Upcoming games of 2018 you are looking forward to?

[Captain Marvelous_v1legacy]

I'm probably missing a lot, but here's a rough list:

Monster Hunter World
Dragonball FighterZ
Spider-Man
God of War
Ghost of Tsushima
Kingdom Hearts 3 (Please?)
Digimon Story Cyber Slueth - Hackers Memory
Dynasty Warriors 9
Kirby Star Allies
Detroit: Become Human
Megaman 11
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Project Octopath Traveler.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Last of Us 2....I have a Love/Hate relationship with it.

I like the gameplay, but goddman if this game isn't the most SJW game ever, fortunantly for Last of Us, Life is Strange supplanted that title.

Seriously, what isn't "SJW" in the eyes of those who use the term unironically?

The overpraise of the character of Ellie from everywhere I have seen is the biggest example.

But to be fair, I am curious to see her in the 2nd game now that she's grown up because I couldn't stand her as a young little girl.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

@Hawki

Regarding Your Post about Vermintide 2: To be fair Warhammer Online had Chaos Warriors dedicated to Tzeentch as the playable race.

Regarding Total War: Hey man, know one thought the Hell Pit Abomination would get made and look what happened.

Regarding your post about Last of Us: I explined why to Casual Shinji and I have more to say, unless you want to know how Life is Strange supplanted it.

 

[Catfood220]

I forgot that Valkyria Chronicles 4 is out this year, hopefully it'll be as good as the first one and nothing like the travesty of a Valkyria game released last year.

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

Firstly, just stop with the SJW nonsense. Do you understand what evidence you'd need to prove any game had a SJW agenda? And to think any major publisher is going to push an agenda that equates to less sales is asinine. The largest demographic is going to get pandered to all the time. And if there is an actual SJW game, it will be done to pander to get sales and not push an agenda. A game having a character that's not a straight white male means nothing, maybe (just maybe) the writer didn't feel like writing another straight white male character. But, of course, logic has no place in such Internet bullshit so why did I even type any of this?

OT:
Anyways, there's very little 2018 games I'm looking forward too, the industry seems to have blown their load last year pretty much across the board. Is Arkane making any game that releases this year? I'm down for whatever they make, it's all been good. Maybe there's going to be some great mid-tier games that really don't get press like a Divinity or Shadow Tactics. I'm fine with 2018 being a down year as I have a bunch of games to catch up on anyway. The following is what I know about and am interested in so far:

-The Last of Us 2. I hope the story is up there with the original but with video games, can you ever really depend on a good story? Naughty Dog has written some shit stories themselves like Uncharted 3. Hopefully the gameplay can be elevated with actual good AI that the E3 trailer for the original TLOU showed off instead of what we actually got.

-Spiderman. I hope it's a good Spiderman game. I purposefully don't play games with Arkham combat unless I'm really into the subject matter and the last game with Arkham combat I played was Arkham Knight. Hopefully, I've taken enough of a break so that Arkham combat will be fun again along with Insomniac hopefully spicing it up as well. I also hope Insomniac builds a world/story/characters for Spiderman as good as Rocksteady did for Batman.

-Vampyr. The game looks pretty interesting with a lot of potential. Hopefully there's a lot of meaningful choices in this RPG. I also hope it's an RPG that doesn't waste the player's time because I have just about zero tolerance for that, just give me the good stuff instead of artificially padding out your game (and RPGs are the worst offenders IMO).

 

[briankoontz]

Last of Us 2....I have a Love/Hate relationship with it.

I like the gameplay, but goddman if this game isn't the most SJW game ever, fortunantly for Last of Us, Life is Strange supplanted that title.

Seriously, what isn't "SJW" in the eyes of those who use the term unironically?

