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[Bugsie]

It's been a long time since I felt this excited, I lost interest in gaming for a period of about 10 years, but I got back into it with the release of TES:Oblivion. Now I try and squeeze it in whenever I can and now find that I get more hyped and giddy for various games each passing year...

Oh wait, that giddy could just be early onset senility...

[Ieldra]

Gatt9 wrote...
I'm pretty interested in Tropico 4, Dead State, the new Bioshock, and the new Thief.

There's going to be  a new Thief game? ****gets really excited**** Where's the info?

List of games whose release I awaited with some expectations. The earlier stuff I can't remember so well.

*1996: Fallout (great success)
*1998: Fallout 2 (great success)
*1999: Shadows of Amn (great success)
*2003: Deus Ex: Invisible War (what a disappointment)
*2004: Thief 3 (what a disappointment)
*2006: Spellforce: Shadow of the Phoenix (best game expansion pack ever)
*2008: Mass Effect (PC version) (great success)
*2008: Fallout 3 (mixed bag)
*2009: Dragon Age Origins (great success - possibly the best positive surprise ever)
*2010: Mass Effect 2 (moderate success)
*2011: Dragon Age 2 (what a disappointment)
*2011: The Witcher 2 (great success)

Currently awating:
*Deux Ex: Human Revolution
*Mass Effect 3

[Majin Paul]

Mass Effect 3 is the main game I'm really looking forward to, but I'm looking to Bioshock infinite a lot like I was for the first one.

[habitat 67]

I'm still really looking forward to an ending to The Secret World/Dreamfall. It turns out I've been waiting 5 years now!

[Il Divo]

I tend to have trouble controlling my hobbies, bordering on obsession. Which basically means that I geek out over many games I probably shouldn't. As of right now:

1. Mass Effect 3
2. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
3. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
4. Bioshock Infinite
5. The Darkness II

[Raxxman]

The last game I truely got hyped for was Dragon Age Origins, and for me it was a massive letdown, mainly revloving around the terribly implimented MMOlite style combat system. Clunky.

The sleeper hit for me is League of Legends, it's just an amazing game, completly blindsided me.


Edit - Also looking forward to Guild Wars 2, I'm surprised that so few other people here are, it really looks to be the next step in MMOs.

Modifié par Raxxman, 30 juin 2011 - 11:43 .

[StefanBW]

I was really excited for UT3 because I was a big UT2004 player, unfortunately that game turned out to suck really hard. That was some four years ago now.

[legion999]

Most hyped games for me were Fable 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. New Vegas is now one of my favorite games while Fable 3 was (to me) one of the biggest disappointments I've ever had.
Right now I'm waiting for Skyrim, Deus Ex: HR and Mass Effect 3.

[exskeeny]

Previous to ME3 it had to be Team Fortress 2 that made me go all weak in the knees when I heard any mention of it's imminent release.

[Mann42]

I'm over 30, and I definitely still get giddy and excited about new games. Started gaming with the Atari 2600 and Trash-80 when I was in kindergarden, evolved to the PC and console wars by 10ish. 

The last game I remember buying that I was disappointed about because it just wasn't what I was expecting was Brutal Legend (I'm an old school Tim Schafer fan going back to Monkey Island). The game grew on me as I played it, but I still feel that it was a jumbled mess of ideas cooked into a soup of mediocrity. 

Currently waiting with bated breath for:
- Mass Effect 3
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- Bioshock: Infinite
- Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

In the recent past, these were first day purchases I was excited for in advance, since Mass Effect 2. I apparently have managable expectations, because all of them were enjoyable for me:
- Alice: Madness Returns (Enjoyable, but long and repetitive)
- Portal 2 (Awesome)
- Total War: Shogun 2 (Awesome)
- LA Noire (Enjoyable, but super repetitive, saved by being shorter than most Rockstar games)
- Limbo (Amazing, especially for an indie game)
- Civilization 5 (Awesome)
- Final Fantasy XIII (Enjoyable, way too linear)
- Fable 3 (Enjoyable, exactly what I learned to expect from Molyneaux regardless of what he says in interviews)
- Red Dead Redemption (Enjoyable, but a bit too long and repetitive)
- Bioshock 2 (Enjoyable, better than its predecessor in some respects, worse in others)
- Darksiders (Enjoyable, a bit too long and repetitive)
- Mass Effect 2 (Amazing, was better than I expected after the first one)

There are probably other games that I'll buy first day or week that I'm just forgetting at the moment. Looking at my list, I'm also apparently not someone who restricts himself to a single genre anymore. Go gaming diversity!

Modifié par nexworks, 30 juin 2011 - 01:31 .

