So the day before the Nintendo Direct and the start of E3's Show Floor opened up, I wrote this post on Facebook:
"I know it, you know it, Sakurai hinted it: there's going to be a Smash Bros. DLC character reveal on tomorrow's Nintendo Direct. The question is, who is it going to be?
There was that rumor that the protagonist of Dragon Quest XI was going to be the next character.
There was another rumor that suggests Nintendo was working with Square-Enix on a character so maybe DQXI Protag is true, or maybe it's Sora?
Maybe it's a Hunter from Monster Hunter to battle the Rathalos?
Maybe it's something crazy like Dante from Devil May Cry?
Maybe it's Phantasy Star representation? The last time I mentioned Phantasy Star, the series wasn't relevant, but as of yesterday, it's EXTREMELY relevant!
Maybe it's a surprise indie character like Gunvolt from Azure Striker Gunvolt or Miriam from upcoming release (next Tuesday!) Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night?
Maybe Nintendo thought "screw what Sakurai said, we're putting in Goku!"?
MAYBE IT'S MASTER CHIEF FROM HALO?
With how things are right now, it's very difficult for Nintendo to make the next character reveal as exciting as the last one. These character reveals can be polarizing. As excited as I was for announcements like Cloud, Bayonetta, and Simon/Richter in the past, I noticed there were a decent amount of people that didn't care for the characters or were upset about it. The reality of it all is that the character reveal tomorrow is going to disappoint someone...I just hope it's not me.....
Maybe it's Banjo-Kazooie or Crash Bandicoot like everyone wants and then I'll be left wondering how I feel about it.....?"
This is what I wrote a few hours after watching the Direct:
"Luigi's Mansion 3 looks pretty fun. The first game was both entertaining and frustrating. So while I'm interested in 3, I'm not excited for it.
LoZ - Link's Awakening remake looks cute. I'm still not sure how I feel about the art style, but it should be just as fun as the original.
Trials of Mana; Seiken Densetsu 3 Remake! Now THIS was the one announcement that got me super excited. Omg, it looks so good. I was also surprised to see they're bringing over the Mana series collection. I've never played Seiken Densetsu 3 (even though I have a fan-translated rom sitting on my hard drive since high school.....) so I'm thinking of picking the collection up.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses already pre-ordered, so nothing more to say.
No More Heroes 3. Ugh, I wish I had bought No More Heroes 1 & 2 back on the Wii. They were hard games to find and when I did find them, they were kind of expensive. I know it's a series I'd enjoy. It's cool they're making a 3rd one in the main series.
Contra Rogue Corps. I've been wanting another Contra game forever, but I have to admit that this one looks kind of ugly. But it has online co-op, so that's good enough for me. I just hope the PC version also has online co-op.
Daemon X Machina. I had my pre-order canceled by Amazon for some reason. It might have been done so for all those who pre-ordered it with the 20% off deal so now I have to pay full price. I am super interested in the game, but not sure if I want to pick it up at full price after playing the beta.....
Panzer Dragoon. I'm so confused. Is this a Remake? A Reboot? Or an entirely new one?
Omg, I'm so ready for Astral Chain. Already pre-ordered.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order does look fun, but I have no one to play it with.....
Cadence of Hyrule. As much as I like Crypt of the NecroDancer, It's a stressful game. I'll keep this game in mind, but it'll be lower on my priority list.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons looks cute. Probably lower on my priority list considering I never have time to play Animal Crossing games (I barely touched the last one I bought).
Oooo, LoZ - Breath of the Wild sequel. I'm reminded that I really should continue playing through Breath of the Wild.....
Okay Smash Bros. Time.
The Hero. I feel annoyed that this was leaked months ago and that it was accurate. Seriously, leaks are ruining these reveals. I also feel sad that I'm not a super fan of Dragon Quest, having played all the games and really feeling a deep connection to the series. I've always wanted to get into the series, but feel overwhelmed by the amount of hours I'd need to put in to finish it all. I've played a few spin-offs and really liked them and have no doubt I'd enjoy the main series. Still, I thought this was a cool reveal with nice cinematics. His moveset looks like a mix between Roy, Link, and Robin. An even nicer touch, it looks like we get different skins with the protagonists from Dragon Quest 3, 4, and 8 from the default 11. And I know the smash community is sick of sword characters, but I love swords so I'm happy enough with the addition of this character. I think I'd be way more excited if I was a super fan (and I wish I was). Despite that, that main theme! I never get sick of hearing it! Despite not being a super fan of Dragon Quest, I feel like the main theme is one of the greatest, most memorable and iconic themes in videogame.
