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Posted by Lucífer on
well...I may as well blog this for people to see.
It's about the whole Dungeon Keeper III thing years ago, but it's needed to get into some peoples skulls.
By all means, anyone or everyone correct me on things that are wrong, or at least try.
In the long term, I'm glad otherwise seeing as how C&C is today, there could be a Dungeon Keeper 5 or something that would be complete cogwash.
Think about whats best, not what you feel is what you want.
Because if EA Games did come out with a Dungeon Keeper III there'd be nothing.
I respect EA Games for not making a Dungeon Keeper III, with a bit of luck, they may even make it in a few years time and crack down with some extremely difficult advanced coding for a completely new engine for it just to make it such a success, that is what I'd want to see, not just a pointless money maker to make the fans shut the fuck up for a while until they complain.
But to have a game from EA Thats actually worth buying, that wouldn't be so bug ridden, that looks good, has the same feel as DKI did plus more.
If EA decided to go forwards and make a Dungeon Keeper III, I'd want them to spend loads of f*cking time on it, they have enough money and other games to fall back on, but I'd love it if they were secretly making a DKIII for the length of what Duke Nukem Forever has taken now.
Long Live Dungeon keeper and hope for the title to not be spoilt again.
(By again, I do mean that DKII was a pitiful shadow of DKI, it is a bugged up game that was never completely patched, DKI was a lot better, those who say DKII is better than the first are those who have never played DKI at all or rarely, graphics does not make a game good...
PS: F-U for anyone who contradicts that last bit with Crysis because it lacks gameplay, but thats besides the point at hand)