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I'm struggling to find any upcoming games that look good to buy for the PC, besides Starcraft 2, and any time I hop on the PC anymore, it's to play TF2 or on the Quake Live Beta.  Keep in mind I'm usually FPS only, but I'm willing to deviate from that sometimes. :P

Whats every one got?

Ones I know of are Starcraft 2, Warhammer Online, Fallout 3, Space Siege (maybe cause I liked Dungeon Siege), and maybe Far Cry 2 thru the end of the year that I am aware or comming out.   There is Huxley but unsure on it right now.

I've been waiting for a good action RPG... maybe Space Siege will be it?

MMMMM FALLOUT 3!!!!!1!!11   ahhh the memories...   Man I would so love to see a MMO for this series.  ;D

Never played fallout in my life. Nothing against it, I just havent heard of it.

The original 2 are futuristic RPGs based if I am not mistaken on the Boulders Gate engine.
I played them a few times, but never got to far in as they were not multiplayer and I am more of a co-op RPG fan.

I had forgotten about fallout 3...  But I heard the first 2 were amazing.

Both fall out 1 and 2 came out WAY before Baldurs Gate so no they are not on that engine.   Fallout 1 came out back in the Amiga days and Fall out 2 in the 486 / Pentium days.  They are rather old games but awesome.

Are you sure it came out for the Amiga?  Fall out came out in 1997 and I thought PC (and MAC) only?  Or were you just meaning it was back when Amiga was still out... though definitely going out the door at that time.  Maybe boulders gate was based on the fall out 2 engine.  I just remember them both played and looked kinda the same.

Yeah I was thinking further back to the beginning of the Fallout line with Wasteland being on the Amiga but in fact it was on the C-64 so I was way messed up on that hehe then Fallout was on the PC does not seem it was that new hehe thought it was early 90's was suprised it was 97 that it came out.   Fallout came out in 97 then Baldurs in 98 but didnt use the same engine.   Baldurs was Bioware, Fallout Black Isle both published by Interplay.   Interplay was the KING or RPG's back then!!!

I liked the engine in Fallout alot better then the Infinity Engine of Baldurs Gate.   Infinity was good but there was something about how fallout played I like better.   I have been a serious fan of the fallout series.

Don't forget about Crysis Warhead, the next game in the Crysis series. It's supposed to be a lot better than the first one, with improvements in AI, coding, and storytelling.

Apparently Crytek has optimized it so well that it will run at full settings on a 2ghz pentium dual core, 2gb of ram, and an 8600gt. Now that is a huge improvement.

Cool.  The graphics on Crysis are good but not that good for what it requires.  Other games are almost as if not as good graphics wise that do not require so much hardware.... COD4 and UT3 are good examples. 

The UT engines in general have always been way ahead in their customization, and ability to scale back on older machines, but able to flash some of awesome graphics on higher end machines, as well.

Another game I've heard about is an all new MMO - Warhammer Online.  I'm thinking about ordering that along with Fallout 3 when I hit up GameStop next, even though I think I'll get Fallout for the 360.

Another title I've researched into is Spore. XD  I may have to pick that up as well.

Most of us have already pre-ordered the collectors of Warhammer about 3 weeks or so ago.   I dont know anywhere that has the collectors available for pre-order anymore sold out all over.   This collectors edition is really worth it you get beta access, access to the live servers 5 days ahead of the general population, all kinda extra in game items, added in game heads, art books, novel, cool warboss miniature for the table top game etc.

Usually I dont think collectors editions are worth the added money but this one sure is.

Speaking of Warhammer, is anyone looking forward to Dawn of War 2? It uses the same engine as Company of Heroes, and since it's been a little while since CoH, it's bound to have improved visuals over that as well. I think it looks fun. I'm a sucker for any rts that features fully destructible environments :)

I've tried reeeally hard to get into MMO's and RTS's in the past.  The most time I've spent has been with the Starcraft and Warcraft series, and I wouldn't even really call it anything now a days.

Warhammer online looks worth checking out, though. 

i plan on getting it, but remember matt, its pay to play! which if i remember right, you dont like!

Uh, lest you forget, I've given Warcrack, CoH, Beyond Earth and several other MMO's a chance before saying "Man, this is bullshit!"  ::)  Keep in mind, I pay for Xbox Live every year.

Pay to Play is definitely retarded, however, if a game (or service!) comes out thats actually worth it (to me), I'll give it a whirl.  Warhammer seems like it might be, but if it isn't, you can buy my copy off of Craigslist or Amazon soon there after.

I don't like to consider my gaming habit a bill, only an all consuming hobby to splurge on when I have the cash. XD

Yeah I do not think I will do anymore pay to play games.  Not because they are pay to play but because of the huge amount of time they take up.  Of course I have said this before and still played the next big MMO but I am going to try to stay away from now on.

Action, I thought you ordered a copy of Warhammer?  Or do you mean after that point?

No the place I was going to order it from did not have that beta key thing you guys got so I did not order it and was going to go try some other place the next day or so but then I just decided not to get it.  They just take too much time.

You have time to play other games....   :o :o ::) ::) :o :o      :-X

lol yeah but they are quick paced and jump in and out, etc.  I just know with WoW for example I was like playing most of the day almost every day.  I do not want to get "addicted" and do that again :)

I know, I was just giving you a hard time.