The Quiet Man (Preview)

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The quiet man is an interesting concept to say the least. According to the press release from Square Enix “THE QUIET MAN takes players beyond sound and words to deliver an immersive story-driven cinematic action experience, which players can complete in one sitting, seamlessly blending high-production live action, realistic CG and pulse-pounding action gameplay.”

Now this all sounds pretty cool, but at the same time, this could be pretty awful. We have seen games like this before turn out pretty bad when they try to blend real life stuff into game play. Tho the reveal trailer (below) was pretty damn amazing. It will release on Steam and PlayStation 4 in 2019. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

THE QUIET MAN takes players beyond sound and words to deliver an immersive story-driven cinematic action experience, which players can complete in one sitting, seamlessly blending high-production live action, realistic CG and pulse-pounding action gameplay.

Jump Force

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Jump Force is a Shonen Jump fans wet dream come true. An evil force, and all their favorite characters unite to fight it. I won’t lie, I am I huge dragon ball fan. Loved everything from The original thru super. This game however to me, just doesn’t need to exist. But I see why it does, there is money in it. And that is honestly all this is, one huge cash grab. I have heard these arguments before, who would win in a fight X character or Y character, and if you go into most comic book stores they will happily explain to you why one or 2 people in this game will probably kill everyone else no issue. But, that being said it looks good, and will most likely play beautifully and at the end of the day that is all the fans will care about, and if there is a beta, I will sign up. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Just Cause 4

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Just Cause 4, what can be said about this series that can’t be said about this series that can’t be summed up with the fact that I have shot cows up into the air for half an hour for the fun of it. I have waited for bikers to drive by and stuck them to buildings. Why?  I don’t really know. See when you give gamers the option to do basically whatever they want, gamers will do the most random things they can think of. Yes we will do the story, but we will do other insane stuff to.

This brings me to Just Cause 4. They have now given us bigger and better ways to do all the messed up things we have all loved to do. Tho they seem to have gone above and beyond in certain areas. The game looks beautiful, as expected, but now we have weather. I know, lots of games have weather. However now we have things like a tornado ripping buildings apart and not just small scale. This is something you can no use to your advantage, just don’t be flying anywhere near it because apparently you will get sucked in. Of course there is a video, and it is below. May the gaming gods bring you glory.

Black Desert

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Black Desert made its showing at E3 for the Xbox one. Here is that beautiful trailer.

And make no mistake, it does look beautiful. But no need to fear Playstation fans, it isn’t likely to be an Xbox exclusive, at least not for long, as at one point at least there was a PS4 version being worked on. For more details on that and the number of players check polygon.

The other thing to point out is if you look up many of the reviews, they aren’t that great. For example on steam its at about 6/10 and metacritic puts it at a 73 and 7.3. Now to down a game before it comes out, but the game is already out for a fairly substantial amount of time. Is isn’t unreasonable to assume this won’t get any better and there isn’t much reason to get excited about it. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Anno 1800 (PC)

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Anno 1800 is an enigma in gaming. It is a strategy game, but it is also a city designer and simulation game/strategy game combined with a ship combat game. Do you want to simply trade? Be an oppressive war monger? Do you simply want to be somewhere in the middle? These are some of the choices you will need to make. For more info watch the trailer below, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Fallout 76

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Now I wanted to post this last week like everyone else and be like “Oh my god new Fall out oh fuck yea its online iuhfiahihfiahifvafhd freak out”…but I decided you would all read that enough. Yes I did just randomly hit keys up there by the way. Its my blog, I can do that. I decided however to write about other stuff and let everyone else fill you in. By now you know the routine. Leaving vault 76 you will be one of the first outside the vaults, and everyone you see will be a real person. Returning is the ability to build bases, but now you can build them where you want and move them when you choose. There will also be nuclear weapons you can go and grab, then just drop them on your friends. This all sounds great and looks amazing. Especially knowing that unlike most survival games, when you die you never lose progress.

I do have a couple concerns however. You don’t really lose progress in Grand Theft Auto either, but anyone that plays it knows it doesn’t take much for some random person to ruin your day. Are we going to spend 10 or 20 hours building a base just for some jerk to nuke my base and send me back to square one? If so whats the point of building it at all? If nuking a base doesn’t do much, why bother doing it at all? I truly hope they manage a nice middle ground between nuking people serving a purpose and making sure it doesn’t ruin the experience for people.

Another concern I have is the story, they have always been known for story, and will this effect that? Fallout 76 could be amazing, but I do understand why many people are concerned. Personally I am extremely hopeful. An online Fallout is something I have dreamed of, and it is finally coming. May the gaming gods bring it and us glory.

Division 2 Preview

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If you are anything like me a while ago you had a friend that was all aboard the hype train for The Division. Talked about this game like it was going to be ground breaking, even showed you the trailer where the guy closed the car door, which at the time was amazing. The problem is, while good the game didn’t go beyond that. The dark zone was cool but it had a lot of issues and the game itself ended up being a love it or hate it kind of thing. The DLC helped a lot tho.

Now comes The Division 2. The game looks amazing ( there will be a video below) Taking place after the virus has died down while humanity tries to rebuild we have a new problem. That problem is each other. Trying to survive people have formed bands of people willing to rob and steal. Now agents have a seemingly new task. There will also be 3 episodes with new stories and places to explore. Oh, and those 3 episodes? 100% free. The game looks good and it sounds like they have learned some valuable lessons. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Battletoads In 2019

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I swear this isn’t a joke, I mean it. Here I have proof.

See told you. In 2019 we are getting a new Battletoads game. That video is really all we know so far, but honestly this is just so random and odd. I can only imagine this was made because they were wondering what they could make in 2019 that shouldn’t exist. I will probably buy it tho out of nostalgia for all the prank calls I got when I worked at Gamestop. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.