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.
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.
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.
From the same studio that brought us Life is Strange we have another story driven game, this time about a man named Sam that has lost his memory from the night before. His job is now to discover what the hell happened. As much of this week, check out the video below. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
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.
Not long ago, Fromsoftware dropped a teaser for Shadows Die Twice. and Nobody knew what the hell it was. Theories flew around about everything from Bloodborne 2 to a new Tenchu. Most people thought however it would be a new game all together. And the winner is, new game. The game seems to be a sort of Samurai meets Dark Souls kind of thing. Watch the trailer below and let me know what you think. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
Rather than drag this out into 3 post I am just going to give you the short and sweet here. This week we got told of not one or 2 but THREE new gears of war games coming. The first we got Gears Pop. It is a funko themed mobile game based off the pop figures. No that isn’t a joke.
Second and my favorite of the group, is a Gears of War tactics game that predates all the others by about 12 years. Not much is known really except it is a turn based tactics game similar to Final Fantasy Tactics or Xcom and will be exclusive to PC.
Last but not least, and the most expected, is Gears of War 5 which they revealed with a trailer which will as always be below. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
Tales of Vesperia was exclusively for Xbox 360 way back in 2008, and now 10 years later for the Xbox one we get the definitive edition. Now it has (at the time of this writing) not been confirmed if it is an xbox exclusive or not. The remastered game will have additional content and characters. See the video below, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
Of all the trailers to drop at this year’s E3, Cyberpunk 2077 is the the least I’m familiar with. Cyberpunk always made me think of Blade Runner or the 90’s Judge Dredd movie. After watching the trailer at E3, I got a heavy GTA vibe set in a neon colored, gritty futuristic world which could be cool. Looking up the trailer for this, I did find trailers for this dating back to 2013 which is worrisome and after Aliens: Colonial Marines I get nervous about games in the making that long. The game looks like it could be a fun sandbox but it isn’t the top of my list. May the gaming gods bring you glory.
Command & Conquer Rivals is a new C&C for the more modern era, and by that I mean it’s for mobile. Being shown at E3 actually upset a few people since cellphone games usually aren’t shown at the event. For a more in-depth explanation for why you will see more of it tho, look here. Are Mobile Game Players Gamers?
As for what the game is, well its C&C. You gather resources and fight over a Nuclear missile in the center of the map. Whoever controls 2 of the 3 spots when the meter fills up shoots the enemy base, whoever hits the enemy base twice wins. Pretty simple concept really. The game will be available on IOS and Android but to my knowledge is currently only available in pre-alpha on Android. The game is fun but does have its issues. While feeling decently like C&C they make it a point to tell you that for now there are no in-game purchases, meaning the full game will have some.
You do occasionally win boxes with money and troops, and it is a save assumption these are what you can buy. If that is the case, this is clearly going to be a pay to win mobile game from EA. To make matters worse, at least for now the game seems to be nothing but PVP with no way to practice or even grind for stuff. The game however is fun and easy to get into. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
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