Happy New Year from us at The Android’s Closet! Thanks to all our readers and commenters for helping make this such an enjoyable little project for Pike and myself! Here’s to another year of ponies and discussing old strategy games! (We’ll try to branch out a bit, we promise!)
Now, to business – what are you looking forward to in gaming in the year 2012? Here are some of those I’m interested in:
Dead State. A turn-based zombie apoc RPG? Yes. VERY yes. I know every game and its mother has zombies in it these days, but there’s a big difference between having zombies and actually being a zombie survival game. I may blog about that at some point in fact. Or did I already? I can never remember.
Mass Effect 3. I know it’s probably going to be even less like 1 than 2 was. I know it’s almost certainly going to ignore all the decisions made in 1 and 2. I know they’re going to spend more time writing the romances than the main plot. But I’ve been with this series since the beginning, and damnit, I’m going to see it through to the end!
Final Fantasy XIII-2. The original was a guilty pleasure. I know it’s not a very good game, and not up to the expected standards of a Final Fantasy. But I had a buttload of fun playing it anyway, so I’m looking forward to more running through linear corridors!
Crusader Kings 2. This is the real meaty one though, a new Paradox game that updates one of their most trolly and looks almost as though it will be playable on release. I’m sure it won’t be, but it’ll hopefully need fewer patches than usual to get into such a state. Incest, bastards, and court intrigue is always a recipe for hilarity though. Also from Pox is the expansion to Victoria 2, A House Divided which focuses on the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5. Oh no, my mistake. It’s about the US Civil War. They never make games about the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5.
There should also be a new version of Dwarf Fortress on the way, with all kinds of crazy things like vampires and new NPC cities and improved trade. Very exciting!
There are others, but those are the main new releases for me. What about you all? What has you excited in games in the coming year?
I’m looking forward to Xenonauts, despite never having played an X-Com games previously. Also, Mass Effect 3, though I hope it’s not like Mister Adequate discribes. I want it to be a fusion of all the best parts of ME 1 & 2. Another game I’m REALLY looking forward to, despite the fact it’s unlikely to come out in 2012, is Guild Wars 2 :)
Oooh yes, Xenonauts is a good one! I’ve bought it already, just hungrily waiting for them to finish the darn thing now!
I will be interested to see how Amalur: Reckoning turns out.
I think it has potential and it has snuck up on me somewhat being a not-very-regular MMO/related news reader.