What new games, if any, are you planning on picking up during the rest of 2010?

Over the last couple years it feels like there are less and less games coming out over the holidays that I'm interested in. I'm not sure if that's mostly a product of my changing tastes, publishers spreading out their big releases over the course of the year a little better, or the feeling as this generation of console technology gets a bit long in the tooth, that new games just aren't as exciting as they were a few years ago, as it feels a bit more like everything is a sequel & that everything has been done already.

In a way it feels good to not have a huge, overwhelming list of games I'm looking forward to over the next four months. Nonetheless, there are still plenty of games, the list just feels much more reasonable now. Here's mine, in order of anticipation...

1. F1 2010 (PC/PS3/360)
2. DoDonPachi Resurrection (j360)
3. FIFA 2010 (PS3/PC/360)
4. Gran Turismo 5 (PS3)
5. Guwange (XBLA)
6. Kirby's Epic Yarn (Wii)
7. Donkey King Country Returns (Wii)

probably pick up cod but not sure how long I've left on my xbl gold

yeah i'm in the mood for another modern shooter already, never bothered with the MW2 expansion maps. or BF2 at all.

maybe skate3?

maybe... snoopy flying ace?

The thing about Call of Duty, I still have the last 3, so another one feels kinda pointless - they're so similar. Plus I'm a little bored of multiplayer shooters (not one on my list), and would prefer to play a Battlefield or Team Fortress 2 if I felt like shooting fools.

Also #3 on my list should read FIFA 11. I had 10 for 360, but my US 360 died (out of warranty) and since it was a region coded game and I only have a j360 now, no way to play it. If I still had a playable copy of 10 I don't know that I'd be buying FIFA 11.

that spider-man game looks like it could be fun (http://www.avclub.com/articles/playing-it-safe-the-av-clubs-fallholiday-2010-game,44252/)

goole - didn't skate3 come out last spring?

lol probably

should be nice and cheap by now at least : )

ooh is the next assassin's creed this year then? i'll get that

Plants vs. Zombies XBLA
Fable 3
Fallout New Vegas maybe (didn't really play 3)
L.A. Noire, maybe
Little Big Planet 2 maybe

polyphonic - I'm pretty sure L.A. Noire isn't coming out this year (maybe spring 2011?).

It was listed as Q4 on Gamespot but they're wrong about stuff a lot.

FIFA 11
F1 2010
Gran Turismo (I really only want it to drive the Top Gear track)
Fallout New Vegas
Epic Mickey

not really planning on anything until i know more but could def end up w/

Fallout New Vegas
Splatterhouse
Minji and the forsaken kingdom (i think thats the right name)

also that doublefine costume quest thing from the av club article might be fascinating. or it will suck horribly.

Potentially any of these

Dead Rising 2
Fable 3
Arcania: Gothic IV
Epic Mickey
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Donkey King Country Returns
Fallout: New Vegas
Halo: Reach

I will have to check the reviews when they are released though

nfs hot pursuit
formula 2010
dead rising 2 (hmm maybe)
fallout vegas (but must finish 3 first)
la noire
gran turismo a possibility

and if time and money permitting, starcraft 2

nfs hot pursuit

Is this the Criterion developed one? If so, add that to my list as well.

oh hell - Civ 5!!!

also these DS games have potential - my DS just broke though :(

Super Scribblenauts
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future

also this DS adventure game by Capcom has potential
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

civ 5
fallout new vegas

Super Scribblenauts
Rock Band 3 (may try to use this to teach me rudimentary keyboard)
Costume Quest looks pretty great
Majin and the Foresaken yadda yadda
Super Meat Boy

portal 2 is 2011 i guess?
where the hell is that Shadow of the Colossus HD remix and The Last Guardian, goddammit?

maybe golden sun too.

Anticipating the fuck out of civ 5.

where the hell is that Shadow of the Colossus HD remix and The Last Guardian, goddammit?

Last I heard both are 2011. Reminds me I am looking forward to playing the Sly Cooper games for the first time.

Ghost Trick
Costume Quest

maybe.

LA Noire (can't imagine it'll actually come out this year tho), Fallout Las Vegas (already preordered) and possibly Dead Rising 2.

my expectations for dead rising 2 have been sort of plummeting as the year goes on, can't put my finger on why

I wouldn't even be thinking about it if it weren't for the dearth of other games that interest me this year.

xp feeling that too. i think my whole zombie fetish is slowly fading tbh, was not even slightly wowed with left 4 dead. and felt that i should have been.
it's definitely one i can hold off on for the sake of other games coming out.

i think i would still be excited by some kind of zombie/survival rpg though.

