Video Game Thread (Non-Car Related)

[Driftster]

http://youtu.be/XqORbzbEfoM

I'll take it!

[Driftster]

Devil May Cry has been completely "Toolified"

[Driftster]

Today, THQ has unveiled ColdTech, the revolutionary new weather technology found in Company of Heroes 2. Bringing the bitter cold Winter weather of the Eastern Front to life in a way never before seen in a strategy game, ColdTech will have players making difficult strategic decisions to keep their troops alive, and to engage the enemy intelligently.

AGOURA HILLS, Calif. July 24, 2012 – THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced that its award-winning upcoming strategy game Company of Heroes ® 2 will feature innovative weather condition simulating technology never seen before in the Strategy game genre.

Any historian will attest to the huge role the brutal Soviet winter played in the Eastern Front theatre of World War II and this is now realistically simulated in-game thanks to Relic Entertainment’s new Essence™ Engine 3.0 and its ColdTech system.

ColdTech includes an ‘extreme cold’ mechanic which accurately encapsulates the Soviet winter which reached extremes of -40 degrees F in 1941. At those temperatures human skin will freeze in a matter of minutes, something that is portrayed in the game. On winter maps, Infantry units exposed to the bitter cold will gradually freeze to death unless the player keeps them warm by building fires and garrisoning them in buildings. Dynamic blizzards will increase the effects of extreme cold making it even more hazardous to leave infantry in the open.

The new ColdTech system also allows the Essence Engine to dynamically paint on and remove snow, meaning that not only does it accumulate on buildings and vehicles, but it can also be melted or removed from objects by the player. Snow also has realistic depth which actually impacts troop movement and will retain persistent infantry and vehicle tracks throughout the match unless covered by fresh snow fall.

On top of the innovations in snow technology the engine allows ice to become a weapon in a smart commander’s arsenal. Not only does it have a unique texture, affecting vehicle and troop movement, but it can collapse or be destroyed from underneath troops and vehicles, plunging them into the hypothermic Russian waters. Over time destroyed ice will re-form due to the winter conditions in the game.

All of these new innovations feature alongside Company of Heroes 2’s other technological advancements like the TrueSight™ dynamic line-of-sight mechanic to make this a worthy successor to Company of Heroes.

Quinn Duffy, Game Director at Relic Entertainment commented, “Company of Heroes 2 is all about authenticity and no game based on the Eastern Front would be complete without extreme weather conditions. Thanks to the enhanced technology offered by the new Essence Engine we are able to accurately portray the bitter Soviet winter which crippled the German army.”

The original Company of Heroes was released in 2006 to critical acclaim and is currently the highest rated strategy title on Gamerankings.com (with more than five reviews) with an average of 93.82% based on 56 reviews. The game features similar acclaim on Metacritic.com with a Metascore of 93% based on 55 reviews.

[mclaren_mercedes_f1]

That's pretty cool. Cold weather.

[Evo_power]

Sounds a little too Tomagatchi to me. What's next, you gota make sure your soldiers are fed well, and they fight better when they eat more delicious food, or they get too much battle wear, so you have to take them off the front lines and send them to Paris for a week and make sure they bang the correct whores and watch the right movies to enjoy themselves so they can return to the lines fully recharged?

...Anytime any game adds some **** that makes the game work, I can do without it.

[Cooper "s"]

Fall out New Vegas, had you eating and sleeping, and that was a great add on.

[Evo_power]

DONT SPIT IN THE FACE OF MY LOGIC!


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Fallout does not apply, because in those games, I don't care what I'm doing, it's Fallout, so it's awesome.

[Driftster]

Anyone else not able to wait for ArmA 3?

[Evo_power]

Is it suppose to be good?

[Driftster]

Well ArmA 2's downfall was..it looked like crap..

ArmA 3 (thanks to ArmA2's popularity) looks great...
So we have a Battlefield 3 LOOKING game..
That basically is Skyrim with guns.....
I mean that in the best way...

You have a inventory..You hot-swap weapon accessories if you own them to suit the situation ie you add a supressor mid game to do sneak work later pop on a scope...
it has accurate bullet drop along with range finding, so you have to zero in your scopes/weapons appropriately.
You kill an enemy etc, you can make your way to his corpse steal his ghille suite or uniform so you can infiltrate his encampment or use whatever he's got..."if you die, you'll lose your stuff" aspect.

day/night cycle yadda yadda

http://youtu.be/efC6gAO6exA

[Evo_power]

Looks pretty similar to basically every other fps out there.

There any good non-fps games coming out?

When does Torchlight 2 come out?

[Driftster]

Originally Posted by Evo_power

Looks pretty similar to basically every other fps out there.

There any good non-fps games coming out?

Similar how?

I can't name one FPS that has backpacks to collect that change how much inventory you can carry.

and

http://youtu.be/jkJ7ew2rZgw

http://youtu.be/w6bg6yhyTK4

[Evo_power]

See now THATS the **** I'm talkin about! Mother ****in Xcom son! Dude the first one was great! This one looks awesome!

I'm honestly never been a huge c&c fan though, probably because I usually just don't like rts games because I start freaking out too much.

I hope that World War Z game is awesome, and it's more resident evil like than left for dead like.

[Driftster]

That world war Z = ArmA Mod + some....It's a mod now but becoming a stand alone due to popularity..

[Evo_power]

New Xcom! Yeah

Edit: Hey, has anyone played the Day Z mod from Arma 2? That looks pretty sweet.