Q4 Looks Like A Cracker Of A Time For Big Game Releases [Archive]

Feuer Frei!

07-06-11, 06:35 AM

In particular November (some of them), with The Elder Scrolls V, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Battlefield 3, Batman Arkham City, Rage, LOTR War In The North, and possibly, fingers and all other things crossed, Diablo 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic!
Wow.
There's some big hitters in there.
What are you personally looking forward to the most in Q4?
Name 1 game out of all of them that you can't wait for.
Me, No1: Diablo 3 No2: Batman and No3 Elder Scrolls V.
In that order.

Dowly

07-06-11, 06:39 AM

TES V

Can't say I have much interest in the other titles. :hmmm:

HunterICX

07-06-11, 06:42 AM

Aye, for me it's TES V too and Stronghold 3

HunterICX

Herr-Berbunch

07-06-11, 07:01 AM

Battlefield 3 for me :yeah: I'm hoping for a few more players from here to partake in it too.

If my rig's up to it :hmmm:

Edit - just checked and came across "if you can currently run BF:BC2 and have a DX10 or 11 card then you will be able to run BF3", on what settings though?

Feuer Frei!

07-06-11, 07:09 AM

Raptor1

07-06-11, 07:11 AM

Skyrim is the one I'm mostly waiting for. Not terribly interested in the rest of them, though I'm waiting to see how Battlefield 3 turns out.

Herr-Berbunch

07-06-11, 07:15 AM

Well I'm better than min specs, but not quite up to recommended specs. I'll be needing a new HDD soon too. I think toys to buy are, in order - TrackIR, Battlefield 3, new HDD, new Gfx card. That's me skint for the next two years :wah:

Tinman764

07-06-11, 07:16 AM

Skyrim for me aswell, also keeping an eye on Rage.

mookiemookie

07-06-11, 07:17 AM

Skyrim is going to be huge. If Bethesda does this right, it could be one of the all time greats. Fingers crossed.

Feuer Frei!

07-06-11, 07:18 AM

I just realised something:
In November the SUSBIM forums will be dead.
No-one will be posting here because everyone's playing TES V! :haha:
(And Diablo 3 :yeah:).

Dowly

07-06-11, 07:27 AM

Skyrim is going to be huge. If Bethesda does this right, it could be one of the all time greats. Fingers crossed.

As long as it'll be as moddable as TES III & IV, it'll be a winner. :yep:

danlisa

07-06-11, 07:34 AM

As long as it'll be as moddable as TES III & IV, it'll be a winner. :yep:

^ It will be. Bethesda have already confirmed that PC Modding Tools will be released. They also hinted that they are developing console mod tools, they just don't know how to implement them without potentially breaking the game on a given console.

Anyway, every other game can bugger off. Skyrim was preordered the moment I saw it at E3. Just waiting for my canvas map, oh yeah!......oh and November.:cry:

Dowly

07-06-11, 07:36 AM

^ It will be. Bethesda have already confirmed that PC Modding Tools will be released.

Good news. :up:

Herr-Berbunch

07-06-11, 07:37 AM

No-one will be posting here because everyone's playing TES V! :haha:
(And Diablo 3 :yeah:).

Not me, sorry, not my kind of game. The last time I played anything like it was probably the mid '80s - a text based game along the lines of -

Turn right.

You come across a lake. To the left is a forest. To the right is a cottage. Which way?

Turn left.

You are in the forest. The sun is going down. There is a fork in the path. To the left is... :zzz:

Edit - after a quick bit of research, it could be this http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/225/Adventure.html Adventure, aka Colossal Cave.

Feuer Frei!

07-06-11, 07:45 AM

I just realised something:
In November the SUSBIM forums will be dead.
No-one will be posting here because everyone's playing TES V and Battlefield 3:haha:
(And Diablo 3 :yeah:).

Fixed for you! :salute:

Not me, sorry, not my kind of game.

Herr-Berbunch

07-06-11, 08:01 AM

Fixed for you! :salute:

Super. Thanks :up:

papa_smurf

07-06-11, 08:34 AM

For me its: Diablo3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic (unless its delayed until next yr).

Herr-Berbunch

07-06-11, 08:37 AM

For me its: Diablo3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic (unless its delayed until next yr).

Like most Q4 releases usually are :nope:

kiwi_2005

07-06-11, 09:10 AM

Definitely Skyrim, my jaw drops every time I watch the same video of youtube.

