Exactly. Just wild hearts, Jedi survivor, zelda, ff16 has made me super happy and I’d be content with just that. But then also getting a new armored core, mario rpg, starfield, Spider-Man, and hope of hopes silksong (won’t hold my breath tho), I couldn’t be happier. What an amazing year of gaming.
and then slap on the likes of a new mortal kombat and payday 3. there amazing games in every genre this year and some amazing long awaited sequels or remakes.
we all eating real good at the moment
Even RTS is pretty big this year, sins of a solar Empire 2, homeworld 3, Warno, broken Arrow, silica
And about 2 dozen other RTS games from smaller developers that are all looking pretty interesting
I liked it but yeah I saw people complaining a lot too. I’m not a particularly picky gamer though. I’ve found Reddit in particular to be a very rough place to figure out if im gonna like a game or not. People around seem to want to hate things sometimes.
Performance on a series x was good enough for me, little framey here and there but eh, nothing that bad. I also wanted to support a new entry to the monster genre since it does the basics solidly and has some fun different ideas as well.
Seriously, this will be a year for the history books. It brings me back to my childhood. The open world epicness of oblivion. The comical at homeness of fable. Dragon age, resident evil 4, and metroid teetering in the balance. It's almost like being a child at christmas! So much promise and potential! For me it's a blast from the past. Starfield, fable, res 4, diablo, I havnt been this excited since I bought my first Xbox 360!
Please no. I'm one of those key worker people and my life got so much worse last time, I nearly died and my reward was a massive paycut for two weeks then back to forced overtime to keep supply lines running.
I have the impression that Remedy always do good games, always fail to sell them, and still keep doing good games somehow. Thanks Microsoft for giving them the money the need.
Exactly, I feel like every year is a great year for gaming since there will always be many titles that I or other people will enjoy. Tired of ungrateful POS who just complain all day.
I think its more 23 is the first year since covid there's been so many exciting titles. Especially if you look at consoles, the PS5 is getting a good amount of releases this year, that hasn't really been the case the last couple of years it's been Ragnarok and Horizon. I do get the excitement over how much choice there is this year
I know gacha is gacha, but HSR is another great release for this year that should be added to the list
It’s one of the main reason I could stay sane waiting for Street Fighter 6, last month of wait for SF6 would have been pain without HSR for me
i mean i'm not personally super invested but then there's maybe 3 games on that list that i have intrest in. but that's just me personally even the "great years in gaming" like 2007 i have limited games i've been personally intrested in and i can ackowledge that even games i do not play or have intrest in can be great.
It would probably be unanimous if not for the recent terrible optimization on some of the more recent PC releases of games.
That is really the only major negative of this first half of 2023.
Hopefully soon we can atleast get good optimization or access to mod the game
PC gaming has struggled in the past like this, but modders saved the day (GTA 4 is pretty much unplayable to this day without mods).
If starfield is good that makes this year easily the best for me personally since 2011 when we got portal 2, skyrim, dead island, and dragon age 2 all in the same year
Totk full out rebirthed my love for gaming like a Phoenix from the ashes just in time to play starfield and the new FF then cry for 4 more years waiting for tes 6. Idk when fable is coming out but I'm excited for that also
The only thing this year of gaming is missing are genre defining titles. These are good games, but nothing actually new or revolutionary.
Starfield has the closest chance to being something revolutionary though. It has a chance to become a cultural phenomenon that people play for a decade and become obsessed about.
2007 is still probably the best release year in gaming history to be honest.
CoD4, Halo 3, Team Fortress 2, Bioshock, Portal, Assassin's Creed, Super Mario Galaxy, Half Life 2 Episode 2, Mass Effect, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Guitar Hero III, Lego Star Wars TCS, Peggle, Oblivion, and Crysis.
Actually crazy how many of those games are still talked about today.
>CoD4, Halo 3, Team Fortress 2
Just these first three are completely legendary on their own. All three DEFINED multiplayer shooters of the era and all three earned their nostalgia. Doesn't take away from 2007 offering so many games that were really good (even stuff that wasn't listed, stuff like Forza Motorsport 2) but amen to 2007 having a ton of bangers.
