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Top 10 Most Anticipated-Awaited Upcoming PC Games 2012

Teknogamia : It's a great new year for gaming as many of the anticipated hot titles that were supposed to come last year shifted to 2012 in-order to avoid clash between the big Franchises, leaving gamers with more relaxed options for choosing their favorite games so they can fully enjoy the game's intense experience.

Just like last year, here is the top 10 list for the most anticipated games for PC platform for the year 2012.

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ninjahunter4466d ago (Edited 4466d ago )

Yep, no point nit picking, 2-3 of them i dont care about, but thats expected, different generations of gamers prefer different game styles. Mass effect 3 is definitively a right choice though.

Voxelman4466d ago

Why does everyone put games like the Darkness 2 and Syndicate on PC game lists for 2012? Neither game looks that special and there are PC exclusives like Starcraft 2: HotS, Mechwarrior Online, Guild Wars 2, Torchlight 2, Planetside 2 and War of the Roses coming! Then there are games like Borderlands 2, Prey 2, Farcry 3 and Tomb Raider coming as well.

And FFS Operation: Racoon City is not RE6 and it looks kinda crappy, like some cheap L4D copycat. Also I doubt that RE6 is coming this year for PC, it's coming some time after console and it's due late in the year.

Who approves this crap?

wjbjnr4466d ago

@Voxelman,

It's an opinion piece, so gaming tastes can differ. Torchlight 2 is no where any anticipated as its previous part wan't that good, farcry is gettning boring like hell!, and you talk about Tomb Raider??, dude do you know how many copies were sold of its last release ?? the numbers were quite low!, indicating loss of interest!

Syndicate : As i mentioned in the ANTICIPATION FACTOR, it's a reboot of its original game which was released in 1993 so it's worth including it.(at least I am excited)

Voxelman4466d ago (Edited 4466d ago )

Torchlight 2 looks to be the Diablo II to it's Torchlight and at least it's likely to come out this year unlike Diablo III, but you could swap it out for Grim Dawn if you like.

As for FarCry you talk about it like it's an annual release or something, 3 looks to be an entire new game with a very different setting and tone.

Tomb Raider is a reboot that looks and sounds to be reinventing the franchise in more ways than one. And if you are going for sales then The Dark ness is off right there the fisrt game didn't even break 1 million on PS3 and 360 combined but the last Tomb Raider sold 1.1 million on PS3 alone. Then add the fact the first game wasn't on PC and it's apeal for PC gamers is very low. Oh and the last Tomb Raider game did much better than the one before indicating increasing interest.

Syndicate is a butchering of the IP and looks to be just another FPS with co-op and gadgets. Not a lot to be exited about especially as the original game did well but wasn't a big hit. It's well loved by those that played it but not well known. Other than being developed by Starbreeze there is little to be exited about.

Look at any list generated by votes and you will see Guild Wars 2, Diablo 3, Mass Effect 3 and Bioshock: infinite right up the top, I doubt you would find the Darkness or Syndicate anywhere near the list, hell Diablo 3 came out on top of Gametrailers all platform user list. And if you like Sci-Fi shooters there is Aliens: Colonial Marines and Prey 2.

I understand it's an opinion based but when you list Raccoon city (which looks lazy to say the least) as RE6 you know there are problems. You should have called the list "My most anticipated" if you were only going to base the list on your opnion rather than looking at what people in general are exited about.

Also now you have picked out the lowest of my alternate picks what's wrong with Plantside 2, Mechwarrior Online, War of The Roses, Prey 2, Starcraft 2 (should be near the top of the list behind GTA if you are factoring in past sales), Guild Wars 2, Borderlands 2, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Dota 2? I would personally put them all over Syndicate and The Darkness 2, and I bet most PC gamers would agree. Probably Ghost Recon as well considering all the shit Ubisoft has been slinging.

Oh and why on earth do you talk about the graphics in the anticipation factor for Diablo 3?

dougr4466d ago (Edited 4466d ago )

GTA, Mass Effect, and KoA are the only ones I'm really interested out of those. I'll pick up Max Payne and Darkness 2 down the line though when they are discounted heavily.

edit: never mind about darkness 2 I thought it was something else, watched a preview of it just now, it looks rather retarded imo.

