2018 is one of the most important years in the history of games, so important that even V Club suddenly remembered something and released a card game "Artifact" at the end of the year. This game was put on the shelves for two weeks, and the price was reduced. The pre-order players were played as monkeys. The low profit of Krypton led to full setbacks, and the operation and public relations were rubbish. But the game is a good game, and there are many people who shout loudly and fight for thousands of hours, but the slots are unbearable. This is not only "Artifact", but also 2018.
The card game "Artifact" of V Club received mixed comments.
The game smells good.
The quality of the game this year is beyond imagination. I don’t know if your hands are still there. Anyway, I typed this article with chopsticks in my mouth.
Monster Hunter: The WorldIt’s a good start. Since it went online at 0: 00 on January 26th, 2018, the game server has been in a state of collapse for a long time, which makes it impossible for players in mainland China to play online and receive distribution tasks. To tell the truth, although the series was restarted after a lapse of four years, it has a considerable popularity base in Northeast Asia, but a very hard-core action game can be sold like this, which fully shows that this player is full of money and money. Even I, who had a hard time playing action games and had no hands, bought a copy and put it in the content library. It is still a mystery why Capcom can bring phenomenal level every time he changes jobs.
Monster Hunter: The World
Shortly after the start of the second quarter, all players’ attention was paid.fighting for loveAttract the past. This is a subversive work. None of the old players can imagine what "God of War" would be like without the jump button, and there was a lot of ridicule at one time. But after the game was released, they all shut up and walked into the vast Nordic world with reverence in the interaction between their old parents and their old mothers and their Xiong Haizi. Their surprise didn’t end-"This is the end?" "There is red equipment?" "Wait, what’s my son’s name? ！” If there was a game before that was named as a model of combining movie audio-visual language with games, please forget them, and a new version of the textbook has been published. A director, please look at the long shots. When IGN and Game Spot announced the score of this work, they persisted for five years. Cory Barlog, the producer who withstood numerous pressures, shed tears for the camera. He thanked all of you for accompanying him through this journey. This is like the line in Ready Player One: "Thank you for playing my game". No, thank you. Just like thanking Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One and Cameron for putting gunnm on the big screen, the movie version of gunnm has kept me waiting since junior high school. Every wait can bear fruit, which is a classic and romantic thing. For players, this is a personal insistence on good memories like the Day of the Dead.
fighting for love
Look at the future. Although Cyberpunk 2077 hasn’t arrived yet, a society full of bionic people is close at hand. We can start from Detroit, where we don’t know why it has revived, and explore the new mysteries of human civilization. Three bionic people, three stories, 513 characters, 35,000 shots, more than 70,000 cutscenes, more than 2,000 pages of game scripts, more than 5 million lines of code and a cost of $230 million. Such a masterpiece of burning money (Detroit: Being Human) It’s actually a interactive movie, which reminds me of the perfect masterpiece "428: Shibuya Blocked" ten years ago. Comparing the two, I can’t help feeling that the times are changing rapidly, and the little electric donkey can’t catch up. But there is no change in the changes. Isn’t "428" just like many other games, it was announced to be re-released? The contrast between the two works shows that the times have changed and remained unchanged at a glance. The changed part must include that the scores of Fami Pass and IGN are now a joke.
Detroit: Being Human
Another game that stands at the forefront isMarvel Comics Spider-ManThis may be the first game that claims to drain the PS4 Pro but insists on locking it for 30 frames. Dragging spider silk around the new york market, its refreshing feeling is obviously far more than the "leap of faith" in the series of Assassin’s Creed and "jumping a building for fun" in the series of "Killing the prototype". However, the combat system is actually a dark knight style that cancels the block counterattack mechanism, and the speed at which the enemy’s blood tank drops even makes people suspect that they are really just bitten by a tarantula. This may be a common problem in this generation of 3A games. They occasionally cling to outdated game fillers, such as the boring repetitive sideline tasks to earn tokens. Only 20 hours of play time also makes people don’t know what to say.
Marvel Comics Spider-Man
In this seemingly stagnant era, innovation is sometimes like nostalgia.True Three Kingdoms Warriors 8It’s not surprising to be called a sieve. The reform of the action system can’t see the actual meaning. The QTE that comes out easily will make people think that it is a semi-finished product of Samu 3 with a new skin. The reform of the open world only means more collection materials, longer riding distance, longer playing time and looser game experience. The animation of the series "The Warriors of Three Kingdoms" is often used by page games as false advertisements. Glory tells players with strength that "The Warriors of Three Kingdoms" can be very similar to page games as long as they really work hard and forge ahead. This is the most regretful game I bought this year, and there is no one.
