Hype check: 2021 games

When it came to 2020 wrapping up, I was left wondering what games I'd initially been hyped for, what games I'd dismissed as boring, or games I'd thought would just suck. I wanted to make this blog just for myself, so I could check back in around a year from now, and see how it all turned out! It's really just a mindless stream of thought I'm recording here.

Scott Pilgrim VS the World The Game is going to be a day 1 buy. There's...not really much else to say, unless Ubisoft fails spectacularly at porting an XLBA game to modern consoles...

Ys IX is releasing!! I really hope NISA handles it well, after their Ys 8 scandal. Won't be a day 1 purchase, but I'll keep my eye on it.

Persona 5 Strikers...I don't like Persona 5, but I'm a mindless fan, so I'm obviously going to play it. I do like Koei Tecmo Warriors games, so it'll probably be worth it for the gameplay and OST alone.

I hope by the time bravely default 2 releases, I'll have played 1, or at least gotten somewhat close to trying it? I hope they port the original to Switch or PC or anything that isn't the 3DS tbh.

Can Natsume ever make a good Harvest Moon? One World looks...actually better than their other attempts. It's no Rune Factory, though.

Prince of Persia SoT remake!!! I'm so super hyped for this. I know the footage looked really crappy, but I'm hoping...Ubisoft...fixed...things...before release...oh boy.

Disco Elysium: Final Cut. I want to try this a ton. All last year I heard was hype for this game, and now it's got a definitive release! Yes please!

Nier Replicant will be something interesting. I'm a little sad it's going to be specifically the Japanese version, and not the western one, but I don't know much about the series myself, just what I've heard from others. It seems like a great game, and maybe I'll like it enough to wanna go back to the og Nier?

Deathloop: anything that Arkane makes has my attention instantly. I was sad it got delayed, but hopefully they made the most of their time. It looked like Dishonored but with guns and repetition shenanigans. Hopefully having to redo sections won't be annoying.

RUNE FACTORY 5 FOR GAME OF THE YEAR DONT LET ME DOWN

I totally forgot Apex Legends was coming to the Switch. Can the console handle that? I'm really skeptical but who knows!

The Good Life has been something on my radar for what feels like years at this point. I'm really hopeful on it being good, but I'm super apprehensive as well. Maybe it won't be what I'm hoping for.

Gotham Knights looks like the Batman game I've always wanted--where you can play as Red Hood and Tim Drake Robin...even if he's in Damian's costume?

There's that whole Hogwarts Legacy game that I didn't care about initially, but now I've seen almost all the Harry Potter games and I'm actually interested. But the developer doesn't give me any confidence...

Kena: Bridge of Spirits was my favorite game revealed at the weirdo fake E3 last year. It looks adorable! I haven't heard much about it lately, though? Is it doing okay? I wonder.

Mass Effect has seemed like the most boring RPG series out there, to me. I've never really given it a fair shake though, and given the fact that EA games come with Game Pass now, it's free to try...why not. I don't think I'll like it.

Is No More Heroes 3 even real?

Oh my gosh I forgot the SMT 3 remaster was coming out. Heck yes!!!! And V? Gosh, I'm just gonna take my switch and disappear for months with my precious SMT goodness.

I'm not confident in Halo Infinite, purely going off the weird developer flip flops going on at 343. They keep losing people and that's never a good sign...

Nintendo finally joins the year of our lord 2007 as it adds online play to Mario 3D World. Maybe I'll actually beat it this time!

I'm sorry I don't like Monster Hunter...I'm going to try the demo for Rise...but I just am skeptical. I've tried World, I've tried 3U...ehhhh. I bet it's going to sell GANGBUSTERS though! ...not a shocking claim.

Oh, there's that LEGO Star Wars game! I saw it at E3 a few years ago and I really liked what I saw. I've played 2 LEGO games ever, and never really gotten into Star Wars outside of IV/V. Kinda excited for this one! It sure took them long enough to make it, but it does have a huge scope to cover!

Jeez, Roller champions didn't release already? It was like a bootleg Rocket League. I seriously hope they retooled it, otherwise it's going to suffer a very quick death in the esports lineup.

Dying Light 2 has some serious writer cred to it...or it did, before Avalone got ejected...Vampire 2, too. I don't know what to think when a creator gets accused of bad things...I love his work, and I can separate the person from the allegations, but yikes. Yikes? Yikes.

WHERE IS SKULL AND BONES UBISOFT? I assume we're getting its cancellation this year.

It Takes Two looked hilarious--I think it's going to be like Unravel 2 and will be a great little coop game. Not too much hype for it, but fun enough to be interested in it when it launches.
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godreborn
ys ix is what I'm look forward to as well as super mario 3d world, bravely default 2, and monster hunter rise. I have the later three reserved, but via digitally. for some reason, Nintendo only allows digital preorders via paypal, so you can't pay with a debit card. anyway, ys viii scandal? I got @Hayato213 interested in the game, and he beat it. I'm sure he'll buy part ix. there's also ys origin. I seem to be missing some stuff in it like the last fire upgrade and one of the items in inventory. I played the game on steam, and I beat it there too. I have the last fire upgrade there, but I'm missing the same item from inventory. hah.
 