NBA Jam
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Epic Mickey
Donkey Kong Country 4

all for the Wii, surprisingly

NBA Jam being a "buy the full disc" exclusive pack-in on the decent next gen systems is some bullshit

i think i would still be excited by some kind of zombie/survival rpg though.

― F-Unit (Ste), Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:42 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Ste - funny you should post that - details on a new zombie/survival themed rpg (coming in 2011) just came out today...

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08/25/a-blood-red-state-dead-state-revealed/
official site http://www.deadstate.doublebearproductions.com/

the decent next gen systems? haha!

was not even slightly wowed with left 4 dead

This game must be played with three friends imo.

agreed.

kinda tempted by fallout: new vegas, but i promised myself i wouldn't get any more 30 - 60 hour games that i'm never going to finish. maybe if they made the combat a lot more fun.

part of the problem with building excitement for any of the upcoming releases is that the bioshock:infinite trailer is so hard pwning that nothing else seems all that exciting to me now (too bad that B:I isnt actually showing up until 2012)

"decent" = more power than my clock radio
and i say this as a wii owner

I never played Dead Rising 1 but the idea of survival zombie horror has always seemed fun since the movies and boxhead flash games. Initially what attracted me to Dead Rising 2 was the amount of zombies that the developers said could be on screen at on time. I liked thinking that the game would perfect all the mishaps of the first one and provide more weapons and everything else. When I watched the E3 video montage of this game yesterday I wasn't as excited because the zombies appeared lifeless. They looked slower and clumsier than boxhead zombies and maybe that's okay because weapon supply must be limited and ever changing in DR2 but I hope that some zombies will run at you. Did they ever do that in Dead Rising 1?

Dead State sounds like it could be interesting. I like that Brian Mitsoda is working on it, the RPS interview was pretty good, and I liked his work on Bloodlines. Also a good sign that they want to evoke the horror of X-Com.

I might give Dead Rising 2 a try just because it's getting a PC port, but probably not until next year. But yeah, this surprisingly little I'm looking forward to this holiday season, unless I know someone who picks up Rock Band 3 and the keytar.

Ste - funny you should post that - details on a new zombie/survival themed rpg (coming in 2011) just came out today...

woah that's weird, and Dead State does sound exactly what i had in mind.

Dead Rising 1 was good for goofing around with lots of zombies on screen (personally enjoyed hitting golf balls at them), but there were some annoyances with the mission structure, and the save system was mind bogglingly bad.

the zombies appeared lifeless

Don't wanna be a pedant but

I own dead rising and never quite got around to playing it.
V v v spoiled.

the biggest problem i had wrt dead rising is that theres this really aimless (not in a sandbox fun way) feel to it where nothing yer supposed to be doing is all that clear BUT it is all super time constrained. also NPC AI was often well below the level of the fucking zombies which started to really bug me after a while.

Ghost Trick
Costume Quest

lol this is my list + CIVV

CIVILIZATION V MUTHAFUCKERS

so fuckin psyched

also:
whichever soccer game is less shit this year. literally cannot stomach FIFA 10 any more
maybe one of the basketball games. this is new territory for me
curiously ambivalent about new vegas
curiously curious about hunted: the demon whatever and maybe that game based on monkey, the name escapes me
maybe vanquish? who knows

really wish i had a pc rig for civ 5

Having only recently bought Civ IV, I was thinking I'd wait out Civ V until expansions/price drops. But all the excitement here has me wondering: what's the big scoop on this one? What's getting you all so excited about it?

i. it looks ace. ii. the rest of us bought that Civ IV shit 5 years ago now and it is just time goddammit.

the new stuff that has caught my eye is the new way of doing culture victories, which sounds neat, and the big change of hexes + non-stacking units + city hit points, which will completely change how the combat works. diplomacy sounds like it might have some cool tweaks and it is always cool to see what new wrinkles they bring to govt, city management, etc.

thx dude! want my copy of xmen wolverine? i keep thinking of selling it and then i just dont ever bother pretty much

you can have my copy as well. why? just 'cause too.

You can't have mine even for a bad pun. It's my game of the year so far.

i know the story was supposed to be a b-movie lark but it was just too stupid to rate highly. fun tho!

