What Games Are You Looking Forward To In 2018?

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Dad of War - Was looking forward to this, but the latest preview at E3 was terrible. It made it look like every other God of War game.

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Is this near completion yet? Is it coming in 2018? Really? I don’t believe it.

Insomniac’s Spider man - I hated the E3 preview, but it’s Insomniac, surely they’ll make a good game. I’m pulling for this one.

Metro: Exodus - I’m pulling for this one too. I haven’t played Metro 2 yet, but I did enjoy the first one in fits and starts. It was definitely worth it for some parts of it.

Psychonauts 2 - Ok, I don’t really think this will come out in 2018. But if it does, it will hopefully be as amazing as the original.

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Rockstar single player campaigns are always worth playing through, even if you don’t end up loving it, it always has some highlights that make the whole thing worth it.

Sea of Thieves - I hate pirates, and pirate themed things. But this is Rare, so I’m really pulling for them. Come on Rare! Get your groove back!

System Shock Remake - I’m a huge fan of System Shock 2. So I hope a remake of the original with a good interface finally lets me play it without through my hands up and walking away.

Code Vein - A Dark Souls style combat game game? Yes please. Once I’m done with Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 and The Surge, of course.

Anthem - Bioware doing Destiny? Tell me more Bioware, especially since you guys are already pretty good at the core gameplay in Andromeda.

A Way Out - Coop prison break game from E3. Is it another Army of Two? (Yuck) Or is it something cool?

Kingdom Come: Deliverance - I’m intrigued by their little previews. We’ll see if it all adds up to be more than the sum of it’s cool parts.

Tbaldtree’s space game is the one I’m looking forward to the most. But take your time. No pressure on trying to release it in 2018. Make a huge Privateer style universe and enrich it before release!

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Crackdown 3. And whatever the next Assassins Creed is, because they hit it out of the park with Origins.

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I am hoping they keep a 2 year AC release cycle.

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Agreed, I still need to work my nerve up to play Origins, and I’m in no hurry for that.

As far as like AAA stuff, definitely still looking forward to Crackdown 3, but I’m mostly looking forward to the next indie game that comes out from nowhere and floors me. Happened any number of times over the last couple years, and it’s what keeps me playing.

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Kingdance: Come Deliverom
Battletech

Iconoclasts
Dead Cells

Maybe some others depending on how things go. I don’t see any brawlers except Darksiders 3. Never played those.

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Hm, Not too much.

Battletech
The game @tbaldree is working on.
PoE 2
System Shock Remake

A bit weird that 3 of 4 I already paid for via crowdfunding.

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Why ya gotta be like that?

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Hey sweet! I forgot about this one. I already own the Xbox version too, thanks to the Kickstarter. I need to buy the PC version as well, next time it’s on sale.

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Thank you for bringing Overload to my attention! Bought.

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I think Pathfinder: Kingmaker has a good chance of coming out in the next year.

Derpspace

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Battletech
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Phoenix Point (maybe?)
Kingdom Come Deliverance
Metro Exodus
System Shock remake (but doubtful based upon their progress so far)
Stellar Tactics

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Don’t break my heart by making me think DERPSPACE will hit in 2018!

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Railway Empire
UBOOT
Probably Train Valley 2 (I like its predecessor)
And I am curious about Age of Civilizations II.

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Oooh I forgot about UBOOT. Thx!

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Whatever Triumph Studios might be working on. Eh, @Lennart_Sas!!??

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Looks like you can pre-order this for $30?

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/a-way-out-playstation-4/6174421.p?skuId=6174421&ref=199&loc=FKSJxY2VJAk&acampID=1&siteID=FKSJxY2VJAk-OaliPA1i_ApDjuCt_6yXxg

So that means this is a bargain title, not a full priced game? What does that mean? Maybe it’s a short game?

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I am liking this furiously!

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2018 looks like it will be another great year for games.

