@Octane I honestly hadn't heard of Medievil getting a remake or Concrete Genie, and I was under the impression Ghosts of Tsushima and Death Stranding weren't launching until 2020, so you can see my concern with only two titles in a year.
@IceClimbers Microsoft is doing an event this year: XO18, they could announce something right there, with a late 2019 release. I still think the PS5 is 2020, but we shall see.
I just want the next generation so I can first-hand experience what a transitionary period between generations is like. The Wii U was dead when I joined the news cycle around video games so it didn't really count.
@link3710 Death Stranding: ''Kojima-san mentioned near the end that the game is still on track to release when planned, which is the year in which Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira is set. If that’s the case, it would be 2019.''
Yeah, Ghost of Tsushima. It was revealed in 2017, and they specifically talked about waiting to reveal the game, to avoid the long wait between reveal and release (this is from PGW 2017):
“I think the right thing to do ... and I think we're learning and a lot of publishers are learning ... there is a right time to announce games,” Denny told GameSpot.
“In the past, I think it's fair to say sometimes we announced games too early," he said. "And this is such a great project for Sucker Punch. It's a game they've always really wanted to make themselves. And I think it's the right time to announce that, and they've been working on that game for a long time now. There is great [playable version of the game] already. So we're just excited to let everybody know about it.”
That's still 1.5 years from reveal to release, still a long time in my opinion, but I think this is definitely what they're talking about. Announcing a game in 2017 and releasing it in 2020 isn't what I'd call ''the right time'' to announce a game if your goal is to decrease the time between announcement and release. Even back in 2015 Yoshida said he had played a version of the game Sucker Punch was working on.
It definitely sounds like it's coming sooner than later.
Anyway, I do think Death Stranding could end up as a 2020, simply because I expect Days Gone, Ghost, and TLOU in 2019. And all four of them seems to good to be true. But maybe it's TLOU who slips into 2020. I don't expect a ''low-key'' year; Dreams, Concrete Genie and MediEvil are definitely smaller titles and/or more niche, but those three and three of the big ones are more than we got this year I think. Of course, there's always another MLB, and maybe I'm forgetting something else... Can't remember!
@Octane If the next Xbox ends up being 2019, I'll be especially thankful that I ignored the XB1X. I always saw it as a New 3DS type device but with less purpose than the New 3DS (I found most games released from Smash onwards didn't run that well on the original 3DS line meanwhile recent XB1 games work perfectly fine on the original XB1 models).
@Grumblevolcano 2019 is a six year cycle, so it's plausible. I never saw the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X as anything more than optional upgrades for the people that want the best possible performance or visuals. I'm kinda glad they didn't do any of the exclusive nonsense
I just want the next generation so I can first-hand experience what a transitionary period between generations is like. The Wii U was dead when I joined the news cycle around video games so it didn't really count.
I didn't start until around freshman year of high school. In a way I regret, since alot of the random magic of finding out about games more organically was lost forever
I, too, only started paying attention to online gaming news back in freshmen year of high school...except I don't regret it. Only good thing about aspergers: You feel compelled to extract every last detail you can out of whatever you're obsessed with. I learned so much about video games I could never have done simply by reading magazines or going off of word of mouth from what few friends I had back then, and it set the foundation for the gamer I am today.
Speaking of Red Dead, I finally looked into Red Dead Revolver...that actually looks like the kind of game I was hoping RDR would be. I'll have to remember to grab that one someday.
@Octane Two zombie games in one year? It's like Sony's still in 2015.
PS4 Pro was a weird misstep Sony kind of ignored, but was more N3DS-like. I like mine, but it wasn't essential and they didn't spend much time focusing on it. "SCORPIO!!!!!" though, was marketed effectively as a new console. I understood it wasn't, don't get me wrong, but they set an image that it was more than just a premium sku but a new future, and they'll pigeon hole their own marketing if 2 years later they say "oh, that thing, yeah that was just a premium thing for the holiday....we know it's the most expensive console since the PS3 but it was just for collectors, really..." I think a lot of people would be ticked. It's barely 10 months old and a 2019 release would mean talking about replacing it at the 18 month mark at E3. Nobody kills a console - even an add-on console- in 18 months. Well...except Sega....and that worked out well...
OTOH, it's the only 8th gen console that actually delivered on the promise of 8th gen consoles back from 2013..... OG PS4 and OG X1 were stuttery messes for most games, so in a way I'd regret buying the X less than having bought a launch PS4 since the library is, you know, playable.