Banjo-Kazooie. I.....had a feeling Banjo-Kazooie was going to make it in. They were an important part of the N64 and really set the bar on what a 3D Action-Adventure game was capable of. And it's obvious there's desire for them in the community. So I felt they had a higher chance of being added to the roster over anyone else. Here's the thing: I used to hope that they would add Banjo-Kazooie in the past because they have a strong tie to Nintendo's history and they have a lot of moves for a somewhat interesting moveset in Smash. HOWEVER, ever since Cloud's announcement, I feel like the possibilities were limitless. All of a sudden, there were a lot more interesting characters that could be added in instead. So it's cool that they added in Banjo-Kazooie, but I also couldn't help but feel like the moveset they've shown are a bit bland. Maybe I'll feel differently when I actually play them.
Overall, both characters for smash are cool additions to the game, but I also have to admit that they didn't cause the same amount of excitement in me that Joker from Persona 5 did.
As for the rest of the direct, I'm interested in Luigi's Mansion 3, LoZ Link's Awakening, No More Heroes 3, Contra Rogue Corps, Daemon X Machina, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Cadence of Hyrule. I'm already sold on Trials of Mana Remake and collection, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and Astral Chain. So overall, I thought it was a good direct showing quite a few games to look forward to."
The Hero from Dragon Quest XI had a strong reaction from Japan while Banjo-Kazooie was a huge deal in the West. I'm happy to have both characters, but wasn't nearly as excited as everyone else. It was nice seeing their reactions and being happy for them.
Oh, except for the announcement of Phantasy Star Online 2, I pretty much reacted the same way.
Friday, June 14, 2019
Thursday, June 13, 2019
E3 2019 Deprived of Show Floor News
The games announced at this year's E3 were pretty interesting and I feel like we got a decent amount of things to look forward to, but I feel like this year's E3 wasn't as exciting. The one thing that really bugs me about this year's E3 was that I found little to no information on Floor Show games. All news outlet just followed up or repeated everything we've heard at the conferences before the E3 Show Floor opened up. Were there no other games and companies there? Has that many Japanese companies really backed out of E3 in favor of Tokyo Game Show now? Is E3 just the conferences and not the Show Floor now? In any case, let's jump into what was shown and talked about.
[Astral Chain - NS]
I'm so ready for Astral Chain! Platinum Games' newest Hack-n-Slash Action game is set in a really cool futuristic metropolis with some crazy visuals exclusively for the Nintendo Switch. I'm more excited about this game than any other Switch title coming out this year (possibly even more than Fire Emblem: Three Houses)! It releases on August 30th, 2019.
[Code Vein - PS4, XB1, PC]
[Daemon X Machina - NS]
I had a lot of fun with the Doom reboot. It had the fast-paced action of old-school First-Person Shooters with the interesting design choices of modern day games that made a challenging, but totally satisfying experience. From what I understand, this next Doom will be open-world with new weapons, new mechanics, but a lot of the same satisfying combat. They gave us a release date of November 22nd, 2019. Not a game I'm going to pick up on day one, but one I'll definitely pick up sometime in the future.
[Final Fantasy VII Remake - PS4]
So they gave a release date of March 3, 2020, but for the first episode of who knows how many. The game is looking incredible and faithful to the original, the combat system seems streamlined and fun, and it really looks like it will live up to the hype it has garnered over the years. For me, I want to play the whole friggin' game all at once, which might not be for a while. I might honestly have to wait until 2030 before I can play the full game, and that scares me a little. But in terms of what they've shown us so far, it looks great.
[Fire Emblem: Three Houses - NS]
The newest iteration in the series looks fairly different from its predecessors in art style and in gameplay in terms of relationship building. My Fire Emblem backlog is weeping as Three Houses is close to its release date of July 26th, 2019. I eventually get around to playing the Fire Emblem games, but I think I'll try to finish this one when it comes out first.
[Granblue Fantasy Versus - PS4]
I'm going to wait for the PC version (and hopefully there is one), but I'm already excited for the game. I do play Granblue Fantasy, but I'm not an avid player. It's certainly not the franchise I was expecting Arc System Works to make into a fighting game next, but it's a welcome addition. There's still no release date and the roster is still seemingly limited, but that just means there's time to change that.
[Halo Infinite - XB1, PC]
I'm usually not excited for Halo games because I don't have an Xbox to play them on or know anyone that owns one. But this one is being developed for PC as well, so that changes everything. I love Halo from its simplistic and engaging gameplay to its rich lore. It was also a great multiplayer game in the past, being able to play 2-player co-op with my friend or to play 4 v 4 on 2 Xbox 360s when there were a lot of us playing at once. But it's been a really long time since I've had any access to an Xbox and I miss playing the game. I just hope it'll be available on Steam when it hits PC. I'm super excited that the Master Chief Collection is coming to Steam PC and have wanted that for a long time. Now I'm going to be able to play all those Halo games I missed out on as well as revisit the first two games.
