Thusian

@lordofultima: Thing is those games don't really qualify the investment people made in new hardware, a lot of those are available on PS3 also he pretty much states he's talking about larger games if you read everything before the list.

I'm going to pull that list apart from my personal perspective

March

• Final Fantasy Type-0 HD - Some Interest
• MLB 15: The Show - Not a sports guy really
• Bloodborne - Everyone seems up on it, but I'm not sure
• Battlefield Hardline- Not feeling it
• Resident Evil Revelations 2 - Again some interest
• Bladestorm: Nightmare - Nope
• Borderlands: The Handsome Collection - I don't need to play borderlands agian
• Toukiden: Kiwami - Yawn

April

• Mortal Kombat X - They never hold my interest long enough
• Dark Souls II - Another up port created exclusively to compensate for no backward compatibility. Pass
• Project CARS - Nah
• Omega Quintet- I don't think I'm the audience for this.
• Tropico 5 - Maybe on PC but not on console I'll wait till its cheap on STEAM

May

• Final Fantasy X-X2 HDWhat did I just say about up ports
• The Witcher III: Wild Hunt- Sure looks good, maybe
• Ride - Nope

June

• The Elder Scrolls Online- MMO more like MM-No amirite?
• Final Fantasy XIV: HeavenswardMMO BS
• Onechanbara Z2: Chaos - God no
• PGA Tour - Golf is a good walk ruined
• Payday 2 - Appreciate that its well made, but not my thing
• LEGO Jurassic World- Not a dad yet so Lego games too basic to play on my own right now.
• Batman: Arkham Knight- They have gotten less and less good since Asylum, but I still enjoy them. So I am totally down.

July

• Godzilla - No
• BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma EXTEND - Another one I appreciate is well made, but its just an average fighter to me.

August

• Absolutely nothing!

September

• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - I haven't enjoyed a Metal Gear since the original Solid.
• Mad Max - maybe

October

• Disgaea 5 - I like these games, but I've grown weary of the series, I would be more interested in it as a portable game where it takes so much time investment I could play it while watching some TV.

November

• Nope! (Obviously this one will change as more games get announced).

March 2016

• Uncharted 4

No Date, But They'll Happily Accept Your Pre-Order Money (How Kind!)

• Dead Island 2- Didn't like the first
• Tom Clancy's The Division - Still don't know enough
• Until Dawn - Maybe
• Just Cause 3 - Maybe
• Battleborn - I like the idea, but still not sure there will be full price worth of content there.
• Homefront: The Revolution- looks like another shooter.....
• J-Stars Victory VS+
• Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 4
• One Piece Pirate Warriors 3
• Dragon Quest Heroes - Maybe

So that leaves me with eight maybe games (and I am sure I won't be that big on most of them) and one that I am confident in. For my system I have not touched since Destiny disappointed me, buh.

I am bolstered by some backlog and the fact that my Nintendo Systems will prop me up

Current/Backlog

Jack Box

Monster Hunter 4

Beyonetta 2

Captain Toad

Kirby and the Rainbow Curse

Majora's Mask

Mario Kart - its perennial and DLC is coming out.

Smash Bros - I can always come back to it

March

Mario Party 10 - Yes you heard me I have a good group that likes to play these, I won't say they're great games, but I always have a great time playing them with people.

Codename STEAM - I like turn based strategy

April

Etrain Mystery Dungeon - Sounds interesting not sure though.

May

Splatoon - Since saying there is a single player, I'm interested

June - Nothing to add

July

Yoshi's Woolly World - I'm sure my Wife and I will have fun playing it

Mario Maker - I really hope the community latches on like they did with Pushmo then I can have a user generated platformer with good controls (Sorry LBP)

Then its just a question of when Xenoblade Chronicles X (so hyped for that game loved the first) and the New Zelda come out. Its hard not to feel like this year is a little disappointing across the board, but at least there are big standouts like Batman and Xenoblade for me to look forward to.

Over the course of the past ten years the term Gamer to me has referred to a club, or a clique if you will. One that does not see me as a member. I got out of games for a long time and when I got back in, in my late twenties, my tastes were very different. I don't like grim gritty things that much any more and "Mature" games tend to leave me cold. I never clicked with the GTA style open world game and FPS games were never my bag either. As budgets bloat and things get tighter the "gamers" seem to be pressuring the studios to focus more and more on what I don't especially care for.

What is troublesome to me is it seems to be working. Nintendo, the company that makes most of what falls in line with my tastes (yes I acknowledge that they eff up a lot about the platform) is falling by the wayside. I like party games a genre pretty much spat on by what is considered the "core gamer" so as fades Nintendo, so do I. I enjoy some of the indie stuff, but I do like to get a bigger scale game and as of recently, I have fewer and fewer options to get something whimsical that has any effort put in.

