MercurySteam said:
June is turning out to be a real drain on my wallet after a series of coincidences cause me to buy four games this month; Red Faction: Armageddon, Duke Nukem Forever, Alice: Madness Returns and Mortal Kombat. Red Faction and Duke Nukem were pushed back to the same month (and the same week too), I ordered Mortal Kombat because I finally decided that need to buy a decent fighting game with some lasting appeal and to keep others happy when I have people over, and I only recently heard about Alice: Madness Returns and decided that it is the most interesting game I've seen coming for months.
My impressions are; excited for Red Faction: Armageddon as the demo gave me a fairly good impression and blasting shit in a new game will definitely keep me occupied for awhile, though after playing the Duke Nukem Forever demo I have a feeling I'll be disappointed with it (and may even need to return the game) but I owe both The Duke and Gearbox to prove to me that it won't be a waste of time. Mortal Komabt should provide with some lasting entertainment while Madness Returns looks to be the most interesting and captivating of them all.
So that's my five cents. What are you looking forward to?
EDIT: Wow, you bastards are lazy. Feel free to actually post comments instead of just voting in the poll (the one time you design a poll really well and people just exploit it. Typical)
I'm terribly sorry but you see I can't vote in your really well designed poll if the game I have been most anticipating ALL BLOODY YEAR(s) isn't on it now can I? Oh It's heartening to see that such a grand opus of the digital dawn as Hello Kitty loving life wasn't missed, that WOULD have been tragic....
*sigh* Y'know it's really great that thanks to the internet we can now talk about games with enthusiasts from all over the world, so instead of just sharing your enthusism (and well loved copies of EGM) with your close circle of fellow gaming afficionados, you can have the fact that you have an embarrasing tendency to really love games that other people just know are going to suck (and therefore do not cover their development. Ever.) exposed to the entire world!! yay.
Look I've come to expect it from the jaded gaming press (you're not the only one who didn't find the game worth mentioning Game Informer didn't list it among their releases either. Although they have a whole section of their mag dedicated to that!!) They did however list the release of the MOVIE in that section. Judging from one part of what G.I. said about the movie I can see why they don't think the game is worth wasting their rarified air upon.... "Ryan Reynolds hasn't been in a bad movie yet this year, but there's still time...." It's also telling that they never even bothered publishing a review for Thor, which yes, I love.
When will the jaded get out of "if it's a movie tie-in it auto-sucks!" mode? I've enjoyed quite a few games now (not JUST Thor) that were hammered by the elitists who yes, I know, think they are better or that their opinions are more important than ours. (Y'know the ones who just support the industry as opposed to getting paid to be part of it.) Let me ask this: In any industry driven by sales how can a persons opinion be more important than the actual consumer of that industries product when those people don't share the end consumers perspective of it? Such as having to pay for it or give up their own unpaid time to play it. You know what video reviews I pay attention to? The ones posted on You Tube out of love, rather than out of pocket. Or love for the pocket. Either way.
Wow. I can see the "wall of text." posts now.... I mean you would think something really important had been marginalized or something instead of heraladed as the representation of one of the best Fantasy metaphors in the history of well, Fantasy.
Well maybe hat-tipping great Fantasy really isn't the driving goal here on the um, Escapist.
Oh by the way to the brilliant minds at Game Informer? Yeah guys, it's "In Brightest Day" not "In the Brightest Day." If you ARE going to marginalize/mock what I consider some of the best art out there (and I'm not really into art) at least do the minimal level of research to slag on it correctly.
I guess my main point is that no one's seen Green Lantern yet, or anything really about the game, but both seem doomed to marginalization just like the Thor game, even though many of us will buy GL and love it, we aren't the right TYPE of consumers. Um, I guess.
Is there a better consumer than one who spends money on your products? Nope. (Yeah that question was ALL KINDS of rhetorical.)
Oh. (OT) I'm buying the new Green Lantern movie tie-in game. Hey you said you were disappointed that no one had anything to say.... You're welcome.
