Poll So, hey, August is absolutely packed! (705 votes)
Seriously, August is the new November! Though considering that the later end of the year will of course be dominated by next-gen console stuff, and September is of course GTAV turf, it makes sense why suddenly everyone is packing their games all in August.
But there can only be one!
Or two... three?
Maybe four?
Whatever, games of every numerical variety shall be bought! And I have created this poll compiling pretty much all of the big hitters to be released next month. I'm sure SRIV will be leading the charge for most, but there's plenty else in there to give you pause. Or not.
In any case I am most assuredly getting both Killer is Dead and Saints Row IV. Killer is Dead should, hopefully, be the Suda game we've all been waiting for. A game overpouring with Suda's madness, but while also encased in something that's actually fun to play. Lollipop Chainsaw, while not great by any means, is one of his best mechanically speaking and I would hope that it'll have been the stepping stone Suda's team needed to reach this theoretically glorious combination!!
While I'm still within the minority that greatly prefers SR2 to SRTT, SRIV has still shown me enough to get me excited. Crackdown powers and what looks like an open-world with some actual personality and side stuff that isn't a monotonous dreck, alongside an abundance of old faces returning into the fray, has eased Saints Row back into my good graces.
I'm also leaning very heavily into getting Payday 2... It's at a budget price and the whole game sounds fucking awesome on paper. Better yet, it actually looks to be just as good in motion too, if all of the footage I've seen is to be believed. I've already got myself some candidates to coop with at that, so it's all looking pretty optimistic.
Finally, while it definitely won't be an August purchase, I am very curious to read the reception to Tales of Xillia. I've finally decided to give Tales of Graces f more of chance, after figuratively disowning at after like an hour into the prologue, but... that game is a goddamn JRPG -- to a fault. Archetypal characters (Mysterious amnesiac lady; overly idealistic member of royalty who wants to end ALL the wars; lead hero who wants to protect ALL the people; an overly polite butler named frederic) and melodrama in spades -- I literally put the controller down and walked away shortly after Asbel is reunited with Herbet. Y'know, the part with the rain...
Anywhoo, the combat is primarily what pulls people into this series. But unfortunately I'm not the biggest fan of the combat, either. It's all just so damn fast and even by Tales standards i often feel like I'm just mashing the buttons and watching flashy colours cover the screen. In any case I'm hoping to see if Xillia will hark a little closer to Vesperia with regards to the combat.
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