Justin's Pick: It's a close call, but ultimately I have to pick Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. From its stunning production values to its mind - boggling amount of content, Smash Bros. is probably
the biggest game released this year and is definitely the most fun.
Not exact matches
In the past few
years, advertisers have started
releasing versions of their TV ads in the weeks ahead of the Super Bowl to build up hype before the
big game.
Big games that are fairly likely to be
released this
year include Destiny, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Battlefield: Hardline and Assassin's Creed: Unity (I'm willing to bet Far Cry 4, currently scheduled for a fall launch, gets delayed).
Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the
release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for
years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious
years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a
year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many
years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a
big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the
game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15
years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several
years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...
-- Yesterday the Golden Nugget
released their «
Game of the
Year» betting lines for many of the upcoming season's
biggest games.
As an independent
game developed by a little french studio, Shad» O couldn't rival the
big productions that were
released this last
year.
This
game is incredible, and is easily one of the
biggest indie
releases of the
year.
biggest deception in flight sim history, 7
years of development (supposed to be
released in 2007) then at
release a FIASCO, unplayable, now even 3
years after
release, with all the TF hard work the
game still is unplayable over cities (GTX 970) stuttering all over, unfinished features, etc. if you get it for free try it, but don't even barely think on put any money on this pure gash **** tittle
Even with all the
big name
game releases this
year, sometimes there is down time.
Unfortunately, that
game was about as pretty as the south end of a northbound mule, and it
released almost a
year after the PlayStation 2
released, so it wasn't exactly a
big hit.
So as Metal Gear embarks on its post-Kojima journey with a multiplayer survival
game that bears little meaningful connection to the long - running tale of Solid Snake,
Big Boss and the lumbering nuclear missile robots for which the series is named, I took the opportunity to go back over all 21 official Metal Gear
games that Konami has
released in America through the
years, ranking them from worst to best.
It's barely related to the Star Fox series and has mostly been ignored in the
year of hype leading to the
release of its
big brother Star Fox Zero, but the new oddball Star Fox Guard tower defense
game from Nintendo and Platinum is well worth your attention.
Judging by the amount of
games we expect to
release this
year, we already know that 2012 is going to be the
biggest year yet for Xbox Live Arcade.
Far Cry 5 has been one of the
biggest releases of the
year so far, selling five million copies in the first week alone, and now the
game just got even better.
Red Dead Redemption 2 stands to be the company's
biggest release in
years when it finally drops in early 2018 and this means there will have been no expense spared in making it the most polished
game it can be — expense which needs to be earned back.
As those are the three
big games and if their getting
release years in Japan and Europe then we can probably expect the
game later this
year.
Forza Motorsport 7 is one of the most high - profile racing
games of the
year, and not to mention a very
big release in general.
In October, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Red Dead Redemption 2, two of the
biggest games of the
year will be
released.
Released in March of this
year for Android devices, Super Mario Run was eligible for Google Play's «Best of 2017» awards and its come away with a
big one — «most popular new
game».
Debuting on Xbox One in the first half of 2015, other details are sparse but
gamers can be excited for what will undoubtedly be one of the
biggest indie
releases of next
year.
Furious 4 was one of my
biggest disappointments from E3 last
year, I'm still hoping they
release another «true» Brothers In Arms
game.
DropMix, from the geniuses at Harmonix, will make a
big room DJ out of anyone and is hands down one of the best music centered
games released in
years.
Later this
year will see the
release of Gran Turismo Sport (the first in the franchise to come to PlayStation 4), Forza Motorsport 7 (which is turning into the Xbox One X's
biggest hitter), Project CARS 2 (which looks to improve in nearly aspect on the massively ambitious first
game), and Need For Speed Payback (which seems like an entertaining blend of the Need For Speed and Fast and the Furious franchises).
We're getting ever closer to the holiday season and that means the
bigger game releases are starting to wind down for the
year.
Another
year has come and gone, and with 2015 now firmly in the rearview, it's time to look forward to the
biggest Xbox One
game releases of 2016.
This coming weekend is considered the worst one of the
year to
release a new movie, because the
big televised football
game diverts too many eyeballs from the
big screen to the small one.