BF 3

Guildwars 2 (no confirmed date, im hoping end of this year)

Diablo 3 - was excited about this @ first but as the months drag on im losing interest. The game play is getting old as the months pass by - top down hack n slash, still its Diablo and I will probably get it cause of that.

ajrimmer42

07-06-11, 03:21 PM

not greatly bothered about Skyrim, didn't really get into the TES games, despite trying quite hard :hmmm:

For me AC Rev and BF3, but you forgot Uncharted 3!!! :stare:

Dowly

07-06-11, 03:42 PM

Are people really that thrilled about BF3? :hmmm:

Someone sell me BF3, what's so good about it (I haven't seen but one video
of it and it looked very COD-ish, compared to BF2).

Herr-Berbunch

07-06-11, 04:00 PM

Are people really that thrilled about BF3? :hmmm:

Someone sell me BF3, what's so good about it (I haven't seen but one video
of it and it looked very COD-ish, compared to BF2).

Good question. :hmmm: BF:BC2 was recommended to me and I love it - like most games, I'm shtt at it, but I really enjoy it. Never played COD, but just seems to me like little boys running around shooting anything they can and bitching about everything they can - did consider Black Ops but then heard the reviews and the fact it had zombies!!! Got Arma II but just don't play it, didn't enjoy it as much as BC2 - never tried multiplayer though! I don't see the attraction of TES but it takes all sorts to make a gaming industry. Let us be as happy with the prospect of a game we like as we are that you like TES. :yep:

Dowly

07-06-11, 04:09 PM

Good question. :hmmm: BF:BC2 was recommended to me and I love it - like most games, I'm shtt at it, but I really enjoy it. Never played COD, but just seems to me like little boys running around shooting anything they can and bitching about everything they can - did consider Black Ops but then heard the reviews and the fact it had zombies!!! Got Arma II but just don't play it, didn't enjoy it as much as BC2 - never tried multiplayer though! I don't see the attraction of TES but it takes all sorts to make a gaming industry. Let us be as happy with the prospect of a game we like as we are that you like TES. :yep:

No, no, no. I didn't mean it in a downgrading way or anything like that.
I'm just curious, why people are fuzzing about BF3, when BFBC2 already
showed signs of it going towards being COD copy at full speed?

Don't get me wrong, I own BFBC2 and like(d) it. BUT, it's much more fast
paced than BF2 was. For example, the thing I love about these online shooters,
sniping, is very difficult in BFBC2 if you want to go with no deaths round like
I did in BF2. The maps are way too small and sniper being a weapon of the
recon class, everyone yells at you for not going to the frontlines and using
your motion sensor thingamalings to "help your team".

BF is becoming too fast paced. But like I said, I have only seen one video
of BF3, so, is there something more to it that urban combat?

BF2 always sat inbetween of COD and games like ARMA and WWIIOL, as
semi-casual/tactical shooter.

Herr-Berbunch

07-06-11, 04:18 PM

I don't care what you put - I just look at your sig and smile. :yeah:

It may go down the COD route - I wouldn't know what that's like, so I'll just enjoy the ride. :D And the maps are small in BC2 compared to BF2 (I got it but only played a short while... maps were too big :rotfl2: )

I notice nobody seems to be looking forward to MW3. ;)

Dowly

07-06-11, 04:46 PM

It may go down the COD route - I wouldn't know what that's like

Very small maps, close to no recoil in weapons, the ability to jump off a roof, spin 360 and shoot someone using no scope with a sniper rifle (no joking).

That's COD MW currently. :nope:

If you ever played Quake 3 MP, that's it, insanely fast paced, except Q3 was
fun. :O:

kiwi_2005

07-06-11, 05:28 PM

Are people really that thrilled about BF3? :hmmm:

Someone sell me BF3, what's so good about it (I haven't seen but one video
of it and it looked very COD-ish, compared to BF2).

For me its cause its Battlefield & the close friendships Ive made with BF2 players. Its going to be hilarious if the same players move from BF2 to BF3 so far we all agreed to get BF3 to take control and pwnage
& scream orders at each other. If the game turns out crap then its back to BF2, sometimes BFBC2 though BF2 is where our hearts belong. :roll:

[edit] If you ever played Quake 3 MP, that's it, insanely fast paced, except Q3 was
fun.

Yeah Q3 was alotta fun back in the day. I tried to get back into it when they put out the browser version.

Dowly

07-06-11, 06:03 PM

For me its cause its Battlefield & the close friendships Ive made with BF2 players.

I knew someone would say something like that, which, imho, is the plague of
game industry nowadays: title sells. Especially online FPS' have become "own
this or your not cool" products. And then everyone copies the product that makes
the most money.

It's your money, tho. So, no harm to me, but can you tell me WHY it is worth
buying? Purely from a gamer's perspective?:hmmm:

Herr-Berbunch

07-06-11, 06:55 PM

It's your money, tho. So, no harm to me, but can you tell me WHY it is worth
buying? Purely from a gamer's perspective?:hmmm:

Why does anyone play solitaire on their PC?

