November and December: Dump months for video games?

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#1 Lembu90
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November and December are the "dump months" for video games much like January and February to movies. We have plenty of craps released in this month alone such as Quiet Man, Overkill's The Walking Dead and Fallout 76. Darksiders 3 turned out to be a massive disappointment in comparison to previous two games. Sadly this is the first entry of the franchise to have a playable female character as well as the first in XBOX One/PS4 era that isn't a remaster.

Just Cause 4 will be last high-profiled game that still yet to released in this year and I expect it to be an average game that destined to be forgotten few weeks after it were released just like the third game in December 2015. The fourth game didn't look too different despite having long development time(almost three years) and talented developers and they probably too busy with Rage 2 instead.

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is an indie project with very limited public appearances. While this have been a good thing as the developers hide many important elements of the game from general public but this can also be a bad sign: They also hide it from critics as well.

People can argue whether Final Fantasy XV fall into this or as it was released in late November 2016 but Square-Enix already under immense pressure to release the game as soon as they can and they results are incomplete buggy mess and many chapters are not in the game at all. As of November 2018, SE announced that they already stopped making single-player content for the game and its director left SE for good. They probably allocated their resource and manpower to its multiplayer part as well as Kingdom Hearts III and FFVIII: Remake.

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#2 Planeforger
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I think you're forgetting Nintendo, which just released a Pokemon game, and which is about to release a Smash Bros game next week.

Say what you want about Pokemon, but I can predict Smash Bros being one of the highest rated and higher selling games of the year.

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#3 RSM-HQ
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@lembu90: I have to agree with Planeforger, you can't simply ignore Super Smash Bros Ultimate, and while the latest Pokémon is a spin-off. It's still a Pokémon game. And one some seem to really want being a Pokémon Go/ Gen1 successor.

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#4 CTR360
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darksiders 3 for me

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#5 Lembu90
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@RSM-HQ: I deliberately not to mention any Nintendo games because most of their games aimed towards kids below 15 and they are usually launched at November and December and so their parents will buy these games for as Christmas presents. Not to mention that Nintendo have very different business tactics than any other companies out there. Speaking about Nintendo games not all of them were released during Holiday seasons. Fire Emblem Awakening was released in April 2013 and its direct sequel Fates in June 2015. It is also rumored that Three Houses will be released in Spring or Summer of 2019 so they don't to compete with other Nintendo games especially Mario and Pokemon ones in the Holiday season of that year. I know I may not entirely right about this but I did my best not to bring Nintendo games in this thread.

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@lembu90 said:

@RSM-HQ: I deliberately not to mention any Nintendo games because most of their games aimed towards kids below 15 and they are usually launched at November and December and so their parents will buy these games for as Christmas presents.

I may have taken this somewhat serious if you didn't end with Kingdom Hearts on your defence for Square Enix.

Seems you more or less selected games of person interest. I think using the kid excuse for a game with CastleVania and Bayonetta in it is a little far-fetched. Especially considering I think Super Smash Bros has a larger audience than just children. And for quite a few, the most anticipated game of the year.

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#7 Steve5XG
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I think March 2019 will be a great month for videogames:

- Devil May Cry 5.

- The Division 2.

And so Days Gone for April.

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As others have said there is Pokémon which recently came out as well as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate which is coming out next week.

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#9 jsprunk
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@lembu90 said:

Darksiders 3 turned out to be a massive disappointment in comparison to previous two games. Sadly this is the first entry of the franchise to have a playable female character as well as the first in XBOX One/PS4 era that isn't a remaster.

Darksiders has always had more of a cult following. Darksiders 3 isn't really a let down. It's just the third installment in a fairly low budget crappy franchise. Making the player-controllable model look like a woman is really just a side note.

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#10 RSM-HQ
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@steve5xg: Devil May Cry is going to be ****ing awesome. Itsuno sans team always delivers the goods.

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#11 Steve5XG
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@RSM-HQ said:

@steve5xg: Devil May Cry is going to be ****ing awesome. Itsuno sans team always delivers the goods.

Deeply agree with you! Can't wait for it!

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#13 fireman64
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what is meant by dump months for games?