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Ex-Rockstar Dev Finally Explains Why Small Planes Randomly Crashed in GTA San Andreas

Former Rockstar Games Technical Director Obbe Vermeij has finally revealed why some planes would randomly crash in GTA: San Andreas.

Profchaos24d ago

This fly by feature was on the cutting room floor due to the random plane crashes and it's one of those things I'm so thankful made it into the final version as these random fly by and crashes make the world seem more alive on the extremely limited PS2 hardware you needed everything you could possibly get in a open world to convey that feeling.

And accross hundreds of hours of gameplay I probably died around 3 times as a result of these fly by failures but I loved every time it happened

isarai24d ago (Edited 24d ago )

It made the world feel more human, and honestly kinda insane that even today with all these open world games, almost no one can capture that like R* even when compared to their ps2 games

Skuletor23d ago

Lol, I remember those. I vaguely remember dying from one crashing into my car once too.

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EA Hopes to Use Generative AI to Drive Monetization and Make Development 30% More Efficient

Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.

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thorstein54d ago

I wonder what the next buzz word they'll slap in front of AI to make it sound exciting next? "Generative" as if it's creating its own content. Lol.

Cacabunga53d ago

EA is already dying a painful death..

peppeaccardo53d ago

i have a better idea .. why the whole exec team doesn't get replaced by chat bots ?

just_looken54d ago

Though i agree the ai thing is already in other forms of media there have been ai translations/scripts/voice over and even full ai commercials aired on tv. Ubisoft has created a ai game creator story/vo/music except the building of the game

The new unreal engine has auto terrain creation tools

In the world of greed in which it is winning without any major blow back ai is our future.

everyone want's biden dead on the mic or a criminal instead of a woman and now we are getting ai everything because no one will stop watching/playing ai created media.

GamerRN53d ago

Maybe they should just focus on making good games?

Just a thought...

Kiryu199253d ago

Exactly EA are just pure evil. When they are beating Bank of America to be voted the worst company to work for that’s saying a lot

Good thing I don’t buy their games day one and wait for deep deep sale years after launch (the select few games I am actually interested in)

Gaming is making so much money yet the greed of these companies is never ending

CEO’s and people on board making millions yet cutting jobs to those who are actually making the products

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Knightofelemia54d ago (Edited 54d ago )

EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.

Stuart575654d ago

EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'

I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.

ChasterMies53d ago

I having a feeling that most of the layoffs in the industry are based on the idea that AI will do the same job for less.

DarXyde53d ago

Very likely, yes.

Made worse by the fact that the execs aren't changing their compensations.

My deepest fear at this point is that we are now in the capitalism endgame.

At this point, we really should just burn AI to the ground. Executives cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
How are those people expected to support families if everything gets automated?

Barlos54d ago (Edited 54d ago )

And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.

No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.

CobraKai54d ago

Exactly. If or when games start becoming more AI than people, im done with gaming. AI and companies like EA can suck donkey d***k.

just_looken54d ago

Though i agree remember this is no ps3/360 era were we got up to 3 games in one generation from on developer like gears/halo/bioware/sony/ms

The people today are pro esg/sweet baby for the most part AAA gaming is imploding right now.

We should be stepping back re evaluate everything as a whole this year xmen 97 written/directed by a woman that is nuts and its also being made by a group reshaping bodies to be less sexual like wtf. A dam famous cartoon from the 90's is being rebuilt with millions spent to be worse in everyway.

Gaming/movies/tv shows made today are worse than what we had 7years ago ai won't change this but that ai is also being made by these groups so either way we are screwed.
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Eonjay53d ago

Don't be of afraid of women. Sexy characters in games and movies still exist. Got my Stellar Blade on preorder!!! Everything all the time doesn't need to be sexual...that's stupid, childish and dull.

Chocoburger54d ago (Edited 54d ago )

EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.

SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5

Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"

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Mass Effect 3's Ending for Javik Misses the Forest for the Trees

Based on one narratively fitting ending in Mass Effect 3, Prothean squadmate Javik is highly unlikely to return in the next Mass Effect game.

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anast55d ago

He was one of my least favorite characters. I wish they would have done the Proths different.