By John Walker on December 31st, 2012 at 8:33 pm.
For some reason 2013 doesn’t sound as futuristic as 2012. It’s more the sort of date you’re used to seeing on tinned food than the year robot unicorns attack. But 2013 could well be the best year PC has ever seen. As you drift off toward your Newyearseving celebration of choice, why not leave a thought on what you’re most hoping for?
And I’m not just saying 2013′s going to be good because our livelihood relies on the success of PC gaming, no sirree. I’m saying it because I believe it’s very true. 2013 is going to be the year where people grow increasingly reluctant to buy consoles, knowing that they’ll be out of date and replaced by Christmas. And as console fatigue kicks in it puts the emphasis back on us, before 2014′s TV-toy excitement kicks off. It’s also a year where developers will be building 2014′s games on devkits for the next gen, and thus freed up to explore the greater power the PC already possesses, meaning previews should get more intriguing.
Also, it’s just a crazy good year for the games that we already know are coming out, let alone the unrevealed, unknown indie projects, delivery of so many Kickstarter promises, and break-out surprise mods that will sneak up on us along the way. And of top of that, the completely unpredictable, 2013′s equivalent to the astonishing rise of crowd-funding and honour-payments that formed so much of 2012. I’m fairly certain it’ll be a year that reveals the next twist on big budget game pricing, the evolution of F2P into something new.
2013 will give us BioShock: Infinite, Planetary Annihilation, ArmA 3, Tomb Raider, Crysis 3, Sim City, StarCraft: Heart Of The Swarm, The Elder Scrolls Online, GTA V, Metro Last Light, Watch Dogs, Total War Rome 2… And I’m scraping the surface – we’ll have FAR more detail about the games of 2013 over the rest of this week.
So what are your big hopes for 2013 in PC Land? What games can’t you wait to play? What changes do you expect to see? What new twists and turns do you predict? Let us know below.
31/12/2012 at 20:36 iGark says:
2560×1440 monitors coming down to an affordable price, and graphics improving so that my 6770 (which I was informed was only a midrange card) is no longer viable for running everything on maximum (except Metro 2033.)
31/12/2012 at 20:39 John Walker says:
Happy New Year! http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/08/24/hard-choices-the-200300-2560×1440-27-monitor/
01/01/2013 at 00:55 Scumbag says:
Quick bit of feedback on them: I’ve had one of those Shimian monitors for about 2 or so months and, provided you get a working one, they are really bloody nice.
Beware of the customs charges.
02/01/2013 at 23:45 ashleypatterson8 says:
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01/01/2013 at 03:58 BooleanBob says:
Hnappy new year jOHN
Lovely John
01/01/2013 at 10:38 SuperNashwanPower says:
Heh this is a new years eve drunk post isn’t it :) Hope you had fun and the hang over is kind to you !
04/01/2013 at 01:28 kansqwfq says:
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01/01/2013 at 14:54 Carra says:
Got one for half a year now. The screen is great, everything on it looks very a lot better than on my old screen.
One caveat though, my screen sometimes flickers. It’s solved by putting it off and on again but still…
01/01/2013 at 21:00 Lovelydoveyfrog says:
Happy New Years
01/01/2013 at 21:51 Porkolt says:
Looks like someone has a new year’s resolution
31/12/2012 at 21:25 Kaira- says:
To expand on this: laptop screens that have higher res than smartphones. I mean seriously, 1366×768 or something like that on 15″ laptop? That’s just bullshit, but for some reason it keeps happening.
31/12/2012 at 21:49 bad guy says:
Using a 15″ 1366×768 monitor on my PC. OLED though.
01/01/2013 at 08:03 doggod101 says:
I have a 32” 1366×768 tv for my monitor it seemed like a good idea at the time.
04/01/2013 at 01:42 b546537 says:
It won’t be the Year of Games-for-Linux, but I’m hopeful there’ll be more widespread support for it.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/subterraneangames/war-for-the-overworld
31/12/2012 at 23:28 Lord of the Fungi says:
I recently found my aged ThinkPad laptop when cleaning some of my stuff at my parents place. It doesn’t work well anymore with it’s half gig of RAM and a small hard disk that sounds like a farming machine, but it sports a screen with 1800×1200 resolution. It amazes me that even top laptops today can’t easily match this. What happened?
01/01/2013 at 04:56 hamburger_cheesedoodle says:
The screen is the expensive part. For the price of laptops to come down to what most people were willing to pay, something had to give. Most people will notice when it takes their browser five minutes to load, but most won’t look carefully enough at the screen to be able to tell the difference between 1600×1200 and 1024×768.
31/12/2012 at 21:43 Adekan says:
I have the same card as you, a Diamond HD 6770. I’ve found little it can’t handle at better-than-average FPS.
. You may want to check out updating your CPU/RAM instead. I went from a Core 2 Duo to an i5-2500K and Planetside 2 was like night and day, from slideshow on low settings to smooth, flawless beauty on ultra.
01/01/2013 at 23:00 F3ck says:
At the risk of being a new years dick…
…while the 6770 is a decent card (and huge improvement over, say, the HD 5000′s) it actually falls into a weird limbo between low – mid range…
(e.g., with my overclocked 7870, I have what is widely considered mid range)
…if I’m you (and assuming Adekan is mistaken* and you don’t have this card shoved in a Dell Dimension or some such) I’d consider a 2gb+ card before I try gaming in IMAX.
…just sayin’, before spending two weeks salary on a monitor, maybe Craigslist ye old Radeon for $50/ £30 and put that toward a beefier GPU.
*though, it does help to have a decent CPU picking up the slack.
[edit] there was some obvious misapplication here…this was not intended as a retort to anyone’s comment, more a meaningless addendum…
02/01/2013 at 00:40 Adekan says:
Valid points, I was assuming he was simply commenting on the fact that 2560×1440 monitors were coming down in price, rather than planning to buy one. I would likely look for a new GPU with that large of a screen, or if you’re planning to run dual monitors on 1920×1080.
Otherwise, in spite of its awkward placement between mid and low end cards, I have found the 6770 to be perfectly capable even for top of the line games of this year, and presumably the first part of the next, at least with one 1920×1080 screen. For the price I paid ( Around $80 new off Newegg, with an included (at the time) $50 game (I’ll overlook the fact I’ve never so much as launched it, damn you GFWL) I find it quite a bargain for the power it provides.
02/01/2013 at 00:59 F3ck says:
They seem like decent cards (I jumped from a 5770 – which served me very well for years) and indeed there’s no need for upgrades when performance is satisfactory (although, as a tweaker, I don’t truly believe that)…
…again, I wasn’t intending to directly comment on what you were saying…just thinking aloud about what might be prudent in terms of advancing overall performance, effectiveness…
HNY
01/01/2013 at 13:15 Rinimand says:
What I wish for is an easy list:
- Thief 4 to happen
- Star Citizen to be real
- More time to play games (the ability to slow time in the evenings or 4-day weekends every week would suffice)
- No more crappy console ports – design games for PCs first and then Consoles, or skip the console altogether.
Then I’ll be happy.
01/01/2013 at 13:51 D3xter says:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-Higher-Resolution-Displays-Coming,15329.html
http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/27/sharp-pn-k321-4k-igzo-lcd-monitor/
2560×1440 will soon be Low-Fi and on the rather lower end of the spectrum (within 3-4 years).
Expect things like 16-17″ 3840×2160 Laptops to be unveiled at CES in a week.
01/01/2013 at 17:08 big boy barry says:
you can pick up dell u2711s fairly cheap now a days.i got mine for £450.not cheap i know but a very, very worthwhile purchase,.tied with ssd drives as the biggest single upgrade ive had in many years.
02/01/2013 at 05:43 donweel says:
At this point I would say Pathfinder, and Elite Dangerous
31/12/2012 at 20:37 Fazer says:
Steam on Linux and SteamBox. Finally free from Microsoft.
Also trading games on Steam Market.
31/12/2012 at 21:03 razvanab says:
I hope that Steam for Linux will take off and the Bohemia Interactive stuff will be release form the custody.
31/12/2012 at 21:13 Dana says:
>Also trading games on Steam Market.
Won’t happen. Ever.
31/12/2012 at 21:20 Fazer says:
I thought about it and came to a conlusion it is possible and profitable for Valve. Let’s say you can only trade games from your inventory. You buy a game, pay Valve, put the game in the inventory. Then you create an offer on the market, someone else pays for the game, the money goes to Valve. So it already earned on that one game more than it would without Market.
TLDR same as current trading games on Steam, but you pay Valve for it.
Edit: I’m talking about game gifts in your inventory, not your library.
01/01/2013 at 02:45 The Random One says:
It is also possible and profitable for Valve to give away 100 non-Valve games for each Valve game you buy, but other publishers would never be down with that.
Considering how much publishers hate the second-hand market, they’d hate to lose the one platform where it isn’t as widespread.
01/01/2013 at 13:51 Fazer says:
This is not a second hand market, because you can’t use the games in your inventory. You may think people would get games for cheaper prices, but someone has to buy them first, so in the end the earnings per game will be higher.
And if you’re concerned about the fact that you can buy games with your Steam wallet, the balance is still equal – the same amount of money goes to Steam in both cases, just from different sources.
01/01/2013 at 18:46 Shuck says:
@Fazer: The problem is that the prices are lower than they’d otherwise be precisely because they’re non-transferable. Thus bundle prices, for instance. I’ve bought certain games two or three times over because they were in bundles so cheap it didn’t matter that I already had a game (or three). If you could transfer games, the pricing would have to change, too, to reflect that.
02/01/2013 at 10:16 Fazer says:
@Shnuck: Firstly, I was talking about selling game gifts from your inventory, not games from your library. As I said in other comment, it’s already possible to trade games for nothing and for free, so adding an optiom to trade for money is a nobrainer to me (and you can’t take them out of Steam wallet into real life account).
Secondly, we have huge sales because Valve noticed they bring more profits than normal prices. But I’d agree the sale fever may be strenghtened by lack of second hand market (which transfering gifts for money is not).
01/01/2013 at 03:10 Dana says:
Valve is only distributor. You think big publishers like EA, Acti, Bethesda, Ubisoft etc. would go for that ? Even for a cut of profits ? Nope.
01/01/2013 at 14:07 Fazer says:
Publishers already allow trading game gifts for free on Steam. So I’m sure they would allow trading them for money (remember that you can’t take the money out of Steam).
01/01/2013 at 18:17 Archonsod says:
Erm, no they don’t. Steam allows you to purchase a game as a gift, but you can’t add said gift to your own account and play it, you’d need to buy two copies.
So not only are publishers highly unlikely to be happy with this, but Valve would also need to go away and recode the client to somehow allow you to move games from your account to your inventory in order to facilitate such sales.
And that’s before you consider serial numbers getting shifted around, particularly when there’s 3rd party stuff involved.
01/01/2013 at 18:34 Fazer says:
@Archonsod:
“Erm, no they don’t. Steam allows you to purchase a game as a gift, but you can’t add said gift to your own account and play it, you’d need to buy two copies.”
I never said about adding the game to your account permanently.
The rest of your post is based on misunderstanding, so no comment on that.
And yes, publishers are happy with trading gifts for free. I can’t see why would they be unhappy if they could earn money on it.
02/01/2013 at 07:51 rb2610 says:
I think you can, I bought Borderlands 2 as a gift for my brother when it was on sale in November, his birthday was a few days later so I went for the option of adding the gift to my inventory rather than sending it to the recipient straight away.
From the inventory you can pass it on as a gift or use it yourself. (Whether the recipient can then pass it on again I don’t know).
So if you want to add a game to your inventory rather than library just purchase as a gift.
(You would have to deal with payment outside of Steam though)
31/12/2012 at 21:32 Rhuhuhuhu says:
Got 10.000 EUR to spare, and you happen to be living within the EU? – Help the whole PC community and force them to comply with the law.
Faze’s idea is hopeful, but not legal. The idea behind first-right doctrine means that you have the right to resell a product you’ve bought, without control, limitation or compliance from the original publisher. If Valve takes a cut, and has to green light a sell, they are obstructing free trade.
The European Court ruling did also state that original distrubuters have the right to enforce checks and mechanisms to check that the sale happens in accordance to law. In other works, Steam removing it from your list and adding it to the list of your customer is legal.
More info:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/top-eu-court-upholds-right-to-resell-downloaded-software/
Other then that, there are a lot of hopeful developments in front of the stage as well as behind the stage. The Ouya, Steam for Linux, Unity 3D 4.0 for quick and easy development for smaller teams. And of course, we’ll figure out if all those ambitious Kickstarter projects are worth a damn.
