I've never finished a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age game. I've never played a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Silent Hill game, period (aside from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Short Message and, for the series' sake, I'm not counting it). But, this month, the two biggest releases in gaming are 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bloober Team's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Silent Hill 2 remake and BioWare's long-awaited return to single-player role-playing, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: The Veilguard. As an agnostic about both seriesꦜ, I'm really debat💜ing where to spend my time and, more importantly, my money.
The Long-Awaited Returns Of Dragon Age And Silent Hill
The tough part is both games seem pretty good. Silent Hill 2 launched last week to , and Dragon Age's (barring the one from TheGamer's Eric Switzer, who 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:remained skeptical). These are both games that had low expectations among fans ahead of release. Silent Hill 2 because many gamers don't like Bloober Team. Dragon Age because BioWare hasn't made a great game in a long time, and its last game, Anthem, was a livܫe-service disaster. And yeꦍt, now that both games' release month has arrived, fans seem more optimistic.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Combat Seems Better Now Companions Can Fall Out With You
Previews revealed that Neve and other character wi🍌ll change how they act in battle depending on choices you take.
Having to choose between the two games is highlighting the major similarities between them. In both cases, they’re the work of studios that are coming off of major bounces. Anthem was a ‘come to Jesus’ moment for BioWare, pushing the studio to ditch multiplayer plans for Dragon Age 4 and double down on the single-player gameplay it's beloved for. Bloober, meanwhile, is coming off 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Medium, which wasn’t as big of a failure commercially, but which tainted the studio’s reputation with horror fans due to its 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ill-advised handling✱ of 🏅a child abuse plotline. Both Silent Hill 2 and Dragon Age: The Veilg🅘uard are providing the chance for comebacks for their respective studios.
Their respective series, too. Dragon Age has been AWOL for a decade, following 2014's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Inquisition. Silent Hill, likewise, had a splashy entry the same year with P.T., Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro's ‘playable trailer’ for Silent Hills. After that game's cancellation, and Kojima's messy split from Konami, Silent Hill laid fallow for nine years before returning with Silent Hill: Ascension in 2023 and this year's Silent Hill: The Short Message. Ascension is an interactive streaming series, and so barely counts. The Short Message is bad and extremely short, so I wouldn't count it either. Silent Hill 2 is the series' first real, full-length🍨 entry in over a decade, and that made the stakes pretty high.
Series May Rest, But They Rarely Die
But that long hiatus means that there haven't been new games in either series since I got back into games in 2016. At this point, that feels rare. So many series that had been away for a long time have gotten sequels in the past ten years. In 2021, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:New Pokemon Snap brought the photography series back after 22 years. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Return to Monkey Island saw Guybrush Threepwood set off on his first voyage in 13 years. New Pikmi💎n, Dead Space, and Armored Core brought each long-dormant series back to the spotlight in 2023.
Nostalgia has been part of our gaming diet for decades, but this generation it has become, arguably, the driving force in the medium. Remasters and remakes are a huge pillar of every year's release calendar. Lengthening development cycles push companies like Naughty Dog and Capcom to turn to their back catalog. 🍎Online services like PS Plus and Nintendo Switch Online are increasingly sold on the opportunity to play old games. Nothing stays dead forever.
So, it's interesting that ဣDragon Age and Silent Hill 2 stayed in hibernation for so long. I don't know which I'll end up playing, but in both cases, I'm eager to see what the fuss is all about after all these years.
I Know We're All Excited For Silent Hill 2, But Make Room For Mouthwashing This Halloween
It's hard to imagine horror on par with Silent Hill 2, but Mouthwashing pulls it off, and that's exactly why you should make roomꦫ for it.