[Oninaki - PS4, NS, PC]
I haven't played Tokyo RPG Factory's other 2 games, but a friend told me they were rather underwhelming. I never got to try them since they're always expensive (even on sale) and I'm intimidated from buying another long RPG. Oninaki looks a lot faster-paced and seems like a lot of fun though. The other two games seemed more about the story, art style and music as its selling point while the gameplay they've shown for Oninaki has me really interested. I'll still wait for a sale before picking it up, but I'll probably play this one before the other two games. Oninaki releases on August 22nd, 2019.
[Phantasy Star Online 2 - XB1, PC]
Did this seriously drop in the middle of Microsoft's conference? I was totally blindsided by this news. I was eating breakfast with my mom sitting across from me on the table while I was watching the live stream of Microsoft's conference. Sega's logo pops up and the first thought that popped into my head was "oh, it's a new Sonic game." As the music started and I heard the first 5 notes, I thought it was Sonic Forces' main theme for a second and hummed along with the next 7 notes. All of a sudden, I slammed both my hands on the table and went "WAIT, THAT'S NOT SONIC, THAT'S PHANTASY STAR!" There was no way what I thought was happening was reality. As soon as I saw the Hunter's back walking up to the port, a sight I'm very familiar with from all the times I've watched the trailer and started up the game on the JP servers back 7 years ago, I started slamming on the table even more and screaming with my half broken voice from coughing so much from whatever I got sick with the past week "OMG, OMG, AFTER 7 YEARS OF WAITING, IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S HAPPENING! 7 YEARS! 7 YEARS OF WAITING!" My mom was just going "What?" while my dad ran downstairs with his own screaming of "WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT'S WRONG?" Barely able to speak, I just kept repeating "7 YEARS OF WAITING! IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING!" After calming down a bit and explaining what I just saw, my dad's response was "isn't that an old game?" Yes, but this point, it's an old game and it took this long for Sega to finally make some sort of deal to bring it over to the West so we can freaking play it. I wondered year after year if I should just give up waiting and go back to the JP servers to play the game. I feared that if I didn't, the servers would shut down and I would definitely not be able to play it. In fact, I had planned on finally starting it up again this Summer and told my friends "I gave them a fair shot and waited for so many years." One of my friends joked and said "And THAT'S when they decide to release it for the West." Rather close to the mark, I laughed at the thought. It seems like the West will get ALL content already available from the JP servers which means we get stuff all the way up to Episode 6. As excited as I am to FINALLY play Phantasy Star Online 2 in English, I'm also a bit cautious because E3 2012 promised us PSO2 in Summer of 2013 and we haven't heard any news since then until now. But the fact that it seems Microsoft has a hand in this makes me feel a bit more confident that they'll follow through. Phantasy Star Online 2 will be available Free-to-Play on Xbox One and PC in Spring of 2020.
Out of all the new games announced at E3 this year, this was definitely the one I'm most excited for. I have not played Seiken Densetsu 3, and it seems like they're going to bring the Mana Collection over in English as well so we'll finally have an officially translated version of it. But to get a remake like this was not something I expected. It looks so good! It puts the Secret of Mana remake to shame! They showed what kind of world it takes place in, what kind of characters were going to be in it, and most importantly how the combat was going to play. There were an obscene amount of new games that just showed a small teaser or a cinematic that explained nothing about what kind of game it was, what it was about, or what the actual game will look like. So it was nice to get a trailer that gave everything I wanted to know about the game, I'm sold! It's coming Early 2020. I hope it avoids March because March 2020 is already jam packed with games.
Games I want to talk about:
[Borderlands 3] - So we already know about Borderlands 3 and I'm already excited for it. It's unfortunate that it'll have a half year exclusivity with the Epic Game Store (better than one year, but still). So it'll be a while before I pick it up and play it.
[Cyberpunk 2077] - I'm still very confused on what sort of game this will be. I'm guessing it'll be a bit more like Deus Ex. I'm just highly fascinated by the environment and the immersive world they've created.
[Darksiders Genesis] - So it seems like they're making a top-down Darksiders that'll play a lot like Diablo and I'm totally okay with that. At the very least, they showed gameplay to us in the trailer.
[Deathloop] - Arkane Studios' newest game didn't show any gameplay, but I trust their work and the concept sounds like being able to use a lot of cool powers similar to the Dishonored series, but in a much more action-orientated environment over their usual stealth-style gameplay. I'm pretty excited to see more of this in the future.
