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Future games you are excited about
Alex C:
--- Quote from: Melodic on 19 Feb 2010, 17:41 ---I never really understood what the fuck was up with Civ. What the fuck is up with it, guys?
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I think it comes down to the fact that the Civilization games don't lend themselves to being played mindlessly, which turns them into engrossing time-thieves despite their lack of visceral thrills. After all, most games, even twitchy games, are often most engrossing when you're still pinning mechanics down and figuring things out as you go-- I can hold a conversation while playing an old-hat FPS game easily enough, but with a shiny new unfamiliar game I might not even notice you enter the room. So since you cannot really play Civ games by rote, so they have a funny way of sucking hours out of your life before you realize they're gone. For example, I do distinctly remember feeling bored the last time I played CivIV. I also remember the fact that the session lasted 4 hours before I noticed.
Storm Rider:
I'm just going to hijack this thread for a brief moment because I don't really think it's worth making an entirely new thread, but Nintendo just announced a boatload of shit for the next few months.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 is out on May 23rd. The first SMG is one of my favorite games of this console generation, so this is the Wii game I've most looked forward to in a long, long time. Trailer's here, it looks great. Apparently the hub will be a planet shaped like Mario's head, so that's awesome or horrifying depending on your perspective.
Just over a month later, Metroid: Other M is coming out: June 27th, to be exact. The gameplay is 2D sidescrolling, but apparently you can shift to first-person view at any time. As I understand it that perspective will mostly be used for exploration rather than combat. I'm most curious about this one, apparently the preview embargo lifts in a couple hours so I'll link anything I find.
Sin and Punishment 2 is being renamed Sin and Punishment: Star Successor for the West, presumably because the original was never officially released in English territories until the Virtual Console. That one will come out on June 7th, and from what I hear it's completely balls-out crazy.
Nintendo is also co-publishing a couple third party games, which is kind of weird for them. They're working with Capcom to release Monster Hunter Tri on Wii April 20th, and with Squeenix for Dragon Quest 9 on DS sometime this summer.
That's most of the important stuff. Picross 3D is finally getting a Western release, if anybody cares, and there's a bunch of WiiWare and DSWare games given dates. Mega Man 10 is coming out on March 1st, so it'll probably hit the other platforms around that time too. Cave Story is finally coming out on March 22nd, after about 2 years of delays.
JD:
Also Red Steel 2 is coming out in march. It looks loads better than the first.
Scandanavian War Machine:
Yeah, SMG2 is going to be so so so so sweet, I cannot wait!
Also, RE: Monster Hunter:
goddamnit, I wish they would make a fully next-gen Monster Hunter game for PS3 (or 360, I guess) because that would be some hotshit espescially with a legitimate online setup. You could actually play MH with *pause for dramatic effect* other people!
ackblom12:
the online for MH3 is actually going to be free and if I understand correctly, will not require friend codes.
Not that the online setup for PS3 and 360 aren't better mind you.
Also, I remembered and immediately pre-ordered Supreme Commander 2 off of Steam today and this is my favorite quote about the game. "We also have to applaud Bauman's addition of "giant fire-breathing dinosaur robots.""
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