My 10 Most Anticipated Games (so far)
Keigh-three
With Summer Games Fest and the many showcases wrapping up, there were ALOT of great looking games to look forward to for this year and the next. The following are the 10 most exciting ones for me. This list excludes the Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree expansions due to them being, well, expansions. Not to say they wouldn’t make the list, or top it, for that matter. Some other games that didn’t make it are either in Early Access or have very little info right now. Enough preamble, let’s do this.
10. Immortals Of Aveum
Announced awhile back, but shown a bit more during SGF. EA’s Immortals Of Aveum is an interesting one. EA really haven’t missed on the single player front lately, the Star Wars Jedi series is testament to that. So i’m pretty optimistic that they can deliver. The premise of a mage FPS RPG is kinda neat. So far the presentation really stands out, big budget feel. Only hope is that it’s free of the modern BS that drags down so many games these days. Microtransactions etc.
9. Lies Of P
Disclaimer: Haven’t touched the Demo yet, was wanting to go into the full game completely fresh.
Man, a souls-borne set in a gothic version of Pinocchio? Hell yes. After my late arrival to the “loves souls-likes” party with Elden Ring(having just completed it this year), my thirst for more hasn’t yet been satiated. While I have played many Souls games and Bloodborne, the latter of which this game seems to be inspired by, my love for the genre really only came courtesy of Miyazaki’s latest masterpiece. So i’m hoping a new challenger in this space will further bring my fandom to newer heights, and this one seems like it could do just that.
8. Avowed
What happens when the guys who made the best Fallout game, make a Skyrim?(Or something close anyway.) Obsidian do know how to make an RPG, many would say better than Bethesda themselves, so it’s easy to get hyped for their latest offering. Looks good so far, even though it’s taken quite some time to get more info on it, and now an even longer wait for release. I’m still holding out hope that it totally delivers.
7. Fable (2K24)
OY! You a Chicken Chaser? DO YOU CHASE CHICKENS? The British comedy is back, and i’m super jazzed for it. Miss the hell outta this series, no other RPG has the charm quite like Fable. It may be jank, it may be mechanically shallow in the earlier entries, but man nothing came close to Fable in it’s day. So far the trailer certainly delivers the quirky charm of the others, and the brief gameplay shown looks stunning. Here’s hoping we all can chase chickens once again when this drops next year.
6. Sonic Superstars
Sonic Generations? Great. Sonic Boom? Woof. Sonic Mania? Incredible. Sonic Frontiers? Ehhh…. Us Sonic fans have been on this roller coaster since the Dreamcast era and it’s mostly been rough. Many of the modern 2D offerings don’t really capture the magic of the Genesis era, nor the 3D entries for the DC-era games. Mania and Generations were the closest to that magic, but they’re essentially 2 greatest hits albums and not entirely new experiences. Superstars seems like that shot in the arm Sonic gets every so often and might come close to greatness if the trailer is anything to go by. Please Sega, don’t f*ck this up.
5. Lightyear Frontier
Of all the big budget games or indie games announced during “Keigh-3”, I pick THIS one? Yup. Since i’ve gotten older, i’ve started to really take a liking to more chill games(and factory games). Slime Rancher in particular really kicked off that love for the open world survival craft/farming genre that’s swept Steam in the last 5 or so years. This one’s big gimmick? Do it all in a mech suit. That’s good enough for me.
4. Mortal Kombat 12 err… 1
FIGHT. *Alexa, play 2nd Sucks by A Day to Remember.*
Another time jump, this time Liu Kang is the Raiden in this story, and Scorpion and Sub Zero are brothers. Oh and JCVD is Johnny Cage. I’m so down. My love for MK has withered a bit since 9(I suck at the game, see.) but I will always go outta my way to pick it up, Ed Boon rarely misses with MK and I’ve enjoyed the wacky stories he’s laid out. Here’s hoping this one Kontinues the tradition.
3. Clockwork Revolution
Wow, this came outta nowhere, a Bioshock-esque steampunk FPS with time jumping elements? Sign me the hell up. Until Ken Levine’s new game Judas gets a little more gameplay out there, this is my more anticipated Bioshock-like. Because really, how many big time single player FPS’s do we get nowadays? Just the new Doom and Atomic Heart? I need more. So i’m all for a return of the old Bioshock era of games.
2. Star Wars: Outlaws
Seeing as EA had the Star Wars license under siege for quite awhile, it’s been a long time since other players in this space have had the opportunity to play around in the Star Wars Universe. Now Ubisoft and Massive dropped Outlaws into the ring, and boy does this look incredible. A third person, open world, story driven experience with a smuggler as the main protagonist instead of the usual Jedi’s. Just the first bit of gameplay alone perked up my excitement, but then the world opened up and god, just thinking of a Far Cry style Star Wars game with a huge story, branching paths and all that with space combat? Put me all aboard that hype train. This one drops next year, oh and Ubi, keep the damn microtransactions out, please.
1. Starfield
Dammit Todd, you just HAD to make us the deepest sci-fi RPG ever created. And dangle nearly an hour of it in front of us like the sick bastard you are. What more can be said? Bethesda doing Skyrim and Fallout in space, the biggest game they’ve ever done, the deepest game they’ve ever done. Every feature revealed just further put me in a state of awe. So much game in one package, one that actually justifies it’s price, not to mention DAY ONE ON GAME PASS. This is the killer app Xbox has needed since Gears and it’s hard to see a game like this with the sheer amount of investment they’ve been putting into this, to do anything other than achieve critical and commercial acclaim. If it somehow doesn’t hit, i really don’t know what else Xbox has until next year. They need this to do well and I believe it will. It might even topple Skyrim as Bethesda’s magnum opus. September can’t come soon enough, see y’all in the stars.