After the reveals and announcements of this year's E3 and Gamescom, one of the writers at Throwing Digital Sheep has compiled a shortlist of their top five most anticipated video games.
Introducing..No Man's Sky: Adrift.A lot has changed in the years since No Man’s Sky released.
Despite No Man Sky's rocky launch, Hello Games managed to turn it into one of the best space exploration RPGs out there.
I hate the whole concept of "comeback story" because at the end of the day it doesn't remove the core issue we had in the first place, that we were lied to, it was disappointing and it launched with bare content to what was promised for years.
Any bad game can have a comeback story if it's supported enough after launch but for me if you launch in a terrible state then you had your chance. I can applaud you for what you've done after but at the end of the day there's not much of a choice since most gamers would blank your next product if you ditched your last game so fast, it's not about repairing the game but spending your time repairing gamers trust before you launch your next product otherwise it would be dead on arrival.
With these stories and the games being updated, the only way is up most of the time so of course it's going to improve the game and feel better over all, getting better and better as time passes. No Mans Sky, Sea of Thieves, Fallout 76 etc but then you have games like Anthem, Suicide Squad, Redfall and The Avengers where the devs just clearly moved on, now if they have another product people won't be as exited for it, I mean hell Guardians of the Galaxy was a great game but because of the Avengers it didn't help its sales since people were obviously still sour at that point.
I still think despite the improvements to games like No Mans Sky and Cyberpunk along with being better now overall the games are still not up there to what was promised and hyped as for years.
If we keep celebrating these “comeback stories” then unfortunately it only strongly supports the concept that these studios / publishers can continue to push half arsed broken products out for the sake of quick sales instead of waiting until they are fully finished. We need to condemn this awful behaviour or sadly we lose all voice and power as consumers.
I really enjoyed it at launch and had every trophy by August 2016.
The experience I had is no longer in the game: It was just me and my ship. It was a survival game and the feeling of loneliness in the universe was pervasive. There was no way to ruin too far from your ship and, in an emergency, you grenaded a hole in the ground to survive.
I miss that aspect, but since then, I love what they've done.
Bounce back to Ratchet & Clank (2016) for its 8th anniversary! To celebrate, the Bouncer is now available to download at no additional cost.
They should update Rift Apart on PS5 it is broken we cannot finish it lost all weapons and even the ratchet...
I wish we got dlc for Ratchet and Clank Rift apart. I want more content for that masterpiece of a game.
Good list
The picture says it all.
I'll be playing 4 of them.
I am genuinely equally anticipating Halo 5, Halo wars 2, Fallout 4, Battlefront 3, Crackdown 3 and Quantum Break. So happy I'm a gamer right now.
My list of most wanted games (for 2016) is far too lengthy to post them all here, but my top five would have to go something like this...
1. Horizon Zero Dawn (new open world ip, with fantastic visuals, interesting lore, and day/night cycle with full weather effects in the environment...what's not to like?)
2. Uncharted 4 (Naughty Dog. Nuff said.)
3. Mass Effect (I expect to be stunned.)
4. No Man's Sky/Rime (Can't really separate the two - it's a bit of a cheat, but they both look ridiculously good.)
5. Quantum Break (This one's a tough one, as I could easily put The Last Guardian, Cuphead, The Tomorrow Children, Below, or Inside here, but QB looks like the real deal.)