Good point, apart from HL2E1 and Prey it has been a bit dry recently. The former was good and the latter is good so far so that's something.

Otherwise it's better to be into RTS or RPG I think!!

The one thing I'm looking forward too is Dark Messiah, FPHackEmUp rather than FPS though. 

Ummm... dunno. If in doubt, turtle??

Or look for an online walkthrough - I found a good one for Winter Assault so I assume there will be one soon for DC.

One thing, maybe the Necrons require different tactics given they have quite a different race / base structure - any subtle weakness you can look for?? 

there is a competition to get into the closed beta over on eurogamer at the mo... but I lost the url (or am too lazy to dig it out... you decide)

definitely looking forward to SC big time. I was a fan of Total Annihilation, and SC seems like it will be similar, so it should be good. War on a massive scale with an interface someone ACTUALLY FUCKING DESIGNED REALLY WELL (probably, if it's anything like as advanced as the TA one was in its day) that lets you effectively direct the battle.

Anyone else got a hardon for SC? 

Call it supcom. SC is reserved for an almighty RTS that will probably still be played in 2010. 

yeah "supcon" looks awesome, ive preordered dark messiah also and ET:QW.

Apart from that the pc fps at the moment looks rather bad, discounting sequels and ww2 games ofc :)

There is still always stalker =) 

i hate how prey advances the ww2 counter-terrorist teamplay genre.

laomo poned :{ 

Hrmm, Project Offset? Bioshock? 

I wouldn't hold your breath for that one. Is that still any more than a wishful tech demo that has no chance of running in real-time on a realistic system? Do they even have a publisher yet?

Looking at their website I see they've managed to expand to more than three people though, so something may get made in the end... 

A friend of mine is talking with them now and apparently they are going to be doing a huge round of hiring early next year. 

/me starts updating his CV... 

Agreed there is exciting stuff on the horizon for sure....but still on the horizon... 

A Fagpad 2.0 yet?

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4712/fagpadwb6.jpg 

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lol, you need to play it some more i think :}

Well I've just rescued the dippy bird with the effete walk and big ears, and it hasn't changed much in terms of gaming fun except a slight preponderance of coloured lighting and taking a while to get some varied enemies... 

Necrons and Tau both seem pretty overpowered. Neither one really has a weakness.

The tau were supposed to be awesome at range, the trick being to keep them that way. You don't have to bother, since you also get the Kroot carnivores, which can eat any other race within arm's reach for breakfast. With the upgrades, a fire team can knock a player off the map without losing a man.

The necrons have all kinds of fun advantages like units that resurrect, a commander unit that reappears where died (a tremendous fucking pain if he's lying dead in your base), their ultimate unit being absolutely immune to all damage, and them NOT REQUIRING ANY GODDAMNED RESOURCES. The base squad of necron warriors is free for God's sake. Out of the gate, free. There is nothing to counter this, like their units having less health. The only disadvantage I can see is that they walk kind of slow and there's no artillery. You can win with Necrons easily by playing as if you were space marines, IE, without needing to exploit any of their tricks. Utilizing them leads to total rape.

Here's an awesome trick: build a huge army (up to close to the squad cap limit) and send them off to die outside an enemy base, preferably in a pile. Build a second army, also up to the squad cap. Send them off, get your necron lord into the pile of bodies, and give your resurrection orb a loving squeeze. You will now have an army that's way the hell over the squad cap, bigger than anything anyone else has, and the game doesn't stop you.

Crap, I say. A lot of fun if you're Necrons, and it'll probably help sell a lot of the expansion by word of mouth until the inevitable first nerf patch, but if you're someone pansy like the Imperial Guard who take ages to get on their feet, you'd better like the feel of a long green gauss bugzapper up your ass. 

phat 

phat 

Sounds great :(

How does it work in SP? Like, facing Necrons? 

consensus is that going up against them as IG is great if you can survive the first few minutes, which you pretty much can't unless you're playing a sheep. With other races, on a difficulty level where most things don't give you much trouble, against Necrons it's extremely pitched the whole way. 

Played PoP 2thrones quite a lot.
Hardcore. No manual save, savepoints are rather rare and there are no health pickups. Instadeath all the way. And you dont even get 'rewind' ability for the first 5 or so levels.
Speedkills are bleh (just a matter of timing/reaction) fights are kinda same as in PoP WW - cool when u figure the combos and tactics.
Dark prince is very strong, but his health reduces every second (gets restored with sand). So he's very ez to fight with, but 'trick' sections turn into bloody speedrunning - if you're not fast enough, you die even w/o failing a jump. Retry-retry...
Its pretty, good art, seamless maps, nice layouts etc etc (see screenshots somewhere)

played WH40k Dark Crusade demo
I still love the style, but SP mission there is not much... duno if I should bother with the full game. I wish there was WH40k rpg or tactics

FEAR expansion demo - very unimpressive. Its only 1 map with 5 rooms and nothing special in it, takes like 5 minutes to play thru.

Flatout 2 - very good and fun racing game. If you like arcad-ish racing, very worth checking. 

Shambler: Just started Prey. Rather good really. Nice to see an FPS that is unashamedly about FUN and ENTERTAINMENT

Kinn: lol, you need to play it some more i think :}

Ummm, was it supposed to stop being fun at some point??

Well it's stopped being fun now, I guess, because I've finished it...

Okay so the AI was a bit crap and there was the usual bad boss combat and too much arena bollox, but aside from that it continued well all the way to the end. Some spectacular scenes, fair variety of situations, some good monsters (I like the spider creatures), pretty well balanced and sometimes intense gameplay, good use of it's gimmicks....did I miss something?? 

I enjoyed the game quite a lot, other than perhaps the guy being sort of annoying and stupid.

I especially enjoyed the flying bits and the gravity tricks, and thought the entire game was pretty solid, polished, and enjoyable.

It wasn't like it revolutionized the genre or anything, but I certainly got my money's worth. 

I enjoy saying enjoyed. 

Prey is good. Some ppl couldnt get over the fact that you dont actually die there. Lesser punishment for the lower skill - nothing wrong in my book. Good shooter, maybe the most playable/fun fps in last 2 yrs.

Going for the Call oh Juares (its FPS and not WW2 and should be somewhat new) and Just`cause... 

stay away, I warn you =)

And about Prey, yeah I really enjoyed that game, the whole immortal thing never really bothered me, in fact I would say it removed some frustration from the game in that there were never areas that were too hard and descend into load,die, repeat syndrome that plague some shooters.

The art as well was fantastic imo, the whole living ship idea was pulled off very well and the weapons while conventional in effects were very original in terms of design and feel.

I thought the areas where you fly around in the ship could have been polished up a little more, they were one of the weaker parts of the game but were not crap, though I think if they had pulled the flying maps and expanded the gravity gameplay it might have been worthwhile.