Apr 20 2009
High hopes for future of gaming
There has been a drought of quality in games over the past several years where a great game can easily be lost in the midst of sub-par products. The near future has great potential to provide gamers with some of the best games to come out in a very long time. The following are titles that I am looking forward to the most to come out:
1.) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 
2.) Diablo III 
3.) Star Wars: The Old Republic 
4.) StarCraft II 
5.) The Conduit* 
The reason I placed an asterisk by the title is because about 10 years ago an independent group of developers coming from out of nowhere named “Dynamix” showed the entire gaming world what a real team-based FPS game is supposed to be all about, so here’s to hoping that these guys put out a great product. The jury is still out with this game. The Conduit guy has gone from looking like a geeky kid showing up to a nerd convention to looking like a futuristic Johnny Cage from Mortal Kombat.
All of the games that I listed above each have their own potential to be incredible games that will suck the lives away from millions of normal average citizens and transform them into cave-dwelling hermits whose skin burns at the slightest contact with sunlight – 
Who knows when StarCraft II or Diablo III will come out, Blizzard seems to be taking their sweet time with both titles and fans world wide have clung to rumors only to end in disappointment. Another RPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic has promise because the vehicle behind it is BioWare, and they have yet to let me down…just hoping this will not be another Star Wars: Galaxies.
In my opinion Modern Warfare 2 will be the redefinition of shooter games by ushering in a new style of teamplay action. This game is the one I am most excited for, and since Infinity Ward is behind it I have full faith that they will spend a considerable amount of time making an incredible game.
Dynamix? Out of nowhere? Hardly, my friend- many an hour of my junior high and high school was spent wasted on Dynamix games. Front Page Sports Football, Betrayal at Krondor, The Incredible Machine. My occasionally frightening recall of WWII fighter planes is entirely due to Dynamix, and the many, many, many hours I spent flying missions in both Aces of the Pacific and Aces Over Europe. Aces Over Europe was also the first game I ever downloaded a mod for from the internet- I think it was to let me fly missions in the P-59 and the P-82. I’ve never played a flight sim I enjoyed quite as much as those…
Anyway, I’m looking forward to seeing Star Wars: The Old Republic. Bioware has yet to do wrong by me when it comes to RPGs, so I have faith that they’ll put out something worth the time.
Also, I resent your comments about people becoming “cave-dwelling hermits whose skin burns at the slightest contact with sunlight.” I can’t help it that my skin burns at the slightest contact with sunlight, I have a genetic condition that causes it- it’s called “having Irish heritage.”
“cave-dwelling hermits whose skin burns at the slightest contact with sunlight” is geared towards those whose only source of light is the glow of a monitor in a dimly lit room.
Dynamix had come out with games previously but the specific guys who are now garage-games were relatively unknown as compared to Carmack’s crew with Quake, Doom, Hexen or even Activision.
Ahhh…I remember Krondor well. I also remember wanting to make a marching band version of it in Macromedia Director because, unlike Quake and all those games, I could just use photos of people as my sprites.
I always ran out of food. My party died wandering in the wilderness.
And Slade – what is this “sun” that you speak of? Is it what passes by my windows every day?
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