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Trailers are designed to do one thing.
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Blow your freaking mind.
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And some of these games look so ridiculously impossibly that they literally can't be true.
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Like the next Mind's Eye.
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When will we get the ambitious tech or possibly just vaporware?
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Another Peter Molyneux game.
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Will we ever learn our lesson with him?
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Then there's always going to be the next live service slot from Sony.
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And then, of course, there's
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Blizzard's massive new announcement did they actually pull it off
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or is it just hype hi folks it's falcon watch
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and listen to the falcon show for free on its own channel now today on game ranks 20 upcoming games
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that look too good to be true literally at number 20 it's neo berlin 2087 the game
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that gives a strong first impression the trailer hits
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you hard with the glossy unreal engine 5 graphics you got voice acting from adam jensen himself.
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Well, the guy who plays Adam Jensen, at least.
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He did ask for this.
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The trailer shows a mix of detective sleuthing and gunplay with some
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Max Payne slow -mo.
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Looks really ambitious for a small team and a publisher that doesn't usually push games this hard.
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People are calling it the next
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Mind's Eye, which might be a little harsh.
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It's definitely a simple single -player game with none of the
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Build -A -Rocket boy push to create a platform for game developers that was never gonna happen.
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Still, there's some big red flags when it comes to Neo Berlin 2087.
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The website's very amateurish.
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The studio introduction blurb has a text emoji straight out of the early 2000s internet, which, you know, fine when you're texting.
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It does give mind's eye vibes in the gameplay and the bad cut scenes, too.
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Oddly stiff -looking gameplay, actually.
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Odd cuts, amateurish cut scenes.
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Looks great in short bursts, like a lot of Unreal Engine stuff,
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but It turns out just using an engine that can look good doesn't make a game good.
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But randomly, you can shoot dodge like Max Payne.
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You can flip between third and first person constantly.
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There's a crisis weapon wheel.
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Strong veneer of fakeness to the project, like it can't possibly be real.
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I would love to be proven wrong, of course.
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Small developers make great games all the time.
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And we will see what happens when the game drops, hopefully sometime earlier than the actual year 2087.
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At number 19 is Squadron 42.
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The single -player narrative FPS from Cloud Imperium Games instantly gives a much more confident vibe than Neo Berlin.
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Recent trailers show some smooth gameplay on the ground in space where you control a fighter in narrative combat missions.
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There's tons of Hollywood talent attached to the game.
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Cast is stacked.
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Got Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, Henry Cavill, Jillian Anderson, plenty more.
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Looks like a real game with real gameplay and well -produced cutscenes.
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There's one big but though cloud Imperium games other game is star citizen
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Other game may not even actually be the right way to put it
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because apparently squadron 42 is in star citizen or something I don't know.
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It's star citizen is Technically a game does exist you can play
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it fairly functions in any meaningful way as it currently stands
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It's a bunch of assets thrown into a server for ardent fans to mess around with as far as games go
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It's less of a game and more of a toy where you can fly janky spaceships in the worst way possible
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It's nothing at all what the developers once promised.
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Squadron 42 exists in a world where
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Cloud Imperium Games promises the galaxy and gives us a puddle to splash around in.
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To be fair, this is a much less ambitious game.
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It's more of a Call of Duty -type game,
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or what Call of Duty used to be when they were able to just pump a good one out every year.
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But this was announced way back in 2014, and we do not have a solid release date.
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Even with actual gameplay trailers, it still feels like the game might not exist.
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The Gary Oldman featured in this game is like a decade younger than the one walking around.
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And insanely, the trailers don't even mention that this is just episode one.
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There's three episodes planned with about 20 or so hours of gameplay total.
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So even if this does ever come out, we're getting a third of it, which is great.
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Great.
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Wonderful.
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And number 18 is Blood Message.
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It looks like the kind of stylish atmospheric horror action hybrid many people are pining after.
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The reveal trailer really sets a mood, drops you straight into a grim, blood -soaked world.
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Slick animations, but it's got that high -gloss look that makes you feel like, did a small team really pull this off?
