Games coming out in January 2012
And it’s the start of a new year. We’re done looking back on the greatness of 2011 (at least gaming-wise), now let’s look to the awesomeness 2012 will bring us… maybe.I’m not too sure how much there is to look forward to for the rest of the year, but here’s what’s coming out in January. (I may do a post about my currently most hyped games, we’ll see tomorrow)
Really not a whole lot coming up for January so here we have… 5 (*Edit* 3) Multiplatform games! That’s… it really. No good/interesting/popular exclusives for anything.
So let’s go at this quickly!
MULTIPLATFORM RELEASES
Final Fantasy XIII-2 01/31 (PS3, 360)
I’m one of the 3 people who actually enjoyed Final Fantasy XIII. It had a fine leveling system, good characters (ignoring Hope and Sazh), an okay-ish story and a really good battle system. This one seems very similar, though I hope some elements are ironed out (such as a few minor things in the fighting system), but I have good hopes for this, as long as the QTEs I’ve seen in some videos aren’t as annoying as they could end up being. I’ll be picking this up.
NeverDead 01/31 (PS3, 360)
This looks potentially interesting. It’s a third-person shooter action game where you play as an immortal character. You seem to have guns and melee weapons, and you can lose or remove body parts as you want and you can retrieve them by rolling over them or something like that. Not sure how dying/challenge will work with a character that can’t die even if he removes his head, but the gameplay videos I’ve seen actually don’t seem THAT bad… I’ll rent it.
SoulCalibur V 01/31 (PS3, 360)
I’ve never been really good at Soul Calibur, nor do I enjoy them that much. Not that I think they’re bad of course, I think Soul Calibur is probably the best 3D-style fighter out there… just not my style of fighting game. I’ll definitely give this a try when Dave gets it though 
. Things I’ve seen about this game do seem quite interesting.
PC RELEASES
Fortune Summoners 01/17
An insanely cutesy action-RPG with crazy combos and on-the-fly character change. It’s a bit steeply priced compared to other games that were localized by Carpe Fulgur, but with a 20+ hours long game that has quite good gameplay (I can tell from the demo, which was well over an hour long just for the prologue), the 25$ price tag isn’t that unwarranted. And how often to japanese indie games get officially localized over here? I think it’s something that may be worth encouraging, especially if the game ends up being really good… DEMO!
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Gotham City Impostors is actually based on an official comic book storyline.
Not interested in FFXIII-2, Never Dead looks like something I’d rent to at least try out.
Not sure I’ll pick up SCV on release. Big fan of the series since Soul Edge in the arcades in the mid 90s. But I just bought King of Fighters XIII and I got the Old Republic keeping me busy. But I might cave in. (read I most likely will)
2012 is actually looking good too. Anarchy reigns being delayed to July is a shame, that’s almost a year worth of delay (was first coming out last Fall), but if it means it’ll be better and tighter, go for it PG.
Good thing I’m not watching all that much anime anymore.
Didn’t know much about Gotham City Impostors, might be more interesting due to the comic tie-in (at least for fans of said comic)… but I still don’t feel like FPS is a good genre for a Batman-based game. But maybe that’s just me, and maybe it works good with that particular storyline
As for 2012, I’m currently preparing a post to highlight games I’m personally interested in trying out, should be up soon.
2 of the games on here were delayed, so I edited them out.