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Ufff I loved TJ on the PS3. Shame there's no way for me to play it now.
Video games you are looking forward to in 2023 - Is there anything to be excited by?
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-That remaster of Suikoden 1 and 2.
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-That remaster of Suikoden 1 and 2.
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I'm gonna feel like such a huge faggot playing that but it looks fun
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I played it the other day on my copy of Best of PSN Vol. 1
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Unironically looking forward to this garbage because I ended up going through the developer's other games and enjoyed them.
Other than that I've been a little out of the loop since I've been burning through my backlog. Somehow managed to finish most of my 6 and 7 generation games backlog so I've finally been moving onto more recent trash.
Was actually surprised Wild Hearts already came out. Might get in since it'd probably scratch my Toukiden itch.
Other than that I've been a little out of the loop since I've been burning through my backlog. Somehow managed to finish most of my 6 and 7 generation games backlog so I've finally been moving onto more recent trash.
Was actually surprised Wild Hearts already came out. Might get in since it'd probably scratch my Toukiden itch.
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I'll probably check it out just for it being so upfront. Seen too many games that are more entertaining as dress-up simulators, and we finally get one that puts it in the title.I'm gonna feel like such a huge faggot playing that but it looks fun
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Space marine 2 if it gets out. Rogue trader and Boltgun.
Maybe Baldur gate 3 if it isn't too turbo woke.
Maybe Baldur gate 3 if it isn't too turbo woke.
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More neat shit I turned up browsing Steam. I confined this list to stuff dated for 2023. I don't expect to play necessarily any of these, just that these are the ones I want to hear how they turn out.
LEGO 2K DRIVE
A boring one to mention, but yes, I liked LEGO Racers a lot as a kid and LEGO has an excellent reputation with vidya, so I am interested in seeing le funny toy car game.
CORSAIRS LEGACY
I have little hopes of this actually being good, but there are basically no games out there about - with minimum AA graphics and a third person perspective - being a pirate. Even if you relax that to just "be a pirate," it's slim pickings for what should be the most popular genre of all (piracy is as perfect as a setting and formula for open world, emergent storytelling, exploration-based gameplay as you could ask for). Anyways, this thing looks like it will be a tiny scope, but it offers naval and ground in a real world setting. My hope is they pull it off surprisingly well and it's like Kingdom Come in terms of quality.
PACIFIC DRIVE
Don't really know what exactly you do in this, I just see flying rocks (I approve), weird shit going on, road tripping mechanics (repair your car, scavenge, drive around). It looks neat.
LAYSARA: SUMMIT KINGDOMS
I love Nepal as an aesthetic. Don't really know much about the place, but have mostly good associations with it. Beautiful mountains and fine architectural style that suits it. Pretty brown Aryan women. The men are badass mountaineers (gurkhas some of the finest soldiers in the world), and the country invented Buddhism, a religion I respect a lot. Laysara is the Himalayan (might be supposed to be Tibetan, but it looks more Nepali to my eyes) city-builder no one would have ever expected to be made. Gameplay wise, your gimmicks are having to deal with a caste society, having to build vertically around a mountain which becomes worse and worse for logistics the furhter you go up (but offers different resources at different elevations), and dealing with the mountain trying to kill you with avalanches, which you can actively plan countermeasures for. Ultimate goal, build a spectacular mountaintop temple, a true feat of logistics considering you have to basically port materials up sheer cliffs. And build and link your mountaintop domains!
If they went on to make an Inca game with the same shtick it would be perfect.
NIGHT IS COMING
City-builder survival type game with horror, which would normally sound like wank, but in this case it actually has a remarkably charming Slavic folklore angle to it, like The Witcher. You can even see that chicken-legged walking house monster (Baba Yaga's house?). If you like fantasy better when its rooted in tradition (as opposed to the more deracinated high fantasy now, that's all self-referential), it looks really good.
MEDIC: PACIFIC WAR
I thought a long time ago that a combat medic sim, particularly based on something like Desmond Doss (the pacifist WW2 hero), would be compelling, if it's detailed enough in its simulation, you throw that, active hazards (particularly when going up against people like Japs that specifically target medics), and triage to create an incredibly stressful experience. Apparently a small studio is trying that, it gives off a shitty vibe but you take what you can get. Want the video game experience of "Hacksaw Ridge."
