About as likely to happen as a rain of frogs. 

that was the direction they were going (Re: the Doom2 thing). Certainly hope so. Seems like a great engine for a stylised, handpainted look, something a bit more fun than straight-up id techno-realistic too-many-pipes-on-this-panel affair. Mix that with some classic Doom / Painkiller gameplay, run-n-gun, horde combat and you've got a bloody great time IMO. 

Carmack, 2008:
One of the things that I come to in my limited contributions to the whole Doom 4 design process is, it has to still be you beating down the bad guys. It has to be a triumph of heavy weaponry over demonic forces in some way, and you have to be blowing demons all to hell around you, and it's a more positive side of things there.

Brad Hawkins (voice actor), 2009:
I do know we are dealing with a post war/post apocalyptic event that civilians and military are fighting for their survival.

Spirit, 2011:
Fuck Gawker!


I'd say the future is looking pretty bright. 

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/10/21/what-do-you-want-from-doom-4/

Also, someone linked their concept video of what it could look like, looks pretty fucking amazing if you ask me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sQFx_e_0jc 

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/21/bethesda-shoots-down-doom-4-postponement-rumors/ 

Galactic Civilization 2 Ultimate Edition and Impulse - anyone here play this game, and if so, is Impulse any good? It's gamestop's Steam competitor, and it's $20 on that platform. I really want it, not sure if it's worth dealing with Impulse though. I might just pay for it then download a torrent so I don't have a guilty conscience. Only other place I saw it was a boxed copy on Amazon for like $70 after s&h (which might be worth it if it comes with an awesome manual.) 

Is pretty good - I always found it more stable than Steam and more user friendly.

Just a shame it doesn't get the big releases as much. 

As expected the Arcania addon is shit. It's like the last part of the main game, where you had to endure constant battles with little story, except even worse as there's neither nice.environments nor good combat.
So after hack'n'slaying through hordes of creatures in unimaginative caves, dungeons and ruins for rougly an hour, I got bored and uninstalled.
This addon is a very lame attempt at cashing in some more (especially if you followed the lawsuit revolving around it) and another nail in the coffin of the Gothic series. Pretty much like Forsaken Gods. Poor bastards who paid for this. 

Right, as expected, thanks for the heads up.
Hope Risen 2 is good! 

Forthcoming / future FPS / 3PS action games to look forward to:

So far we've got:

Bioshock Infinite
Prey 2
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Mass Effect 3
Syndicate
The Darkness 2
Far Cry 3

http://www.tothegame.com/gamebrowse.asp?sort=title&letter=all&page=1&sortdir=asc&platform=pc&category=4&status=upcoming&territory=eu&image.x=44&image.y=8 does not show any more of note....hmmm....

(Skyrim and Risen 2 if you are Bal, HOTS if you are a SC2 whore) 

I didn't know they were making that. By the looks of the shots, it looks really amazing, and might actually be a sequel to Far Cry (unlike Far Cry 2, which was a completely unrelated game). 

No it's not, it's a sequel-ish to FC2, from the looks of things. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaGSSrp49uc 

Daz added Dishonored, that has potential. 

I just looked at the screen shots and saw tropical island with a white guy with a Hawaiian shirt, and thought "that looks like FC". 

hahaha 

Waiting for Deus Ex Human Choadalution to arrive, so I fancied some simple shooter action and felt it was time to give GOW1 another go, having got vaguely used to horrible consolised over the shoulder cover system bollox in the space marine demo. It is an....interesting experience.

Pros:
+ It looks pretty cool for the time, still looks good today.
+ The squad system works pretty well.
+ Flanking enemies is quite fun.

Cons:
- Everything is in a shade of grey.
- Squad members are generally stupid and go down easily.
- You can revive them but can't be revived yourself.
- The checkpoints are sometimes too spaced and there is no manual save.
- Some checkpoints are right as unskippable cutscenes start, forcing tedious reviews.
- Unskippable intro clips/logos.
- Far too many cutscenes, all the bloody time and spoiling immersion.
- The characters and dialogue are completely awful.
- There is no context for how it starts.
- The health indicator is in possibly the worst position ever, right where it gets completely obscured by gunfire and right where you're trying to look through the hud.
- The enemy look almost identical to your squad members (and have little character regardless).
- The gameplay is super-repetitive.
- The cover fighting is very artificial with concrete shit everywhere.
- The shotgun is completely useless given the gameplay when you get it.
- Running controls are awful: lag before running, change in perspective, awful lack of turning, awful headbob.
- Can't vault/mantle obstacles without going into cover first.

Basically it's striking me as a clear and objective bad game. How was it ever popular again?? 

You forgot to mention the number of sequences which are designed around having two players, which in single player practically mock you via the pathetic partner AI. 

I love Epic, but I can't stand their design at all. Gears of War is a disgustingly horrible game. It's just terrible design wrapped in ugly looking meat-robots. 

I love you.

That is going on my Facebook page. 

I liked GOW1, pity they went cuntsoles only for the sequels. Didn't like the cover system bullshit and concrete blocks everywhere, but the game looked great for 2006, despite grey and brown everywhere.

That titan or whatever it's called boss is a CUNT. 

- Both your squad and the enemy models have irritatingly juvenile proportions.
- Picking up items is slow and tedious.
- The blood is daft cartoonised nonsense. 

havent played it yet but isnt one of the lighting options really important to how it looks? Ie without it, the game looks monotonal and drab and very different if you turn it on?

Also, finally finished Episode One, more of the same really, not as epic as the original game but very enjoyable nonetheless. 

I just played Portal for the 1st time. First 18 levels I felt were a bit uninspired... left me wondering why this game is one of the most popular of all time, but the last level is awesome and makes it a great mini-game - although the puzzles are never really that difficult throughout. Pretty cool though. 

I've tried Vivid and Intense post-processing, it still looks monotonal. 

that's the one, I wonder what you would say if you turned it off :)