What upcoming Video Games are you looking forward to?

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I'm looking forward to IOI's Project 007. After playing through the Hitman trilogy I think they're the perfect developer for a Bond game.
I wish I could say I am excited for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 but everything I've seen so far makes it hard to be optimistic.
It really is a dark age for video games; seems like everything that comes out is plagued with bugs, microtransactions, etc.
I don't really blame you. This has been the worst start to a decade that I've experienced in my lifetime. Everything not just vidya is so awful now and I feel really robbed by that. Though perhaps 2023 can finally be a good year for games but you never know.

I propose a solution to microtransactions. I could go deeper on this but in short, I think the game industry needs way fewer sales and discounts. Games should stay at full price for as long as possible. Personally, when a game is priced mid-high I care about it on a deeper level. The games industry has lost sight of having video games be valuable and made them more disposable. It's really stupid that I could buy NBA2k23 for $60 only for it to be $13 in a few months. Am I the only one that finds that ridiculous?
 
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I don't really blame you. This has been the worst start to a decade that I've experienced in my lifetime. Everything not just vidya is so awful now and I feel really robbed by that. Though perhaps 2023 can finally be a good year for games but you never know.

I propose a solution to microtransactions. I could go deeper on this but in short, I think the game industry needs way fewer sales and discounts. Games should stay at full price for as long as possible. Personally, when a game is priced mid-high I care about it on a deeper level. The games industry has lost sight of having video games be valuable and made them more disposable. It's really stupid that I could buy NBA2k23 for $60 only for it to be $13 in a few months. Am I the only one that finds that ridiculous?
I would happily pay full price for new AAA games if I knew the experience would be free of bugs and microtransactions from the get-go. I'm sick of games being hyped up then being released in barely-playable states because "muh deadlines." I understand vidya is a money-making venture but the way both game studios and consumer's standards have fallen is just depressing.
 
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I would happily pay full price for new AAA games if I knew the experience would be free of bugs and microtransactions from the get-go. I'm sick of games being hyped up then being released in barely-playable states because "muh deadlines." I understand vidya is a money-making venture but the way both game studios and consumer's standards have fallen is just depressing.
This is why, despite it sounding incredibly r*dditoresque, I'm really only excited for Starfield and GTA6 right now, because those games have had so much time to be worked on and polished, and in the case of GTA 6 no public release date to conform to.

With Bethesdas track record I'm sure starfield will have its fair share of dumb bugs and whatnot, but I'm admittedly a slight Bethesda fanboy
 
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sadly, i dont think im looking forward to many new games besides the new zelda :/

i would like a fix to the KOTOR 2 on switch maybe
 

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Radio the Universe (BLAME!-inspired zeldalike) looks really good and is probably not vaporware, despite being in development for over a decade.
Bumping this post to add that Radio the Universe finally has a demo out and it's really good.
I ended up playing both Pentiment and 1428: Shadow Over Silesia after making my earlier posts, but neither game really grabbed me.
 
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Radio the Universe (BLAME!-inspired zeldalike) looks really good and is probably not vaporware, despite being in development for over a decade.
Terra Invicta (hard sci-fi XCOM with an emphasis on conspiratorial geopolitics) has also gotten my attention lately. I'm honestly kind of a retard when it comes to strategy games, but the premise and scope are too cool to pass up.
HROT (Quake, but it doesn't make sense unless you grew up in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic) and Tiny Combat Arena (low-poly flight sim) are both out on early access, but I don't want to play either until they're finished.
Radio the universe: wishlisted. Will pick it up on a sale one day.
Terra Invicta: unfortunately my brain is too smooth for Grand strategy
HROT: pass
Tiny Combat Arena: looks fun but I recently played Sky Rogue (low poly arcadey dogfighter with lots of customisation) so I'm saturated on planes
 
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Always been a fan of RE4 and the RE2 remake turned out great so I'm cautiously optimistic about 4's remake. Other than that, can't say there's much on my list.
I still haven't played Elden Ring even though that looks great.

I don't really blame you. This has been the worst start to a decade that I've experienced in my lifetime. Everything not just vidya is so awful now and I feel really robbed by that. Though perhaps 2023 can finally be a good year for games but you never know.

I propose a solution to microtransactions. I could go deeper on this but in short, I think the game industry needs way fewer sales and discounts. Games should stay at full price for as long as possible. Personally, when a game is priced mid-high I care about it on a deeper level. The games industry has lost sight of having video games be valuable and made them more disposable. It's really stupid that I could buy NBA2k23 for $60 only for it to be $13 in a few months. Am I the only one that finds that ridiculous?
Strangest thing I've read honestly. Games being more expensive doesn't somehow magically make them better. Some of the best games in the last decade were small indie efforts under 20 bucks. AAA games have been absurdly expensive for a long time, probably always, and their quality is still questionable.
NBA games get thrown in the bin quickly because that is how much they're actually worth, they're like mass produced Chinese products meant to be disposable, they put a new one out every single year, of course no one is waiting for the next like it's the most amazing thing. They get sold full price on release to cash in on those few people willing to pay for it and then rightfully get heavily discounted because it's basically shovelware.
 

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Strangest thing I've read honestly. Games being more expensive doesn't somehow magically make them better
i think he means that if you spend 60 bones on a video game you expect to get your money's worth, whereas if you only pay like 5 you'll be more likely to think "eh, i don't care that much, i only spent 5 bucks on this" and throw it in the bin. because games keep being on sales and having reduced prices, it makes the average consumer treat them as if they're more disposable, which in turn makes developers/studios treat their games as disposable, putting way less effort into it.
it's kind of stupid but i guess it makes some sense. clearly it's not a proper rule, indie games will always imply care and passion and effort, but bigger names (see NBA, assassin's creed, etc.) will end up having less and less effort put in. people will buy them anyway, right? right.
 
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Zelda TOTK, very much a Nintentard, but they're the only company making actual video games and not interactive movies or remaking and rebooting everything.
(Metroid Prime is different, that needed it. But dead space doesn't.)
 

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Megaman Battle Network Legacy Collection comes out on April 14, 2023.
I'm pretty hyped about it.
 
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Too bad it's not PC-only
Why's that bad? Tell me it's to do with having to downgrade graphics for easier porting and not that gay 'console peasants do no deserve le game I like:SoyChamp:' shit.
 
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Why's that bad? Tell me it's to do with having to downgrade graphics for easier porting and not that gay 'console peasants do no deserve le game I like:SoyChamp:' shit.
Looks like someone touched you somewhere naughty.

Microsoft wants it to work near-perfect at 4K on the Series X, with it's gimped Ryzen CPU and middling GPU, which is why I'm guessing it's getting delayed over and over again. And PC has superior mod options, console modding is a glorified app store with all mods required to pass (now) Microsoft's obscure list of no-no, no-fun-allowed requirements.

PCs are where the game will live forever, consoles are only for today.
 
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