Its been a while since we have had any sort of gaming discussion, and with a new year, I figured it may be fun to see what are the games people are most looking forward to. For me:
Victoria 3: Probably the most hyped I have been for a game in a long time, and so far the dev AAR and diaries have showed that its coming along pretty well, short of some balancing and stability (they have had an issue with the last few games of the AI going full chaos when it wasnt supposed to). But other than that, everything about it has been exactly what I wanted, and looks like it is a pretty major step in a positive direction for Paradox games.
Kerbel Space Program 2: Loved the first game, and it looks like KSP 2 is just going to be more but better.
Elden Ring: Me and everyone else I am sure, but still looks like it could be a very fun time. FromSoftware don't miss, and it looks like it will continue their trend as long as you are willing to git gud.
Frostpunk 2: The original is one of my favorite games of all time, so you better believe I am interest. Unfortunately, not much is known about this one other than it will take place about 30 years after the first game, and that the main conflict will revolve around oil instead of coal.
Two Points Campus: A throwback to the old, silly tycoon games, which I loved growing up. And I enjoyed their other game (Two Points Hospital), so it looks like this one is shaping up to follow the same ideal.
Elden Ring for sure, I’ve been following it pretty closely and it really looks to me like From delivered. It looks like they’ve combined all of the best parts of Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls with a little Sekiro for good measure and then stuck it in a giant open world. High hopes, and I really don’t see it disappointing, although knowing the Fromsoft fan base I’m sure plenty of people will bitch about something.
Stalker 2 I’ve been waiting on for years, I’m hoping it lives up to the first games. I’ve heard some shit about them trying to put NFTs in it and getting shutdown by the fan backlash, so that’s a little worrisome.
Dying Light 2 is another one, I liked the first one a lot more than I thought I would so part 2 is a welcome surprise. I haven’t really followed it’s development too close so hopefully it’s as good as the first.
Darkest Dungeon 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3 are both supposed to be fully released in ‘22, so thatt’ll be good. Liking both of them a lot in EA.
Another one I’ve really been enjoying is called Nearly Dead. It’s a sci-fi zombie apocalypse survival kind of thing, it’s based on this really good rouglike called Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead. It’s in ea so a little light on content at the moment but I really like what I see so far and they add stuff regularly, plus there’s mods as well.
That’s about all that comes to mind, Elden Ring is definitely the one I’m most looking forward to, so if it hits it out of the park I should be set for the next decade.
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