Games You're Looking Forward To

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 6:18 am

Keep the posting going

Myself - I'm expecting Homeworld 2 and Warcraft 3. Yes just RTS's but looks like that's all there is at the moment.
Anyway, what are you looking forward to?

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 6:37 am

I just saw a preveiw for "Lords of the Realm 3" and I can't wait for it. The original two I loved, and own, but they don't work on any new computers (Something about cannot divide interger 0 in the install). I'm also looking forward to WoW, and Warcraft 3.

Brink · Post by **Brink** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 7:11 am

Games I'm looking forward to playing(still under development) :
-Empire Earth
-Homeworld 2
-Neverwinter Nights
-Dungeon Siege
-Return to Castle Wolfenstein (

)
-Aliens vs. Predator 2

Games that I'm looking forward to getting directly after my exams :
-Arcanum
-Throne of Bhaal (

)
-Pool of Radiance
-Red Faction

There's more, but I can't quite remember what they are right now

Silur · Post by **Silur** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 7:59 am

Definitely Neverwinter Nights. My wife has promised to write a module/scenario for it, so I can't wait. I hope it is generic enough and simple enough to write modules for, that the net will be swamped with good modules. Writing for the Infinity engine seems like a lot of hard work...

Other than that, maybe a expanded version of Civilization (or FreeCiv), with an AI that doesn't need to cheat blatantly to win and with more Wonders, more diplomatic options, more science disciplines, etc. I guess the problem of balancing out gameplay gets exponentially harder with every new victory option, but a few less violent, less competitive ways to win would be nice. I often think of moving to New Guinea and get adopted by a tribe. Who's to say that they aren't the real winners of the civilized world?

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 8:58 am

Neverwinter Nights is properly the only game I right now really look forward to

Other games would/could be nice to, but nothing right now for me, compares to NwN

CM · Post by CM » Sun Oct 21, 2001 9:17 am

NWN and Warcaft 3

Vivien · Post by **Vivien** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 9:39 am

I'm also interested in NWN

Any new Civ's would be nice as well, though last week I got nostolgic for the original and tried to install it but it wouldn't run with Window's 2000. *sigh*

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 9:51 am

Originally posted by Vivien:
I'm also interested in NWN

Any new Civ's would be nice as well, though last week I got nostolgic for the original and tried to install it but it wouldn't run with Window's 2000. *sigh*

I've got one that does work! I can mail it to you if you want.
At least I think it'l work, it works on 98 and I bought it on cd not to long ago so perhapts they updated it somehow

[ 10-21-2001: Message edited by: Rob-hin ]

Vivien · Post by **Vivien** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 10:10 am

Originally posted by Rob-hin:
I've got one that does work! I can mail it to you if you want.
At least I think it'l work, it works on 98 and I bought it on cd not to long ago so perhapts they updated it somehow

[ 10-21-2001: Message edited by: Rob-hin ]

They probably did

My copy is a copy made from a friend a few years ago. I remember my first time playing that game, I didn't understand the 'conquest' philosophy, and stayed on my little island with my three cities, wondering why these other civilations kept bothering me

I have to run, but I would be interested in getting a copy

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 10:43 am

Originally posted by Vivien:
I have to run, but I would be interested in getting a copy

I was just working on that. But I can't get it smaller then 6,21mb, and this is with stripping a lot so I don't know if it'll work.

Silur · Post by **Silur** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 11:00 am

I assume of course that you aren't in fact discussing copies of programs not under freeware/shareware licensing

which is against forum rules...

Originally posted by Vivien:
Any new Civ's would be nice as well, though last week I got nostolgic for the original and tried to install it but it wouldn't run with Window's 2000. *sigh*

Speaking of freeware, the free implementation of Civ is getting to be pretty good, runs under W2K (AFAIK) and can be found [url="http://www.freeciv.org"]here[/url]. It's under GNU public license, so you can pretty much do what you want with it (source code is available).

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 1:24 pm

Civ III
Wizardry 8
Master of Orion III
Europa Universalis II
Age of Wonders II

By the way, Patrician II, which is out now, is the best merchant/strategy sim I have ever played, and I can strongly recommend it. It's new.

VoodooDali · Post by **VoodooDali** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 1:55 pm

Morrowwind--unfortunately postponed
Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds--still like RTS games, but nothing has come out that compares to AoE series so far, though Starcraft series and Earth 2150 were fun
Fallout 3--if and when that ever happens
still very bummed that TORN was cancelled
Gothic sounds interesting
NWN--but I'm really wondering how much I'll like a multiplayer online game--my experiences playing RTS games online is that I'm wiped out after about 30 seconds because I have not devoted my life to figuring out how to quickly develop the towns and conquer people, and I don't want to! I like long single-player games with a deep story to get involved in that I can take my own time with, which is why BG rules...
The Matrix--esp. excited since Shiny is working on it, and I thought that Sacrifice was awesome and very underrated. As a matter of fact, I'd like to see a Sacrifice 2 with some NPC's--it already had a good story line and was non-linear.

Hoping that some games are coming out that will be cool that I haven't even heard about. Surprise us, developers!

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 2:00 pm

NWN don't know any others that are comeing out

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 4:37 pm

@VD, I share your concerns about TORN and NWN. I'm not a big multiplayer fan, largely because I'm not a powerplayer. I've done really well in games with smaller environments, where people got to know one another, and RPGers were appreciated, but in the large mega-million massively mushrooming magnificent monolithic multiplayer things I just watch in dismay as kids run away, screaming demanding spell boosts, and following notes they've received of how to level their characters quickly.

Last I heard, Morrowind was set for Spring 2002. I think that's around the time for Masters of Orion III, so those will likely keep us going for a while.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 8:06 pm

Originally posted by Aegis:
I just saw a preveiw for "Lords of the Realm 3" and I can't wait for it. The original two I loved, and own, but they don't work on any new computers (Something about cannot divide interger 0 in the install).

I also liked Lord of the Realm, but I managed to work around this "cannot divide 0" problem. I wish I remember how I did it...

it was about half a year ago.

I also look forward to Lord 3 (didn't even know it was on the way, so thank you Aegis) and of course NWN if it ever gets released.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 9:32 pm

To get list:

NWN
Civ III
AoW 2

Maybe list:

Homeworld 2

@Fable did you play any of the custom scenarios? Like "A journey in to the Dark" for AoW ?

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 10:02 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans:
I also liked Lord of the Realm, but I managed to work around this "cannot divide 0" problem. I wish I remember how I did it... it was about half a year ago.
<snip>

Cool - so you've solved a great mathematical problem

- when do we see it published

Delacroix · Post by **Delacroix** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 12:51 am

Warcraft III
Civ (cid)
Heroes of Might and Magic IV

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 1:57 am

Originally posted by Silur:
Definitely Neverwinter Nights. My wife has promised to write a module/scenario for it, so I can't wait.

huhu.. can you tell me were to find wifes like that?

@fable: i had the same concerns but i found the world [url="http://www.lonerhino.com/argyle/index2.html"]Argyle[/url] and if they can keep what they promise it looks realy good.

About games:
NWN obviously and JA3. yes i know it isnt offical or so but you can always live on the hope