[Death Stranding] - Okay, I'm still confused on what kind of game this is and it's releasing this year. I'm more interested in knowing what kind of kooky story this game has than actually getting my hand on it to play.
[Dying Light 2] - Dying Light was a fun game and did a lot of things right, so I'm curious to see how it's evolved since then. I'm a little iffy on the whole "choice changes the story drastically" idea because I rarely see it done well.
[Elden Ring] - FROM Software's newest game, that's all I needed to know.
[Ghostwire: Tokyo] - This graphics and art style they showed was really impressive, but I'm really sad they didn't explain anything about gameplay or story. I love Shinji Mikami's work, so I'm looking forward to seeing more of this game in the future.
[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sequel] - I need to get back to play Breath of the Wild.....Still, the fact that they're making a direct sequel to a Zelda game is surprising and I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with what they already have.
[No More Heroes 3] - I hope they bring No More Heroes 1 & 2 to switch since I never got to play them, but it's cool they're making a 3rd game in the main series.
[Outriders] - Another game with very little information. But it's by the creators of Bulletstorm and it'll be a drop-in, drop-out 3-player co-op game so that certainly caught my attention.
[Tales of Arise] - Wow, they're really just stepping it up with each iteration of the Tales series. It looks incredible and will definitely pick it up in the future, if not to finally play my ridiculous Tales backlog, then at least to add to the collection.
[Tom Clany's Rainbow Six Quarantine] - So Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege had a special event where it was a co-op mode of sorts fighting mutated enemies. It was a big hit in the community and fans asked for a stand alone game that's more refined and focused for that sort of gameplay. It'll be nice for another option of a co-op game to play with my friends.
Overall, it was an "Okay" E3. Everything I'm excited for, we already knew about. All the new games announced that I'm interested in, we don't know nearly enough about. The most interesting games, otherwise, are all the indie games that showed up at E3. That's one thing down for Summer Events. I also just found out that Summer Games Done Quick is on the same week as Steam Summer Sales again like last year. It's unfortunate to have both going at the same time, but I also find myself watching the live stream for Games Done Quick less and less each year. We're only 5 days away from the release of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, and that's what I'm looking forward to most at the moment.
New Games I'm Interested in / Keeping an eye on:
Baldur's Gate 3
Bite the Bullet
Bleeding Edge
Chivalry 2
CrisTales
Darksiders Genesis
Deathloop
Devolver Bootleg
Dragonball Z Kakarot
Elden Ring
Enter the Gungeon: House of the Gundead
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Gods & Monsters
Hellpoint
Keen
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sequel
Marvel Avengers
Minecraft Dungeons
No More Heroes 3
Outriders
Roller Champions
SkateBird
Spiritfarer
Steambirds Alliance
Star Renegades
Super Crush KO
Tales of Arise
The Messenger: Picnic Panic
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Quarantine
Trials of Mana Remake
Watch Dogs: Legion
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Zombie Army 4: Dead War
Update on Old Games I'm interested in:
Anew: The Distant Light
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Astral Chain
Battlefield 5
Battletoads
Biomutant
Borderlands 3
Boyfriend Dungeon
Cadence of Hyrule
Catherine: Full Body
Children of Morta
Code Vein
Control
Crash Team Racing
Creature in the Well
Cyberpunk 2077
Death Stranding
Daemon X Machina
Doom Eternal
Dragon Quest Builders 2
Dragon Quest 11 S
Dying Light 2
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Final Fantasy VIII Remaster
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Foregone
Gears 5
Grandia HD Collection
Granblue Fantasy Versus
Greedfall
Halo Infinite
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Luigi's Mansion 3
Mana Series Collection
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order
My Friend Pedro
Oninaki
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Persona 5 Royal
Phantasy Star Online 2
Phoenix Point
Pokémon Sword and Shield
PsychoNauts 2
Remnant: From the Ashes
Shenmue III
Spyro: Reignited Trilogy
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Super Mario Maker 2
The Outer Worlds
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint
Trails of Cold Steel III
Trine 4: the Nightmare Prince
Valfaris
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2
Way to the Woods
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Wrath: Aeon of Ruin
Games I'm Excited For:
[Astral Chain - NS]
I'm so ready for Astral Chain! Platinum Games' newest Hack-n-Slash Action game is set in a really cool futuristic metropolis with some crazy visuals exclusively for the Nintendo Switch. I'm more excited about this game than any other Switch title coming out this year (possibly even more than Fire Emblem: Three Houses)! It releases on August 30th, 2019.
[Code Vein - PS4, XB1, PC]
We were supposed to get this game last year in September, but was said to have been delayed. I have to admit that it looked rather rough from what they showed last year. When it reappeared a month or so ago, it showed a much more polished game with a richer environment. I'm pretty interested in this animé-esque Dark Souls that I could co-op with my friend. I'm also excited that Go Shiina composed the music! Code Vein arrives on September 27th, 2019, hopefully without any delays this time.