[SAE100]

I´m waiting for:
- Mass Effect 3
- Battlefield 3
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Far future waiting list:
- Half Life 2 Episode 3
- Beyond Good and Evil 2
- Mirrors Edge 2
- Jade Empire 2 (do it Bioware, just do it!)
ok I would be suprised if one of these is released before we germans shut down all our nuclear reactors (planned for 2022) but hope never dies, yes?

[Mann42]

SAE100 wrote...
- Beyond Good and Evil 2

I loved the original so much, one of the best puzzle platformers I've ever played. I had forgotten they've been working on this and making lots of excuses about why it isn't done yet. *fingers crossed that it actually comes out one day and is awesome like the last one*

Modifié par nexworks, 30 juin 2011 - 01:39 .

[happy_daiz]

Wow, according to every age poll mentioned on here, I'm anywhere from "average" to "old". How depressing. I'm glad I don't feel that way.

I remember way back in the day (1993), being really excited about Myst. I have a graphic arts background, and am very focused on visual elements, so for me, that was exciting as hell. Then Riven, Exile, etc., etc. Strangely enough, swapping out 4-6 discs wasn't that big of a deal back then, but now I find it appalling. I still have the original boxes for those games, and they're huge. 

Of course, that's when I used to play on PC; since then (maybe because I'm old, lol) I switched over to console. I'm not all that interested in games where you can't possibly die anymore. I've graduated to the next level, I guess.

I was really excited for Fallout 3. As others have said, it was probably one of the glitchiest games of all time (next to Oblivion), but I really enjoyed it between restarts. That said, I was thrilled when New Vegas was announced. Sadly, it just felt like an expansion to me.  More recently, I was excited about DA2, Infamous 2, Enslaved, and Portal 2 (which is an absolute gem). My husband and I were mildly excited about Hunted, but it fell a little short of expectations.

Now, I'm really looking forward to Darksiders 2, Uncharted 3, Gears 3, ME3, and DA3. I feel like I'm forgetting something...

Edit: OMG, I forgot Skyrim!
 

Modifié par happy_daiz, 30 juin 2011 - 02:23 .

[Therefore_I_Am]

Grimmace wrote...

Therefore_I_Am wrote...

Grimmace wrote...

Wing Commander III

Wait, how far back are we going? Does that make me old?

Good lord, I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers.

What about Monkey Island & Loom. Now if that's not a nostalgic blast from the past I don't know what is.

I could talk about that text only Trash-80 sequel game in the desert, but I'll stop. 30+ is old? I've outlived Adlib, the first SLI (VooDoo) cards, computers with no HDD (had DUAL 5 1/4 floppies), 40 lbs "portable" computers. I'll game till I die. If the wife and kids don't understand, to bad. There is one benefit to being an "older" gamer, with a job I can afford equipment that will run anything I want. I've always built my own computers. Where as in my 20's I had to scrap money together for that 4800 bps modem. Games come and go and there have been some good ones, but everyone keeps innovating and trying new things when new technology comes out, it's great. I play something old every once in a while, but there is always more good new stuff to play.

That's a WEE bit before my time; the earliest I go back was Wolfenstein and Doom which are both memorable games that really had it's own atmosphere. But even before that I was exposed to computers and video games at a very early age, much farther back than memory serves me. Even right now, at the age of 28, I can say yes we are old farts when it comes to gaming. Some of the young uns of this generation should listen to the elders! People like you and I witnessed the birth of the early video games.

But, the ME series has been the best in a while for me. I only play PC, so can't comment on consoles.

Finally I leave with one of the best leaps in gaming. Games that kept there own clock. Used to be games ran by the MHz (not GHz) of the CPU, got a faster machine? Better hope you could turn off the turbo so you could play it at a normal speed. Enough of this though, bring on ME3! Maybe we should start an "old" thread, hang out and tell everyone to stay off our lawns!


Total Annihilation, another great game, but it's been improved and time rolls on. Have I dated myself yet?

Oh yeah HL2: Eposide 3, we'll be old by the time it comes out.

I don't suppose you remember Heretic and it's sequel Hexen? Now that's something that should be brought back.
And yes, Mass Effect is probably the only game I have geeked out for in a decade; before ME I actually stopped gaming for while because ambitious titles were hard to come by, but now I'm geeking all over like I did with Baldur's Gate & Deus Ex.

Modifié par Therefore_I_Am, 30 juin 2011 - 01:53 .

[Zeratul20]

My goodness, how could I have forgotten HL 2 and HL2: Episode 2. Episode one was nice, but I was really looking forward to Episode 2.

And 3.

[Ghost Warrior]

Modern Warfare 2 and now Mass Effect 3. Only games I was(am) really eager to play.

[Tonymac]

Buggirl70 wrote...

It's been a long time since I felt this excited, I lost interest in gaming for a period of about 10 years, but I got back into it with the release of TES:Oblivion. Now I try and squeeze it in whenever I can and now find that I get more hyped and giddy for various games each passing year...