ABOVE SNAKES
Nice aesthetic that's better than another shitty AA-ass graphics survival game. Cute Indian (?) waifu. Looks like a decent Western setting. Actually really want to play it, may not be third person but it may have to serve as my dream pioneer game (just like Project Zomboid is also isometric, but is probably the best zombies will ever get). Zombies in this shit too is a bit worrying, why can't it be about trying not to get raped by Sioux and the 7th Cavalry?
THE RANCHERS
Farming sim that doesn't look completely faggy. I've whined a bunch about there being no farming sims that go for a more realistic (not cartoony/womanly) feeling without being broken -AAA indie garbage, closest it gets is maybe Farming Simulator but as I understand htat's about driving tractors around. This looks genuinely good. Only thing that gives me pause is the tacked on monsters. I'm not completely opposed to having monsters and supernatural aspects in contemporary settings, it can be outright excellent. This, however, looks carelessly thrown in at complete odds with the world.
SPACE MECHANIC SIMULATOR
Astronaut go [still silence of the grave]
You repair things, both in orbit and on worlds like Mars. It's contemporary solar system type (what I like) so you're doing things like repairing satellites. Just one of those spergy work simulators autists would play. I like spacewalking.
SONS OF VALHALLA / KINGDOM EIGHTIES
I don't know jack shit about the Kingdom games and I usually don't like pixelshit. I also could not give less of a fuck about the 1980s. This caught my eye because this happens to be the most beautiful damn pixelshit I've ever seen, I do like Dark Ages Britain quite a bit, and something about the combination of the rich, painting-like pixel graphics with the 1980s stuff is charming.
Oh, there's also Thief Simulator 2 coming up. I had this idea of if there was a game like GTA that was all about being able to burgle anything you come across and pull heists on bigger targets. That doesn't really exist but TS2 is adding stores, banks, and such to hit in addition to its neighborhoods, so it's kind of like a poor man's version of the game that exists in my head.
LEGO 2K DRIVE
A boring one to mention, but yes, I liked LEGO Racers a lot as a kid and LEGO has an excellent reputation with vidya, so I am interested in seeing le funny toy car game.
CORSAIRS LEGACY
I have little hopes of this actually being good, but there are basically no games out there about - with minimum AA graphics and a third person perspective - being a pirate. Even if you relax that to just "be a pirate," it's slim pickings for what should be the most popular genre of all (piracy is as perfect as a setting and formula for open world, emergent storytelling, exploration-based gameplay as you could ask for). Anyways, this thing looks like it will be a tiny scope, but it offers naval and ground in a real world setting. My hope is they pull it off surprisingly well and it's like Kingdom Come in terms of quality.
PACIFIC DRIVE
Don't really know what exactly you do in this, I just see flying rocks (I approve), weird shit going on, road tripping mechanics (repair your car, scavenge, drive around). It looks neat.
LAYSARA: SUMMIT KINGDOMS
I love Nepal as an aesthetic. Don't really know much about the place, but have mostly good associations with it. Beautiful mountains and fine architectural style that suits it. Pretty brown Aryan women. The men are badass mountaineers (gurkhas some of the finest soldiers in the world), and the country invented Buddhism, a religion I respect a lot. Laysara is the Himalayan (might be supposed to be Tibetan, but it looks more Nepali to my eyes) city-builder no one would have ever expected to be made. Gameplay wise, your gimmicks are having to deal with a caste society, having to build vertically around a mountain which becomes worse and worse for logistics the furhter you go up (but offers different resources at different elevations), and dealing with the mountain trying to kill you with avalanches, which you can actively plan countermeasures for. Ultimate goal, build a spectacular mountaintop temple, a true feat of logistics considering you have to basically port materials up sheer cliffs. And build and link your mountaintop domains!
If they went on to make an Inca game with the same shtick it would be perfect.
NIGHT IS COMING
City-builder survival type game with horror, which would normally sound like wank, but in this case it actually has a remarkably charming Slavic folklore angle to it, like The Witcher. You can even see that chicken-legged walking house monster (Baba Yaga's house?). If you like fantasy better when its rooted in tradition (as opposed to the more deracinated high fantasy now, that's all self-referential), it looks really good.
MEDIC: PACIFIC WAR
I thought a long time ago that a combat medic sim, particularly based on something like Desmond Doss (the pacifist WW2 hero), would be compelling, if it's detailed enough in its simulation, you throw that, active hazards (particularly when going up against people like Japs that specifically target medics), and triage to create an incredibly stressful experience. Apparently a small studio is trying that, it gives off a shitty vibe but you take what you can get. Want the video game experience of "Hacksaw Ridge."
