Sunday, October 22nd 2023
This Week in Gaming (Week 43)
As we enter the last full week of October, the AAA game releases are off the charts, with no less than three massive releases this coming week. Our top pick is a horror game from a Finnish developer that most of you should be familiar with. The remaining releases this week involve a bullet hell, skyscrapers, metal, a beast, a ghost and silent gods, of sorts at least. If that sounds confusing, read on to see what's being released this coming week.
Alan Wake 2 / This week's AAA title / Friday 27 October
A string of ritualistic murders threatens Bright Falls, a small-town community surrounded by Pacific Northwest wilderness. Saga Anderson, an accomplished FBI agent with a reputation for solving impossible cases arrives to investigate the murders. Anderson's case spirals into a nightmare when she discovers pages of a horror story that starts to come true around her.
FatalZone / Monday 23 October
FatalZone is an auto shooter with roguelike and RPG elements set in a savage world of zombies. Exterminate zombie hordes, collect resources, upgrade your camp, and level up mercenaries. Humanity must survive at any cost!
Cities: Skylines II / This week's second AAA title / Tuesday 24 October
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into the thriving metropolis only you can imagine. You've never experienced building on this scale. With deep simulation and a living economy, Cities: Skylines II delivers world-building without limits. Lay the foundations for your city to begin. Create the roads, infrastructure, and systems that make life possible day to day. It's up to you - all of it.
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 / Tuesday 24 October
Released in 1998, this was the first 3D title in the METAL GEAR series. The game pioneers 3D stealth action against the threat of war and global nuclear weapons, using live action footage, cinematic cut scenes, interwoven with innovative gameplay.
Beast / Wednesday 25 October
Beast is a dynamic and brutal gridless tactical turn-based RPG where moral choices during battle influence the gameplay. In a grimdark medieval world, torn by plague and military conflicts, you decide if you should exercise or exorcise your inner beast with dire consequences for you and your allies!
Ghostrunner 2 / This week's third AAA title / Thursday 26 October
Blood will run in the highly anticipated hardcore FPP slasher set one year after the events of Ghostrunner. Adventure through a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future that takes place after the fall of the Keymaster, a tyrant who ruled over Dharma Tower, the last refuge of mankind. Jack is back to take on the violent AI cult that has assembled outside Dharma Tower and shape the future of humanity.
Dragonheir: Silent Gods / Friday 27 October
Dragonheir: Silent Gods is an open-world high-fantasy strategy RPG that takes players on an epic journey where they can discover a dynamic world with high-quality character models and diverse exploration possibilities that include character customization options and branching storylines.
Alan Wake 2 / This week's AAA title / Friday 27 October
A string of ritualistic murders threatens Bright Falls, a small-town community surrounded by Pacific Northwest wilderness. Saga Anderson, an accomplished FBI agent with a reputation for solving impossible cases arrives to investigate the murders. Anderson's case spirals into a nightmare when she discovers pages of a horror story that starts to come true around her.
FatalZone is an auto shooter with roguelike and RPG elements set in a savage world of zombies. Exterminate zombie hordes, collect resources, upgrade your camp, and level up mercenaries. Humanity must survive at any cost!
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into the thriving metropolis only you can imagine. You've never experienced building on this scale. With deep simulation and a living economy, Cities: Skylines II delivers world-building without limits. Lay the foundations for your city to begin. Create the roads, infrastructure, and systems that make life possible day to day. It's up to you - all of it.
Released in 1998, this was the first 3D title in the METAL GEAR series. The game pioneers 3D stealth action against the threat of war and global nuclear weapons, using live action footage, cinematic cut scenes, interwoven with innovative gameplay.
Beast is a dynamic and brutal gridless tactical turn-based RPG where moral choices during battle influence the gameplay. In a grimdark medieval world, torn by plague and military conflicts, you decide if you should exercise or exorcise your inner beast with dire consequences for you and your allies!
Blood will run in the highly anticipated hardcore FPP slasher set one year after the events of Ghostrunner. Adventure through a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future that takes place after the fall of the Keymaster, a tyrant who ruled over Dharma Tower, the last refuge of mankind. Jack is back to take on the violent AI cult that has assembled outside Dharma Tower and shape the future of humanity.
Dragonheir: Silent Gods is an open-world high-fantasy strategy RPG that takes players on an epic journey where they can discover a dynamic world with high-quality character models and diverse exploration possibilities that include character customization options and branching storylines.
27 Comments on This Week in Gaming (Week 43)
If they made a remake of Sim city 4, with some graphics updates and minor changes, in my opinion it would be much better than cities Skylines
They are resolution locked and FPS locked.
And no mouse/keyboard support.
A simple 1:1 port from console.
At least the first game could be brutal on a cpu when a big city first was build. Fps could drop like a rock i water.
But i am curious about Alan Wake. I will not pre order, as i have not done for years. The disappointment of being early and getting a bug and lag fest. Is not fun and to many games releases unfinished. Games are supposed to be fun. So i am out of the preorder race.
In short, you release a good optimized game = you get my money. Releases a bug fest = f you, im keeping my money.
i think this week will probably conclude big releases this year... unless there is something else..
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I might get them eventually to finally play the entire series as different games were only available on some plaforms, the legacy collection (which this maybe replicates) for example was PS3 exclusive, but only when they drop A LOT in price and Vol2 with the rest of the series is released.
PS3 Legacy collection vs current "Master" Collection, the new master collection leaves out MGS4 and Peace Walker for the NES version of the original Metal Gear and Snake's Revenge unnoficial MGS2 that didn't have any Kojima envolvement. Shameless cashgrab!
Graphics is the same. This is very callous from greedy Konami.
I'm a huge fan of the original and Remedy Entertainment, and a huge boycotter of Epic due to their disgusting exclusivity deals (such as Alan Wake 2), so I'll have to weigh the pros and cons.
Before anybody starts crying about the preliminary system requirements: 1. They're preliminary, so might change, 2. I don't care. Ultra+RT isn't the only visual setting one can enjoy a game at.
Edit: I'm also curious about Cities Skylines 2, but I want the devs to fix the problem I mentioned above.
that "fatalzone" might have been interesting but it does not have coop, dropped.
i'm very interested in LOTR moria...
Those games were designed for console and controller. I remember playing MGS on the PSX and a the combination camera view + controller was perfect. Just like The first three Resident Evil on the PSX.
You should give it a try with a gamepad.
The only issue I have with the MGS collection is the fact 4 is still not on PC, but they may remaster it eventually.
Crying about a console game that is fully made for consoles and would never function correctly on keyboard and mouse due to nuanced movement that an analogue stick can give but digital keys cannot is... disingenuous at best.
They have stated the FPS is locked and visuals no different. Last I heard these are not remasters.
And they're still charging 60$ for it! It's a cashgrab, pure and simpleI don't think they are, which makes the price even more crazy.