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List of PC exclusive titles for 2007

SeafroggysSeafroggys Ranger
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[url]http://www.penny-arcade.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1073842430[/url]

Some real good stuff here.

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  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    Thank you bro :)

    And they say pc gaming is dead. HA!
  • The Cabl3 GuyThe Cabl3 Guy Elite Ranger
    Holy FUCK I NEED A NEW COMPUTER!

    My vote goes to Europa Universalis 3 only because I have been waiting for it for years!
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    Some titles on that list have already been cancelled, but there are still plenty to look forward to.
  • Lord RefaLord Refa Creepy, but in a good way
    Jane Jensen!

    I think i'll get that one atleast, for full price too..
  • sinclairsinclair Ranger
    Great post to great post.

    C&C:3, Spore, Team Fortress II, Portal, HL2:Ep2, Alan Wake and ET:QW are the games I am waiting for. Still, there is no way some of those titles can be released in 2007, but I can wait.
  • Space GhostSpace Ghost Elite Ranger
    I like the look of Silent Hunter.

    I agree, some of those games may not see the light of day this year.
  • Data CrystalData Crystal Pencil Artist
    Bioshock, Bioshock, Bioshock... diipadaapadiipadaapa... must have. Need new computer to run but still... must have. :)
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Some good adventure games on that list. I'm glad they ignored the existence of Simon the Sorcerer 3 when making 4.
  • SpiritOneSpiritOne Magneto ABQ NM
    The more I here about Spore the more interesting it sounds. I have such high hopes for Pirates of the Burning Seas, I hope it does not disappoint.

    Not sure about Star Trek Online, they are going to have to do some amazing things with net code, prevent dial up users from playing or something else to make it work the way they say they want it to. Nothing more annoying than being in a ship to ship battle and one of your bridge crew logs off, especially if its something important in a fight, like your tactical officer or helmsman.

    Haven't heard about Stargate Worlds, I know the Stargate FPS was canceled though.
  • Vorlons in my HeadVorlons in my Head The Vorlons told me to.
    Well good to see that. After the absolute let down of the latest installment of my beloved Splinter Cell game, which turned out was a disastrous bug riddled port of an Xbox 360 native game and the dumbing down of the game for consoles I thought all hope was lost. Then again I guess its inevitable. After the initial release consoles are quickly surpassed again by PC's and any developer hoping to take advantage of the highest end tech needs to revert back to PC first mode.

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by croxis [/i]
    [B]Thank you bro :)

    And they say pc gaming is dead. HA! [/B][/QUOTE]

    I'm surely starting to believe it is happening very very slowly but very surely. I haven't bought a high end vidcard in some time since I haven't been gaming that much. My 6800GT was like ~$250-300 I think while it was still current which wasn't all that terribly long ago. I almost shit myself when I saw the newest high end stuff is $650-850! That will surely do a good job of scarring all but the hardest core gamers away. To make things worse a lot of high end games developers are basically abandoning support of lesser systems so they can go all out on the graphics. Thats lovely and everything but pretty much signals the end of budget gaming systems.
  • PSI-KILLERPSI-KILLER Needs help
    That was a really good find!!!!!!! I like the idea of free Online playing.



    I also have to agree with everything Vorlons in my Head stated. Too upgrade my 1 1/2 year computer or buy a new one would cost about 2-4 thousand dollars (US) to play the latest and greatest. Of course there would be no promises DX10 will work smooth in HD after spending over 2 g on SLI 8800GTX's, HD monitor, and Vista(don't forget the cost of Vista Ultimate). Even after all that spending. Not just based on performance but the price difference will make gaming computers outta reach from the masses.

    I came accross this info from Crytek the makers of Crysis , that amazing new DX10 game only.

    [url]http://www.crytek.com/inside_crytek/item.php?id=42&s=jobs&pID=4[/url]

    It appears that they are aware the small audience for high end gamning PCs might pose a problem with sales. If the can port stuff obviously DX10 is not what it is claimed to be against a cell processsor or any other console engine. It is all to just sell a new OS to innoncent fun loving/seeking gamers.
  • Vorlons in my HeadVorlons in my Head The Vorlons told me to.
    Funny, there was an interview with John Carmack recently where he discussed DX10 and Vista gaming. To sum it up simply there is nothing that actually makes Vista any better for gaming. XP could do fine for 5 more years. MS is artificially enhancing Vista by offering DX10 only for it.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    I understand DX10 has already been 3rd party backported to XP.

    Also, Vista won't support multi-monitors on home. You have to have business or ultimate to get more than 1 monitor, and that's utter BS.
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Or so they say. :p If all goes well, we'll see DX10 on XP in no time.
  • sinclairsinclair Ranger
    I wish they would be starting to make these games to run in Linux as well...
  • AkrovahAkrovah Ranger
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Vorlons in my Head [/i]
    [B]Funny, there was an interview with John Carmack recently where he discussed DX10 and Vista gaming. To sum it up simply there is nothing that actually makes Vista any better for gaming. XP could do fine for 5 more years. MS is artificially enhancing Vista by offering DX10 only for it. [/B][/QUOTE]

    That may be true for Carmack, who programs graphics in Opengl, but for other developers the new features of DX10 may be more of a necessity to achieve true next gen results. And there are alot of people out there who unfortunately will judge a game by it's graphics.
  • Vorlons in my HeadVorlons in my Head The Vorlons told me to.
    Yeah I know Carmack is a hardcore OpenGL guy but his point was that there's no reason for DX10 to NOT be supported in XP. They are keeping it Vista only to artificially enhance Vista's image as a next generation gaming platform. You want to run DX10 games, you've gotta get Vista, for now... This can pan out two ways. Either developers will simply not fully support it to have a wider market, or they will go next gen only. The latter seems to be the latest trend and thats what MS is probably counting on. Like I said, I'm seeing that trend already in new games where support for older standards is simply being abandoned in order to be able to take full advantage of cutting edge tech.
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    The same thing kind of happened with the jump from DX5 to DX6. DX6 was, from my understanding, a rewrite and some older DX5 gen games, such as SimCity 2k Network edition, wont run with dx 6 systems on.
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    hmmm there's a couple of games on there that I'm quite looking forward to on that list. I saw some screenshots for Aion a while ago that looked stunning, dont know what the gameplay will be like but I think I might give it a closer look when it comes out, likewise with Star Trek online. Will definitely be getting stargate worlds tho :D
  • Vorlons in my HeadVorlons in my Head The Vorlons told me to.
    Here's the article I was refering to:
    [url]http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200701/N07.0109.1737.15034.htm?Page=1[/url]

    [i]"Those wishing to take the plunge into DX10 will also have to do so while upgrading to Windows Vista. Carmack, however, isn’t all that excited about upgrading to the new OS: “We only have a couple of people running Vista at our company. It’s again, one of those things that there is no strong pull for us to go there. If anything, it’s going to be reluctantly like, ‘Well, a lot of the market is there, so we’ll move to Vista.’”

    Carmack then said that he’s quite satisfied with Windows XP, going as far to say that Microsoft is ‘artificially’ forcing gamers to move to Windows Vista for DX10. “Nothing is going to help a new game by going to a new operating system. There were some clear wins going from Windows 95 to Windows XP for games, but there really aren’t any for Vista. They’re artificially doing that by tying DX10 so close it, which is really nothing about the OS ... They’re really grasping at straws for reasons to upgrade the operating system. I suspect I could run XP for a great many more years without having a problem with it,” he said."[/i]
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