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We've seen this exact move many times.
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Stunning vertical slice put together by a studio with no track record, promising a sprawling, deeply immersive masterclass in game design.
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And the game just collapses under its own ambition.
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I like the trailer.
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It's definitely gorgeous like it looks great
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But we got to see on the scripted gameplay running outside of the tightly controlled showcase
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You know until we see that it kind of feels like Wishful thinking because to be frank, we've seen the wishful thinking many many a time.
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That's the reason we're making this list it's not a new feeling
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that we're getting from stuff like this
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and number 17 is 1666 amsterdam it's not even fair picking on this game uh as much as people do
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but we kind of have to this game from former assassin's
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creed creator patrice french last name isn't the magical experience anyone
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was hoping for this one's a bit of a cheat
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because the game is technically playable right now it's available on Steam Early Access, and the consensus is not good.
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It's exactly what we thought would happen after seeing the initial trailers.
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It's an ambitious developer biting off way more than they can chew.
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The animations are stiff and amateurish.
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The combat system is quite basic.
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The performance on PC is very bad.
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I mean, it's an interesting concept, but I have many interesting concepts floating around in my own head.
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Should I make a game?
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Could I make a game?
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One could argue that with the tools that have propagated in recent years, I should try to execute on those ideas.
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And maybe I will.
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But if it sucks, I won't release it anywhere.
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I can tell you that.
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And number 16 is Supreme Experiment.
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Looks like if Nier Automata had an unholy child with Junkhead.
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The trailer is just one bizarre jaw -dropping visual after another, but they never straight up, you know, say what the gameplay will be.
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If you just watch the footage, you assume the third -person exploration game.
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But if you look at the Steam page, the Steam page pretty much indicates it's an FPS.
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So right now, it's not possible to say what
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Supreme Experiment actually is, which makes its name pretty appropriate sounding.
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What?
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We'll find out supremely.
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The description really does make it like it's everything and it's nothing, like it's an immersive sim.
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An atmospheric walking simulator, a sci -fi thriller it may
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or may not have choose your own adventure elements i don't know they definitely got some really talented artists
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and some genuinely mind -blowing graphics but i need we all know
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that good graphics doesn't make a good game right
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we did a whole falcon show episode about the trend from a few months ago where people were saying
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that realistic graphics were destroying games and while we ultimately disagreed with
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that point what we did eventually settle on was that
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if you spend too much time on the graphics and not enough time making a good game,
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it doesn't matter if it's realistic or stylized, the game sucks.
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This is one of those ones that I'm pretty worried about that in particular.
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By the way, Falcon Show is completely free on its own channel and on Spotify now.
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That episode is called Are Good Graphics Bad?
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It's episode 20.
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I don't know.
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This game just looks like a big old hodgepodge at the moment, and and although it's got good graphics, whoop -dee -doo.
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Kind of looks like the developers are just not sure what they're making, and that's not, that doesn't bode well.
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At number 15 is Black State, another paranormal -themed shooter.
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We've seen a glut of these types coming recently, Level Zero Extraction, Grey Zone, Warfare, Stall Zone, Active Matter, just to name a few.
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Somehow, in this wave of nearly identical military sci -fi titles, Black State sets itself apart because it is not an extraction shooter.
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It's just a normal spooky third -person action game with some impressive environments.
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We've seen the premise before.
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You're a tier one operator set into an anomaly.
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You fight robots and other military -look dudes.
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If you played like Trapang 2, you won't see anything new here.
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It does look pretty great in motion.
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I mean, in the Unreal Engine stock assets kind of way.
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We're interested in the trailers, but then you see who developed it.
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They've made two other games, a phone game nobody heard of and a Resident Evil ripoff called Cabos 22, I guess.
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I don't know if I'm saying that right.
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I guarantee you've never heard of it.
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We have played it at Gameranx.
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It's one of the worst games ever made, and it's really tough to give
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Black State the benefit of the doubt after that.
