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Originally posted by mutantmagnet

Not just Darkfall but also Adellion and to a major extent Conan.

I wish Chronicles of Spellborn was even an honorable mention for something but there are a few heavy hiters out there.

What did surprise me is that neither Hero's Journey or Seed made honorable mention for most innovative. Africa covering African culture is great but it doesn't completely dwarf the whole rpgish nature of Seed (even if I find the execution of it to be flawed) or the personalization of Hero's Journey IMO. And the Dreamscape still hasn't been explained all that well beyond the repeated fact that it is an instance built in your character's mind.

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Vanguard no doubt looked good and surprised me at being better than I thought.  They took some good concepts from some other games and are making them better.  That's great in my book.  But, compared to some of the other things I saw at the show, I couldn't honestly put it above other games definitively.  In fact as Dana said, we didn't all agree on picks and the competition was extremely close.  Add on that there was no way to see every single game and it made it even more difficult because we had to rely on each other's impressions and debate based on that in comparison to others.

I think we made some very solid picks however no matter how flawed you may believe the process was.  I know I personally tried to take a look at as many games as I could but there was nowhere near enough time to see everything.

Absolutely no game even interests me aside from WARHAMMER!!

I dunno... WoW's crappiness at lvl 60 just put me off for a long time from MMORPG's.. I mean.. I have been looking and trying other MMORPG's out.. but nothing seems... good..

Don't get me wrong.. WoW was GREAT .. until I hit lvl 60 and almost Grande Marshall in PVP rankings..

Honestly I thought I was gonna have to wait for STAR TREK: Online to come out to find anything that peeked my interest.. but then WARHAMMER kinda came out of nowhere..

And even if the game turns out to be crap (Please god let it be all I hope for) .. at least Paul Barnett or whatever his name is .. is TOTALLY ENTERTAINING enough just to listen to!! E3 movie interview thingy at gamespot!! He is hillarious.. and his video phone posts on the WARHAMMER website...

Ya... glad Warhammer won something... if they manage to do what they are trying... I'll finally find another game to play

Age of Conan should be best in show, from city building and siege warfare to mounted formation combat it has an abundance of ground up ideas that seem to encompass every aspect desired in an mmorpg.

I feel that Gods and Heroes is Guild Wars in Rome, 5 man arena style combat.

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Originally posted by Rabbitgod
I can't belive CCP didn't take best booth. They had a open bar sitting on top of it.

I understand why they didn't get best expantion tho I just dont agree with the reason. Its good that they are breaking it into 3. Its a huge addtion and it needs to be layed on the player base gently.

How ever I will voice one point here. Eve deserves a rereview when Kail is all done being deployed. A lot of other games get new reviews after major (and sometimes minor) expantions. EvE has gone from 2edGen to Castor to Cold war to Red Moon Rising to Bloodlines (All major all free) with out a revisit in over 3 years now.

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Thats just getting a little too technical, it is one(1) patch which has been split into Three(3) pieces over period of time.

The content upgrades, graphics, Voip, items, ships....its just amazing that they're putting all that in...and its probably one of the best graphics mmo's for x many years running, they maintain it beautifully.

Come on, best booth...a bar...nothing can beat a bar.

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Originally posted by Luckbad
I'm honestly surprised not to see EverQuest II: Echoes of Faydwer mentioned on the Expansions honorable mentions, at the very least. There are more features and more content in that expansion than any of the others that were at the show. There's a partial feature list here:

http://everquest2.station.sony.com/expansions/echoesoffaydwer/

Also mentioned at the show were secondary tradeskills like Tinkering, guild emblems and such for customizing cloaks, a guild level cap increase (60), content for all players from 1 through 70, and some specific names of zones we'll see (Greater Faydark, Lesser Faydark, Steamfont, The Loping Plains, Castle Mistmoore).

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Originally posted by eric1000
Gods & Heroes looks great but the fact that it has SoE written anywhere near it should have slapped it straight down the ratings. 

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That's a pretty ignorant way of judging anything, let a lone a game.

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Absolutely not. I feel the exact same way about LOTR online and Turbine. I can almost guarantee that there will be mediocre graphics, mediocre gameplay and weekly nerfs until all the players decide to go somewhere else. After all, this is what Turbine has done with every other MMORPG they have made.  How anyone can be in the business as long as turbine and not learn from their mistakes without going out of business is beyond my comprehension.