01/01/2013 at 00:31 Harkkum says:
I think that you are somewhat cutting the corners here. The CJEU actually does state in its decision that when a significant proportion of the license acquired is a service rather than goods you won’t have a right to re-sale your license. Even though I would personally lean to your final conclusion I am not entirely sure they would be willing to get it all the way to the court again. After all, the same logic as exemplified in the Oracle case would equally well apply to all application stores, which should allow you to sell apps you have acquired to your mobile device (i.e. iTunes content, Android/Amazon/Kindle purchases and WP/W8 apps).
As the Court also made clear the price for such transaction to take place should not be prohibitive which, with games costing a full dollar a bunch (Humble Bundle) would either have to be non-existent or it would render the entire system obsolete. The same, of course, holds true for the application purchases. However, Valve (and the others) would find it hard to argue that they would have to invest to infrastructure as it is possible already now to gift game codes which would be close to the same as selling them with the minor distinction of erasing the access to content from the seller as part of the transaction.
When it comes to the costs, I’d say that it would be close to free in a number of countries where you are entitled to represent yourself in small civil claims. After all, I could just buy one game from Steam and then ask for them to provide me a service to transfer the game once I get bored to it to, say, my brother. Would they refuse I could bring the case before the court myself and then just ask the district court to file a request for preliminary ruling to the CJEU on the matter after which the case would be stalled for the duration of the proceedings before the European court. Simple and easy (and not too expensive, if you happen to win).
01/01/2013 at 18:24 Archonsod says:
Problem being Steam makes it absolutely clear throughout the purchase that you’re paying for a subscription rather than a good, so it’s entirely a service. What they are in fact selling is access to a game under the terms of their own license with the publisher; in effect they can get around the law simply by pointing out their terms are no different to that of a cable television subscription (particularly now we have cable boxes that download programs …)
01/01/2013 at 19:06 Llewyn says:
@Archonsod: Thankfully, I’m pretty sure you’re wrong here.
Yes, Steam define what you’re purchasing as a subscription but it clearly isn’t: it lacks the two defining features of a subscription, that the term is finite and that there is a recurring cost for extension. Contracts don’t define what things are, they only define how the parties (or more usually, one of the parties) would like them to be treated by courts. Steam’s terms could declare that what you’re buying is a bunch of flowers but it’s still a right to use computer software.
I believe* that the ruling referenced in that article explicitly stated that a sale would not be the provision of a service merely because the supplier claims that it is, but would instead need to be demonstrably a service and not a sale of goods.
*I’m too lazy to check, and so am prepared to be shot down here by those who aren’t.
01/01/2013 at 17:17 roryok says:
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31/12/2012 at 20:38 AchronTimeless says:
My biggest hope is that this will be the Year of Linux. Steam has their beta out and Valve is porting all their own titles as we speak. THQ is looking into the feasibility of supporting it because they got an overwhelming response from consumers on that HumbleSelloutBundle thing. I’ve even heard rumors that EA is porting over Origin to keep up with Valve.
Basically, the one thing that has always held Linux back was lack of support by game devs. Get the newest AAA titles on Linux and that barrier goes away. Add that in with Microsoft really losing their minds with the “walled garden” half of Win8 having every appearance of expanding in the future, and Linux might end up being the “Gamers’ OS” in the next year or so.
31/12/2012 at 21:30 Cinek says:
Yea, yea, yea, each year since ’70 is suppose to be a year of linux, while still Macs are more popular as a gaming platform.
I hope it’ll be a year of Apple gaming. And every new game released will have it’s mac version. ;) :)
31/12/2012 at 21:36 AchronTimeless says:
Macs are better gaming systems? pft. You do realize they run the same x86 based hardware as everyone else now right? Fire up Apple’s site, pick a desktop machine, write down the hardware specs. Then go over to NewEgg and buy the same exact parts (once you sort out how they create their own model numbers for some stuff) and build a system for significantly cheaper, usually around a third of the cost.
I don’t see how charging more for the exact same hardware makes it “better”, but then again, I haven’t had a lobotomy.
31/12/2012 at 21:58 Douchetoevsky says:
The person who you replied to said that macs are “more popular” than linux as a gaming platform, not “better.”
Please work on your reading comprehension skills before you start calling people stupid. Are you sure you haven’t had a lobotomy?
01/01/2013 at 01:32 AchronTimeless says:
Oh sorry, I forgot educationally handicapped people need things spelled out for them. Allow me to help.
Movies: The latest Spiderman film is more popular than Open Water.
Games: Super Meat Boy is more popular than Barbie Horse Adventures.
Literature: 50 Ways to Entertain Yourself On The Toilet is more popular than Sarah Palin’s America by Heart.
If you’re going to sit here and complain to me because you can’t understand the inherent value statement there, that’s not my fault. I’m only responsible for what I say, not what you can understand.
01/01/2013 at 02:19 Grygus says:
Achron, more people just buy Apples than go through your system of saving half their money in order to run Apple software on a cheaper machine. You know that this is true. However, their way is not better; you said so yourself! How is it that you can draw a distinction between “popular” and “better,” but anyone else doing so is “educationally handicapped?” With your superior intellect, perhaps you can better acquaint me with the term, “hypocrite.”
01/01/2013 at 02:53 AchronTimeless says:
No one is this stupid. Seriously, you’re all just messing with me to see how long it takes for me to lose my mind. I refuse to believe that anyone actually has trouble understanding this.
I’m going to put this simply because I’m losing my faith in humanity every time I have to explain this:
1. Why is Call of Duty selling more copies than Barbie Horse Adventure? Yes, the end result is that it’s more popular, but that’s a result, not a cause. Why is it? No, not a demographic issue because look at the crossover of COD and MLP:FiM fans. So why is it? Because between the two there is a rather well substantiated view that COD is a better game than BHA.
2. When you say “yeah yeah yeah… well X is more popular than Y” you’re being dismissive and heavily pushing the implication that X is in fact better than Y. The dismissive attitude immediately before supports the apparent condescending attitude that his chosen overpriced product is somehow intrinsically better.
3. Upon pointing out that this was a false conclusion, I get poked at from the peanut gallery by someone who seemingly can’t comprehend that.
3. Upon completing the cycle of refuting a condescending claim, and then explaining how it was in fact a condescending claim that needed to be refuted, I get called a hypocrite for daring to try to shatter this poor soul’s delusion that he paid more for something when he got nothing in return. See, to be a hypocrite, I’d have to contradict myself. I didn’t ever, not once, in my entire life say that macs were better computers. I merely pointed out that Cinek was claiming that distinction in a round-a-bout fashion and debunking it. The fact that you can’t wrap your head around that, and in fact try to conjure a contradiction out of thin air when it never happened, means I accept your judgement of having “superior intellect”.
01/01/2013 at 04:21 drewski says:
I think you need to put down the overreacting pipe.
The guy you flew off the handle at just had a bit of a cheeky dig at Linux, noting that it’s fans claim it’s the year of Linux every year, and it never happens, while noting that Apple – for whatever reason – is vastly more popular than Linux (and, I would argue, his implication being that Apple is therefore more likely to be an attractive gaming platform for game publishers to target).
I really don’t think he’s saying or implying that Apples are better systems qualitatively than Linux for gaming, and I don’t think that’s a fair inference you’ve drawn.
Nowhere in his initial post did he say Macs were “better” – that was an inference you, and you alone, drew.
01/01/2013 at 05:12 AchronTimeless says:
Interesting critique but I disagree for reasons which are already apparent. Thanks for actually making a valid point instead of making me want to offer you a helmet for your own protection. Faith in humanity partially restored.
01/01/2013 at 05:12 GepardenK says:
The fact that something is better just because its more popular is a crazy assumption to make. It might be true in some cases but having it as a principle will clearly skrew with your view on things in the wrong way
01/01/2013 at 05:17 TCM says:
Ahcron: Congratulations on being the first person to type a whole essay’s worth of kneejerk defensive text based on a complete lack of reading comprehension and/or a sense of humor in the new year. I look forward to seeing what your next Wulf-level rant is.
Also I like your counting style, if I can be pedantic for a moment.
1, 2, 3, 3, presumably 4 is next.
(It amazes me that anyone can devote so much time to typing so very little of value, and not give it even a cursory glance for errors.)
I’m not a smug, pedantic, condescending jerk, or anything. I’m just like that towards people who like Linux, since I am clearly a superior human to them.
[Let me know if I bruised your ego, it needs a good bruising.]
01/01/2013 at 07:20 AchronTimeless says:
3 was so full it needed to be broken into sections. Yeah.. we’ll go with that, or that I’m tired. =)
Point still stands though, claiming macs are more popular is ipso facto claiming they’re better or else they wouldn’t have been more popular, at least in the context it was given. Since you all keep telling me that it’s stupid to claim that, I’m a little confused where you think you’re disagreeing with me since that was my entire point. Happy new year and all that rot.
01/01/2013 at 18:22 dsch says:
One more vote for ‘I don’t see how the other guy was actually saying Macs are better.’
:)
02/01/2013 at 01:50 Matindo says:
Chalk another one for the “I can’t believe you thought he was implying Macs are better than Linux just because he said they were more popular” camp.
02/01/2013 at 08:00 rb2610 says:
McDonalds is far more popular than any Michelin Star restaurant in the world, it goes without saying though that the food at a Michelin Star restaurant is infinitely better.
More popular =/= better.
For a more tech related example, look at Internet Explorer, until fairly recently IE had the largest market share, thus was the most popular browser, is it better than FF or Chrome, not by a long shot, it barely scrapes by as ‘good’, let alone ‘better’ than anything else, yet it was the most popular.
01/01/2013 at 18:41 karmafarm says:
Clearly, Apple computers are shinier, and therefore technically superior.
My hope for gaming in 2013 is to scrounge up the funds for one of they new iMacs. Do you think I can get a red one? Cos that’d be even faster.
02/01/2013 at 03:22 lordcooper says:
I want a stripe on mine.
02/01/2013 at 05:27 IceSentry says:
It’s fine for me since most mac compatible games use opengl which is the same for linux. Basically if a game works on mac it will probably work on linux very easily the only reason windows is still the biggest os is directx. I also prefer linux because i don’t like apple os.
31/12/2012 at 23:54 wyrmsine says:
It won’t be the Year of Games-for-Linux, but I’m hopeful there’ll be more widespread support for it.
01/01/2013 at 09:34 goettel says:
A (wireless headset-based) virtual surround solution that doesn’t suck monkey balls.
Hell, as long as I’m hoping: full 3D (spherical) hi resolution rendered audio (probably on dedicated hardware) with wireless headsets switching to wi-fi for much needed extra bandwidth (24 bit/192 kHz) and stability, with full 3D mixing of all available audio sources.
31/12/2012 at 20:40 FullMetalMonkey says:
Biggest hopes for me are: GTA V (IF it comes to PC), Watch Dogs, the evolution of Planetside 2, Sir, You are being hunted!, Prison Architect and Maia. But like John says, its only scratching the surface.
31/12/2012 at 20:40 FullMetalMonkey says:
Oh and World Peace! <3
31/12/2012 at 22:00 Lord Custard Smingleigh says:
World peace will be delayed until Q1 14. You heard it here first.
31/12/2012 at 22:08 Cuddlefish says:
How wonderfully hopeful. You’d think people would realize it’s vaporware at this point. How many lead developers have they gone through since Wilson?
31/12/2012 at 23:25 Hematite says:
I heard it will be an Xbox exclusive for a month, too.
01/01/2013 at 01:37 Dunbine says:
It was actually released in late 1991, but it was very buggy and in need of significant patches. Crashed a lot. No talk of a remake since then, even though there seems to be a significant interest.
01/01/2013 at 05:15 GepardenK says:
I tried the early beta back in november 1990. Lots of bugs and a stupid consept tbh. Not sure what they were going for really
01/01/2013 at 07:27 emertonom says:
The 1991 version was *terrible*. No balance at all, and tons of pay-to-win nonsense. Besides, didn’t all the servers come down when they were sued over some kind of copyright dispute by the estate of John Lennon? I think you can still find a cracked version online, but it seems kind of pointless to play in single-player.
01/01/2013 at 09:39 AngoraFish says:
I would totally throw money at kickstarter for the remake.
01/01/2013 at 12:28 lijenstina says:
World peace doesn’t sell enough copies as a platform so the publishers from big countries aren’t interested in support it, and has always on DRM.
31/12/2012 at 20:40 KevinLew says:
Well, the Watch Dogs E3 demo certainly blew me away and I have high hopes for that game. However, tech demos rarely turn out to be the same as the real game, and massive hype has nearly always led up to serious disappointment.
31/12/2012 at 20:40 povu says:
I’m hoping for plenty of Kickstarter successes.
31/12/2012 at 20:49 Craig Stern says:
This! Crowdfunding is key to the continued vitality of indie games development.
