The VGAs have come and gone, with some rather questionable winners this year. Seriously, Borderlands 2 as Best Shooter and Best Multi-Player? I'm not bashing that game at all as I haven't played that to garner an opinion, so I don't know what to think. It's odd to see something without Call of Duty or Halo in the title win - especially on how biased SpikeTV and G4 are, but at the end of the day it just seems a bit surreal.Okay, now for the REAL reason that gamers check out the VGAs - the awesome, exclusive teaser trailers to those new games they didn't know they wanted.
Phantom Pain is supposedly dubbed as the "future of gaming" at the VGA Awards when it was teased, but call me nuts, but this seems TOO familiar to Metal Gear Solid. There's a lot of speculation that this teaser is pretty much Metal Gear Solid V in disguise. I honestly find it to be too convenient that the protagonist here is missing an arm, much like that corpse of Liquid Snake that Solid Snake used to fake his death in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. He is supposed to be dead at the hands of the FOXDIE virus from the original Metal Gear Solid, but that doesn't mean the Patriots couldn't revive him or cure him from the virus destroying him completely. More on this game in 2013 as I look into the evidence...
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 seems to pick up immediately following the teaser trailer at the end of the first game. No gameplay hasn't been shown but I'm definitely pumped to play as Dracula himself this time around.
BioShock: Infinite showed off some more gameplay to say that they keep constantly putting this title's release date back. I enjoyed watching my buddy in college play this when we would skip class and I might definitely have to pick up this one as that boss fight with the Handyman looks pretty damn amazing. I'm a sucker for the escort/buddy dynamic in gaming. I got a feeling your relationship with Elizabeth is going to be a strong emotional attachment, much like in Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and Ico.
The Last of Us has wowed me since this summer when it was first announced and it definitely doesn't disappoint here. I would honestly purchase a PlayStation 3 just to experience this journey. I honestly burst out laughing when I realized the female lead is played by Ashley Johnson, who voices Gwen Tennyson on Ben 10: Alien Force, Ultimate Alien, and Omniverse.
Tomb Raider is looking like it will definitely change the way that we will see Lara Croft, but this is still not high on my must-haves for 2013. Regardless, the gameplay looks top notch, though. Apparently, everyone has seemed to forget about that Miss Croft going to be 'raped' in this said title too.
Dark Souls II is the series' first 'mainstream' release as the series is departing from From Software's roof. No actual gameplay is shown, but my biggest concern like most fans of this series is that I hope the game doesn't deter from what makes it great. It's actually a "fun" hard game and if they dumb that down then it's going to lose that magic that sparked the interest in this title in the first place.
Street Fighter X Mega Man was a welcome surprise at Capcom's Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Finals this weekend. What a delightful way to show that they still care about the Blue Bomber as well as show homage to the Street Fighter series! I know most fighting game fans are pissed that they didn't announce anything special like Street Fighter V or a new update to Street Fighter IV, but this is better than nothing.
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