So while thinking about my 2010 GOTY list, I started to question what was really worth getting excited about in the upcoming year. So here's a list of the games I think everyone needs to keep on their radar, even if we don't know a whole lot about them yet.
Edit: having made this list, I have no idea what Nintendo is going to do next year. Their big games come out in Q1 and there is absolutely nothing good slated for the rest of the year worth playing. It'll take more than Mario Galaxy 3 this time...I hope they have something other than the 3DS up their sleeve.
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Apparently it's out in Europe, but that means little to nothing since I'm not paying for points on my European account. I just want to see what all the fuss is about and see if it survived the development hell and the advertising limbo it's currently in.
Hopefully it'll be better than the first. Personally I thought the first game was about 3 hours too long and not scary in the slightest. It'll take a lot for me to pick it up, but I'm interested in seeing how it does. That multiplayer though, not interesting at all.
I cannot believe it's back, but I could not be happier. The greatest trivia game of all time. I just hope they can keep the humor up and plentiful enough. The past games got a little dry a little too quickly. And Cookie better be there.
MAHVEL BAYBEEEEEEEEE! Although I'm sure I will not be nearly as good in it as I am in other fighting games (I still want a new guilty gear game and no BlazBlue is not the same thing) I'm pretty pumped up about playing this. There are some...questionable additions to the roster (Seriously x23, fuck off you flavor of the month) but it'll be interesting to see how everything pans out. And I am VERY worried about how DLC is going to work.
Because I don't know what the fuck dis is. I can tell you now though, I like Catherine more than Katherine already.
I just hope it doesn't turn out to be the immense box of wankery that the trailers have made it out to be thus far. Stylistic shooting and environmental bonuses could really be the shot in the arm that the FPS genre needs, but if it's going to play like a scifi channel Bruce Campbell movie, then just forget it.
I'm actually quite excited for this game, mostly for the emphasis on story it seems to have. But in that regard, it also needs to play it's cards right. If this is going to be nothing more than shock value set piece after shock value set piece with no real meat to the story, it won't be worth playing. The graphics don't look nearly as good as they probably should and there's a lot of other stuff to play around the same time, so it needs to have something that really draws me in. A war on American soil could be a great setting, but they're going to have to play up the characters and make you care for this game to be successful.
I once wrote a very long post on a girl gamer blog about how I thought it was absolutely appalling that Brink does not have female character models. Perhaps that says more about me as a person but since this game has been delayed for almost a year, maybe they'll include that. But in either case, I want to see what this game is going to become because right now, it really doesn't seem to be much more than your average FPS. It has a lot of ground to cover and, while I'm not sure it'll be able to do everything it needs to be successful, I'm very eager to see what they'll do to compete with the heavy hitters of 2011.
It's valve, it's portal, it's co-op. 'Nuff said, day one purchase.
The only wii game on this list (seriously nintendo, wtf). Basically I want a new RPG that doesn't have the same trappings as the last few traditional JRPGs. From what I've been shown, there's a good chance that this game may actually be able to provide an enjoyable story with decent characters in an interesting world. That's a lot to ask for I know, but so many other games have done it, you'd think someone would be able to deliver this console cycle. Plus it's got Sakaguchi on it and Ometsu is doing music (let's hope he can break away from too many final fantasy trappings, he sure as hell didn't with Lost Odyssey) so, at the very least, it'll be average.