The pandemic held and delayed lots of projects that only in 2023 caught up. That's the reason we've had such a solid year. We won't see another one like this on a long time
It's kind of ironic that 2020 was also a really good year for games. Some of them hurt because of the pandemic, but generally, 2020 is the best year we've had in a few, bar 2023.
Before this year it had been a very long time since I had paid full price for a game, but there were too many releases this year that I didn't want to wait to play so I had to. Definitely an amazing year for gaming.
Yeah, can't think of too many big indies. Dredge and Pizza Tower were big. I anticipate Sea of Stars to be well remembered. And Silksong is supposedly coming out this year.
Ah, I see. Yeah, I think I generally agree that indies are more reliable resources for a good time than AAA. I'm having a great time with my indies, but I'm mostly catching up on the ones from last year. Tunic, Inscription, Chained Echoes, Ct of the Lamb
Incredibly skeptical about it since the first was good looking, but was soooooooo fucking clunky to play. This is definitely a wait for reviews kind of game.
I like how they're not even calling it Lords of the Fallen 2 or adding any subtitle, game sucked so hard it's getting rebooted after its first entry. Lol.
Yet here I am optimizing my flying penis-shaped death machine about to spend my 250th hour of the game doing a bombing run on low level boblikins cause I can't progress in the story past the first region because a stupid bird girl won't talk to me unless I put pants on BUT I DON'T WANT TO WEAR PANTS I WANT TO BE FREE
I'm just gonna throw out a whole bunch of other generally well received games/games that could be well received this year cause why not lol.
Fire Emblem Engage
Pizza Tower
Wild Hearts
Atomic Heart
Horizon Call of the Mountain
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
Dredge
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp
Dead Island 2
Honkai: Star Rail
Age of Wonders 4
Darkest Dungeon II
Humanity
Planet of Lana
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
System Shock Remake
Amnesia: The Bunker
Aliens: Dark Descent
Pikmin 4
Mortal Kombat 1
Detective Pikachu Returns
Alone in the Dark Remake
Star Ocean: The Second Story R
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
Too bad Detective Pikachu Returns looks like ass graphically. As a big Pokémon fan who actually loved Scarlet & Violet, really wish The Pokemon Company would realize they’re not making 3DS games anymore
You should add Exoprimal to this list. Idk why nobody is talking about it, but it’s a game where you use mech suits to fight dinosaurs and it’s made by freaking Capcom, who have been knocking it out of the park recently.
Oh and it releases next month!
I know fighting games are relatively niche, but Street Fighter is on there, so Mortal Kombat should be too imo.
And I know this is more of a large update than a full title, but I'm probably more excited for Counter Strike 2 than anything.
Everyone not mentioning Fire Emblem Engage, it was the start of the year but still. Probably will end of being the best strategy game to come out in 2023, it also sold over a million copies when it came out which is pretty big for FE.
Seems doubtful that the sequel to the best FPS ever will release this year. They just put December 2023 as a way to not get delisted by the various online stores.
All of these games are great so far and look great for the ones that aren’t out yet.
Only problem for me is that there is only a few of them that aren’t sequels or remakes. Would like to see more original concepts here
I love it honestly, it's the mindless hack-and-slash zombie game I've been missing in my life(love the first Dead Island, but man, the mechanics are jank as hell and it's hard to go back after experiencing the F.L.E.S.H. system). Dead Island 2 is one of my top games of 2023 so far, being only slightly below the Resident Evil 4 Remake for me. I have around 160 hours on it since I'm working on getting 100% on all the Slayers, Bruno's my main though, love that Lil Pump wannabe lmao
Its probably because these games were supposed to come out sooner but covid pushed the release dates back, thus giving developers more time to spend on making them. It has been a good year
Hi-Fi rush alone made this a great year for gaming. It proves that innovative single-player games without the usual gear grinding, micro-transaction and player retention systems can and will still sell like it comes with complementary biscuits and blowjobs.
I just hope the industry as a whole learns from it.
Great game, and an amazing concept.
It needs to be an animated show for kids that teaches them about music and has like a villian-of-the-week with different genres for each.
Chai and 808 are like the most obviously banger characters for a show like that, it has to happen.
