It seems like 2016 is going to be a very strong year for video-games.
Well, let's see what my cynical ass has to say about all of this.
Doom.
I have never understood what people's fascination is with this IP, to me it has never stood out as being particularly interesting. I played the older dooms and they're fine for older games but that's about it. They're fine, if I'm stuck in a cabin with them on a laptop I could play them but I would never go out of my way to play them. Then we have Doom 3 that I played and it was just boring and tedious. Jump scares and boring shootin'. So a new Doom? Looks just as bland and boring as 3 did.
No Man's Sky.
So basically a rouge-like except prettier? I've gotten burned far too many times by rouge-like games. Rogue-likes often just try to sell themselves on being infinite but that means that they lose out on structure and serving a damn point. It's just wander around picking your nose until you can go to the next place that is slightly more dangerous so you can stumble around and pick your nose there. No Man's Sky seems no different to me. Here's this big ass galaxy filled with RNG. I just don't see any point in playing rouge-likes. Do I play it for the challenge? Cause rogue-likes have the problem of being RNG so the difficulty is all over the place and eventually once I'm the best of the best there doesn't seem to be any point to anything any more and I just end the game rather anticlimactically. Do I play it for the story? Cause a story in a rogue-like is usually very disconnected to the gameplay and feels like two different cars driving down the highway, I can't be in both at the same time. Do I play it for just fucking around? Cause 60 bucks is too much for a fucking around kinda game. I just don't see the point to this game. It seems like a tech demo that is going to be sold as a game.
Homefront.
Looks like a generic shooter. Boring.
Mafia III.
I don't even care. It's like sewing, I don't mind it being out there but I ain't gonna pick it up as my new hobby.
Battleborn.
The gameplay videos I've watched looks like a unicorn having diarreah(?) and vomiting violently all over the screen. Too many colourful effects all over the place. It's nauseating.
FF7.
I like it when a series is consistent. FF from what I've seen is far from that. Each game looks like it belongs in its own setting, so FF turns me off because of how they just flip flop between settings and time periods and gameplay constantly so a remake of some old game? I don't care.
Battlefield 1.
Is it like Battlefield Vietnam or Battlefield 1942? Cause otherwise I really don't give a shit as any game past that has never captured the magic of the old Battlefield games. And all I've seen so far is a bunch of idiots getting hyped up over a fucking CGI trailer that doesn't tell us shit about the gameplay.
Overwatch.
I Like it. But 60 bucks like it? Nope. Gonna wait for it to go on sale and for it to be released on Steam. If it doesn't get released on Steam then I have no interest in it.
FFXV.
I started laughing but because I'm sick I got a violent cough instead.
Mirrors Edge.
More nausea-inducing gameplay, yay.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
I really don't know. The last Deus Ex (not The Fall) tried to go back to what made Deus Ex Deus Ex but it just didn't capture the magic. And then there were the boring boss fights that were about characters I had no idea who they were. The main character who felt a bit cheaply written. The fact that you couldn't run away from boss fights like you used to be able to. And the fucking end was a travesty. I really don't know. The last Deus Ex was okay, not horrible but okay, but not 60 bucks okay. I also can't stand the setting. It takes place before the first Deus Ex IIRC but it looks far more futuristic and the augmentations are far more sleeker? It just... The last Deux Ex and this new one simply don't feel like Deus Ex to me. More like spiritual successors that is riding the Deus Ex name.
Dishonered 2.
I own the first one, never played it, can't comment. But I have no interest in it tbh.
Horizon Zero Dawn.
Looked up the gameplay for it. Doesn't look interesting.
Dawn Of War.
I don't even know what it is but I've never been into WH40K so whatever.
So, yeah. Basically I don't give a shit about the hypetrain of 2016. Only game I want is Overwatch and only games I'm willing to give a chance is Battlefield 1 and Deus Ex. The rest just seem like triple-a garbage to me or I simply don't care about them. I remember way back when I was younger and I actually looked forward to triple-a games and there were so many I wanted to get and I was so amazed by them time after time. And now look at me. I feel like a bitter old hag who's yelling at kids about how nowadays sucks. Whatever. Triple-a games can exist for those who enjoy them. I'm fine with that, I got my indie titles anyway so it doesn't bother me. Still, I never thought that this is how I would end up.
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