Yeah strange,Arcania and Risen should also be there if Diablo is.Diablo III to be released in 2009
I voted for King's Bounty cause everything else was just not-GOTY.
Fallout 3:good but I was bored after lvl15
Mass Effect:Good-ol-bioware you wont get a single vote from me because you are make kotor-mmo,ME's combat sucked BTW
NWN:Great but not as fun as it could be
M&B:#2 Awesome combat
G3FG:normally I would give my left hand for Gothic but this is not Gothic
Sacred 2:hack&slash,hack&slash,hack&slash,hack&slash*bored*
In 2009 I am waiting for
Diablo 3(FUN)
Dragon Age
but most of all for RISEN
Yeah strange,Arcania and Risen should also be there if Diablo is.
Yes, whose opinions should I list??See the best thing about what you listed is....those are all YOUR opinions.
If diablo is on the 2009 list then borderlands should be too? Its a 1st person mad max meets "diablo-clone". It has l00t (650000 weapons), random maps and 4 player co-op..Please let us know ASAP if you find a game missing on the lists.
Now back to Borderlands. Randy Pitchford stated this game as Role-playing Shooter which, from what I've seen, implements RP elements into shooter. This was a huge success with highly acclaimed Shock series(System Shock 1 and 2, Bioshock) when it had kickass FPS gameplay with deep RP behind, but in case of Borderlands it's also closer to the opposite as it implements a LOT of RPG elements which ends up sounding like Too Human. Also it utilizes randomly generated maps which hampered some games of these days including already mentioned Hellgate London.
The way I see it, Borderlands seems to have enough RP elements as, basically, a shooter. 650,000 weapons and good storytelling shown in Hell's Highway would be enough. I don't know how the world of Pandora would work but if it's done well, it's going to have some freedom as well. Also, Pandora should not be as hollow as uncharted worlds of Mass Effect.
Problem is a combat system which we would have no idea before we get some real information blowout. I watched E3 2008 bootleg, it looked cool in its stage, but many things were not finished including AI. Luckily it had kickass sound effects for guns and some gore enough to feel that enemies are getting bullets, so we'll see how Gearbox is going to implement things that were absent in E3 2008 demo.
That's the thing. Borderlands is not trying to imitate Diablo. It is not trying to be a deep RPG shooter, that's Fallout 3 territory. What Borderlands is doing, is looking at what exactly made Diablo fun(Loot grinding), and adding it to a shooter. The environments are generated procedurally, so while the terrain may be the same in an area from passthrough to passthrough(I think, not sure on that), the contents will change, such as a new cave to explore, or a very large and hungry monster that decides you'd make a nice snack.
Hellgate got repetitive because they had a limited number of environments and textures, underground with limited open air, always confined to tight spaces, and almost always linear. There was variation as you progressed but not enough. Borderlands is hopefully going to be expansive enough to avoid that, with enough variation from location to location to stay new and fresh even on the 32nd playthrough. In all reality, you could say the Diablo had very repetitive levels but that was alright at the time, and Diablo 2 cycled through the different repetitives fast enough that they didn't get too boring, which is where Hellgate failed.
Well, yeah, you see... there's a thing.... I think to get on the list you have to release something that people have to pay for. City of Heroes/Villains had a couple of big updates, too, but they were free. So no CoX on the list. If, on the other hand, NCSoft and pushed the two updates together and charged people $15 for it, it would be on the list plus it would have gotten reviewed in the press. If Wrath of the Lich King hadn't come out, WoW wouldn't have been on the list, either.There needs to be a fill in vote. Everquest is not even on the list. Nor is A Tale in the Desert.