what games are you looking forward to the most?

[CountArach]

HistWar: Les Grognards

[seireikhaan]

That looks impressive, CA. When does it come out?

[CountArach]

That looks impressive, CA. When does it come out?

I think very late this year is the earliest general time that has been given. The Developer really wants to get the AI right for the first release and as such it has been delayed a few times - but it means the final package will be complete and playable.

[Crandaeolon]

Fallout 3
Guild Wars 2
Diablo III
Starcraft II

I'll just copy-paste that and add the Stardock Fantasy TBS. Colonization remake... mmm, maybe. Disciples 3, not really expecting anything good out of that but we'll see.

[rajpoot]

Hist War Les Grognards
Grand Theft Auto 4
Empire Total War
Fallout 3
Demi-God
Rise of the Argonauts


That's it.
Hist War though, it's as if it's never going to come out at all. They keep shifting the date month by month.

GTA 4 and Fallout 3 I've just got to get.

Demi God and Rise of the Argonauts sound nice. Demi God specially as Stardock is the publisher and lately, these people have become the heros of gamers.

ETW ofcourse..........unless they have some dirty copy protection.

[Fragony]

Fatal Frame: mask of the lunar eclipse and The Conduit.

[Ferret]

FIFA 09. That's about it.

[woad&fangs]

HistWar: Les Grognards

Interesting...

The games I'm currently interested in are Fallout 3, E:TW, and now HWLG. I'll look at purchasing fallout if it has good reviews after it comes out. I'm salivating over E:TW. I'll buy it if I have a computer which can play it and the game doesn't come with you know what.

HWLG looks like it could be an interesting replacement if I can't play E:TW.

[Thermal]

updated first post with game infomation on the majority of those mentioned

[Martok]

Interesting, Aries777777. By following another link mentioned in your link to Stardock's fantasy game, I found a mention of some more of its features (of which I was previously unaware):

1) Character building. The player is a character in the game. Nearly all magic in the world actually flows from the player. If you've ever read The Silmarillion (Tolkien) all the magic in Arda basically comes from the spirit of the things created by Eru. So in this sense, the player is a kind of Valar of sorts who can choose to invest their growing power into their creations/minions or into themselves (or a bit of both). That's an over simplification but the point is, part of the game mechanics is having to choose between making your forces more powerful or actual character.

2) The game is very spell-centric. The 3D engine is being designed so you can do Populous style spells to the world. Since it's turn-based (as opposed to real-time) that also means you can have some ridiculously fancy spell effects.

3) Very distinct magic schools.

4) You cannot build heroes. They have to be recruited and there's no Inn. Ones ability to attract heroes is one of the game mechanics and "interesting choices" players have. Those heroes can be wimpy or powerful depending on how the player chooses to use and invest in them.

5) There is massive scaling in this. At the beginning of Fellowship of the Rings (the movie edition) you could see just how powerful Sauron is. In this, if you manage to get a dragon, that dragon can wipe out hundreds of units. And by scale, we mean there's thousands and thousands of troops. One ancient dragon is taking out hundreds of troops.

6) Cities are built and improved and local geography matters. I won't say more on this right now. ;)

7) Multiplayer will involve all players moving at the same time.

8) Battles zoom in so that tactical combat can occur which is also turn based.

Sounds pretty frickin' cool, if I do say so myself. I do have one quick question, though....

I don't quite understand the difference between building and recruiting heroes, and how that will have an impact on gameplay. Anyone care to enlighten me?

[drone]

I don't quite understand the difference between building and recruiting heroes, and how that will have an impact on gameplay. Anyone care to enlighten me?

Sounds kind of like the original MoM. Heroes would arrive and offer their services. They would have random statistics and may or may not be a good fit to your magic skills/race. You couldn't "build" them, you had to wait for them to arrive.

[Paradox]

1. Fable 2

2. Pro Evolution Soccer 2009

3. FIFA 2009

4. Duke Nukem 3D (WORLDWIDE XBLA release)

5. Batman: Arkham Asylum