Fine, I'll make it a seperate thread...

Online kinda-MMORPG. Free download playable from now until E3 ends in a few days (alpha). I played it for a few hours today. Fun.

http://www.guildwars.com

(preview) http://pc.ign.com/articles/512/512115p1.html

Other than its unique features (not a persistent world, but focused on short missions with groups -- more like a standard multiplayer game, not a persistent MMORPG), the most interesting thing is the final version won't have a monthly fee...

The DS!

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http://www.n-philes.com/e3-2004/articles...fWeWgY.php

Well, it's the first definitely announced game for the DS, so that's news, right? :)

... and it's something from Koei on Nintendo. Rare these last few years...

They killed off Impressions and Papyrus. I don't think I should have to continue...

Well, one thing. I believe that every studio that was once part of Sierra is now dead and buried. And the current "Sierra" studio doesn't count.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/10/commenta...mn_gaming/

If there was anything left to care about at Sierra, it's gone. Now I got to get LOTR3... :(

aka The Longest Journey 2. But unlike that game, a straight adventure (in the Lucasarts style, kinda, with a serious story but with some humor, and no death), it's an action-adventure... done for market realities I guess, but it's definitely unfortunate. Now, having a few battles would be fine -- there are some combats in TLJ but it's just another puzzle and you can't lose or anything, and replacing that with battles would be okay -- but a full action-adventure? Too bad, really. I hope the adventure aspect isn't diluted... and that I can once I play it call it an adventure game with action in the good sense, like Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis or Full Throttle, and not a action game with "adventure" like too many games out there. Oh, I am sure it'll have a great story, but how about the puzzles... and it's sad to see the adventure genre lose another game. I hope that doesn't happen.

Though, the list of games he mentions as influences is a nice list of many of the better recent action-adventures... though this will be their own, obviously. And given TLJ, it'll have a huge amount of story... that was a truly epic game.

On that note, this is one of the few times I don't mind to hear that the next game will be shorter... I mean 'epic' in every sense of the word. Oh, 30-40 hours isn't super long, maybe, but it is for an adventure game...especially since I've always found that they take me a good long time to finish. But TLJ has one of the better (and lengthier, even for the genre) stories I've seen in a game, so it's worth it...

Honestly, now that I think about it, the way they dealt with fights in TLJ was kind of stupid. And since this game is going deeper into these dangerous worlds, adding more combat is natural... and the interview lessens some of my fears. As does how great the first game was... this should be quite good...

Anyway, nice 5-page interview/preview.

http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/512/512726p1.html

Also, the website has more info and screenshots/artwork and stuff.

http://www.dreamfall.com

This is one of the secret Nintendo titles, courtesy of that ign board member I mentioned in another thread who snuck into Nintendo's booth and took a bunch of pictures (apparently Nintendo's security is a joke).

Quote:Game 2: Odama



Honestly, I have no idea what to make of this game. I took a picture of the control scheme:



but obviously it did not come out very well. If someone could work on it, maybe we could find out what is says. What little I remember is that the left trigger controls the left flipper and the right controls the right flipper. So it sounds like pinball right? But it appears to be some kind of Fuedal Japan battle game judging by the poster. You're guess is really as good as mine on this one.

According to some sources Geist, along with Starfox, are 100% done. Don't know if I believe that though. Can't wait to see how it looks now.

Not SF 2, just Starfox. Guess they couldn't come up with a good subtitle.



A guy at the IGN boards who is posting a lot of these E3 pics said that he's seen two of the secret games and even played one of them and if the IGN editors don't have a problem with it he's gonna post pics at 6:30 PST. I don't know if I want the surprise spoiled though, but I'm gonna be at work tomorrow during the conference so it might be better to get excited here. :D

Muh? I thought it was just the new name for Donkey Konga but as this pic clearly shows Donkey Konga is already there. Jungle Beat is the name of the Konga expansion in Japan, but why would they show them separately?

Wow, this is certainly a surprise! Is it an all-new GBA DK platformer or something else?