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And number 14 is Tides of Annihilation, which immediately grabs your attention with a trailer of jaw -dropping, glossy Unreal Engine 5 graphics,
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sweeping cinematic destruction, and a brooding protagonist fighting through a collapsing, futuristic cityscape.
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It looks like the ultimate high -budget, blockbuster, AAA action epic that you would expect from a seasoned industry veteran,
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except, well, that's the thing, isn't it?
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It isn't.
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If you dig an inch below the surface, the red flags start to appear immediately.
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The developer, completely unproven, gameplay snippets,
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really short, heavily scripted, And we've been burned by a few too many of this thing that I'm pointing at here.
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This looks a lot like one of the ones where they promise you the moon and then moon you, essentially.
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Like drop, trow, and show you their ass instead of give you a game.
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Yeah, 30 -second clips.
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Sure, looks great, but where's that 10 -minute gameplay walkthrough that proves the game, you know, works?
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At number 13 is Waste the Fallen, an extraction shooter with a Lovecraftian horror twist.
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The tagline for the game is, the deeper you go, the less human you return.
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Sounds cool.
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Looks cool, too.
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The trailers show off a fairly, like, claustrophobic atmosphere.
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You and your team dive into these bizarre shifting dimensions filled with monsters and cultists and looks polished.
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It's also distinct enough to stand out, but let's be serious here.
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Extraction shooters live and die on the player base and developer support.
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The genre is a graveyard of ambitious titles that launched to an empty lobby and never recovered.
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There's a good chance you have not heard of Waste of the Fallen until just now.
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That's a big problem for Waste of the Fallen.
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The developer, Royal Crow, has one other game it was called Crows.
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It was a military multiplayer shooter that entered
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Steam Early Access back in 2022.
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And it was shut down within a year for, you know, what I just described.
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You know, making an extraction shooter rather than a military shooter after the military shooter failed to get any attention
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might not be the best idea.
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Like the military shooter thing, there's like already a winner.
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It's called Call of Duty and there's a billion extraction shooters.
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A little bit saturated, that market is.
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You really gotta make something special, and there's no evidence saying that this is a developer that does that.
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And number 12 is Masters of Albion.
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The Undisputed King of Broken Promises is at it again.
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We're with Jesse Pinkman on this one.
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He can't keep getting away with it.
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He being Peter Molyneux here, rather not Walter White.
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But this guy's been on a rampage of bloated expectations since the 1980s.
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He has a track record of completely fabricating things, and all of his recent games are unfinished.
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Without a big publisher backing him up, Peter Molyneux just kind of makes bad games.
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It's a fact, sorry.
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Doesn't mean I don't love Fable for what it is, rather than what it was supposed to be.
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I bring that up because Masters of Albion, Albion pretty specific in the title there.
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Apparently this is set in the Fable universe.
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Not so sure how that works here probably an outrageous lie anyway you can build a town
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and defend it from enemies
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and reviews of the closed beta were not good the trailers make
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it look like a cartoony lively world to explore
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but the reality is that it's a linear basic
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and partly copy pasted mess from a different failed nft game
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it stinks of uh minimum viable product from the get -go
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if you're familiar with the term and probably doesn't even deserve the hate, probably just deserves apathy.
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At number 11 is The Defiant, a great concept of Call of Duty from a different perspective type game.
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Instead of depicting the same battlefields we've seen a thousand times in different
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World War II games, Defiant is about the battles that happened way before the beaches of Normandy.
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Sick a new perspective on the Pacific theaters,
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an interesting prospect, but we'd all love to see the Call of Duty crown knocked off Activision's big stupid head.
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The trailer for the Defiant looks a little low rent, a little stock, a little dry.
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Looks good, don't get me wrong, but it's missing the big wow that it kind of needs.
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It might be a good game, maybe even a great one.
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It just doesn't necessarily look like a contender for what it's trying to be, but hey, there's always next year, right?
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And number 10 is Gang of Dragon.
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We want a Yakuza game with a minigun.
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Let's be serious.
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This is supposed to be a grittier, more hard -hitting game than Yakuza is.
