2006 - What are you looking forward to?

[Monarch]

Thought this might be interesting. Which game (PC) are most looking forward to in 2006? On the other side what game will you be avoiding? What are you unsure about?

I personally am looking forwar to Lord Of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth II. From what I've read it seems good and worth a buy. There is not really a game I will be avoiding, however I would very much like to know more about Rise Of Legends, the concept seems intruiging but then again will it just be all graphics? My plan on this will be to wait on public reaction to it after release, may or may not buy it.

[The_Doctor]

-Star Wars: Empires at War
-Galactic Civilisations 2
-Supreme Commander

I started the same type of thread last year.

[Snowhobbit]

Zelda: Twilight Princess
Star Wars: Empires at War
Hmm... The new HoI2 standalone expansion.

[discovery1]

HoI2 : Doomsday. /drools

kind of Interested in Star Wars: Empires at War also.

[Bob the Insane]

STALKER...

Oblivion

Gothic 3

Call of Cthulhu

Whatever comes out next for Battlefield 2...

[Reverend Joe]

2006 - What are you looking forward to?

Good question... death?

[TheSilverKnight]

Star Wars: Empire at War
and -
American Conquest: Divided Nation

[Shaka_Khan]

Star Wars: Empire at War

Cool. It's a strategy game like Total War. Unfortunately, it's missing something that Total War games have; lots of bodies lying on the battlefield. In addition to that, I'd like to see some distinctive characters with different abilities like in KOEI's Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Star Wars has some, like Darth Vader, but I think the generals look the same. I hope there are some good movies or interaction with the characters in close up too.

I'd like to have some first person playing added to the game, but the strategy part is good enough.

[Somebody Else]

Hmm... haven't really thought - my current laptop's 3 years old, so nothing new works anymore - Rome just about limps by.

But I hear rumours I might be getting a new beast to work with - so might have to give some recent releases a whirl... Anything with pixel shader requirements for example.

I dunno - if a new Flashpoint comes out... kekvitirae - know anything about that?

Plus - want to give B&W2, Thief III, Rome on max settings... etc. etc. a good goingover.

[Fragony]

STALKER...

Oblivion

Gothic 3

Call of Cthulhu

Whatever comes out next for Battlefield 2...

Now there is a wishlist, I agree on all of them.

[doc_bean]

Anything that will still play on my system.

That said, there isn't really a game I'm specifically looking forward too anyway.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Looking forward to Bully and seeing what all the fuss is about as everybody is getting on its case. If you don't like it due to its content, don't buy it.

[Sjakihata]

Gothic 3

Call of Cthulhu

Good choices - do you have a link for any of them?

ho ho ho

[Geoffrey S]

Oblivion, Stalker, Alan Wake, Rise of Legends.

[Monarch]

Oh yes I forgot about Star Wars. I guess I'll see what public reaction is and how much money I have when its released :)

[Beirut]

Assuming it even makes it out in 2006, the big one for me is the new Battle of Britain flightsim from Oleg Maddox, the guy who created the Il2 series of flight sims.

Also, there's going to be another exapnsion pack for the present Il2 series released in 2006, and it's going to have Mosquitos in it! Yeah baby!

[Togakure]

Oblivion, baby ... in a big way.

[Kickius Buttius]

Spore. It sounds different enough to be worth a look.

[doc_bean]

Spore. It sounds different enough to be worth a look.

Forgot about that, it might be worth checking out.

[The_Doctor]

Spore. It sounds different enough to be worth a look.

That comes out next year?

[Craterus]

Roma Victor

[drone]

Duke Nukem Forever!1!!1!one!!11!!

Call of Cthulhu looks interesting:
http://www.callofcthulhu.com/

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos (late 2006)

And mainly a new computer to play all these new games on.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Don't know if it will come out, but Halo 3 would be nice. For XBOX not 360...

[Somebody Else]

Oblivion, baby ... in a big way.

What he said - but bigger.

[Androo]

Great thread!

Games from 1c:

WWII:RTS !!!!!!!!
http://www.wargamer.com/articles/ww2rts_interview/

PT Boats: Knights of the Sea

XIIIth Century: Death or Glory

Sniper

For all the above:int.games.1c.ru/?type=inwork (see under "Projects")

Napoleonic Total War II mod for RTW

Blue Lotus mod for RTW

Star Wars: Empire At War (?)This one I am wondering about. The scale issues (e.g. for the sake of gameplay some units may be much larger or smaller than they really should be) could be a problem for me.

Over Flanders Fields mod for Combat Flight Simulator 3 (Available in a week(!), but I probably won't get to it until next year.)http://off.oldbrowndog.net/

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos

Paraworld(?)

Galactic Civilizations II: The Dread Lords

It should be a great year, even if some of those are pushed back.

edit: Attempt to compensate for pre-Xmas temporary(?) insanity.

[Kanamori]

Assuming it even makes it out in 2006, the big one for me is the new Battle of Britain flightsim from Oleg Maddox, the guy who created the Il2 series of flight sims.

I really miss those old dogfight sims.

Ever since Rome, I've gotten sick of RTS.
I'll stick to kung fu chess when I want crazy RTS games.

[Zalmoxis]

Okami.

[Fragony]

Don't know if it will come out, but Halo 3 would be nice. For XBOX not 360...

Well....



360 bring it on

[Bob the Insane]

Good choices - do you have a link for any of them?

ho ho ho

http://www.gothic3.com/

and

http://www.callofcthulhu.com/

For Call of Cthulhu i'll have to read some reviews to check whether it is a stright console export or if it have been improved for the PC.

I also need ot add/second this:

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos

[Catiline]

Roma Victor

Not until it changes it's name