Which of these 10 upcoming games are you most excited for?

K go!

Narrowly going with Fable over Civ 7 and STS2. It's being developed by Playground Games who made the excellent Forza Horizon series

The Kojima game

which one is Worlds and which one is Wilds?

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2025 really is a bleak fucking year when it comes to games I give a shit about. Probably at least partly a consequence of the long dev cycle at this point combined with the pandemic quarantines hamstringing a lot of studios for months at a time back when. And the fact that most franchises that used to be good have mostly turned into raw fecal sewage.

About the only thing I can think of at all at this point is GreedFall II, assuming it actually comes out in 2025 and doesn't get pushed back. But even that is more casual interest than excitement or hype - the original game was "okay" but nothing fantastic. If anything, it felt like it got overpraised a fair amount because people were desperate to push it as an alternative to companies like BioWare and Obsidian, and it was never going to be strong enough to ever meet those expectations. And the sequel being a prequel doesn't really add to my interest. It's definitely a "wait and see if it's worth it" sort of purchase.

Would have been super excited for Bloodlines 2, except literally everything we've learned about it over the last 6 years have pretty much guaranteed it's going to be an absolute shitshow. I can't imagine any possible scenario where it actually turns out to be even "worth a single solitary damn", let alone "good". At this point the only thing I'm looking forward to is the schadenfreude when it becomes the go-to target for YouTube video mockery for a month or two post-release.

Outer Worlds 2 will probably be a complete disappointment, because my suspicion is that it's basically just going to be "Outer Worlds, only worse". And the first game was mediocre as hell and had a number of glaring problems that completely undercut it. At this point I'd have to see reviews come out after it's released that say "No seriously guys, this is fantastic!" before I could bring myself to care.

There's also a new Fear Effect game coming out (supposedly), but it's by a completely new studio, and the last game kind of sucked, so there's not really a ton of cred there - it's basically an entirely new franchise at this point, so is just as likely to suck as any other new game.

I suppose there's a chance that Haunted Chocolatier comes out in 2025, and that's a game I'm definitely looking forward to. But it seems unlikely that we'll see it anytime soon, since ConcernedApe posted a couple months ago that he hasn't really been working on it because he's been busy updating stuff for Stardew Valley instead. So that one probably doesn't count.



Oh, wait. No. There is a game coming out in 2025 that I actually think will be worthwhile. "Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping" is supposed to be a 2025 release. And the first game was a fun little game with tons of charm (even if it was fairly short).

That's pretty much it, though. There might be stuff on the horizon that I'm completely unaware of, but none of the stuff I actually know about really appeals at all. At best it might spur a touch of mild apathetic interest, but mostly it's a lot of active disdain and not giving a shit.

Lokarin posted...

which one is Worlds and which one is Wilds?

Outer Worlds is the one that screams "CAPITALISM IS BAD, GET IT?!" in your face every 15 minutes, and which couldn't be bothered to make sure they'd debugged the companion quests well enough to prevent them from potentially breaking unless you use a guide and follow a very specific series of steps (and get lucky) to make sure you don't get bad ending slides.

It's also the one that tried to coast almost entirely on "FROM THE MAKERS OF NEW VEGAS!", while not even being worthy of holding New Vegas' jock.

Outer Wilds is the one with the existential time loops.

Joelypoely posted...

Narrowly going with Fable over Civ 7 and STS2. It's being developed by Playground Games who made the excellent Forza Horizon series

I mean, that's ALL they have made, though. Not exactly trusting a studio that has only ever made 5 games, all of them the same race car game series. Kinda a big leap.

Anyways, Civil 7 and StS2 for me. Also, the new Monster Hunter wasn't mentioned, and that will be bigger than like half the posted games. Might be my #2 for the year, but not really hyped for any coming releases.

Is the new Onimusha using the RE engine and done by the REmake guys?