[Daemon X Machina - NS]
So I wasn't sure if I wanted to re-pre-order this game after I had pre-ordered it with 20% off only to receive an email months later that canceled the order (possibly by Nintendo, the publisher). I tried out the beta and it was kind of fun, but also a bit underwhelming. After watching some more gameplay footages and looking at what games we were getting this year for the Nintendo Switch (which isn't much), I decided to make another pre-order at full price and support the game. I've been itching for a mech game and I did feel the potential for this game. I just hope it really is better than what I played in the beta. Release date is September 13th, 2019.
[Doom Eternal - PS4, XB1, NS, PC]
[Doom Eternal - PS4, XB1, NS, PC]
I had a lot of fun with the Doom reboot. It had the fast-paced action of old-school First-Person Shooters with the interesting design choices of modern day games that made a challenging, but totally satisfying experience. From what I understand, this next Doom will be open-world with new weapons, new mechanics, but a lot of the same satisfying combat. They gave us a release date of November 22nd, 2019. Not a game I'm going to pick up on day one, but one I'll definitely pick up sometime in the future.
[Final Fantasy VII Remake - PS4]
So they gave a release date of March 3, 2020, but for the first episode of who knows how many. The game is looking incredible and faithful to the original, the combat system seems streamlined and fun, and it really looks like it will live up to the hype it has garnered over the years. For me, I want to play the whole friggin' game all at once, which might not be for a while. I might honestly have to wait until 2030 before I can play the full game, and that scares me a little. But in terms of what they've shown us so far, it looks great.
[Fire Emblem: Three Houses - NS]
The newest iteration in the series looks fairly different from its predecessors in art style and in gameplay in terms of relationship building. My Fire Emblem backlog is weeping as Three Houses is close to its release date of July 26th, 2019. I eventually get around to playing the Fire Emblem games, but I think I'll try to finish this one when it comes out first.
[Granblue Fantasy Versus - PS4]
I'm going to wait for the PC version (and hopefully there is one), but I'm already excited for the game. I do play Granblue Fantasy, but I'm not an avid player. It's certainly not the franchise I was expecting Arc System Works to make into a fighting game next, but it's a welcome addition. There's still no release date and the roster is still seemingly limited, but that just means there's time to change that.
[Halo Infinite - XB1, PC]
I'm usually not excited for Halo games because I don't have an Xbox to play them on or know anyone that owns one. But this one is being developed for PC as well, so that changes everything. I love Halo from its simplistic and engaging gameplay to its rich lore. It was also a great multiplayer game in the past, being able to play 2-player co-op with my friend or to play 4 v 4 on 2 Xbox 360s when there were a lot of us playing at once. But it's been a really long time since I've had any access to an Xbox and I miss playing the game. I just hope it'll be available on Steam when it hits PC. I'm super excited that the Master Chief Collection is coming to Steam PC and have wanted that for a long time. Now I'm going to be able to play all those Halo games I missed out on as well as revisit the first two games.
[Oninaki - PS4, NS, PC]
I haven't played Tokyo RPG Factory's other 2 games, but a friend told me they were rather underwhelming. I never got to try them since they're always expensive (even on sale) and I'm intimidated from buying another long RPG. Oninaki looks a lot faster-paced and seems like a lot of fun though. The other two games seemed more about the story, art style and music as its selling point while the gameplay they've shown for Oninaki has me really interested. I'll still wait for a sale before picking it up, but I'll probably play this one before the other two games. Oninaki releases on August 22nd, 2019.
