E3 PC thread

[CaseyRyback]

I will try to update this with links if possible.

Looks like Fallout 3 is actually going to be released

http://media.cube.ign.com/articles/614/614905/img_2787867.html

[dcfox]

There's alot of decent PC titles being released in the near future. The one's I'm really looking foward to hearing more about are Will Wright's Spore and The Movies. So hopefully there'll be updates on those.

[CaseyRyback]

There's alot of decent PC titles being released in the near future. The one's I'm really looking foward to hearing more about are Will Wright's Spore and The Movies. So hopefully there'll be updates on those.

I think Gamespot already has one on the Movies

[modium]

IGN interviewed someone on the Civ4 team, and put up a few shots. You'd be better off just quitting work/school now, to be prepared.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/614/614551p1.html

[spoo]

:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:
http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/614/614551/civilization-iv-20050516030618427-000.jpg

[Zoglog]

I hope Quake 4 multiplayer will be pimpin, all the videos i've seen have been touting single player =/

[Admiral Ackbar]

The PC Owns all the consoles!

[PsyClerk]

Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War - Winter Assault. That's all you need to know, daddy-rabbit-chico-cuz.

[Scrubking]

The PC Owns all the consoles!

Word.

[punqsux]

The PC Owns all the consoles!


im waiting for PC 2 to come out...maybe it'll be nest year..

[guyver2077]

quake 4!! nuff said

[jam3582]

im waiting for PC 2 to come out...maybe it'll be nest year..


:rofl:awesome quote .

any one check out the The F.E.A.R videos lately that game is sicking beautiful.

[stoned99]

I can't beleive how empty this thread is, did noone see the new Age of Empires III, or Dungeon Seige II, or the new Rise of Nations. Wow!!! I am in love :)

The Dungeon Seige II Beta was also opened up for anyone, so get you slot now.

[Logain8955]

I was lucky enough to be able to wander the show floor for a day, and saw a few very promising PC games.

The most promising one to me was Dungeons and Dragons Online. It's very much like sit down pencil and paper D+D, with how they did the dungeon. Warning, incoming dork story. When I got a turn at the controls, I played a cleric, and 2 other people started up at the same time (a fighter and a sorceress). We loaded up the dungeon and went in. The first room was just a locked door, and what Turbine calls DM text popped up saying we'd need someone who could pick locks, or someone of sufficent strength to open the door (Think Baldur's Gate style text appearing). I ran up and swung my mace at it, to no effect. As the fighter walked up to the door, the Sorceress threw a fireball, exploding it to splinters. We went into room two. As we stepped in, undead popped up from the ground and charged us. I threw out a Turn Undead, and most of them shatter (with the strong ones running), and more undead came out of the ground to charge.. DM Text popped up then saying "An evil aura eminates from the altar in the back of the room." So I run to the back of the room, target the altar, and Turn Undead into it. All the undead explode and the door to the next room opens.

The next room held a Drow Scorpion, which I barely remember, with how fast we killed it. A door in the first room opened, and one in this room opened. We walked into the next room, which held turnable floor tiles, where you had to have energy travel through channels into end points. There was also a balcony where you could see a room full of monsters, which where the door in the first room that opened led. We quickly solved the energy puzzle, which activated traps in that bottom room, devastating the monsters and opening the door. Problem was, we had to run past the traps! We went into that room and charged through the traps.

As we go into a corridor, DM text pops up saying "(Spot) The body in front of you is rent with deep cuts." I was the only one who got it. (The game emulates the Spot checks and Listen checks from 3.5 Pencil and Paper DnD). I walked forward, and giant blades popped out of the wall and nearly hit me! I jumped back, and we timed it, then ran forward when it was clear....right into fire coming from the sides. With a cry of "Keep running, I'll just heal us!" I charged through the inferno....right into spikes that jutted from the floor! The other two in my party got through, but a spike caught me right in the bum. Thankfully, there was a shrine right after that ressed me.

After all this, we have a minute and a half left of time, and we walk into the boss room. A portal rested in the back of the room, and a giant elemental walked out of it, and charged us. The sorceress starts flinging spells, the fighter starts a hackin, and I'm waiting to heal. Then I get the bright idea to spam Searing Light at it (one of the only cleric damage spells). I quickly take aggro, and as it hits me, the entire screen smears, including the UI. Turns out, the boss had stuned me, and it cleared up in a few seconds. We keep fighting it, and run out of time with it at 5% health (and lost out on a beta slot.)