I wouldnt say Im excited about any of them, but Im curious about Fable, Onimusha and The Outer Worlds.

voted for outer worlds thinking it was outer wilds. Oops. Switching to death stranding.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

I mean, that's ALL they have made, though. Not exactly trusting a studio that has only ever made 5 games, all of them the same race car game series. Kinda a big leap.

Not helped by the fact that they're basically building the game using the same engine they invented for their racing games. That sort of dissonance doesn't necessarily bode well (just look at BioWare's issues with Frostbite).

Though personally I'm more turned off by who they hired for their lead writers. There's a few too many red flags that make me suspicious about exactly what sort of story they're going to want to tell, and the trailers they released really don't help matters in that respect. It looks like the sort of game that's going to make people look back on Fable III way more fondly.

None.

Slay the Spire 2 > Civ VII. And then will keep look into the Fable game when it comes out, loved II and III so hope its a good revive.

Avowed looks pretty good.

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Damn_Underscore posted...

The Kojima game

No votes tho

Metroid Prime 4

loved little nightmares, so that probably. maybe fable? but honestly i tapped out on the third one.

SrRd_RacinG posted...

No votes tho

Ok Ill vote for it

What year is it?

None of those. Gimmie Rune Factory 6.

At least 50 votes needed

G. Metroid prime

Blue_Thunder posted...

None of those. Gimmie Rune Factory 6.

Rune Factory 4 is a perfect game - but man was RF5 trash

Onimusha: Way of the Sword peaks my interest.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Outer Worlds is the one that screams "CAPITALISM IS BAD, GET IT?!" in your face every 15 minutes, and which couldn't be bothered to make sure they'd debugged the companion quests well enough to prevent them from potentially breaking unless you use a guide and follow a very specific series of steps (and get lucky) to make sure you don't get bad ending slides.

I mean, I agree that new vegas is better but you could say the same paragraph about NV
i liked OW well enough, better than Fallout 4 at least, so im hopefull for the sequel

Xenoblade Chronicles X remaster

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Then who gives a fuck

koopabrosblack posted...

Xenoblade Chronicles X remaster

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Then who gives a fuck

I almost forgot about this. Shame on TC!

None of them. But Little Nightmares 3 is the most appealing to me out of that list.

the Hobbit Shire game.. God I hope it doesn't suck

TheSlinja posted...

I mean, I agree that new vegas is better but you could say the same paragraph about NV

You could , but if you did you'd be lying or wrong.

NV was buggy at launch, but ultimately fixed most of the problems via patches, and companion quests generally work fine. The writing is also deeper, more interesting, and more in tune with the actual lore of the series. It also has much deeper themes, and allows the player the opportunity to decide for themselfes what they think about the fundamental concepts the setting is trying to convey. And in the case of NV, Obsidian at least had the excuse of trying to program a game in someone else's engine without sufficient support, which will absolutely contribute to problems.

With OW, they have no one to blame but themselves, nearly every aspect of the game feels half-assed, and they never really fixed the worst problems. Even BioWare did a better job fixing Mass Effect: Andromeda than Obsidian did with Outer Worlds.

About the only real excuse that Obsidian could fall back on was the fact that they were pretty much circling the drain of bankruptcy and it was probably a miracle they got Outer World released at all, instead of just quietly collapsing on themselves or being forced to beg for change on Kickstarter.

For the future, it doesn't really inspire confidence that the studio fired their most famous writer (and one of their founders) over MeToo allegations (which apparently turned out to be false), and that Avowed is currently embroiled in a bit of controversy because the project lead is apparently a narcissistic sociopath. It doesn't really feel like the studio is even remotely capable of putting out something on the level of quality of Outer Worlds, let alone better. Like many other studios currently, Obsidian kind of feels like a broken inept mess solely coasting on the fumes of what's left of the goodwill they earned in the past when other, better people worked there.

So yeah, maybe they'll prove me wrong and OW2 will turn out to be the best game released in the last 20 years. But I strongly doubt it.

I don't have a console to play it on but Onimusha would be my pick. I had a lot of fun with the early ones. Yeah, I'm old.