Ngl im not optimistic for stalker 2 all the original ppl who made it great left to make metro and with the current political situation im sure they'll try to inject some wierd lib cringe into the thing
Life By You, a Paradox Sims-killer due to release in early access in a little over a month. As much as I love the idea of the Sims, EA has run the franchise to the ground and turned it into their low effort cash cow, pumping out buggy, literally unplayable expansions and not even bothering to patch them up later. Fuck EA, fuck the Sims (though I really did enjoy my dynasty run with my immortal enby helper Alex who holds all the housekeeping skills, who down the generations helps keep the household in order, helps raise the kids, and also fucks everyone in town. I hope I can do something like that again).
God I miss what the Sims could have been if it had a developer who gave a fuck about anything besides profit.
Do you think The Sims would be better if Sid was still around and had creative control? I really enjoyed the old old games - Simant, Simlife, SimCity, SimCopter. Do you know about SimCopter? You could import your SimCity city then fly around in a helicopter delivering cargo, putting out fires, doing cop shit. it was really cool. Like if a fire broke out in your SimCity city, you could save the game, load it in to Simcopter, put out the fire with your firefighting helo, and then load it back to SimCity. I think if the alien UFO attacked your city you could fight it in an apache in Simcopter.
I just learned this morning that the Bachelor route of Pathologic 2 is actually, factually happening, for real! There's no release date yet and it'll probably be a couple of years before it's done, but shit, I'll wait! It looks incredible! It's going to be completely different from the Haruspex route, to the point where it's not going to be chronological or open world. The Bachelor isn't going to have to struggle to find food and not die to bandits, but instead he's going to be dealing in time and life and death.
If it were a different development studio I'd be a little worried that a totally different gameplay loop might ruin something about the Pathologic experience I've come to love, but I'm not a bit worried about that, actually. I trust them to do gameplay that makes sense and fits well with the themes and concepts the Bachelor cares about. As a dev pointed out when answering questions, the Pathologic gameplay loop (open world survival and resource management) was pretty groundbreaking and interesting when the original Pathologic came out, but here in the 2020's, it's been done to death. Something new and strange, a new way to think about surviving in this town with resources that are less material (memories and time if I've read correctly) is going to be so interesting!
My hype levels have skyrocketed. Now I just have to somehow forget about this game for a couple of years until it actually comes out.
Oh, I'm also looking forward to Elden Ring DLC and Silksong. Obviously.
Earth Defense Force 6,
Dragon's Dogma 2,
Considering getting into Path of Exile 2 when it comes out,
Rise of the Ronin looks cool, I've enjoyed the rest of the recent games by Team Ninja
The trailers look so good. Whoever is making them is speaking directly to Helldivers fans and saying very loudly "We know what made Helldivers fun and unique and we are not going to fuck that up"
The next resident evil, if its anything like Village was, its going to blow my socks off. I also hope its just as pretty and immersive as village was. And i also hope they stick to first person, third person shooters are clunky by nature, i quit r4make 20 mins in because the 3rd person made it a damn slog.
Ha, I can't even begin to imagine how a factory-vania would work but if someone can pull it off, I'm down. MV and factory games are 2 of my current favorite genres.
It is stiiiiiillll in development. I am trying to be patient because I want it to be finished when it's released but dang lol. We got a few good ones in the meantime. Haiku and Lonely Fungus are 2 indie MV darlings that everyone should play. Haiku is very much inspired by HK, but Lonely Fungus is like Hollow Knight and Celeste combined.
Same but I'm telling myself to finish Tactics Ogre Reborn before picking up UO, and I have to wait for a PC release (and probably save $ to upgrade my shit) for Rebirth
I recently got Tactics Ogre on sale and I still have Triangle Strategy to play lol. I'm thinking this year is just gonna be RPGs and Tactics games for me
I'm still moderately hopefully for the Silent Hill games coming out this year. Ascension was a massive disappointment though. Something's wrong at Konami.
Also the sequel to Senua's Saga is supposed to release later this year. I liked the first one a lot. One of the better walking simulators.
Paper Mario TTYD, I just heard a rumor about Sims 4 on switch I have on PS4 but I can't see shit that far away and the tiny text doesn't help, not to mention the rumor I'm starting right now about a Chrono Trigger remake.