TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2026 – Week Twelve and Crimson Desert

We’ve now arrived at week twelve, we’re into spring, and it’s lastly not going to be 90 levels exterior as we speak right here in coastal California.  I imply, we’ve photo voltaic on the home now, so extra electrical energy technology, however nonetheless.

Fantasy Critic League – Like Fantasy Soccer, however for Video Video games

Week twelve had two titles set to launch, plus we nonetheless had some unfinished enterprise with a title from week eleven.  However first, the place we left off on the scoreboard.

Week 11 Scores

We began week twelve with Ula pretty far out in entrance with 4 titles launch, together with a few excessive scoring picks, with myself and Shintar behind, however with Shintar anticipating a launch this week.

The week opened quietly, with an announcement on Monday evening that the primary of two titles deliberate had launched.

• MLB The Present 26 has launched!
  • [Picked by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)]

There was, nonetheless, no rating as but.

MLB The Present 26

The primary rating for the week didn’t present up till Wednesday afternoon, and it wasn’t for MLB The Present 26.  No, assessment copies had gone out the week earlier than for Crimson Desert and the embargo on reporting was clearly as much as assist construct momentum for the title.

• Crimson Desert
  • [Picked by Play Forever Mwahahaha (Shintar)]
  • Now has a rating of 79.9

And that was… okay.  81 was the typical for picks for our league final 12 months, so it wasn’t dangerous.  However that isn’t the form of rating that will get you to first place.

Crimson Desert

The attention-grabbing factor is that in skimming via critiques, the issues with the title gave the impression to be much less concerning the precise sport and extra concerning the complexity of taking part in the title with a controller.

For instance, over on Second Wind, Yahtzee had some fairly optimistic issues to say concerning the sport, which isn’t in his character to do with out purpose, however then he obtained onto the complexity of utilizing the controller and it sort of went down from there.

I’m truthfully sort of amazed on the endurance of that sequence, as soon as Zero Punctuation and now Absolutely Ramblomatic, nonetheless placing out some prime quality and entertaining weekly gaming critiques in spite of everything these years.

Anyway, for a title launching on XBox, PlayStation, and PC meaning issues with the controller scheme goes to land on a whole lot of critiques.  PC gaming FTW I suppose.

Or possibly not.  I see the PC aspect of this ALSO complaining about balky management responsiveness, one thing that may be an issue in cross platform titles.  So… oops.

Nonetheless, coming in at 80 was sufficient for Shintar to leap over me and into second place.

• Writer Rating Updates
  • Play Endlessly Mwahahaha (Shintar)
    • Rating has gone UP from 31.8 to 41.7
    • Moved from third place to 2nd place
  • TAGN HQ (Wilhelm)
    • Moved from 2nd place to third place

Then the following day MLB The Present 26 lastly collected sufficient assessment for it to get on the board as nicely.

• MLB The Present 26
  • [Picked by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)]
  • Now has a rating of 83.3

That made it the excessive rating for the week to date and gave Cyanbane a nudge up the scoreboard, touchdown him in fourth place.

• Writer Rating Updates
  • Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)
    • Rating has gone UP from 23.4 to 36.7
    • Moved from sixth place to 4th place
  • S Class Warfare Studios (p0tsh0t)
    • Moved from 4th place to fifth place
  • Inexperienced River Gaming (Nimgimli)
    • Moved from fifth place to sixth place

All of which left me questioning if we had been going to get a Ghost of Yotei: Legends rating.

Ghost of Yotei: Legends

As of this writing it has six critiques on Open Critic, however two of them are unscored, so don’t rely, and the opposite 4 are from smaller shops that don’t meet the brink to declare an official rating.  Nonetheless, it would get sufficient critiques for a rating in some unspecified time in the future.  Simply not this week.

Then there have been another rating adjustments… not sufficient to generate an announcement from the bot, however sufficient to alter the rating one last time for the week.

• Writer Rating Updates
  • Hidalgo Buying and selling Firm (Pallais)
    • Moved from eighth place to seventh place
  • Rusty Shackleford (Shilgrod)
    • Moved from seventh place to eighth place

So it goes.  That left the scoreboard wanting like this.

Week 12 Scores

Ula ended the week in first place nonetheless, however it’s as a lot by advantage of getting 4 good titles launched relative to these of us nonetheless ready for extra launches.

There was additionally one bid in week twelve… from me.

• Bids in TAGN League
  • All the things is Crab
    • Received by TAGN HQ (Wilhelm) with a bid of $2
    • Dropped sport ‘Squadron 42 (Star Citizen)’ conditionally

Squadron 42 obtained a taker for a counter decide.  That appears protected sufficient, Chris Roberts having missed each said deadline for the title for the final 5 years.  Nevertheless it nonetheless may ship.  We will see.

As a substitute I grabbed All the things is Crab, which obtained some good reactions from its demo on Steam, the place it has been in comparison with what Spore ought to have been.  Appeared attention-grabbing sufficient to place a few bucks on it for now.

There have been additionally some contemporary launch dates introduced.

• LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Darkish Knight
  • [Picked by Corr’s Creative Collective (Corr)]
    • Launch date modified from ‘Friday, Might 29, 2026’
    • to ‘Friday, Might 22, 2026’.
• Kiln
  • [Picked by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)]
    • Launch date modified from ‘Spring 2026’
    • to ‘Thursday, April 23, 2026’.
• Vampire Crawlers
  • [Picked by Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)]
    • Launch date modified from ‘Early to Mid 2026’
    • to ‘Tuesday, April 21, 2026’.

That leaves the titles developing wanting like this.

Coming Up for Week 13

It appears to be like like only one title subsequent week and one the next week, then a lifeless week, after which one other large week for releases.

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