True Three Kingdoms Warriors 8
Not only is this series in trouble, but the Japanese game industry seems to have lost its direction as a whole. When facing the barbarians at the door, they can only silently pull out their ancestral Tiancong Yunjian model, pretend to resist, and then lie flat on the spot.Soul power 6Probably the last work in the series, this personal style looks like a cowboy carnival today.God eater 3Driving backwards, even the setting of "predation style" was cancelled, and the content was castrated by half. Glory actually ran to giveSerpent 3I applied for the Guinness Book of World Records with the most optional roles, but the quality is nothing more than a mediocre return and minor repairs. And the usual cold rice,Such as Dragon 3, Ghost Warrior: Remastered Edition, Cunninghamia lanceolata 1+2….. but the rice is so cold that even heating is not required.Ghost Warrior: Remastered Edition, also calculate refreshed the lower limit of day factory moral integrity.Country of Two 2The low degree of completion makes it hard to believe that this is a level-5 game.Battlefield Valkyria 4As steady as the first generation, that’s all.
Year-endThe brave fight the dragon: building a connoisseur 2andEye of the trialIt is a little face for Japanese games. Who would have thought that a construction game is much more charming than the series itself? Some players saidThe brave fight the dragon 11It is "Watching and Watching", which is the kind of work that has free time to watch one episode, and skipping a few episodes will have no effect. Not yet, it should be regarded as a report performance of kindergarten. Some people can be intoxicated with childlike innocence, and some people can’t help but want to beat the naive head teacher. Since the middle of the year, Niigata has been jealous of the beauty fans who have Connor’s little brother’s face to lick, and some female players even started their first game machine for this purpose. And at the end of the year, His Royal Highness Kimura Takuya arrived late. "Eye of the Trial" and "Dragon 6" are exactly the same, with the same stars and the same gameplay, but the game did not choose to reproduce the face of Kimura Temple when it was young. I guess the technical ability is really insufficient. For the old players in the series, playing "Dragon 6" may still have some new ideas. All kinds of outdated settings and law-related links without technical content in "Eye of the Trial" always make people suspect that this is an old HD cold rice version of the game.
Pokémon: Pikachu/Ibrahimovic
Fortunately, there is Nintendo. In the local sales list in Japan, Nintendo successfully butchered the version, and taught players what is really fragrant with a series of combination punches. On innovation,Pokémon: Pikachu/IbrahimovicDirectly abandoned the series characteristics of hatching eggs, flashing and field fighting, and grafted the mobile version of the combat system. Old players are naturally very upset, drooling and hating Qi Fei, but after playing, they all express that they look like their mother, just love to worry about things.Kabi of the Stars: Nova Alliance, donkey kong: Tropical Freezing, Mario+Crazy Rabbit: Battle of the Kingdom, Super Mario Party.….. As long as the old IP doesn’t float, it is inevitable to occupy a position on the sales list, not to mentionNintendo Star WarsSuch a masterpiece. add toTravelers from all directions,"Excalibur 2"Ira, the land of goldDLC、The Brave Fight the Dragon: Little Creator 2Blessed, if in 2017, PS4 players can still ridicule NS players for only "Breath of the Wilderness", then in 2018, the relationship between them will become a game that can’t be played, so there is no time to ridicule.
Nintendo Star Wars
I suddenly found one thing. Is the platform that monopolized the most games in 2018 … ……PC? This year’s PC game is more like a buffet with rich dishes, each with its own characteristics and beautiful, but because one person only needs 998, Alba white truffles will not be eaten. There are so many interesting games to choose from on the PC, fromForestarrive《Beholder 2》, from《GRIS》arriveDouble point hospitalBut the most expensive dishes are basically from other restaurants. The biggest surprise for PC players this year may be that there isEternal Pillar 2: The Fire of DeathSuch works that stick to the characteristics of PC game types.