  1. Red Dead Redemption 2 - Apart from CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk game, Rockstar’s Red Dead sequel is my most anticipated game ever! It’s been 5 years since GTA V shipped, and I’m dying to experience another one of Rockstar’s meticulously detailed open-worlds. RDR’s OST hasn’t left my playlist since 2010, and nothing beats exploring a vast wilderness on horse back. The most recent trailer reminded me of train robbery opening of Andrew Dominik’s The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford, so if I get similar nihilistic Western vibes when exploring, I’ll be beyond thrilled.
  1. Metro Exodus - The direction the studio’s taking the series with Exodus sounds like an incredibly appealing mix of the best of both the Metro and Stalker games. When the game was announced, the press release mentioned nonlinear levels and noted that the game would take place across an entire year with each season represented. Say no more 4A Games!

  1. No Truce With the Furies - An ambitious retro-futuristic detective CRPG developed by a new studio in Estonia and published by Humble Bundle. It seems similar to Age of Decadence, where the game relies heavily on skill checks, but here the interactive fiction strips away traditional combat, so you’ll experience confrontations instead, which will vary greatly depending upon your character build. For example, role-playing with a high intellect build will make your character overly confident, vulnerable to flattery, and see them frequently lost in the details and minutiae of the world, which results in longer more detailed flavor text and descriptions, while having a low Intellect makes you dim, superstitious, and often making wrong assumptions about the case and suspects you’re pursuing. I’m watching this one closely!
  1. Ion Maiden - This is a shooter that’s coupling truly retro gameplay with truly retro tech, using the original Build engine and its ideas, while taking advantage of 20 years of community know-how to create a Build engine shooter that wouldn’t have been possible in 1996/1997. The team’s comprised of veteran modders from the 1990s FPS community, including EDuke32 vets and Duke Nukem 3D mappers, who have created a brand new 8-bit palette, amplifying the era’s original aesthetic and creative techniques (think Mega Man 9 and 10) for a modern audience. Considering the team’s pedigree (they’re like shooter historians who happen to be seriously talented engineers and designers) this project’s in good hands!

  1. Rune: Ragnarok - 17 years after the original Rune, Human Head are re-imagining the IP as an open-world sandbox RPG. Running on UE4, you can customize your viking however you want, pledge your allegiance to one of the Norse Gods for special abilities and Pagan powers, team-up with other players, jump in a longboat and engage in ship-to-ship combat or set sail to distant lands to raid rival camps, hunt, or take down enormous beasts for special loot.

  1. God of War (2018) - I’m not a fan of the series, but I love the previous work of the writing team assembled for this soft-reboot, which includes Anachronox and Lost Planet 3, so I’m very keen to check this out (plus, I love vikings!). If the characters are as well realized as those two games, then I’m on board with any, potentially, corny father-son story Sony Santa Monica have in store for me.

  1. Vampyr - Set in London during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, Dotnod’s open-world vampire game allows players to finish the game without killing any humans, but what’s more appealing to me is that there’s no morality meter. The idea of playing as a vampiric doctor who’s struggling to reconcile his need for blood and the Hippocratic Oath is hilarious, and given the studio’s recent track record, I’m looking forward to seeing how this one shakes out. It’s been so long since Vampire: Bloodlines!

  1. A Way Out - Josef Fares’ rant against the Oscars was either the best or worst part of the recent Game Awards show, but after Brothers, the best Starbreeze game ever, I’m on board with whatever he’s working on next. A Way Out definitely stands out in EA’s line-up, and the scripted but variable co-op focus is immediately appealing.

  1. Kingdom Come: Deliverance - For backers, it’s been a long time coming, but this incredible enticing historical open-world RPG is nearly here. The combat looks a little tricky, but the amount of freedom the player seemingly has to tackle problems in multiple ways looks fantastic. I hope it lives up to the hype!

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Totally forgot about Surviving Mars.

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mount and blade: bannerlords (finally 2018?)