My Predictions for 2004
Thursday, November 13th, 2003 - 5:05pm
1. Doom 3 will be the best selling game of all time..shattering even the mighty Sim's record.
2. Half Life 2 will be released and immediatly forums all across the intraweb will be alive with posts of how Valve sold out with Steam those f'ers!!!@!@#!@#!@
3. WoW will ship in 04' barely....like December or so... the game will be so popular that most people will have zero chance of actually logging in...much like UO initial launch day.
4. EQ2 will be scrapped in favor of more expansions to EQ. Verant not wishing to go head to head with WoW decides to retool EQ2 completely.
5. Sims2 will launch but half the target audience still has Rage 128's and will flood the telephone lines trying to get the damn game to run.
6. Sims Online will fade away and be shutdown.
7. Several once high profile MMOG/RPG's will shutdown..or be merged with former games.
8. Sigil will announce something scary good...Microsoft will further strengthen their ties with the underworld.
9. Nintendo will launch 2 new colors for the GBA to compete with the PSP.
10. Richard Garriot will legally change his name to Toto and rejoin EA to produce a new Ultima SP CRPG. He'll vow to re-unite all the original design team and create the best Ultima ever..
Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarter
85's face the truth you're too dumb.
Count me in if they need beta testers for Anarchy Lode Runner Online.
"If you're not a stinky-stink, you're not addicted to anything!" - Reaper
You are a bastard! we know you know something secret about number 8 and you are rubbing our nose in it!
CONFESS!
3. I figure WoW will be early 2005 though I hope for your prediction. This is Blizzard here. Its gotta be at least a year if not a year and a half of beta testing.
Its plausible that EQ2 will become like another Luclin expansion for EQ. However, EQ2 seems like more of a sequel to EQOA with a huge polygon budget.
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
I don''t think Doom 3 will beat out The Sims because its potential market is so much smaller. You lose the whole play with dolls segment.
"All that time you waste dating and having sex could be better spent scouring the web for new game developer press releases." - Quintin_Stone
FOH
may take some sneakiness on your part....and it may depend on what EQ server you were/are on.
Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarter
85's face the truth you're too dumb.
http://www.myspace.com/armyofthepharaohs
4. EQ2 is alive and well, it will be released as is, if need be.
Xbox Live: Kooter06
I don''t doubt that...but remember no one has yet launched a succesful sequal to a popular MMORPG. It has an interesting dilema..
#1 you ravage your existing cash cow..which despite its age is still kicking new competitors and existing competitors ass all over the place.
#2 You risk if you cannot compete with a close launched other MMOG (WoW) that you''ll not only splinter your audience but you''ll piss off enough that given something equal or better to your 2nd offering your players will jump ship.
#3 The complete graphical overhaul of the existing EQ engine bodes ill for EQ2.. Many are still foggy of why EQ2 exists...wouldnt a second major expansion to a revamp EQ sell more? and possibly attract even more to your core game? Perhaps they''ll take a page out of IoK and merge EQ2 into EQ as an advanced game?
While my prediction is unlikely it is possible...given the right pieces (or wrong if your Verant) fall into place..watch out!
Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarter
85's face the truth you're too dumb.
http://www.myspace.com/armyofthepharaohs
True and there is no denying that WoW will make waves when it is launched, and I am sure I will be ready to surf them
Xbox Live: Kooter06
Even Ultima Online abandoned their sequel- Ultima Online 2
And Anarchy Lode Runner Online sounds cool. Count me in too, Sway
I disagree with what you say, and I will deny, to your death, you're right to say it. - Bucky Katt
Hmmm... that makes me curious about a friend of mine.
She was a 60 cleric (pre PoK) that had bounced around from a few guilds. She was invited to try out for FOH I believe or some other uberguild. I wonder if she made it. I told her not to try out. I doubt she took my advice.
I''m on Mithaniel Marr. I''ve been in the Arcane Order and Runic Lore. Politics totally turned me off from big guild membership.
When I last played, I would walk the earth like Cain in Kung Fu. Helping and grouping with random peeps. Well plus the GWJ night!
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
hehe your pretty good Fang....
Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarter
85's face the truth you're too dumb.
http://www.myspace.com/armyofthepharaohs
EQ2 will come out and be a big hit because, to paraphrase Alien Love Gardner, ""the goal''s all about masturbation.""
I disagree with what you say, and I will deny, to your death, you're right to say it. - Bucky Katt
1) Horizons will sell 30 million copies. Everyone will love it.