More concisely its a label people want to hold as exclusive not inclusive, and they way that some are defining it is, a certain colour, a certain gender, a certain orientation and with the "right" tastes. If they are the important consumer, then I may be forced out of the hobby or at least to its fringes on the odd mobile or portable game. Which is kind of a bummer.

So his method of extracting revenge for his niece being killed is to cause so much havoc that likely many people's nieces, nephews, grandmas, fathers etc are killed. Nice logic. What is it with writers these days its like Man of Steel. Superman was cool with the kind of collateral damage he was causing fighting Zod, but once he saw one family up close he had to protect them. So heroes in the modern world can't exercise empathy unless they get to make a direct connection with the people they need to protect.

I'll go back to Captain America when I want a hero thanks. All these emo/macho heroes need to go back to the 90s and stay there.

I am hoping we see More about the Yarn Yoshi game and X, what looks to be a follow up to Xenoblade. Oh and while we're on things that were announced in that winter Nintendo Direct, how about an update on SMT X Fire Emblem. I expect those will be the freshest feeling things in the Nintendo stuff, besides the Wonderful 101, and I expect we will get an update on the progress of Beyonetta.

Honestly I am a little worried that that's as much as my tastes will be catered to. Killzone and COD type stuff has left me feeling cold lately and if there was something like a Viva Pinata shown I will be more likely to sit up and take notice.

Best part is with expectations low, I have less of a chance of feeling let down. I might finally see a game that gets me excited for the other guy's new boxes. Remote play through Vita is exciting to me, but if accomplishing that requires a $500-$600 investment I'll have to wait until my own economics and price drops meet up.

Along the lines of Gabe from PA I would like to give my thoughts on the ending of Mass Effect 3 in response to This article on Gamefront

Brevity

I agree that I view the entire game as the ending so I don't have a problem. Also you could consider the entire sequence on the citidal to be the ending in which case the ending was plenty long, you just got to interact with it instead of just watching it.

It’s Confusing

“I made some synthetics to kill you every 50k years so you would not be killed by synthetics”

So the AI who turns out to be the villain had flawed logic, that's what made him the antagonist.

Lore Errors and Plot Holes

I view the explosion of the Mass Relays to be different from that in the Arrival. The force is being dispersed through the network so its not wiping out the systems. That's how I interpreted it, that's the thing about a work like this its open to interpretation.

As for the question as to why Joker is traveling through the Mass Relay I thought about just how long I was up there, not just awake, but from the looks of things I was out for a while. Its entirely likely that the squad, even if they wanted to look for my body, had to pull out when I got zapped. They would have fallen back to a shuttle and gone to the Normandy. At that point it is possible that a strategic retreat was being called for or that the Normandy was being sent ahead as a nimble forward scout (with the capability to contact earth forces) to notify the rest of the fleet which system they should evac to so that they did not just go from one bad reaper fight to another. They said it took the Reapers a long time to take out the Prothians likely due to similar events.

Key Philosophical Themes Are Discarded

I really don't get this part of the argument either.

Player Choice Is Completely Discarded

But all of my choices affected which of the three I chose. I took Synthesis and in retrospect I wish I had chosen control relative to how I thought my Shep felt. I could not destroy because the Geth and Quarians had achieved peace, it did not seem right as I would be changing my view on the idea that synthetics and organics can live in peace. I did not try control, because I was not confident. Now since I looked up other endings I see that control works (unless you think the whole thing is indoctrination) I would have chosen that option as I think my Shepard would believe that he should not control the way life evolves. At least in my ending Joker and EDI can have some borg ass kids. PEACE!

@e_p: Thank you and everyone else who replied to me, and yes I was exaggerating for effect. Still I find them to be a little larger than your typical Kickstarter fare. I don't wish them ill and I do hope publishers and investors see interest in other genres.

@Nethlem: I agree 100%

I am torn on this and maybe I don't know enough about the current state of Double Fine. I feel like they should be established enough that they can round up funding without Kickstarter. I feel like their brand recognition may overshadow indies trying to fund games on Kickstarter. I don't wish them ill I just get nervous, at what point is Bioware using Kickstarter and eating the lunch of a future Mojang?

I am torn on this and maybe I don't know enough about the current state of Double Fine. I feel like they should be established enough that they can round up funding without Kickstarter. I feel like their brand recognition may overshadow indies trying to fund games on Kickstarter. I don't wish them ill I just get nervous, at what point is Bioware using Kickstarter and eating the lunch of a future Mojang?