It was a very
big year for VR, and we saw a lot of quality
games released across all three major headsets.
When most people think about the holidays as they relate to video
games they imagine store shelves lined with the latest blockbuster
releases, but it's also becoming a time when
games released a little earlier in the
year are receiving some of their
biggest post-launch downloadable content drops.
It's been ten long
years since we last had an adventure in the
big open spaces of Hyrule, but with the upcoming
release of a brand - new Zelda
game on Wii U Nintendo thought it'd be wise to remind us why Zelda
games are much to be anticipated.
In any case, Activision is pretty confident it's got it right with Call of Duty WW2 — but Call of Duty's annual
release is always the
biggest game of any
year there isn't a Grand Theft Auto even when it sucks, so it doesn't much matter if its wrong.
Rockstar has been
releasing regular updates for GTA V's online mode, GTA Online, and as reported yesterday, 2017 was GTA Online's
biggest year so far and December saw more players in the
game than ever before.
the
biggest thing about the wii u though that id say was dissapointing is that all the
games they are about to
release, should have been out at launch, not a
year or more later.
The company's two
biggest games scheduled to launch in 2018 are undoubtedly Shadow of the Tomb Raider, due out Sept. 14, and Kingdom Hearts 3, which doesn't have a more specific
release window than sometime this
year.
In Nintendo's financial report
released yesterday, the forecast for upcoming
games remains unchanged, meaning 2015 could be the
biggest year ever for the Wii U.
But not that
big of a problem for me there are only very few
games I can't wait till it is complete even if takes a
year, I anyways almost never buy
games at
release.
We're now just weeks away from the launch of one of the
biggest games of the
year, and to ensure that we're all suitably excited Bethesda have just
released this brand new live action t...
EA Sports among other
big studios are in a unique position this
year with the next gen consoles,
releasing their franchise
games months ahead of the next gen installments.
Trust me if Battlefield Call of Duty Tomb Raider in a bunch of
games decided that they were going to
release on Xbox One it would have been one of the
biggest news stories of the
year in terms of questioning what on Earth is going on... yet on the Nintendo switch it is literally expected that they will not receive those
games.
2017 has been a
year with some of the
biggest game releases we have ever seen.
Big games such as Watch Dogs and Infamous: Second Son are
releasing next
year which should help bolster sales even more.
You just saw us
release a
big zombie pack in the Black Ops III community, and that
game is two - and - a-half
years past its launch, but it's super «sticky» and there's still a passionate group of players playing it, so we want to be wherever players are and we want to provide great content wherever players are, so we're starting to have some success with that.
In October, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Red Dead Redemption 2, two of the
biggest games of the
year will be
released.
We're now just weeks away from the launch of one of the
biggest games of the
year, and to ensure that we're all suitably excited Bethesda have just
released this brand new live action trailer for the
game.
After many
years of development, countless
Game of the Show - type awards,
big promises and even the
release of a massive teaser in the form of Creature Creator, Spore has finally gone gold.
FIFA is one of the
biggest games in the world, yet the series skipped the Wii U entirely, instead only
releasing on Wii and then no Nintendo platforms at all for the last few
years.
CDPR spent roughly 5
years developing Wild Hunt - not to mention the «Blood and Wine» expansion, which
released in May... With the way they work (1
game at a time), there's just NO WAY that Cyberpunk - which is said to be
bigger and more ambitious than any of The Witcher titles - will
release next
year.
Dark Souls probably won't be the
biggest or best
game released this
year, but I'm already sure it's the one I'm going to spend the most time playing.
The last
game was
released close to 7
years ago and thanks to improvements in gaming technology we could see an even
bigger world or possibly a world that feels more alive like we've seen with Grand Theft Auto 5.
This was also the
year Mario Golf made it to both the Nintendo 64 and the
Game Boy Color, but the biggest game would have to go to the release of the original Smash Br
Game Boy Color, but the
biggest game would have to go to the release of the original Smash Br
game would have to go to the
release of the original Smash Bros..
Having accumulated a
big backlog and become increasingly accustomed to paying lower prices for
games only a
year or so old, I have pretty much stopped chasing the next
big release.