Re: Game Awards and Announcements

On 12/14/2024 8:10 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 

The other half of these game awards ceremonies is the opportunity to
announce new games. Stuff like Witcher 4 and a co-op Elden Ring and a
bunch of others. My reaction is much the same as with the awards
themselves; a big yawn. I know that not only aren't these games going
to be released for probably a year, but I almost certainly won't be
PLAYING them for several years after that. Besides, far too many of
these games were -unsurprisingly- just sequels and remixes of existing
franchises. Oh good, more of the same. Wake me up in 2028 when there's
something new I might actually want to play.
  Did you enjoy THE Awards Show? Did you even know it happened?

Only because of the ER game announcement.  It's some sort of boss rush (whatever that is) combined with roguelike and throwing bosses and NPCs from older souls games, and a limited set of characters to play, not make your own (boo.)  Also sounds like it's a more typical action game not souls/ER combat, that could be good or bad.  Possibly interesting to me a least, I far prefer making my own characters though.
Also saw an announcement for Outer Worlds 2 which looks fun.
There's a big hubub about Witcher 4 main character being female (Ciri.) I actually enjoyed W3 bit where you played Ciri the most, so sounds good to me.
So 3 new things to look forward to next year!  I'm guessing as this is the first I'm hearing of any of them, it'll probably be near end of year and may be delayed to 2026 though.
I've no idea who won any awards, I suppose I can look.  Game of the year is Astro Bot, which seems to be an exention of PS 5's demo...  Well the demo was pretty good for 5 minutes of play, maybe the full game is actully pretty good?  *shrug* I'll  have to look for PC game awards or something.
None of the indie games mentioned I have any interest in, perhaps Pacific Drive which you mentioned elsewhere, but I'm not fond of survival games.
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