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Games You're Looking Forward To
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 6:18 am
by Vicsun
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?
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 6:37 am
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'm also looking forward to WoW, and Warcraft 3.
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 7:11 am
by Brink
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

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 7:59 am
by Silur
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?
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 8:58 am
by Xandax
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

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 9:17 am
by CM
NWN and Warcaft 3
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 9:39 am
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*
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 9:51 am
by Rob-hin
Originally posted by Vivien:
<STRONG>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*</STRONG>
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 ]
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 10:10 am
by Vivien
Originally posted by Rob-hin:
<STRONG>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 ]</STRONG>
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

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 10:43 am
by Rob-hin
Originally posted by Vivien:
<STRONG>I have to run, but I would be interested in getting a copy

</STRONG>
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.
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 11:00 am
by Silur
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:
<STRONG>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*</STRONG>
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).

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 1:24 pm
by fable
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.

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 1:55 pm
by VoodooDali
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!
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 2:00 pm
by Craig
NWN don't know any others that are comeing out
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 4:37 pm
by fable
@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.
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 8:06 pm
by C Elegans
Originally posted by Aegis:
<STRONG>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). </STRONG>
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.
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 9:32 pm
by Weasel
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 ?
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 10:02 pm
by Xandax
Originally posted by C Elegans:
<STRONG>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>
</STRONG>
Cool - so you've solved a great mathematical problem

- when do we see it published

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2001 12:51 am
by Delacroix
Warcraft III
Civ (cid)
Heroes of Might and Magic IV
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2001 1:57 am
by Dottie
Originally posted by Silur:
<STRONG>Definitely Neverwinter Nights. My wife has promised to write a module/scenario for it, so I can't wait.</STRONG>
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
