A good game should make your brain work, not just your eyes... I have had better experience with Galciv, CivIV, or with a simple chessmaster than any of these good-looking games listed. 

However I'm not an FPS-fan, the following image illustrate well what I'm telling:

http://www.digitalbattle.com/2010/11/09/fps-maps-now-vs-then/

Dear Blackmage,

Sorry seems you didn't get me... Of course I have walked through the list.

The only thing I wanted to point that these new releases of games are more like eyecandy for me, leaving not much space for imagination, combination and "brainwork". That's why I prefer pcgames until say 2006.

I can give another example too, say civ4 vs civ5 - just have a look at civfanatics.com and see it yourself.

If you still think I'm "trolling", well I'm ok to quit now.

No Storm of War, the IL-2 Sturmovik follow-up?  IL-2 is hardly a small franchise, isn't it due next year?

Also, this is a Stardock board, any Stardock games in preparation for 2011?  2010 seems to have been a fairly awful year for Stardock.  I was okay for the second Sins expansion to be rushed out as I was confident that it would be given the multiple patches it desperately required, but that just never happened.  Elemental even without the issues it seems to have suffered wasn't ever for me as I just dislike turn-based empire games, the endgame with vast forces is just such a grind (Even Totalwar has this problem, but at least the Totalwar battles are more appealing than mere calculation, recreating a historical battle in Civilization wouldn't be very enjoyable.)  Demigod got better in 2010, its a good fun game, perhaps needs some final tweaking to make sure that all its elements contribute to the gameplay.  Demigod seems far more nearly right to me than Sins in its current incarnation.

I much prefer story-based games, I just find they make for better games.  However I also dislike cutscenes, especially when they occur in the middle of play.  Your character walks up to a machine, watches a recording, thats a good time for a cutscene.  Your character is about to fight the bad guy, that's a poor moment for a cutscene.  Half-Life could tell a story without cutscenes at all, you even got to move around during the credits. 

I wouldn't agree that the more recent games are poorer than the older ones, but perhaps they are not as much better as they could be- especially the level creation.  The best of the older games had an atmosphere that hasn't always been retained with the improved graphics.  Some gameplay lessons heven't been retained either.  The success of StarCraft might get more companies to look back at older games and bring the great features that they had into a more modern setting.   

What I'd really like is for more games companies to make games together with its players, rather than claim that patches are just for bugs.  This seems to be referred to as the EVE model rather than the 'big content' model from what I've read, maybe its not as appropriate for non-subscription games.  Yet StarCraft seems to be being shaped by its top players- if very much bigger budget and with a huge singleplayer campaign?    

I do.  Awesome game.

looking forward to sword star II, Witcher 2, maybe neverwinter nights 4.  i loved first two of 2, hated 3rd of 2 (too open ended, no real story...)

Funny. They said that in 2007.

They'll keep saying that even after they dumped their PS3s and Xbox 360s for the next model and never admit that gaming for their dumped platform "died".

Isn't it great that the "PC" can transcend generation after generation, changing in components, brands, and power, AND still be called "PC"?

Exquisite.

Pc gaming is dead?

Gentlemen if i may be so bold to say that pc gaming is Superior and always will be to a plain console.

And Mass effect 3 is coming out out in a year or two........so.......yeah.

Honestly I don't consider it better than Fable 2.  I'm not usually the type that marks things down for change, but they crushed my general playstyle.

I think the PC ver is still coming.  Eventually.