31/12/2012 at 23:01 abandonhope says:
Me too. After one half-fail (Haunts) and with only a couple rough alphas/betas to go by, I’m looking forward seeing the results of all that money I may have waved goodbye to. Had I backed Chivalry or FTL, I’d count those for sure, but I didn’t, so I’m still kind of waiting on my “first.” Nekro, Kinetic Void, and The Dead Linger especially, if they make it here by Q4 2013, because they are not like other things I’ve already played.
My smaller hopes:
I’d love to see the campaign for Lodestar: Stygian Skies relaunched. The dev asked for a pittance for a Linux-first release, but all the Linux gamers who should have cared apparently didn’t. Too original, too sci fi-weird maybe. If you care, imagine the gameplay of Dead State and that RPG Black Isle claims they want to make, but still pretty different.
I’m also hoping Cartel lands this side of 2013.
And Age of Decadence. Is this the year? It’d be a shame if an old-school RPG in development for so long, and for such a barren period, were to be released after old-school RPGs had already made a comeback.
01/01/2013 at 01:05 LionsPhil says:
Yeah, a few of those should be due to be completing.
Mostly though, I’m hoping for a quiet year so I can catch up!
01/01/2013 at 05:39 meatshit says:
It’ll be interesting to see the reaction to the first high-profile Kickstarter failure as well.
01/01/2013 at 12:06 LionsPhil says:
That good ol’ British spirit.
“Success? Optimism? Bah, it crash and burn, you’ll see.”
31/12/2012 at 20:43 baziz says:
Oculus Rift
Oculus Rift
Oculus Rift
Development seems to be moving forward at a decent pace, and the price point is well within standard monitor price. Excited for this and any other competition that comes along.
31/12/2012 at 22:35 Clavus says:
Hope the Oculus Rift will grow into something amazing. And not just because I have a dev kit on the way.
01/01/2013 at 10:28 Mbaya says:
I’m in the Oculus Rift boat as well, really more excited to get my hands on one and see how dev’s use it more than any single game this year.
01/01/2013 at 10:58 goettel says:
Still on the fence for the dev kit, although it seems very reasonably priced – if they can deliver on their promises. If Hawken turns out great, that might be worth it already.
01/01/2013 at 13:06 lazy8 says:
Yes, looking forward to play with the Oculus Rift, especially in combination with the Leap controller.
01/01/2013 at 17:21 roryok says:
Occulus Rift sounds like something my optician might warn me about
31/12/2012 at 20:44 F3ck says:
I’m hoping to get “Sir, You are Being Hunted” changed officially to “You, Sir, are Being Hunted”…
…as this is how it invariably forms in my head…also I feel it sounds decidedly more “English”…
[edit] says the bourgeois American
31/12/2012 at 22:48 Phantoon says:
Not British at all. No “Cheerio”, no “pip pip”, no “wot”, and no statements about tea.
01/01/2013 at 01:23 Lanfranc says:
“You’re Beeing Huntid, Guv’ner” *spits*
01/01/2013 at 02:42 I Got Pineapples says:
‘Sir, You are being hunted now excuse me while go and have this Scotsman I own beat an Irishman who had the termacity to look me directly in the eye while I get drunk on gin.’
01/01/2013 at 05:18 Lord Custard Smingleigh says:
How quaint. One would think that there is a shortage of urchins who will perform simple errands like that for a shilling.
01/01/2013 at 06:26 I Got Pineapples says:
I have always found a stout length of wood to better serve for beating the irish than an urchin child. While once I would have been inclined towards the latter, an urchin child not gainfully employed in the mills being slightly less useful than cane or similar beating implement, I have found the irish to be terribly impertinent of late and it is more sensible to merely purchase the one irishman smiter and keep it to hand instead of renting several urchin children.
And, while you may think me some sort of wretched fabian for this, I find the children to be terribly hard on the hands of poor McConnel. Yes, while the scots don’t feel things in the same sense a real human might, being closer to the heathen chinee in that respect, I do imagine I sometimes see some glimmer of something approaching comprehension in his dull, bestial eyes.
01/01/2013 at 17:23 roryok says:
poppycock. urchins are only uncomfortable to use when deceased. you need merely keep fresh ones
01/01/2013 at 00:34 Flimgoblin says:
Imagine it’s your butler saying it, all makes sense.
01/01/2013 at 02:49 The Random One says:
Butt-ler? Is that a British thing? In the US we call those ‘illegal aliens’.
01/01/2013 at 12:31 lijenstina says:
I thought in the US you call them – “The rest of the world” :)
01/01/2013 at 16:03 Zakski says:
sssssssssssh, Americans aren’t supposed to know about the rest of the world, you’ll doom us all!
02/01/2013 at 16:51 Solidstate89 says:
Nah, we refer to the rest of the world as our Firing Range.
01/01/2013 at 01:06 LionsPhil says:
Well, I suppose if you wanted to sound more like Michael Caine…
01/01/2013 at 04:19 F3ck says:
hmmm…how ’bout:
What’s all this then? Bloody ‘ell! Automatons ‘re persuin’ ya…yes, quite.
…too long?
01/01/2013 at 07:53 jhng says:
I prefer “Are you being hunted, Sir?” in an open-world, procedurally-generated haberdashery department. Back to the drawing-board, Jim!
01/01/2013 at 17:24 roryok says:
Or just a sitcom called “Are you being Hunted?”
31/12/2012 at 20:45 aepervius says:
My big hope for PC gaming for 2013 :
1) that PC does not get droopped like an old socks because of the promise of advaent of a new console generation (like they did for PS3/XBOX360).
2) more & better indy
3) finally a sandbox MMO which lets you build your own adventure (like the forge in STO or like the NWN adventure)
01/01/2013 at 05:28 LittleWormOnTheShelf says:
We will always be drooped, it’s our lot in life.
31/12/2012 at 20:45 TCM says:
I hope for more XCOM content, for Rome Total War 2 to not suck (not that I think it will), and that CK2 is expanded into infinity.
I guess for a non strategy game hope, I hope that a good first person sneaker comes out in the upcoming year.
01/01/2013 at 02:22 Grygus says:
I came to make a post but you already made it. I’ll just pretend to click Like and move on.
Oh wait! Also, Grim Dawn. Now my post isn’t useless! Yay!
01/01/2013 at 11:34 Mirdini says:
A man after my own heart.
Also looking forward to Bioshock Infinite and Metro Last Light, but who isn’t on that count.
01/01/2013 at 19:51 Davie says:
Proper mod tools for XCOM would make me immensely happy. I can’t get the image of a Deathwatch conversion out of my head…
31/12/2012 at 20:46 derella says:
I’m hoping for a bunch of RPG announcements. I feel starved, and GW2 just isn’t cutting the mustard anymore… Supposedly DA3 will be released in the fall, which seems sudden, since virtually nothing about it has be revealed yet.
Also, Kickstarter. The Cave. DoubleFine Adventure. TellTale’s Fables game.
31/12/2012 at 20:47 DestructibleEnvironments says:
I’m hoping for more cats in video games.
31/12/2012 at 21:50 Dances to Podcasts says:
Mew-genics!
01/01/2013 at 02:25 Grygus says:
More cats? I think you have to draw the feline somewhere, and I feel like this crosses it.
01/01/2013 at 06:25 Skabooga says:
You might have to wait a while. I don’t think that trend is going to hit video games right meow.
02/01/2013 at 00:59 bear912 says:
Man, the pun threads these days are kitten pretty lackluster.
31/12/2012 at 20:47 Malleus says:
I hope the Bohemia guys get released from Greece because that is just ridiculous.
Incidentally I also hope Arma 3 will get released and my PC will be able to run it … on medium … at 20 fps … it’s not much to ask for is it?
31/12/2012 at 20:52 F3ck says:
Hear, hear…
…also system specs for Arma 3 seem pretty tame, mon frere:
http://www.game-debate.com/news/?news=891&game=ArmA
31/12/2012 at 20:49 NathanH says:
I can’t say any of the games listed particularly excite me. Starcraft will be good I imagine. Apart from Crusader Kings 2 DLC I am most looking forward to seeing the new Eador game and seeing what happens with some of the indie or kickstarter strategies/sims/RPGs. I have loads of very good and very replayable games though, so frankly there could be no new games next year and I wouldn’t get bored.
31/12/2012 at 20:49 PopeRatzo says:
My greatest hope for 2013 is that both next-gen consoles flop and the go-to platform for gaming becomes Linux.
Also, I want to see the line between indie game companies and the big companies start to blur. But it will take indie companies putting out a few real blockbusters, not just “good enough for indie” games.
Also, may the big third-person games flop so game companies stop making so many of them. And may there be some better way for game companies to “protect” their games besides lathering on a sucky and useless “co-op” or “multiplayer” section.
31/12/2012 at 20:50 AndrewC says:
I hope to buy the biggest, bestest pc in the world, that will not only run every single game at 60fps minimum on max but will do so without any glitches, crashes, incompatibilities or general fannying about at all. And be really quiet.
What do you think?
31/12/2012 at 20:53 DiamondDog says:
Yeah I’m sick to bloody death of medium. I want to get reacquainted with Mr. Ultra Setting.
31/12/2012 at 21:07 AndrewC says:
I’m hoping it will make me coffee too.
01/01/2013 at 01:07 LionsPhil says:
I want graphics cards to abandon fans.
And processors to give them a stern talking to.
09/01/2013 at 02:19 Josh W says:
Yeah, and just move into making graphics for themselves, following their own muse.
01/01/2013 at 02:45 philbot says:
Oh man, after spending so many years on medium/low I saved my pennies and bought a new PC in October. It is glorious. The best part about it, is I spent a bit more and got better hardware- Not a single faulty component in the lot. Installed windows on first power up and it’s been smooth sailing ever since. I hope you will have as much luck as I did.
01/01/2013 at 10:25 Lawful Evil says:
Dreams. You can have the best(est) hardware in the universe, but you’ll still have to deal with the software I’m afraid. And software (games especially) can be quite buggy as we all unfortunatelly know, and can render your beastly graphics card (for example) almost useless.
31/12/2012 at 20:50 1Life0Continues says:
The end of Zombies. Please.
Less focus on graphics and more focus on mechanics and story.
Fair pricing across the globe instead of the usual regional gouging.
And, for the impossible dream, less arseholes in multiplayer.
Begin telling me why I am wrong.
31/12/2012 at 22:50 Phantoon says:
WANTING things is WRONG! Quit your job and abandon society to live in the WOODS!
01/01/2013 at 02:32 Grygus says:
I will try.
Zombies possess no moral compass, and therefore cannot be evil; they are merely true to their nature. By opposing them, you place yourself against something that cannot be wrong, and is therefore right; by fighting against right, you become wrong.
Video games are about graphics; that is why they are called video games, and not story games or mechanical games. By opposing the video in video games, you seek to change the very nature of our hobby, which is clearly wrong.
Fair pricing leads to thinking that everyone is equal, but an even cursory review of history shows that there are winners and losers, which puts that notion to the lie. Therefore, wishing equality is wishing for unreality – obviously wrong.
Mutiplayer games full of friendly and helpful communities would not induce rage; since rage is a primal emotion useful for committing the kind of violence reserved for murderous rampages and high scores in video games, you seek to remove a useful tool. I don’t see how that could be right!
31/12/2012 at 20:51 Knightley4 says:
I just hope that gameplay of watch dogs will not be too assassins, uh, creedy.
31/12/2012 at 20:54 Drake Sigar says:
Dead State. I’ve waited long enough.
31/12/2012 at 21:11 JB says:
I am also eagerly awaiting Dead State. Also, I’m very keen for Card Hunter!
02/01/2013 at 13:44 Flakfizer says:
Dead State is the only upcoming game i crave.
31/12/2012 at 20:59 IneptFromRussia says:
From all announced big titles (and not only on PC), i do not think any one of them will be 2013 GOTY, well maybe with exception of GTA V. So either 2013 will be a slow year, or something completely amazing will surprise us. *fingers crossed*
31/12/2012 at 21:01 MuscleHorse says:
Saving up for a new PC is all at the moment really. Far Cry 3 was fun and all but the stuttering is starting to get in the way of the endangered species murdering fun.
31/12/2012 at 21:03 Tim says:
Please let Star Citizen not suck
Please let the Oculus Rift not suck
Please let AMD not go under
31/12/2012 at 21:40 Cinek says:
SC in 2013 will have only a closed pvp beta. Hardly anything to judge the game yet :) ;)
But besides that small detail: +1 to everything!
02/01/2013 at 21:04 wodin says:
I’m sure there are lots hoping SC wont suck, considering some have spent extraordinary amount of money on it, Can you imagine the backlash if it didn’t turn out that great..and some have spent well over £100 others well more than that!
31/12/2012 at 21:04 Toupee says:
I don’t think I’m the only one who is most looking forward to Steam blossoming on Linux. I’m very curious as to how Windows 8 backlash will effect the future of PC gaming. Could it be that Steamboxes make their way to the market? Is it even possible for Valve to get DirectX working legally on Linux? Could developers ditch it in favor of multiplatform support?