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relauby
I’m super excited for The Good Life. Before Deadly Premonition 2 was actually announced, that felt like SWERY trying to recapture that kind of gameplay style (albeit with a way different tone, from the looks of things). I backed that day one on Kickstarter and can’t wait for it
 
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Hells Malice
Rune Factory 5 when. I need it directly into my veins.

Nier Replicant will be alright despite being ruined by preteen little boy Nier

I'm still hopeful for the new Halo as well.
 
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Chary
@godreborn Ys 8 launched with machine translation, then NISA had to publically apologize and retranslate the entire game. Really cringeworthy, given it was their first attempt at the series after taking over from XSEED.
 
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godreborn
I'm not sure which version I have. I bought the game retail wise, then digitally, then I sold the retail version for a lot of money. I don't think it's being made anymore as I sold mine for over $70. I noticed the same with hyrule warriors, which I also sold for $70+.
 
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Chary
If you didn’t notice anything crazy, you probably played the fixed version. I didn’t know the retail was already worth that much! Wow
 
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godreborn
it's a pretty complex story, especially when you get near the end, so I'm surprised they thought they could get away with that. I didn't notice anything crazy with either version. I had to go through the game again after my nand got corrupted. I sent the system back to Nintendo, since it was legit, and they sent me back a refurbished unit which works very well. they apologized for not being able to get the saves back. this was back when it was under warranty. I've gotten all saves back but octopath traveler and xenoblade chronicles 2. I had over 100 hours in octopath, but I started a new game (still in the chapter 1s).
 
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there's only one 2021 game i'm hyped for, Bright Memory: Infinite
 
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eyeliner
Scott Pilgrim and YS:IX
The rest are nice, but won't make me drool.
Mass Effect needs to be completely remade, it shouldn't even exist anymore.
Batman is kind of more of the same with different characters, but we'll see.

But it seems to be a good year for gamers, that's for sure.
 
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AmandaRose
I'm hyped to play absolutely any game coming out this year. Nothing is going to be as bad as a certain Cat Cafe game I have been playing a lot of this week :rofl2:.
 
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MajinCubyan
Can't wait for both SMT games. V was the driving force for me to get a Switch all those years ago now. Looking forward to Rise but I'm a huge MH fan so no surprise there.


Forgot about that Gotham Knights but got me hyped now, the Red Hood is badass. Maybe get Rune Factory 5 (my gfs most hyped game) and 3D World.
 
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RichardTheKing
I'm excited for Persona 5 Strikers; I hope they manage to fit in some Royal content somehow.

As for Bravely Default II, the original game was quite a large part of my mid-high school life (what, Year 9? 10? Something like that), and I loved it. I loved just how flexible the Job combinations can be in it; I loved the characters, too, and Luxendarc was also quite engrossing. Bravely Second annoyed me with some of its changes, but it is still a damn fine game - I just played through it again, in fact - and some of its other changes are actually quite beneficial. I wish they would port stuff like "Favourites" (i.e. saved Job and equipment setups, up to 10 of them), easy Unearthly Bun farming, and the ability to immediately do the same action multiple times in a turn by pressing R on it (instead of having to Brave multiple times and select the action through the menus multiple times).

So yeah, I'm cautiously optimistic for BD2 - though, Bravely Second did have a sequel hook regarding Ringabel, the "Sword of the Brave" and it apparently being a "third key", and the Dimensionguard or whatever. I wonder if that will be followed up on at all, like how Default's sequel hook (Magnolia freeing Tiz) was...

Mass Effect, at least the original Shepard trilogy, has changed a lot between the three games, especially between 1 and 2. Though I would recommend playing through ME1 at least once, in order to get an understanding for what happens in it; after that, if you want, just download a save file from the Internet to import into ME2.
Though I don't know why Mass Effect will be important this year...is a new game in the works, or something?

Harry Potter...I don't care for it much anymore. I used to read the novels for most of high school, but since 2016, I've moved onto HP fanfiction, then not even that. Doesn't help that Rowling is extreme cringe...

Super Mario 3D World is no 3D Land or 64 DS; I have the game on Wii U, and I didn't like it. Not to mention how online has had that dumb paywall since 2019 or so...ugh.

Lastly, LEGO Star Wars. Only play "The Complete Saga", really; that's the pinnacle, since it has the old mute-figurine charm (and thus the humour's conveyed through gesturing and funny little twists added to the general story, in cutscenes), and doesn't have any godawful sequel nonsense, thankfully.
 
Chary
@alexander1970 ive only actually played RE1! That’s another thing I hope to accomplish in 2021: playing more RE games.
 
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Silent_Gunner
About Resident Evil...I'd suggest playing the original Resident Evil 3 first before playing the R3make. The amount of content they cut from the game is quite the Nemesis to be Given to Ya' from the Mr. X fedoras that Capcom put to the task of making content for Resident Evil Resistance that should have gone to the main game. And apparently that last game was a ripoff of Dead by Daylight, but crap.
 
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