2009 Gaming predictions

[Obtenor]

Team Fortress MMO
Dune MMO

One can dream?

[The Ancient]

Originally Posted by Kuro

God Himself will release an MMO.

Black athletes are long overdue for a nerf. Their +speed and endurance racial bonus is easily the best bonus of its kind and is applicable to almost all the most popular forms of PvP.

[Bixxby]

Abe Vigoda will die

[Lleauaric~EW]

Dawn of War 2 will be a better game than Starcraft 2

[Hatorade]

Originally Posted by Lleauaric~EW

Dawn of War 2 will be a better game than Starcraft 2

Bold statement sir.

I predict a dirty jobs game or at least one starring Mike Rowe.

[Quineloe]

Originally Posted by Obtenor

Team Fortress MMO
Dune MMO

One can dream?

Doesn't TF2 already allow for combat scenarios with more players than most MMOs do?

[Fury]

Originally Posted by phusnikn

1. Aion will break 1 million users by December.
2. Richard Garriot will rejoin EA and build a new UO team using the Dead Space Engine.
3. StarCraft: Universe will be announced this year.
4. No new MMORPG's will hit any consoles this year.
5. Valve will release Halflife 2: EP3 this year.
6. Duke Nukem Forever will either get canceled or released in 2009.
7. EA will make major headway with their new Dead Space Engine rivaling that of ID's and Epic's.
8. Will Wright will announce a new MMO Sim this year.
9. ID will be a buyout potential this year if their new Driving/FPS bombs.
10. Microsoft will acquire TakeTwo this year.
11. EQ2, Vanguard, LOTR, or WAR will scale back server worlds this year.
12. God of War 3 will be the biggest selling PS3 game and possibly the best on any console.
13. Blizzard will have internal issues which will cause many top people to leave and start a new studio.
14. Nintendo will announce plans to begin work on their next generation console.
15. Because of the success of Left 4 Dead you will begin to see a trend for COOP FPS games hitting the market.
16. Microsoft will announce plans to launch a handheld console.
17. ID will launch Quakelive with much success.
18. Valve's core team will announce their next block buster title (Half Life 3)?
19. A new MMORPG will announce a singl world instance/game with advanced graphics and gaining much buzz to later go vapor.
20. Micro transaction MMO's will fail in the US.

I find all of this pretty plausable.

In addition, on the MMO front -
Huxley, the MMOFPS, will bomb out big time and or end up being vaporware to no surprise. The hopes for a persistant world FPS will be over.
Champions Online will come out and end up being pretty polished, but have minimal subs.
After two years in exile, Brad McQuaid will reappear in the MMO scene with SOE announcing they will have him "getting back to his roots" and heading their new MMO, EQ3.

[Grizzlebeard]

Originally Posted by FulorianC

Because we're not stupid curmudgeons that are capable of doing more than sticking a disc in and hitting play?

Whilst I agree with your feelings on PCs I still enjoy flopping on the couch and playing Wipeout on a huge-ass tv for a few hours. Just because you advocate one doesn't mean you have to trash the other.

[Troll]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

I predict a dirty jobs game or at least one starring Mike Rowe.

QVC MMO?

[Arakkis]

Originally Posted by The Ancient

Black athletes are long overdue for a nerf. Their +speed and endurance racial bonus is easily the best bonus of its kind and is applicable to almost all the most popular forms of PvP.

Fuck that, the Asians have a huge +int bonus and breeding multipliers. Also, their hivemind racial is way OP and their penalty to motorized vehicle operation is only a nuisance to others.

[Hatorade]

Originally Posted by Arakkis

Fuck that, the Asians have a huge +int bonus and breeding multipliers. Also, their hivemind racial is way OP and their penalty to motorized vehicle operation is only a nuisance to others.

That is hilarious on so many nerd levels.

[Sinnes]

Darkfall will be released(!!), but with few of the promised features.

Mortal Online is released and steals a good share of the DF subs.

A major FPS MMO will be announced, my guess would be from the Battlefield series

[Hatorade]

No it will be "The Agency"! Que the spy music.

[Tyen]

I'm really hoping The Agency will be sweet.

[Itzena]

Dwarf Fortress continues spiralling in complexity and depth while remaining in alpha with ascii graphics.