To be fair, game content has changed drastically in a progressive direction in recent years, just as the playerbase has become more inclusive in terms of class, gender, and race. We're a long way from the old days of rigid, set-in-stone game genres with narrow scope. To give you an idea, once upon a time Ultima Underworld was heralded as innovative. Yet as innovative as it was, it was still a dungeon crawling RPG in the vein of many that had come before. Now outside of the AAA market it's rare for a game to *not* have something interesting or special about it. And most importantly, low budget games have exposure now through places like Steam and Twitch that they never could have dreamed about with the dominance of retail stores with limited shelf space which AAA publishers controlled, and Kickstarter reduces the influence of big capital publishers on developers.

To those of us who think the "New Gaming" is amazing, diverse, and far more democratic than the old way, we can hardly understand that there are many conservative gamers who are threatened by and/or dismissive of recent developments. And so enter GamerGate, a reactionary movement attempting to curb the diversity and ideally roll things back to the "good old days".

 

[laggyteabag]

Nothing really jumps off the wall, but I would say that these games are on my radar, at least:

Metro Exodus
Spider-Man
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Though I wont get it until it gets a PC release)
The Walking Dead Final Season

Im pretty sure that Halo 6 will get announced this year, so Im excited for that. Not happy excited, mind you, just more of a morbid curiosity.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Last of Us 2....I have a Love/Hate relationship with it.

I like the gameplay, but goddman if this game isn't the most SJW game ever, fortunantly for Last of Us, Life is Strange supplanted that title.

Seriously, what isn't "SJW" in the eyes of those who use the term unironically?

To be fair, game content has changed drastically in a progressive direction in recent years, just as the playerbase has become more inclusive in terms of class, gender, and race. We're a long way from the old days of rigid, set-in-stone game genres with narrow scope. To give you an idea, once upon a time Ultima Underworld was heralded as innovative. Yet as innovative as it was, it was still a dungeon crawling RPG in the vein of many that had come before. Now outside of the AAA market it's rare for a game to *not* have something interesting or special about it. And most importantly, low budget games have exposure now through places like Steam and Twitch that they never could have dreamed about with the dominance of retail stores with limited shelf space which AAA publishers controlled, and Kickstarter reduces the influence of big capital publishers on developers.

To those of us who think the "New Gaming" is amazing, diverse, and far more democratic than the old way, we can hardly understand that there are many conservative gamers who are threatened by and/or dismissive of recent developments. And so enter GamerGate, a reactionary movement attempting to curb the diversity and ideally roll things back to the "good old days".

No GamerGate was a reactionary movement against dishonest gaming jounalism.

 

[Mcgeezaks]

The Last of Us 2 (If it comes out this year)

Crackdown 3

Metro Exodus

Halo 6 (If it comes out for PC, Halo isn't a console seller anymore thanks to 343i)

Monster Hunter World

Far Cry 5

That's pretty much it, more will probably (hopefully) come after E3.

 

[Trunkage]

Last of Us 2....I have a Love/Hate relationship with it.

I like the gameplay, but goddman if this game isn't the most SJW game ever, fortunantly for Last of Us, Life is Strange supplanted that title.

Seriously, what isn't "SJW" in the eyes of those who use the term unironically?

To be fair, game content has changed drastically in a progressive direction in recent years, just as the playerbase has become more inclusive in terms of class, gender, and race. We're a long way from the old days of rigid, set-in-stone game genres with narrow scope. To give you an idea, once upon a time Ultima Underworld was heralded as innovative. Yet as innovative as it was, it was still a dungeon crawling RPG in the vein of many that had come before. Now outside of the AAA market it's rare for a game to *not* have something interesting or special about it. And most importantly, low budget games have exposure now through places like Steam and Twitch that they never could have dreamed about with the dominance of retail stores with limited shelf space which AAA publishers controlled, and Kickstarter reduces the influence of big capital publishers on developers.

To those of us who think the "New Gaming" is amazing, diverse, and far more democratic than the old way, we can hardly understand that there are many conservative gamers who are threatened by and/or dismissive of recent developments. And so enter GamerGate, a reactionary movement attempting to curb the diversity and ideally roll things back to the "good old days".

No GamerGate was a reactionary movement against dishonest gaming jounalism.

No it was both.

