@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.
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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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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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Feel free to post other lists or list videos of upcoming releases that you find useful.
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.
I updated the first post to streamline the instructions. For maximum funsies make your predictions soon, before the rumored January direct (which could be in days). If you are reading this far in the future and still want to join in for the remainder of the year, go ahead. (of course, your predictions should only be stuff that isn't know at the time you joined).
The "busty Morrigan" PSM cover with that Bosman wanted more than a new demo disc might have been this issue?
If anyone has solid predictions of which games will appear, consider joining this thread I made where we make a year of Nintendo trailer predictions.