2013 for some reason sounds like a year that will be good to gaming with all that is coming, however, the year barely started and yet it opens up with Deep Silver putting a fake torso of a woman in bra (titties included) in the collector's edition of Dead Island: Riptide which caused a somehow scandal and degradation of the gaming audience by making them look like 13 year olds that checks for daily updates on a Brazzers site (don't start acting like a diplomatic parent and say I shouldn't know about this site, everyone in the world already knows what Brazzers is and I bet that your Father and Mother checked a Playboy magazine once).
Let's also not forget that America is still recovering from it's wounds after the Sandy Hook Massacre, which instead of a goverment changing the rules of gun use (seriously, how can 15 years old have a license to have long guns yet they can't have a handgun), they instead decide to blame the forms of media once again, even if there was obvious evidence that the mother of the child was a lunatic and a gun fanatic which could have lead to the child's attitude
But before this list turns into a G.I. Joe PSA, let me show you the Top 10 games I'm currently waiting in 2013.
Honorable Mentions:
Splinter Cell: Blacklist, yeah bite me; I have nothing against this new Splinter Cell game, heck, I love Splinter Cell and the Sam Fisher character, but nowadays, the game is lacking stealth and the new Kill in Motion system just looks like it makes the game way easier than it should be (yes, Hitman Absolution had something similar, but you had to use wisely and not just blast every enemy on the screen).
I don't mind if Sam Fisher has a different actor, I ordered my Splinter Cell with patient stealth and actual thinking; If the game becomes good, I will go to Ubisoft Toronto and apologize to Jade Raymond (while trying to find a way to not look like an imense douche without a life).
I don't mind if Sam Fisher has a different actor, I ordered my Splinter Cell with patient stealth and actual thinking; If the game becomes good, I will go to Ubisoft Toronto and apologize to Jade Raymond (while trying to find a way to not look like an imense douche without a life).
South Park: The Stick of Truth; I love South Park, it's one of the few shows that are 10-15 years old yet it manages to still be funny (Isn't that Right, Simpsons?).
This game is like any South Park fan's dream: A Story writeen by the creators of the show, a game being developed by a talented studio (Obsidian) and some of the best uses for the kinect, trolling Eric Cartman; With the E3 trailer building me up chuckles for it and how the series itself can be dumb yet at the same time have some smart humour material, I can see where the game's humour is going to.
And the ability of releasing summons like Jesus with an AK-47 (GOTY material) and Good Times with Weapons' Professor Chaos, this game might be the best RPG game of all time (as long as Obsidian doesn't overpopulate the game with glitches).
Though I need to get this out of my guts, before making a game, don't fill this with pre-order bonuses and freaking one day DLCs, good god, the game barely has a release date yet there is a Good Times with Weapons DLC pack.
10.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate
Returning to the Metroidvania gameplay style that was implented in Symphony of the Night, this game looks promising, I really liked how they rebooted the Castlevania Universe with Lords of Shadow giving a more western and dark tone to the series and though this 3DS game was made to build up hype for the upcoming Lords of Shadow 2, it still looks very promising; The graphics meet with 3DS standards but they are so detailed that it looks fantastic (though they need to fix the damned lyp synching of those characters), the voice acting sounds superb (they even got Robb from HBO's Game of Thrones in it, though Jon Snow is still better than him) and the writing seems that it can get somewhere in the borders of good writing.
9.
Last of Us
Wow, I putted this game really low on the list, but it is explainable, Naughty Dog is a good dev (though reviewers need to stop jerking off to Uncharted) and their story writting is great, their objective of achieving well developed character developments and a triple A drama might be something they can achieve, but Telltale Games' Walking Dead game will always have superiority in it (Don't get me wrong, Naughty Dog did a lot of things, but achieving a Lee Everett is something nearly impossible to do it).
But either way, this still doesn't stop the game's spark, the dynamic stealth mechanic and how the game adjusts the player's prefference are fantastic ideas not to mention Joel andEllen Page Ellie's bound can be something similar to the Lee and Clementine relationship, it's two complete strangers that are trying to take care of one and other and develop a close bound while still trying to survive, sure, Ellie is more mature than Clementine but this doesn't change the fact that it's still an interesting concept.
Naughty Dog, impress me.
8.
Dragon Age III
Hold it, how can something like Dragon Age III go so low on the list? Something wrong with you? In a matter of fact: no; You see after I played Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age II, I felt disappointed with Bioware's quality, especially with Mass Effect 3, the game was good overall but was very lackluster compared to what Mass Effect 2 brought to me (yes, Mass Effect 3 story is better than Mass Effect 2, but how the gameplay felt and how it's so dependent of DLC pisses me off).