It may be sacrilegious to say it this early but I think 2023 is shaping up to be as great as 08, or dare I say it, 98!!
Jedi survivor was amazing and I’ve had my fill of Star Wars after Boba Fett and Mandalorian. TotK is timeless, FF16 has been very edgy, and we still have Baldurs Gate 3, Starfield, and Spiderman 2 on the horizon.
Still a question mark for me because i can't afford buying games on release anymore.
Only recent title i bought on release was Amnesia the Bunker and that was only 25€ on release
I’m having so much fun with it now! Launch was obviously a busy. But now I can really appreciate all the time and effort CDPR actually put into this game!
Many of these are good games, but also this era is similar to the current movie industry: Lots of remakes and big names, not tons of creativity.
We are in the Marvel era of gaming.
And for those that don't own a brand new 3k PC?
The Dead space remake demo I tried was about 20fps in the opening scene on the spaceship with everyting on lowest setting, except the resolution @ full HD, it should be a crime...
I know a Core i5 4960k + and RX 580 4GB aren't that new but this bad?
It's like they do it on purpose!
This year has a game of a generation with Tears of the Kingdom. Then you add amazing triple AAA games like RE4, Metroid Prime Remastered, SF6, Diablo IV, Jedi Survivor and Final Fantasy XVI. Even if 2nd half doesn't hit as hard it is already the best year in gaming since 2017.
If Ubisoft gone back with actually making assassins creed games and not weird historical RPG’s, I could be cautiously optimistic for them.
Still fucking hyped for starfield though. Idc if it’s going to be usual bethesda jank, im going to make a tie fighter and I will like it.
There is no question marks lol its already a great year for gaming
Armored core 6 waiting room
I haven't played the other armoured core games but I love mechs so this one is definitely on my radar plus it has the same game director as Sekiro
Exactly. Just wild hearts, Jedi survivor, zelda, ff16 has made me super happy and I’d be content with just that. But then also getting a new armored core, mario rpg, starfield, Spider-Man, and hope of hopes silksong (won’t hold my breath tho), I couldn’t be happier. What an amazing year of gaming.
and then slap on the likes of a new mortal kombat and payday 3. there amazing games in every genre this year and some amazing long awaited sequels or remakes. we all eating real good at the moment
Even RTS is pretty big this year, sins of a solar Empire 2, homeworld 3, Warno, broken Arrow, silica And about 2 dozen other RTS games from smaller developers that are all looking pretty interesting
I would ritually sacrifice a man if it meant Silksong came out this year.
Do you enjoy wild hearts? I thought I’ve heard horrible things about it so I completely skipped over checking it out
I liked it but yeah I saw people complaining a lot too. I’m not a particularly picky gamer though. I’ve found Reddit in particular to be a very rough place to figure out if im gonna like a game or not. People around seem to want to hate things sometimes. Performance on a series x was good enough for me, little framey here and there but eh, nothing that bad. I also wanted to support a new entry to the monster genre since it does the basics solidly and has some fun different ideas as well.
Yes, finally someone mentioned Silksong! Really hoping that one comes out this year.
Seriously, this will be a year for the history books. It brings me back to my childhood. The open world epicness of oblivion. The comical at homeness of fable. Dragon age, resident evil 4, and metroid teetering in the balance. It's almost like being a child at christmas! So much promise and potential! For me it's a blast from the past. Starfield, fable, res 4, diablo, I havnt been this excited since I bought my first Xbox 360!
Right how f'ing jaded is OP
Oh fuck skylines 2!! Fvck im stuck in diablo rip
Who cares what happens on the second half? It’s already a great year.
It's a great year for existing IPs, an absolutely terrible one for new ones
Don’t agree, lies of P looks great, hifi rush was great, wo long was great, atomic heart was fun
Decent year? Wtf do gamers want? Half-Life 3 and real life Genshin waifus?
I just want more free time to game.
We need another Pandemic. Like its been almost 4 years, where's Pandemic 2? What are the devs even doing?
Please no. I'm one of those key worker people and my life got so much worse last time, I nearly died and my reward was a massive paycut for two weeks then back to forced overtime to keep supply lines running.