I got a Nexus 7 recently, and it’s my first foray into the Android world (yes, still rocking a phone with a T9 pad). It’s awesome, and I’m excited to see how that will continue to evolve.
31/12/2012 at 23:38 Optimaximal says:
Why would Valve need to have anything to do with DirectX when there are perfectly serviceable alternatives to each of its functions available? Ask Blizzard, Valve and iD!
01/01/2013 at 16:22 ulix says:
Cause they’d have a library of thousands of games that would immediatly work on Linux, without any porting needing to be done… instead of eight games.
02/01/2013 at 16:54 Solidstate89 says:
Because even John Carmack has publically stated that Direct X is better than OpenGL.
31/12/2012 at 21:06 Isometric says:
Looking forward to ROME 2 (since rome was my favourite) and I had much fun with Shogun 2 and it’s expansions this year, really wanting to see CA go further and better and bigger. I hope Bioshock Infinite lives up to something compelling because that world looks fantastic. DAY Z was a harrowing journey of discovery and fear and of course I’m looking forward to playing the standalone version along with ARMA3 hopefully, fingers crossed. I’ll still continue to play Red Orchestra 2 because it has so much life in it, with the new maps and such and the fact that Rising Storm may come out this year, so those will continue to be my MP joys. Hoping to properly play Crusader Kings 2, finally sit down and read the manual, do all the tutorials and really get to grips with it. I look forward to GTA V although that might be the very end of the year if at all. Looking forward to reading lots about some of the cyberpunk games coming out next year. Can’t wait to see more of SPACEHULK. Company of Heroes 2 looks marvelous and I’m sure I’ll get stuck into that, even the MP maybe. Trying to get into more war sims next year (already getting stuck into Achtung Panzer) and there are a few kickstarters I backed that I’m looking forward to getting my grubby hands on. Hope to see more MEN OF WAR.
There is a lot going on and there always will be, and it’s great to be a pc gamer.
31/12/2012 at 21:06 pi8you says:
A universal Keybinding API/file, managed by Steam or otherwise. Or at least sequels that look at the prior entry’s save files for keybindings and update to match automagically where applicable.
(I may have just started FarCry3 last night and been a touch annoyed at what it thought were sensible defaults)
01/01/2013 at 20:28 Somerled says:
I’d just be happy with everyone coming to their senses and putting the default crouch button back on Ctrl and not C.
31/12/2012 at 21:09 Kong says:
More like The Walking Dead.
Something like Vampire: Bloodlines.
A blend of both!
Hopefully not with Vampires or Zombies. But I take what I can get.
And FTL 2. Yes.
Happy new year RPS. Keep on rocking.
01/01/2013 at 02:20 Grayman says:
Instead of something different from that you get Brian Mitsoda making a zombie game!
31/12/2012 at 21:09 benkc says:
As said above, for Linux gaming support to really take off.
Also, for [at least] one of the zombie survival/building games to be better than I expect.
Also, for most of the backed kickstarters to actually accomplish their goals. Not just for the sake of all the current backers, and devs, and the enriched gaming landscape that will result; but also for the sake of future kickstarter pitches.
31/12/2012 at 21:11 Lucas Says says:
Considering I’d not heard of most of my favorite games this time last year–thanks, indies–I’m expecting to be pleasantly surprised by games I’ve never heard of.
Oh, and Monaco. Having already played Monaco’s little IGF-winning now pre-order bonus to death, I’m excited beyond the capacity for rational thought for Monaco. My brain will shut down when it’s done.
31/12/2012 at 21:12 Zenicetus says:
In terms of impact on my wallet, I’m looking forward to my current computer lasting at least another year before I need to upgrade. This year I upgraded the GPU, and with the new console release timing, I should be set for a while.
On the other hand, this could be a fairly dry spell for new game releases I’m interested in. Nothing on that list of upcoming titles in the OP really interests me, except for Rome TW 2. I’m not sure there’s anything else on the horizon, unless Bioshock Infinite turns out better than I expect from the initial info and trailers. Mostly I’ll be looking forward to incremental improvements in games and sims that are under continuing development, like Endless Space, X-Plane, and Rise of Flight.
My one big “keeping fingers crossed” hope is that the XCOM devs find a way to extend replayability. I didn’t expect it to be such a one-trick pony (although it’s a really good trick, while it lasts). Maybe they could open up more modding options, or release a sandbox DLC of some kind. I’m afraid they’ve boxed themselves in with the game engine, but I’m hoping to be surprised.
31/12/2012 at 21:12 Filden says:
2013 is the year I hope to see RPS step it up again, and give us some epic, multi-part, multi- participant game journals like the Solium Infernum and Neptune’s Pride sagas of yesteryear. I can get Farcry 3 GOTY noms from any old mainstream gaming site. Remember who you are, RPS!
31/12/2012 at 21:12 Moraven says:
Kickstarter projects launching games successfully and on time.
The phrase ‘Year of Linux’ not be uttered.Blizzard’s new MMO announced at BlizzCon 2013 along with D3 expansion.
THQ lives. Relic announces Homeworld 3.
MWO meta game gets released.
Good point on multiplatform games. Devs will be working on PS4, Xbox 720 dev kits. Give the PC versions a little more graphic fidelity.
31/12/2012 at 21:12 Stalyn says:
I hope PC ports will be taken a lot more serious than they have lately (Dark Souls, Darksiders 2, etc).
31/12/2012 at 21:16 Oak says:
1. Dinosaurs in Far Cry 3
2. Firaxis (or Goldhawk) doing Terror from the Deep
3. Subversion brought back to life
These are my demands.
31/12/2012 at 21:18 TCM says:
2: No, no, no, no, no, no no, no, no, no — ahem — no.
For the love of God, if Firaxis does an XCOM expansion or sequel, I pray it has far, far more imagination and effort put into it than that mess.
31/12/2012 at 23:31 Hematite says:
It desperately needs an overhaul of the strategic game, and hopefully some way to skip the bollocksy base assault story missions. The main thing stopping me from playing another campaign is having to trudge through those enormous bases which are basically a line of spawn points you have to walk through to progress.
That reminds me, I must check up on Xenonauts.
01/01/2013 at 01:46 Oak says:
It was lazy and unimaginative to reskin the original and call it a sequel, but the aquatic theme, monster menagerie, and spooky-ooky-ooky music are all things I loved in TFTD and would love to see reinterpreted in a modern game.
31/12/2012 at 21:27 Blackcompany says:
Would love to see a Far Cry type game (FC 4 maybe) in a setting where I don’t start to feel guilty about killing the damned animals after a while. Got enough of uber-aggressive, realistic wildlife in Skyrim. Which…was a fantasy game…so…yeah. Go figure.
Oh…and if they would kindly keep the “rpg aspects” (read: shitty, arbitrary skill unlocks that let you do what the prior title let you do from the start) out of my shooters…that would great, too.
01/01/2013 at 18:44 Dances to Podcasts says:
So… set at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
31/12/2012 at 21:18 mbp says:
Elephant in the corner:
Its all very well saying that PC gaming is healthy but the PC industry itself is far from healthy. With the rush towards tablets and the like some industry insiders are predicting that separate graphics cards are a thing of the past.
31/12/2012 at 21:55 bad guy says:
It is inevitable, we are a dying (master XD) race.
31/12/2012 at 22:33 wodin says:
With the new consoles maybe here by next Xmas well the XBox anyway..this healthy PC wave will have crashed against the shore and withdrawn back out to sea. Also not only the new consoles but tablets\phones this time around it’s an attack from two different sides. Then we have Windows 8. In 18 months the doom of the PC will be doing the rounds again if the new consoles have hit the shelves by then.
01/01/2013 at 03:38 Narzhul says:
Tablets have nothing to do with the gaming market really. Nvidia has said that while all in one desktop sales have gone down, PC parts sales have gone up.
01/01/2013 at 10:11 subedii says:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/12/20/next-gen-consoles-will-struggle-to-beat-pc-say-industry-insiders/
Now naturally he has a vested interest in saying these things. But with regards to the console market in general, I believe he’s right. Next Gen console hardware isn’t pushing specs the way it has previously, and you’re getting diminishing returns for a variety of reasons regardless. It’s going to be extremely hard to manufacture the same kind of jump seen between the PS1 and the PS2, or the XBox and the360. And that’s not just because of the hardware specs either, it’s also because all the new stuff released for them is likely to need to adhere to a 1080p standard (this generation, a lot of games don’t even reach 720p).
Then you’ve got other issues. Backwards compatibility on digitally purchased products (I’m almost certain at least one of the big three is going to fall foul of this one), increasing cost of development for “AAA” titles (necessitating even more cross platform releases, which by the end of this generation, have basically become standard now), Whether or not the console manufacturers are going to keep chasing the elusive non-gamer / casual market.
With regards to tablets things are a bit more iffy, not to mention more complex. It fundamentally resides on whether the Tablet Computer market subsumes the market that is the Gaming PC. And then there’s the question of what exactly defines a PC, is it just the modifiable hardware, or is it an open standard? Which in itself leads into questions of what exactly the future of something like Steambox could be.
It’s not really all that cut and dry.
31/12/2012 at 21:22 webwielder says:
I hope that game publishers will realize that Macs comprise a considerably larger percentage of the consumer PC market (the market which plays games on their computers) than the overall computer market (most of which are business boxes), which will cause them to release their games on the Mac, because money.
03/01/2013 at 14:12 uh20 says:
oh dear, not much for hating, but for the sake of our tightly sewn pockets, those bloody expensive mac’s need to die off more than anything.
if you took every word “mac” and replaced it with “linux”, then i would be agreeing with you.
31/12/2012 at 21:23 Rao Dao Zao says:
I’m hoping that DRM will go away and people will make more giant singleplayer RPGs and less F2P multiplayer shenanigans.
… I can dream. ;_;
01/01/2013 at 09:17 Kismet says:
*Joins the dreaming*
31/12/2012 at 21:24 Blackcompany says:
For 2013:
-That the ARMA devs are released. That’s just nuts.
-Open world/Sandbox games that are – somehow – not reliant on the Skinner box or built upon soulless fetch quests and ultra-repetitive game play
-More stealth based games on par with Dishonored
-A solid game in a Steampunk setting
-A truly sandbox game with semi modern graphics and no skills/perks/rpg type unlocks
-A solid shooter without RPG mechanics
-As someone else said: The End of Zombie Games
31/12/2012 at 21:56 Itkovian says:
“-More stealth based games on par with Dishonored
-A solid game in a Steampunk setting”
Some information on Thief 4. If I get to choose the information too, information that it doesn’t completely suck (my fear and expectation) and that they’re internally referring to it as the sequel to Thief 2.
The only title that I’m particularly looking forward to which should be out in 2013 is Rome 2, but I wasn’t looking forward to any of my favourites for this year at the start of 2012 so I’m optimistic.
Happy New Year guys!!
02/01/2013 at 05:08 KenTWOu says:
No way! Thief 3 has smarter AI and Shalebridge Cradle.
31/12/2012 at 21:25 choie says:
Well as long as pipe dreams are allowed:
An announcement, a real hint, a sign, anything, regarding a little game called Half-Life 2: Episode 3. Or HL3. Whichever it may be.
Please, dear Gabe and all the good people at Valve. I still believe.
Oh. And has Just Cause 3 been announced for 2013? Because that would be sweet as well.
03/01/2013 at 14:15 uh20 says:
hl3 is probably out in some form, and gabes not admitting he’s playing a beta of it on a steam-box
speaking of which the steam-box is a planned thing now
31/12/2012 at 21:26 TreuloseTomate says:
Half-Life 3 plox
31/12/2012 at 21:35 GreatGreyBeast says:
Word that Prey 2 is alive and ambitious as ever.
31/12/2012 at 21:36 RandomEsa says:
- Kickstarter that had over 1 million “invested” in them actually deliver.
- Ea crashing and burning.
- Dragon age 3 not being as horrible as da 2 ( yeah right).
- More details about cyberpunk and the witcher.
- Intel not going through with their plan of not having their processors removable.
- Ouya actually being worth a damn.
- Doom 4 coming comes out and it’s more like doom 1/2 instead 3.
31/12/2012 at 22:30 wodin says:
AMD said they wouldn’t go that way. Though funny enough I think I’ve only ever upgraded a CPU without a new motherboard once since ’97. When it’s time for a new CPU it usually means it’s time for a new system or at least CPU and motherboard.
31/12/2012 at 21:38 lordcooper says:
I just can’t wait for Grandroids to start coming together. Viva AI Revolución!
31/12/2012 at 21:44 Cytrom says:
It’ll proabably ruin my life, but I’m wishing for Fallout 4.
31/12/2012 at 21:49 Blackcompany says:
As developed by Obsidian, surely. On IdTech5. Right? Right?
