MEA vs Other Games of 2017/2018 Hype, reviews, mechanics, story, marketing, personal ranking

But only the ones owning the particular piece of hardware will remember them or praise them. On the same lines I could bring up Pillars or Eternity. Not much use to any console user, but groudbreaking in my opinion. But not a fair comparison, since it only covers a fraction of the market.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say I'll probably like Middle Earth Shadow of War more than ME:A. If it's as good or better than the first that will be the case.

Was really hyped for ME:A once but I am kinda dissapointed with the end result so I decided to drop the game after nearing the end of my first playthrough. Currently playing a lot of Overwatch, Normandy 44: Steel Division and The Witcher 3. As for games I'm hyped for:

- Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord
- Normandy 44: Steel Division (currently it's in Open Beta)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 if Rockstar finally mans up and releases it on PC
- Iron Harvest
- Hearts of Iron IV: Death or Dishonor
- Stardew Valley Multiplayer

And I also have a couple of games which I would like to hear from in the nearby future:

- Age of Empires IV
- Need for Speed Underground 3 (only if it's like a good old arcade racer. NFS started to suck after they went for realism.)
- TES VI or Fallout: New Vegas 2
- Sleeping Dogs 2 (which is not gonna happen because UFG shutted down.)

I bought it for Ovlivion initially, and the trilogy turned out to be a massive bonus. But I didn't have anything else to play modern games on at the time so it was my only system. Now I have a gaming PC so I can't really justify another one!

Don't need games incorporating mechanics like they already do as that's how you get generic games. So "if" andromeda had any mechanics I thought were unique I really wouldn't want others copying it as that just limits the experience and it then comes down to who does it better when it comes to picking the game.

As for how will andromeda match up to others? Depends on how you want to look at it. Are we going to compare by genre? Sales? How it rates? How it's longevity holds up (longevity is my own personal thing on rating how good a game is, good games can hold up a pop after months as people let the "new" get in the way and then realize later it's not so good as they thought). If going by genre, I think andromeda can be one of the best for the year, but ultimately I feel this year really sucks for RPGs anyways(Andromeda was the only one that originally peaked my interest). We already know it's ratings and odds are GoTY won't be happening. As for sales, it'll be a top contender for RPG genre but it's going to lose out to the fps and bigger known titles like it always has, it's simply not big enough to contend with the top of the market when it comes to sales.

As for games I'm looking forward to:

Destiny2 (seriously hoping they learned off D1 as they had various uncertainties on what they wanted to do but then again it was their first game in 6 years with a complete overhaul of the studio).

CoD WWII since it seems it's going back to the ground and away from the futuristic crap that so many games do today.

State of decay 2

Last of us 2

Shadow of war

There's a few remastered/remakes as well that I'll give a go.

Quality shitpost.

I'm looking forward to aRPG called Vampyr that's made by the studio that did Life is Strange. You play as a doctor in victorian London during an epidemic that becomes a vampire. It's supposed to be one of those heavy choice/consequence games where feeding on someone can have a far reaching consequences and you have to balance keeping your cover as a doctor and growing stronger. Sounds pretty good to me.

Been hankering for a decent vampire game since Vampire the Masquerade:Bloodlines

Same here. Vampyr is currently the only game that I'm looking forward to.

Previously I was really looking forward to Dawn of War III, then I played the open beta and felt nothing. Rather meh gaming year for me so far.

I've backed Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire and have strong belief it will be amazing.

Waiting for any announcement regarding Tyranny DLC (or something). Communication has been very sparse and odd (weird stand-alone portrait pack???), but what they said at PDXCon sounded like a definite promise.

As an enormous fan of SystemShock2 and Avellone's writing, I already preordered, played, and loved Prey. Will replay too.

Witcher 3 dethroned Red Dead Redemption for me. I have a good feeling, RDR2 will dethrone Witcher 3. I never expected MEA to dethrone Witcher 3 in terms of open world gameplay, side quests, and story, but it did come close. It is my favorite Mass Effect and open world space opera (well it's really the only one but I love it).

Red DEad REdemption was the first game to take a world that would have normally been huge, beautiful, boring, and empty, and made it one of the most engaging and gorgeous open world games to date. They absolutely nailed random events, and always having something new to do around every corner. That was 7 years ago. I think RDR2 may set a new standard. If we get MEA2, I hope they take notes. I think we also get to play as multiple protagonists again.

The CEO of Take Two said it will be coming out this fall unless it is not absolutely perfect. Take Notes EA...this is how you sell video games.

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