ABOVE SNAKES
Nice aesthetic that's better than another shitty AA-ass graphics survival game. Cute Indian (?) waifu. Looks like a decent Western setting. Actually really want to play it, may not be third person but it may have to serve as my dream pioneer game (just like Project Zomboid is also isometric, but is probably the best zombies will ever get). Zombies in this shit too is a bit worrying, why can't it be about trying not to get raped by Sioux and the 7th Cavalry?
THE RANCHERS
Farming sim that doesn't look completely faggy. I've whined a bunch about there being no farming sims that go for a more realistic (not cartoony/womanly) feeling without being broken -AAA indie garbage, closest it gets is maybe Farming Simulator but as I understand htat's about driving tractors around. This looks genuinely good. Only thing that gives me pause is the tacked on monsters. I'm not completely opposed to having monsters and supernatural aspects in contemporary settings, it can be outright excellent. This, however, looks carelessly thrown in at complete odds with the world.
SPACE MECHANIC SIMULATOR
Astronaut go [still silence of the grave]
You repair things, both in orbit and on worlds like Mars. It's contemporary solar system type (what I like) so you're doing things like repairing satellites. Just one of those spergy work simulators autists would play. I like spacewalking.
SONS OF VALHALLA / KINGDOM EIGHTIES
I don't know jack shit about the Kingdom games and I usually don't like pixelshit. I also could not give less of a fuck about the 1980s. This caught my eye because this happens to be the most beautiful damn pixelshit I've ever seen, I do like Dark Ages Britain quite a bit, and something about the combination of the rich, painting-like pixel graphics with the 1980s stuff is charming.
Oh, there's also Thief Simulator 2 coming up. I had this idea of if there was a game like GTA that was all about being able to burgle anything you come across and pull heists on bigger targets. That doesn't really exist but TS2 is adding stores, banks, and such to hit in addition to its neighborhoods, so it's kind of like a poor man's version of the game that exists in my head.
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After seeing the recent updates I've really been looking for to:
THE FIRST DESCENDANT
Basically a F2P Online game that is a mix of Destiny and Warframe. The settings and weapon looting is more Destiny like while collecting new character classes is basically setup in the same way as Warframe. What is getting me hyped is for the first time in a long time a company is actually taking their time with the game and listening to player feedback. Back in October 2022 The First Descendant had a beta which is this modern era is just a quick advertisement before launching in 2 months. While fun it did not feel like a completely finished product. Surprising Nexon actually not only took down player feed back they compiled into a report and went piece by piece on player feedback received along with what the devs planned to focus on fixing.
And then they went completely silent.
Recently the devs have been releasing blogs on work they did to address player feedback to fix jumping, character movement and animation, and various issues relating to have the guns feel to shoot & use.
Dev note vol 1: https://tfd.nexon.com/en/cbt/news/2100828
Dev note vol 2: https://tfd.nexon.com/en/cbt/news/2130481
Even if its from Nexon seeing devs actually give a shit and not rush out a product is getting me more hyped for the game.
PS
Plus its a Korean made game so no fatties and every one is good looking.
THE FIRST DESCENDANT
Basically a F2P Online game that is a mix of Destiny and Warframe. The settings and weapon looting is more Destiny like while collecting new character classes is basically setup in the same way as Warframe. What is getting me hyped is for the first time in a long time a company is actually taking their time with the game and listening to player feedback. Back in October 2022 The First Descendant had a beta which is this modern era is just a quick advertisement before launching in 2 months. While fun it did not feel like a completely finished product. Surprising Nexon actually not only took down player feed back they compiled into a report and went piece by piece on player feedback received along with what the devs planned to focus on fixing.
And then they went completely silent.
Recently the devs have been releasing blogs on work they did to address player feedback to fix jumping, character movement and animation, and various issues relating to have the guns feel to shoot & use.
Dev note vol 1: https://tfd.nexon.com/en/cbt/news/2100828
Dev note vol 2: https://tfd.nexon.com/en/cbt/news/2130481
Even if its from Nexon seeing devs actually give a shit and not rush out a product is getting me more hyped for the game.
PS
Plus its a Korean made game so no fatties and every one is good looking.
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Oh shit I remember playing the beta but forgot all about it. It wasn't bad. The world was completely uninspired but some of the class gimmicks seemed nice. I think I played mostly the electric rabbit and the poison doctor. Definitely gonna give it a shot once it comes out.
