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[Malcador]

If only I could find an image for it Maybe not a modern RPG though, looking at that image with more of my brain on.

[Amentep]

Quick Teaser for the next BioWare game

EA teases new BioWare project

 

What the guy is looking at:

[Monte Carlo]

It's a post-apoc game. With romances. Lots of romances. There is one critical path that adds to immersion. Your character, Wolfherd, is a super-pre-defined but completely customizable dude which adds to immersion, choice and (yes) romance. Your actions have repercussions that supercede anything that has happened in any game ever, even everer than the last one we did. This is told in a series of online achievement icons.

 

It's called Nuke-Effect-Age 1: Origins of Shadows of Awesomeness. It will be available as an i-phone app, too.

[cb.spike]

Quick Teaser for the next BioWare game

EA teases new BioWare project

 

Have you noticed http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/1865/dowantkl.jpg

[Labadal]

So I guess most of you people feel like this atm?

 

 

I need more info before I can judge.

[Amentep]

My first thought at the glimpses - with the sci-fi type look so similar to Mass Effect and the destroyed city scape outside the building the guy is in that it was either

 

(a) an alien invasion game

 

or

 

(b) a game in the ME universe set during the "First Contact War" but not (directly) tied to the ongoing Mass Effect series' story.

[HoonDing]

Screenies remind me of Lost Planet, tbh.

[Volourn]

D3 being on console isn't too surprising since D1 was already on console.

 

The new BIO game is likely an offshoot. *shrug*

 

Otherwise, it's way too smiliar to ME imo.

[Calax]

My first thought at the glimpses - with the sci-fi type look so similar to Mass Effect and the destroyed city scape outside the building the guy is in that it was either

 

(a) an alien invasion game

 

or

 

(b) a game in the ME universe set during the "First Contact War" but not (directly) tied to the ongoing Mass Effect series' story.

I think it's ME. The rifle he's using looks like the lower level sniper rifles from the first game.

[Amentep]

My first thought at the glimpses - with the sci-fi type look so similar to Mass Effect and the destroyed city scape outside the building the guy is in that it was either

 

(a) an alien invasion game

 

or

 

(b) a game in the ME universe set during the "First Contact War" but not (directly) tied to the ongoing Mass Effect series' story.

I think it's ME. The rifle he's using looks like the lower level sniper rifles from the first game.

 

Doesn't make sense to be ME, since the video shows ME and DA after they show Bioware's Logo. It'd be like verbally saying "From Bioware, the makers of Mass Effect and Dragon Age comes...Mass Effect".

 

That said I could totally see it as a non-Sheppard ME setting story.

Edited November 17, 2010 by Amentep

[Calax]

I didn't mean that it'd be ME3, but possibly a spin off like you mentioned, but still, my point stands that the rifle he's using looks exactly like the sniper rifles from the first.

[Nepenthe]

Doesn't make sense to be ME, since the video shows ME and DA after they show Bioware's Logo. It'd be like verbally saying "From Bioware, the makers of Mass Effect and Dragon Age comes...Mass Effect".

 

That said I could totally see it as a non-Sheppard ME setting story.

Agreed with the first part, but don't think they'd call anything set in the MEverse anything than ME: something. I'm still thinking new IP or a backdoor sequel in the vein of shattered steel 2.

[Amentep]

Ooooh, okay misunderstood you there! Sorry.

[entrerix]

My guess for title

 

Officially: "Mass Effect: First Contact"

 

on all the promotion materials and box art:

"ME: First Contact"

 

with a new logo for the "ME", to indicate to everyone that they are beginning a whole slew of titles set in the ME universe all under the same logo, ala tom clancy, COD etc etc

Edited November 17, 2010 by entrerix

[funcroc]

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North - first in-engine trailer and new preview

[Morgoth]

Looks pretty cool.

 

I don't mind if this is ME related or not, 3rd person or first person shooter. I buy everything from Bioware.

 

In Bioware we trust!

[Labadal]

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North - first in-engine trailer and new preview

 

Nice find. I heard about this game some time ago, but it was really hard to find any interesting gameplay wise. This could be fun in co-op.

[mr insomniac]

Didn't see this posted anywhere yet:

 

L4D Does LOTR

[Hurlshort]

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/11/17/sta...3-million-times

 

Wow. This is the kind of crap that is really killing the PC industry. Here is a blockbuster title developed solely for the PC, and almost the same number of people that buy it chose to download it illegally. Just wow.

[Oner]

News at 11, console piracy exists too, etc.

[Niten_Ryu]

Real number is probably much higher then reported 2,3 million units (link give incorrect 23 million figure). Blizzard games, including Starcraft 2, are popular in countires where 1 full priced game cost about month worth of wages. They don't torrent it, more likely buy it from fraction of the price from local bootleg vendor.

[sorophx]

True. back in teh days, in the era of 56k modems the only way to play a game was to buy a copy of a cracked version from one of the numerous vendors. thing is, in some cities, I've seen it, they still sell such copies of games, downloaded from sites, for the game's full price the only way to buy a real copy of a game is to order it overseas. Steam helps too, but a lot of people don't even know of it's existence.

[Hurlshort]

News at 11, console piracy exists too, etc.

 

Yeah, no. Not anywhere near the scale that it exists on the PC at least. It is just too easy to pirate on the PC, whereas console piracy has more hoops to jump through.

[Malcador]

Phew, for a moment there I thought it was a problem. Good thing it's not as big a problem as someone elses.

[Oner]

Natural Selection 2 video showing off the horrible balancing

 

/troll