[Phantasy Star Online 2 - XB1, PC]
Did this seriously drop in the middle of Microsoft's conference? I was totally blindsided by this news. I was eating breakfast with my mom sitting across from me on the table while I was watching the live stream of Microsoft's conference. Sega's logo pops up and the first thought that popped into my head was "oh, it's a new Sonic game." As the music started and I heard the first 5 notes, I thought it was Sonic Forces' main theme for a second and hummed along with the next 7 notes. All of a sudden, I slammed both my hands on the table and went "WAIT, THAT'S NOT SONIC, THAT'S PHANTASY STAR!" There was no way what I thought was happening was reality. As soon as I saw the Hunter's back walking up to the port, a sight I'm very familiar with from all the times I've watched the trailer and started up the game on the JP servers back 7 years ago, I started slamming on the table even more and screaming with my half broken voice from coughing so much from whatever I got sick with the past week "OMG, OMG, AFTER 7 YEARS OF WAITING, IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S HAPPENING! 7 YEARS! 7 YEARS OF WAITING!" My mom was just going "What?" while my dad ran downstairs with his own screaming of "WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT'S WRONG?" Barely able to speak, I just kept repeating "7 YEARS OF WAITING! IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING!" After calming down a bit and explaining what I just saw, my dad's response was "isn't that an old game?" Yes, but this point, it's an old game and it took this long for Sega to finally make some sort of deal to bring it over to the West so we can freaking play it. I wondered year after year if I should just give up waiting and go back to the JP servers to play the game. I feared that if I didn't, the servers would shut down and I would definitely not be able to play it. In fact, I had planned on finally starting it up again this Summer and told my friends "I gave them a fair shot and waited for so many years." One of my friends joked and said "And THAT'S when they decide to release it for the West." Rather close to the mark, I laughed at the thought. It seems like the West will get ALL content already available from the JP servers which means we get stuff all the way up to Episode 6. As excited as I am to FINALLY play Phantasy Star Online 2 in English, I'm also a bit cautious because E3 2012 promised us PSO2 in Summer of 2013 and we haven't heard any news since then until now. But the fact that it seems Microsoft has a hand in this makes me feel a bit more confident that they'll follow through. Phantasy Star Online 2 will be available Free-to-Play on Xbox One and PC in Spring of 2020.
[The Outer Worlds - PS4, XB1, PC]
It's the "Totally not Fallout: New Vegas" game that Obsidian Entertainment has been working on. While it has no connection to the Fallout universe, it seems it has a lot of similarities to New Vegas to warrant the comparison. It does seems like a really fun and colorful adventure to partake in, but my friend (who has a terrifying amount of hours in Fallout: New Vegas) believes it's best to stay cautiously excited. It'll release on October 25th, 2019.
[Trials of Mana Remake - NS, PC]
It's the "Totally not Fallout: New Vegas" game that Obsidian Entertainment has been working on. While it has no connection to the Fallout universe, it seems it has a lot of similarities to New Vegas to warrant the comparison. It does seems like a really fun and colorful adventure to partake in, but my friend (who has a terrifying amount of hours in Fallout: New Vegas) believes it's best to stay cautiously excited. It'll release on October 25th, 2019.
[Trials of Mana Remake - NS, PC]
Out of all the new games announced at E3 this year, this was definitely the one I'm most excited for. I have not played Seiken Densetsu 3, and it seems like they're going to bring the Mana Collection over in English as well so we'll finally have an officially translated version of it. But to get a remake like this was not something I expected. It looks so good! It puts the Secret of Mana remake to shame! They showed what kind of world it takes place in, what kind of characters were going to be in it, and most importantly how the combat was going to play. There were an obscene amount of new games that just showed a small teaser or a cinematic that explained nothing about what kind of game it was, what it was about, or what the actual game will look like. So it was nice to get a trailer that gave everything I wanted to know about the game, I'm sold! It's coming Early 2020. I hope it avoids March because March 2020 is already jam packed with games.
Games I want to talk about:
[Borderlands 3] - So we already know about Borderlands 3 and I'm already excited for it. It's unfortunate that it'll have a half year exclusivity with the Epic Game Store (better than one year, but still). So it'll be a while before I pick it up and play it.
[Cyberpunk 2077] - I'm still very confused on what sort of game this will be. I'm guessing it'll be a bit more like Deus Ex. I'm just highly fascinated by the environment and the immersive world they've created.
[Darksiders Genesis] - So it seems like they're making a top-down Darksiders that'll play a lot like Diablo and I'm totally okay with that. At the very least, they showed gameplay to us in the trailer.
[Deathloop] - Arkane Studios' newest game didn't show any gameplay, but I trust their work and the concept sounds like being able to use a lot of cool powers similar to the Dishonored series, but in a much more action-orientated environment over their usual stealth-style gameplay. I'm pretty excited to see more of this in the future.
[Death Stranding] - Okay, I'm still confused on what kind of game this is and it's releasing this year. I'm more interested in knowing what kind of kooky story this game has than actually getting my hand on it to play.
[Dying Light 2] - Dying Light was a fun game and did a lot of things right, so I'm curious to see how it's evolved since then. I'm a little iffy on the whole "choice changes the story drastically" idea because I rarely see it done well.
[Elden Ring] - FROM Software's newest game, that's all I needed to know.
[Ghostwire: Tokyo] - This graphics and art style they showed was really impressive, but I'm really sad they didn't explain anything about gameplay or story. I love Shinji Mikami's work, so I'm looking forward to seeing more of this game in the future.
[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sequel] - I need to get back to play Breath of the Wild.....Still, the fact that they're making a direct sequel to a Zelda game is surprising and I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with what they already have.