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It will never come out this year but I am absolutely look forward to more of a shitshow that is The Day Before
The absolute balls on these fuckers to actually out a release date trailer.
The absolute balls on these fuckers to actually out a release date trailer.
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I was happy the System Shock remake came out and was actually good. I haven't been paying a lot of attention to upcoming vidya stuff because I've just been clearing the backlog, but Armored Core VI is the other game I'm planning on getting this year.
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You can play Kingdom: Two Crowns. Right now it's even on a 75% discount. It's a very pretty and relaxing game; the only potentially iffy part is it runs off discovery (or "learn by fucking up"). The games in the series are redesigns and refactors of the original concept, there's no need to play earlier releases other than curiosity, oh and the price, the first one is free.
Kingdom: No Subtitle is an easy minigame with no replay value other than autistic achievements. Even going in blind, you have to be really unlucky or a game journalist to not win on the first try.
Kingdom: New Lands was made to be modestly replayable, with each match infinite (with no increase in difficulty) but unwinnable; people didn't like that and the devs half-assed a winning condition. There's a one true winning strategy (well one more for speedrunners), everything else is a trap and a waste.
Kingdom: Two Crowns is replayable and designed around a winning condition: each match is finite, you either win or die. It has four variants which provide for progressively varied strategies:
- Europe is the classic and most straightforward mode
- Shogun is a reskin of Europe with ninjas
- Dead Lands loses the S-tier gryphon mount and brings in characters from Bloodstained with special abilities for more variety and c-c-c-combos
- Norse Lands is a massive total conversion paid DLC with many strategies and exploitables.
- normal is meant for normal "learn by fucking up" play,
- hard is when you know the game,
- cursed for autists,
- easy for grandparents, and
- peaceful for game journalists.
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LEGO 2K Drive crashed and burned on greedy microtransactions totally ruining the economy.
Boundary crashed and burned on shitty chinee hacker userbase.
Falling Frontier might be interesting. MIGHT be. It's a highly detailed space warfare simulator that's less in the vein of a typical strategy game and is more like one of those niche naval series (like Rule the Waves), I think. It has logistics, intelligence gathering, stuff like that plays a big role. Very detailed warships. I think it could scratch some of my interest in Terra Invicta's wargame (which is, at least without mods, miserable as you have to play for many hours just to get to that), but it doesn't have the real world map, six degrees of movement, or other interesting conceits of Terra Invicta.
Lies of P looks kind of gay but I'm interested in it regardless, it's a Soulslike of Pinnocchio set in Belle Epoque Paris. The last part is especially gay, but I'm a sucker for that regardless. Soulslikes get hated on a lot now, but I've played only ONE Soulslike in my whole life (Bloodborne), so it's novel to me.
Insect Worlds is an educational game where you can do minigames and scurry around as a bug. I have a casual interest in bugs (a more pointed interest in superorganisms like bees and ants) and really like the aesthetic of a bug's eye view, so just things where I can explore mundane environments at insect scale is worth it itself. And to that extent there's two I know of like that, Grounded and Smalland (the latter being kind of shitty but having bug-riding). Haven't played either. But this seems better for just wanting to look around environments without having to be attached to a whole, cartoony game.
Boundary crashed and burned on shitty chinee hacker userbase.
Falling Frontier might be interesting. MIGHT be. It's a highly detailed space warfare simulator that's less in the vein of a typical strategy game and is more like one of those niche naval series (like Rule the Waves), I think. It has logistics, intelligence gathering, stuff like that plays a big role. Very detailed warships. I think it could scratch some of my interest in Terra Invicta's wargame (which is, at least without mods, miserable as you have to play for many hours just to get to that), but it doesn't have the real world map, six degrees of movement, or other interesting conceits of Terra Invicta.
Lies of P looks kind of gay but I'm interested in it regardless, it's a Soulslike of Pinnocchio set in Belle Epoque Paris. The last part is especially gay, but I'm a sucker for that regardless. Soulslikes get hated on a lot now, but I've played only ONE Soulslike in my whole life (Bloodborne), so it's novel to me.
Insect Worlds is an educational game where you can do minigames and scurry around as a bug. I have a casual interest in bugs (a more pointed interest in superorganisms like bees and ants) and really like the aesthetic of a bug's eye view, so just things where I can explore mundane environments at insect scale is worth it itself. And to that extent there's two I know of like that, Grounded and Smalland (the latter being kind of shitty but having bug-riding). Haven't played either. But this seems better for just wanting to look around environments without having to be attached to a whole, cartoony game.