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There's no reviving of dead characters, no changing stories and remakes of old Yakuza games.
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The trailers for Gang of Dragon, genuinely fantastic for a reason.
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They spent money on actors, music, and non -essentials.
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NetEase provided funding for the studio, but decided to not continue shelling out money earlier this year.
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While there hasn't been an official announcement, sources say the developer is closed completely.
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You can still find
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Gang of Dragon on Steam.
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The YouTube channel was deleted, but not all the pre -order spots.
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Someone somewhere is holding out hope that
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Gang of Dragon will secure funding to finish production.
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We're not holding out hope, but if it does ever come out, it might not be exactly what it looked like it was intended to be.
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And number nine is Hunter the Reckoning Deathwish.
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Has anyone mismanaged a property worse than White Wolf?
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The owners of the Vampire the Masquerade franchise botched one of our most anticipated games.
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Bloodlines 2 was one of the biggest disappointments of the decade.
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It's not even a terrible game, and just as a Bloodlines sequel, it's bad.
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If it was its own thing, it would maybe be different, but it's not like a particularly good game one way or the other.
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But that's essentially where our worries begin and end with Hunter the Reckoning.
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The concept's pretty darn good.
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You play as a hunter in the same universe as Bloodlines.
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You have to expose and hunt vampires while working with a team of specialists,
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using your skills to outwit supernatural creatures that are a lot more - powerful than you.
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Being developed by a good team, the devs behind Terminator Resistance and Robocop Rogue City.
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Both games fit into the fun but slightly flawed
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Perfect 7 category that we love talking about.
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Big point of comparison is Bloodline's 1, and our guess is that the game is not going to be nearly as ambitious.
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We're talking about a smaller zone to explore.
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Linear missions like Robocop, tough opponents you'll play cat and mouse with like Terminator.
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Trailers look intriguing, but the developer information released
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so far screams temper your expectations
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which honestly might make it a better game like i'm not saying the game's gonna be bad
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i am saying it what they're acting like it's gonna be is too good to be true
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and number eight is ananta a big anime gta
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we were briefly excited about after the initial playstation reveal showed a big city environment with fun traversal
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and rocket launchers crisp clean anime art style all
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you know looked like something new until we realized what it
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actually was one of the endless endless zone zero ripoffs pushing the pc
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and mobile platforms it's yet another anime game set in generic city where you join a squad of anomaly hunters
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or something i don't know it's called an open world rpg
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but it fails to mention the free -to -play nonsense
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that will absolutely grind this game to a screeching halt the developers have stated
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that there will be no gotcha elements
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they only sell skins for the expensive open world action rpg with two separate cities
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and multiple playable characters there's also custom housing premium vehicles more junk
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that makes the game sound wide as an ocean
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and deep as a puddle and you know how little i like that and number seven is lords of the fallen 2.
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um probably on this list this has the best chance of being something good these developers have been trying
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and almost succeeding at making a dark souls successor for a long time
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now we've got multiple lords of the fallen and souls -like attempts
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but nothing is a dark souls 4 in the way the developers have aimed for.
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Literally, the team has stated they want to make a game just as good as Dark Souls 4, which is a high hurdle to pass,
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partly because Dark Souls 4 doesn't exist yet, may never exist, and, well, we're not completely convinced
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Lords of the Fallen 2 can pull it off.
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The previous game did see a lot of updates and improvements post -release.
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Going back to it, it's quite improved, and one of the few
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Souls likes that remembers to add exploration to the hardcore combat.
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I do think this is going to be a good game, to be clear.
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I even want it to surpass the Masters.
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Like, there are a lot of good attempts at the market right now.
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Liza P knocked it out of the park with extremely good stuff, including its expansion.
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And we're rooting for Lords of the Fallen 2.
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It's just the goal they have set is maybe higher than it needs to be.
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At number six is Ill, the new Resident Evil 7 alike that we're interested in.
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Looks like a goopy, disgusting love letter to first -person survival horror.
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And we were instantly drawn to the trailers.