[No More Heroes 3] - I hope they bring No More Heroes 1 & 2 to switch since I never got to play them, but it's cool they're making a 3rd game in the main series.
[Outriders] - Another game with very little information. But it's by the creators of Bulletstorm and it'll be a drop-in, drop-out 3-player co-op game so that certainly caught my attention.
[Tales of Arise] - Wow, they're really just stepping it up with each iteration of the Tales series. It looks incredible and will definitely pick it up in the future, if not to finally play my ridiculous Tales backlog, then at least to add to the collection.
[Tom Clany's Rainbow Six Quarantine] - So Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege had a special event where it was a co-op mode of sorts fighting mutated enemies. It was a big hit in the community and fans asked for a stand alone game that's more refined and focused for that sort of gameplay. It'll be nice for another option of a co-op game to play with my friends.
Overall, it was an "Okay" E3. Everything I'm excited for, we already knew about. All the new games announced that I'm interested in, we don't know nearly enough about. The most interesting games, otherwise, are all the indie games that showed up at E3. That's one thing down for Summer Events. I also just found out that Summer Games Done Quick is on the same week as Steam Summer Sales again like last year. It's unfortunate to have both going at the same time, but I also find myself watching the live stream for Games Done Quick less and less each year. We're only 5 days away from the release of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, and that's what I'm looking forward to most at the moment.
New Games I'm Interested in / Keeping an eye on:
Baldur's Gate 3
Bite the Bullet
Bleeding Edge
Chivalry 2
CrisTales
Darksiders Genesis
Deathloop
Devolver Bootleg
Dragonball Z Kakarot
Elden Ring
Enter the Gungeon: House of the Gundead
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Gods & Monsters
Hellpoint
Keen
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sequel
Marvel Avengers
Minecraft Dungeons
No More Heroes 3
Outriders
Roller Champions
SkateBird
Spiritfarer
Steambirds Alliance
Star Renegades
Super Crush KO
Tales of Arise
The Messenger: Picnic Panic
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Quarantine
Trials of Mana Remake
Watch Dogs: Legion
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Zombie Army 4: Dead War
Update on Old Games I'm interested in:
Anew: The Distant Light
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Astral Chain
Battlefield 5
Battletoads
Biomutant
Borderlands 3
Boyfriend Dungeon
Cadence of Hyrule
Catherine: Full Body
Children of Morta
Code Vein
Control
Crash Team Racing
Creature in the Well
Cyberpunk 2077
Death Stranding
Daemon X Machina
Doom Eternal
Dragon Quest Builders 2
Dragon Quest 11 S
Dying Light 2
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Final Fantasy VIII Remaster
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Foregone
Gears 5
Grandia HD Collection
Granblue Fantasy Versus
Greedfall
Halo Infinite
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Luigi's Mansion 3
Mana Series Collection
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order
My Friend Pedro
Oninaki
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Persona 5 Royal
Phantasy Star Online 2
Phoenix Point
Pokémon Sword and Shield
PsychoNauts 2
Remnant: From the Ashes
Shenmue III
Spyro: Reignited Trilogy
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Super Mario Maker 2
The Outer Worlds
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint
Trails of Cold Steel III
Trine 4: the Nightmare Prince
Valfaris
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2
Way to the Woods
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Wrath: Aeon of Ruin
Friday, June 7, 2019
Suffering right before Summer Events
It almost feels like I get sick and face allergies every year now. In past years, I'd normally get sick earlier in the year with some type of flu and then suffer through several days of allergies. I usually know when I get sick with a fever, feeling cold, and a lot of coughing. But this time, it was a bit unusual. I believe it was Monday night that I started to feel a bit dry in the throat on the left side and I thought it might be because I was Yeet Hay (I don't think there's an English word for it). Essentially, I ate too much food that causes an imbalance my body to react in weird ways.
Throughout Tuesday, I felt my throat feeling worse and the left side of the throat began to feel sore. By night time, I started feeling my allergies kick in with a runny and congested nose and watery eyes. Feeling kind of out of it, I went to bed early. Because of the amount of water I drank that day, I was waking up every hour to go to the bathroom. Thinking because it was because I was Yeet Hay, I was hallucinating a lot (or feeling half-awake and half-asleep) throughout the night. I woke up covered in sweat a few times and thought it was strange. Wednesday, I started feeling particularly worse. My throat was now sore on the right side instead of the left. My allergies started to become really bad and I was having a difficult time seeing and breathing. After suffering another day of ailments, I went to bed early again with the same intense hallucinations while remember one of them this time. I remember feeling like I was on a pirate ship or some type of vessel out at sea with the waves knocking me back and forth. I jumped out of bed, covered in sweat again, feeling quite disorientated and feeling like the room was rocking back and forth. At the very least, I seemed to have slept a bit more peacefully the rest of the night.