31/12/2012 at 22:32 Cytrom says:
Obsidian has superior storywriting and character creation skills for sure… which is probably closer to the original vision of fallout, but the exploration and the survival aspects of the world (with some mods) was so much more interesting in Bethesda’s version. It was like stalker in a completely open world, and some bonuses from the fallout universe.
If Bethesda can make another interesting world worth uncovering, and character to it, with (much) improved gunplay and a bit more hostile environment (and pretty gfx obviously), that’s already enough for me. But no matter what people say, Bethesda IS improving, so there’s a decent chance we’ll get more than that.
And id tech 5 is out of the question.. making a world comparable in size and detail to even morrowind would require like a 100 Gb install. Not to mention that it would eliminate modding which is a key selling point of bethesda games on PC.
Tech 5 is a horrible misstep in game tech evolution. Its like a fine tuned F1 race car that works perfectly on the race and track its calibrated for, but completely impractical for any other use, and unlike in the earlier years of F1, due to artificial limitations and rules it isn’t actually cutting edge performance anymore. Its a dead end.
31/12/2012 at 21:45 Advanced Assault Hippo says:
-DRM continues its downward trend.
-Devs carry on making games the way they want to make them, ignoring moral crusaders.
-More TBS games after the success of XCOM.
31/12/2012 at 21:52 bad guy says:
Assetto Corsa
GTA V
Overgrowth?
moar MWLL
31/12/2012 at 21:52 GunnerMcCaffrey says:
That gaming communities can keep maturing and embrace further introspection about misogyny, racism, *phobia, and privilege, so maybe one day I can feel comfortable mentioning gaming as a hobby in mixed company.
That we see more projects that effectively challenge corporate development and distribution models.
That Dead Space 3 is not awful. Please please please don’t be awful, Dead Space 3. (Related: That people stop saying “But it’s not survival horror anymore.” The protagonist has grown and the games should grow with him.)
That interactive fiction starts making its comeback in earnest.
That I learn how to not be useless at Frozen Synapse.
31/12/2012 at 22:49 NathanH says:
I doubt it’s worth being uncomfortable; few non-gamers are aware of these issues in gaming. Their experience might go as far as remembering some article they read about some online gamers being shithouses to some woman, but that is easily explained by telling them that yes, a fair number of gamers online are indeed shithouses. From non-gamers my experience is that you’re much more likely to encounter negative reactions based on their lack of knowledge rather than their knowledge.
01/01/2013 at 00:24 GunnerMcCaffrey says:
You might be right. And, really, I want those things for more reasons than being able to talk to more people about gaming, anyway. Those things are important just on their own merits. But it would also be nice to encourage people new to gaming to look in to it, and gain some knowledge, inclined, without worrying about what’ll crawl out at them.
01/01/2013 at 00:28 GunnerMcCaffrey says:
Oh, also, no more “procedurally generated” anything, please? Designers can design things again for a while, maybe?
01/01/2013 at 13:33 Hematite says:
Procedural generation of game content is still a pretty immature tech, sadly. It’s got so much potential but it takes a lot of skill to make a generator which will iterate through interesting content rather than just puking up random numbers and calling it level design.
Drox Operative suffers from this pretty badly as did Din’s Curse before it – everything is randomly generated and placed, but there’s no particular value in the placement or the fact that your loot has +2% in a stat you don’t care about. It might as well have been a flat plane with evenly spaced planets and a fixed loot tree you ascend as you level up.
Contrast with Diablo II, say, where everything was still randomly generated but item bonuses were usually either significant or just not present to keep things simple, and the level scripts varied between having lots of open rooms, corridors, outdoor areas, rivers, trenches etc. which actually affected the tactical game and kept each level fresh.
Anyway, </rand>. The state of procedural generation reminds me of the early days of 3D games – it might be the future, but it looks like ass at the moment and 2D sprites still look great. I don’t blame you for not wanting more procedural generation; it needs to go back in the oven for a while.
31/12/2012 at 21:53 Entitled says:
The first big Kickstarters starting to get finished, and the start of the second wave, hopefully with even more backers, and bigger budgets.
I guess many of the projects will be delayed, but even then, at least them getting closer to the finish line, and being treated as real, half-finished games with presentable prototypes, instead of hopes and wishes, will have a huge impact.
For example the Oculus now looks like will slip into 2014, but even then, the dev kits will be out in 1-2 months, and after that, there will be a shitloafd of hands-on previews, game announcements, etc.
31/12/2012 at 21:54 Lars Westergren says:
I wish for more intelligent games. Not necessarily hard, but stuff that makes you think.
I wish for the resurgence of the PC & strategy games & adventure & RPGs & indies to continue.
I want all my favorite studios like Obsidian, Arkane, inXile and Irrational to get to make more great games, the stuff they want to make, the way they want to make it. And I want the masses to finally start buying these games in the amounts they deserve.
I also wish for forums posters here and elsewhere to be excellent to each other.
31/12/2012 at 23:54 Bart Stewart says:
I’d like to see more of pretty much all those things, too, since they’re particularly suited to showcasing the PC’s strengths as a gaming platform.
To that list I would add simulations and open-world games. Those also benefit from being designed to run on PCs.
I’d love for 2013 to see an open-world game that emphasizes simulated systems. If it could be experienced at two speeds — near-real-time for RPG-tactical play, and 1 real-time hour = 10 years for strategic gameplay — I’d probably consider 2013 to be very successful.
31/12/2012 at 21:55 Soon says:
I’m looking forward to “Masters of the Broken World”.
Also, any bastard-hard, compelling, puzzley games.
31/12/2012 at 22:01 Swanny says:
I’s like to see a viable successor to the 5770 video card i have installed. The 6770 was pretty much a re-branded 5770, and the 7770 is only about 8% faster. Madness.
03/01/2013 at 14:22 uh20 says:
same can be said about this intel i5 3570k, it’s only slightly better than a 2570k, and it actually has less overclocking potential since it heats up too fast due to their “improved” die size….
31/12/2012 at 22:03 Frank says:
I’m hoping Eador and the Banner Saga make a lot of money for their devs and the FTL guys announce another game of any sort. Also, another Deus Ex or Beyond Good & Evil announcement would be incredible!
31/12/2012 at 22:03 derbefrier says:
1. Path of Exile open beta(wooo no more character wipes)
2. A Half Life 3 announcement
3. For all the Kickstarter projects to meet their goals and be the awesome games we hope they will be
4. Star Citizen beta
31/12/2012 at 22:23 Bobka says:
I hope that Microsoft cuts the crap and opens up Windows 8′s new Metro mode to apps not on the Windows Store. Alternatively, I hope Windows 8 performs miserably.
I hope the Steambox comes out and is a proper PC with Linux, no firmware/software differences at all (i.e. no porting needed if OpenGL is already being used), just in a box designed for plug-and-play use.
I hope the mobile market starts to slow down and saturate, so that either A) some devs return to making complex, engaging single-player games on the PC, or B) people achieve breakthroughs in interface design and engaging single-player experiences become available, good and profitable on mobile.
I hope that all the big Kickstarter names show real progress and/or are published, and are good. I backed Project Eternity, Godus, Planetary Annihilation, and Castle Story – looking forward to all of them going gold, so to speak.
31/12/2012 at 22:28 wodin says:
Wings Over Flanders Fields
Combat Mission East front
Command Ops Chir River (unlikely)
Command Ops Legends of the Blitzkrieg (unlikely)
Histwar Les grognards 2 (maybe\unlikely)
I’m not sure if there is a AAA title in development I’m excited about to be honest..sure there is something but just can’t remember.
This next year is when I will be hit by the cut backs..and the little money I have I can see becoming even less. SO if I do actually end up buying the games from the above list it will be some sort of present.
31/12/2012 at 22:34 Dances to Podcasts says:
Half-Life 3, Destiny, Titan.
Though I’m actually more looking forward to the smaller gems, like Maia for example.
31/12/2012 at 22:40 shostakovich says:
I hope that Dota 2 brings new things about the game as a social experience. There’s a lot of potential to explore and it will be a huge deception if Valve doesn’t explore it.
31/12/2012 at 22:41 JackDandy says:
I can’t wait to see how the “Big” Kickstarter projects will deliver. We might be getting some really awesome games.
Also looking forward to more stuff from the Grimrock team.
And more of Xseed’s releases on Steam!
And, Chaos Chronicles also looks great.
31/12/2012 at 22:44 pertusaria says:
I’m looking forward to Clockwork Empires and hoping it’s going to be great, whether or not in runs on my computer (although that would be nice).
Other than that, I’m hoping for (in no particular order):
- another year of great indie games plus a few interesting releases from medium to large devs;
- a market where good devs can make a living but older games (at least from big publishers) continue to come down in price for those willing to wait;
- Sim Life to be released on GoG;
- gamers and devs everywhere to live in peace and have respect for each other;
- enough time and staying power to give many of the games in my backlog a chance to prove themselves;
- luck in getting a real-life gaming group (back) together for board games and possibly D&D.
31/12/2012 at 22:50 judge_za says:
Grim Dawn
Metro Last Light and hopefully some sort of STALKER game.
31/12/2012 at 22:59 Ciergan says:
I just want to get through my backlog. *sob*
31/12/2012 at 23:01 wilynumber13 says:
1. For high-quality titles like La-Mulana and Shantae to stop getting snubbed on Steam Greenlight.
2. For Skullgirls to make a big splash on PC. They really deserve it.
31/12/2012 at 23:14 BrianOConnell says:
All I want for 2013 is Xenus 3: Boiling Gold from forgotten developers Deep Shadows.
01/01/2013 at 08:49 AlwaysRight says:
Wowee, you really look like me!
01/01/2013 at 19:59 Dances to Podcasts says:
It happens!
http://www.francoisbrunelle.com/index.php?id=3&lang=en
31/12/2012 at 23:15 GameCat says:
Wish me to be non-too-lazy-ass so I can finally made my first serious game.
01/01/2013 at 13:16 lazy8 says:
OK, I wish you to be non-too-lazy-ass so you can finally make your first serious game
31/12/2012 at 23:16 8bitbeard says:
I eagerly anticipate the release of the Oculus Rift, though a mere release isn’t enough. It has to be successful, embraced by consumers and developers alike. This fancy little futuristic ski-mask has the potential to be the next big thing.
31/12/2012 at 23:24 dogsolitude_uk says:
Like many others, I’d like to see Linux become a viable gaming option. It made me so happy seeing my Steam login screen when it first appeared on my Linux desktop, with Darwinia, Braid and Amnesia all waiting to be installed. It’s awesome having a bunch of installation disks for different distros and being able to bung them on any old PC without having to worry about deactivating licenses etc.
I’m hoping for good news on Thief 4, and Elite: Dangerous. Hopefully another Deus Ex add-on. And some RPGs that don’t hide stats behind flashy interfaces and allow me to manage my inventory properly.
Shit, it’s 20 past 11 on NYE, I’d better go get some beer!
Happy new year folks :)
[This post was written using Linux Mint]
31/12/2012 at 23:32 mr.ioes says:
Sacred 3
Grim Dawn
Medieval Mayor
My favourite genres (hack and slash + city builder) have been dead for too long. And seeing how Sacred 3 will most likely be a big fail, doesn’t make me very hopeful for 2013. Grim Dawn looks more of the same, which I have no problem with whatsoever though. Looking forward very much. Medieval Mayer looks very promising already (2D city builder – YES!) and I predict it will be my GOTY 2013.
31/12/2012 at 23:34 ScorpionWasp says:
My hopes for the coming year are that narrative in games will reach the same level of quality as that seen in Hollywood, a newly appointed global dictatorship will ban MMOs and MMO/Skinner Box elements in EVERY FUCKING GAME coming nowadays forever, Hideo Kojima will be found hanging from the ceiling in his home with a note apologizing for every game he has ever made, Team Silent will perform a hostile takeover of Konami, Capcom will spontaneously combust and never be heard from again, uninspired gimmicky retro games will stop coming out in spades, the AAA industry will stop re-skinning and making the same game over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, “games are art” faggots will stop making vacuous, vague “Sword and Sworcery” style non-games that take “refuge in not making any fucking sense”, a certain trio of gaming journalists that shall remain unnamed will stop using their sudden rise to fame to promote unrelated leftist agendas and instead start making GOOD, gaming relevant episodes again, and… well, I guess that’s pretty much it.
Oh, and we’ll have games that indeed break new ground in major ways. Games with living, breathing universes where everything affects everything in ways not even the authors could have anticipated. Games with new, fascinating, never before tried AI techniques, neural networks, simulated agents with an actual ability to learn. NPCs that are at the same time unpredictable, but whose behavior is anything but random. Advanced procedural/simulationist techniques that create a new experience every single time you boot the game.
That’s all. Wake me up when you have that all done.
