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The myth, the legend, it's almost here. Hard to truly, literally believe this is about to be real. But it's also been so long now that my passion for FFVII has receded into the past to a degree. I haven't replayed it in more than 10 years now, and I used to replay it every couple years or so. Some things might not click with me, such as the real time battle system and the new 'filler' content to stretch out the play time. The visuals look incredible though--I actually can't quite believe out how well realized the characters look--hard to imagine them being any better. Music will probably be very good, since that seems like SE's one consistent strength with FF these days (FFXIV and FFXV had excellent soundtracks). This game will be a weird mix of emotions and experiences, but I'm going to try to approach it in a relaxed way, with simple excitement and not anxiety, and take the good wherever I can find it. I think I'll find some moments of great enjoyment, but it might also leave me feeling a little unfulfilled/let down/lacking if it feels like it doesn't have an inspired reason for existing--i.e. it might feel like it's impersonating FFVII rather than -being- FFVII. I'm sure this will be on my top 10, so I'm going with the safe (and optimistic!) bet and giving it No 1!
I loved DOOM 2016, and this looks bigger and better across the board. My one major overarching concern is that they're leaning into artificiality too much, between the comic book story and the arcade-like gameplay elements. The game might suffer from 'too much design' and feel contrived and fake. DOOM 2016 had just a hint of that already. Regardless, even in the worst case, there should be some solid fun to be had here. Can't imagine this not making my top 10.
Seems like Supergiant at their best. I hope the story and writing work well for me, since Bastion and Pyre were partial hits and Transistor was a total miss. Gameplay looks like the refined and superior version of Bastion, which is cool since I quite liked Bastion's gameplay and I enjoyed it more than Transistor or Pyre. I'm guessing I'll like this game somewhat more than Bastion except without the strong element of novelty that Bastion had; basically I won't love it, but it'll be really good.
Sounds like this is just more Nioh, except bigger in every possible way. I liked Nioh quite a bit, but didn't love it. I think this is almost certain to be the best Souls-like yet outside the Souls games. Assured to make my top 10.
I never liked the gameplay very much of NMH (or any Suda games, in fact), but I have quite appreciated many aspects of the story in NMH1 and TSA. It's key that Suda is back to write and direct this game--that gives me confidence that there will be worthwhile story stuff here. I bet there will also be fun presentation as well. Gameplay will probably be whatever, but I think there will be enough highs to make my top 10 list.
Everything here should be right up my alley--it's like Fallout Tactics but with more polished gameplay inspired by XCOM. But the alpha demo left me underwhelmed--the writing was a little too try-hard, the combat felt a little out of my control, and interface was ugly, and I didn't really like how short and trivially gamey the boss conversation was. Somehow I suspect this game is going to be a disappointment. But probably still quite good, so it's still on my top 10.
I have no idea what to really expect from this except a kind of reboot of the Souls series with an open world, more technical combat in the vein of Sekiro, and more conventional writing/story (but probably quality stuff, since it comes from an acclaimed writer). I might not get around to this, or I might kinda of bounce/slide off of it, or I might get super into it and it could be just about my game of the year. Or it might get delayed and not come out this year. I'm going to say most likely it won't have much impact on me this year one way or another.
The good: big-budget Deus Ex by way of genuine cyberpunk. The bad: CD Project Red (didn't like the Witcher, skeptical of their SJW leanings, don't care for the sheer abundance of 'inappropriate subject matter'). I think it might fall into the squisky middleground between shooter and RPG where the shooting doesn't feel very good/satisfying and yet the RPG systems are undermined if you're good at the shooting. I'll almost certainly give it a try though. I bet there will be a number of quite impressive qualities about this game, though I'm unsure how much I will emotionally like it.
I really liked Shadow Tactics, so this follow-up might be awesome. Don't really know any specifics about it.
This is moderately outside my comfort zone. Good chance I either won't get to it or I'll bounce off it quickly. But I can see a small but real chance it might seriously hook me, since I like tower defense style gameplay, and some aspects of the presentation look pretty cool (good music, swarming enemy attacks on computer screen HUD); I'm just not sold on the character art at all though. Seems like a genuine passion project by Vanillaware and Kamitani, so it'll probably have a real spark of inspiration, which I ought to be able to appreciate to some degree.
