2008 Predictions…

[PogoWolf]

 Every year I like to think up (and this year post) my predictions for the next year.

 

1) BioShock will turn into an MMO.
    Think about it.. being able to run around killing splicer's while earning enough money to buy better plasmids?  While picking up bits and pieces of items to craft them into new
    weapons, armor and ammo?   All in an underwater city that was seemingly built as an MMO in the first place?  

2) Blizzard will announce that the next Gen MMO game they are making will be the 'World of Starcraft'
    Why not?  the only other real sci-fi MMO out there EVE, and star craft has just about (or more) the following that Warcraft did with all the story and background to boot.
    and since WoW already has a lot of Diablo built into it (sockets?  come on)  and already some cross-over between the three games AND StarCraft II is coming soon.. it makes
    sense to dump the effort into making an MMO out of it.    Now what would REALLY be cool is the ability to merge the three games together so that WoW is the beginning
    WoD is the middle and WoS is the ending.

    Of course, it could be nothing more then the release of Diablo 3.  But a World of StarCraft would be much cooler.

3) Nintendo will continue not to be able to create enough Wii's for demand and within 6 to 8 month it won't matter.  People will finally give up paying extremely high prices.
   for a system that has very few good games when they can buy an Xbox 360 for cheaper then some of the package deals and get a library of better games.

4) I call 3 'hot' titles for the Wii this year, the rest will suck.

5) Sony will continue to lie to their customers and survive on the fanboys throwing huge amounts of money at the feet of their God. 
    But no one will care because the PS3 has RIDGE RACER!!

6) The Xbox360 will continue to dominate the online play aspect of console gaming.  The PC will continue to mock LIVE.

7) The industry will begin to understand that most gamers don't care if they can show off their photos on their console.  We want to play games.

Mobile gamers will finally realize that Cell phones are NOT good gaming platform.  PDA's will continue to look around clueless.

9) HellGate: London will be used as a model to teach new game developers how NOT to just concentrate on the game play and worry about the interface aspects of a game also.
   (GREAT game.. Horrible interface..)

10) Some Jerk somewhere will kill someone over something and blame it on a video game. 

11) Rock Band will completely take over and destroy the Guitar Hero market.

 

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pogowolf Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:47:41 +0000

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