Fallout 4, above all those others if it functions well on release. I won't be buying it day one, I want to wait and see if anyone reports a bunch of errors with the PC version. Besides, when I start it, I want several free hours in a row in which to play it, which I won't have until the Friday after it comes out. If the PC version is very problematic, I'll just play the Xbox One version and buy the GOTY edition whenever it comes out on PC. I also have Halo 5 pre-ordered, so I'll be playing that. After watching the Unfinished, I'm pretty pumped, that game looks great.
I thought that 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider was one of the best third person shooters of last generation, I'm in the camp that thinks it's vastly superior to Uncharted, so I'll more than likely play Rise of the Tomb Raider. I feel like that game's release date is going to send it to the grave, though - a few days after Call of Duty and on the same day as Fallout 4? Who the hell thought that was a great release date for that game?
Just Cause 3 looks pretty great. However, on reflection, Avalanche have only released one game that I thought was pretty damn great and that was Just Cause 2, five years ago. In the interim, they've released one game that seems totally fine but I couldn't get into (Renegade Ops) and one game that I thought was fun for a little while but had significant problems (Mad Max). Like Rise of the Tomb Raider, it's in the "probably, but I'll wait a little while" pile.
I already own Arkham Knight on the Xbox One, I never finished it. Like Origins and City before it, the game is missing a much-needed lack of structure. Something like a hub area that the levels branch off of and wrap back around to would be nice. You know, like Asylum. I still think it's good when I'm actually in a closed-off area, but the open world in those games is unnecessary and boring.
I won't be done at the end of the year, either! Dragon's Dogma releases on PC in January and I'm hoping it's a good port. X-Com 2 and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided come out in February. March has Dark Souls III. It's not that there won't be time between these releases, but I want to play all of these games! Wasteland 2 and Divinity: Original Sin are getting enhanced editions this month (Wasteland's is already out) and I want to try both of those out, especially since both implemented controller support and, well, I've always been interested in playing those RPG's with a controller, whatever purists and hardcore CRPG guys might have to say about that notion. I'd love to see Pillars of Eternity get such an update but that game uses a real time with pause system. It could work, but I think it would be too clunky.
Anyway, yeah, there are things I want to play coming out in the next few months that I'm really excited for. I'm coming off of the high of just finishing The Witcher 3, too, and I just started a New Game + for it. I won't be finishing that for months but it could be a nice thing to just jump into whenever I don't know what to play.
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