Will 2011 be the greatest year in gaming

[Treblaine]

Mass Effect 3, Deus Ex 3, Diablo 3, Portal 2...maybe Elder Scrolls V...maybe Arkham City. The rest I don't really care about.

Right now I'm really hoping Deus Ex 3 won't disappoint.

How's this for disappointing

http://screwattack.com/blogs/ScrewAttack-News/Deus-Ex-Human-Revolution-release-has-been-delayed

it isn't even coming out in 2011 but 2012.

EDIT: but don't worry... it's not like it's the end of the world

It hasn't been delayed till 2012, it says it could be held back as far as 2012. But most people have given it a release window some time after April in line with the start of the fiscal year as SquareEnix moved it to the next fiscal year.

Good point it could be released in 2011, but I think it will go as far back as 2012.

It's just a hunch.

 

[josephmatthew10]

Portal 2
Telltale's Jurassic Park series
Skyrim
Arkham City
Mass Effect 3
L.A. Noire

Probably Dragon Age 2, but DA:Origins will be one of my belated buys this year, along with L4D2.

 

[DustyDrB]

It won't top 2010 for me, which was my personal best year of gaming ever.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Yes. It will be the best year of gaming. Like 2010 was.

Kind of like how 2009 was.
Kind of like how 2008 was.
Kind of like how 2007 was.
Kind of like... get my point?

 

[Baldry]

With game like sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, very belated sequel, revamp, Fight Night Champion, sequel, sequel, sequel, Homefront, sequel, sequel, sequel, L.A. Noir, sequel, sequel, Rage, sequel, sequel, sequel and so on I personaly believe that this will be the definate best year in gaming ever.

Yeah... it's shaping up to a great year of cash-ins.

Is Duke nukem really a sequel? Took a bit too long to warrant that status, more like miracle!

And I can't wait to play these sequels...They'll be a blast!

 

[Westaway]

You forgot Brink.

 

[Torrasque]

With game like Mass Effect 3, Uncharted 3, Dead Space 2, Marvel Vs Capcom 3, Mortal Kombat, Duke Nukem Forever, Twisted Metal, Fight Night Champion, Killzone 3, Dragon Age 2, Gears of War 3, Homefront, Shogun 2, Crysis 2, Portal 2, L.A. Noir, F.E.A.R. 3, Resistance 3, Rage, Elder Scrolls V, Arkham City, Diablo 3 and so on I personaly believe that this will be the definate best year in gaming ever.

I bolded the only games that matter this year.
If SC2 came out in 2011, I'd agree with you, but it didn't.
2010 is the greatest year for gaming because of SC2 (for me), even with D3 coming out.

 

[Hyper-space]

I am only looking forward to TES: Skyrim, Dragon Age 2, Diablo 3, Arkham City and maybe LA Noir (if its any good).

 

[Luke5515]

This actually does look like a really great year for gaming.
Of course it will never be the best until video games stop, and i have a feeling we won't be alive for that.

 

[Treblaine]

Yea, three of those have a good chance at not being released this year, but thus the TBA. Alice 2, ME3, MGS Rising, and HoMM6 are all on track as far as I'm aware, though.

I was just looking into ME3's release date and found this:

http://www.1up.com/news/mass-effect-3-confirmed-holiday

A "Holiday 2011" release is distinct from a "2011 release" as the "2011 Holiday season" lasts from November 2011 to JANUARY 2012! So I think considering the trends established by the last 2 Mass Effect games, Mass Effect 3 will be released in January 2012.

[HEADING=2]Mass Effect 3 almost certainly will not be released in 2011![/HEADING]

Also on MGS Rising:

http://www.gamertell.com/gaming/comment/metal-gear-solid-rising-to-surfaces-in-2012/

Definitely seems to be for 2012.

As for Alice: Madness Returns, not only is the game in such an early stage it doesn't even have a logo but looking at EA's fiscal year reports it seems that their "year X" finishes in the March of the subsequent year. So Q4 2011 is firmly in 2012, which is Alice: Madness Return's stated release date.

So yeah, take this as a good thing, this is more time for polish and less pressure on your wallet.

 

[Sacman]

Yes... the only reason being, Duke Nukem Forever is coming out...<.<

 

[Varanfan9]

The greatest year in gaming was when the NES came out cause if not for that we never would of gotten out of that down turn. Although you could say the greatest year in gaming was when the Atari 2600 came out which made home consoles popular. Fuck it I'm going all the way back and saying the greatest year in gaming was when Tennis for two the first video game ever was made.

 

[thiosk]

dude xcom ufo defense came out in 1996

too late for this title

 

[Vicarious Vangaurd]

It's going to be sucky with tons of sequels.

 

[KuwaSanjuro]

I will happily fall into poverty to buy these games.

 

[Woodsey]

If everything sticks to it's release date? Better than 2007. Especially now that I have a PC, 360 and PS3 (as of 2 weeks ago).

Every time I'm asked what I'm most excited for, I leave half the list off because I can't bloody remember it all.

Dragon Age II
Crysis 2
Brink
Portal 2
LA Noire
The Witcher 2
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Skyrim
Mass Effect 3
TOR
Arkham City
inFamous 2
Deus Ex: Human Revolution

What are those words I'm looking for? Oh, that's right:

FUCK YEAH.

And no, I don't care if they're all sequels, as if we should all suddenly deduct points from their review scores or something just because of it. You know what a gaming sequel usually means? The original, only how the developers actually wanted it to be; the original, only with the benefit of up to millions of players' feedback; the original, only more refined, yet bolder.

Just because the CoD series took the money shot and landed it straight in your eye doesn't mean you need to have a vendetta against any game that is a sequel, and just because we have sequels doesn't mean we don't have originality also.

 

[Treblaine]

You forgot Brink.

Everyone forgets Brink. It's the game that to spite how ambitious it is and revolutionary it could be people just seem to so easily lose their intere-

OH A Squirrel!

 

[blarghblarghhhhh]

With game like Mass Effect 3, Uncharted 3, Dead Space 2, Marvel Vs Capcom 3, Mortal Kombat, Duke Nukem Forever, Twisted Metal, Fight Night Champion, Killzone 3, Dragon Age 2, Gears of War 3, Homefront, Shogun 2, Crysis 2, Portal 2, L.A. Noir, F.E.A.R. 3, Resistance 3, Rage, Elder Scrolls V, Arkham City, Diablo 3 and so on I personaly believe that this will be the definate best year in gaming ever.

you forgot pokemon, okamiden, radiant historia, the 3ds and all it entails as well as probably the psp2

 

[plank_man180]

1999. Quake 3 Arena. End of.