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[StueyDuck]

Are there any new games coming out that look very promising, which are not a sequel, remake or reboot? AAA or indies?

(and for that matter.....also which are not just another trend-chasing game like the Vampire Survivor-likes, or Fortnite-likes)

If they don't start infusing the industry with new IP's, new ideas, or new mechanics, the industry will continue to flounder......

AI will just rehash and recycle the same ol' crap and then they will all cry that the sales 'didn't meet expectations'

NEW SHIT PLEASE!!!!

I agree with you...

You aren't gonna get the fanfare you wish for on here or anywhere else though. Gamers love their slop and playing the same thing over and over.

But I wish you good luck, because i too, would love to feel that feeling you get when you play something truly interesting and new.

 

[mèx]

The AAA space is compromised, you should not look for any kind of creative spark there. There are some exceptions but it's increasingly rare.

The good shit is mostly in the AA and indie space. Lots of excellent and fun games in there. Expand your horizon a bit more and you will find plenty of good stuff that runs circle around the AAA productions.

 

[Ozzie666]

I find myself retreating more and more to retro games and my FPGA consoles getting much more attention. I'm finding it difficult to even finish big AAA titltes like Ghosts even though I loved the first one. My bright spots this year are Metroid and DK, The only remake of interest has been Metroid Prime, because I never experienced it. I don't mind a good remaster like FF7 or RE. But remasters have gotten really lazy and just cash grabs.

 

[Durin]

There are more new games now than ever, just ignore AAA as the budgets influence them to just keep the same franchises going or chase live-service.

Sword of the Sea
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
The Alters
Cronos: The New Dawn
BALL x PIT
Absolum
Dispatch
Abiotic Factor
Keeper
Bionic Bay
ROUTINE
The Séance of Blake Manor
Blue Prince
Keep Driving
ARC Raiders
Split Fiction
Hell is Us

I'd echo these as good options.

Throw in some more of my own from the last few years:

Some games in early access, but already great:

 

[YeulEmeralda]

i can't take people who complain about a lack of games seriously anymore. Is it friday already?

Even if it were true don't they have backlogs?

 

[Walliwallipaloo]

I will never understand these stupid fucking threads.

Games just from this year alone:

Sword of the Sea
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
The Alters
Cronos: The New Dawn
PEAK
LUTO
BALL x PIT
Absolum
Dispatch
Abiotic Factor
Keeper
1000xRESIST
Bionic Bay
Consume Me
ROUTINE
The Séance of Blake Manor
South of Midnight
Blue Prince
Keep Driving
ARC Raiders
Split Fiction
Hell is Us
Avowed
Despelote

That's all so fucking terrible, though.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

As video game remakes become more prevalent, we ask ourselves if there will there ever be a point where the desire for them dies down.

 

[Team Andromeda]

I will never understand these stupid fucking threads.

Games just from this year alone:

Sword of the Sea
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
The Alters
Cronos: The New Dawn
PEAK
LUTO
BALL x PIT
Absolum
Dispatch
Abiotic Factor
Keeper
1000xRESIST
Bionic Bay
Consume Me
ROUTINE
The Séance of Blake Manor
South of Midnight
Blue Prince
Keep Driving
ARC Raiders
Split Fiction
Hell is Us
Avowed
Despelote

And you can bet, evil bought next to none of them...

 

[dgrdsv]

I will never understand these stupid fucking threads.

Games just from this year alone:

Sword of the Sea
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
The Alters
Cronos: The New Dawn
PEAK
LUTO
BALL x PIT
Absolum
Dispatch
Abiotic Factor
Keeper
1000xRESIST
Bionic Bay
Consume Me
ROUTINE
The Séance of Blake Manor
South of Midnight
Blue Prince
Keep Driving
ARC Raiders
Split Fiction
Hell is Us
Avowed
Despelote

I mean most of these are indie level with what I'd call borderline mediocre gameplay.
There is an abundance of those for sure. But I also get where the desire for proper new AAA IPs is coming from.

 

[awwr999999]

If you consider Xbox's deals, the console is practically an experimental tool for accessing hundreds of decent games.

Nobody buys a console to play "decent" games.
People buy a console to play "nearly perfect" games that are optimized for the console HW beyond what's possible on a PC.

 

[dgproject]

Well, I understand your feeling.

I used to play so many new things on DS, Wii, 360, PS3, and 3DS era.

