James cameron is pretty good.TopTierHustler

Between '84 and '91 he was great.

NO Half-Life 3 so far.:cry:

roulettethedog

You mean Half-Life: Forever?

I know, an irksomely large part of me is still simmering with anticipation for it as well, despite the terribly misbegotten saga that was the truncated HL episodes. Surely the whole point of that release format was that the cliffhangers (e.g. that in episode one) would be quickly and satisfyingly resolved by successive instalments, and not left open ended for a longer period than that between Half-Lifeand Half-Life 2? Ugh, it's just so much pointless moaning at this stage.

Out of the games on show, Dead Space 3 and Beyond were the most disappointing for me. Quantic Dream's cinematic skillset seems like it might be undone by poor writing(that whole scene with Ellen Page was uninspired and forgettable), and the DS3 demo didn't seem to be playing to the series' strengths. But at least with the latter I'm sure the game will come good, because fears over the game's direction after the first DS2 previews proved unfounded.

Assassin's Creed II, and it didn't disappoint.

Avatar clothes on Live, COD, the Wii, Valve displaying complete contempt for the Half-Life fanbase, shorter single player campaigns, the rise to prominence of online gaming on consoles.

Bethesda and Rockstar sharing the gold standard in DLC, a giant leap in gorgeously rendered virtual worlds, encouraging steps in choice/multiple outcomes in story-based games, the decline of PC games, DRM, World of Warcraft, LulzSec.

No dead space 2?

jjivey

Half-Life series, someone needs to launch an aggressive takeover against Valve and put an end to the wanton abuse of the patience of we gamers.

More Alan Wake is on the way, so no need to revive something that's still in production.

News of Condemned 3 would make my day, but Monolith seem to have peaked with the second instalment and everything they've been associated with since 2008 has been nigh-on generic and saved only by the horror sequences.

They're great, and TBOGT especially brings back some of the fun factor that GTAIV shortchanged us on. But if you're in the swollen ranks of gamers who hated IV, I wouldn't bother.

I only do it to see who's playing kids games like Transformers and Harry Potter, so I can automatically avoid them. Then I feel guilty, because they might just share an account with their children/nephews/grandchildren. But you can't be too careful, don't want to be mixing with the juniors when the horde is closing in and there's just a frying pan between you and the other side.

Liked it a lot myself. Fully-realised universe, characters you give a frak about, and great avatar customisation.

Some annoying features, but nothing game breaking.

I'd rather they had Condemned 3 in the pipeline, but this will do if Monolith prefer to play it safe.