Thursday, yesterday, was probably the worst day (and hopefully not today). I woke up feeling weak and tired, coughed up some thick mucus, my allergies came in full force and the pressure from the congestion was causing the worst pain in my head and eyes. My allergies and pain forced my to lie in bed quite a few times throughout the day, yet I couldn't fall asleep. Adding in a bit more frequent coughing, I was really confused with what kind of ailment I could possibly be facing. I didn't have a fever and I wasn't bedridden, yet I felt miserable. Finally reaching midnight, I got into bed hoping to fall asleep and hoped all the pain in my head and eyes would be gone by the next morning. It took a while, but I managed to fall asleep only to wake up to myself coughing uncontrollably. The amount of mucus that flowed back down my system has caused an unpleasant irritation with my breathing which causes me to cough the phlegm out. Trying to deal with it and working to fall back asleep, I'd wake up a few times from the coughing.
This morning, it feels like the worst is over. I feel exhausted and sore from the pain I was enduring and the amount of coughing I was doing. Allergies seems to have died down a bit, but I'm still feeling a slight reaction with itchy nose and eyes, semi-watery eyes and sneezing. Coughing seems to be the worst today though, possibly because the body is trying to expel the rest of the phlegm still stuck. I'm not sure if I was unlucky to have both illness and allergies attack me both at once or be grateful that I only had to suffer a few short (well, it felt extremely long) days rather than be sick and then suffer through allergies like I have in the past. I'm just hoping I make a speedy recovery and be able to finish my latest remix before June 18th because I know I'll be playing a lot of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night when it releases. I'll certainly be distracted by E3 news this upcoming week as well.
Certainly a lot to look forward to the next 3 weeks: E3, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night releases, Super Neptunia RPG releases, and Steam Summer Sales.
Throughout Tuesday, I felt my throat feeling worse and the left side of the throat began to feel sore. By night time, I started feeling my allergies kick in with a runny and congested nose and watery eyes. Feeling kind of out of it, I went to bed early. Because of the amount of water I drank that day, I was waking up every hour to go to the bathroom. Thinking because it was because I was Yeet Hay, I was hallucinating a lot (or feeling half-awake and half-asleep) throughout the night. I woke up covered in sweat a few times and thought it was strange. Wednesday, I started feeling particularly worse. My throat was now sore on the right side instead of the left. My allergies started to become really bad and I was having a difficult time seeing and breathing. After suffering another day of ailments, I went to bed early again with the same intense hallucinations while remember one of them this time. I remember feeling like I was on a pirate ship or some type of vessel out at sea with the waves knocking me back and forth. I jumped out of bed, covered in sweat again, feeling quite disorientated and feeling like the room was rocking back and forth. At the very least, I seemed to have slept a bit more peacefully the rest of the night.
Thursday, yesterday, was probably the worst day (and hopefully not today). I woke up feeling weak and tired, coughed up some thick mucus, my allergies came in full force and the pressure from the congestion was causing the worst pain in my head and eyes. My allergies and pain forced my to lie in bed quite a few times throughout the day, yet I couldn't fall asleep. Adding in a bit more frequent coughing, I was really confused with what kind of ailment I could possibly be facing. I didn't have a fever and I wasn't bedridden, yet I felt miserable. Finally reaching midnight, I got into bed hoping to fall asleep and hoped all the pain in my head and eyes would be gone by the next morning. It took a while, but I managed to fall asleep only to wake up to myself coughing uncontrollably. The amount of mucus that flowed back down my system has caused an unpleasant irritation with my breathing which causes me to cough the phlegm out. Trying to deal with it and working to fall back asleep, I'd wake up a few times from the coughing.
This morning, it feels like the worst is over. I feel exhausted and sore from the pain I was enduring and the amount of coughing I was doing. Allergies seems to have died down a bit, but I'm still feeling a slight reaction with itchy nose and eyes, semi-watery eyes and sneezing. Coughing seems to be the worst today though, possibly because the body is trying to expel the rest of the phlegm still stuck. I'm not sure if I was unlucky to have both illness and allergies attack me both at once or be grateful that I only had to suffer a few short (well, it felt extremely long) days rather than be sick and then suffer through allergies like I have in the past. I'm just hoping I make a speedy recovery and be able to finish my latest remix before June 18th because I know I'll be playing a lot of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night when it releases. I'll certainly be distracted by E3 news this upcoming week as well.
Certainly a lot to look forward to the next 3 weeks: E3, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night releases, Super Neptunia RPG releases, and Steam Summer Sales.
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