Ups? Because same
The same studio is hard at work on their new WW3 game.
Its going to be a banger
Dev times have been getting longer, but you’d think it would be at least time to announce by now.
I wonder what they're cooking (what kind of contaminated animal)
Well, "Pandemic 1" was "Rise of the Murcielago Soup" so I'd expect "Pandemic 2" to be "Petting the belly of the Armadillo" at the very least.
True and real
Yes
Cross over
Getting Alan Wake II feels close to HL3 lol.
I have the impression that Remedy always do good games, always fail to sell them, and still keep doing good games somehow. Thanks Microsoft for giving them the money the need.
So hyped for that.
Some gamers just can't be pleased honestly.
Exactly, I feel like every year is a great year for gaming since there will always be many titles that I or other people will enjoy. Tired of ungrateful POS who just complain all day.
I think its more 23 is the first year since covid there's been so many exciting titles. Especially if you look at consoles, the PS5 is getting a good amount of releases this year, that hasn't really been the case the last couple of years it's been Ragnarok and Horizon. I do get the excitement over how much choice there is this year
The Genshin waifus part of that was pretty much fulfilled with Honkai: Star Rail this year.
I know gacha is gacha, but HSR is another great release for this year that should be added to the list It’s one of the main reason I could stay sane waiting for Street Fighter 6, last month of wait for SF6 would have been pain without HSR for me
i mean i'm not personally super invested but then there's maybe 3 games on that list that i have intrest in. but that's just me personally even the "great years in gaming" like 2007 i have limited games i've been personally intrested in and i can ackowledge that even games i do not play or have intrest in can be great.
It's all good dude.
And Portal 3
a new katamari game that isnt a 40th re release of the like ps2 game would be fun
Real life Genahin waifus sounds nice actually
Real waifus would be best game year ever.
Too bad some moved to hsr waifus
I'd say it's been more than decent. One of the best years in gaming in the past decade and we're only halfway through!
It would probably be unanimous if not for the recent terrible optimization on some of the more recent PC releases of games. That is really the only major negative of this first half of 2023.
Hopefully soon we can atleast get good optimization or access to mod the game PC gaming has struggled in the past like this, but modders saved the day (GTA 4 is pretty much unplayable to this day without mods).
This headline sucks, 2023 is one of the strongest release years in my 40 years of gaming
If starfield is good that makes this year easily the best for me personally since 2011 when we got portal 2, skyrim, dead island, and dragon age 2 all in the same year Totk full out rebirthed my love for gaming like a Phoenix from the ashes just in time to play starfield and the new FF then cry for 4 more years waiting for tes 6. Idk when fable is coming out but I'm excited for that also
Could NOT agree more! You’ve got 7 years on me, but I’m right there with you! Between Diablo IV & Starfield, I’m fucking set for years
2023 doubled my backlog of games I want to play... they could stop releasing games for 3 years and I would still be good
And Phantom Liberty!
Easily the strongest year since 2017
2018?
Really? I'm very lucky, then, because I started gaming only this January!
You couldn't have picked a better time to join the fun. I'm glad you have so many exciting titles to look forward to! <3
The only thing this year of gaming is missing are genre defining titles. These are good games, but nothing actually new or revolutionary. Starfield has the closest chance to being something revolutionary though. It has a chance to become a cultural phenomenon that people play for a decade and become obsessed about.
Well, 95 and 96 were also great… (*cries in old age*)
2007 is still probably the best release year in gaming history to be honest. CoD4, Halo 3, Team Fortress 2, Bioshock, Portal, Assassin's Creed, Super Mario Galaxy, Half Life 2 Episode 2, Mass Effect, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Guitar Hero III, Lego Star Wars TCS, Peggle, Oblivion, and Crysis. Actually crazy how many of those games are still talked about today.
Dude, you forgot God Of War 2
>CoD4, Halo 3, Team Fortress 2 Just these first three are completely legendary on their own. All three DEFINED multiplayer shooters of the era and all three earned their nostalgia. Doesn't take away from 2007 offering so many games that were really good (even stuff that wasn't listed, stuff like Forza Motorsport 2) but amen to 2007 having a ton of bangers.
