Topic is very simple: There are many western games coming nowadays that are plain unfun, boring, or shoved with ugly people and certain politics. TLOU 2receiving GOTY was a joke. Is there a game, if any, coming from the west, that you are kinda hopeful about?
Some of the western games I enjoyed playing this year were Deep Rock, Synthetik, Desperados 3, Children of Morta, Satisfactory and Hitman 2, though they are hardly recent. I’m kinda hopeful about Hitman 3 but I heavily dislike the “always online” game model.
What about you guys, though?
Also, to mods, add a gaming/ geek culture tag or whatever. Options here are limited as it is.
Maybe Cyberpunk, but I don't have my hopes up. CK3 was exactly what I wanted and expected, a base grand strategy game.
My Iberian Caliph just got austere scholar'd two years into his reign, but he had it coming. His dad was a tyrannical asshole, and the first thing he did was get his face smashed in by Pope when he tried to take Latium as a grand show of force. It was a good thing he got peacefully protested when he did because there was a lot of rebellion brewing.
Been pretty happy with CK3 myself.
The little QoL things are nice like not having to bring my troops home before disbanding. CK2 had become too patchwork, and I'm excited to see how they redevelop the world. The religion system feels like a better base.
The Prince of Darkness mod is a Vampire the Masquerade overhaul that is interesting, if a little clunky.