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New game announcement in GFW July?

Did you folks notice today on the 1up show in Jeff Green's (hope i got that name right) office when they're talking about Crysis, the whiteboard in the background briefly shows System Shock 3 written in a chart of some sort.

Maybe a joke or just wishful thinking, or an indication to what this mystery franchise is?
 
"Ohhhh I know ... Elite 4!!

Come on! It has to be!"


I dunno, David Braben's been pretty open about Elite 4 and said it's not coming until after his current game "The Outsider" is finished, which isn't looking to be done for a year or two. So I doubt Elite 4 would get a cover story when it's even more years away. :-p
 
My moneys on Wolfenstein. Didn't Carmack mention it a while back? It would be time to start showing it off a bit, and it is an old-as-hell franchise.

Did you folks notice today on the 1up show in Jeff Green's (hope i got that name right) office when they're talking about Crysis, the whiteboard in the background briefly shows System Shock 3 written in a chart of some sort.
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They do jokes like those every so often. World of Starcraft, Diablo 3 and some others were on that whiteboard also.
 
Teknopathetic said:
I dunno, David Braben's been pretty open about Elite 4 and said it's not coming until after his current game "The Outsider" is finished, which isn't looking to be done for a year or two. So I doubt Elite 4 would get a cover story when it's even more years away. :-p
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Damnit!!

Wolfenstein seems most likely. But I wish it's E4. :(
 
Who is working on Wolfenstein? If id is taking it fully in-house, I can believe that. It's about time we saw what id's next main project was.
 
EA usually breaks their big games-at least recently (BF2142, C&C3)-in PC Gamer. So we'll scratch that out for now. If the game was SimCity 5 (rumored to exist for some time now) or a new Ultima game, then I would expect the announcement to be in PC Gamer.

Ubisoft just had a blowout with their Ubidays event, where they showed off a lot of PC stuff. So let's scratch them off.

Microsoft has some properties that might be cover worthy, the main one being a new Mechwarrior game. Given that the internal team at FASA is a total goner after Shadowrun, this is unlikely but still possible if they farm it out (which they should do, if they are going to do it). CFS and Flight Simulator are big, long-standing franchises but I don't think they are cover material for a magazine.

THQ is hard to read because of the way they do business with developers, but their exposure to "classic" PC franchises like the ones we would expect is very limited.

So that leaves Take Two, Activision, Sierra, and Atari.

Take Two has the right to X-COM, acquired when it bought Firaxis a few years ago. Now, Firaxis may be working on a new Civilization game (that would be cover-worthy, though it sure seems premature after coming to a close on finishing a big expansion for Civ4 in Beyond the Sword). Something coming out of Firaxis would not be a shocker since they are finishing up work on an expansion to Civ4 and haven't announced the next game they are working on. Also, Irrational Games (owned by Take Two) is largely in the same boat, has a team off doing something secret for some time, and rumors have flown repeatedly that they are working on X-COM, including a website reference that was hastily pulled. Odds are that the GFW game is the new X-COM game.

Sierra has a long list of properties they could dredge out, but there isn't the kind of trail to follow there like in the other games. If they are working on a new title from one of their numerous old franchises, then it'll be a surprise-any speculation to that end is just sort of guessing at this point.

Atari has a TON of the old Microprose licenses that they could dig out and resurrect. The question then would be who would be developing the games. I don't see this occurring in Atari's current financial shape unless it was going to a foreign shop, which would sort of make a cover story unlikely.

Activision is extremely cautious with the PC market. The next Wolfenstien game is a good candidate, though-it's no secret that Raven is working on it, but we haven't actually seen anything from it AND Raven has been very quiet in terms of what their next FPS will be since Quake 4 came out. That's another good bet.

So my bet is either the next Wolfenstien or X-COM, with my bet being on the latter. There are some other interesting choices (Falcon 5.0, MS Flight Sim) but they don't match the kind of game that GFW would get an eight page spread.

It's soo Diablo 3, which will be announced at E3.
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If that is in the works, it would come out at Blizzcon, that's the way Blizzard does things now.
 
"...one of PC gaming's oldest franchises..." implies to me that it's a series that has been around since the 80s or perhaps very early 90s -- (according to my logic) that excludes Starcraft, and Diablo. X-Com and Doom are possibilities as both were released in 1993 but I highly doubt we'll see Doom 4 yet. X-Wing? That's 1993 also. Hmm.
 
CastleBravo said:
"...one of PC gaming's oldest franchises..." implies to me that it's a series that has been around since the 80s or perhaps very early 90s -- (according to my logic) that excludes Starcraft, and Diablo. X-Com and Doom are possibilities as both were released in 1993 but I highly doubt we'll see Doom 4 yet. X-Wing? That's 1993 also. Hmm.
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X-Wing flickered across my mind, but it would be a huge risk from LucasArts and I just don't see it happening.
 
