Your early thoughts on the year 2023's video games in general?

Dear gamers in the Giant Bomb forums

We're currently in Q4 2022, and I heard there are several big games scheduled to release by 2023 such as Starfield, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, etc.

So here is short my personal thoughts:

It's going to be a very good year as I can tell the developers have been working so hard for their respective games while their publishers are preparing to release them.

My expectations:

• iRacing is going to get more & more good content
• Forza Motorsport Reboot is going to be a very good Simcade racer in terms of car handling just like Gran Turismo 7.
• Gran Turismo 7's console version may get drastically changed before Polyphony Digital ports it to the gaming PC platform.
• Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is going to be a good open-world driving game.
• Starfield is going to be totally fun to play sci-fi space RPG.
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is going to be an excellent action-adventure game for the Nintendo Switch.
• A new main BlazBlue game is to be announced.
• Motorfest (The Crew 3) might get announced.

The decades and half decade anniversaries that I love to celebrate:

• iRacing 15th Anniversary
• GTR Evolution 15th Anniversary
• Forza Motorsport 5 10th Anniversary
• Gran Turismo 6 10th Anniversary
• Kylotonn's WRC 4 10th Anniversary
• Codemasters' F1 2013 10th Anniversary
• Studio Liverpool's Formula One 2003 20th Anniversary
• Evolution Studio's WRC 3 20th Anniversary
• Colin McRae Rally 04 20th Anniversary
• Colin McRae Rally franchise 25th Anniversary
• NASCAR Thunder 2004 20th Anniversary
• Project Gotham Racing 2 20th Anniversary
• GRID franchise 15th Anniversary
• GRID 2 10th Anniversary
• Motorhead 25th Anniversary
• R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 25th Anniversary
• Ridge Racer franchise 30th Anniversary
• MotorStorm: Pacific Rift 15th Anniversary
• F-Zero GX 20th Anniversary
• F-Zero X 25th Anniversary
• WipEout HD 15th Anniversary
• Just Dance 2014 10th Anniversary
• FIFA 14 10th Anniversary
• EA Sport's FIFA franchise 30th anniversary
• TrackMania Nations Forever & United Forever 15th Anniversary
• TrackMania franchise 20th Anniversary
• SpyHunter 2 (2003) 20th Anniversary
• Spy Hunter franchise 40th Anniversary
• Test Drive 5 25th Anniversary
• Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit 25th Anniversary
• Need For Speed Rivals 10th Anniversary
• Need For Speed Underground 20th Anniversary
• Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2012) Wii U version 10th Anniversary
• Burnout Paradise 15th Anniversary
• Midtown Madness 3 20th Anniversary
• Midnight Club: Los Angeles 15th Anniversary
• Midnight Club II 20th Anniversary
• Chase HQ 35th Anniversary
• Dance Dance Revolution Franchise 25th Anniversary
• Ace Combat: Assault Horizon PC version 10th Anniversary
• R-Type Final 20th Anniversary
• Raiden II 30th Anniversary
• Guilty Gear franchise 25th Anniversary
• Guilty Gear X2 #Reload 20th Anniversary
• BlazBlue franchise 15th Anniversary
• BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma home console version's 10th Anniversary
• Fire Emblem Awakening's PAL Version 10th Anniversary
• PlayStation 4 10th Anniversary
• Xbox One 10th Anniversary
• Nintendo 2DS 10th Anniversary
• PlayStation Portable-3000 model 15th Anniversary
• Nintendo DSi 15th Anniversary

Sidenote:

Gran Turismo & Forza Motorsport are both like brothers in my personal opinion.

I am, as Grubb has said in the past, ready for Todd to hurt me again with Starfield. Also very much looking forward to Resident Evil 4 Remake after reading the Gamespot writeup. There’s no confirmed date on it, but I greatly enjoyed the demo of Terra Nil, and Steam now lists its release date as “2023”.

Finally, mostly for the sake of my 3 year old, I really hope Little Kitty Big City comes out in 2023. She’s absolutely obsessed with the trailer, which makes it look like Untitled Goose Game, but a cat.

I'm only really looking forward to the System Shock remake, i never played the original and it's looking like a great remake so far, the demo played really well. I haven't played the sequel either and there's a remastered version of that to look forward to also.

2023 is a stacked year. Hope it delivers. At the very least, it'll be the year of gamepass as a lot of (pressumibly) heavy hitters coming out will be available on it day one.

There's not much in terms of "big releases" that I recall being interested in for 2023. I'm curious in seeing how Final Fantasy XVI ends up. I'm morbidly curious in what the hell a Lollipop Chainsaw remake looks like in 2023. Can't think of much else outside of that, so here's a bunch of stuff I've got wishlisted on Steam.

I'm bad about keeping track of when things are coming out but I know there's a new Trails game next summer so I'm excited to only be 2 games behind in that series.

I'm more concerned about the GPU artifacting that shows up in games that hit a certain VRAM threshold on my 2080 Ti, so newer games can wait until I can set aside enough cash for a suitable replacement.

That aside, Anger Foot and Wild Hearts.

It's frustrating that the western releases of that series have fallen so far behind. It looked for a bit there, when Cold Steel III and IV came out in back-to-back years, that NIS America may be able to keep a decent pace and remain just one game behind. Reverie releasing in the west close to 3 years after its original release has been a disappointing turn of events. It's almost back to being as far behind as the Xseed days.

@ll_exile_ll: NIS also recently pulled a real dick move which was to shut down a group of people who were making translations via spreadsheet that you could overlay onto the game and play the Japanese release.

The biggest cause for the eternal delay is Falcom though. They won't let localization start on a given game until it has released in Japan and then they're already who knows how far into their next game.

I'm looking forward to Starfield but the gameplay trailer was a little underwhelming in terms of the animation and the combat. Fingers crossed that it will be great.

Hoping BOTW2 will live up to the legacy of the first one.

Silksong is looking wonderful.

I want Pikmin 4 injected into my veins right now.

Hoping Starfield and Dead Island 2 are good. After everything got delayed this year I am not counting on anything launching until it's out, but it looks like a good year on paper.

2022 is probably the weakest year for games since I've been alive (1987) so I expect 2023 to be a bit better. Still possible we get new Switch which would be exciting. Phantom Fury is my most anticipated game for 2023 but probably delayed.

That's certainly true for major releases. Outside of Elden Ring, most of the big name stuff has been fairly disappointing. The AAA space desperately needs Ragnarok to be good to redeem it a little bit.

That said, there's been some good smaller or indie stuff to come out. Rogue Legacy 2 is my sneaky GOTY contender, and Cult of the Lamb was really good.