But, I'm still excited for this new Dragon Age title, especially by it's story that involves a huge civil war between mages and templars that might change the Dragon Age III universe and possibly end with a golden key (and by that I mean different endings, Bioware, choice decisions that actually affect your party's fate), the gameplay also sounds interesting by implenting more of the power of teamwork with your party members which require more thinking to beat your opponents and less about the use of brutality, I don't know about you but I love managing in gaming (I secretly own Footbal Manager and not because I like footbal or soccer as you americans say it).
7.
Metal Gear Rising: Reveangence
There are people out there that still call Raiden as the adrogynous pussy that replaced Snake in MGS2; Well, they don't know Metal Gear Rising.
One of the few "serious" games made by Platinum Games, this game escapes the general Metal Gear formula and incorporates one that fits Cyborg Raiden, cutting the living shit out of anything and cause brutality in a hack n slash enviroment.
Though the game suffered a drastic departure from it's original form, the game still features stealth since in most free-areas it suggests for you to take a silent approach to your enemies, even with your liberties.
The game looks amazing and how it will run at 60 FPS on any platform is a fantastic piece of news (Though how there are no humans to kill in this game is a shame).
With fabbed writting by Kojima Productions and Gameplay by the studio that brought you Anarchy Reigns and Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising shall satisfy the newcomers of Metal Gear Solid, Fans of action games and possibly Metal Gear fans.
6.
Injustice: Gods Among Us
A Fighting game that has a good story while being based around intelectual property that belongs to an other type of media? Blasphemy! Yet Injustice manages to do that, though not much detail has been spread about the story, just by how they got the guys who did Dead Space: Downfall as story consultants and how DC is working alongside Netherrealms studios to insure to get a great story for a superhero game makes the game's story really interesting to look into (Let's not forget it's Netherrealms we're talking about), their story modes for MK vs DC and Mortal Kombat 2k11 were great).
Also, I like how Netherrealms is making this game different than any other fighting game by adding some actually badass Stage Hazards, two different character types, the character traits system that changes your character's stats or pull out a powerful attack and how each of these characters feel different from one another makes this game look promising, freshed out and genius.
I hope they put Aquaman as a character (because every fighting game needs a punching bag, and nothing is better than a punching bag with a mullet).
5.
Star Trek
Yeah, Star Trek; Having the studio that co-created Unreal Tournament developing the game, the writers of the movie's story alongside the woman that wrote God of War and Shank and the cast from the movie in this, it's possible to say that this project looks flawless; Mixing in the perspectives of Kirk and Spock by having both play out extremely different, the game will mix out 3rd person shooter goodness with Captain Kirk and stealth sections as Spock (Who needs Snake or Sam when you can do a Vulcan Nerve pinch on your enemies and mess up with their mind).
Digital Extremes never managed to fail me (except with Dark Sector) and seeing how they are putting effort on it by giving out some really stunning visuals into it, some customization on it and having the cast of the J.J Abrams movie on it (and at least trying to convince them to give a fuck about the project), I can safely assume that the Trekkies are really hopping to get their hands on this game.
And they better not mess with this game, because Simon Pegg is in it, you can't mess up a game with Simon Pegg in it, have you ever seen something with Simon Pegg that didn't suck other than Ice Age 3? I bet not.
4.
Remember Me
This game will be a beast, showing a new IP to an era that is conquered by the already known intellectual properties, Remember Me is a game with a twist; Having the acrobacy and stealth of the Assassin's Creed series, combat similar to the recent Batman games (which can be diversified thanks to the almighty combo labs which has over 50,000 combinations for combat techniques that the player can create) and the most interesting aspect of this game, memory insertion, which can have you control your target's thoughts (I want to control the thoughts of the guys that made Jersey Shore, so they can make actual shows).
A company like Dotnot is a group that nobody has ever heard of, not to mention how Adrift was never shown in any interesting form, but this group may have imagination in their minds; The road they are taking are full of hazards and pits of doom as the consumers are hard to please, but Remember Me if everything goes right, will be 2012's biggest surprise.
3.
Wasteland 2
This game is being made in unity yet it still manages to attract a lot of attention and interest into it; The game has you control 4 survivors of a nuclear Fallout on a tatical role playing game in a similar fashion to the first Fallout games in which the player's acts toward their Rangers (the playable characters) can change their personality as you progress giving unique feels to each of them, not to mention the NPCs that are along with you in your journey, that can help you progress the game and each with their own opinions, personality and motivations.
I tend to like turn based gameplay and Wasteland 2 seems to be in my tastes.
2.