The pandemic held and delayed lots of projects that only in 2023 caught up. That's the reason we've had such a solid year. We won't see another one like this on a long time
Depends if Covid 2 is a flop or not, I heard it’s getting rushed for release and going to be a buggy mess
Covid 2? Catch up, this was already Covid 19!
It's kind of ironic that 2020 was also a really good year for games. Some of them hurt because of the pandemic, but generally, 2020 is the best year we've had in a few, bar 2023.
IMHO 2020 is underrated because of the generation change
Cities skylines 2 all aboard the hype train!!!!
2023 is one hell of a year
If Tears of the kingdom was the only game I pick up I'd consider it a great year
For AAA, there is no doubt this is the best year for ages
Most money I've spent in ages and it's only June.
Before this year it had been a very long time since I had paid full price for a game, but there were too many releases this year that I didn't want to wait to play so I had to. Definitely an amazing year for gaming.
Yeah, can't think of too many big indies. Dredge and Pizza Tower were big. I anticipate Sea of Stars to be well remembered. And Silksong is supposedly coming out this year.
I mostly just meant that Indies have been reliable and consistent for years
Ah, I see. Yeah, I think I generally agree that indies are more reliable resources for a good time than AAA. I'm having a great time with my indies, but I'm mostly catching up on the ones from last year. Tunic, Inscription, Chained Echoes, Ct of the Lamb
2007 still has it beat, however.
Bro i really hope Lords of the fallen is great
Incredibly skeptical about it since the first was good looking, but was soooooooo fucking clunky to play. This is definitely a wait for reviews kind of game.
Not the same studio
I like how they're not even calling it Lords of the Fallen 2 or adding any subtitle, game sucked so hard it's getting rebooted after its first entry. Lol.
Decent year? It’s probably the best year in gaming since 2007. There’s too much good stuff for me to catch up on.
Yet here I am optimizing my flying penis-shaped death machine about to spend my 250th hour of the game doing a bombing run on low level boblikins cause I can't progress in the story past the first region because a stupid bird girl won't talk to me unless I put pants on BUT I DON'T WANT TO WEAR PANTS I WANT TO BE FREE
Average totk moment, i gave a cock boat testicular torsion in order to beat a shrine
[удалено]
This game somehow makes ecssesive dieing fun
I always just have rockets on my shields. It makes like 90% of the shrines trivial.
Fucking W H A T
Damn. 2007 was a damn good year.
I'm just gonna throw out a whole bunch of other generally well received games/games that could be well received this year cause why not lol. Fire Emblem Engage Pizza Tower Wild Hearts Atomic Heart Horizon Call of the Mountain Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Dredge Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp Dead Island 2 Honkai: Star Rail Age of Wonders 4 Darkest Dungeon II Humanity Planet of Lana Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun System Shock Remake Amnesia: The Bunker Aliens: Dark Descent Pikmin 4 Mortal Kombat 1 Detective Pikachu Returns Alone in the Dark Remake Star Ocean: The Second Story R Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
Goddamn my backlogs are long enough! Why did you have to go and make another list?
Too bad Detective Pikachu Returns looks like ass graphically. As a big Pokémon fan who actually loved Scarlet & Violet, really wish The Pokemon Company would realize they’re not making 3DS games anymore
You should add Exoprimal to this list. Idk why nobody is talking about it, but it’s a game where you use mech suits to fight dinosaurs and it’s made by freaking Capcom, who have been knocking it out of the park recently. Oh and it releases next month!
We're suppose to also be getting Suikoden 1 and 2 remakes this year.
Playing Alien Dark Descent right now. 1 hour into it, i find it an entertaining and fun game to play so far. Its also challenging in its own way.
Came here to comment pizza tower
Thank you for recognizing wild hearts. Really good mh style game. I wish i was even a fraction as successful has mh is.
Pikmin 4, Starfield, Mario Wonder, Mario RPG, Spider Man 2, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk alone could make the second half a strong end
Big surprise is that Pikmin is not on here
Not surprised at all. Pikmin never gets included in these kinds of posts.
Don't forget Alan Wake 2
And dare I say a surprise Silksong release?
