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Geek Culture / Black And White 2 - Are You Ready?

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RegenProZ
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After a huge sucesses with Black And White (It was..wasn't it?), they finally (after 2 years running) managed to create their unholy Black And White 2 (Congrats!), and I was woundering how many of us here (possibly) will be playing this game (if you can be arsed??)

Overall I liked to eat the people on the first series, yes, and I liked to throw people in the air, muhaha!

If only they would have microsoft staff in black and white 2, I would throw them around laughing *Haha who's crashing now then*

Anyway, This game looks like it's going to once again be a huge sucess, with over 5-1o million people world wide yet to play it (and yet no one seems to play online...er....)

I am hoping they have made better characters, not so annoying tutorial on 'How To...' that you have to follow..and well, something that makes the game more fun...

Does anyone still play black and white 1? Not many/0 do...and I was really thinking how long it will last.


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Baggers
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I still play it occasionaly...started again recently...im on the last level but it's hard there...especially if your not evil...just so hard to get wood.

Great game though ! looking forward to b&w2 but im away for a year so i'll have to wait till i get back.

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Ok, this quote is from the GamesDomain preview of B&W2
Quote: "Say what you want about Peter Molyneux; there's no denying he's honest. Especially when asked what he thinks about his pseudo strategy title, Black & White, four years after its release. "It had really, really really terrible, awful tutorials," he admits. "The creature itself was broken, you couldn’t really build things and people really wanted to build things, there weren’t enough objectives in the game, the story couldn’t reflect what you'd like. The list goes on." As designer, programmer, co-founder of Lionhead Studios and even now OBE, Molyneux can afford this sort of candid admission, especially when there have been several years of retrospection. But that doesn’t stop it from being a surprising admission, smiling openly as he talks to us about his newest foray into the god/strategy genre, Black & White 2."

You'd never hear an american game developer saying something like that about their games!

B&W2, definately worth a look once it's released!

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You're just jealous because the voices are talking to me!
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Molyneux is definately one of those rare guys, I forget if Sid Mier is American or English; but I'm pretty sure he's American and I know he's just as candid over his games too.

It just takes a certain breed of the developers to be open about thier games. John Carmack in his Quakecon 2004 Keynote actually stated that yes, many mistakes were made in Doom 3 and it became too highly specialised. Hense why Quake 4 is what everyone is using as the next-generation engine which is far more robust being developed along with Raven Software.

Been watching some Black & White 2 stuff recently, certainly looks a treat.

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i've played b&w once. it was great, but too advanced for me

the b&w2 certanly looks tempting and the physics will add so much realism there could be i will definetly buy this one.. but then again, it is all up to my computer

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I may if its more stable than the first one (not that I've played it).

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Yeah the first one wasn't exactly fantastically stable or in-depth unfortunately. Many of the issues were fixxed in Creature Island, but what annoyed me was how you never got another God or much of a story in Creature Island. I mean it was just those silly trials on a single island.

Shame given the AI was quite noticeably better, it ran on more systems, was more stable, ran better online, etc. What kinda got me was that while you required the original game to install, it obviously was using a different engine entirely.. cause Creature Island was like v1.2 or something and the original still ran v1.1 which doesn't like Anti-Virus programs.

silly really but oh well

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Hopefully the second will be a lot more stable - if not, I'm staying away.

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Although definately a great game [] this thread really doen't do it justice

System requirements:
[href]
http://www.lionhead.com/news/178[/href]

Full video preview (in-game video)
http://www.lionhead.com/news/176

What the BW2 team got up to at night
http://www.lionhead.com/teambw/bw2atnight.html

Sreenshot gallery:
http://www.lionhead.com/bw2/screenshots.html


Some of the coolest screens:








Enjoy!

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Graphics look great, wouldn't be able to use it on my laptop.

Might save up and get a pc and play it one day.


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Talking of Lionhead, anybody else looking forward to The Movies?

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eh? what?, I was just going to post a "will you noobs stop making incomprehensible posts" type rant, then I realised it was David T posting, you lost me, lay off the pilsner are they making a black and white movie?



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Its a game where you can run your own film studio, and create movies. The movies can then be exported to WMV, and burnt to DVD! Its a fantastic looking game, set to arrive sometime in october (around the same time as BW2).

I've already pre-ordered it too!

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I can't wait to play The Movies

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Yep, looking good David T.


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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 22:55 Edited at: 15th Sep 2005 22:56
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http://www.lionhead.com/themovies/screenshots.html

Not the kind of game that has beautiful looking screenshots like BW/BW2, but I bet it looks fantastic in action



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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 23:35
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Quote: ""will you noobs stop making incomprehensible posts" type rant, then I realised it was David T posting"


It's a game!!!

Quote: "sometime in october"


Oct 11th. I'm wondering about ordering. Just got Scrubs season 2 off Amazon though, so I might have to save up for another week

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Ahh I always liked Scrubs, brilliant! Good Choice!


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I am mad on it. Sky+ has it on series link every time I find it, and I got the series 1 DVD on holiday. Absolutely amazing

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come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
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ah! all is explained, I spend quite a bit of time on the net but I haven't managed to read all of it yet



the average IQ is 100...but the people that took the test where trying to look smart. most people don`t go over 50.
Area 51?, I`m more intrested in what they have in areas 1 to 50
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