Regarding Cerny's GDC presentation, all that extra effort and spit polish to make the tech talk "presentable" for what seemed like an audience larger than the usual GDC developer crowd certainly was appreciated. It felt like it landed somewhere in between that kind of audience and, say, the usual E3 audience or console reveal audience, and folks like us could follow along without having to be intimately familiar with subject after subject. That said, being interesting and entertaining doesn't mean I didn't also find it unintentionally funny... Like, oh boy who here is a zlib fanboy and who here is a hydra hipster?

Also: Mark Cerny's presence during this reminded me of John Carmack giving quakecon keynotes from an earlier era (surprisingly though, Cerny is 6 years older)

Yay for big releases this month. Nioh 2 -- the Sequel to the Koei-Tecmo's Souls-'em-Gaiden -- and Doom Fricking Eternal.

I'm also hoping to listen in on the conversation about the Langrisser I & II remaster and what the reception is like. Langrisser is a Japanese tactical/strategy RPG series originally on the Sega Genesis, with only the first game being brought to the west. From my perspective I have never touched Langrisser II, whereas any enhancements in a remaster might have made my last replay of Langrisser I/Warsong as fulfilling as I hoped it should have been. Anyway, despite not being committed to pick this up or anything, it's still just so cool to me have these out of nowhere games back in front of people in a bigger way than could have been reasonably been expected. Up to the announcement, I would have told you the series was too niche in popularity/sales and perhaps not established enough in terms of quality/reputation to get a remaster.

A thread for examining the new games of March! Share your personal picks, interesting curios, and not quite there possibles...

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Did you discover some small game that not everyone knows about?
Share that and let us know what it is about!

Already know a thing or two that interests you?
Make a list (or a swanky desire index) of your interests and/or possibles!

Don't know what's so great about an upcoming game you keep hearing about?
Ask here!

Don't follow gaming news that closely and just want to passively see what BigGames™ people care about?
This is the place!

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Thread concept:

The basic idea is to list new games that you are interested in, as well as games you are potentially curious about or want to give wider attention to. You can briefly describe them or ask other people to help fill you in. The hope is that regular threads like these can act as a collective filter/discovery mechanism to help people decide what is worth checking out.

"New games" means any new title that is being released or ported this month in any capacity (not "backlogs/what you are playing this month"). The angle here is sharing your anticipation and promoting game discovery (as opposed to sharing comments about a first playthrough in progress - that belongs elsewhere).

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• If you want a handy list that covers most of the major upcoming games of the month, here's a couple text lists of upcoming games:
  • Giant Bomb
  • Game Informer
  • Wikipedia

Feel free to post other lists or list videos of upcoming releases that you find useful.

• Final request: If you are the first person to mention a game please provide (at minimum) a short sentence description. (If it is a very big AAA release though, then don't worry about it.) This is a good convention that makes the thread more useful as a discovery mechanism, and especially helps out anyone who doesn't follow the news as closely as you.

@irongrey I never used them either (and if they were barren then I guess they should have been closed) but I feel the same way about the decline of forums across the web. Social media platforms that put every community into a single giant ecosystem just don't feel right, but it's the worse way that the internet has turned out.

A thread for examining the new games of February! Share your personal picks, interesting curios, and not quite there possibles...

.

Did you discover some small game that not everyone knows about?
Share that and let us know what it is about!

Already know a thing or two that interests you?
Make a list (or a swanky desire index) of your interests and/or possibles!

Don't know what's so great about an upcoming game you keep hearing about?
Ask here!

Don't follow gaming news that closely and just want to passively see what BigGames™ people care about?
This is the place!

~

Thread concept:

The basic idea is to list new games that you are interested in, as well as games you are potentially curious about or want to give wider attention to. You can briefly describe them or ask other people to help fill you in. The hope is that regular threads like these can act as a collective filter/discovery mechanism to help people decide what is worth checking out.

"New games" means any new title that is being released or ported this month in any capacity (not "backlogs/what you are playing this month"). The angle here is sharing your anticipation and promoting game discovery (as opposed to sharing comments about a first playthrough in progress - that belongs elsewhere).

.

• If you want a handy list that covers most of the major upcoming games of the month, here's a couple text lists of upcoming games:
  • Giant Bomb
  • Game Informer
  • Wikipedia

Feel free to post other lists or list videos of upcoming releases that you find useful.

• Final request: If you are the first person to mention a game please provide (at minimum) a short sentence description. (If it is a very big AAA release though, then don't worry about it.) This is a good convention that makes the thread more useful as a discovery mechanism, and especially helps out anyone who doesn't follow the news as closely as you.

@bard91

Has there ever been another case of two games that are so easy to confuse coming out so close to each other?

In October 2011 there was Aliens Infestation and Centipede: Infestation. Both were developed by Wayforward!

A few years ago there were suddenly three Wonder Boy games in development to keep track of, although their release dates ended up being staggered.

Before that, I remember Shadowrun Retruns and Shadowrun Online being extremely confusing. Completely different games by different developers, but they could be reduced to "turn based from an isometric perspective" and they had overlapping kickstarters.

Valve also wants y'all to play some old games: all Half-Life games are free on Steam until Half-Life Alyx comes out (which is currently sometime in March). Note that this means when the free period expires, you will have to pay to continue playing those free games even if you downloaded them.

This offer includes the two episodes for HL2, the two expansions for HL1 (Blue Shift and Opposing Force), and Valve's own port/remaster "Half-Life Source" for HL1. A reddit user has usefully collected the Steam page links here.

@GageBlackW23 It's still a very nice prediction though and you do earn points for the "free-for-all" predictions, this just happens to be an unintentional corner case that I should have anticipated.

I'm losing track of how much stuff has been delayed in like the last 7 days.

@GageBlackW23 Nice one, although it occurs to me that Byleth is for DLC pack 1 and the common score sheet happened to specifically state 'Fighters Pass 2' characters. (no idea how to handle that, just keep score however I guess) ┐( ´－｀)┌

On a related note, there's no way my "Edelgard" prediction is going to happen now.