Eternal Pillar 2: The Fire of Death
In terms of new year’s goods,Live Football 2019and《FIFA2019》As steady as an old dog, the former has gone further and further on the road of drawing gold boxes, while the latter has exhausted every advantage of the exclusive copyright in the Champions League, and the results are not bad. You can’t ask too much in odd years.《NBA2K19》Not to mention it, the evaluation of NBA 2K in recent years is not good, and the localization operation in 2018 is a disaster. After playing ball, you can order snakes to eat in karaoke. There is a strange mosquito-repellent incense burner in the room, and 95% of China’s names are two words. Most players have no chance to talk about the localization of the game, and they can’t connect to the server at all. The most stable new year’s product is Extreme Racing: Horizon 4, with a panoramic view of the British Isles, rich weather system, precise physical engine, social closed loop and explosive vehicle skill tree complement each other. This is the best viewing simulator in history, except for occasional disconnection. There is also a new year’s goods-Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. I don’t quite understand the operation of producing a Assassin’s Creed a year. It’s not bad, just a little too much. Originally, I thought it was just a new year’s work to change the skin and send bugs. Who wants to achieve such a high degree of completion? Ubisoft’s exploration in history education is really amazing. And who would have thought that it was not Ubisoft who bought bugs and sent games in 2018, but Bei Sesta.
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
The second half of PC players belongs to shooting games.Call of Duty 15: Black ops 4, Battlefield V, killer 2, Self-Defense 4 and Radiation 76.. There’s nothing to say about shooting games, just have fun. The most interesting news about shooting games in 2018 may be that Florian-DRUNKKZ3, the core gameplay designer of Battlefield V, was too immortal in Black ops 4 and passively regarded the title. Self-defense 4 is an out-and-out semi-finished product, and its unreliability is more than ten times higher than that of Radiation 76. "Radiation 76" is really a masterpiece in the world, and it is enough to go down in history. Players may never know why there are bugs in "Radiation 3" but not in "Radiation 4", which is a game that almost changes the skin of "Radiation 4".
Radiation 76
I have counted so much, but this year can only represent the achievements of the game industry.Fistful of dollars 2. Mamoru Oshii, who works only three hours a day, said that movies have lagged behind the games, and he has been ahead of the times for a whole year. If this man, who claims to stand on his own feet only by looting and killing, sees the complicated karmic system of fistful of dollars 2, I wonder what it will be like for a while. The production cost of "fistful of dollars II" is about three times that of "grand theft auto v" (about 800 million US dollars), the development cycle is 8.5 years, 2,000 pages of scripts, 500,000 dialogues, 300,000 shots, and a group of thoroughbred horses for motion capture. The most expensive movie in film history is Pirates of the Caribbean 4: Rough Waves, which costs about $380 million, and the series is the worst, followed by Marvel Comics’s superhero movies. Putting the strategies of Marvel Universe and R Star together, we can see a new problem. If the film industry does not find the theme of superheroes and draw elements from sub-cultures such as games and animation to create revelry, it will probably stagnate, and the bottleneck of the film industry has arrived. The practice of piling up materials in the open world and attracting players with higher, faster and stronger skills has also caused great controversy here in fistful of dollars 2. Do players really need such a real game? Or to put it another way, can extreme reality really bring players enough immersion to keep their psychological time and real time in sync, so as not to produce any negative emotions of irritability and anxiety? The theme of superheroes and the exploration of the open world are not over yet, and the outcome of games and movies has not yet been decided. But to be honest, with such excellent narrative ability of R star,Everything is right. I still remember Mike jumping off the plane in a trance state, which was the highlight of the literary experience.
Xbox One S？ What is this?
Fistful of dollars 2
Domestic games are full of setbacks
Such a highlight moment does not belong to the domestic game in 2018. In terms of output, 2018 is a big year for domestic games, but the quality is not going up, but it tells a bunch of stories that make players frustrated.
There is a cost of $160,000 in the beginning of the year.Portia timeWarm-up field, a small game, has been successfully selected into the list of the hottest new products of Steam, which makes people inexplicably look forward to small and beautiful human products. There are really many such "small and beautiful" this year. Most of them tell a good story outside the game, but none of them can play.
The road to redemptionIf it is a girl, it may be the kind that will use Mito mobile phone to cheat. Watching the preview is simply exploding, the Boss battle like black soul, the atmosphere and design that look good, and the anti-game design of Level Down all make this session of Shake M players look forward to it. But if you really play it, you will find that the game card is at the end, the sound effect is very strange, and the experience is just mediocre.
