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I didn't realize how stacked this month is until now, there's like 8 games I'm interested in. I don't think I need to explain Crash 4, Star Wars Squadrons, and WD Legion. Here's the rest of em'. I Am Dead (Oct 8) Youtube Video Cloudpunk (coming to consoles Oct 15, already on PC) Youtube Video Rajj: An Ancient Epic (Oct 15) Youtube Video Carto (Oct 27) Youtube Video Ghostrunner (Oct 27) Youtube Video If I had to pick only one for this month (and I'll probably have to), it's gonna be WD Legion. After finishing Ghost of Tsushima, I really want to dive in into another good open world game, and WD2 is one of my favorite open world games from this generation, so I have high hopes for Legion. I would also really consider buying SW Squadrons and Rajj and going broke in the process. There's too many cool games, man.

Let's Play Fantasy Quest ep 12! In this last episode we can't be sure who exactly cut the rope bridge, and we find that the wizard sure is a happy fellow. Let's Play Fantasy Quest episode 12, Crown of Wisdom and Finale Youtube Video Thanks to everyone who watched the whole thing. If revisiting old mac stuff interests you, here is the youtube channel "YYsMG" mentioned in this episode. I'll catch you next time!

Mafia remake is one that im anticipating most.

6 is my third favorite Yakuza game

Every now and then my friends and I like to do things similar to the EZA Tiermaker Stream. Usually 2-5 of us rate things (most often the MCU) by making our own Tiermaker lists then sharing pictures of them. We then argue over why someone put something so low or so high. It might be fun to have a Tiermaker topic on the forums here, but I could see things getting out of hand with how much arguing has gone on in the past. As for other personal rankings of things, I kinda never think about it. I don't really think about what score I would give many games (roguelikes being an exception), or what makes a game enjoyable to me. If someone asks me what my favorite food/movie/game etc. is I never really have a concrete response. The way I come up with definitive rankings for something like the forum GOTYs is to take everything I have enjoyed from that year and put them in a row from favorite to least favorite. Then, I ask myself if I enjoyed a game more than the game above it or less than the game below it and move it up or down according to my gut feeling.

I'm stoked for Fall Guys as well, no excuse for me to miss out especially since it's free on PS Plus (unless PSN Asia doesn't get that one). I'm also curious about Windbound and Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time. It will be mostly a backlog month for me though. Hopefully Skater XL shows up on my region's PSN store sometime soon. Youtube Video Youtube Video

+1 for CrossCode, it looks like 16-bit heaven! Youtube Video The PC version so far is at 86 OpenCritic.

Reviews are out, it's currently at 80 on Opencritic (16 reviews). As expected, it seems that the multiplayer is the main strength here. https://opencritic.com/game/9642/star-wars-squadrons

Beyond Blue arrives tomorrow. This seems almost like a scientific game. A really soothing-looking underwater journey to study marine life. I think I was sold pretty much immediately, I'll most likely get this ASAP. It's for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Beyond Blue - Gameplay Trailer - Available June 11th, 2020 Youtube Video

@mbun Oh! I thought you were saying it with the intention of something that you know Damiani said about the game.

Watching Damiani play Crisis Core recently got me really hyped for FF7R, I'm certainly not the biggest FF or JPRG fan out there but I really dig FF7's world, at least from the bits I learned from playing Crisis Core back in the day. The most exciting thing for me is a bit unusual: I really want to hear the soundtrack in it's full glory, all the music from the trailers has been so fucking amazing. Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories comes out April 7. It's a janky looking, PS2-era feeling game about surviving a large-scale disaster. I used to obsess over a game called Raw Danger (PS2), and apparently this is like a spiritual successor of it, which I'm totally down for. Youtube Video Sakura Wars has been standing out on the Asia PSN store for a while now, but now that it's getting a western release, it might be the time for me to check it out. I know nothing about the series. There's cool-looking mech action combat gameplay, visual novel (!!!) social parts, and that's all I know. Youtube Video Cloudpunk comes out to Steam on April 23. The trailers look cool, I really dig the look of the game, and the premise sounds cool (it's about delivering packages, with some twist that I don't know yet). Youtube Video

I want to spend more time with my Switch since it's getting a bit dusty (I still can't believe that the main Switch exclusives rarely goes on sale. As someone relatively new to Nintendo's ecosystem, it's the biggest problem I have with the Switch), so I might go with Animal Crossing New Horizons this month. I only tried New Leaf on my friend's 3DS for a hot second so I'm excited to get into AC. Also, Granblue Fantasy Versus's Western Release is coming up very soon (March 3rd). FGC twitter is enjoying it, predictably with the multiplayer delay based netcode being a obvious downer. Youtube Video

Since the stuff I was after got delayed, there is only 1 thing really that I'm after this month. Darksiders: Genesis. I'm a big fan of the series and this game seem to be in a diablo-esk style which I really cant say no to either!

Warcraft III: Reforged is expected to release Jan 28 (although I think it's been delayed before, so...). If you are unfamiliar, Warcraft 3 is a fantasy RTS with a heavy hero unit element and "Warcraft 3: Reforged" is a remake/remaster. For whatever reason, I peg Warcaft 3 as the ending point where people really cared about RTS, but it still holds up as one of the best and was very influential. I love WC3, and I hope this is a straight upgrade over the original.

@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.

Arise: A Simple Story Tbh I don't know a lot about the game but the trailer in the last State of Play was intriguing. I will check it out probably, and suggest you guys the same. Youtube Video

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.

@e_zed_eh_intern Yeah and I'm really curious about how they all feel about it being a really ''cargo simulator''. I don't think majority of gamers were expecting that it will be literally about long cargo deliveries. Also, if Ben's review is anything to by(go and read it, well written) action, stealth, boss fights etc are not good and just average.

Anything with Future of Dreams will do just fine.