A Year to Remember? The Best Upcoming Games of 2020
With releases of such magnitude as Cyberpunk 2077, The Last of Us 2, or the Remake of Final Fantasy VII, 2020 may become one of the memorable years in gaming. We list 12 games we look forward to the most.
Table of Contents
- A Year to Remember? The Best Upcoming Games of 2020
- Half-Life Alyx – VR instead of HL3
- Cyberpunk 2077 – CDPR's most-wanted
- Final Fantasy VII Remake – jRPG of all time returns
- Dying Light 2 – the city of zombies
- Minecraft: Dungeons – Minecraft meets Diablo
- The Ghost of Tsushima – the samurai in the open world
- Microsoft Flight Simulator – the triumphant return
- Doom Eternal – the carnage continues
- Witchfire – Painkiller 2?
- NiOh 2 – samurai souls-like
- Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord – sandbox for knights
NiOh 2 – samurai souls-like
Why? The first NiOh was the only souls-like not developed by From Software that offered comparable quality to Dark Souls.
- Release date: March 2020
- Genre: soulslike
- Platforms: PS4
Twelve years of work, two hard resets of the project, changes in the development team, and the final decision to create a game that had nothing to do with the original ideas – the first NiOh was born in pain. Such stories rarely end well, but this title was an exception – the game turned out an excellent souls-like, combining solutions characteristic of From Software's games with a special atmosphere of the feudal Japan, a much more complex combat system, and looting straight from Diablo.
This game will be a prequel. We will create a hero or heroine – people often joked that the protagonist of the original game was samurai Geralt, which makes me wonder if ninja-Ciri will now become the rage.
The game will be challenging again (recent beta-testing left no doubt about this), and the combat system will be more complex. This will include a completely new ability to shape-shift into a demon for a few seconds, gaining incredible power. As a rule, however, developers focus primarily on "more of the same thing" – given the quality and originality of the original, this seems a good strategy. Especially since it's the only more genuine souls-like scheduled for the first half of the next year.