CastleBravo said:
"...one of PC gaming's oldest franchises..." implies to me that it's a series that has been around since the 80s or perhaps very early 90s -- (according to my logic) that excludes Starcraft, and Diablo. X-Com and Doom are possibilities as both were released in 1993 but I highly doubt we'll see Doom 4 yet. X-Wing? That's 1993 also. Hmm.
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If you were an editor looking for good copy, you can claim that X-Com started with Laser Squad, and it wouldn't quite be a lie. That would push the franchise back to the late 80s.

Honestly, I am hoping X-Com, because if it's a new Ultima, we know Garriott isn't involved and it will probably suck ass.
 
Fragamemnon said:
X-Wing flickered across my mind, but it would be a huge risk from LucasArts and I just don't see it happening.
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Yeah, I'm not sure if LucasArts would do it either. I don't even know what the sales figures were like on the original X-Wing and Tie Fighter games, but I know they were critically acclaimed. I think Tie Fighter was PC Gamers highest rated game for a long, long time. I want to say it was like 98% or something crazy like that. There was an article in the mag a long time ago by Matt Firme (remember him?) and Tie Fighter was the game he chose to have if he could only have one game on a desert island -- at least I'm pretty sure it was Firme.

Anyway, I was just trying to find something that was old AND would have "gazillions" of fans. Star Wars definitely does and so did DOOM. Was X-Com even that popular sales wise? To me, for something to have "gazillions" of fans, it needed to have sold a boatload of copies, but maybe I'm reading more into that than I should be.
 
I'm fairly certain that at least the original X-Com sold well. It would run on a wide variety of hardware and it was a critical smash.
 
The original X-COM did very well and it's one of a handful of games that people still bend over backwards to replay on newer systems.

I'd say that a game that came out over a decade ago is old enough to warrant the copy that GFW took.
 
during the releases of xcom 1 & 2, the damn thing could always be found in the top 20 best sellers at all my local computer stores. those were the days :(
 
Hint in the latest 1up show?

*Damn imageshack ban :(*

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The only thing that's obvious is this thread is full of morons seemingly incapable of reading a short thread like this before spewing their nonsense.
 
I thought the next Wolfenstein was 360 exclusive ? It might be a console exclusive though.
How about the day of the tentacles II !
 
Someone on Qt3 pointed out Ryan Scott has a huge Sierra game collection so I have to apologize for doubting his pc gaming credentals

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be Ultima X.
 
Duke Nukem Forever is my pick as I have to assume this game is going to come out one day and there are so few PC franchises that have a bazillion fans. :)
 
Fragamemnon said:
EA usually breaks their big games-at least recently (BF2142, C&C3)-in PC Gamer.
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BF2 and Crysis appeared in CGW first. CGW had the first Spore cover. I think a lot of that is perception and somehow people tend to foget PCG's lousier covers.
 
Jeff Green posted this on Qt3...

Huh. I really do forget that some people outside my mom read my blog. So somebody guessed right on this thread. The answer lies within. And I wouldn't even be cagey about it (cuz honestly it's not the kind of OMFG news that warrants such behavior) if the publisher making it would just freakin' announce it already. And BTW a great many of the guesses here are things I would *totally* love to see.....but the truth is a bit more mundane....
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Oh well, doubt it's X-com then. My new guess is Sim City
 
syllogism said:
Oh well, doubt it's X-com then. My new guess is Sim City
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Yeah, I'm with you on SimCity, though it took some convincing :P.
It is imho totally worth going crazy over though, since the SimCity series is "OMFG awesome".
 
syllogism said:
Jeff Green posted this on Qt3...

Oh well, doubt it's X-com then. My new guess is Sim City
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He reads GAF threads or Qt3 threads or his own blog? Which games were mentioned there and which weren't?
 
As I'm currently on a 56k connection and can't easily go forum-jumping, could someone find a link to the Qt3 thread where Jeff posted that, for the more easily of the guessing?

EDIT: http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=35855

Some of the guesses before the Greenmeister's post:

Zork
Star Control 4
an id game
Ultima
Akalabeth II (BELEIVE!!1)
Command & Conquer
Doom 4
Irrational's X-Com
Monkey Island (Oh I so so so so so so so so so want to believe, but Mr. Monkeyman is working on the new PA game)
Mechwarrior
Sim City 5
Myst
Oregon Trail
Carmen Sandiego (PLZ)
Gabriel Knight
*insert word here* Quest
Populous



One of these... (
My guess is X-Com, but that's not that mundane. Fine- Sim City.
)
 
FartOfWar said:
BF2 and Crysis appeared in CGW first. CGW had the first Spore cover. I think a lot of that is perception and somehow people tend to foget PCG's lousier covers.
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Thanks for the correction-I only went back a little bit when searching for that piece of info.
 
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