4th edition is an interesting ruleset. I've not got to play it as much as I'd like to, but to be honest ever since I learned other systems I wasn't too interested in D&D. Class based systems in general became too limiting in my mind. 4th edition has let me come back to class based gameplay and have some fun now and then so all in all a good system for a pen and paper game.
That's the key though. A PEN AND PAPER game. What makes D&D and all other P&P games great is that interactivity between the players and gamemasters. Heck just listen to the Penny Arcade, PvP, Will Wheadon(?!), game going on now. It's friggin hilarious and shows how great P&P games can be. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4pod/20090218
That's the biggest problem though. What's good in P&P isn't necissarily good in a video game. While it can work, and has, I'm not so sure it's as needed as it once was. Game companies can make thier own systems just fine now a days, and the fan base of a P&P system isn't neccissarily as big a sales draw as just a plain good system is.
All in all I'd love to see a 4e game come out. I'd also like to see a Warhammer 40K movie (since they did one on Mutant Cronicles after all) but I won't be holding my breath for either one. :)
I enjoyed the original and I do believe fully customizable cybernetically and drug enhanced agents can be awesome. The big question is would it still be a 3rd person isometric view game or a 3rd/1st person shooter? If you kept it more tactical and less twitchy I think it'd be cool and worth getting. I don't think it'd do well in the saturated FPS market.
Wasn't WebTV ahead of it's time? I think he's once again about 5 years too soon for this to work right. It's a cool concept and I look forward to some research in that direction but I think it's too soon.
A downloadable game network is more probable. Like Gametap and the like where all the games are downloaded to your HD console with no physical media.
Ow am I really that old? *Looks at Driver's Licence* Yep I am.
As for the game I'm eh on the idea. Of my "old school" licences I'm much more stoked for Ghostbusters than anything else at this point. (For obvious reasons. :) )
Now I highly doubt I'm the only gamer out there who doesn't play games for a long time. Either you rent them (Thank you gamefly) or you buy and trade-in you just don't play games all the way through. They've got your attention for a while but it's a rare game to keep your attention long enough to want to finish the game. It is to my fellow "shot attention span" folks, or as I like to call myself "a gamer with a wandering eye" that I plan to start posting a few "first impressions" reviews here on Giant Bomb.
The idea being is that even if you're not a short term gamer like myself, most people make their biggest impressions of a game in the first 30 mins or so of game play. Oh sure many games take a lot longer than that to get interesting, but will everyone want to put up with long cut scenes, boring tutorials, or horrible voice acting long enough to get that far? Long gone are they days of computer games with huge manuals that required 30 minutes just to prepare to play the game. Now a days we want to jump right into a game and "get to the good stuff."
Fallout 3 is a recent example of an awesome game that doesn't fare too well in the first impressions area. Oh sure, if you're a fan (like me) of the genre and the humor the inital "birth" sequence and growing up in the vault is quite interesting. But if you're like my wife you won't get through the first segment of the game because there's just nothing to it. Even if you get past the initial vault segment the way the game dumps you into things will put some players off. It is these initial impressions and early gameplay that I would like mentioned a bit more in general, but until then I figure I'll give my "first impressions" of early gameplay as I come around to them.
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