Danjin44
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I think too many people here think being jaded and cynical is cool thing but hey if they want to act miserable towards gaming then I would say let them.
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2022 is Looking Rough for New Game Releases
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Kataploom
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Lol, pm Nintendo alone I'm already thinking how will I make some time... Let alone other PC third parties like A Plague Tales and Scorn, and I don't even play on PS so not counting them... You should use this thread a suggestions list of nothing is attracting you, maybe you'll find new big personal his you didn't expect
iQuasarLV
Member
Who are you calling 'you guys'
I do not know you.
My library happens to stem the alphabet, but hey whatever floats your boat to write off any contradictory opinion to your own echo chamber. Right?
BaneIsPain
Member
In terms of hype or news, ehhh. It seems slow but in actual gaming release, it is pretty good.
Elden Ring, HFW, Sifu, Stray, GT7, Crisis Core, Pokemon Arceus, Stranger of Paradise, Ghostwire, Soul Hackers 2, XC3, Nobunaga's Ambition.
Elden Ring, HFW, Sifu, Stray, GT7, Crisis Core, Pokemon Arceus, Stranger of Paradise, Ghostwire, Soul Hackers 2, XC3, Nobunaga's Ambition.
Danjin44
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I didn't mean to "offend" you anything but most people here who only pay attention to AAA games and nothing else, sure we are getting remakes/remaster but we also getting new games but no, it's not AAA blockbuster so it doesn't count for some reason.
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BigbyTheSheriff
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Callisto Protocol
Plague Tale Requiem
Hogwarts Legacy
Pentiment
Marvel's Midnight Suns
Last of Us Part 1
God of War Ragnarok
Cult of the Lamb
Metal: Hellsinger
Evil West
Somerville
Warhammer 40k Darktide
Crisis Core
Hard West 2
Stray
Gloomwood
Foretales
Aces and Adventures
Neon White
Splatoon 3
Bayonetta 3
Forza Horizon 5 DLC
+ All the titles that have already been released this year.
I might go broke, OP. So many potentially great games.
Plague Tale Requiem
Hogwarts Legacy
Pentiment
Marvel's Midnight Suns
Last of Us Part 1
God of War Ragnarok
Cult of the Lamb
Metal: Hellsinger
Evil West
Somerville
Warhammer 40k Darktide
Crisis Core
Hard West 2
Stray
Gloomwood
Foretales
Aces and Adventures
Neon White
Splatoon 3
Bayonetta 3
Forza Horizon 5 DLC
+ All the titles that have already been released this year.
I might go broke, OP. So many potentially great games.
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Boss Mog
Member
I'm certainly not spending $70/80€ on TLOU1 so unless I can find a deal on it I'll be skipping it this year. I'll definitely get GoW Ragnarok if it ships this year.
I'll check out the beta for MW2; see if that's worth it, but it's been a while since I last bought a CoD. I may get Persona 5 on PS5 depending on how they price it or if they do some kind of paid upgrade.
I am a little curious about this Soul Hackers 2 game releasing in August. It's apparently SMT related so I want to know more.
That's all that interests me for the rest of the year. Aside from that I'll just play my backlog and maybe resub to gamepass at some point, we'll see.
EDIT: I see people listing Crisis Core but that's a 2023 title. "This Winter" means December 21 2022 to March 19 2023 so that leaves 11 days of 2022 for it to release and games, especially AAA ones, almost never release in late December so 2023 is virtually guaranteed; most likely February or March.
I'll check out the beta for MW2; see if that's worth it, but it's been a while since I last bought a CoD. I may get Persona 5 on PS5 depending on how they price it or if they do some kind of paid upgrade.
I am a little curious about this Soul Hackers 2 game releasing in August. It's apparently SMT related so I want to know more.
That's all that interests me for the rest of the year. Aside from that I'll just play my backlog and maybe resub to gamepass at some point, we'll see.