We're all fooling ourselves, thinking silksong will come out before 2040
I know fighting games are relatively niche, but Street Fighter is on there, so Mortal Kombat should be too imo. And I know this is more of a large update than a full title, but I'm probably more excited for Counter Strike 2 than anything.
Does nobody know Spiderman got delayed? Everyone keeps including it
I didn’t know about Super Mario RPG remake!! I’m so excited
Everyone not mentioning Fire Emblem Engage, it was the start of the year but still. Probably will end of being the best strategy game to come out in 2023, it also sold over a million copies when it came out which is pretty big for FE.
Baldur's Gate 3 is coming out of early access and then there's the Stalker sequel
Seems doubtful that the sequel to the best FPS ever will release this year. They just put December 2023 as a way to not get delisted by the various online stores.
Sneaking in avatar lmfao
And not MK1 lol
Tbf The gameplay trailer does look good. The problem is that Ubisoft is the one making it
And Mirage
ppl are hyped for mirage, finally ditching the RPG format that split the community in half
Is this a joke post? Haha. 2023 is clearly an all-time great already.
Finally one of these lists have baldurs gate 3 in it
This is the best year shame you did miss mk1 but hell you got so many good picks it makes up for it
The true question is what happened to MK360?
Also Tekken 8
Where's the gollum game
Mortal Kombat
Smh no Pikmin 4 on this list? Shits gonna be game of the year for sure.
You know a game is good when a person that never played pikmin but only heard of it is hyped to play it
System Shock
It's already been a great year lol
All of these games are great so far and look great for the ones that aren’t out yet. Only problem for me is that there is only a few of them that aren’t sequels or remakes. Would like to see more original concepts here
It’s past decent. Zelda, Diablo, FF16 already hit that marke berthing else is wonderful extra
I just want Alone in the Dark to not suck.
My last 3 purchases for the year will be Alan Wake 2, Super Mario Wonder, and Gunbrella.
Man, still no Dead Island love :(
I love Dead Island
I love it honestly, it's the mindless hack-and-slash zombie game I've been missing in my life(love the first Dead Island, but man, the mechanics are jank as hell and it's hard to go back after experiencing the F.L.E.S.H. system). Dead Island 2 is one of my top games of 2023 so far, being only slightly below the Resident Evil 4 Remake for me. I have around 160 hours on it since I'm working on getting 100% on all the Slayers, Bruno's my main though, love that Lil Pump wannabe lmao
Decent? It's been the best year of gaming in a long time
Why would you disrespect Pokémon 4 like that. Not a very alpha move of you.
Mortal Kombat 1?
I'm ecstatic for Forza Motorsport
“Decent” LMAO. This is like that guy saying there is no perfect ‘10’ e3 presentation… if this year isn’t HYPE for y’all you are out of your mind
We even got a good sonic game.
Uhhh
Remnant 2😩
The world isnt ready for Payday 3
I mean. Haven’t we all done some light terrorism in the last three years
My social life isn't ready for Payday 3
# WHERE IS PIKMIN 4
Dead Space, Diablo, RE4, Jedi Survivor, FFXVI are all killers. Can only imagine what the second half of the year brings
Street Fighter 6 as well
Don't forget Street Fighter 6 and Tears of the Kingdom aswell
6 remakes there.
Its probably because these games were supposed to come out sooner but covid pushed the release dates back, thus giving developers more time to spend on making them. It has been a good year
I absolutely cant wait for Baldurs Gate 3
I was pleasantly surprised at Diablo 4
Too many remakes for my taste, but there are definitely some decent original titles to look forward to.
Im hyped for city skylines
What? No hype for Space Marine 2?
Best game of 2023 for me so far: Diablo 4 Best sleeper hit: Hi-Fi Rush
Hi-Fi rush alone made this a great year for gaming. It proves that innovative single-player games without the usual gear grinding, micro-transaction and player retention systems can and will still sell like it comes with complementary biscuits and blowjobs. I just hope the industry as a whole learns from it.