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As it turns out, those early showcases were more like concept trailers, ideas that may not necessarily appear in the game.
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After a lot of years of waiting, we're finally getting a solid release date, and real gameplay footage still looks good,
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but doesn't have that wow factor the original teaser showed off.
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We are hopeful for it.
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Maybe it's exactly as gross as it looked all those years ago.
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For horror lovers, the hype train was off the charts on this tiny game, and after many years of radio silence, it kind of appeared dead.
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We're definitely not at the fever pitch hype point anymore though Unlike a lot of games on this list
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this game is absolutely releasing will it be like what the developers showed at the very start?
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We'll have to wait and see
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And number five is mudang two hearts Looks legit.
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It's a third -person shooter with two protagonists set during a crisis in Korea Terrorists have invaded the city
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you swap between a soldier and a k -pop star just trying to survive shooting combat stealth
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It all looks a cut above other games on our list, like Black State, for instance.
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It looks like a real game made by experienced developers, even if it is a brand new team with no experience.
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The trailer has horror elements with zombies showing up.
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It's, I mean, is it a tactical shooter and a zombie game?
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I don't know.
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Whatever the case, it does look great until we learned more about the developers.
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Four months ago, insiders reported that the studio behind this game had gone bankrupt.
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You can still find the game on store pages like
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Steam and the Microsoft Store with the 2026 release date, the devs had reportedly been struggling financially for quite a while.
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And most of what we've seen in gameplay trailers is just a vertical slice, similar to the old
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Duke Nukem Forever trailers, which none of the game that was shown was actually complete.
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Just small cross -section of small level sections show off what the game would be.
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And games that look like this are expensive.
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Without a publisher, it was bound to crash and burn.
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And number four is Terray the Unbound.
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I'm not sure if I'm saying that right, but also, eh.
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This game tries to sell itself as the next massive generation -defining fantasy epic.
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Revealed trailer hits you with stunning
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Vista's massive scale cinematic combat looks straight out of a high budget playstation exclusive
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if you dig into the gameplay footage there's generally some impressive magic slinging
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and traversal on on display
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but whenever a brand new studio pops out of nowhere promising
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a sprawling seamless open world rpg with next -gen fidelity our internal alarm bells start blaring
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i mean how many times have we followed
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this exact same hike cycle as it goes a number of the games on this list will turn out
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this way without question some won't some will defy expectations perhaps this one probably is not in
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that category though the combat animations already look a little floaty under scrutiny
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and the world map feels suspiciously empty outside of set piece moments looks breathtaking in 60 second clips
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but we got to see an unedited hands -on demo uh
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that maybe doesn't need a top -tier pc rig to play
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we're kind of assuming this is an ambitious dream though and number three is beautiful light
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Did we say
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Black State looked like a bunch of other recent games?
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I guess we got back confused with Beautiful Light, which does look like every other recently announced milsim extraction shooter on the market.
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It's a paranormal PVPVE game that honestly, if you're taking it at face value, looks quite good.
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Realistic guns, detailed animations, big open world.
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It's all about diving in and chasing that loot high while dodging anomalies.
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Problem is there's a lot of games that look like this.
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Best case scenario currently is that it's like active matter, which is also like almost the same thing.
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The twist in this game is you can raid other players as an anomaly.
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Fun addition, but isn't enough to overcome the generic military simulation hook.
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Everything in these trailers looks polished, professional, well -made.
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It's also another dev team that exists to make this one game.
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Like, when does the pattern stop?
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We've seen this a lot.
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Even if the game's good, there's a hundred of this game, which doesn't bode well for the idea
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that it can launch with a big enough audience to sustain itself
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which negates the idea of it being a good game because a good game has to continue existing
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moving on to number two it's saw genesis uh boarding the asymmetrical multiplayer train
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which is always a bumpy ride it's called saw
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but it's not about jigsaw uh instead it goes deep into and the lore and gives us a new villain, the Judge.
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Three survivors have to work together to avoid traps and escape alive, which is pretty standard for these types of games.
