War & Viking Invasion go and buy it today - it's that good, I've had them for a while and have just started playing a long campaign as Germany - struggling a bit with the pesky French who keep breaking treaties and the Italians who are building far too many castles.



MTW is a excellent game and I've played both constantly since their release. However always felt the limited number of troops on the battlefield at any one time was a let down.  Especially when you had masses of troops but could only bring them on as reserves.



...-Gixer
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Gixer on June 01, 2004, 10:22:03 PM
Pirates of the Burning Sea is starting to look exceptional. Going to get tough for HT with so many other excellent games out there after my $15 bucks a month.




...-Gixer
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Dnil on June 01, 2004, 10:33:05 PM
I have 2 friends that work in the game industry, 1 works for ritual other for id.  

1 got to play doom 3 at the others workplace for a weekend, said it scared the crap out of him.  And it did it for most of the game.  Says he hates unlit hallways now.
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: gofaster on June 02, 2004, 10:18:15 AM
GTR whenever it makes it to store shelves.

Pirates looks interesting, but the ships don't actually look like they're IN the water, but sort of floating above it.  They need to add some sort of graphical disturbance where water meets wood.

I don't know if I'll get around to SH3.  Between AH2 and (hopefully) GTR I probably won't have much game time left over.
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Nilsen on June 02, 2004, 10:52:53 AM
Anyone know if GTR is comming to  the Xbox?
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Mathman on June 02, 2004, 11:33:03 AM
The big ones: Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 (mainly because I enjoyed the originals so much)

Others:

AH2 - natch!
Pacific Fighters - natch!
Knights Over Europe (I think it is supposed to be released this year, but not sure - been looking for a good modernized WW1 sim)
SH3 looks good, but I think I will pass since it doesn't have a dynamic campaign (something like Aces of the Deep would be awesome).  Also, I wish it was a USN PTO sim instead of u-boats, though I understand why you would choose them over the USN.

I am sure there will be a few others here and there that I may pick up.  Oh, and the new Splinter Cell is quite fun.
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Sikboy on June 02, 2004, 11:38:03 AM
Harpoon III Multiplayer.

It might actually motivate me to not hate the Harpoon II interface.

-Sik
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Monk on June 02, 2004, 11:41:01 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Nilsen
Anyone know if GTR is comming to  the Xbox?


Yes........so they say.
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Furious on June 02, 2004, 12:37:40 PM
Soldiers: Heroes of World War II (try the demo)
(http://www.codemasters.co.uk/images/microsites/sol/001.jpg)

Wartime Command: Battle for Europe 1939-1945
(http://community.codemasters.com/forum/images/miker/tiger4.jpg)


Both 1C / Codemaster games
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: WilldCrd on June 02, 2004, 12:40:23 PM
Time to plug stalker again

http://www.stalker-game.com/
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Saurdaukar on June 02, 2004, 01:25:42 PM
Ah, forgot about Stalker.
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Athena3 on June 02, 2004, 01:30:47 PM
I agree with Narsus: Thief 3, just came out last week, already playing it :D
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Nilsen on June 02, 2004, 01:33:11 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Sikboy
Harpoon III Multiplayer.

It might actually motivate me to not hate the Harpoon II interface.

-Sik


I like the interface, what is it you dont like about it?

Its a great game, but i hope the rumors that "enthusiasts" will finish harpoon4 is true and that it will not be to many years in the future.
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Nilsen on June 02, 2004, 01:34:32 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Monk
Yes........so they say.


Great news.....imo there are no real good racing games on the xbox for me cause i HATE rally games, and the others i have seen ast been any good either. :)
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Sikboy on June 02, 2004, 02:16:41 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Nilsen
I like the interface, what is it you dont like about it?

Its a great game, but i hope the rumors that "enthusiasts" will finish harpoon4 is true and that it will not be to many years in the future.


I loved the "look" of it all (AFAIK it was the first game to use NTDS symbology), but control just wasn't as intuitive as it was with the original game. I never did care for the hieroglyphics (although I imagine it gave the game a bit more international appeal) and I was forever assing up the mission system with missions going off to war and not being able to effectively change them to keep pace with the flow of the battle.

I always wound up going back to Harpoon Classic (after a brief affair with the good looking but rather Shallow "Fleet Command")

Have you played Harpoon3 at all?

-Sik
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Nilsen on June 02, 2004, 02:25:57 PM
No, i havent had the pleasure of trying H3,  but many years of H2. I like the realism of the H2 vs the classic. :)
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Sikboy on June 02, 2004, 02:35:26 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Nilsen
No, i havent had the pleasure of trying H3,  but many years of H2. I like the realism of the H2 vs the classic. :)


Yeah, I have to agree. The detail for ASW was awesome! It's the one thing I miss the most about H2 over HC. I'm really trying to get into H2 again for the Multiplayer release, but I find myself playing HC on the train each day lol.

H3 is an update/giant bug fix from H2. It's the product of "enthusiasts" and I imagine the inspiration for the idea that the comunity can get H4 up and running.

(since everyone is posting eye candy... check this out! lol)
(http://www.advancedgaming.biz/images/h3/h3_full_001.gif)


-Sik
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: SlapShot on June 02, 2004, 02:40:30 PM
Chute and Ladders '04 ... riviting action !!!

Seriously ... I would love to see BattleZone revived.
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Nilsen on June 02, 2004, 03:06:37 PM
lol, that was a messy screenshot....i guess its one from the H3 site. I usually leave all enviro stuff off and no datalinks. :)
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Charon on June 02, 2004, 04:18:30 PM
When I was playing Harpoon 2 you couldn't group a strike package well, as I remember, which was a major annoyance so I continued playing classic. Was that ever patched?

Major bummer about Harpoon 4, hope the code gets released and developed.

Charon
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: Charon on June 02, 2004, 04:19:23 PM
Quote

Seriously ... I would love to see BattleZone revived.


Battle Zone 1?  That is one of my top 5 games.

Charon
Title: Your Most Anticipated Game for 04?
Post by: SlapShot on June 02, 2004, 04:53:15 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Charon
Battle Zone 1?  That is one of my top 5 games.

Charon


Yup ... BattleZone II was very good too, but not as memorable as I.

The HoverTanks and the flight model for those things were great, along with great graphics ... way ahead of its time I believe.