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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Where are the space games?
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X3:Reunion. If you get the patch to remove the horrid bugs, it's actually a good game. The graphics are stunning, the storyline is good, and assuming you don't cheat it will take you months to finish.
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Where is the improved AI?
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It's better than it was but no, it's not there yet
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Where are the virtual worlds?
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There's tons of 'em. Second Life is the well known one but there are many, many more out there.
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We've been getting better graphics and the same games for years now, and lately not even the quality of those games in the past.
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Well I'm looking forward to Spore, which is due to arrive in September. That looks to be an interesting game. But really, you're going to end up with the same 12 games no matter what - - -just as there are, it is said, only 12 real storylines in anything and all stories are just variations of those 12, so it is for video games as well.
What we really need is a video game in which human opponents really have an impact on how the game goes. We have that, sort of, in the FPS's, but really that doesn't impact the storyline. "oh I got fragged. Guess I'll respawn and keep going as though nothing happened" is not as interesting as "i have to use strategy to get ahead and if I get killed, I've lost everything and have to start from scratch with a radically different character." In short, we are missing the politics. It's what always annoyed me about Civilization. No politics. No intelligence. Just battle strategy. Boring.
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There is so little to review, that IGN is now reviewing 10 year + old games.
Games that had better stories and design than most released today.
Its over.
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There's a reason my Atari 2600 is still hooked up to the TV
BTW watch for Deus Ex 3, due 3rd or 4th Q '08. Promises to be interesting. Yeah, it's a FPS-style game but the storyline and strategy you must employ in that series makes it infinitely more interesting than the norm.