For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. ~Ron Shelton, Bull Durham, 1988
2) Ulairi will have the most wonderful acid dreams.
Certis beat me to it. - Elysium
11. Duke Nukem Forever is released.
(I make that one every year...)
The man wears a bucket of KFC on his head. I wouldn't expect anything less. - Pred
Heh the all to likely truth. Buyer beware.
-Griffon
Did Samurai Jack ever get back to the past?
1. Ralcydan and Rat Boy will finally stop living in sin and get married, we''re all invited to the wedding.
2. One console company will jump the gun and sell a console early, the rest will follow suit
3. Consumers will be very pissed and sales for these new consoles will be at an all time low
4. Nintendo will lose much of it''s dominance on the handheld market, though it will still be the largest player of the bunch
5. Online music sales will drop from the backlash as one or more of the stores starts being more restrictive with the rights and/or changes the rights on already bought music in order to force thier customers to pay more
6. I will fullfill my lifelong dream of hunting down the Interplay executive who canned Star Trek: The Secret of Vulcan Fury and punching him in the face at E3
"Poor Eli Nooo... *child starts crying*"
"Come on now, there's no need to make that kind of noise. It sounds awful and you'll upset other people." - Ionae from Spirit Engine 2
1. SOE will reinvent gaming with ""The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai ONLINE"", a MMORPG of completely incomprehensible aliens with dreadlocks.
2. In a partnership with CBS, Maxis will try to cash in on Survivor by creating: Sims Survivor. A game where you sit on a beach and ... don''t...do...anything. Just like the original.
3. The Desert Combat team will release Desert Combat: Mission Accomplished, and then quickly pull it off the web with the explanation that they didn''t really mean that the mission was OVER, but rahter that there is a lot of long hard slogging ahead. (buh-dum bum)
4. People finally acknowledge that CounterStrike is getting old.
5. Gamers With Jobs is bought by Fox and Bill O''Reilly becomes the forums admin. Typical forum posts go something like this:
Hubbinsd: ""I really don''t like the new...""
O''Reilly[admin]: ""Shut up!""
Pyroman[FO]: ""Here is my review of..""
O''Reilly[admin]: ""I don''t want to HEAR it. Shut up!""
Etc. etc.
Ok, back to work.
Xbox Live: hubbinsd
How could they be selling out when it''s *their* service? Utter nonsense. So you''re probably right.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
I think he means ""sellout"" as in ""to become a souless corporate whore"". Which I can see an argument for Steam along those lines
Oh sh*t it''s 2003, I guess I can''t yet.
"Poor Eli Nooo... *child starts crying*"
"Come on now, there's no need to make that kind of noise. It sounds awful and you'll upset other people." - Ionae from Spirit Engine 2
Possible outcomes in 2004:
EA will retire their slogan ""EA Games, Challenge everything!""
Also there will be a post that one of the Best games of the century (...Duke ...Nu..Forever) will be released in summer!
Xbox Live: Nei HD | Playstation ID: Nei_GWJ
You just had to do it, didn''t you? You asked for it!
Here, folks. The second photo down is a picture of Pyro with his avatar.
""Is that a galloping green smiling child hating mutated penis monster in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?""
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
Xbox Live: Nei HD | Playstation ID: Nei_GWJ
...so c-c-c-cold... ...won''t ever f-f-feel warm again...
...THE HORROR! THE HORROR...
MechaSlinky wrote:
-on L4DMy predicition of 2004: I will build a time-machine so I can go back and prevent myself from ever seeing that picture.
I disagree with what you say, and I will deny, to your death, you're right to say it. - Bucky Katt
Oh wow, so many levels to be distirbed on, I''m so glad all those choices will go away when O''Reilly shows up.
-Griffon
Did Samurai Jack ever get back to the past?
1) PlanetSide comes out with an expansion that draws players to the game.
ROFLMAO! how true!
MUST...STOP ...PLAYING ....SWG! MUST GET REAL LIFE BACK AGAIN!
1. Red Sox will win World Series (Pedro will get pulled in the 8th)
2. I''ll play my first ever MMORPG
3. EA will fix their online lobby and rival Xbox live.
4. I''ll use my GBA player...once.
5. I''ll finally get my money back from the fraud case I won against some punk ass on Ebay who ripped me off.
6. Sway will convince me to get a PC game to play him online, but we''ll actually play for longer than a week. (his fault)
Sway will open the box...(dare I hope?)
It''s Banzai. And I would totally play it.
Because no matter where you go, there you are.
Smaller, slower, dumber