It took five years, cost 400 million yuan and invested more than 200 people to develop it. Good story, right?Cold against the waterIs it a good game? Nobody knows. I only know three o’clock. First, no matter how much Netease pays, I really don’t want to see its advertisement when the N card is updated. Breathe? Breathing is expensive; Second, Wang Sicong is really rich, and capital games are also games; Third, Netease will ruin its own game by changing its skin, and whether it can let Blizzard go.
Martial artsIt is another story. It sounds good outside the game. The martial arts version eats chicken. Is there a Chinese style? It’s not like that when you really play. If you have weapons, you have to have skills, learn skills in situ, save blue stripes PK, and you can’t beat a person in a few minutes. The matching mechanism can make people crazy enough to scratch their bald heads.
Taiwu Painting VolumeIt is a model of selling millions of sales by stories. How much fun is it? In the final analysis, it is a word simulation game with good randomness. But the story of the game maker is really attractive, the development team of four people, the bloody idiot who taught himself to program, and the inexplicable and uncontrollable code. Four words, craftsman spirit, I am not satisfied that this game has not won the "Five Ones" project award.
Knight riderThe same is true. Martial arts, cultivation, after many failures, of course, there are still players who will pay for these two labels, such as me. But I really didn’t expect Wu Yagu’s feelings to pay the bill like this, so I quickly quit, for fear of missing the refund time. Tearing around plagiarism and creativity outside the game is much more interesting than the game itself. On the day of the launch, the producer was forced to quit the official exchange group, and everyone tasted it.
Mini worldIt is the kind of work that makes you doubt the world. You know that every pixel of it is copied, and a little innovation has been made in the details, which can be even higher than the original. You don’t know what’s wrong, and you don’t know whether you live in Saramago’s world, where everyone is inexplicably blind.
The stories in the old game series are even more interesting.Legend of Heroic Heroes, the legendary work of "Wizard 3", the content is pitiful, the fighting system is mentally retarded, the lens is strange, the mold is frequently worn, and the optimization is extremely poor. The most interesting thing is that two hours after the game was released, Xu Changlong voiced in Weibo: "Heluo can fall, but the national list can’t fall!" The list of countries has not fallen. Fantasy Three Kingdoms are still alive, so don’t bother to remember. With the same dubbing team as Heluo, Destiny and Miraculousness not only did not have the same problems in dubbing, but also won a good reputation with its good quality. The biggest surprise is stillSwords of legends 3, use the familiar engine, polish the combat system, and tell a good story. Players really don’t have high requirements for domestic games. By contrast, it is clear at a glance who is doing something seriously and who is drawing a pie.
Swords of legends 3
The new year’s goods of domestic games are "starting with a dog, all the equipment depends on playing" and "new version of the boat, love like intermediary games" New year’s goods are innovative, from a knife 999 to equipment second recycling, to the size of Kun, a pot can not be put down, the domestic game new year’s goods in the lower right corner of the page have been evolving. Moreover, this story is far from finished. Players will never know who will come out in armor next. Won’t Jackie Chan just sit still at the end of the year? There are two lines in Gangdom, "What a fucking hypocrisy!" And "if you have money, everyone will earn it!" , Hong Kong star, or Hong Kong film said the most meat.
But counting up, in the domestic game stories in 2018, the most inexplicable, funny and burning are the following three.Chinese parentsTelling a sketch story with a repeated play value of almost zero and a level of 4,399 has aroused widespread concern, even the attention of the art world, which makes me feel as if this is not 2018, but when the Flash game just emerged, I was sitting in the Internet cafe watching the little stick figure fight with a fan. This can lead to a great discussion about realism in the game and art circles, so it’s no wonder that Zhifei Bi has held symposiums in turn in several famous schools.
The funniest story comes from a military simulation game. At the end of May, a model namedStrong armyThe game went online in beta and disappeared immediately. The producer jumped out and said that the description of the destruction of the Minnitz-class aircraft carrier in the first test version was too sensitive and was banned by the US Department of Culture. America? Ministry of Culture?
The most burning story is only one sentence, Invictus Gaming is awesome!
IG won the championship and once screened many people’s social networks.
Operational public relations and garbage
Has anyone ever seen a hardware manufacturer boast that their products are so good that plug-ins are not stuck? All the players in 2018 saw it. At Dell’s new product launch conference in April, when Sally, a spokesperson, introduced the G series game books, she praised China players for being "very creative" in the use of plug-ins, and also popularized several plug-ins in detail with PPT. what can I say? I can’t smash my Dell computer and never buy it again.