Grand Theft Auto V
NUMBER 2?! BLASPHEMY! With that said, let me continue, Rockstar Games is a great dev, often making some wonderful games that often change in eras and periods each with their own charm; Taking a new approach to the GTA series by having a story that involves bank robbery, some pretty amazing visuals, the ability to play as three anti-heroes, more developed currency system, some pretty intelligent AI and how you can explore new cities in one giant map is fantastic.
You have anything you want in a GTA game (except dating, because you saw how some hot coffee can blast a soccer mom's morality) everything you ever wanted in this controversy fueled series (and I'll kick Joe Manchin's ass if he bans this game).
1.
Watch Dogs
Thumbs up, Ubisoft, Thumbs to the up; This game right here has the best concept I've ever seen, you have control of anything that happens on this electronic fueled city in the hands of a hacker; Cause havoc by disabling cars, cut off a people's talk on the cellphone and most importantly, kick some people's asses with your guns.
The game's concept of using a city against itself plays amazing especially in a sandbox game like Watch Dogs, I expect an amazing ammount of exploration in this game and cause an evolution to the sandbox genre with a creative plot and liberal gameplay.
I'm happy to see that in the gaming market where bankruptcy, in-game scandals like on disc DLC and many companies trying to follow a traditional trend, Ubisoft comes up with fresh ideas and still mantains herself.
Also Check out these upcoming games:
Fuse, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Pikmin 3, Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z, Project CARS, Company of Heroes 2, Beyond: Two Souls, Soul Hackers, Metro Last Night, Crysis 3 and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Returning to the Metroidvania gameplay style that was implented in Symphony of the Night, this game looks promising, I really liked how they rebooted the Castlevania Universe with Lords of Shadow giving a more western and dark tone to the series and though this 3DS game was made to build up hype for the upcoming Lords of Shadow 2, it still looks very promising; The graphics meet with 3DS standards but they are so detailed that it looks fantastic (though they need to fix the damned lyp synching of those characters), the voice acting sounds superb (they even got Robb from HBO's Game of Thrones in it, though Jon Snow is still better than him) and the writing seems that it can get somewhere in the borders of good writing.
9.
Last of Us
Wow, I putted this game really low on the list, but it is explainable, Naughty Dog is a good dev (though reviewers need to stop jerking off to Uncharted) and their story writting is great, their objective of achieving well developed character developments and a triple A drama might be something they can achieve, but Telltale Games' Walking Dead game will always have superiority in it (Don't get me wrong, Naughty Dog did a lot of things, but achieving a Lee Everett is something nearly impossible to do it).
But either way, this still doesn't stop the game's spark, the dynamic stealth mechanic and how the game adjusts the player's prefference are fantastic ideas not to mention Joel and
Naughty Dog, impress me.
8.
Dragon Age III
Hold it, how can something like Dragon Age III go so low on the list? Something wrong with you? In a matter of fact: no; You see after I played Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age II, I felt disappointed with Bioware's quality, especially with Mass Effect 3, the game was good overall but was very lackluster compared to what Mass Effect 2 brought to me (yes, Mass Effect 3 story is better than Mass Effect 2, but how the gameplay felt and how it's so dependent of DLC pisses me off).
But, I'm still excited for this new Dragon Age title, especially by it's story that involves a huge civil war between mages and templars that might change the Dragon Age III universe and possibly end with a golden key (and by that I mean different endings, Bioware, choice decisions that actually affect your party's fate), the gameplay also sounds interesting by implenting more of the power of teamwork with your party members which require more thinking to beat your opponents and less about the use of brutality, I don't know about you but I love managing in gaming (I secretly own Footbal Manager and not because I like footbal or soccer as you americans say it).
7.
Metal Gear Rising: Reveangence
There are people out there that still call Raiden as the adrogynous pussy that replaced Snake in MGS2; Well, they don't know Metal Gear Rising.
One of the few "serious" games made by Platinum Games, this game escapes the general Metal Gear formula and incorporates one that fits Cyborg Raiden, cutting the living shit out of anything and cause brutality in a hack n slash enviroment.
Though the game suffered a drastic departure from it's original form, the game still features stealth since in most free-areas it suggests for you to take a silent approach to your enemies, even with your liberties.
The game looks amazing and how it will run at 60 FPS on any platform is a fantastic piece of news (Though how there are no humans to kill in this game is a shame).
With fabbed writting by Kojima Productions and Gameplay by the studio that brought you Anarchy Reigns and Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising shall satisfy the newcomers of Metal Gear Solid, Fans of action games and possibly Metal Gear fans.
6.