I think one of the reason is the lack of innovation in hardware, now every device play the same games. Back then ps3 and 360 games were very distinct. People may hate Kinect, but at least it was different and innovative.
Nintendo also stop producing innovative hardware and continue with switch 2, can't blame them since that's what the customers want and it sells extremely well.
VR also kinda death.

 

[Danjin44]

But I also get where the desire for proper new AAA IPs is coming from.

There you go….

It's AAA and it's new IP.

 

[L*][*N*K]

Are there any new games coming out that look very promising, which are not a sequel, remake or reboot? AAA or indies?

(and for that matter.....also which are not just another trend-chasing game like the Vampire Survivor-likes, or Fortnite-likes)

If they don't start infusing the industry with new IP's, new ideas, or new mechanics, the industry will continue to flounder......

AI will just rehash and recycle the same ol' crap and then they will all cry that the sales 'didn't meet expectations'

NEW SHIT PLEASE!!!!

There were 6 remakes/remasters last year, Obvlivion, MGS 3, gears of war, Trails in the sky, Tony Hawk and apparently a game called "Ever 17"?? There were 100s if not 1000s of new games, so yes you have access to new shit you just chose not to engage with it.

Edit: and FFT, sorry, that is 7.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

New IPs this year alone: MIO (Missing in Orbit), Pragmata, The Eternal Life of Goldman, Crimson Desert, Phamtom Blade Zero, Tides of Annihilation, Saros, Wolverine...

I'm also tired of reboots and sequels but there are new great or potentially great games too.

 

[Punished Miku]

There you go….

It's AAA and it's new IP.

I don't think this is a AAA game. It'll be $60 new. Looks more like a smaller scale new IP like Kunitsu-Gami. AA games can look great. The character models look like something from PS4, especially the facial animation. Reminds me of the kind of arcade action games we used to get on Dreamcast with unique gameplay.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

I don't think this is a AAA game. It'll be $60 new. Looks more like a smaller scale new IP like Kunitsu-Gami. AA games can look great. The character models look like something from PS4, especially the facial animation. Reminds me of the kind of arcade action games we used to get on Dreamcast with unique gameplay.

It's confirmed to be 60. It's a low tier AAA or high tier AA. Still, it looks good enough.

 

[Evil Calvin]

New IPs this year alone: MIO (Missing in Orbit), Pragmata, The Eternal Life of Goldman, Crimson Desert, Phamtom Blade Zero, Tides of Annihilation, Saros, Wolverine...

I'm also tired of reboots and sequels but there are new great or potentially great games too.

Isn't Saros a sequel to Returnal?

 

[StoopKidz]

Isn't Saros a sequel to Returnal?

"Spiritual successor". Based on the gameplay it might as well be a sequel.

 

[dgrdsv]

There you go….

It's AAA and it's new IP.

Sure. Too bad I generally dislike Japanese games.

 

[March Climber]

I also get where the desire for proper new AAA IPs is coming from.

Sure. Too bad I generally dislike Japanese games.

I hope now you understand why I stopped doing the whole 'reply with a list' thing analog_future and Danjin44 when people make threads like these, because this post interaction I just quoted within it is a perfect example.

You are literally on this staircase:

And there is no end. Just the next reason not to play.

 

[PlayStaytion]

Nobody buys a console to play "decent" games.
People buy a console to play "nearly perfect" games that are optimized for the console HW beyond what's possible on a PC.

I only see tastes beyond playable games.

 

[Black_Stride]

Meanwhile I've been crying for anything Skies of Arcadia for decades......give me a spiritual sequel.....give me a remake .....give me an anime spinoff idgaf just give me more.

Also,
Lost Odyssey.
Spec Ops The Line.
Prey - both of them deserved sequels.
Jade Empire.
Republic Commando.
Sleeping Dogs.
Splinter Cell.




P.S There are so many new IP popping year on year I'm honestly shocked someone is complaining about that.....do people just not look up what games are coming out....have come out before complaining?
Pay attention to releases and you are highly likely gonna have a new IP to play near constantly.

 

[dgrdsv]

I hope now you understand why I stopped doing the whole 'reply with a list' thing analog_future and Danjin44 when people make threads like these, because this post interaction I just quoted within it is a perfect example.

You are literally on this staircase:

And there is no end. Just the next reason not to play.

Nah, you're not on any "staircase".
Pragmata is an example of a new IP with a solid budget but it's just one game from Capcom which looks completely uninteresting to me.
There are hundreds of such games coming out each year in indie space as well.

 

[yurinka]

Are there any new games coming out that look very promising, which are not a sequel, remake or reboot? AAA or indies?

