There is a pretty cool MMOFPS (persistent) game coming out called Huxley soon, and I am definitely stoked about Half-Life 2 Episode 2 this fall.
Anything else fun and exciting to you and possibly others? Any Genre of PC games welcome of course. What new comes our way?
Crysis looks pretty cool. High system requirements, but I’m going to be getting a new machine soon anyway.
Crysis is definitely scope worthy. Is Direct X 10 still limited to Vista?
I think the HL2 Orange Box stuff will be great. Looking very forward to Crysis and Hellgate London…maybe Bioshock as well.
Speaking of games that just came out (well sort of…) I noticed yesterday, that almost the entire catalog from ID Software was released on Steam at fairly reasonable price. From Commander Keen up through Doom 3. Pretty sweet. I downloaded Quake 1 and spent the afternoon feeling all nostalgic. Not too many other FPS allow for the baddies to explode in a little pile of bloddy giblets!!! sigh
These. I can’t wait though sadly I’ll have to turn the Graphics way down on both of them I’m guessing.
Bioshock comes out in a couple weeks. I’m not big on the FPS genre overall, but this looks really good.
Duke Nukem Forever! I hear that it’s release is just around the corner.
Bioshock, Hellgate: London, Bioshock (which I think I can get to work ok), the Orange Box for Team Fortress 2 more than Episode 2. Varied expansions.
This is a disturbingly good game season. There will be many broke nerds.
Keep telling yourself that…if it helps you sleep at night. 
I like the first 1/3 of Crysis - battling human enemies in an ultra-realistic jungle environment with super detailed vegetation and terrain. After that? The entire jungle gets frozen in ice by an alien spaceship, and you get to play the next third of the game looking at a dreary blue-gray color palette and battling generic tentacled alien creatures. After that, you get to fight aboard an alien spacecraft - something that’s never been done before, ever. Except in Doom 3. And Prey. I can’t wait for the generic indoor environments of the spaceship, which I’m guessing will consist of a lot of corridors, tunnels, ventilation shafts, and shiny tubes, wires, and random ducts and “control panels” everywhere. Lame, lame, lame.
Not to be an ass, but that should be “forward to which you are looking.”
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Supreme Commander is still giving me boners.
And they’re coming out with a new one later this year. It was so awesome they figured “Hey, let’s make it awesomer, and release it as a stand alone game, but you cna buy it as an expansion too.”
Spore.
Bioshock is coming out in a couple of weeks? Awesome, yet curses: I’m in my first year as a teacher, and I’m not anticipating extra time to play. Maybe it’ll be a winter break thing.
The game I’m most looking forward to is Starcraft II, but I imagine that’s gonna come out some time after Duke Nukem Forever.
Daniel
As a Mac user, I have to second Starcraft II.
(Blizzard is keeping its tradition of Mac friendliness, right?)
And Duke Nukem 3D and Unreal (the original), and I think Halo (although I’m not sure, I never played it through).
Yep. From the StarCraft2.com FAQ:
Even as someone who has never owned a Mac nor used one in years, I always appreciate that Blizzard supports the platform. Now if only they’d start supporting Linux …
Oh, and I too eagerly await SCII.
No love for** Left 4 Dead**? Read about it in PC Gamer, and decided I must get over myself and learn to play action games, so I can play this. My love of all things zombie trumps my poor coordination.
I also think **Bioshock **looks wicked cool, but again, I’m going to be so pathetic at it it won’t be funny.
What makes it worse is my sweetie is totally uber at all this stuff, so I feel particularly bad in comparison, and it’s hard for him to help me because the gap between us is so wide.
The good news is I got him a spanking-new gaming system for his birthday, so we’ll be able to play these in all their processor-chewing glory.
I hear that’s shipping in a two-pack with Duke Nukem Forever
Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Portal from VALVe in the near future. Portal looks like it could be surprisingly good if they pull the concept off with enough original puzzles (if you haven’t heard of it, just check out the trailer on youtube).