Games I’m interested in for 2018
Happy New Year!
It’s finally 2018, and that means a
slew of new games on the horizon. I always find it interesting how barren
gaming calendars are at the start of the year. Since the nature of game
development doesn’t give much room for assumption of when the games will be
finished, most of them don’t have final dates or are even announced when the
year begins.
But similar to what I did last year,
I’ll be picking out a few specific games and talking about why I’m interested
in them for the upcoming year. My one rule is that the games have to be
confirmed to be releasing in 2018, so no games without release dates yet. Also,
unlike last year I won’t be doing this in a Top 10 format, I’ll just be putting
them in alphabetically. So, here we go!
Detroit: Become Human
This one I’m more cautiously
interested about. This is yet another game helmed by David Cage’s team at
Quantic Dream, the people responsible for Heavy
Rain and Beyond Two Souls among
others. Cage loves to boast about how deep and thought-provoking his stories
are and how he’s the only one in video games who can tackle current events
because everyone else is too scared.
In reality the general public knows
him as the guy who accidentally turned the name Jason into a meme thanks to the
opening of Heavy Rain, but it’s nice
he has such a high opinion of himself.
Anyways, Detroit: Become Human has a very cool concept. Being similar to a
choose-your-own adventure book, you act as the lead role in several stories
starring humanoid robots. Your actions in the story will dictate how it plays
out, with several different endings.
This could definitely be a classic
case of the trailers not representing the actual game, but for now this is a
really interesting concept I’d like to see succeed.
Fe
This game looks just plain beautiful.
Similar in design to Ori and the Blind
Forest, Fe sees you playing as a
little lemur looking thing as you explore the world and try to drive forces of
evil out of your forest.
I really hope this isn’t another game
that sells itself on looks alone and has nothing to show for it beneath the
surface. The art style is simply captivating, and I’ve heard the soundtrack is
going to be phenomenal. Here’s hoping!
God of War
I’ve still never played the original God of War games, but this soft reboot
of the franchise looks to be right up my alley. Set in a Norse mythology
inspired world, this game looks like it focuses on Kratos from the original
games bonding with his kid. And by bonding I mean killing frost giants with
your bare hands while your boy cheers you on. Sounds fun to me.
The combat in this game looks awesome.
Kratos’ axe can be used similarly to Thor’s hammer, as he can throw it around,
use it to kill enemies, and it’ll fly right back into his hand. Here’s hoping
Led Zeppelin plays during a combat sequence at least once.
Kingdom Hearts III
Kingdom
Hearts is such a weird franchise for me. I love exploring all the Disney
worlds in the games, but I couldn’t care less about anything else. The main
characters, Keyblade stuff, the weird convoluted plot with all the side
characters are all fine, but I’m really just in it for all the crazy Disney
stuff we’re gonna get to see.
This time around they’re adding worlds
from Pixar movies and potentially other franchises such as Star Wars, making for a much more diverse array of worlds to visit.
Considering this has been one of the most anticipated games in recent years
(and it’s the first Kingdom Hearts
game in a long time to not have a terrible subtitle), I hope longtime fans are
finally rewarded for their patience this year.
Red Dead Redemption 2
This game was supposed to come out
last year, and as such it was on the version of this list I did last year. I
still haven’t checked out the original Red
Dead Redemption, but this sequel looks to be worth my time for the graphics
alone.
Rockstar is known for cramming as much
stuff as possible into their games, so the idea of a new game by them on the
scale of Witcher 3 or Horizon Zero Dawn is very exciting. A
massive wild west with a ton of sidequests, secrets, adventures and landmarks?
Yes, please.
Skull and Bones
We haven’t seen too much of Ubisoft’s
upcoming pirate game, but I’m already intrigued if only because of how much I
love pirates. Skull and Bones looks
like it’s going to be a nautical version of zeppelin battle game Guns of Icarus, as you and your hearty
crew take on other ships and sink them to Davy Jones’ Locker.
Although Ubisoft has had a very good
year, they’re still not off the hook as one of the most notorious companies in
the industry. I wouldn’t be surprised if this turns out to be yet another mill
for loot boxes a la Battlefront II,
but I’ll hope for the best.
Spider-Man
This one is my biggest hope for 2018.
I’ve wanted an awesome game starring Spider-Man similar to Batman’s Arkham series for years now, and
everything I’ve seen from this game looks like it’s going to fulfill those
hopes.
While the main story featuring an
older Peter Parker, lesser-known villain Mr. Negative and even fellow
Spider-Man Miles Morales looks pretty cool, I’m more interested in what we can
do around the open world of Manhattan. I’m hoping for lots of missions to go on
and villains to stop outside of the campaign. Marvel has been struggling in the
video game scene for the last little while, and this game could be what they
need to get back in the swing of things (pun intended).
Yoshi
Nintendo’s been surprisingly quiet
about what we can expect in year 2 of the Switch. They’re probably waiting
until E3 to announce their plans for the second half of the year, but right now
we’re not really sure what’s coming next.
I will say this: their currently
untitled Yoshi game looks adorable.
I’ve never played a Yoshi game I
haven’t liked, and since this game looks like it’s taking inspiration from the
awesome Woolly World, I can’t wait to
jump back into the cute world of gaming’s best dinosaur.
Just…no crying Baby Mario. Please.
Are there any I missed? Leave a
comment below and tell me!
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