@Grumblevolcano Indeed I would be massively annoyed. I would lose most faith in XBox, that's for sure. Unless the 1X is fully forward compatible with the new one, regardless of what Thanos and Blue think, in which case I'd think it's smart strategy. Nobody releases a new $500 console that lives on shelves for 2 years. That's worse than WiiU, that's 32x. That was a lot of marketing and fanfare and a high price tag for a disposable "premium" edition for 2 years. I can't imagine they'd be that stupid though.
FWIW, I thought I recalled Spencer saying 2020 specifically.
@Dezzy Awesome about AC:Odyssey.....I splurged for the $100 gold edition. I rarely do that but for AC I somehow always love it. I shouldn't....it's cheap popcorn like a Michael Bay film....but somehow it hooks me every time. The extra chapters and the remastered AC3 made it an easier sell.
RDR2. You know, I'm looking forward to it. I'm interested to see what it is, but I still feel like it's 65% hype, 35% game. Looks good, but nothing still says "ZOMG IT'S A MASTERPIECE" from anything I've seen. Just looks like a pretty good game.
@CanisWolfred I just realized I still never responded about the AC stuff. I meant to ask what it is you liked about II that you didn't find as good in later entries. To me:
1: Did the assassinations right. The world worked for the game. The sense of casing the joint, working through the compound, taking out the mark in public, and making a run for it was never done so well again. Yes, fending off the whole town before going to the safehouse sucked, but the actual assassinations were tops and felt important.
2: (series) improved the open world and activities, but got a bit grindy in the "do this thing on the map here" motif. I loved the world but it became more action-adventure on rails than the more systems based gameplay with a heavily scripted "big hit" sequence leading into and out of any major assassination. It was very good, but it assassinations felt random and small, just 'happening" rather than being the big moment everything built up to in a given area. Better open world, worse hits.
3: I don't like to talk about 3...it was just so...so...soooooooo bad. The desmond parts just got weird. The game lost all vertical that made the whole parkour/stealth gameplay work before. The game stopped featuring stealth at all. Everything that made the game function was removed. I'm hoping the remaster improves it. They said they made a lot of changes based on fan feedback. Liberation was decent. In a "made for Vita" sort of way, but still...I haven't yet played Rogue.
Unity: I haven't played yet. I'm afraid to.
Black Flag: It was an awesome pirate game. I liked the Assassin's Creed costume DLC. It tided me over until an Assassin's Creed game came out.
Syndicate: Two steps forward, one step back. Assassinations started to feel somewhat big again. The asylum in particular felt like a return to the feeling of casing the joint and making the big hit. But it relied too heavily on eagle vision xray vision and had a confusing nest of floors that made it feel more like Hitman than AC. I like Hitman a lot but the signature AC feeling wasn't quite what I hoped either. The train pulled some of 2's economy in. Including Evey (Evie?) as a stealth character and Jacob as a Connor thug worked to satisfy the two camps. But the whole victorian vibe was too modern for me....AC is about enjoying ancient civilizations in a lot of ways....a trip to a world that was. There's a million games about victorian London, and too much real content to compare it to. Decent but it lost something. Also the map objective grinding was over the top "hit this same squad of goons again and again and again in all 800 locations!"
Origins: The MGSV of AC. It did away with the scripted linearity of 2, it makes a big deal of hits, however it's not the "big moment" like 1 was still....it's more of a real stealth game "plot the mission." The RPG-ifying of it worked. Hunting to acquire materials to craft gets grindy, but it works really well. The bird really makes it a better stealth/tactical game to plan entry and such. It does also make it a slower game. It's a big departure and definitely makes it less "action adventure" but of course now with Odyssey it's officially and RPG so, there's that....
RDR2. You know, I'm looking forward to it. I'm interested to see what it is, but I still feel like it's 65% hype, 35% game. Looks good, but nothing still says "ZOMG IT'S A MASTERPIECE" from anything I've seen. Just looks like a pretty good game.
Obviously gameplay and story stuff will only become clear when we play it but I think from the videos alone, it looks like it has one of the most detailed and interesting 3D worlds we've ever seen.
Only a few games like Witcher 3 and Horizon Zero Dawn look on the same kind of level imo.
Of course that assumed you're someone who cares about world building. Which is one of my main focuses in games. May not be everyone's though.
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