New Games of 08
 

I've heard a lot about some new games that will be coming out this year or next year and I'm getting really excited. Some of them are...

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance sequel
And apparently they're making a video game based on the SAW movies which I'm really intrigued about.

The only thing I've seen anything of is the Bourne game and I think that's coming out soon or it may already be out and I don't know about it yet, but it looks amazing.

Anybody hear much about the other two or about Bourne?

What the hell would you do in a SAW game? Kill and torture people? Paging Jack Thompson...

Brawl
Rainbow Six Vegas
LOST (rent)
Bourne Conspiracy (rent)

...are the only games coming out relatively soon that I care about.

I would assume you're a victim in the SAW game or a detective chasing Jigsaw, which I hope isn't the latter. Being the victim might make for a good role-playing kinda game where you have to solve puzzles and really use your brain, which are the kinda games I like. Yeah, it'll be chalk-full of gore and blood, but I hope it's a brainteasing kinda game.

The Bourne Conspiracy looks awesome, you fight as Bourne does, you go through all three movies (and books), and the videos just look awesome.

Marvel is needless to say because it's a Marvel game. I'm sure it can only be better than the last one (not that the last one sucked or anything, I just think they'll improve on a lot of aspects).

There will be no Ultimate Alliance sequel. It's not possible anymore.

Really? Why not?

The only games I care about in '08 right now are Smash Bros. Brawl and Spore. I think... Yeah, that's all. I haven't heard about any other good games coming out this year. I think StarCraft 2 could come out this year, but I don't expect it to come out until '09 at least. Guild Wars 2 is another one I'm looking forward to, but again, I don't expect it until '09, but the betas are supposed to start this year, so perhaps you could count it for '08.

I just read the following on SuperHeroHype.com

Here is the information in its original context.

I'm still curious why it apparently wasn't possible, though.

The Marvel character licenses are/were split into too many different places. If Activision is willing to reign in a bunch of them, there's a chance they can make it as epic in terms of character scope, but I know there are a couple that they'll have a hard time getting.

Case in point, the original version of MUA had no Incredible Hulk, that was because some else owned the license at the time. When the license expired, they came out with that character DLC pack. Still, we'll see. A couple of the franchise rights reverted back to Marvel early this year, but I know a couple also went out last year involving certain characters, due to movie licenses, among other things.

I had heard as early as two weeks ago that all thoughts of an MUA two were completely washed down the drain, so we'll see. I'd love to have one, but I enjoy playing devil's advocate, and with all the nay-saying I'd heard prior to this, I'm going to stick with that for now.

Totillo usually seems like he's lost, anyways.

I mean, they really did sorta throw everything they could into the first game, leaving me to wonder what they can really do with a sequel in order to make it a unique experiance from the first.

Civil War, maybe? -=Shrugs=-

That's an awesome idea, actually. Anything besides repeating what they did with the first. And really, when you think about it, they went B-list with a lot of that stuff. Creating whole stages based around stuff from characters like Namor, Arcade, Loki and that...one dude in the oriental castles who's stupid name escapes me right now.

Personally, I'd really like them to actually do something interesting with the story this time. Last time it was a pretty big jumble of insane ideas and utter nonsense. Give us some actual narrative.

Oh, and on topic, so far this year I'm looking forward to a couple things.

Banjo-Kazooie 3
Halo Wars
Prototype
Little Big Planet
Animal Crossing Wii *prays*
GTAIV

Those all jump immediately to mind. I didn't put in Brawl, because that's nearly upon us already.

Longest month ever.

I'm sure there's more I'm lookign forward to this year, but all that comes to mind right now is Soul Calibur IV and Dynasty Warriors 6 (which comes out in a week).

Doesn't it really feel that way? Seriously, I've watched so many Brawl videos at this point that this delay just seems longer and longer everyday. Not to mention almost entirely unnecessary.

Why are we waiting anyway? Did we ever determine that? Was it the fiscal year thing?

Has to be. The next quarter starts in March. I see no other reason.

I can watch these videos of Brawl and see that the ONLY thing in need of localization are the menu's, and that's not exactly time consuming.

Well, they've got at least a few characters to translate into english as well, apparently. Not that it's necessarily needed (though I'da been upset if they didn't at least translate Snake, and I guess they need to record a few lines of "Jigglypuff!"), but it's apparently either being done or has been done for at least a few people.

I'm sure all of that was done looooong ago. Prior to the announcement of the delay. The voice actor for Snake has already talked about doing the voice, in fact.

The one character I REALLY hope they get a different VA for is Pit. I've never heard anything more annoying in my entire life.

I think I've stated elsewhere that I was little concerned about the possible translation of Captain Falcon's trademark voice and the Star Fox characters' lovable Engrish. I know Fox has an english VA listed on IMDb, but as I've said before, IMDb is not the most reliable source for movies/shows/games that aren't already out yet.

(At this point, I'm gonna move the conversation back over to the Smash thread)

no one is anticipating Metal Gear Solid?? (or is that just a given? :P ) that is at the top of my list of must haves.

Don't assume! If Phoenix Games said they were releasing a game entitled "Sh*t: The Game" I'd probably be more interested in it than in MGS4.

I'd be anticipating it if I didn't have to worry about how the **** I'm gonna play it without a PS3.

MGS4 is going to be weak, from all the gameplay videos I've seen. It's basically the same game with better graphics (low framerate, by the way). Which I guess is fine, but the story sounds too weird, even for a MGS game. I'm glad it's the last game in the series. It needs a reboot, anyway.

I've never understood the appeal of the MGS series. And I've never owned a Sony system. It's always been Nintendo and Sega for me. And in recent years, the PC.

Anybody else looking forward to Condemned 2: Bloodshot? I heard the first game was pretty scary, I never played it, but I want to play both games.

Meeeeeh. I'm kinda interested in it, but not enough to the point where I'll actually seek it out. The first was was pretty f*cked up and scary, the level that takes place in a burnt-out department store comes immediately to mind, that was seriously the only time I ever had to actually turn a game off, but it also wasn't all that fun to play. Once I got about half way through I felt like I'd seen all the game had to offer. It looks like they're turning the visceral combat up about 10 notches in Bloodshot, but I've never been one to get excited over crushing someone's head in a large vice. I also loathe the homeless, something which Condemned is choke full of.