| curl-6 said: Despite a very rough first 8 months, 2020 is actually turning out to be a pretty damn good year for the Switch in the end; Doom Eternal, Outer Worlds, Age of Calamity, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Sniper Elite 4, Hotshot Racing, Crysis, Panzer Dragoon Remake, Immortals Fenyx Rising... I was worried this was gonna be a barren year thanks to COVID but thankfully that hasn't been the case. |
Ori And The Will Of The Wisps and Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin are the third party games I'm interested in still. That's on top of third party games I already bought this year like Catherine: Full Body, Trials of Mana, No More Heroes 1 + 2, and Hades, of which I still need to get to Trials of Mana, Hades, and No More Heroes 2 (just listing the stuff that released this year, because I also bought the Ace Attorney, Mega Man Legacy 1 + 2 + X1-4, and Castlevania collections). I've enjoyed the third parties from this year quite a bit, think it's actually a fairly strong year in that regard.
| curl-6 said: Yeah I definitely agree that third parties saved the day after a shockingly bad showing from Nintendo themselves, but hopefully this year's lull has given them time to regroup for a much stronger lineup in 2021. |
It's weird. I want to agree because so much of this year was hurting for big triple A content, but at the same time I was busy with backlog games on Switch and PC anyways, and some of the big games that did come out really spoke to me, like Origami King and Xenoblade: Definitive Edition (though that is just a Wii game, but I think the visuals and streamlined menus honestly helped me get into it a lot). Animal Crossing not so much and Age of Calamity I'm still waiting on getting, but I could see myself coming back to Animal Crossing and having it grow on me, and Age of Calamity is a cool wildcard to have.