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Has a slightly interesting curve ball with a World War I aesthetic.
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No idea if that appeals to Sawfanes though.
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The biggest question is the developers behind it.
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Bloober Team is publishing and they've improved significantly with their latest handful of games, but they're not developing it.
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Onshar Studios is one of the two main teams
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and we've never been a fan of their games game deck
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is a horribly embarrassing rpg the recent painkiller co -op is an all -time bad idea
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that also reviewed horribly both of these games are technically competent
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but not good saw genesis is also being made by another team
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so there's hope maybe blooper can help these guys navigate out of the labyrinth of bad decisions
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and make something good who knows it's still an asymmetrical multiplayer game we've yet to really get the one with
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that genre and finally at number one it is defect game
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that looks like the kind of sci -fi psychological thriller
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that gets everyone foaming at the mouth on forums
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and honestly the reveal trailer earns the hype
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it's a master class in atmosphere dropping you into a decaying neon drenched dystopia uh you got some high tension
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and combat and a premise that oozes mystery.
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But let's be real for a second.
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Whenever a game's entire marketing strategy relies on showing pristine,
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highly -scripted cinematic snippets where every visual set piece lands with absolute perfection, that's suspicious.
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Like, maybe check the enthusiasm at the door and introduce some scrutiny to the situation.
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We've seen too many ambitious indie teams promise a mind -bending genre, redefining narrative only to deliver a linear,
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repetitive corridor shooter with a paper -thin plot.
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Footage is gorgeous.
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Trailer's well put together, but we'll have to see how the moment -to -moment mechanics hold up.
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And frankly, outside of the meticulously edited trailer, Defect is kind of sitting comfortably right at the top of our too -good -to -be -true list.
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| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| trailer noun | /ˈtɹeɪlɚ/ | Someone who or something that trails (follows behind); something that is trailing. |
| developer noun | /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/ | A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products. |
| shooter noun | /ˈʃuːtəː/ | Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc. |
| gameplay noun | /ˈɡeɪmˌpleɪ/ | The totality of player experiences during a game, such as the gaming environment and the competitive interaction with other players; often with reference to a… |
| graphics noun | /ˈɡɹæfɪks/ | The making of architectural or design drawings. |
| ambitious adjective | /æmˈbɪʃ.əs/ | Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction. |
| extraction noun | /ɪkˈstɹækʃən/ | The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted. |
| falcon noun | /ˈfælkən/ | Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey. |
| horror noun | /ˈhɒɹ.ə/ | An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance. |
| footage noun | /ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/ | An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording. |
| animation noun | /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/ | The act of animating, or giving life or spirit. |
| hype noun | /haɪp/ | Promotion or propaganda, especially exaggerated claims. |
| unreal adjective | /ʌnˈɹi.əl/ | Not real or substantial; having no actual presence in reality; lacking the characteristics of reality. |
| cloud noun | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. |
| reveal verb | /ɹɪˈviːl/ | To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| show off verb | To exhibit the best attributes of something. | |
| turn out verb | To end up; to result. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| hold out verb | To hold (something) out; to extend (something) forward. | |
| put together verb | To assemble, construct, build, or formulate. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| get away with verb | To get away, or escape, taking (something) with one. | |
| get back verb | Return to where one came from. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- When will we get the ambitious tech or possibly just vaporware?
- Will we ever learn our lesson with him?
- Should I make a game?
- Could I make a game?
- It's, I mean, is it a tactical shooter and a zombie game?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if it sucks, I won't release |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | We've seen · have propagated · They've made |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are designed · be proven · is stacked |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | guy who plays · matter, which is · alive, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 85 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, doesn't, we've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thriller /ˈθɹɪ.lə/, thin /ˈθɪn/, smooth /smuːð/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shooter /ˈʃuːtəː/, ambitious /æmˈbɪʃ.əs/, extraction /ɪkˈstɹækʃən/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/
- Long words — get the stress right: developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, multiplayer /ˌmʌl.tiˈpleɪ.əɹ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like trailer, developer, shooter.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.