The main thing about the game is how much it feels like old school, hack and slash DnD. I can't wait to play this again.

Unreal Tournament 2K7 was on display, but not playable. The demoed gametype was an assault map, and it seemed to play very much like UT2K4, but with graphics that will make everyone's computer it's bitch. I find it funny that something caused the entire hall it was being shown in to have it's power blown out for the first few hours on Wednesday. Maybe they had to overclock the show computers a bit too high ^^.

Imperator seemed cool, but needs a lot more work to make it not another MMORPG. The setting was very intriguing.....it's SciFi, but in an alternate universe where the Roman Empire never fell.

Battlefield 2 rocks the god damned house. I only got to play for about 5 min, but those 5 minutes were a lot of fun....I rode gunner on a helicopter, and my pilot was one of the devs, so we were able to rain death upon a bunch of people, until we got RPGed out of the sky. Unfortunatly, I didn't get to play with the other stuff, like Commander mode and the such. Oh...Arty Strikes on your position are *frightening*.

Call of Duty 2 was on display, and looks fun...nothing majorly impressive though.

I couldn't find Dawn of War: Winter Assault on display...but THQ's booth was kinda disjointed. I prolly just walked right past it -.-

I didn't see much else impressive for PC (with only one day, I had to prioritize what booths to hit)....but there was a good dose of suck.

Auto Assault blows ass. It's a car combat MMORPG, but through and through traditional MOG. It was hard to control, and combat was all a matter of "Hold Machine Gun Button".

UFO: Aftershock was very unimpressive...but I'm not sure if it was because of true suckitude, or the fact that the Dev I was talking to was insistent on describing his game in the most generic way possible in a swedish accent. "This is the strategic map...you can move around troops and build bases and collect resources and do research..." etc etc.

I didn't get to see anything else on PC, unfortunatly. I was busy drooling over PS3, yelling at Microsoft for saying only the media gets hands on time w/ XBX360 and damning the 2 hour line to get in to see Zelda footage at nintendo's booth.

[Medium_Pimpin]

Am i the only one that's excited to see a sequel to enemy territory?

Ok it's probably not free, it's not a WWII based game and the name sucks (Enemy Territory:Quake Wars) but the first is classic.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/enemyterritoryquakewars/preview_6126170.html

[jam3582]

Im curious , anyone that was at the she did they see anything on half life 2 :aftermath or that lost cost level ?

[edison]

The Lost Coast was on display in the "Games Windows Plays" booth on two machines but it wasn't playable, as far as I could tell. It played a video loop flyby of a level, and did some split screen comparisons of that new lighting/render method HDR (high-dynamic range) and the old way.

Did anyone else wait in line and watch the video presentation of Alan Wake? The environment looks awesome, it was gorgeous. I never did find S.T.A.L.K.E.R this year where was it? Remember watching the video last year, and playing some multiplayer.

[humidore]

Am i the only one that's excited to see a sequel to enemy territory?

Ok it's probably not free, it's not a WWII based game and the name sucks (Enemy Territory:Quake Wars) but the first is classic.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/enemyterritoryquakewars/preview_6126170.html

I don't mind one bit that it's not free! Better graphics/physics, new setting (though i'll miss the Axis voices), all I can say is "finally!" It'll be hard determining which new FPS to get now...

[tauruskatt]

I totally missed the D&D game!! GAAHHH...

I did however spend time playing Tabula Rasa which was unexpectedly Awesomely fun to play! Much better then last year where it looked and played like a promising but standard mmorpg with futuristic fantasy rip offs, and the focus somehow on the game's soundtrack~ this game was hawt. with a W. I talked to one of the guys working on it and he said they pretty much scrapped everything and started over again. the cycling through weapons and abilities and team speak was done well, and the booth set up itself (you play with someone else playing in texas) was nice too. (my second favorite booth setup). Very fun gameplay. Like...an mmoarpg...(an online action role-playing game).

I liked the Stargate game too, even though their reticles were showing, it was all:

V
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hehe, whoops? the rest of the game looked good though. :oops:

[BaZoOKajOe]

Fallout 3....nice! I've also been eyeing F.E.A.R. & Call of Cthulhuhoweveryouspellit. Those games look fairly promising...

I read some previews & checked out some screenshots of that D&D game...& although I've never played the pen & paper game...I might have to give that a try.