Originally Posted by Phalanx (Post 524529)

A really GOOD zombie game...the xbox one is just too hectic to be really fun and have good atmosphere, felt way too arcadey, LOTD:Fiddlers Green had the right feel, but a lot of room for improvement, Postal 2: Apocalypse weekend was close...progress IS happening, the definitive zombie game will yet come out...

Originally Posted by Phalanx (Post 524606)

The apocalypse weekend expansion, the zombie parts there were (pretty much the whole latter half of the game) were more fun, and the zombies looked really good....Then, I haven't got into dead rising all that much...one thing I did pick up is that it was way too arcadey, and when there's that many zombies, it felt as though any kind of scary atmosphere was shot to hell...I disliked it for the same reason I disliked "state of emergency" I think a zombie horde here and there in a game is fine, but the whole game? Any kind've novelty wore off in about 5 minutes. There's also something about a FPS that makes this kind've game work so much better.

Originally Posted by Despare (Post 524679)

I think there were times where Dead Rising really got fun and packed with tension. The cultists when you first run upon them, trying to disarm bombs while being run over/shot at/attacked by zombies, and the overall feel of the overwhelming numbers. Of course it's more "arcade" like but I think that gameplay is well suited for taking on mobs of the undead. You can have fun and goof around if you want and make it more of a horror comedy game but you can also play it through as a tense, thrilling experience (but not too "arcadey" like Zombies Ate My Neighbors!). Anyway, I loved Dead Rising.

Blue Dragon, Dark Sector, Lost Planet, Cipher Complex, Crackdown, Def jam: Icon, Alan Wake, Mass Effect, Assassins Creed, Bioshock, Fable 2, Army of Two... I think all of those look promising.

Originally Posted by Despare (Post 525066)

Oh, and Duke Nukem Forever.

Originally Posted by Vodstok (Post 525076)

Now with a new release date!


Oct 32, 2166

Originally Posted by Vodstok (Post 525115)

Where did you hear that?

I heard it was coming out in '98.... Then '99... Then 2000....

Originally Posted by The_Return (Post 525116)

Read my post again, Voddyboy...methinks you missed something:p

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Planning to get some of these in 2007...

Far Cry 2: Instincts

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Stubbs the Zombie

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Quake 4

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Hellgate: London

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God of War

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S.t.a.l.k.e.r. : Shadow of Chernobyl

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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

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Assassins Creed

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Crysis

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Ubersoldier

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Bioshock (thanks Vod!)

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Perfect Dark Zero...

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these and much more...hopefully...:D

Originally Posted by Vodstok (Post 538287)

I will just reitterate my previous list :)

Originally Posted by Angra (Post 538292)

Hmmmm..... Bioshock looks promising...

Originally Posted by Vodstok (Post 538304)

I am WAY too excited for it. i am hoping it lives up to the hype, because it looks like the kind of game i have been jonesing for my entire life.

Originally Posted by Despare (Post 538602)

The Half Life 2 Orange Box... not only will I get Episode 2 but Portals for my 360 WOOHOO!

Originally Posted by Angra (Post 538603)

What´s it about? And what kind of game is it?


Looks like "Fear 2" to me.

Originally Posted by Vodstok (Post 538799)

I have to admit, as a hardcore PC gamer, i have been pretty happy with all the 360 crossovers they have been making. rather than "Consolizing" pc games, the developers have been "PCizing" console games. :)


Portal is going to be awesome. I cant wait.





Nah, VERY different. Believe it or not, it looks to surpass Fear in a lot of ways (it is very hard to say that , too, because i love Fear almost as much as my family (just kidding honey))

the story is as follows:

You are floating in the ocean with flaming wreckage all around you. the only land nearby is a small island with a lighthouse, so you swim to it. It is the 60s, and you just survived an ocean plane crash. On the island, you find a bathysphere with a dead body in it. Having nowhere else to go, you get into the sphere and begina descent into the ocean.

Underneath, you find a city called rapture. it was a man's (named Andrew Ryan) dream to create a society away from the world where scientists, artists, and business people could practice their skills without boundaries, no law, no cencorship. The writers of the game read a lot of George Orwell and Ayn Rand (Specifically Atlas Shrugged) to come up with a society that was completely amoral, not evil, just with no moralistic boundaries.

Eventually, one o fthe scientists discovers a type of sea slug that generates raw stem cells, which can be modified and injected into a person to cause immediate alterations in their form. A war starts between two factions over what they call "Adam", for control over personal upgrades.

Ryan wins, but not before the perfect society they created crumbles into a bunch of mutated insane people fighting over adam and the wreckage of their former utopia. The player arrives at this point.

The game is going to rely less on on predetermind pathways and posts, like most games, and instead, the devlopers have created an environment, and each AI character within it has a particular behavior, and they simply exist in their environment and react to the world around them as an animal would.

the big buzzword is "emergent gameplay", which is, things happen naturally, and without being predetermined by the game developer. it has existsed for forever, but now they are making games to help random acts of coolness happen on their own.

An old example would be in Quake, if you were fighting with an Ogre, and he accidentally hit something else with a grenade (say a fiend), that creature would tear into theb ogre and ignore you. They have tried to set the stage for almost the entire game to work like that.

Originally Posted by Angra (Post 538830)

Hmmm... Okaaay...

So is the gameplay like quake and Fear?

And most important, is it scary?

Originally Posted by Angra (Post 538834)

The scary part sounds really good.

Too bad i´m not a big FPS fan. :(

Originally Posted by Vodstok (Post 538835)

If you can, watch the trailers. You never know, you may become a believer. it is being built more for tactics than straight ahead fighting (which you can do, you will just have a very hard time). Irrational (previously Looking Glass Studios) has a reputation for making RPG/FPS games, not just quake style kill fests, but rathe rmore immersive Deus Ex style problem solvers.


And on top of that, they weave an incredible story.

Originally Posted by Marroe (Post 553498)

Mario Party 8 for the Wii....yep.