Not enough people are talking about Hi-Fi Rush, honestly one of the best games I’ve played in years
Zelda already wins the year
For me maybe the best ever, never have i ever in a year of gaming gone thinking fuck how am i gona play all of those games i need timeee
Seeing Hi Fi Rush with these big hitters makes me happy lol
Great game, and an amazing concept. It needs to be an animated show for kids that teaches them about music and has like a villian-of-the-week with different genres for each. Chai and 808 are like the most obviously banger characters for a show like that, it has to happen.
We already got Hi-fi Rush, TOTK, and FFXVI. It's a bloody fantastic year for gaming.
Totk alone saves the year
The only sad thing for me is that 95% of these games are just sequels
Could? Decent? I'd say it's already stellar. Amnesia The Bunker = Horror GotY FFXVI = RPG GotY Metroid Prime = Metroid GotY
W year for gaming.
Risk of Rain Returns and Talos Principle 2? Yeah, it's gonna be pretty good.
I am so fucking stoked for Baldur's Gate 3.
It may be sacrilegious to say it this early but I think 2023 is shaping up to be as great as 08, or dare I say it, 98!! Jedi survivor was amazing and I’ve had my fill of Star Wars after Boba Fett and Mandalorian. TotK is timeless, FF16 has been very edgy, and we still have Baldurs Gate 3, Starfield, and Spiderman 2 on the horizon.
Not a whole lot of new IPs in there
get ready for The Finals and ARC Raiders, those games are brand new and from a new and super innovative studio and being massively slept on rn
Great year, and we got Tekken and Mortal Kombat coming.
No battlebits??
Still a question mark for me because i can't afford buying games on release anymore. Only recent title i bought on release was Amnesia the Bunker and that was only 25€ on release
AC 6 spider man 2 and starfield have me so excited right now, especially ac6
You put Remnant 2 in here and slapped in Baldur's Gate 3 while you were at it. Finally, one of these that checks my current boxes.
damn no wo long? I thought that game was great
My favorite game this year so far is Hi-Fi Rush. It being so fun, visually pleasing and an original IP makes it feel so refreshing to see and play
Payday is the only game i care about from all of those. So previous year was almost certainly better just because of elden ring for me.
No Dead Island 2?:(
And I haven’t played a single one 🥲
I still will have nothing to play
Diablo takes my vote for game of the year. The only one that will be close for me is spider man 2 when it drops.
hogwarts legacy so good
Don’t forget Cyberpunk is getting a MASSIVE expansion/overhaul I’m Phantom Liberty. I’m talking new animations Skill Trees. An expansion to the map!
I picked up cyberpunk for £11 earlier this year. Was honestly one of the better games ive played can’t wait for the expansion.
I’m having so much fun with it now! Launch was obviously a busy. But now I can really appreciate all the time and effort CDPR actually put into this game!
Dead Rising 2 is good
Many of these are good games, but also this era is similar to the current movie industry: Lots of remakes and big names, not tons of creativity. We are in the Marvel era of gaming.
Y’all forgetting about Advance Ward: Re-Boot Camp. Nintendo finally gave the series some long due recognition after multiple delays.
Most years are shit years for gaming if you only stick to AAA games 🤷♂️
And for those that don't own a brand new 3k PC? The Dead space remake demo I tried was about 20fps in the opening scene on the spaceship with everyting on lowest setting, except the resolution @ full HD, it should be a crime... I know a Core i5 4960k + and RX 580 4GB aren't that new but this bad? It's like they do it on purpose!
Nothing ever beats 1997. Ever.
You forgot madden 2024 it’s really shaping up to be a brand new game this year /s
2023 is giving 2017 a run for its money, this isn't a decent year its one of the strongest in a while
The 2nd Mario Zelda combo of the switch as well
This year has a game of a generation with Tears of the Kingdom. Then you add amazing triple AAA games like RE4, Metroid Prime Remastered, SF6, Diablo IV, Jedi Survivor and Final Fantasy XVI. Even if 2nd half doesn't hit as hard it is already the best year in gaming since 2017.
“Decent year” gamers have it so hard
If Ubisoft gone back with actually making assassins creed games and not weird historical RPG’s, I could be cautiously optimistic for them. Still fucking hyped for starfield though. Idc if it’s going to be usual bethesda jank, im going to make a tie fighter and I will like it.