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curl-6 on 12 March 2018
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flashfire926 said:
curl-6 said:

I am withholding my judgement of the year as a whole until after E3, but so far their 2018 lineup is looking very poor.

Almost everything announced or released so far is either an ancient port or looks mediocre to bad. There is nothing shown so far on the level of games like Splatoon 2, Xenoblade 2, or Kingdom Battle. At this rate, this year might end up ranking below Wii U's 2013, 2014, and 2015 for me.

Fingers crossed they come out all guns blazing at E3 and announce some new A-tier games for August-December.

Crash, South Park and little nightmares came out in 2017. Far from ancient, I would say. And by "bad", you mean that sushi game right? Kirby looks like Kirby, and Mario Tennis Aces looks to be a huge huge improvement on Ultra Smash, especially with the new story mode. And even as a person that is not into rpg's, Octopath looks gorgeous. 

I can totally admit that we dont have enough brand-new games. 100% right.

However, none of those games are inherently "bad". The only case could be the sushi game.

I own the Crash Bandicoot games on PS1, and I feel like the 1990s can fairly be called "ancient" at this point. ;)

I strongly dislike South Park, and Little Nightmares, Kirby, and Mario Tennis look meh. Octopath does have a nice art style, but turn-based combat just isn't fun for me.

Admittedly it's not all doom and gloom; Wolfenstein 2 I am keen for, as it's still just a few months old and looks fantastic. But it's nowhere to be seen at the moment and might not be coming until November if Nintendo reserve that month for the third parties like they did last year. I am also excited for the Octo Expansion for Splatoon 2, but that's also several months away.