Hey there all!

Was hoping to get a gauge on what games you are looking most forward to that are coming out in the next few months. Sharing the game you are most looking forward to will help out with community staff in picking what games we'll buy a pile of for giveaways. Plus, it helps to gauge where you guys are in terms of hype/excitement over a given title.

I'll start with the one I'm looking most forward to.

Anno 2205
When: November 2015

Anno 1404, aka "Dawn of Discovery" was a masterpiece of strategy trade gaming and city building. That game sucked up a terrifying amount of my life, and I thought that for sure, the game studio that stumbles upon producing something like this inevitably dies or goes on to churn out a half-baked "Trying to Fix What Isn't Broken" hyper-simplification of the previous game when they do a sequel. See: Empire Earth, Settlers, SimCity, etc, etc. But to my surprise, Anno 2070 was a stunning and glorious sequel that followed up on a fictional world that would be where humanity arrived at if the movie "2012" had come to pass. They didn't fix anything that wasn't broken, they just gave the player more of what they wanted, and more of what makes the game a vacation.

Anno Online was their huge blunder, a time-gate me-too version of some of the worst social media games out there. Played briefly, and like thousands other quit in disgust. I sincerely thought, "okay, damn, this is the end of this outstanding series."

But there it sits, Anno 2205. Teasing with its space elements and moon city construction. I can't wait for this. I may take some days off from work just to play this thing until it starts infecting my sleep with futuristic visions of sweeping skyscrapers, mind-boggling technologies, and the nuances of intricate trade systems each functioning in harmony with another to support a growing population of techno-patricians. I'm severely, painfully, achingly looking forward to Anno 2205, ya'll.

-JP