Which is your fav computer game

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Ya ya.

[wolverine_men]

Hi-it's me again(Vikram). I am a member now. Yeah I know- Good for me.

[wolverine_men]

A game doesn't have to redifine a genre or or even create a new one in order to be innovative. I like games that are fun to play. I don't give two hoots about the technology behind it. Unreal Tournament 2003 wasn't nearly half as fun as the original game- it was just another pretty game.

[Spriggan]

Also Gemm postal and postal 2 are some of the WORST games ever made.  Not only is it's graphics sub par but the gameplay only appeals to 14 year olds who think peeing on things is fun.  Unless a game is actualy good it's not inovative in my mind, true they're trying to do something that others haven't but if it's not playable/enjoyable they didn't succeed.  I'm intrested in games that changed the video game community not ones that were just fun.

Anyway the unreal guys realised something that ID software (quake, doom) has known for quite some time, you make more money selling your game engines to 3rd parties then you do selling your own game.  That's why URT 2003 (just like Doom 3 will be) is more of a advertisement showing what the engine can do then makeing a steller game.  The good news is that Half-Life 2 looks like they're makeing a great game that will be fun to play while showing off their engine.

[wolverine_men]

I certainly have high hopes from HL-2. That source code theft has pushed back the release date , but we should have it by mid-2004.
PS: Has anyone tried Gothic-2?

[Fellfrosch]

I don't believe I've ever even heard of Gothic.

[wolverine_men]

 I just finished playing the demo of Restaurant Empire(I am a bit behind times when it comes to Sim games). It was a real blast to play. It has been developed by Trevor Chan who in my opinion deserves the same level of respect as Sid Meir. For those of you who don't know him- Trevor Chan is the guy behind some of the better PC games like Seven Kingdoms (I am a huge fan of Seven Kingdoms2). I would recommend Restaurant Empire to anyone who is tired of the Frag Fest.
RE can be downloaded from http://www.restaurant-empire.com/ while Seven Kingdoms2 can be downloaded from http://www.enlight.com/.
I also tried my hands at Airport Tycoon2. Now I have played the first one and can honestly say that it was much better than it's successor.

[wolverine_men]

welcome to a new low in gaming. Microsoft is releasing an expansion pack(that's what they call it) for Age Of Mythology. Essentially, this expansion pack is nothing but an add-on campaign in which you get to play the Atlantian God Kronos. So what's so bad about that? Well Microsoft expects us to pay for this campaign add on just because it's called an expansion pack-now how low is that? I'd say quite low. Anyway's if you want to download the demo you can do so from http://www.pcgameworld.com/download.php/id/4636/folder/demos/filename/AOMXTrial.exe
-Vikram

[Spriggan]

That expansion has gotten the most praise out of any from the series, even more then the orginal game.

[wolverine_men]

The UT mission packs that were released by Epic had recieved a lot of praise-but they were free.
By the way Halo:Combat Evolved PC Demo is up for grabs at the Microsoft site. A warning though: The game will run quite slowly even on the most powerful PC if all the graphical settings are turned to max and the resolution is set above 800x600. So you best bet is to run the game at 800x600 and lock the FPS to 30.  The game engine can be blamed for this. Graphics are quite good(just as expected).
The demo can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/games/halo/downloads.asp
If you have played Halo for X box then you shouldn't buy this game-unless money holds no value for you, in which case you can give some to me.
PS: Spriggan do u really think that ppl who purchased the originaly AOM should pay for the  "12 new god powers, 15 new human units and 10 formidable myth units"?
Vikram

[Spriggan]

They should if they like the game.  That's the only reason to buy an expansion.  I'm not saying its the best expansion ever, just what the reviews said.  I could care less sence I hate RTS games.

[wolverine_men]

Fellfrosch -savage demo is out. I am gonna try it out to see how revolutionary it really is. I just hope that you were right.
Vikram

[Fellfrosch]

Well, as one who was in the beta I can tell you this: it's a freaking pile of revolutionary genius, but it's not very fun to play. On a LAN maybe, but even then I doubt it would be all that amazing.

[Tage]

Savage is a game that very nearly requires verbal communication. Sure it has mechanics for typed communication, and some RTS field-type commands as shortcuts, but in my opinion those aren't enough. I only played the beta, and naturally its interface was still a little rough, but I'd be surprised if they were able to fix the root problem with the game: communication.

In theory it's a fantastic game, but the current limits of the game, and gaming in general, will probably turn people off for the time being.

[wolverine_men]

I think that the demo should be better than the build you guys tested. Afterall that's what beta tests are for- if you guys did you jobs right that is . Haven't played it yet though. BTW did any of you try the Halo PC demo