We don't know. It may bomb and be the laughing stock of the online FPS world. It may be hailed as the greatest game ever. In some reviews it'll probably be both. Just like TES may be. Trailers and Demos are all very well but rarely show real gameplay footage, and what actual footage is show may be doctored in some way or on a billion supercomputers networked. The best way is to play it, the second best is word of mouth.

Word of mouth works for me. Frozen Synapse - tbh looks crap, like an early '90s reject game (as in the game was rejected, not a game for '90s rejects!), but you and Arclight, and then seaniam81 pitched in on it's side and it is a great game, very addictive, but on trailer alone I wouldn't have got it. (Thanks seaniam81 :yeah: )

I don't intend on owning BF3 to be cool - I never got caught up in the Black Ops malarky, although I did make a tidy profit from getting an xbox and a ps3 version on voucher offer to sell on to some mugs :yep: . We don't all buy an online FPS for the same reasons. I just want to be able to log in for anywhere from 10 mins to 3+ hours and just have some fun. Somebody else will want to set up a tight-knit clan and give their server a n00b title so they can slaughter all noobs and rise through the ranks quickly.

I just want some fun :wah:

Arclight

07-06-11, 08:09 PM

Thing to note on BF3 is that its specific purpose is to beat CoD. I'm not sure if they plan on a copy that is just slightly prettier (turns out it doesn't look so hot at all on consoles) or a game that is truly "better". :hmmm:

2011 has been a great year already, but I'm still looking forward to Red Orchestra 2, Sword of the Stars 2, Deus Ex, Tropico 4, Men of War - Vietnam, Sengoku, Arkham City and obviously Skyrim. Think Dead Island deserves a mention as well.

Then next year Metro: Last Light, Prey 2, Mass Effect 3, X Rebirth, Crusader Kings II and Naval War Arctic Circle, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Tomb Raider.

Oh right, and there's several lovely indie projects going on. *cough (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/subversion/)*

Good thing I didn't need to upgrade anything this year. Gonna need the cash. :D

Falkirion

07-06-11, 08:29 PM

For me its going to be Batman AC, that's the one release out of all of them that I'm looking forward to the most. I'll grab AC Rev, and Diablo 3 if its out and as a longshot Star Wars TOR. Skyrim holds no interest for me, never managed to find the Elder scrolls series appealing.

kiwi_2005

07-06-11, 09:07 PM

I knew someone would say something like that, which, imho, is the plague of
game industry nowadays: title sells. Especially online FPS' have become "own
this or your not cool" products. And then everyone copies the product that makes
the most money.

It's your money, tho. So, no harm to me, but can you tell me WHY it is worth
buying? Purely from a gamer's perspective?:hmmm:

Dude its got NOTHING to do with being cool! Don't even go down that road. Ive always liked BF games BF 1942, BF Vietnam, BF2. Nothing cool about it, its the fun factor and the team work involved that attracts me to the series Ive tried others that copy bf but I always end up going back. Besides you can't be cool in BF games anyways if you become to good at it players accuse you of hacking. :haha:

ajrimmer42

07-07-11, 02:43 AM

Are people really that thrilled about BF3? :hmmm:

Someone sell me BF3, what's so good about it (I haven't seen but one video
of it and it looked very COD-ish, compared to BF2).

http://youtu.be/9UwOrl036_A :rock:

TheSatyr

07-09-11, 10:33 PM

Feuer Frei!

07-09-11, 11:35 PM

For me,it's Star Wars:The Old Republic. While I am in the Beta for it,I'm looking forward to the day when I can play it with relatives and friends. (Who are all waiting impatiently for it to be released).
I'm interested about being a beta tester, i have put my details forward to Blizz re Diablo3, hopefully i'll get in.
Now, what sort of terms and conditions do they get you to follow when beta testing?
Do's and dont's if you will.
Can you divulge that. Would be interested to know.
For example, you can't release bate game footage, or you can't sell the beta game. Etc etc.

kiwi_2005

07-10-11, 06:05 PM

I'm interested about being a beta tester, i have put my details forward to Blizz re Diablo3, hopefully i'll get in.
Now, what sort of terms and conditions do they get you to follow when beta testing?
Do's and dont's if you will.
Can you divulge that. Would be interested to know.
For example, you can't release bate game footage, or you can't sell the beta game. Etc etc.

Check your email often, new Diablo3 beta keys sometime between July 1st to Sept 30.

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=27800569797&sid=3000

Q: Are there currently any betas?
A: At the 2010 Blizzcon, 1000 Beta keys were given out for Diablo III. The ActivisionBlizzard Conference Call stated that Beta is slated to begin in Q3 of this year. That means sometime from July 1st to September 30th. If you didn't attend BlizzCon, you can still opt-in for the Beta.