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This Week in Gaming (Week 8)

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As we enter the third week of the year's shortest month, we have a ton of new games to look forward to, with the major release this week being a gaslamp fantasy game with an open world and some multiplayer co-op action. As for the remaining games this week, we have an indie sci-fi shooter, a racing sim, a terminator franchise title, a couple of survival games set in different locations, with the latter one being a multiplayer game as well.

Nightingale / This week's major release / Tuesday 20 February
Nightingale is a PVE open-world survival crafting game played solo or cooperatively with friends. Build, craft, fight and explore as you venture through mystical portals into a variety of amazing and fantastical realms. You are stranded beyond our world, cut off by the collapse of the arcane portal network. This catastrophe has left you fighting to survive in a labyrinth of beautiful and dangerous Fae realms. Your goal: become a skilled Realmwalker, and navigate the web of transdimensional portals. Only then can you discover your way to the magical city of Nightingale, the last known bastion of humanity.




Dark Gravity / Monday 19 February
Shoot, destroy, collect, craft and destroy even more! "Dark Gravity" is a fast-paced, low poly vertical shoot'em up game that features non-linear campaign mode with lots of enemies and bosses. Craft new weapons, upgrade your fighter and build an ultimate aerial war machine!



Le Mans Ultimate / Tuesday 20 February
Le Mans is a continually evolving story… powered by emotion, speed and glory.
In the car, in the team garage, on the track and every step of the way - teamwork, true grit and human spirit comes together to make the complete championship winning formula. Here is what you can expect from day one of Early Access when the journey begins on the 20th February.



Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance / Wednesday 21 February
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance is a real-time strategy game based on the Terminator: Dark Fate universe that follows the war between humanity and Legion's synthetic intelligent machine network. In the single-player campaign, you take the role of a commander in the Founders, a force made up of the remnants of the US military and guide your army in an attempt to foil Legion's plan to exterminate the last remnants of humanity. In skirmish and multiplayer modes, play as three very diverse factions: Founders, Movement and Legion.



Pacific Drive / Thursday 22 February
Pacific Drive is a first-person driving survival game with your car as your only companion. Navigate a surreal reimagining of the Pacific Northwest, and face supernatural dangers as you venture into the Olympic Exclusion Zone. Each excursion into the wilderness brings unique and strange challenges as you restore and upgrade your car from an abandoned garage that acts as your home base. Gather precious resources and investigate what's been left behind in the Zone; unravel a long-forgotten mystery while learning exactly what it takes to survive in this unpredictable, hostile environment.



Sons Of The Forest / Friday 23 February
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator. Experience complete freedom to tackle the world how you want. You decide what you do, where to go and how best to survive. There are no NPC's barking orders at you or giving you missions you don't want to do. You give the orders, you choose what happens next.









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I would not rather read a book as the poll offers. But I would rather read manga. Got into this earlier this month. :laugh:
 

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I would opt for a book. It doesn't even have to be a great classic to surpass the games on this list... Honestly.
 
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Pacific Drive reminds me of several franchises and movies rolled up into one huge..... Whatever.
From The Griswalds on yet another "Holiday Road" (NOT) to Evil Dead, Resident Evil, Ghostbusters (Third pic in opening topic post about it reminds me of Ecto 1) and even RoadKill garage, it looks to have it all.

However:
Having it all is one thing, what it does with it is another.
 
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Nightingale and Dark Gravity actually look cool to me.
I think Nightingale LOOKS cool, graphics and setting wise. In practice I doubt it's anything more than just another survival game with the following typical qualities: bad AI, mediocre-at-best combat, and endless hours of tedious resource gathering.
 
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I think Nightingale LOOKS cool, graphics and setting wise. In practice I doubt it's anything more than just another survival game with the following typical qualities: bad AI, mediocre-at-best combat, and endless hours of tedious resource gathering.
I have to agree, I plan on watching it streamed before deciding, but with any new game,it prolly best to wait for the first patch to buy.
 

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There's no way Last Epoch is not here. Last Epoch needs to be here.

Never heard of it and it looks like yet another Diablo clone.
Also, it apparently launched in 2019?
 
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Never heard of it and it looks like yet another Diablo clone.
Also, it apparently launched in 2019?
The grand 1.0 launch is on the 21st, this week. It has been in early access for many years, slowly baking.
This "yet another Diablo clone" is nothing short of a series of quite gameplay revolutionary set of systems in ARPG. The genre will definitely not look at the same after Last Epoch.

I would tell you to watch some videos about this game, but with hundreds of videos being made about this game in recent few weeks, it would be like trying to dodge rain.
 
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The grand 1.0 launch is on the 21st, this week. It has been in early access for many years, slowly baking.
This "yet another Diablo clone" is nothing short of a series of quite gameplay revolutionary set of systems in ARPG. The genre will definitely not look at the same after Last Epoch.
Last Epoch is great in many ways and I look forward to its release, but I fear that it’s windows of popularity will be relatively short, since when Path of Exile 2 will release it will just overshadow everything else in the genre.
 
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Last Epoch is great in many ways and I look forward to its release, but I fear that it’s windows of popularity will be relatively short, since when Path of Exile 2 will release it will just overshadow everything else in the genre.
Having more options is not a bad thing, and I can totally see myself zigzaging between the titles.
 

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Pacific Drive reminds me of several franchises and movies rolled up into one huge..... Whatever.
From The Griswalds on yet another "Holiday Road" (NOT) to Evil Dead, Resident Evil, Ghostbusters (Third pic in opening topic post about it reminds me of Ecto 1) and even RoadKill garage, it looks to have it all.

However:
Having it all is one thing, what it does with it is another.
I saw some early gameplay footage. It doesn't look too bad, they seemingly have created a pretty good system for integrating all of the inspirations they took.
 
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That's good, how it's implemented will largely determine how well it does.
 
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I see some good-ol top down plane shooting action....Dark Gravity it is.
 
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Pacific Drive looks interesting.

The concept of a Le Mans only racing game is weird, but if they bring it to perfection, it could be a good game. Just like a high quality restaurant with only a handful of dishes on the menu.

Wishlisted both.
 
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I'm curious about the terminator. I like strategy so it would be my 1st pick. I wonder how the gameplay itself look like and what units etc. you can build.
 
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I think Nightingale LOOKS cool, graphics and setting wise. In practice I doubt it's anything more than just another survival game with the following typical qualities: bad AI, mediocre-at-best combat, and endless hours of tedious resource gathering.
Sadly i kind of concur, the extended gameplay trailer shown is already super heavy on tedious crafting BS... But the setting looks super interesting i'm a sucker for steampunk/victorianpunk

In any case i will add it to my "to evaluate list", which means i will wait at least a full year AND only if it comes out of early access.

the Terminator one looked interesting, until i saw one of the screenshots in the article with the squads and weapons and all that unnecessary bs in a RTS, looks like they tried overcomplicating things that should not be done just for the sake of "being different".

that "Last Epoch" one looks mighty interesting, and since it has already been slowly cooking for ages it kinds of waives my one-year rule, will still wait and see for a couple major patches
 
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