Injustice: Gods Among Us
A Fighting game that has a good story while being based around intelectual property that belongs to an other type of media? Blasphemy! Yet Injustice manages to do that, though not much detail has been spread about the story, just by how they got the guys who did Dead Space: Downfall as story consultants and how DC is working alongside Netherrealms studios to insure to get a great story for a superhero game makes the game's story really interesting to look into (Let's not forget it's Netherrealms we're talking about), their story modes for MK vs DC and Mortal Kombat 2k11 were great).
Also, I like how Netherrealms is making this game different than any other fighting game by adding some actually badass Stage Hazards, two different character types, the character traits system that changes your character's stats or pull out a powerful attack and how each of these characters feel different from one another makes this game look promising, freshed out and genius.
I hope they put Aquaman as a character (because every fighting game needs a punching bag, and nothing is better than a punching bag with a mullet).
5.
Star Trek
Yeah, Star Trek; Having the studio that co-created Unreal Tournament developing the game, the writers of the movie's story alongside the woman that wrote God of War and Shank and the cast from the movie in this, it's possible to say that this project looks flawless; Mixing in the perspectives of Kirk and Spock by having both play out extremely different, the game will mix out 3rd person shooter goodness with Captain Kirk and stealth sections as Spock (Who needs Snake or Sam when you can do a Vulcan Nerve pinch on your enemies and mess up with their mind).
Digital Extremes never managed to fail me (except with Dark Sector) and seeing how they are putting effort on it by giving out some really stunning visuals into it, some customization on it and having the cast of the J.J Abrams movie on it (and at least trying to convince them to give a fuck about the project), I can safely assume that the Trekkies are really hopping to get their hands on this game.
And they better not mess with this game, because Simon Pegg is in it, you can't mess up a game with Simon Pegg in it, have you ever seen something with Simon Pegg that didn't suck other than Ice Age 3? I bet not.
4.
Remember Me
This game will be a beast, showing a new IP to an era that is conquered by the already known intellectual properties, Remember Me is a game with a twist; Having the acrobacy and stealth of the Assassin's Creed series, combat similar to the recent Batman games (which can be diversified thanks to the almighty combo labs which has over 50,000 combinations for combat techniques that the player can create) and the most interesting aspect of this game, memory insertion, which can have you control your target's thoughts (I want to control the thoughts of the guys that made Jersey Shore, so they can make actual shows).
A company like Dotnot is a group that nobody has ever heard of, not to mention how Adrift was never shown in any interesting form, but this group may have imagination in their minds; The road they are taking are full of hazards and pits of doom as the consumers are hard to please, but Remember Me if everything goes right, will be 2012's biggest surprise.
3.
Wasteland 2
This game is being made in unity yet it still manages to attract a lot of attention and interest into it; The game has you control 4 survivors of a nuclear Fallout on a tatical role playing game in a similar fashion to the first Fallout games in which the player's acts toward their Rangers (the playable characters) can change their personality as you progress giving unique feels to each of them, not to mention the NPCs that are along with you in your journey, that can help you progress the game and each with their own opinions, personality and motivations.
I tend to like turn based gameplay and Wasteland 2 seems to be in my tastes.
2.
Grand Theft Auto V
NUMBER 2?! BLASPHEMY! With that said, let me continue, Rockstar Games is a great dev, often making some wonderful games that often change in eras and periods each with their own charm; Taking a new approach to the GTA series by having a story that involves bank robbery, some pretty amazing visuals, the ability to play as three anti-heroes, more developed currency system, some pretty intelligent AI and how you can explore new cities in one giant map is fantastic.
You have anything you want in a GTA game (except dating, because you saw how some hot coffee can blast a soccer mom's morality) everything you ever wanted in this controversy fueled series (and I'll kick Joe Manchin's ass if he bans this game).
1.
Watch Dogs
Thumbs up, Ubisoft, Thumbs to the up; This game right here has the best concept I've ever seen, you have control of anything that happens on this electronic fueled city in the hands of a hacker; Cause havoc by disabling cars, cut off a people's talk on the cellphone and most importantly, kick some people's asses with your guns.
The game's concept of using a city against itself plays amazing especially in a sandbox game like Watch Dogs, I expect an amazing ammount of exploration in this game and cause an evolution to the sandbox genre with a creative plot and liberal gameplay.
I'm happy to see that in the gaming market where bankruptcy, in-game scandals like on disc DLC and many companies trying to follow a traditional trend, Ubisoft comes up with fresh ideas and still mantains herself.
Also Check out these upcoming games:
Fuse, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Pikmin 3, Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z, Project CARS, Company of Heroes 2, Beyond: Two Souls, Soul Hackers, Metro Last Night, Crysis 3 and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
See You, Space Cowboy
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