Oddspeak
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Expanding my tastes is the reason why I believe this year is dry. It's also about announcements in general, gaming as a whole has been dry so far this year and COVID-19 has a lot to do with that. I used to look forward to game announcements in live streams but now I hold off because I know there isn't anything new that'll be announced, really, especially during EA and Ubisoft conferences.
Were there any highly demanded/anticipated games that were being released this year? I was thinking only a couple, but realistically speaking about 3-4. Overall, though, not a whole lot of AAA type games are releasing this year and strangely enough a lot of the games I'm looking forward to are either AA or Indie, so really it's the state of the AAA industry that is disappointing to me.
I can agree about announcements being lackluster, but that's always how it is when a generation is winding down, and it was just exacerbated further by the virus.
But I don't buy that your tastes have expanded. You were given a very valid list of AA/AAA games that, factually, a LOT of people are/were looking forward to and you brushed it off despite the massive amount of genres represented and how well the released ones sold:
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Resident Evil 3
The Last of Us Part 2
Ghosts of Tsushima
Animal Crossing New Horizons
Paper Mario: The Origami King
Cyberpunk 2077
Doom Eternal
Marvel's Avengers
Halo Infinite
Half-Life Alyx
Nioh 2
Minecraft Dungeons
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Iron Man VR
Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Streets of Rage 4
Dreams
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Trials of Mana
I'm not even personally interested in half of this list, but I still acknowledge it's solid lineup for those who are. And it's not even fully exhaustive, either.
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