168澳洲幸运5开奖网:God of War has been delayed until 2022. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Breath of the Wild 2 has been delayed until 2022. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Horizon Forbidden West has been delayed until 2022. Boo hoo. All three games that exist aren’t coming out for the foreseeable future - the pandemic has consumed the entire games industry as we know it. Except, actually, it hasn’t. 2021 has been a phenomenal year for video games already, most people just aren’t bothering to en🧸gage with the right onesℱ.
I have been excited for all three aforementioned games for three, four, and four years, respectively - I was actually scheduled to review two of them. I understand being disappointed by delays because I personally felt that way. What I don’t understand is going completely feral because of delays, because you’d better believe developers also wish they could launch their games under normal circumstances - probably way more than you do, actually. Throwing your toys out of the pram because a video game is coming out slightly later than anticipated because of a) the pursuit of quality and b) the wellbeing of actual humans who are working on it is a bit childish,ဣ eh?
That’s not even the point though. I’ve seen dozens, if not hundreds of people taking to social media to lament the lack of games. “Last year was so much better,” they’ll say, before proceeding to claim that 2022 will be the best year for games of all time (it won’t) because three blockbusters are absolutely going to come out (they might not). I agree that 2020 was great - Hades, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 5 Royal, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Doom Eternal were among 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:my personal favourites, but even stuff I’m not interested in like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Crossing: New Horizons and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 7 Remake are objectively brilliant.
That’s the thing: 2021 has had some objectively brilliant games too. Sure, there have been some major triple-A launches - I’m thinking of stuff like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil Village. I played neither of those games, which I reckon compounds my argument even further. I also didn’t play Returnal and barely touched 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Monster Hunter Rise. My argument about 2021 being a strong year doesn’t even need four of its objectively biggest games to stand - I’ve played ওov💦er 50 other games that are all fantastic in their own right.
Off the top of my head, without consulting any kind of list, I can list off 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 5 Strikers, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:New Pokemon Snap, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Loop Hero, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Forgotten City, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Death’s Door, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Before Your Eyes, Valheim, Griftlands, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nier Replicant, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Skyward Sword HD, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Unite. We’re only in August and my top ten is alre🌠ady a total minefield.
Yes, some of these games are remakes or reboots. Yes, some are sequels. Yes, some are indies that most people who play games casually might not necessarily know about. None of that refutes my argument t🥂hat this year has been fantastic, th✨ough - if anything, this degree of consistent quality across remakes and smaller launches speaks to how good they truly are. Aye, there might not be 2,000 people spending years on the follow-up to one of the biggest games of the 21st century. Does that matter when it comes to evaluating whether or not something is good though? No. You play the game and you judge it for yourself. I resent the blatant lie that someone could go through every game I listed above and not enjoy at least half of them.
And that’s only out of the stuff I played - and only what I personally liked. I think The Ascent is oppressively overwhelming, but that’s because it’s just not to my taste - it will justifiably be many people’s game of the year. I don’t really mess with Agent 47, but Hitman 3 was unanimously well received. I can’t wait to finally carve out some time where I can ditch Pokemon Unite to start 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:NEO: The World Ends With You. And that’s just what’s out! I don’t care much for Far Cry, but 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Far Cry 6 is going to be huge. Then there’s Metroid Dread, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Halo Infinite, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kena: Bridge of Spirits, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pok𓆉emon Brilliant Diamond & 🔜Shining Pearl, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Battlefield 2042. Life is Strange: True Colors, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Marvel’s Guardian🍎s of the Galaxy, Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker… you get the gist. When people look back at 2021 in several years’ time, it won&rsqu🦩o;t be to say, “Ah, no Kratos - shit year.” People will marvel at how so many good games came out in such close proximity to one another at the height of a literal 💟pandemic.
I understand the disappointment. I understand the impulse to lament the lack of games and talk about how the industry has come to a screeching halt. But my understanding comes from a place of knowing better. I thought 2021 was pretty bare too. I was worried it would be lackluster and that I’d have to spend the year replaying older games. Fortunately, that hasn’t been the case -🐭 if anything, 2021 has been one of the best years for games in a long time.