Oh wait, that giddy could just be early onset senility...

You ain't that old yet, Buggy!  Now where did I leave that wheelchair?

[syllogi]

I remember being so excited when Baldur's Gate 2 was coming out. I preordered it from Buy.com, and got free next day shipping and a buy.com yoyo in the box (Oh Dot-Com Bubble, how I miss your extravagance). I also remember being SO excited the day Mask of the Betrayer came out, and waiting on line with tons of people getting their Orange Box preorders. The Gamestop employee looked at me like I was on crack.

I'm anticipating ME3, of course, but also Skyrim, and LA Noire for PC. But mostly Skyrim. I will cry bitter, bitter tears if it disappoints.

[sp0ck 06]

I remember being absolutely pumped for the original StarCraft, as well as Diablo 2.

Half Life 2 was another eagerly anticipated game.

But the game I've been most excited for was Mass Effect 2, and now Mass Effect 3. I honestly just hope I don't die or the world ends before 3 comes out or I would be PISSED, lol.

[CerebraLArsenaL]

Ha, this thread made me feel good. Im 31, and my good friends are all in the 30-35 range. We thought we were old and alone Anyway, the last few games I was excited for were Civ 4, 5 (3D didnt hamper it in the least), the 09-11 Maddens(12 looks promising) Tekken 6 and MK 2011 (What a comeback), and any of MLB Show games (I go to gamestop and just say I want baseball, good rpg too lol with Road to the Show)

On the subject of old computers, I had a TRS80 hooked to a B&W TV for a monitor. I went to the library, got a programming book, and the first program I inputted made a cloverleaf of sine waves...in BASIC. Then I upgraded to a PB and a 500M HDD. Wrote my 1st program on that (a game, since vgs got outlawed after Nintendo) and used to play Corporate Raiders, Indy 500 and Civ 2 on it

[Grimmace]

CerebraLArsenaL wrote...

On the subject of old computers, I had a TRS80 hooked to a B&W TV for a monitor. I went to the library, got a programming book, and the first program I inputted made a cloverleaf of sine waves...in BASIC. Then I upgraded to a PB and a 500M HDD. Wrote my 1st program on that (a game, since vgs got outlawed after Nintendo) and used to play Corporate Raiders, Indy 500 and Civ 2 on it

How could your first program not be

HELLO WORLD

Isn't that still a law? Another Thrash-80 user. The one my dad got was the 64 + 64K, 128K of power from the shack!

I used to be excited about the annual Madden releases until someone, EA cough EA, STOPPED making Madden for the PC, last one was 2008.

Modifié par Grimmace, 30 juin 2011 - 03:48 .

[sp0ck 06]

CerebraLArsenaL wrote...

Ha, this thread made me feel good. Im 31, and my good friends are all in the 30-35 range. We thought we were old and alone Anyway, the last few games I was excited for were Civ 4, 5 (3D didnt hamper it in the least), the 09-11 Maddens(12 looks promising) Tekken 6 and MK 2011 (What a comeback), and any of MLB Show games (I go to gamestop and just say I want baseball, good rpg too lol with Road to the Show)

On the subject of old computers, I had a TRS80 hooked to a B&W TV for a monitor. I went to the library, got a programming book, and the first program I inputted made a cloverleaf of sine waves...in BASIC. Then I upgraded to a PB and a 500M HDD. Wrote my 1st program on that (a game, since vgs got outlawed after Nintendo) and used to play Corporate Raiders, Indy 500 and Civ 2 on it

Haha, I wasn't quite that old, but I remember sobbing hysterically when WarCraft 2 wouldn't run on my dad's 486.  It required 4MB RAM and I only had 2MB, lol.

[CerebraLArsenaL]

LOL I did hello world in school, when the entire computer lab was apple 2e's and they had that program that drew with the turtle I'm not suprised they killed madden on pc, hockey however, very much so. i have a friend who has every hockey game for any system, and he genuinely has "kid in candy store" moments when the new one arrives. His wife has conceded that game as an unarguable purchase

[CmndrFisher]

I cruised quickly through the posts here and it appears I may be the oldest gamer replying. I'm four months shy of my 51st B.day and have been gaming off and on for a loooong time. I have to say that never, ever, ever have I been so captivated by any game like I have with ME1 and ME2 and I am waiting eagerly or ME3 (The only CE I have ever pre-ordered).

The only other games that have come close to the immersion aspect(that I can rememebr...age you know plays with your memory) were Half Life 2 and Deadspace, followed distantly by the first three Splinter Cell games. In fact, the Mass Effect series excite me so much that after ME3 and any subsequent DLC's (if we are lucky) I actually may consider hanging up my controller and start watching sunsets...sigh...

Oh, and to those who look at being over 30 "old", I guess I must be absolutley ancient...Just you wait kiddos till you reach my age...Ha!