For the second night in a row I’ve woken up in the middle of the night to pee and then been unable to fall back asleep. And so I’ll find myself looking at Twitter, and looking at Twitter in the twilight hours over the last 2 nights has been, shall we say, deeply unsettling – between the horrifying insanity of Ferguson at night and the horrifying hostility against women in the video games community at all hours of the day, I’m amazed I can sleep at all.
So, then, I’m finding myself compelled to prepare for the inevitable retail therapy that I’m going to indulge in.
And as it happens, I have just been made aware (via Kotaku) of the Always Up-To-Date Calendar of Upcoming Video Game Releases, which is a good thing to be aware of. And now I’m trying to figure out how the rest of the year is going to shake out.
As always, I’m still on the fence about the Xbox One. I am tempted by the Sunset Overdrive/XBO bundle, and if I were to go through with that I’d certainly pick up a copy of Forza Horizon 2 as well, and thus it stands to reason that I’d eventually end up with the Halo box set. But I’m not sure that’s enough, you know? Forza looks amazing but I’m not sure how much mileage I’m going to get out of Sunset Overdrive, and I’ve already played Halo 1-4. (Well, a couple hours of 4, at least.)
So, then: I’m doing this mostly looking at PS4/Vita/PC titles. What follows are my cherry-picked titles of interest. Bold indicates a definite buy; italics indicates a curious rental.
August 26:
- Metro Redux
August 28:
- Infamous: First Light (I forget that Infamous came out this year. Haven’t really thought about it at all since I finished it. If this reviews well, I’d be happy to check it out, but it’s gonna have to review really, really well.)
September 2:
- Danganronpa 2 (haven’t played the first one, but people rave about it. If you’ve played it, I’d love to get your impressions.)
September 9:
- Destiny (I think I pre-ordered the Digital Guardian edition.)
September 23:
- FIFA 15 (if only because I still have some residual World Cup fever floating around; I don’t expect to hang on to this for very long, and I’d like to think I’d still be deep into Destiny)
September 30:
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (I’ve heard too many good things about this, and so now I’m irrationally excited)
October 7:
- Alien: Isolation (god I hope this isn’t a piece of shit)
October 14:
- Sleeping Dogs DE (really just want to see the first hour or so in HD. no intention of playing the whole thing again)
- The Evil Within (I’m not the biggest fan of horror games, but I’m curious.)
October 24:
- Civilization: Beyond Earth
October 28:
- Assassin’s Creed Unity
- Freedom Wars (Vita)
November 11:
- The Crew
November 18:
- Dragon Age Inquisition
- Far Cry 4
- Little Big Planet 3
November 30:
- Project CARS
December 9:
- Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
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