anyone else feel like there's a drought of games right now?
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Same with me. Only really got 1 game left for this year.
The rest I can wait till later.
I'm drowning in unplayed games atm. I just rapid-fired played with Dragon Quest Builders, Streets of Rage 4(which is great!), Arms for the time (it's ok), and my main play Fire Emblem Path of Radiance (finally).
No, just last month and the start of this month I added Wasteland 3, Tell Me Why, The Last Campfire, Fall Guys and the Control dlc's to my backlog/finished games of this year. I'm also planning on adding Marvel's Avengers, Outer Worlds expansion and either 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim and/or Mafia: Definitive Edition to my collection as well.
Yes, I'm currently working 7 days a week and with the pandemic closing down areas plus lack of video games I'm not really minding it. Sony and Microsoft are waiting for their next gen systems (sony has some stuff I want to play, xbox is in the air) while nintendo is shiting themselves with who knows what they're doing
I haven't bought a game new in a long time. Between sales and "claim this game and keep it forever" stuff I already have too much to play. And that's not counting things that are actually releasing. So many great games out there if you step outside of the "had to have released in the last 3 months" bubble.
Is it really a "drought" when there are great games releasing, and its just you, who choose not to play them?
I'm trying to finish Spiritfarer so I can grab Paradise Killer and then there's Moon and the Mario collection and The Last Campfire and 13 Sentinels and...
Definitely not. In August and Sept alone, just on PC there've been the following I'm interested in
Final Fantasy 14 Patch 5.3
Total War Saga: Troy
Wasteland 3
Tell Me Why
Crusader Kings III (This is a "priority" title - the kind of title I'd preorder ASAP and the only reason I didn't is because I don't want to overspend)
Iron Harvest
Total War: Three Kingdoms - The Furious Wild
Baldur's Gate III (Early Access)
Mafia: Definitive Edition
That's just on PC, and ignoring my backlog. There are way too many games and I don't know how I'm supposed to play all of them, let alone many.
Final Fantasy 14 Patch 5.3
Total War Saga: Troy
Wasteland 3
Tell Me Why
Crusader Kings III (This is a "priority" title - the kind of title I'd preorder ASAP and the only reason I didn't is because I don't want to overspend)
Iron Harvest
Total War: Three Kingdoms - The Furious Wild
Baldur's Gate III (Early Access)
Mafia: Definitive Edition
That's just on PC, and ignoring my backlog. There are way too many games and I don't know how I'm supposed to play all of them, let alone many.
Not at all. THPS just came out, Wasteland 3 is fun so far, Avengers is huge, and Spelunky is a couple weeks away.
Depends on what you like to play.
Depends on what you like to play.
Someone is salty
Anyways, I feel like there are too many games right now for pretty much all the major platforms. Juggling Paper Mario, Wasteland 3, Cpt Tsubasa, THPS, and Hades. Also really wanna fire up Crusader Kings 3 Avengers, and Flight Sim. How do I hold all these games and somehow maintain a household!?!
For me there are too many games to play. Playing Tony Hawks and Avengers now. Will be playing Mario All Stars and Pikmin 3. Strategy games are coming out the wazoo like CK 3, Wasteland 3, Age of Empires 3. Halo ODST on PC is approaching. Then in November Spider-Man, Ratchet and Clank, and possibly Demon's Souls will be here and whatever Nintendo has for the holiday. I'm swamped in games.
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Spider game is not dlc its been explained several times, how anyone that's active on this forum don't know that is beyond me.
THPS1+2
Super Mario 3D All Stars
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Cyberpunk 2077
Spider-Man: Miles Morales
+ others I'm forgetting
This is the opposite of a drought. There's an absolute deluge of games coming down the pipeline. I'm actually looking at what games I'm gonna have to cut from my schedule. Yakuza and Cyberpunk come out within such close proximity (only a week apart) that I should really only get one of them if I ever hope to finish either.
Super Mario 3D All Stars
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Cyberpunk 2077
Spider-Man: Miles Morales
+ others I'm forgetting
This is the opposite of a drought. There's an absolute deluge of games coming down the pipeline. I'm actually looking at what games I'm gonna have to cut from my schedule. Yakuza and Cyberpunk come out within such close proximity (only a week apart) that I should really only get one of them if I ever hope to finish either.
Well the summer is alwalys slow in terms of actual releases. I'm also having a huge backlog and getting older, therefore I'm much more picky than like 5-10 years ago.
But to be honest since the Resi 3 Remake there's been literally zero interesting titles and what's yet to come are the Crysis and the Mafia remakes....so all remakes. Actually you know what, OP? You're right, this year has been trash in terms of new releases.
But to be honest since the Resi 3 Remake there's been literally zero interesting titles and what's yet to come are the Crysis and the Mafia remakes....so all remakes. Actually you know what, OP? You're right, this year has been trash in terms of new releases.
Today we have one thread calling this the best game release day of 2020, and another thread saying there's nothing to play and what's going on. I don't agree with either but lol.
I've bought or played a ton of stuff lately.
Avengers
Crusader Kings 3
Wasteland 3
Paradise Killer
Spiritfarer
Inmost
Chronicon
Tell me Why
And that's ignoring things like Tony Hawk and Flight Sim that are a bit out of my wheelhouse
Avengers
Crusader Kings 3
Wasteland 3
Paradise Killer
Spiritfarer
Inmost
Chronicon
Tell me Why
And that's ignoring things like Tony Hawk and Flight Sim that are a bit out of my wheelhouse
This.
Decided to play Arkham Knight since it's leaving in a week or so. About half way done. Then I'll finish Nier Automata. I have a massive backlog. So I need to get through a lot. But I've also rolled credits on Battletoads last week and I'm looking forward to play Wasteland 3. Also haven't finished TLOU2, but I might go back soon. Long story short, I have waaaay too much to play.
Games are on multi-year development cycles. The perceived or real drought has very little to do with COVID-19. If a game was planned to release this year, it's probably still going to release this year, barring technical or creative derailments.
Realistically we're at the end of a generation. I'm pretty sure the end of the PS360 cycle was the same.
I do think the pandemic is putting a damper on next gen hype though.
I don't feel any drought. I actually feel overwhelmed with the amount of games that are available to play.
