Warhammer will be big but I am most looking forward to Spellborn.  The fact that AoC needed more funding and delays do not give me a good feeling about it.  WAR was delayed but they have a lot of money and no problem doing that.

Originally posted by Horkathane

IN 2008 aoc and warhammer hit the scene and both games have poor launch numbers due the overwhelming girth of players absorbed into Tabula Rasa

Tabula Rasa?!?

Ha!

All I am going to say about that.

I'm actually looking forward to PotBS, and that isn't on the list.

Originally posted by Cabe2323

Originally posted by CleffyII

I still think WAR and AoC is just a box full of hot air with all the false promises the developers are making.  I think quality wise Spellborn will be better because of the commitment of the company behind it and it has the development time behind it.  It also revamps the 1 thing I hate about most mmos, the boring combat.

How is WAR a bunch of false promises?  They seem to have THE MOST open development cycle I have ever seen for a video game.  They are putting out massive amounts of information on the game and are sticking to their guns about the game.  Plus they aren't trying to rush it out the door. 

From my viewpoint they're combat system is yawntastic and yet they want to compete in an action paced pvp environment.  When you get passed the PVP there is nothing left to this game.  However, on PVP AoC, The Chronicles of Spellborn, and Granado Espada surpass this game simply because they are working on the combat system.  WAR is using an old generation combat system that really doesn't get the adrenaline boiling or promote tactics other gang up for the victory.

Personally, I look forward to the Chronicles of Spellborn the most, because it's a shooter.

I LOVE SHOOTERS

However, it's not really anything big.

A lot of younger players will be put off by Age of Conan's M rating.

So I think that Warhammer Online will be the winner. I don't think that it will be a WoW killer, or anything close to that, but it'll attract lots of people.

Im leaning toward Aion...

Spellborn looks interesting, they will have to have one awesome launch though.

You know I got to say I believe in AOC. 

Used to look forward to PotBS. Don't any more.

Gonna be a toss up between WAR, and AoC. What the WAR devs do in the next 2 months will have a fairly large impact on the gap between the two, but I think WAR will beat Conan.

TCOS will be the best. I am definitely going to give WAR a try, but I think it will be too much like WoW. I don't see anything cool about AoC.

WAR, followed by POTBS, TcoS, Aion, Darkfall and then maybe AoC if they manage to fix the huge lag issues they are having before going vanguard 

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Originally posted by Llamster
A lot of younger players will be put off by Age of Conan's M rating.

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I wonder what on earth makes you think that?

I'd think the decapitation, and sex, would appeal more to the younger players, than the adults, in a Beavis & Butthead kind of way.

I dont like much the look of either WAR and Spellborn so i would stick with AoC, the world looks awesome, the story is great, but i have never tried the new combat system and im not very confident im going to like it. Besides AoC i dont see great games coming at least for a while. Im also a bit tired of swords and arrows, would like to see a good si-fi MMO or any other theme than fantasy, im getting sick of it. We have CoH/CoV but i dont know, after i cape my char i got bored quickly, and i dont like the pvp very much so, not even plying atm. Maybe ll take a look after issue 11 but dunno if im gonna stick again.

Well lets see, i hope AoC is everything were waiting for and the combat system a great success. Im waiting for Star Trek Online too but that is gonna take a while.

I thought for awhile WAR may get the most, but I'm thinking AoC will.  I don't think AoC will start out as strong as WAR though.  Launch day WAR will have a lot more.

Anyway, in the end I think AoC will.  Unless the combat system is just a flop.

 Anyone who has grenado espada, pvp and good in the same sentance loses all credability :) 

 I can accept your oppinnion which you so eagerly try to pass for a fact (auto attack makes pvp boring (even though all the great pvp games of the past had auto attack)  And it's easy to accept that some people won't like some games and will like others.

 However saying that a pve, no class balance (for pvp) game has good pvp (as well as your signature stating that Grenado Espada is the best game ever, cracks me up every time I see it to be honest) is just absurd enaugh to make me, personally, laugh to hard to read anythign else you mgith post.

PS: GE has a really good pvp, all those skills that do 1500% of normal damage make it really tactical and strategic, like "will that musk one hit kill me or is he looking the other way so I can run up to him and one hit kill him with a skill that does 1570%damage of my own?"

TCOS  of coarse!  Not WowHammer or AoC.  I'll be playing Hellgate London until TCOS is released.

Originally posted by CleffyII

I still think WAR and AoC is just a box full of hot air with all the false promises the developers are making.  I think quality wise Spellborn will be better because of the commitment of the company behind it and it has the development time behind it.  It also revamps the 1 thing I hate about most mmos, the boring combat.

Age of Conan will be FPS like to you know if you read behind the lines on their site checkout their FAQ.

"That means giving them complete control over their attacks in real-time, and where they aim their attacks."

"2.2 That's great for melee fighters, but what about ranged combat?
Players who enjoy fighting with ranged weapons will also experience the real combat system. Whereas in most games of the genre you will equip a bow, click a “Fire” button and then see your character fire the arrows automatically, in Age of Conan you will actually have to string the bow yourself, aim and fire manually as you would in a single-player game. This makes archery more demanding, but it also makes it incredibly much more exciting."

I dont know what else they could do to spell this out its in their FAQ

Originally posted by throckmorton

WAR will have the most subscribers, but that does not mean it will be a better game.

AoC will be a better game, and hopefull it will not gather the 13 year old WoW subscribers like WAR will.

WAR will have the most subscribers. The best game is all opinion though. In my opinion AoC will fail because of the combat system and the computer reqs. With high reqs and the combat system your going to need a top of the line system just to play it and not nearly as many people are going to go out and buy a 1-2k$ comp just to play one game.

out of those three, TCoS is the only one I'm going to try, but I know it won't be the most popular unless its super incredible at release and suddenly gets a lot more press than AoC or WAR... which isn't going to happen.

Originally posted by ghostinfinit

Originally posted by Rdlaban

What do you think will go off as the winner?

Isn't it a bit early to make these threads?  Kind of sounds like the talk of the possibility my NE Patriots going undefeated.  Even though there's a chance even I admit it's only week 6 and there's a lot more football to go.....

LOL @ the pats going 16-0. Glad you understand there is a chance it wont happen, actually a large chance. I dont like the pats in the least (colts fan here :P) but I have to admit they look really good this year. We will see once they actually play someone though (can we really count the cowboys this weekend?) Anywho I voted WAR but I agree with you. Non of these games are even released yet and who knows, maybe non of these 3 will even see daylight in 08.