Alan Wake - bleh. I dont care about tech demos, when its out it will be average

Bioshock - bleh. not my style of play/look

Crysis - bleh. didnt even finish 1st one

ET:QW - bleh. no sp. BF-quake. bleh.

Hellgate London - uhm yeah

HL2:EP2 - helo again

Huxley - what?

Jericho - double what

Project Offset - I give it zero chance

Savage 2 - bleh

Stalker - lol

Supreme Commander - bleh (looks bad)

You Are Empty - need to check

You forgot Timeshift - kick ass nextgen project will be out in 1 year (if Atari doesnt kick the bucket). Im checking this one for sure, hoepfully next week. 

Just watched some later vid of gameplay - it looks tasteless ;( 

Of those, the ones I think are going to be the best are HL2 EP2, (mostly because of TF2 and Portal which come with it) and STALKER because I think it has the potential to be really excellent. I think whatever has made them delay it this long says to me that they actually care about it and the fact that THQ continues to pay for it says that they are excited about whatever they're doing.

Alan Wake could be kind of cool if they mix in some adventure game elements or something like that to actually make the story immersive. 

the thing with this game is that it's probably not going to be as impressive as it would have... i know they updated the engine to work with dx9 but i just have a bad feeling about it. also, some of the talk about 'emergent behaviour' sounds too outlandish to be true.

don't get me wrong, i would love if this game actually was exactly what they say, i just am preparing myself for the worst. :P

bioshock, on the other hand, i'm not worried about in the least. their track record is proven, and i can't wait to get my hands on this game. ^_^

jade empire is supposed to be being made for PC now, and as someone who never owned a single console, this is nice as i've heard good things about it. it's supposed to be more than a port, which is always a good thing, so we'll see...

and looking forward to hl2 ep2 if only for more nice post-ap maps and the continuation of the story (talk about a cliff hanger in ep1). 

some of the talk about 'emergent behaviour' sounds too outlandish to be true.

I was reading this article a moment ago--

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/stalker/news.html?sid=6162089&page=1

and how it describes emergant behavior gave me a funny feeling as well.

I know calling a game scripted is intended as an negative criticism, but I am much happier with well scripted and well paced events in game (like HL2) than I am with games similar to what is described here. Random is not that interesting.

It will likely feel as contrived as Dungeon Hack which randomly generates dungeons but is essentialy the same mind numbingly simple game everytime when you get under the surface of it. But I hope that I am wrong.

Speeds, I thought the bioshock art was quite an eye sore too, and the big daddies and little sisters described in every review have turned into an annoyance even before the game has come out. However, I'm still looking forward to it, like Necros, just because of the people involved in creating it. 

Ah yes, good old speedy, I knew I could rely on you for your charmless brand of dismissal and pessimism :).

Needless to see that some of these could be "bleh" indeed, still I would rather wait hopefully and then bleh-ify them if they deserve it. Makes it more fun in the meantime. And disappointment? Not so much really, there's always other games to play.


Anyway, the ones that most excite me: Bioshock, Crysis, and in theory Offset, all for obvious reasons.