New Games on the Horizon (the video game thread)

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by SolidSnake84

Great post man, i agree with a lot of your points. My 3 favorite video game franchises of all time are Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and Metal Gear Solid. I look at all of their offerings with Rose colored glasses, unfortunatley.

I did not enjoy RE5 as I hoped i would, but in time learned to like it. I loved the "lost in nightmares" DLC that was actually scary and payed awesome homage to Resident Evil 1.

Silent Hill has not made a good game IMO since Silent Hill 3. Metal Gear Solid thankfully continues to be awesome.

Dead Space is another one of my favs, not of all time yet. Dead Space one scared the ever loving s*it out of me, and Dead Space 2 was just as scary. I will be very disappointed if they dumb down the 3rd one because it's "too scary".

The survival horror genre could make big money if somebody does it right. Zombie were supposedly done to death and now with stuff like The Walking Dead, Zombies are big business again. You'd think Capcom would figure this out, so maybe RE6 might be good...I'll get it either way

Yeah, it seems like you and I were fortunate to grow up in a time where there was just the right amount of innovation and growth for the big names. Back in the last 2 generations you almost never had to worry about a big game falling on it's face. Resident Evil, MGS, Silent Hill, Final Fantasy were always guranteed hits.

And it's not even that the games are bad but rather they are painfully mediocre. I looked at the last 4 games I got on midnight releases, every single last one of them was unable to get higher then a B in my book (ME3, Dead Island, Final Fantasy XIII, Uncharted 3).

It's basically the equivalent of being a Skins fan circa 2000.

Luckily I recently got a sweet gaming rig from HP and have either been able to rediscover old console classics that I enjoyed (Dead Space 1/2, Mass Effect 2 that basically now resemble high def remakes) as well as games I never played before like Half Life and Portal.

[SolidSnake84]

Yep i enjoy gaming on my PC as much as time will allow it. I still have a 360, PS3, but there is something special and kind of "throw back" to playing games on PC.

I forgot to mention that the Elder Scrolls and Fallout games were up their on my list. I have spent literall hundreds of hours on each of their games on my PC. I have recently been playing the Dawnguard expansion and it has not disappointed.

Thinking back to the time you mentioned, it really is true that you didn't have to worry about a game flopping back then. But it seems like now everything is made to fit the casual gamer. I miss games being difficult and downright frustrating. Now everything is almost dumbed down. That news on Dead Space being called "too scary" has really bummed me out. I hope they don't change too much for Dead Space 3, i really wanna enjoy it. Same with Resident Evil 6....we'll see i guess.