Upcoming Games You Are Excited About

[AREA666]

Everybody has atleast one game that they should be really looking forward to its release so tell us about it here and maybe others will want to join you in playing it and you will have some people to play online with if the game supports it.

For me I am looking forward to Spellforce 2. The first game came out in 2004 and had two expansions and the reason I looked into the game was because of the cover art, all three have really cool images. Anyway it is a game that combines elements of rpgs like Sacred with a rts game like Command And Conquer. What you did in the first was take your avatar that they called a rune warrior and you find monuments for different races and you can build up armies with them. A rune warrior is somebody who has had their soul taken and magically bound to a stone called a rune. If somebody has control of this rune they control the person who will do their biddings. But you are different in that you control your own rune. So building up the armies is how it is like a rts game, but for a rpg it is like Sacred in that when you kill enemies you find gear your avatar can wear, you level up, distribute attribute points, etc. Many missions I found I could use my avatar alone to fight and win in. The second one I guess you are no longer a rune warrior since that chapter of the game is now complete and I dont really know how it will work in the second. I am downloading a demo of it so ill get back to you all later on how it works. Here is the site for the game if anybody wants to read about it, look at images, movies, etc. Oh and it comes out April 24th the last I heard.

spellforce.jowood.com/sf2/

I think this game will have pretty high requirements though, but that is just from looking at the screenshots which are much prettier then the first. The first game though did not have to high of them and you can probably find the game with both expansions for like 20 or less.

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[magikltrevr]

I will have to say the only game I am really looking forward to is The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. I am sure most of you already now quite a bit about this game, but I am the only person I know who has had it reserved for the last two and a half years. I have dowloaded and watched every video I can find for this game, and have looked at more screenshots than most people do in weeks. Now, I am just waiting impatiently for this game to come out. It is supposed to feature a much more mature storyline, actually rated Teen, and alot of other features that I have been dying to try since I wished they were in Ocarina of Time. Of course, the game will be Nintendo exclusive so Gamecube only. There is also another Zelda game that I just heard about recently for the Nintendo DS. I am disappointed in myself for finding out about it so late, it is supposed to be out soon. And if you didn't figure it out already, I LOVE the Zelda series.

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[AREA666]

Ok so for my update the Spellforce 2 game plays like this. You have your avatar again who this time is part of a group called the Shaikan who are people who are descended from dragons. You no longer summon people through rune monuments but rather just buildings that are in place already from the people around there and you build up a camp to control them. Some differences I saw is that in the first one if you died the game ended but now you can die and be fine so long as another member of your group of heros is alive. The heros so far all are of the dragon blood line and they can raise the dead. This makes it much faster then the first where you had to return to a specific type of monument if one of your heros died. Also in the first there was these things called bind stones that you could use to teleport around to other ones to transverse large distances quickly. They are still in the second but now so long as you activate one you can goto it at anytime where as before you had to goto one before you could teleport. But now instead of moving all of your heros and the avatar it only moves the avatar, so everybody else still has to walk. I only was able to get to level 6 in this one, although the level limit is probably around 50 so it isnt to bad. Gaining exp is harder now. Before you got some for killing any enemy, completing a quest, etc. Now you only get it for killing important enemies, completing quests, etc. So now I can not just take my avatar, run around for hours on end killing things to level. I think they did this to make the game harder since in the first if you did that your avatar could be pretty overpowering. Also when you build units now it is much faster. Before you were dependant on the power of your rune, the lower it got the slower units would be made, but its power slowly regenerated as well. Now there is nothing like that so each unit takes the same amount of time to make. Overall I think the changed were made to make the game more fast paced. I will buy it and decide if I think that was a good idea or not since I loved the first one.



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[Night Ω Wolfe]

Wow, I LOVE the Zelda games too. It makes me sooo angry that you can only get them for Nintendo systems. Since I already own PS2 and XBox and the ONLY game I probably would ever use the GameCube for would be Zelda it is just a waste of money to get one! #arghh#

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[AREA666]

What you should do then is wait until the next Nintendo system comes out, the Revolution. It is supposed to be backward compatable with all prior Nintendo systems. I think the cartridge based ones it emmulates the games, but it will just play the Gamecube ones. It also is supposed to emmulate other 16-bit era systems like the Genesis and Turbo Graphix 16. I am thinking I might want one because of the ability to play all the old games. I do it now with emulators on my comp, but if I do it this way then I can have controllers and I am sure 3rd party companies will make controllers for the Revolution that will look like the old ones so it will be just like old times.

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[AREA666]

I dont know off the top of my head when it comes out but for anybody who played Neverwinter Nights, the second one is coming pretty soon. If you dont know about it it is a D&D based game that is similar to Sacred. Here is a link to some shots of the game and also my favorite one of a pretty mean looking dragon.

www.gamestar.de/aktuell/screenshots/PlayerPicList.jsp?galleryId=1289&startAt=0



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[Hallelujah]

Cool! Enjoyed Neverwinter Nights.

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[AREA666]

I did too, although I thought the first expansion sucked, but the second was cooler then the original game and first expansion combined. I justh ope they make the story longer. Before that I played the Baldurs Gate series which if you wanted to do it all I could easily see somebody spending 1-2 years playing it. I think I played them all for like 3 and did not do everything but I was also on and off playing it. Then NWN while it was cool only had like the 40 or so hour story.

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[magikltrevr]

I can confirm that Nintendo's Revolution will play the old games from past Nintendo systems. They also have a line-up of over 1000 Sega games and games from the Turbo Grafix 16 as well. The implementation of this is in a dowloadable version of all of these games. Which also suggests that the Revolution will have a hard drive.

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[AREA666]

So long as some old school controllers are made for it I think ill want to buy it. No more playing Shinobi 3 with a keyboard or trying to make Akuma shoot a fireball with it and failing.

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[magikltrevr]

Making controllers I figure would be fairly difficult, considering what the Revolution's normal controller is like. But since they are going to have peripherals that can connect to the controller, I think they would do that.

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[AREA666]

I would think Nintendo themselves would make like maybe a multiport thing that would connect to the Revolution and then that port thing has a bunch of ports that work with old controllers so if you have them you can just plug them in. Or atleast 3rd party companies will find a way to make something work. If not then I dont know how I will feel about playing games with the remote style thing since I want nostalgia.

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[magikltrevr]

The only real problem with your port idea is that everyone seems to want everything wireless now. I wouldn't mind the ports, but since wireless is the new black of video games, they might not even try for something like that.

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[AREA666]

I hate wires, but I dont like wireless controllers or mice for computers. I hate the idea of needing to put it in a port, change batteries, etc to just use it. If I forget to do it which I likely will then I wont be able to play. I also think wireless for controllers is kind of pointless. I mean the only people who might need them is those who have like a projector for their tv so they need to be like 20 feet back. Microsoft has I think the best ideas for controllers recently, the original xbox with the easy area to detatch so that if somebody hits your cord it wont pull the system with it, and I think it pauses your game too, and then the 360s wireless ones are cool since you can have them plugged in too and that charges them. I think if they made wireless NES controllers they would end up being larger then the originals to handle the batteries and I dont want a larger controller, I want the uncomfy rectangle.

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[magikltrevr]

With current technology, I think they could pretty easily make an NES controller wireless that is the same size as the original.

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