(and for that matter.....also which are not just another trend-chasing game like the Vampire Survivor-likes, or Fortnite-likes)

If they don't start infusing the industry with new IP's, new ideas, or new mechanics, the industry will continue to flounder......

AI will just rehash and recycle the same ol' crap and then they will all cry that the sales 'didn't meet expectations'

NEW SHIT PLEASE!!!!

If companies don't make more new IPs and more different ideas is because most people don't buy them and call them non-games.

What people mostly buys are sequels and very similar games to previous ones they liked. So since companies don't want to go bankrupt they bet on what it works.

There are many cool new IPs and concepts released and coming in the AAA market. If you ignore them it's your issue, not theirs.

 

[Emmy Ator Best]

Sequels are inevitable. You can't just do a one off nowadays. And actually it takes a lot of talent to keep a series relevant for decades. Unfortunately it seems like only Nintendo knows how to do it. Remakes aren't bad either if it's something old that could use it. Of course when you do something really stupid like remaking Last of Us everyone's gonna cringe.

 

[analog_future]

Nah, you're not on any "staircase".
Pragmata is an example of a new IP with a solid budget but it's just one game from Capcom which looks completely uninteresting to me.
There are hundreds of such games coming out each year in indie space as well.

The point you're missing is that new, unique AAA games like Pragmata not being interesting to you is not an industry problem.

 

[BbMajor7th]

Games always feel familiar now, even when they're brand new IPs, because everything is built with the same principle ideas. You're brain doesn't have to problem solve like it used to, it doesn't have to learn how a thing works.

Don't buy it? Go back to the late '90s and consider the following games: Tomb Raider 2, Resident Evil 2, Metal Gear Solid, Diablo Grand Theft Auto, Silent Hill and Fallout. Every one of these games functions completely differently. The camera angles and rendering approach, the inventory and UI, the combat mechanics, the traversal and world design - even the engines on which they were built.

Fast-forward to the present and consider: Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Metal Gear Solid 5, Diablo 4, Grand Theft Auto 5, Silent Hill 2 (remake) and Fallout 4. All have gradually coalesced around a unified design approach: fully 3D, third-person, free-camera, free-aiming action games, fully voice-acted and motion captured. There's so much less variety now - it's all standardized. Add to this the growing size and corporatization of the industry (which favours bankable tentpole products over risk-taking) and it's no wonder people find themselves yearning for things that feel new.

When I want something that feels new these days, I dig out some old game from years ago that I missed the first go around, and am suddenly struck by how alien and different it all feels compared to now.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Ah yes, the classic thread model

Mr A: "I want a XYZ game"
Mr B: "Heres a bunch of XYZ games"
Mr A: "Not these XYZ games"
Mr A: "Why are there no XYZ games"

 

[dgrdsv]

The point you're missing is that new, unique AAA games like Pragmata not being interesting to you is not an industry problem.

Yes, it is. Because when there are no interesting AAA games and no interesting sequels then it's the industry who doesn't get sales. Me I'll just go replay TW3 again or something.

 

[EverydayBeast]

If you dont like em buy something else.
Media is always regurgitated, rereleased, remastered, special editioned, etc etc etc. A away to bring a hit back to the masses in a new and revised package. Perhaps it fuels a series to make a return. It just is what it is.

Yeah I don't see the pushback,

especially with today's tech advances that get applied to older games that need them.

 

[Bondo]

Yeah I don't see the pushback,

especially with today's tech advances that get applied to older games that need them.

People complain about everything- especially companies they decide they dont wanna love anymore. Instead of complaining about actual stuff- like being ok to pay for online or microtransactions as a whole when they started.

 

[Danjin44]

Yes, it is. Because when there are no interesting AAA games and no interesting sequels then it's the industry who doesn't get sales. Me I'll just go replay TW3 again or something.

We are getting good new AAA IP and sequels, the issue is you personally not interested because "you are not in to Japanese games" thats you issue not the industry.

 

[dgrdsv]

We are getting good new AAA IP and sequels, the issue is you personally not interested because "you are not in to Japanese games" thats you issue not the industry.

Try reading again what you've replied to.

 

[Danjin44]

Try reading again what you've replied to.

You said there is no AAA new IP and give you example and you said you are not interested.

So tell me is that industry's fault? If you are not willing give new IP a chance then that's entirely on you.

 

[grvg]

Ngl new games could stop coming out forever, and a person would never run out of good games to play even if they played all day every day. The saturation is immense.