01/01/2013 at 00:00 pertusaria says:
There’s some pretty nasty stuff in there. Please think before you post. I know it may seem a fine line between wishing EA would get a clue (or crumble into dust) and wishing someone would be found dead, but the latter is really unpleasant and way over-the-top. Also, terms about homosexuality are not generally OK as personal insults ’round here. The fact that you may not mean it literally isn’t the point.
Usual disclaimer: I am not a mod, just a normal forum-er, but thought this should not pass without comment. Happy New Year to everyone on Greenwich Mean Time.
01/01/2013 at 00:37 ScorpionWasp says:
I forgot one there. I hope in the coming year, political correctness, people bending over backwards to be “offended” at everything, and thinking others have an obligation to bend over backwards to not say the subjective things that they choose to find offensive, I hope they all catch Ebola and die. Happy new year all. :)
01/01/2013 at 00:51 derbefrier says:
Lmao if only this were possible but these guys are way to uptight to let that happen
01/01/2013 at 08:28 Lars Westergren says:
The irony here is that you choose to find pertusarias statement offensive and tries to make him/her shut up. Pot, kettle, black?
01/01/2013 at 14:53 ScorpionWasp says:
His message, unlike mine, contained (serious, not tongue in cheek) commands (“think before you post”) and implicit appeals to vague, unseen “rules” (“Uh, it’s not just that *I* don’t like to see certain expressions, see, these are, like, how things are done here. Yeah.”). There’s a clear intent to control behavior on his part. I’m merely saying I’m not going to comply, that it’s deliberate (not a result of “not thinking” or “being too new around here to know “the rules”") and that if he wishes, he can bite me. That’s all.
01/01/2013 at 16:13 Lars Westergren says:
He said “please”. He is also right, the RPS staff are open about usually don’t tolerating that sort of behaviour, so it’s not like it is an “unseen” rule.
01/01/2013 at 08:35 jrodman says:
I hope horrid forum trolls become fewer in number.
01/01/2013 at 08:44 cpt_freakout says:
Yawn. Let’s do it your way: “i HoPe YoU DiE!11 Y??? Because I say so. REASONABLE ARGUMENTS?!?! Nah, jUsT dIeIe!!!!”
02/01/2013 at 14:08 Tams80 says:
Wishing someone dead is not in keeping with this community.
31/12/2012 at 23:35 SuperNashwanPower says:
ROUTINE
31/12/2012 at 23:37 Azhrarn says:
Looking forward to learning more about Watch Dogs :)
And waiting for all those gaming Kickstarters I backed to start paying off. :)
31/12/2012 at 23:57 MOKKA says:
I just want to have some good games to play.
01/01/2013 at 00:03 welverin says:
That THQ survives long enough for Metro: Last Light to get released and South Park: The Stick of Truth, but mostly Metro.
01/01/2013 at 00:11 Dudeist says:
I can’t wait new games, not another franchise like a Bioshock, however can be good and I’m waiting it too.
But gaming is big business now and hard to suspect something fresh and great. I know, here many great indie games and other small – but small mostly and not always milestones.
You wrote :BioShock: Infinite, Planetary Annihilation, ArmA 3, Tomb Raider, Crysis 3, Sim City, StarCraft: Heart Of The Swarm, The Elder Scrolls Online, GTA V, Metro Last Light, Watch Dogs, Total War Rome 2″ can you show me something fresh here? Mostly just playable standalone DLC’s :) Ok, Watch Dogs is new title. But fresh?
Happy New Year to you and to all PC gamers!
01/01/2013 at 00:56 LuNatic says:
I want games to start getting 64 bit executables, that have proper multi-core support and can use more than 2 gigs of ram without crashing.
01/01/2013 at 21:39 Jade Raven says:
I would like to see many things, but if 64-bit .exe’s can come as standard by the end of the year I’l be happy. This 32-bit bullshit has has gone on long enough.
01/01/2013 at 01:11 soldant says:
I hope for a new console generation… so that PC gaming is unshackled once again. That said, I don’t want to go back onto an upgrade treadmill. Also ARMA3, fully functional on release. No show-stopping bugs or absurd performance problems, with proper driving AI. Heh, that’ll never happen.
I think all of the “Linux becomes go-to platform for games!” people are going to be disappointed. Each tine Microsoft sneezes or a dev/pub says something about Linux a lot of people rise up and say that this time they’ll switch and it’ll be the end of Windows. The same arguments were tossed about with the release of Vista and XP and lots of other points in the past. It never happens.
01/01/2013 at 01:24 AlwaysRight says:
The Witness
Spy party
Artemis (new Porpentine game)
The Phantom Pain
Metro: last light
All those Kickstarters that promise so much but probably won’t be out for another year if they have any chance of being the quality we expect.
Hopefully Beyond good and evil 2
01/01/2013 at 01:28 Lanfranc says:
Right now, my biggest hope for 2013 is that the new SimCity won’t suck. Because that would make me sad. :-(
01/01/2013 at 01:37 mrwonko says:
I’d like less cancelled projects, please. Edge of Twilight sounded nice. Oh wait – I just revisited their homepage, and now it says summer 2013? Now there’s good news, I heard it might’ve been cancelled. Console Exclusive? Now there’s bad news. And Elveon’s still dead. And what about those not-quite-cancelled games? I’d like to see some Beyond Good & Evil 2 and Prey 2.
I’d like to know what Valve’s next game will be. Everything except, to a certain degree, Dota 2 is out, so they likely have some new promising projects.
I’d like more PC ports. It would’ve been a shame if I had missed out on God Hand just because it wasn’t released on PC. Which reminds me – here’s hoping we’ll get that PC game Platinum Games thought about.
I’d like Double Fine’s Adventure to be a huge success so they can (and do) make Psychonauts 2. Hmm, I should replay Psychonauts in 2013.
And I’d like for RPS to stay great. Thanks for making me buy Dishonored after all, for example. And thanks for telling me about Hotline Miami.
01/01/2013 at 01:49 man-eater chimp says:
That Paradox learn how to optimise properly. Absolutely love their games, always have niggling performance problems though.
Games wise, Planetary Annihilation (looks awesome) to come out. And for Monaco, Spy Party and Nidhogg to actually be released. And Bioshock Infinite to be good, please.
And to finally get hold of a proper desktop gaming PC, rather than relying on my consolebox (of the microsoft variety) to play major intensive releases, and missing out on playing games such as PS2 and Hawken as I can’t run them.
01/01/2013 at 01:57 omNOMinator says:
I hope that 2013 is the year that desktop PCs become ridiculous and a more realistic alternative can be introduced to the market. *gasps*
I hope that gamers, and the gaming industry can realise that we live in the present times – these times where everything is connected, everyone has a computer in their pocket, and we could all be using lighter and more wonderful machines. Maybe I’m crazy, but it’s the conclusion that I’ve come to.
A configurable, upgradeable, hand-held/small device is what we need to allow the most connected experience. For the good of mankind.
01/01/2013 at 03:49 wodin says:
erm..my graphics card is probably twice as big as a tablet…I say no to you and your mobile tiny devices..once we wanted big screens..now we want tiny screens you can barely see anything on. I have a 19inch screen and I bemoan it’s size..and no I don’t want to plug a tiny device into my TV (sort of defeating the object of a tiny device anyway) I’d like to see faith stay with the PC even when the new console boxes arrive..
Hmm are you peter Molywhatshisname..sounds like something he would say or has said with his cube in your pocket nonsense
01/01/2013 at 07:51 jrodman says:
The problem is that tiny is the enemy of configurable.
When you want to build tiny you want low chip count and low power draw. Both of these things push for closed fixed designs, not open ended easy-access connectors. Sure we can bulid a 4 pin serial bus that’s small but it’s not going to be high performance. Yes, we could make a high performance bus attached to a portable device, but post-attach it won’t be very portable anymore.
You could make a system that has some crazy 64pin slot to attach coprocessors in sd card form factor, but I really doubt it will have decent longevity AND a small battery. Meanwhile good luck passing emissions.
01/01/2013 at 07:52 jrodman says:
That said, I wish for it too.
02/01/2013 at 14:17 Tams80 says:
What’s the point in making something that doesn’t need to be portable, portable at the expense of performance, especially when most desktops can still be pushed in terms of computational capacity.
Anyway, a desktop can be connected and you can, *gasp* have a desktop, console(s), portable console(s), a laptop, a tablet and a phone all at the same time and have them all connected to some degree.
02/01/2013 at 21:06 wodin says:
If you can afford it..I can’t.
01/01/2013 at 02:15 Xanyr says:
My hope is for GTA 5 to actually come to PC. Rockstar have been less than enthusiastic about PC ports as of late and I’m hoping for a reversal on this policy.
01/01/2013 at 02:33 Haplo says:
1) I want more high-calibre RPGs! Games in the format of BG/etc, games in the format of the Bethesda games, turn-based RPGs; it doesn’t matter so long as there are more of them.
2) 2012 saw XCOM nail turn-based shooty tactical action, and I honestly wouldn’t mind seeing a bit of a renaissance in the genre. I think there’s some room there for proper balls-to-the-wall fleshin’ to do.
3) RTW2 is almost definitely gonna rock, because CA always give me a good deal of enjoyment regardless of the quibbles (and there are always quibbles).
4) On the topic of CA, I wanna see if they announce anything with their shiny new Warhammer license.
5) On the topic of Warhammer, I hope THQ et al recover enough to keep giving me the good 40k shit.
01/01/2013 at 02:41 Matt7895 says:
For PC specifically, I’m hoping for good PC versions of all games that will come out in 2013. These include a multitude of options and preferences – graphics, FOV, being able to turn off motion blur, DoF, mouse acceleration and the usual. I’d also like to see more games take advantage of 64-bit processors and RAM. I’m also looking forward to prices for SSDs coming down.
More generally, I’m hoping South Park: The Stick of Truth will be true to Obsidian and not be too hampered by the fact that is written mainly by Matt and Trey – who, let’s face it, aren’t known for video-game writing – and seems to be going for a broad audience. I’d like to see Valve return to making single-player games – I’m not really a fan of DOTA, L4D and CS, but I really do love the Half-Life series. Bethesda letting Obsidian make another Fallout game would be a dream come true, but I’m resigned to the sad probability that it’ll be Bethesda who make Fallout 4. The optimist in me hopes that Bioware will turn back the clock and make good RPGs again. I enjoyed ME3, but the stupidity of the ending and the sub-par DLC might indicate what is to come.
01/01/2013 at 02:46 jrodman says:
I would like some quality RPGs that are actual RPGs and not action games faking it.
01/01/2013 at 04:10 Stevostin says:
You mean turned based ? Because to me turn based is not RPG or not RPG. It’s transversal.
01/01/2013 at 05:44 jrodman says:
Do mean they are overlapping?
Anyway I don’t necessarily mean turn based athough it’s good starting point for an RPG. I do mean NOT fallout 3 where it’s really a shooter that has some RPG trappings, or similar ilk.
01/01/2013 at 06:19 I Got Pineapples says:
I’ve been playing the Persona series on an emulator. Does that count?
01/01/2013 at 07:32 jrodman says:
I’ve been playing lots of good ones in various emulators. I’d like some new ones.
(I greatly enjoyed persona for playstation, although 3 and 4 had far too much dating sim in them for my tastes)
01/01/2013 at 02:48 Wedge says:
Barkley 2.
Nuff’ said.
01/01/2013 at 10:20 GameCat says:
You mean “The Magical Realms of Tír na nÓg: Escape from Necron 7 – Revenge of Cuchulainn: The Official Game of the Movie – Chapter 2 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa”?
01/01/2013 at 02:49 dmoe says:
Valve to tease Source 2 and show a bit of Episode 3. Oh and Dota 2 launch build :)
01/01/2013 at 03:05 popedoo says:
1) RPS: The Movie
2) Peace, love, happiness, freedom, success and joy for everyone on the planet.
01/01/2013 at 06:16 realitysconcierge says:
YES
TAKE MY MONEY.
01/01/2013 at 15:13 Milos says:
Even RPS The Podcast would do at this point.
01/01/2013 at 03:18 Squishpoke says:
There is only ONE thing that I want from 2013.
The announcement of a true UNREAL TOURNAMENT SEQUEL. It doesn’t have to release in 2013, I just want word that it is in the pipes!
01/01/2013 at 03:41 Commissar says:
STALKER 2 is released and it is as glorious as I hope
01/01/2013 at 03:47 kdh says:
- Game developers to realize, that if they want their games to be riddled with cutscenes and dialogue every few minutes, they absolutely need to include a pause button that works during said cutscenes.
- That the general improvement in the field of voiceacting in games is followed up by a general improvement in plot.
01/01/2013 at 06:00 jrodman says:
yes. Yes. YES!
