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The 2021 games anticipation thread what are YOU looking forward to?

#21 User is offline   Malankazooie 

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Posted 27 January 2021 - 07:55 PM

View PostMalankazooie, on 05 January 2021 - 04:57 PM, said:

Another thing I am looking forward to this year is the monthly games for PlayStation Plus. The games over the last year + have been really solid. Hoping that continues.

Control will be one of the PlayStation Plus February games. Looking forward to that one. I don't know much about the game, but I remember it received critical acclaim and was on some best of the year lists the year it game out. Any forum members play it? What's your impression?
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Posted 27 January 2021 - 08:01 PM

I wasn't happy with it, it has a ton of atmosphere and weirdness in it but I felt the story was uneven and too focused on weird objects.

I also thought the combat and gameplay was more frustrating than fun. I played it on PS4 Pro and the load times were at least a minute Long. That, coupled with weird checkpoints and unforgiving platform sequences and combat encounters made me have to stop several times because I just weren't having fun.

But hey, lots of other people loved it. Personally I'd wait and play it on next gen consoles or on a PC with a good SSD.
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Posted 28 January 2021 - 09:56 AM

I loved Control. The story, the characters, all the weird objects and their weird stories. Apt, as usual, is wrong in his assessment.
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Posted 20 March 2021 - 06:43 PM

That Dying Light 2 Dev update was cheeky (doing the mean tweet/comments thing). Sorta fell flat though if you ask me. The short trailer clip at the end is where the rubber meets the road though. 2021 flashed. Eh, I'll believe it when I see it. In fact, I believe they were asked what that meant, and if the game was coming in 2021. They said something about it being left to viewers interpretation, or some such coy deflection. Game looks cool though. Watched a youtuber break down the vid and compare the graphics to a previous trailer from a few years ago. There is noticeable improvement. I would really love for this game to come out in 2021.
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Posted 20 March 2021 - 07:13 PM

I agree that 2021 seems like a longshot. And that announcement that turned out to be a video that really should have just been a tweet was such bad PR thinking.

Still, I am looking forward to it. Hopefully they didn't scrap the entire story because of the Chris Avalone Me Too thing. What they showed initially with the story consequences seemed really promising.
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Posted 24 March 2021 - 04:08 PM

Gotham Knights got pushed to next year.

I refuse to believe S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will make it this year in a playable state.

Bloodlines 2 was handed over to a new dev, so I'm not holding my breath on that one.

Atomic Heart had a new "photo mode" trailer, but nothing like a release date.


Good thing 2/3s of my wishlist are indie titles. There's also a bunch of re-releases happening this year (Ninja Gaiden, Kingdom Hearts, ALL THE YAKUZA, the Mass Effect trilo, Nier root 1.5, etc)

Seems like there's gonna be quite a AAA drought this year for those who don't have backlogs (I'm certainly not one of those)
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And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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Posted 24 March 2021 - 07:01 PM

All the press I follow seem to think 2021 and maybe 2022 could be one long draught of games, because of the effect of Corona on games development.

Thankfully there is no end to the backlog of games.
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Posted 25 March 2021 - 07:33 AM

Warhammer total war 3 is my most anticipated game, though I suspect we'll also get some more info on Elden Ring. Hopefully I have a ps5 by then.
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Posted 25 March 2021 - 12:58 PM

Outriders on April 1.

Looks pretty cool, demo was fun, and day 1 on gamepass so its free to me.

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Posted 25 March 2021 - 01:34 PM

I wasn't going to bother with Outriders unless the reviews were glowing but now that it's on Gamepass day one, how could you not?
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Posted 25 March 2021 - 02:44 PM

Biomutant is coming May 25th.

Still pretty stoked for that, hopefully I'm done being broke by then and can justify the purchase, :)

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View PostJump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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Posted 25 March 2021 - 06:10 PM

I won't believe Biomutant is coming out until I see it in a games store.

Narita Boy is coming out March 30th on all platforms and looks amazing. I love the retro VHS aesthetic. Shame about the awful title though.

https://youtu.be/2SrSSrxS2eE

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Posted 25 March 2021 - 06:16 PM

Humankind delayed from April to August. Looks like they're using the OpenDev feedback to good effect and polishing the game well.
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Posted 25 March 2021 - 06:20 PM

View PostAptorian, on 25 March 2021 - 06:10 PM, said:

I won't believe Biomutant is coming out until I see it in a games store.

Narita Boy is coming out March 30th on all platforms and looks amazing. I love the retro VHS aesthetic. Shame about the awful title though.

https://youtu.be/2SrSSrxS2eE


They released a new trailer, and apparently there's Xbox marketing with a pre-order DLC class, so it's loking more likely than not.

I have the demo for Narita Boy, haven't played it yet though.
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View PostJump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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Posted 25 March 2021 - 11:52 PM

Gosh darnit! I want to know more about Atomic Heart.
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Posted 29 March 2021 - 01:27 PM

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Posted 30 March 2021 - 04:14 AM

View PostMalankazooie, on 25 March 2021 - 11:52 PM, said:

Gosh darnit! I want to know more about Atomic Heart.

There was a video by a Russian YouTuber about a year or so ago where he gave a super-long preview of the game's systems. It's trying to do a lot of very ambitious stuff, to put it simply. There are ecosystems for each area, similar to BioShock's security systems- which you can over-ride and take advantage of.
There's also an "overseer" AI, that's connected to your ultimate goal- and it's going to be responding to your "loud" actions, reinforcing areas adjacent to where you are, and *supposedly* adapting to your "documented" , or "observed" actions to better counter what you do.

Like I said, fairly ambitious; not exactly 100% clear on all the details, obviously, since everything was a work in progress, and who knows if it'll end up being too much; but that's the info that's out there, so far.
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View PostJump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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Posted 03 April 2021 - 08:59 PM

View PostMalankazooie, on 05 January 2021 - 04:57 PM, said:

Another thing I am looking forward to this year is the monthly games for PlayStation Plus. The games over the last year + have been really solid. Hoping that continues.

So after a meh month of March (none of those games appealed to me), April will see Days Gone as one of the PlayStation Plus games.

I remember when this game was announced (at E3?) and the accompanying trailer that was presented. I was impressed by the sheer number of zombie horde game play footage they showed off. This is the one with the zombie bear too, right? I was interested, but then I remember the reviews didn't really hit the sweet spot for me to justify a purchase. I believe this is the game that leans hard into the masculine vibe of the truck nuts swinging, bro-dude, man beard/hirsute, high fiven' with the motorcycle upgrades, yeah?

Any Malazanempire forum members play it? What's the verdict? I'll probably grab it either way, but just curious what anyone's take on it is.
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Posted 04 April 2021 - 06:01 AM

It's a mediocre open world action game. It's not bad but not great either. Perfect podcast game.
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Posted 10 April 2021 - 07:24 PM

Deathloop delayed to September.

Kojima apparently making an Xbox game. Remedy might be making a PlayStation exclusive. Sure gonna be a fun E3/summer announcements season.
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View PostJump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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