I own a copy of RAGE. I didn’t have the patience or drive to play beyond the first hour of it though. It was oppressively dull. RAGE 2 looks much more appealing but at the same time, hearing that it has a bit of that Ubisoft Far Cry formula bred into it makes me a wee bit weary.
I like Puyo Puyo Tetris but if I’m honest, I like the Tetris half a whole lot more. Puyo Puyo simply doesn’t excite me like Tetris. Watching combo after combo of Puyos explode is neat but I’ve never figured out how to reliably set those kinds of combos up. Puyo Puyo is still an enigma to me; an enigma that I don’t see myself resolving with Puyo Puyo Champions.
Final Fantasy XII: Zodiac Age for the Nintendo Switch — on paper — seems like a good fit. In fact, it’s such a good fit that I kinda regret buying the game for the PlayStation 4. I feel doubly worse because I have yet to open my PS4 copy yet.
Xbox One
Xbox 360 & Xbox One
PlayStation 4
Days Gone never looked that appealing to me. I’m picky with my open world games and equally picky with my zombie based ones as well. There’s something that makes Sony’s latest first party exclusive title come off as a generic and uninspired. I’m sure it will play fine and it will find its fans but it doesn’t look like it was made for me.
I’m behind on my Mortal Kombat games (I missed MKX) but Mortal Kombat 11 looks very good. They’ve come a long way in animation and character model departments. The latter is a bit of a revelation because I found NetherRealms human models to be unintentionally ghastly. Now everyone looks somewhat appealing.
The wait is over. Final Fantasy X-X2 HD Remaster made its way onto the Xbox One and Switch. And why not? Old classics like these should make their way to every platform that can deliver an experience on par or better than the original release.
I liked the original Borderlands. I didn’t care for it beyond a single run through the campaign but I found the looting and shooting to be adequate. Borderlands 2? I didn’t play it. The newly announced Borderlands 3? Maybe I’ll get it when it’s on sale but I’m not enthralled by this sub-genre at the moment.
These cutesy Nintendo titles like Kirby’s Epic Yarn and Yoshi’s Wooly World look phenomenal but for whatever reason I just never got around to playing them — and I own Epic Yarn. I’m changing that with Yoshi’s Crafted World which wooed me with its demo. I’m angling it as a co-op title with my life partner but we’ll see if that pans out.
Xbox One
Xbox 360 & Xbox One
PlayStation 4
I haven’t played a From Software game since Bloodborne. I passed on Dark Souls III because I just wasn’t feeling the need to play a sequel in that franchise. But now, 4 years after Bloodborne, we have a new From Software game that I would love to play on PC. I wrote off the console versions considering the frame pacing issues.
I liked The Division. I am a sucker for snow and co-op third person shooting. However, by the time I reached the game’s “raid” equivalent, I grew tired of the bullet sponge enemies. That Dark Zone was also an amazing idea and I really wanted more of it but that was then and now? I’m not so sure. Nothing about the The Division 2 looks appealing to me. I think I have loot shooter fatigue.