I gave up on the story and have just had fun doing everything else. Best piss-around-for-30-minutes game I've played in a long time.

pretty sure the only game i'm getting for the rest of the year is zombie red dead.

i want just cause too! why can't i get just cause too...

Just 'cause you're too late.

sadface

sick all day today and really bummed that I don't have fallout new vegas

maybe that's what's making you sick

I realized I dont have amazon prime anymore so I am not going to get 0 day fallout new vegas warez tomorrow. Fuuuuck. First world problems over here.

It's practically guaranteed that New Vegas will be 100x the game that FO3 was (100 x 0 lol)

so, is no one concerned by the review embargo on New Vegas?

didn't know about that! It's Obsidian, though, so it'll probably have a ridiculous amount of bugs

http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1121783-early-reviewer-first-impressions/

some stuff there and yes, apparently a bug for some on 360 :/ at least it mentions the game is still lolhuge

COD: Black Ops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-ca-fUIMec

zombie RDR

and hopefully nothing else

There's a pretty good chance I'll get Rock Band 3 but just because I want to get good at the piano parts.

yeah, unfortunately i'm gonna do that too.
i just noticed my amex points work with amazon so i think i'm gonna use 5 years of card points and get the keyboard and the game for ps3 shortly after it launches

Anyone played Kane & Lynch 2? It's going for £cheap most places and I'm wondering if it's worth a punt.

demo sucked, general response from gaming press was hella negative

yeah i have heard nothing at all good about that game

thanks guys, I'll give it a miss

to follow up from my post from 2 months ago:

NBA Jam

got this on GameFly and ended up paying to keep it. owns.

Kirby's Epic Yarn

will pick up a used copy when the price drops to like $10

Epic Mickey

getting a free copy at work

Donkey Kong Country 4

in the mail from GameFly

right now my to-buy list is as follows:

- Super Mario All-Stars Wii collection (total ripoff but gotta catch 'em all etc.)
- Pac-Man DX (HURRY UP NEXT WEEK)
- Cave Story DSiWare (HURRY UP 11/29)

yeh Kirby is a solid rental, not worth full price. kinda hyped for Kong now after its reviewed so strongly.

want wii

wiiant

that All-Stars collection can GTF though, what a lazy lazy release. and there was so much they could have done with pretty mininal effort too eg. add in the extra Super Mario 3 levels that were released on the GBA ecards.

Multiple shrinkwrapped copies of K&L2 have been showing up at the local Goodwill store

NBA jam

also maybe pacman and RDR zombies/vanquish when they drop in price

The killer app in the RDR zombie game is really the multiplayer mode. It's really fun.

God help me, I just paid real money for Poker Night at the Inventory. I figure $4.50 is a fair trade for a few hours of potentially amusing one-liners I'll (hopefully) laugh at once and never play again plus some stupid crap to wear in TF2. Other than that, Super Meat Boy, Mass Effect 2 (pending completion of Mass Effect the first and maybe waiting for a GOTY with all the downloadables bundled in), and God of War 3 and Just Cause 2 if either are discounted heavily enough over the holiday weekend. Really looking forward to AC: Brotherhood, but I've got to get through the first two games first and I've only done two of nine assassinations in #1, so that'll be a 2011 purchase for sure...

2012 edition?

Borderlands 2? Resident Evil 6? Assassin's Creed III? What else is there. I haven't even thought about buying a new console game in awhile.

Halo 4 and BLOPS2 I guess if you like that sort of thing.

i wish i was excited about Dead Space 3 or RE6 but they both look kind of lame.

ACIII looks amazing but i stalled out on ACII, never really got comfortable with the controls.

just me or is this a hella weak year? i don't really care about anything gamewise on the horizon. Maybe that new bioware thing. maybe the new bioshock. i'm at game burnout.

Def a weak year. C+P is going to be heavy with iOS/indie/arcade titles.

Epic Mickey 2, not gonna lie.

Actually I haven't even been that excited about iOS titles this year.

oh i have hopes for that new Hitman game

yeah i expressed some of my frustration abt this here: Console Wasteland

i cant really think of anything that is even a likely buy for me.

i blame the lack of last guardian

oh btw jjj how's Lollipop Chainsaw working out for you

still waiting for the inevitable price drop, but to make up for it i bought two different "terrible" games, Brink and Splatterhouse! at the pawn shop.

I played the demo for LC and was like NOPE

maybe its time for me to start a thread about my escapades in terrible gaming.

i like the phrase "Splatterhouse! at the pawn shop."

it has shades of Panic! at the Disco