October 8: wallet threat level red

Posted by on October 8, 2012 in Games

The new XCOM comes out this week, as well as Arkane Studio’s Thiefly RPG, Dishonored. Could this week be the peak of 2012′s holiday wallet threat?

But wait, there’s more! Atlus releases what looks like an ambitious JARPG — Japanese action RPG — for the Nintendo 3DS called Code of Princess. It’s about time I offload some of my recent action RPG habit to the DS. Cyanide transitions from Blood Bowl and Game of Thrones to Of Orcs and Men, an RPG in which you play an orc with a goblin sidekick. Kalypso releases a pirates and merchants strategy game called Port Royale 3. Fable and Harry Potter show up for the Kinect, if you’re into Fable, Harry Potter, or the Kinect as much as the actual people in the above video. All this and yet there are still only 24 hours in the day, some of which have to be spent sleeping, eating, and working?

  • LoveMedia

    Don’t forget Retro City Rampage!

  • Inver

    Ah hell, I forgot about Port Royale 3. I won’t be touching that one until November now, unless XCOM is disappointing

  • Giaddon

    Port Royale 3 has been out since May…?

  • Robert Kosc

    Don’t forget The Walking Dead Episode 4.

  • Mygaffer

    So this marketing video is trying to convince me that the use of the Kinect in this Fable game works really well. What do you think Tom?

  • anon

    That video made me sad, angry and confused all at once.

    If you want quality JARPGs definitely check out the Ys games on Steam. They can be hard as nails if you want them to, blazing fast no matter what. Best boss battles.

  • http://twitter.com/broccoman Jeff

    The Ys games are excellent. The translators are really funny and awesome folks as well.

  • http://twitter.com/CHGardiner Chris Gardiner

    What is this Of Orcs and Men thing? That passed me right by. Looks interesting – a bit like the Warcraft Adventures game about Thrall that never materialised. Only with less pointing and clicking, and more hitting with axes.