I forgot about A Hat in Time. I've had that on my Steam watch list waiting for it to be purchasable in some fashion.

Also, Cuphead. I think the idea is super dumb (assuming it's just endless boss rush type encounters) but I'm interested to see if people actually like it once released or if they merely loved the look/style of the previews.

I sincerely hope they aren't that full of themselves. Comparing Rise of the Tomb Raider between Steam and the Windows Store offering is like night and day.

Steam has over 5,000 user reviews.
Windows Store is sitting at 72 reviews.

The Windows Store version of the game is larger in size because they include all of the language packs regardless of region.

The Windows Store version does not allow any modding, including visual things (GeDoSaTo) or even framerate counter overlays.

They would almost literally be sending Gears of War: UE out to die if they made it exclusive to that one storefront.

Oh crap it's a blog post AND a news post? Welp, time to import two of my comments from the blog to here then:


Another old-school 3D platformer to look forward to, would be A Hat In Time whenever that comes out on Steam (hopefully this year). That's also a game with rich and colorful environments like Mario 64. Pretty violent too with its fighting mechanics, yet cute.

For XCOM 2, I find it's more fun to customize the soldiers based on people within a community. Watch your fans and friends die as they miss shots with 90+% chance of hitting!

For Kickstarted games, I'm looking forward to That 90's Arcade Racer whenever that will release after its multiple years of delays (the main menu doesn't look very arcade-style, and the announcer voice sounds too flat to get me pumped up like an actual arcade game, so I'm a bit bummed about that). Then there's River City Ransom Underground, which thank God did not get cancelled when Arc System Works acquired the Kunio-Kun license. I love how these Canadians not only bring back EVERYTHING we love about River City Ransom, but they also know the Kunio-Kun lore like the back of their hands.

And with spacecoyote at the helm handling localization for the Japanese community (who also knows Kunio-Kun lore like the back of her hand), I know this game will work for both River City Ransom fans, and Kunio-Kun fans (she seems to appear in EVERY SINGLE community I follow, from Court-Records, to Game Center CX, to The Speed Gamers/TSG, to River City Ransom Underground!). It's really weird for the Kunio-Kun license to have a game where North America (and it's CANADA out of all places!) develops the game, and then it gets localized into Kunio-Kun for Japan. Normally we've been importing Kunio-Kun games and having them localized as Crash And The Boys, Renegade, River City Ransom, and various sports games, because none of us know who the heck Kunio-Kun is. According to spacecoyote, the reception from Japan is quite good and they're eager to see what this game has to offer. I hope so, because I'd be close-minded as crap if I heard Canadians were developing a Japanese licensed game. But thank God I'm on the other side, and I am REALLY looking forward to how faithful this game will be as a sequel.

On that note, I'll leave this video link riiiiiiight here. (Music with lyrics is not from the game.)

Then there's the VR concert NUREN that Jake Kaufman and many other professional musicians are doing. Looking forward to that.

Oh and I guess I'm interested in seeing what people think of Mighty No. 9 when the multiplayer works and it finally gets released. I kind of lost all hype on it already though.

And last, but never least, I want to see Epsilon grow into the first-person tactical shooter I've always wanted since Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield and SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate (yes I'm including the expansion pack as the last first-person tactical shooter I enjoyed). Serellan will do good with Epsilon. It's shaping up as a damn good game that is still being updated and supported through Early Access. Actually an update came out just a few days ago with both fixes, additions to the planning map (highlight laser tripwires), and a new rifle to play with (G36c). I hope TGN will one day interview Serellan when the game gets into a more polished state with more features and levels to play with (killhouse is being developed next). I know slower tactical shooters aren't exactly a popular genre, so I won't hold my breath over any long lasting interest in this game, but any coverage from TGN (including the ones already done and published) is much appreciated.


Heheh, and I forgot about Cuphead. I remember first seeing it on Video Games Awesome Show and Trailer. Huh, I remember being very excited for its faithfulness to classic cartoons. I also remember reading your comments about it recently. How did I forget this? Welp, it's rightfully back on my radar again.

I also forgot to mention Mutant Football League. At the time it was pitched on Kickstarter as a mobile game with 2D cartoony graphics on a side-scrolling plane. Well that Kickstarter failed hard, and many were wondering why there wasn't even a demo included with their pitch, if they were going to convince us that we wanted a mobile 2D cartoon football parody game. Since then, the concept of MFL has been completely reworked after changing engines, going through a bajillion surveys on what we specifically want, and redoing their approach to have a playable demo and focus less on backer rewards.

They have yet to ask for any funding, but the game is shaping up to be very faithful to Mutant League Football, but in the style of a dark and gritty version of NFL Blitz. It's looking good. It's looking damn good. I don't know if this counts as a 2016 game, as it may come out next year instead, but they've been working on this for two years now, and they haven't stopped keeping us in the loop with their occasional newsletter (don't worry, it doesn't happen enough so they won't spam you, because they only update when there's something significant to talk about).

Yeah I've been really interested and keeping up with Star Citizen and honestly I don't even want them to finish in 2016, seeing the time they took and the progress it's safe to assume that something of that scope will need more time. If they finish in 2016 it sounds like the game won't actually even be halfway complete.
I've been praying that Battlefield 2016 is a properly done BF 2143. BF2142 with awesome visuals, environmental destruction? sweet titan assault action, awesome pretext for a singleplayer campaign (even though I dont care too much about that one).
Though I wonder if with DICE lately working on Mirrors Edge and Battlefront they would have enough time to put into a well made BF2143.
Another bad company wouldn't be too bad but I think I read about them them rulling that out. I loved how in Bad Company everything was so over the top, the destruction was everywhere, the exagerated explosions and sounds all felt awesome.
I just hope they don't try to make another modern shooter, or even worse another Hardline, but that was visceral's one.