January 20, 2003, 12:54
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The past four years of gaming...
GoneGold has an article ( http://www.gonegold.com/misc/02review/) about gaming over the past four years. Included some interesting statistics such as number of titles per genre released in the past years:
Turn Based Strategy:
1999: 15
2000: 16
2001: 08
2002: 09
Flight Sims:
1999: 12
2000: 11
2001: 10
2002: 3
It also has total number of games released broken down to originals/sequals/add-ons/etc.
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January 20, 2003, 15:22
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wow, i always thought more games were released than that...
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January 20, 2003, 15:49
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Well, it is just PC games.
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"Apocalype was a great game." - DrSpike
"In Apoc, I had one soldier who lasted through the entire game... was pretty cool. I like apoc for that reason, the soldiers are a bit more 'personal'." - General Ludd
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January 21, 2003, 01:20
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a category I'm interested in
Role Playing: 15 17 15 14
fairly constant. With only a slight dip. I don't like too many games anyways. Not enough time to play them. I still haven't had a chance to play the Icewind Dale games.
I prefer a few quality games
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January 21, 2003, 03:53
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Same here btwn work, commuting and being a husband there is just not enough time to play all the games that I'd like. That's the reason I haven't started Morrowind although I love RPG's. Problem with the games I like (RPGs, TBS) is that they all take up so much time!
So long...
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January 21, 2003, 22:16
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too bad tbs is starting to suffer.....i guess its hard to constantly reinvent games
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January 22, 2003, 05:20
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Turn based isn't 'fashionable' I guess. I have to say I don't think the genre will die........hopefully with less releases the general quality of them will be higher.
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January 22, 2003, 08:35
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Well, I am not sure about other TBS games but Civ 3 certainly gave the category a good name if we go by the sales figures. I also know a couple people that would not even think about TBS but after trying Civ 3 out they converted! 
So long...
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January 22, 2003, 09:52
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Yeah, too much good games, and too few time!! 
about TBS, there are still various games being released, for example etherlords II is coming soon, or some nice tank game (forgot the name of the game )... they're just not big budget like DOOM3 or UT2003 etc..
Age of wonders 1&2 are a good example of fine low budget games
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January 22, 2003, 10:06
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What about Warlords IV - isn't that out soon?
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January 28, 2003, 02:49
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What about FPS?
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January 28, 2003, 02:51
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I guess it would be under 'action':
72 65 60 64
Online worlds appear to be ramping up steadily.
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January 28, 2003, 04:43
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Yeah, a few quality games seem to be coming out (or have come out) in 2003: SimCity 4, Galatic Civilisation, and Warlords 4. It's shaping up to be a good year for gamers. 
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January 29, 2003, 20:09
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Don't forget Master of Orion III.
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January 29, 2003, 22:19
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Adventure games seem to be growing disproportionately to the interest in buying them 
-I would have thought that more RPGs were released than they stated???
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