01/01/2013 at 04:01 BooleanBob says:
Chocolate which doesn;t cause regret
It will supercede the current model, which I call regretolate
See also regretohol
and excessive regretsumption (of regretohol and regretolate)
edit because this is a pc games site: and cheaper ram or something, fuck
01/01/2013 at 04:08 Stevostin says:
Bethesda announcing a new Fallout (by them or Obsidian, I am ok with both).
Survivarium. The more I see about it, the more I suspect those are the guys who really knows what makes me tick in FPS.
Sir, You Are Being Hunted. Same, I suspect they got it right.
More well written game please.
All the space revival from kickstarter being released, and great.
GTAV on PC, and smooth, with a build in FPV.
01/01/2013 at 04:36 Daniel Klein says:
I hope they make another call of duty.
01/01/2013 at 13:19 lazy8 says:
And your wish is granted.
03/01/2013 at 14:29 uh20 says:
call of duty: international operations 4
storyline:
you go to greece
you defend greece from terrorist attack across the sea’s
……
some guy fires a nuke
you bloodily search for some guy
you perform a 1-hour cinematic with some guy
the end
everyone buying this game in greece are now going WTF
activision has no chance but to hire me.
01/01/2013 at 04:48 MadTinkerer says:
I hope to have a demo / free version of my Game Maker Studio game up on the Steam Workshop and have RPS mention it. Because it will be AWESOME.
And hey, I’ve got a whole year to get it into shape, right?
01/01/2013 at 05:18 macaronies says:
I hope Cubeworld and Starbound are good and fill my block-based adventure/rpg needs. Minecraft and Terraria are wonderful, but both leave me itching for a little something from time to time. With Minecraft, it’s mindless objectives and rewards (kill x number of y whatevers and I’ll give you a sword) when I’m not feeling creative and just want to hang out. With Terraria it’s more stuff to discover or unlock. When you run out, that game hits a flat note.
Also Viking Chess! Banner Saga (story mode) please!
01/01/2013 at 05:30 x3m157 says:
Halo 3, 4, and Reach ported to PC.
Not ever going to happen; but a man can dream, can’t he?
01/01/2013 at 09:15 Squishpoke says:
Boggles my mind on why this hasn’t happened yet.
I mean, with mods we can increase the game speed to a respectable level, and tweak the ridiculous moon jumps. Then it would be near perfect.
01/01/2013 at 12:54 SuperNashwanPower says:
Plushie Horaces.
A bit of string leading out the door can simulate infinity
EDIT: I have no idea why my comment ended up here
01/01/2013 at 19:05 jrodman says:
Horace turns up in the strangest places.
01/01/2013 at 14:14 Matt7895 says:
I think it would be awful if the Halo games were ported and not Red Dead Redemption. If any game cried out to be experienced on the PC, it would be RDR. I hate sitting hunched forward on my sofa, squinting at my TV, trying to play it on the Xbox.
01/01/2013 at 06:22 Bob says:
Games ported to the PC that have the kb/m in mind for controls. Also advanced video options.
More games that let players,,,er, play instead of watching a cinematic.
Some boffin to invent a chair that allows the body to exercise while seated in front of a monitor. :D
01/01/2013 at 06:30 aliksy says:
I’d wish for fewer shitty console ports. I’d like some interfaces that take advantage of mouse+keyboard. Looking at you, Skyrim.
01/01/2013 at 06:52 fish99 says:
I honestly can’t think of many games I’m looking forward to. There’s GTA5, which, if we see it on PC it’ll probably be 6 months after console and buggy. There’s the Terraria sorta-sequel thing with lots of planets. Hotline Miami 2.
That’s about it. That might be a good thing because I have a lot of games to catch up on.
01/01/2013 at 07:16 Fenix says:
Double Fine’s adventure game is the most important thing coming out in 2013.
01/01/2013 at 07:38 guygodbois00 says:
2013 would be just as fine and dandy for me as 2012, if Wasteland 2 and Shadowrun Returns deliver on their promises.
Also wouldn’t mind giving my moneys to these if they turn out to be any good:
Dead State, Banner Saga, Xenonauts, Legends of Eisenwald.
And if somebody would be so kind to make these:
FTL 2 (with a story), Buzz Aldrin’s Race Into Space 2
01/01/2013 at 07:56 calendar_man says:
I am hoping that even with the likely rush for developers to throw yet more poly-whatsits through computer monitors, games still get made supporting a wide range of hardware so more people can enjoy gaming’s best without paying top dollar or having a “computer guy” to build them a rig.
Additionally, I want more games to attempt to evoke emotions other than power or fear. The Fable series might haven been fairly disappointing but at least it let you hold hands and kiss your spouse and Skyrim doesn’t even do something as natural as that.
Lastly, I look forward to gaming itself being more welcoming instead of people being internet fuckwads.
01/01/2013 at 07:56 jhng says:
My wish is for Kickstarted outsiders to explosively shift industry paradigms.
01/01/2013 at 08:38 MurraySwe says:
Hopefully most funded Kickstarter projects get made and will be good.
01/01/2013 at 09:37 Brainkite says:
My hopes for 2013 is to have a job, and find the time to play the games I bought on steam sales.
01/01/2013 at 09:39 goettel says:
A (wireless headset-based) virtual surround solution that doesn’t suck monkey balls.
Hell, as long as I’m wishing: full-3D (spherical) audio rendering (probably on dedicated hardware).
01/01/2013 at 10:05 TACO BOY says:
oculus rift and whatever mmo comes from it first,i remember reading newspaper articles about how year 2000 was going to bring me VR games and that never happened…i miss the future that everyone imagined in the 80s and 90s and thing like .hack,sword art online and break-age are nice fantasies that can happen with oculus rift so yeah,oculus rift mmorpg is my biggest hope especially if its a skill based mmo like ultima online(before t2a).
01/01/2013 at 10:11 Benjamasm says:
The one thing I am looking forward to most in 2013 for PCs is the Oculus Rift, the consumer version with HD res for each eye. The promise of the OR for greater immersion in games, in conjunction with it being picked up and implemented into future and current games, hopefully be able to use it as a standard 3D headset so no ghosting… so much potential in one product to have a great impact on gaming.
Either that or I spend the money to go with 3 x 27inch monitors. But the choice then comes to do I want 120hz or 2560×1440 res….
01/01/2013 at 10:22 goettel says:
And a more urgent hope: hoping the Elite kickstarter can go the last mile £1,146,165 pledged, three days to get to £1,250,000 !
01/01/2013 at 10:35 SuperNashwanPower says:
MORE BUNNIES IN GAMES
Bunnies or no sale
01/01/2013 at 10:42 AndrewC says:
And ducks!
01/01/2013 at 11:18 Mbaya says:
Originally I went with the Oculus Rift…but I do love bunnies! There’s even a game on Kickstarter called Super Bunny Insurrection that I’ll admit I’m tempted to back purely because it features bunnies…If only the bunnies were the good guys vs evil guinea pigs :(
So yes, more bunnies please!
01/01/2013 at 15:15 SuperNashwanPower says:
Prepare to be bunnulated
01/01/2013 at 10:37 Morte66 says:
I’d like an approachable flight sim-cum-trainer. It seems like everything on the market is either (a)_ for enthusiasts who know how to fly and own a thousand dollars in peripherals or (b) dumbed down to the point that you couldn’t land a Cessna after finishing the game.
I’d like something that:
- You could learn to fly a real plane on, with variable realism/difficulty.
- Teaches you to fly a plane, assuming no prior knowledge, and working up to full complexity and realism. This mean tens of hours of tutorials. It might come in stages, with DLC for instrument landing or whatever.
- Works with a joystick and keyboard, but can use fancier peripherals if you like.
- Is flexible over hardware, and looks OK for the hardware it’s running on.
- Is a polished product.
- Optional game-not-sim elements (as DLC?) e.g. running a passenger/freight business, dogfighting, racing.
01/01/2013 at 21:45 Syros says:
Thanks a lot for this post! Flight sims have somehow completely fallen off my my radar. I’d love to see one like this too!
01/01/2013 at 10:51 Morte66 says:
Also, the Europa Barbarorum II mod. It’s the only Total War game that matters.
01/01/2013 at 11:04 Klingsor says:
Hmm no one looking forward to the 4th installment of Paradox’ Europa Universalis series? I certainly do.
Hope they won’t screw it up and it’s not as buggy and unbalanced as EU3 was on release. Also hope they incorporate some stuff from the cancelled Magna Mundi project.
01/01/2013 at 11:19 dixonsteele says:
Two words: Turn based. More turn-based games. Many more turn-based games. Omerta, Original Sin, Age of Decadence, Eador… And a new DLC for Game of Thrones, the most criminally underrated RPG ever. I love Mors.
01/01/2013 at 11:26 McDan says:
I hope the PC industry finally lets the PC and all it’s components finally be free and live a natural life out in the fields. Producing new hardware by natural selection, all organic. rather than the disgusting forced breeding they do in their research labs. Awful, let them be free.
01/01/2013 at 12:14 Sander Bos says:
A bigger focus from developers on games being fun to play, that is what I want from 2013 (and if that’s not possible, 2014). And what that means for me is allowing games to be played as the player wants to play them. That means in order of importance no checkpoints, no unskippable cutscenes, keep DRM to what you feel is strictly needed and not endless layers of crap, different difficulty levels where ever difficulty level offers something useful, and remappable keyboard/ controller configuration.
Hmm, now that I read the list back it seems what I am really asking for is more configurability, but the sentiment when I started typing this message was that I feel more and more that game developers do not focus on that the game will actually be played by someone, and that those players use the game as form of entertainment and relaxation….
01/01/2013 at 19:03 calendar_man says:
Definitely agree with more customization, but I especially would like to see no unskippable cutscenes and, extending that idea further, a way to skip some of a game’s introductory sequence when starting a new game plus or making a new character (looking at you Borderlands 2).
Speaking of Borderlands 2, I would also like to see difficulty options do something other than change how much damage the player and the AI do to each other and other games, like the GTA series, needs to implement some sort of difficulty option altogether.
01/01/2013 at 12:54 b0rsuk says:
I hope all casual gamers are put into a rocket and launched into the sun.
01/01/2013 at 13:05 dE says:
What I wish for this year? Well the same thing as the last couple of years:
For gaming to stop neglecting technologies other than graphics.
Yeah, in my book, the graphics are fine enough. Now folks, get to working on storytelling, audio implementation, improving the AI (or rather implementing one at all). In essence, I want my gaming to have more substance than a greasy cheeseburger. Admitedly, one painted in gold, with whistles and sparkling shady effects – but gaming currently looks like a greasy cheeseburger at heart to me.
01/01/2013 at 18:04 D3xter says:
Bar a few exceptions (Crysis, Battlefield 3, Metro 2033 most notably) they’ve neglected graphics since around 2005 when the Xbox 360 came out.
Most of the things you are complaining about are limitations as to the nature of the consoles that already have a problem displaying as much as there already is properly and there’s barely any room for AI, larger levels or other implementations.
“Good story” is going to get more important when that kind of thing actually starts to sell, instead of the 10+ Million copies game franchises like Call of Duty, Battlefield or Elder Scrolls.
It is also often rather anti-thetic to the “game” part of a game and might lead to a Quicktime-Event-fest or un-game (see Fahrenheit, Heavy Rain, Beyond, The Walking Dead etc.)
01/01/2013 at 13:16 Rinimand says:
What I wish for is an easy list:
- Thief 4 to happen
- Star Citizen to be real
- More time to play games (the ability to slow time in the evenings or 4-day weekends every week would suffice)
- No more crappy console ports – design games for PCs first and then Consoles, or skip the console altogether.
Then I’ll be happy.
01/01/2013 at 13:27 TooNu says:
A year without gaming controversy! No bad decisions from dev’s, publishers and journos! :D (I can hope)
01/01/2013 at 13:31 Wololo says:
Announcement of a Homeworld sequel.
And CoH2.
01/01/2013 at 13:40 elderman says:
The games I’m most eager to see released in 2013:
The Witness
Spy party
Monaco
Johann Sebastian Joust (and the other Sportsfriends games)
the Double Fine Adventure
The Cave
Gunpoint
The Castle Doctrine
And I want them all to run on Linux and on my now slightly aging machine.
And I want to be able to find seven Playstation Move controllers for less than a gazillion euros so I can play JS Joust with my friends and family.
And other than that, I want people to just stop making games for a year so I can catch up with all the ones I haven’t yet played.
01/01/2013 at 14:14 D3xter says:
Hopefully to be the year of the RPG:
The Banner Saga (February 2013), South Park: The Stick of Truth (March 2013), Divinity: Original Sin (May 2013), Shadowrun Returns (June 2013), Grim Dawn (August 2013), Wasteland 2 (October 2013), Age of Decadence (October 2013), Dead State (December 2013)
Although I’m kinda counting on at least some of those coming out later than thought.
