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[Retodon8]

maybe

Maybe?
It has the tri-barrel thing and it's red... if you ask me it's pretty much certain.
Epic has been colour-coding a bunch of things to make them easily recognisable.
They changed the old RL (and ammo) from yellow to red, because the Flak Cannon (and ammo) was already yellow.
Of course for UC2 they changed the health to green, whereas in UT2003/4 it's blue.
(Well, in the early days it actually was green as well.)
This is because they made adrenaline blue... the stuff didn't really have a colour in UT2003/4, and truthfully it didn't really work very well in the first place in many people's opinions.
Anyway, it's a RL!

I'd rather have a good name and a good game...

Well, I'd rather have a good name, and good game, and hot, blond twins for girlfriends, but that really wasn't one of the options.
I personally don't care much for the yearly naming scheme, but it's a lot better than the stupid incremening of numbers.
At least this way it's clear when a game is released (or soon before that date), so it adds some extra information, even if I don't think it's useful.
It's stupid that after Halo you simply play Halo again.
Well, Halo 2, but that's just a number... doesn't change the name whatsoever.
I think if Epic would add a subtitle to the yearly naming scheme I'd be happy.
UC2 was UC2, but it at least had a new title "The Liandri Conflict".
In the end, if I can't have that, I have to reach the same conclusion as RaptoR.

I'm just against weapons that you can't obviously tell what they are. What happened to the good solid weapons? Like the Quake3 rocket lancher or the Doom2 Super Shotgun. The gun in that third pic looks so fragile. Don't get me wrong, it looks good technically, but it just looks so tacky at the same time. The first thing that came to my mind was, "Is that a salad shooter?".

I'd say the colour-coding does that, unless of course you're new to the game.
As for Doom's weapons... the double barelled shotgun was of course VERY nice ... but also really uninspired when you think of it, just a shotgun.
I have no idea what to imagine when reading about a gun shooting salad, but although it does look pretty fragile, this is Unreal we're talking about, and besides, in that future we have very strong materials to build weapons and other things with.
Finally and most importantly it all comes down to taste.
I'll reserve my judgement for the weapon for after I've seen it in action, or rather after I used it.

 

[Anuban]

Malcolm is the man that is why the notion of him losing to anyone (except maybe Anubis) is a joke to me. Gorge beat Malcolm .. never ... and Jakob HAH!!

Nope Malcom rules above all.

Edit: In this case the name UT3 ... the 3 would refer to the Unreal Engine ver 3. so it makes perfect sense. of course imho.

 

[Renegade Retard]

I hope you are right ... that is pretty irresponsible of the two major Unreal news sites to print that then.

Anuban, why did you through BeyondUnreal under the bus like? In the beyondunreal thread you linked, hal said "Like I said, since these didn't come through official channels, I can't confirm the authenticity of the art in any way though we'll definitely ask." Since the 2k7 name was on the art, he's stating that he's not confirming that the name is official.

Geez man!

 

[Anuban]

Anuban, why did you through BeyondUnreal under the bus like? In the beyondunreal thread you linked, hal said "Like I said, since these didn't come through official channels, I can't confirm the authenticity of the art in any way though we'll definitely ask." Since the 2k7 name was on the art, he's stating that he's not confirming that the name is official.

Geez man!

Look that is my opinion ... I love this place but if you report something as next to fact like this site and PU did and it turns out not to be true that is irresponsible journalism. I stand by that.

The whole point is that everyone should have just waited until Epic themselves said what the name is at E3 .. now it can still turn out to be true but any reporting agency should have a SOLID source before they print news and start changing forum names.

 

[communist]

Epic should drop the entire 200x naming and 'the new UT'. Come on give us something fun, like UT.
Not yearly iterations of the same boring game. By naming it 2007 they probably want to show how much different it is to UT04 than UT04 was to UT03

 

[Renegade Retard]

All I'm saying is that it wasn't reported as a fact. Hal took extra care in his post to point out that it WASN'T a confirmed fact.

 

[menelik_seth]

Malcolm is the man that is why the notion of him losing to anyone (except maybe Anubis) is a joke to me. Gorge beat Malcolm .. never ... and Jakob HAH!!

Nope Malcom rules above all.

Edit: In this case the name UT3 ... the 3 would refer to the Unreal Engine ver 3. so it makes perfect sense. of course imho.

hehe ya... Man I gotta get back on track with my 3Dmax studies, so I can start modeling a phat UT2007/Envy/watever character... and trust me... the one I have in mind will be very capable of kickin Malcom's ass hehe. Or at least give him a very good fight, and end up his apprentice or something whichever is more interesting as a story…

Actually I started modeling this character for a Starwars short I was workin on at the time, I'll just tweak it and add in some "unreal flava" to it... I'll post a screenshot of my (now very outdatted) work when I get home... man, these screenshots got my "content creation" juices all flowing again, its quality work like this that sykes me up…

Anubis looks kewl tho hehe, somebody should model him and bring him down to UT2k4, with teamskins *hint hint*...

 

[Anuban]

Anuban, why did you through BeyondUnreal under the bus like? In the beyondunreal thread you linked, hal said "Like I said, since these didn't come through official channels, I can't confirm the authenticity of the art in any way though we'll definitely ask." Since the 2k7 name was on the art, he's stating that he's not confirming that the name is official.