In terms of game manufacturers, Bei Sesta made great contributions, washing Ubisoft white and white. First, the canvas bag promised to the pre-order player of Radiation 76 turned into a nylon bag. After a long silence, the measure of filling out the application form to replace the product was finally introduced, and then the player information was leaked. This wave of operation bored the players, and the anger was sprayed into a meter of sunshine, stained with half a foot of sadness.
Blizzard is also good, of course, half of this is due to Netease. After strongly rendering the news of Diablo’s new work, this new work was announced at the finale of the press conference … It’s a mobile game, and it’s a skinning mobile game of Netease. The scene was suddenly silent. At this moment, designer Yang said, "Do you guys not have phones?" Yes, I can also use it to scold you. That’s not all. David Breivik, once the father of Diablo, exploded a pile of black materials of blizzard, and said that he was a drunken gaffe. Designers currently working for Blizzard couldn’t sit still and decided to come to Boda themselves. In an anonymous interview with Kotaku, a designer declared that "Diablo’s mobile game was of course developed for the China market … because the quality standards of rival games in China, especially in terms of frames, are very low, and the release of works regarded as’ beta’ by Europe and America will be considered as a complete game by China." Two companies with the initials B contributed two major dramas in 2018. The name of this story should be called "2018·2B". Followed by SE, I don’t know for what reason, the pricing and price reduction of Tomb Raider: Shadow are very confusing. Remember to call me the next time the strong wind blows the player’s money.
The new work "Diablo: Immortality" of "Big Pineapple" released by Blizzard is actually a skin-changing mobile game.
On the other hand, the offline platform is rapidly failing. Sony’s withdrawal from E3 can be regarded as a landmark event, but after understanding it, it was found that this board was probably going to hit the operator’s ass. According to E3 regulations, any articles that can’t be carried by a single person by hand should be transported by the company designated by the organizer. Booth decoration can also only choose designated manufacturers. I always knew that players would be plucked and played as fools, but I didn’t expect manufacturers to be plucked by geese. No wonder Devin Coldewey, a digital blogger, said, "It (E3) is extremely stupid. Game companies spend millions of dollars to show content that is essentially false to an increasingly tired audience, which is increasingly out of sync with the operation mode of the game industry, so it is not surprising that Sony has withdrawn. "
On the other hand, it’s hot online. Mamoru Oshii was partly right, that is, there are indeed more and more people who would rather stay in the living room and watch live video games than walk into the cinema. Twitch made history, and the number of online viewers in the "CS: GO》Major finals even exceeded 1 million, setting a record. In the game-related content, not only the viewers of the anchors headed by Ninja are rising, but also the video viewers of "Just Chatting" are alarmingly high. This shows that cloud players have officially become a major genre among players in this year.
Throughout 2018, cloud players continued to brush their sense of existence. First of all, after the new "God of War" came out, I persistently spoke of its "bad sense of attack". This kind of thing is a matter of opinion, and it’s nothing, but it’s very spiritual to say "first of all, I haven’t played this game" in the comments. When "Detroit" was put on the shelves, they crouched in the major live broadcast rooms and watched the content all over again, and then devoted themselves to harming real players for giant fanatics. Of course, there are times when they are impatient. fistful of dollars 2 is too slow and the riding time is too long. The anchors don’t know how to chat with the audience, and the audience really didn’t insist on watching it, which made it leave the hot spot of live broadcast.
We may regard these cloud players as the third camp. They spray players as well as manufacturers. While consuming game content, they have brushed all the places where they can brush their sense of existence with an ancestral heart. However, it is precisely because of their existence that every public relations and operation event in the game industry will trigger a frenzy of anger than ever before, which may force manufacturers to be better to players.
The game industry really needs to change, not only manufacturers and players, but also sales platforms. Look at the names that have dominated the list all the year round on Steam. Of course, they are all good games, but it also shows in disguise how unfriendly Steam’s wonderful sharing strategy is to small and medium-sized producers. Wegame is a useful attempt, but there have been two large-scale events this year, which makes Wegame’s prospects dim. The emergence of showstopper such as Epic also makes the position of Steam less indestructible. In 2019, the change is imminent. Let’s pick up the melon in our hands and keep watching.