Some of the AAA games that I’m somewhat interested in: South Park: TSoT, Aliens: Colonial Marines Tomb Raider, Watch Dogs, Remember Me, Star Wars 1313, Metro: Last Light
Some of the Indie/KickStarter and smaller games: The Cave, Double Fine Adventure, Broken Sword: The Serpent’s Curse, Castle Story, Leisure Suit Larry Remake, Shadowgate
01/01/2013 at 14:54 golem09 says:
What I hope for:
The Oculus works.
01/01/2013 at 14:55 Carra says:
Half Life 3. A man can hope.
01/01/2013 at 17:58 roryok says:
two men can hope
01/01/2013 at 19:22 LionsPhil says:
‘Free men can hope?
01/01/2013 at 15:19 Morte66 says:
A PC port of Ico.
Kickstarter stretch goals to drift from “more stuff” towards “more polish”.
Neverwinter Nights 3 (or whatever) with a construction set that anybody can use, not just professional level modding teams. Also, a NWN-style licenese that makes all user content (models and skins and so on) available to other modders for re-use, no copyright bullshit. NWN1 had over a thousand mods with quests and stories and so on. Some of the best RPGs I’ve played were NWN1 mods. No game has been anything like as fertile ground.
Good DLC.
01/01/2013 at 17:58 roryok says:
oh a PC port of ICO would be very welcome.
01/01/2013 at 18:09 D3xter says:
http://pcsx2.net/
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=427321
“Good DLC.”
I think I got this one, what is an oxymoron?
01/01/2013 at 21:49 golem09 says:
There is one piece of information missing from this.
Google “ps2 widescreen hack” and get ready for ICO in 16:9
01/01/2013 at 20:59 yourgrandma says:
DLC was good when it was called Expansion Packs.
01/01/2013 at 21:47 Syros says:
Wonderful list, thanks again!
01/01/2013 at 16:56 cronos1013 says:
I would have to say that my biggest hope is that Archage gets brought to the US market, there are no AAA quality sandbox games even on the horizon except for this one. Sure there are some indy games trickling down the pipe, but all too often put all my hopes and dreams on a small group of indy programmers, only to be delivered a half finished, half baked project that fails due to it’s too small budget and development team. Sadly, MMO’s take tons of cash and hours pumped into them (like millions of dollars and thousands of hours) therefore they require fairly decent sized dev teams, or they turn out like many of the indy mmo attempts we see. GREAT concepts, poor delivery. I’m tired of poor delivery…I want a AAA sandbox game…and Archeage is the only one in site.
01/01/2013 at 17:26 roryok says:
I’m mainly looking forward to playing the games released in 2012 and 2011 which are still on my shelf. Notably DXHR, Dishonored and FC3
01/01/2013 at 18:47 Megakoresh says:
To my knowledge 2013 will be the year when Firefall finally drops the beta tag, so John is very correct there about the evolution of the F2P market!
01/01/2013 at 18:49 MarloBrandon says:
Whose idea was it to use nails to fix that sign onto that poor bear? WTF is wrong with you?
01/01/2013 at 19:41 Lars Westergren says:
Horace is infinite, so presumably any pain he would feel from having stuff nailed to him would be infinitely small. Negligible even.
01/01/2013 at 20:27 AndrewC says:
Have you considered the possibility that his pain, being a part of him, is infinite too?
01/01/2013 at 18:53 solymer89 says:
That those “enhancement” pills finally start to work…….
01/01/2013 at 18:54 solymer89 says:
Oh oh oh, PC…. ahhh ha, ha… ha…..
02/01/2013 at 14:07 rustybroomhandle says:
I see your penis joke and raise you one more.
01/01/2013 at 19:38 DHP says:
That NASA makes a Moonbase Alpha sequel set on Mars that features more advances simulations of mechanical/environmental/electrical systems.
That devs start making real use of multicore, physics and x64 tech.
That internet oceans finally drain into the sub-aquifer of history.
That 2013 holds more audio gems like Bastion, Braid, Limbo.
Oh…and that Australia finally gets good internetz, and AMD and THQ pull through.
02/01/2013 at 05:05 Bob says:
The NBN looks promising but ever since the government told us there would be a deficit my hopes are fading. The fates might smile on us and we’ll get good internets and an 18+ classification for games in 2013. I just won’t hold my breath.
01/01/2013 at 19:40 Suits says:
Consistent respectable PC ports and cross-platform equal release dates. Also minimal console exclusives.
01/01/2013 at 20:22 poohbear says:
happy new year all! most def looking forward to Total War: Rome 2!!!! it looks incredible and the 1st one was one of my favs of all time!!!!
01/01/2013 at 20:32 plugmonkey says:
Having finally just hooked up my PC to my TV, 2013 is going to be the year of sofa based PC gaming for me.
01/01/2013 at 20:34 MistaNaga says:
Why RPS insists with that faggy bear?
01/01/2013 at 20:51 hemmingjay says:
I think you should bring your keyboard in to a competent repair person as soon as possible. It seems to be mis-calibrated as your intended message was converted to a moronic, hateful and borderline gibberish statement. If need be I can recommend any number of professionals who can help you in your part of the world. Until then, a short term fix to our mutual problem involves you taking a bath with a plugged in toaster.
02/01/2013 at 03:44 Lord Custard Smingleigh says:
I was about to step in poised for fisticuffs, but I see you have things well in hand here. Try the punch, it’s quite delightful, and the petits-fours are delicious and moist.
02/01/2013 at 06:40 eclipse mattaru says:
Try beating to a pulp
01/01/2013 at 21:08 Chris Bischoff says:
Finally finish STASIS, and move onto my next gaming IP. :)
02/01/2013 at 08:46 jussipe says:
I just want to wish you good luck. We’re all counting on you.
02/01/2013 at 09:13 F3ck says:
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
01/01/2013 at 21:38 Toupee says:
I’d also love a spiritual successor to Beetle Adventure Racing.
01/01/2013 at 21:50 cptgone says:
more Blendo games.
01/01/2013 at 22:00 Syros says:
Let me take this space to thank you all, guys, for this wonderful thread! Oddly inspiring.
01/01/2013 at 22:22 Jade Raven says:
*64-bit executables.
*Cross-platform release comes to mean Win-Mac-Linux rather than “PC”-360-PS3.
*Several new “AAA” releases on GOG.com
*Dev teams in the 20-40 people range start to crop up more often filling the gap tiny can-only-do-so-much indie teams and risk-averse mega-publishers.
*Boss battles to go the way of small pox; ie. eradicated in the wild.
*Publishers realise that retail sales aren’t the main game in town any more and that world-wide simultaneous internet releases become the norm AKA there are NO OCEANS on the internet.
*A ‘realistic’ simulation game of a domesticated cat’s life.
*Optical based internet becomes available where I live.
*Less sexism in multiplayer games and in games in general.
*As for announced games: Thief 4, Planetarry Annilhation, Star Citizen and Crysis 3 turn out to all meet expectations (or hopefully exceed them in the case of Crysis 3).
02/01/2013 at 04:47 Dances to Podcasts says:
+1 on the bossbattles (bobas?)
01/01/2013 at 22:33 SuperNashwanPower says:
I would also like a proper, deep rpg open world shooter. That could be Fallout 4 or STALKER 2, but a deeper, better, less stupid cutscene filed FC3 with all the shit bits removed would be good
01/01/2013 at 23:25 F3ck says:
A-fucking-men,
I’m hoping we can forgo the tedious rescue missions too, rather give me a puzzle/mystery to try and solve…STALKER nailed that part (as well) in there was such a casual pace to it…no rushing to save vapid “friends” (rescuing FC3′s version of Shaggy was such an I-couldn’t-care-less moment for me)…
I don’t really give a shit if it takes place in Boston or not; the next Fallout will be just fine if they can just do without the theatrics and remember what makes these types of game great: freedom, atmosphere, exploration, discovery, etc.
01/01/2013 at 23:51 Syros says:
Well said. Atmosphere, mystery, exploration and discovery all the way!
01/01/2013 at 23:35 Syros says:
- No more “Sorry, this title is not available in your region” crap. Get your act together, publishers!
- More immersive, atmospheric games.
- More focus on well-paced progression. One of the best aspects of games to me is that feeling of reward and excitement when you get an item/power-up/level-up/etc at the right moment and get a chance to properly appreciate every one of them without becoming jaded or overwhelmed.
- Seeing even less polygons, stretched/extrapolated textures.
- Better physics. Can’t wait for things and environments to start feeling like tangible material objects.
- Better displays! The LCD black levels are a particular eye sore. It’s frustrating to see that mobile displays are evolving at a break-neck pace, while the desktop sector hasn’t taken any significant steps forward in ages.
01/01/2013 at 23:48 dangermouse76 says:
1. Want an old school Hitman game. They could even sell contracts as DLC to keep the game fresh I would love that.
2. But most of all I want a RPG version of Terry Pratchetts Diskworld, his daughters in the business. This must happen. Rockstar can do the world, Terry can do the over arching themes, side quests by a reinvigorated ( gonna loose your jobs unless you stop making games by committee attitude ) Bethesda.
And art inspired by ( is it ? ) Josh Kirby.
3. I want dev engines to become even more ubiquitous and more people to try and put out games from different disciplines as this really helps with innovation.
Have a good one.
01/01/2013 at 23:48 megarock58 says:
i’m hoping that Lucas Arts comes to GOG this year.
02/01/2013 at 02:25 jrodman says:
awwwww yeah.
02/01/2013 at 06:01 KenTWOu says:
I hope Splinter Cell Blacklist will have 90% of stealth/ghosting and Thief 4 will be much better than Dishonored.
02/01/2013 at 06:42 eclipse mattaru says:
I already know I’m gonna be disappointed by all the games I care about (maybe not so much by Metro, but most definitely by Tomb Raider and Bioshock), so I’m gonna go with: “A lot of teasing coverage for Dark Souls II, and maybe an early release.” “In March.”
On a more serious note, though, I wish all vendors would get rid of those fucking retarded regional restrictions. OK, “serious note” is just a figure of speech, of course.
02/01/2013 at 11:07 xcopy says:
* More games from Blendo
* Great, surprising Kickstarter Projects
* The resurrection of the Space-Sim
* Universal default gamesave folder
* 64bit executables become standard
02/01/2013 at 12:59 Master Solon says:
I hope sega US and EU gets its act together over the BS Sega JP were doing by devestaing and even taking down whole channels that talked about shining force, I’d really hate to boycott Rome 2 but i will if i have to for them to realize that what there doing is blatenly ileagal
02/01/2013 at 14:08 rustybroomhandle says:
I want to know THQ’s fate.
02/01/2013 at 14:11 Chris Bischoff says:
No pressure eh?
02/01/2013 at 19:51 Mordsung says:
I am hoping that Kickstarter success leads to more similar sites so that the separation of the console and PC gaming market goes back to how it was in the N64/PS1 days.
Back in those days there was very few cross platform titles, there was a significant divide in what was a PC game and what was a console game and I felt the industry benefited from this stark distinction as it ensured both fanbases were catered to.
The merging of the two markets is what I believe led to a lot of strife in the industry.
03/01/2013 at 00:21 coolwithpie says:
HL3
and less yogfans on Gmod Tower
03/01/2013 at 01:29 Numerical says:
Prey 2 – not holding out any hope for this year but maybe a teeny tiny bit.
World of Darkness MMO – if it’s 1st/3rd person, would be the first MMO I would participate in. Or a new Iteration of VTM: Bloodlines.
NO Call of Duty games, please.
Fallout 4 announcement? Maybe toward the end of the year, eh?
Thief 4 something? Anything but a logo would be nice.
New Alan Wake game announcement?
Glad this year is over, some good games came out (FC3, AC3, Borderlands2, ME3) and I hope this year has some goodies in store. Cheers!
03/01/2013 at 04:10 uh20 says:
8 pages later……..
i hope this year and following years, the computer can expand to also be your t.v.s and multiplayer game machines.
right now, thanks to the stupid market, we still have these sad single player games with lousy controller support.
hopefully that alleged steam-box (which is now confirmed to happen in some sort of way) can break the ice, and let computers take over the console market
03/01/2013 at 08:50 Inzimus says:
maybe this year?
http://www.newcomer.hu/
04/01/2013 at 00:48 Thoric says:
More info on Cyberpunk 2077.
09/01/2013 at 02:31 Josh W says:
I want to see more valves; self owning creativity focused self funding game studios, with publishers just acting as one of many distributers. This would also help the problem of valve being a touch powerful.
I really hope that kickstarter stuff and indie success can help this happen, as well as some solid best practice building up about how to do it without blowing all your reserves on remaking the same game (3drealms..), but keeping that flexibility you need to actually keep it a fun place to work.
03/01/2013 at 08:02 eclipse mattaru says:
Oh, dear, what controversy! Aren’t you a brave one!
Go stand behind that line over there, with all the other 100.000 people that already said that.