EDIT: I see people listing Crisis Core but that's a 2023 title. "This Winter" means December 21 2022 to March 19 2023 so that leaves 11 days of 2022 for it to release and games, especially AAA ones, almost never release in late December so 2023 is virtually guaranteed; most likely February or March.
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Jennings
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It seems like some folks missed out on the big Xbox showcase a few days ago. A whole slew of 2022 content has been promised, and this is only representative of the Microsoft gaming platforms. It doesn't even take into account all the gems coming from Nintendo and Playstation. The next 5.5 months are jam-packed with releases.
BigbyTheSheriff
Member
DenchDeckard
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It's been a good year, not incredible for the whole year but it's been great for every platform.
I've had plenty to play on my xbox and switch and gran turismo 7 on ps5 has been decent and hopefully god of war will do for me.
Elden ring alone has made it special.
Game pass has contributed massively this year and will do through out the rest of the year as well.
Switch:
Pokemon arceus
13 sentinels....wow what a game!
Switch sports.
Beyonetta, pokemon and xenoblade 3 for the rest of the year.
Ps5:
GT7
Stray
God of war
Xbox:
Tunic
Lego star wars skywalker saga
Sniper elite 5 - Co op is awesome
Turtles shredders revenge
High on life
Persona 5 Royal
A plagues tale
Warhammer darktide
Forza horizon hot wheels
Sea of thieves new season
Resi village DLC.
Resi 3 next gen patch.
Pc:
Elden ring
Vampire survivors
Dying light 2 co op.
I've had plenty to play on my xbox and switch and gran turismo 7 on ps5 has been decent and hopefully god of war will do for me.
Elden ring alone has made it special.
Game pass has contributed massively this year and will do through out the rest of the year as well.
Switch:
Pokemon arceus
13 sentinels....wow what a game!
Switch sports.
Beyonetta, pokemon and xenoblade 3 for the rest of the year.
Ps5:
GT7
Stray
God of war
Xbox:
Tunic
Lego star wars skywalker saga
Sniper elite 5 - Co op is awesome
Turtles shredders revenge
High on life
Persona 5 Royal
A plagues tale
Warhammer darktide
Forza horizon hot wheels
Sea of thieves new season
Resi village DLC.
Resi 3 next gen patch.
Pc:
Elden ring
Vampire survivors
Dying light 2 co op.
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Couldnt agree more, apart from gow 2 if it drops this yr, there nothing new announced so far for 2022 that im looking forward to, oh village dlc i want, hopefully sf6 drops feb next yr, and even gow2 im tempted to leave for 2yrs then it will prob be the miles better running and looking version available on pc
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SkylineRKR
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This is a rather good year. Horizon 2, GT7 and Elden Ring are already out. Ghostwire also but haven't played it.
Callisto Protocol, MW2, TLOU Remake, Crisis Core and likely God of War 2 will drop. Forspoken not sure about its quality yet will also come out this year. There is some stuff coming out on Switch, and some classics like Bladerunner, TMNT collection and Capcom fighting collection. Hogwarts could be big.
Callisto Protocol, MW2, TLOU Remake, Crisis Core and likely God of War 2 will drop. Forspoken not sure about its quality yet will also come out this year. There is some stuff coming out on Switch, and some classics like Bladerunner, TMNT collection and Capcom fighting collection. Hogwarts could be big.
BigbyTheSheriff
Member
Even if someone's plans for the rest of the year are God of War, Hogwarts, Callisto and Modern Warfare that's like hundreds of hours of gameplay.Elden Ring, Horizon and GT alone make the year pretty great. How many single player games can you people go through in a year?there's still Splatoon 3 that's nailed on, we might get Ragnorok, there's Klonoa and Portal too. It's stacked.
rofif
Banned
What I consider bigger releases are bigger releases....
custardbun01
Member
More remakes and sequels. I said this in another thread but kinda deflated as a PS5 owner, and PlayStation player since the PSone days. They've got nothing exciting to me announced as coming exclusively to PS5. Everything is a "franchise", comic book or movie IP.
Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
For you and games important to me are "bigger releases", basically how different taste works.
I'm sorry that this year sucks for you when it comes to games, maybe next year will better for you.
Sosokrates
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My Backlog is rediculous. Im fine.
Gamepass + ps extra has me covered.
Will check out TLOU remastered and mw2 of I can get em for a fine price.
Gamepass + ps extra has me covered.
Will check out TLOU remastered and mw2 of I can get em for a fine price.
Hogwarts is a silver lining, i hope it doesn't get delayed.
rofif
Banned
It has nothing about what you or I consider big releases.
Big releases are big releases, cmon now.
Liking some niche anime indie game does not make it a big release
Little Chicken
Banned
Nah, there's a lot of good games that have already come out and that are yet to come. People sleeping on smaller titles are doing themselves a disservice.
CuteFaceJay
Member
That new Wii sports game for the Switch was a good laugh.
BigbyTheSheriff
Member
In the end, games are games. If we only start counting big releases then pretty much every year without Rockstar or Naughty Dog is trash.
Danjin44
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First which of the games i listed in this thread are "indie" exactly and second, who cares!? if the game are important for me then I considered them big releases, I don't give rats ass if they don't "trend" in socially media crap.
EXACTLY! If that only type of game you pay attention to then you gonna make gaming so dull for yourself. This is exactly why we get so many thread about how people get burned out of gaming and getting tired of AAA games.
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Bayonetta 3 looking like a gen 7 game.
Bo_Hazem
Banned
It might be a slow burn game, HFW is very long it took me like 1 month to finish as I mostly finished everything and got platinum at the end even without seeking it.
BigbyTheSheriff
Member
Like I get that people want new GTAs, God of War, Uncharted 5, whatever. But then we get daily threads how stale this industry has become, how iterative new AAA games are, how little innovation they bring.
Meanwhile you have these awesome Indie and AA games that needs and deserves all the recognition - e.g. Metal Hellsinger is fucking amazing based on the demo, and I had more fun with that one level than the entire Horizon Forbidden West.
I dunno, it just rubs me the wrong way when someone is dissmisive towards any non-AAA game.
Roberts
Banned
I like variety in my gaming and I think I'm good for the rest of the year. Elden Ring still not completed. I'm halfway through Chorus and OlliOlli World both of which are amazing. There's always a smaller gem or two on GP every month. And I can't wait to play Calisto, High on Life, Evil West, Pentiment, Sommerville, Planet of Lana. i'm good.
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custardbun01
Member
Totally on board. I won't lie, for some things I love a sequel. But fuck me if console gaming doesn't feel dull lately with all the same fucken IPs trodding out year upon year.
Danjin44
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DukeNukem00
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When you have game budgets to the tune of 150 million dollars these days and the best game you can think of is an indie, thats kinda the problem. These types of games, Metal Hellsinger and others like it, they have their place, but they will never and should never be the highlight. They're something to play in between. Unfortunately in modern times, the lack of budget can be felt very hard in a game. Indies are very often, not always, not a rule, but often - they're very one note. Simplistic. Cutting corners everywhere, because they have to, they dont have money. It will rarely take the place of a well funded game with a professional team where everything is fleshed out.
Even when you look at Control, which was made for very little money. The sterile and barren enviroments. The fact that you have a single weapon which morphs. That you have like 3 or 4 enemy tipes the whole game. That every encounter design consists of small arenas where a number of enemies jump start apearing and then thats it. The small budget is a detriment to the game.
