Seriously, I'm not someone who buys PC looking RTS or city building/civilisation building games. But reading the IGN preview and watching the videos especially, I'm almost sold on Anno Dawn of Discovery (Euro name Create a new world).

It has bright, bouncing visuals. It looks addictive, intuitive and really well made. I guess I used to love Theme Park waaaaaay back but not other more complicated games, so this takes me back. Looks really fun. I might get this one eventually. 

The Anno series is highly respected in the PC circles.  It apparently (I haven't played, sadly, any of its titles, Anno 1602, Anno 1503 or Anno 1701) focuses more in the economic aspects of your regular RTS. More focus on non-military issues, so to speak, although eventually you do get to do battle as in any RTS worth its weight in lead and brimstone. 

The first two games are regarded as highly complex and demanding, although that seemed to change a bit with 1701, even though it is still on the difficult side of the fence. I assume this one will be even more accesible. 

robio said:

gamingeek said:

Oh shoot, Anno Create a new world aka Dawn of Discovery is looking (really) good.

I'm all about this game.  I watched all of IGN's videos for it yesterday and I'm shockingly impressed.

 Me too, especially the "building" video. The camera can zoom right in to look at the daily minutia. It looks really good. They even went all out with the voice acting where so many titles dont. Even the chunky icons and the way you drag around the map. Looks great. These aren't the sort of games I'm usually interested in, but like the IGN preview says there is this, almost Nintendo like air about the way its been designed to be accesible and deep. 

SteelAttack said:

The Anno series is highly respected in the PC circles.  It apparently (I haven't played, sadly, any of its titles, Anno 1602, Anno 1503 or Anno 1701) focuses more in the economic aspects of your regular RTS. More focus on non-military issues, so to speak, although eventually you do get to do battle as in any RTS worth its weight in lead and brimstone. 

The first two games are regarded as highly complex and demanding, although that seemed to change a bit with 1701, even though it is still on the difficult side of the fence. I assume this one will be even more accesible. 

 I've heard of them in passing, mainly through the DS game where the sprites were said to be too small. It's taken a long time, but this seems to be the droids I've been looking for. 

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!  They're remaking Final Fantasy Legend II?????  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtQ85tedIEc&feature=channel_page - the one in the headline is a higher level entry.  Judging by the graphics in that video I'll go ahead and assume it's a DS remake.  Would have preferred a console remake, but I'll take what I can get.

Really this is incredible.  I can't tell you how long I've waited for this to come along.  The original was the driving force behind me buying my original Gameboy back in the day (in this case being 1992).  Frankly I don't think Square ever made another entry into the SaGa series that was nearly as good as this game.  For those of you not in the know the FFL series was actually the start of the SaGa series and just capitalized on the FF name in North America.

Without exagerration I think I played through that game a dozen times.  That says a lot for any game, but considering this was an early Gameboy game. . . it's amazing.  Has a great story and lots of customization for the characters and team.  I can forsee some people not liking the stat building process.  This is one of those games where you build your stats battle by battle instead of gaining experience to level up.  I'm crossing my fingers that this isn't going to be changed, but I'm half expecting it.  

Still I'm giddy as hell.  Dream come true for me.

Love the close up view. 

gamingeek said:

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gamingeek said:

Any nude Ellen pics?

Well I cancelled the World Ends with You. Play just weren't delivering it, despite it being on order for ages. I ordered Rhythm heaven for £18 from them instead.

i think the world ends with you has sold out and they are probably not pressing anymore any time soon.  i think it's about to start getting hard to find now as everybody thought would be the case from the beginning.  i hope you get to play it sometime though as it's really worth it.

having said that ... i've been waiting you to get rhythm heaven to help me with the stupid ghost band mini-game i don't get, so that's cool.