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He is excited about the PC centric country of India, calling it a "poor country that soon will have a completely global, online connected world, for which games will be completely different."

Oh wait if india is poor wouldn't console gaming be the better choice? Since yuh know.. it's cheaper? Consolities please don't use the argument *PC gaming is more expensive* it's only like that in certain areas, so please don't use such a general statement. Just say it's more expensive in my country or something.

anshul89

Yea that's why I said they should say it's more expensive in THIER country and not make a general statement.

Heh, 75%? That's a really inflated figure, of all the PC GAMERS I know none of them pirate software (maybe music and movies). Piracy is damage done by casuals, wouldn't think of playing through my favorite games for free when I know that I wouldn't be getting a sequel because of it, would just be hurting myself to that end. Think any real gamer would see it the same way.

I'm really looking forward to Age of Conan myself, looks like it will try to deliver the total package of PVE and PVP along with some nice steps forward in terms of graphics and gameplay. Think Warhammer has the biggest chance of stepping in on WoW's market, though. Have already preordered both out of sheer good faith that they'll be worth playing at least to the level cap. I'm a big PVP fan, and the class selection in WAR looks extemely interesting, I hope Mythic can get 24 classes balance properly, Blizzard has had a hard enough time with 10.

All-in-all I think the MMO genre will at least start heading in the right direction this year, WoW paved the way over the past couple of years, now other developers have to find a way to outshine it.

Assassin's Creed, don't think anyone that reviewed it played all the way through, the first hour is the best, then it's downhill the whole way. Good story, but the gameplay was a major letdown.

i actually prefer the witcher to be honest. it suffers a bit from a dodgy translation in places (hopefully that will be greatly improved with the patch on may 16th) and theres a few other niggeling problems but overall its a better game imho. better, more believable characters. a more developed world and a story thats not really a battle about good and evil but its all shades of grey. alot of love also went into the games long development period and it really shows. the game has put a smile on my face alot more than ME has.

ME is still a crackin game mind but if i had to choose....it would be the witcher as best game so far this gen imho.

osan0

Totally agree, and The Witcher hit me as a total suprise as well, pretty fresh take on an RPG. Would even throw Crysis in there above ME given how much fun the nanosuit was at times. In terms of sheer scope and story, Mass Effect is still a really impressive game and probably the most fun I've had with my 360.

Zoe Castillo - Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

Jade - Beyond Good And Evil

Alex Vance, Gordon Freeman - Half-Life Series

Captain Price - Call of Duty Series

Saren, Commander Sheppard and the rest of the Normany crew - Mass Effect

Jon Irenicus - Baldur's Gate 2

Altair - Assassin's Creed

Jackie Esticado - The Darkness

Nariko and Kai - Heavenly Sword

Nathan Drake And Elena Fisher - Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Kratos - God of War Series

Prophet, Psycho - Crysis

Andrew Ryan - Bioshock

James Sunderland - Silent Hill 2

Heather - Silent Hill 3

Cloud, Sephiroth - Final Fantasy VII

Kane - Command and Conquer 3

Therese and Jeanette Voerman - Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Sam Fisher - Splinter Cell Series

Sarah Kerrigan, Jim Raynor - StarCraft

And I'll end it with just about any character from Warcraft III. Sure I'm missing some that I'd like to have in here, but no more are coming to mind.

Total Annihilation by far, the game was way better than star craft and came out six months before it yet no one seems to know of it. Sad really :(TrailorParkBoy

TA is one of the most popular RTSes of all time, it was absolutely amazing for it's time in it's scale. What it didn't have was 3 unique factions and extremely balanced multiplayer and an absolutely epic single player campaign.

As for underappreciated, I'd say Beyond Good and Evil would have to be one of my top ones. I'd throw Dreamfall in there as well, both classics, but no one seemed to play them. Maybe Dreamfall will get some more notice as an XBL original, may buy it again just to give it some more support.

everyone needs to realise the ps3 isnt what sonys claims.daveg1

Agree. 4D gaming? What the hell does that mean? Supercomputer with no branch prediction, speculative execution or out-of-order execution? How does it keep from tripping over itself while running random process threads? 256 MB of RAM? Why does it have less video memory than my video card?

No doubt it's a mean machine, but they built in a lot of flaws to save money as is usually the case with consoles.