If you lived through better years, when budgets could permit AA games to feel very close to the most expensive AAA ones, its hard to look at a year filled with shovelware indies and say how amazing it is. We had years in gaming like 1998, where, just look at the FPS genre:
Best story driven FPS in the world - Half Life
Best multiplayer FPS in the world - Tribes
Best stealth FPS in the world - Thief
Best classic FPS in the world - Unreal
Best tactical FPS in the world - Rainbow Six
So, we were living in years where we were getting something like this in the span of 6 months and im supposed to be happy about a couple of indies ? Smaller games should come in support of the bigger ones, not be the only thing left
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
How did I forget callisto protocol!
Yeah that looks awesome.
Yeah that looks awesome.
M1987
Member
Day one for me, it looks incredible
BigbyTheSheriff
Member
But it's a problem for whom?
I don't particularly care about the budget. I do however care about the gameplay and fun factor and many of Indie and AA games give me just that. It's all I need after hard day at work or during weekend.
Sure, those games have their limitations. So do big triple A titles. You really think they are fleshed out and not one note? Just look at AC Valhalla - 5 hours in you've seen everything, good luck playing for another 100.
Even God of War had its shortcomings with the pitiful variety of enemies and amount of bosses, or backtracking. It looks and sounds pretty though, so I guess that's where the budget went.
That is really what 150 mln dollars do in most cases - allow for a 5 years of development to give us another 50h+ game with more quantity than quality.
Fortunately, it's all just a forum bubble and usually these smaller games are appreciated in other places, and sell well enough.
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Spaceman292
Banned
Like four or five times each week. You'd think people who spend all their time on a video game forum would be more aware of new games coming out.
Kokoloko85
Member
As a PS5 and Switch owner its been pretty great year with some titles coming.
Elden Ring, GT7, Kirby, Triangle Strategy, Horizon 2, Stray, Forspoken, Beyonetta 3, Last of Us Part 1 Remake, Callisto Protocol, Xenoblade 3, Hogwarts, Plague Tale 2, Mario X Rabbids 2. Plus some more and fingers crossed God of War R
Yeah I bet its a bit more empty for PC and Xbox owners. Like I always say, if you don't own all the consoles or PS5/Switch/PC your gonna miss out. Especially on Nintendo and Playstation 1st party stuff
Elden Ring, GT7, Kirby, Triangle Strategy, Horizon 2, Stray, Forspoken, Beyonetta 3, Last of Us Part 1 Remake, Callisto Protocol, Xenoblade 3, Hogwarts, Plague Tale 2, Mario X Rabbids 2. Plus some more and fingers crossed God of War R
Yeah I bet its a bit more empty for PC and Xbox owners. Like I always say, if you don't own all the consoles or PS5/Switch/PC your gonna miss out. Especially on Nintendo and Playstation 1st party stuff
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Kokoloko85
Member
What do you do in the Witcher 3 and Skyrim? Walk
What do you do in Halo and Call of Duty… Walk.
What do you do in Street fighter and Mortal Kombat? Walk?
Everything is a walking simulator and "cinematic" game
SCB3
Member
Pretty much this for me plus whatever Nintendo has in store after Summer (excluding Bayo 3)
We also have Warzone 2, Destiny's new Expansion (assuming its this year)
Plenty coming and I always have a backlog which has been nice to dip into
Dibils2k
Member
its not how many games you have, its how you play itDamn. I couldn't be satisfied with just one game
DukeNukem00
Banned
God of War was also a smaller budget game, compared to 3rd party AAA games. And thats exactly why the things you just outlined exist in the game. Those, together with barren enviroments, about 5 npc's in the entire game, small arena combat design and so on. Its was risky new departure for the series and the last game didnt do to well, so it was a risky project. Nobody is gonna invest that much into it. The sequel though, im sure it will not have these issues, since its now a proven seller.
For whom is a problem ? For me for example. As ive outlined an example of past year. We had many, many years filled with best evers, that were made with all the effort and manpower. If the best games of one year are stuff that i would play on my phone until the bus comes, thats not a win. Like i said, if indies are the highlight, that signals a problem with the bigger productiions, that they should get their shit together.