Geez man!

And I wasn't talking about Hal he had his reservations ... I was talking about Raptor who made it seem like a fact. And redef at PU who didn't consider any other possibility.

 

[Renegade Retard]

And I wasn't talking about Hal he had his reservations ... I was talking about Raptor who made it seem like a fact. And redef at PU who didn't consider any other possibility.

You linked hal's thread.

 

[Anuban]

You linked hal's thread.

That was the first one .... but I talked to Hal and he agreed with me ... he wanted to wait as well which is why when I saw this thread by Raptor and the new name change at the forums I got upset. But no Hal and I agreed that it could be wrong and we should wait.

 

[Renegade Retard]

Okay... I saw you link to hal's news, then later talk of irresponsible news posts. It appeared to me that you were criticising hal for his post.

If that wasn't your intent, then I can live with your explanation. I just wanted to make sure that hal wasn't getting blamed for false information when he made an effort to clarify himself.

 

[Bang Yr Head]

I dont give a **** what they call it. as I said, I am way too stunned from looking at those "screenshots" (they look like ****ing renders!!!).

 

[Anuban]

Okay... I saw you link to hal's news, then later talk of irresponsible news posts. It appeared to me that you were criticising hal for his post.

If that wasn't your intent, then I can live with your explanation. I just wanted to make sure that hal wasn't getting blamed for false information when he made an effort to clarify himself.

Never .. Hal and I were in total agreement .. look at my last post on Epic. I even explained that to everyone there.

 

[Nosnos]

Hopefully people don't make the decision about buying a game or not based on it's name, that's would just be way to sad... Nice looking screenshots like these are always nice to get the hype and buzz going but I'm waiting for a in-game movie before making a first (and ofc way to early) judgement regardning this game Hopefully they will release something from E3

 

[|SigH|Max]

I don't know there were any may fools

 

[Bang Yr Head]

Hopefully people don't make the decision about buying a game or not based on it's name

sadly, there will be a few people that have their head that far up their ass that they would do such a thing.

 

[RaptoR]

A Midway rep has confirmed the UT2007 name. That makes it fact.

 

[Go&nd]

I find it puzzling RaptoR opted to make it look official... unless he knows something we don't know. In which case, I'd prefer he let us in on his little secret. (Edit: I wrote this before I saw Raptor's post above mine. )

It's funny. I'm reading all these posts in all these different forums about how disappointed people would be if Epic named it UT2007. And it all seems so trivial and superficial -- it's just a name.

Yet I totally agree with the uproar. I can't explain exactly why, but I really don't like the UT200X naming scheme, and as irrelevant as it might be, I would feel terribly disappointed if they maintained this sports-franchise theme.

Reload the original UT. Watch the flyby again. What are the first images? A dingy urban scene with trash plastered to cracked concrete walls; a ghetto barrel burning; the fire escape ladders and stairs of an inner-city projects building.

Then when you hit escape, you're presented with the original Unreal Tournament desktop: the sharp & jagged letters for Unreal Tournament cut into a rusted and worn backdrop.

And what accompanies these gritty scenes? Slower, more muted and menacing tunes which emphasize atmosphere over pomp.

The world of the original UT was something more akin to Blade Runner or Neuromancer. It was a dark and gritty cyber-punk world rich with atmosphere.

The shift to the sporting-franchise naming convention reminds me too much of my distinct disappointment with UT2003 and the apparent shift to a world of a bombastically cheesy WWF promotional video.

 

[Anuban]

Hopefully people don't make the decision about buying a game or not based on it's name, that's would just be way to sad... Nice looking screenshots like these are always nice to get the hype and buzz going but I'm waiting for a in-game movie before making a first (and ofc way to early) judgement regardning this game Hopefully they will release something from E3

Of course not ... we can all get past a crummy name if the game is indeed good ... it was/is just a shock and it is not 100% certain so this post and the decision to change the forums name of Envy to UT2007 already is just a bad one ...

Hal's post was fine ... and I said so many times. He acknowledged that he needed to get real confirmation. Raptor should have waited until Hal got that and then made this post and the name changes is all I am saying . I don't want to see BU get questioned on news they post in the future because I really rely on this site ... that is why I am making a big deal about it.

 

[hal]

That was the first one .... but I talked to Hal and he agreed with me ... he wanted to wait as well which is why when I saw this thread by Raptor and the new name change at the forums I got upset. But no Hal and I agreed that it could be wrong and we should wait.

Ah, gotcha. You had me confused there for a few.

It very well could pan out to be true, but there are too many unanswered questions to draw any strong conclusions, imo. We've all been there before with this kind of thing.

The odd things in my eyes are:

1) A single release on a wallpaper website - that charges for images.
2) No other game sites have picked up on this.
3) Not a peep from the boys at Epic.

The reasons why it very well could be true:

1) New images. It's pretty hard to come by previously unreleased material from an upcoming game unless you're given the media from an official source. Even if they are photoshopped, it's not unprecedented. Epic released a number of them for UT2004 and each Unreal site received a few exclusives.
2) E3. Good timing. We know that there will be a demonstration of the product at the show. What better time to release a few teasers?

Anyhow, it's just - odd - that they'd show up on GW, given the nature of the site. So that's my take.