[GAMING] It's Coming Like Z͖͕̳͉̩̲a̳͈̝̫̩͞lģ͔ơ̺: Strategy Gaming 2019

Most anticipated strategy games of 2019? There was no way to get all of the announced games for 2019 in, but this is a pretty good selection.

https://www.strategygamer.com/articles/best-strategy-games-pc-2019-upcoming/

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One of these days I'll figure out why my editor typically brings me an assignment at the end of the week which means that even with the speed at which I crank out work, I get an early week posting slot. My guess is that it's because as a very dependable freelancer, I don't get the prestigious end of the week slots most of the time because that's where you want your maximum reads to be posted (just like on steem) and those really need to go to the people that you have on salary.

This is something that people who are just getting into freelancing for online publications may not think about. Prestige slots are real. Just like when you work in radio, the morning drive slots are they highest paid because that's when the most people are listening in most advertising is sold and the midnight shift is the least well-paid (but the most fun) because is the slot with the least competition for advertisers.

This particular article has gone through a couple of drafts, in part because the original had a different aim than what the editor wanted. In the original version, I specifically targeted games outside of the mainstream and which were new IP, because that's what I find interesting. You can see most of them still remaining in the second section of the article as it stands, just as they were originally written. Sure, Battlefleet Gothic and Steel Division 2 were on the original list, but not as foci.

Working on the rewrite, going through the bulk of the things in The Big Guns, it actively pained me how many things coming this year are yet another sequel in an already established IP. Not only that, how little they are actually bringing to the table in terms of new gameplay.

When the AAA strategy studios are scraping the bottom of a barrel that hard with a shovel, it's time to step back and think about what you're doing. As a consumer, it's time to step back and think about what you want to be rewarding in terms of your finite supply of money and attention.

Warcraft 3: Reforged for the love of Hell! No gameplay improvements, no new real content, 3D graphics which make it harder to tell where units are in relation to one another in almost all of the screenshots being used for publicity, and a hefty price tag. All for the sake of nostalgia.

The Targets of Opportunity at the bottom are the big gambles. In particular, Dual Gear is really exciting – and simultaneously the least likely to actually see the light of day, ever. Though in my guise as a journalist, I did reach out to them on Twitter to see if more updates or information were going to be coming to light and they did respond in the affirmative. That's great news. It's hard to be optimistic, but it's easy to look forward to some fun.

In my personal gaming, I've been playing a lot (a lot) of Elite: Dangerous, which I had thought of 4 years as a game in which I would require far more piloting ability that I'm actually able to crank out. In reality, I'm more than qualified for doing pretty much everything in the game except for high-level combat – and that's reassuring. I can live with that. I have multiple ships with crazy paint jobs flying around in the outer dark looking for a good time. I can't really object.

Until next time, prepare yourself for strategy – or at least pick an objective and make it feel bad about itself.