Ikaruga and Skies of Arcadia Legends and Wario World....and....what the hell is coming out after these did?

You fool!

Viewtiful Joe
KOTOR
Pokemon R/S (PAL)
Inital D
F-Zero GX
Soul Calibur 2

SOOOOO MANY MORE!!!

EDIT: MORE!

I assumed that you were taking specifically about the GC becuase of the list that you gave... but you obviously havea PC so don't forget:

HALF-LIFE 2
Couter-Strike: Condition Zero!

You sir are a fool to believe there is a summer drought this year. Splash out on an NTSC console and you'll have one of the best summers EVER!

In the popular field of games with "Hal" and "2" in their names there's Halo 2 and Half-Life 2 alone.

This is easily the most games-soaked summer ever.

Admittedly, it's bleaker for non-importers but that's their fault for saying "Please Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft Europe! Please keep constantly raping me up the ass with release dates and rubbish conversions. I've got money... Lots of it..."

This month has been massive for games. Initial D, Viewtiful Joe, Kirby, KoTOR, F-Zero... Drought my arse!!!

Continuing the case for the defence...

Half-Life 2
Soul Calibur 2
The Temple Of Elemental Evil (anything Troika has to be great!)
Mario 128
Halo 2
Whatever the new Zelda game is called (my god that girls high maintenance).
Mario Kart: DD

Erm...

Half Life 2
Dark Chronicle
Gran Turismo 4

Lo Danneh :)

Buy a Gameboy Advance and the three Castlevania titles available for (it).
When you finish them, look back to the time and the fun you had playing them and I dare you to say again there are no decent games anymore.

Oh, and Halo The First [1] was crap.
There.
You want to make something of it? Eh? Eh?
Bignose.

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[1] Dunno about 2, man, haven't played it.

Don't forget Grand Theft Auto: Hunstanton.

Featuring bad-ass donkey rides and such.

In addition to the fine examples given above, there is Deus Ex: Invisible War which is really getting my trousers in a froth, especially that HUD :)


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you must all look forward to viewtiful joe. after playing, its splendid visuals and instant fun gameplay has confirmed to me that its one of the best 2d platformers ive played. import-me-do!

well according to the digi news... narc! narc on the gc! yay omg yay. surely the best thing ever, right?

oh and theres that pillage thing all the cool kids are talking about.

I agree with the topic.

When I was a youngster, I'd walk into my local game shop (which at teh time mostly appeared to be sodding woolworths, unless I was taken someplace *special*) and would wish for EVERY SINGLE GAME ON THE SHELF.

Now I can barely raise the enthusiasm to walk into a videogames shop, because I KNOW that there will be about two whole titles that I wish to take home with me. The rest of the shop will leave me in a seething rage due to their utter shittness.

For an industry which I used to dream about getting into, now pushes me away faster than a rabid chimp with the horn.

Granted, there are the odd one or two titles which I'd pay hard cash for, but, nnnngh, I can't be arsed. £40 is alot of money, y'know, these days I'd rather waste that on hookers or drugs.

and lets face it, you can't beat a blowjob any day of the week....

EDIT: HL2 is the only thing which manages to even give me wood.

like a child in a sweet shop?

youre older now. and therefore more aware of whats shit. back in "the day" there were just as many shit games, you just didnt care, because youd just want to play.

Gran Turismo is terrible Timmeh.

I have no idea what Dark Chronicle is.

Viewtiful Joe - Oops forgot this >_< import it soon
KOTOR 0_o
Pokemon R/S (PAL) - Got it months ago, as Nintendo are bastards
Inital D - Maybe
F-Zero GX - Eek, criminally forgotton
Soul Calibur 2 - Maybe, has too much to live upto.

I meant all systems, the GC is the only one with anything on the horizen, except maybe the new Castlvania.

HALF-LIFE 2 - It wont run on my PCs
Couter-Strike: Condition Zero! - I hate CS

Kirby looked good, but now it doesnt seem very exciting


The Temple Of Elemental Evil (anything Troika has to be great!) - 0_o
Mario 128 - I havent seen much if anything
Halo 2 - I need an Xbox
Whatever the new Zelda game is called - since when?
Mario Kart: DD - Really isnt impressing.

OK i forgot F Zero and Viewtiful Joe >_>

Thats about it.

Maybe im getting too cynical...

Quite possibly. Yes.

Although, saying that, this was the time of the 8bit system, where no game, ever, could put its foot wrong. I mean, damit, they were only priced at a fiver.

Although, thats what, like £20 in modern day money isnt it.

*Zobbster falls over.

Ah, who cares, my passion-fires for gaming has well since been put out. And thats coming from someone whos playing through Halflife and all its addon packs again just because nothing else even comes close.

Buy yourself a Saturn and Panzer Dragoon Saga mate.

Oh, and just released this month is Virtua Fighter 4 Evo... meant to be amazing!

I find it hard to believe, inspite of your dismissal of great games with one word, that you can only think of two 'good' games to look forward to ig1234.

It clearly appears that you've limited yourself console wise as you have no Xbox or PC (worth playing computers on), and I know not whether you have a PS2.

I'm not going to go down the list and tell you why I think that you are wrong, but I certainly suggest you reassess what makes a 'decent game'. All the listed games have qualities that fall into that category, whether they have a lot to live up to, whether they are only on X-box, whether they require a good PC to run on, or whether the odd screen shot of small video from E3 is enough to put you off, or not!

And with the change from £200(ish) get some chips!

Stalker looks really lovely too by the way, you can see for yourself here - it's a 66MB video if you can be arsed. It's a less obvious but nevertheless good choice for the "[Allegedly] good games which aren't out yet" box.

Ill get myself an Xbox when i can, that does have some promising titles coming i expect.

I dont think i will ever buy a PS2 however, unless my want for PES2, Ico, Virtua Fighter 4(which i own >_>) and GTA:VC really outumbers everything ever.

However Syphon Filter (#?) may convert me.

Ahh, but they missed an opportunity by going for the 1ps option.

The film "Stalker" is based on the (Russian) SF novelette "Roadside Picnic", which has these characters called Stalkers who explore the Zone -- a strange, twisted area created when aliens visited Earth and then left. Without making contact. Littering the Zone with strange artifacts and areas with curiously altered physics, all with a tendency to kill the unwary, much like human rubbish left behind a roadside picnic seems to the small, woodland creatures that encounter it.

Stalkers make their living by entering the Zone to search for artifacts -- but have to learn to obey the strange rules imposed by the alien physics to survive. And even if they do survive, the Zone twists their bodies and minds, and mutates their progeny in strange and unseen ways.

Now, if that isn't a better scenario than a straight shoot-em up, I don't know what is. Although I know which I'd rather pitch to a suit. I'm assuming that the film and books inspired the team.

Strangely enough, I saw a BBC documentary ("Under the Sarcophagus" ISTR) on the Russian scientists who were working on Chernobyl a couple of years after the disaster. It portrayed a strange, twisted area where the explosion had left behind strange artifacts and areas with curiously dangerous properties . . . there were several scenes which were identical to those portrayed in the book. Right down to the danger of mutation and unseen death. I must be psychic.

Spooky.

But irrelevant.

Oh, and read the book -- go on, I dare you (Roadside Picnic, by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky). I also recommend the film "Stalker", but Tarkovsky's a more . . . acquired taste.