Also, if the GGers took two seconds to listen to the Anti-GGers, they'd realise that the average Anti-GGers was agreeing with them generally about journalistic ethics. And if Anti-GGers took two seconds, they'd realise that most GGers didn't criticise women. But then the Internet just can't have nice things. A small minority on both sides manipulated the situation to cause huge issues. And both majorities lapped it up.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

God of War. It's going to have a surprise announcement for the release date sooner than later, I think.

 

[Natemans]

Spider-Man PS4

Maybe Last of Us 2

 

[Natemans]

Last of Us 2....I have a Love/Hate relationship with it.

I like the gameplay, but goddman if this game isn't the most SJW game ever, fortunantly for Last of Us, Life is Strange supplanted that title.

Seriously, what isn't "SJW" in the eyes of those who use the term unironically?

The internet has made me hate the term SJW so much

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Last of Us 2....I have a Love/Hate relationship with it.

I like the gameplay, but goddman if this game isn't the most SJW game ever, fortunantly for Last of Us, Life is Strange supplanted that title.

Seriously, what isn't "SJW" in the eyes of those who use the term unironically?

The internet has made me hate the term SJW so much

Ugh me too.

OT: I don't look forward to games anymore. I can't afford most of them so there's not much point.

 

[Bilious Green_v1legacy]

I've been burned by hype enough times to no longer let myself get too excited. That said, I'm looking forward to Metro Exodus the most, though I'm also interested in Red Dead (assuming 2K don't kill it with microtransactions), and Spiderman. I don't think TLoU2 or Cyberpunk have any chance of coming out in 2018, so I'm not including those.

 

[Hawki]

Regarding Total War: Hey man, know one thought the Hell Pit Abomination would get made and look what happened.

That's a skaven unit. Skaven are a pretty popular race in WHFB, whereas Chaos Dwarfs are pretty much unknowns.

Regarding your post about Last of Us: I explined why to Casual Shinji

Alright, let's see:

The overpraise of the character of Ellie from everywhere I have seen is the biggest example.

"Overpraise" of a character has nothing to do with being an "SJW," which is a moronic term anyway. But if being "overpraised" is all it takes to be an SJW, then pretty much any character ever created is an SJW, as being overpraised is down to personal view.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Seriously, what isn't "SJW" in the eyes of those who use the term unironically?

The overpraise of the character of Ellie from everywhere I have seen is the biggest example.

How does that make it "SJW" -- Wouldn't that make it 'overrated'?

The Last of Us 2 (If it comes out this year)

It won't.

Sony only ever seems to release their big exclussives in Spring, and this game is not releasing within the next 7 months. The earliest you can hope for is Spring '19.

Anyway, God of War looks nice, Detroit: Become Human will be good for a laugh, Monster Hunter World has peaked my interest, Spider-Man, Days Gone... eh, we'll see.

 

[Fijiman]

If they announce that the next Borderlands game will be coming out this year than I'll say that, otherwise there isn't really anything that I'm that particularly interested in at the moment. This is not helped by the fact that I don't really have money for games these days and haven't played the previous game(s) for a lot of the games that are confirmed for this year.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Regarding Total War: Hey man, know one thought the Hell Pit Abomination would get made and look what happened.

That's a skaven unit. Skaven are a pretty popular race in WHFB, whereas Chaos Dwarfs are pretty much unknowns.

Regarding your post about Last of Us: I explined why to Casual Shinji

Alright, let's see:

The overpraise of the character of Ellie from everywhere I have seen is the biggest example.

"Overpraise" of a character has nothing to do with being an "SJW," which is a moronic term anyway. But if being "overpraised" is all it takes to be an SJW, then pretty much any character ever created is an SJW, as being overpraised is down to personal view.

Fine, but I Still think she's an annoying brat regardless, she's ruins the tone and immersion of the game with her smart ass quips and antics. I roll my eyes when she opens her mouth. Which makes me hope that in the second game she matures now that she's grown up.

Like in Ben 10 I could not stand the kid when he was 10 years old, than he grew up in the Alien Force series and he is a much more tolerable and compelling chararcter for it because he matured.