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Looking Forward In General

I made a "Most Anticipated for 2022" list but A) there wasn't much outside of indies and remakes and B) half of them were probably getting delayed into 2023 but regardless of what rich soccer moms and tech bros want you to think, this pandemic is ongoing and much like China, COVID don't care. I also realize as I was making the other list is that most of the stuff I'm actually looking forward either has a very slim chance of actually making a 2022 date (i.e. FF XVI, Breath of the Wild 2, so on) or has already jumped the gun and said, "fuck it, 2023." So, for the sake of a longer list, I thought I'd just broaden the whole thing beyond 2022. Shit's going to get delayed and most of my most eagerly anticipated games are already way out there. SO.

Here's looking at 2022 and beyond! Let's hope we all make it...

(it is currently 1:18 am as of this writing, Jesus I should go to bed. I'll order it and write stuff later.)

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  • I am become Final Fantasy fan, destroyer or world. The FFVII Remake got me good and my project through the pandemic was to work through the whole series before this one came out. Totally realistic goal.

    Spoiler: not gonna happen.

    I have faith that the typical gap between an FF game announcement and it's subsequent release won't be as gargantuan as, say, the last ten years of FF games. Yoshi P 4ever. But Covid is still Covid, so I have very little faith it will hit this year. Still, this is the upcoming game I think about the most out of everything.

  • It seems like there are three criteria for getting games green lit in the modern AAA industry model.

    A) Games as Service. Everybody loves a mediocre MMO that never ends! Fuck design, numbers to brrrrrr!!!

    B) Licenses. Everybody loves a Marvel or a Star War or a Batman.

    C) Remakes, baby!!! Why play a *new* game when you can play an *old* game! With changes to "modernize" them up a bit because, you know, as Jim Ryan said: "Old games suck shit and look like ass!"

    It seems like it's even hard to get sequels through the system. Of those dreadful options, the only one that gives me a slim glimmer of excitement are the remakes because the definition of "remake" is all over the place. It could mean an uprez, it could mean a faithful one-to-one with a new coat of paint, or it could mean a quazi-reboot/sequel/rebootquel type thing. The older the original, the more likely the last option would be the case, which seems like the closest thing to a new idea the AAA business is capable of right now.

    Hence: I'm really looking forward to see whatever the hell thing thing turns out to be. Will it be a Demon's Souls situation? Resident Evil 2? Resident Evil 1? Or... FFVII? I personally hope it find a middle ground between the RE 2 and FFVII remakes because those are basically new games and also some of my favorite games of the last decade. But we'll see in 2024 or whenever, cause this thing is almost assuredly a way the fuck ways off.

  • A sequel! To a video game! Not a license or a service or a remake! Well, I mean, that Alan Wake Remaster did just come out, but that's not... what I mean is... look, just let me have this, okay!

  • I remember listening to GBs GOTY podcasts at the time. All the guys and Abby did a round robin after listing out all the games that year that were of note. Everyone put their favorite game out there with no real regard for whether it "hanged" or not. They ended up with a list of more than 10 if remember, either because at that time they had more than 10 on staff or just because they went around the room a couple of times. The point is, nobody mentioned Marvel's Spider-Man for the PS4. They all agreed that seemed wrong. Alex said the game was a perfect Number 6. I remember listening and thinking, "Damn, what an indictment of the game... and completely accurate."

    These games are so weird because on paper they're perfect, in the moment they're perfect, but when I stop playing them and think about them for two seconds, I'm left decided whelmed. Halfway through playing the first one, it was an easy GOTY contender for 2018. But then I finished up the story and was left with an empty, baby's-first-openworld game with some even at the time troublesomely loving views of police that have only aged worse over the last few years.

    ...but dat swinging tho.

    The way I look at it is Marvel's Spider-Man was basically the PS4's Uncharted, it was just waaaaaaay more successful than Uncharted 1 was. Which is why, despite my many reservation, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is one of the games I'm most looking forward to out of everything.

    And the fact that Miles Morales was, arguably *better* than the first one implies and upward trajectory to me. I have hope. Probably too much hope.

  • Part II or whatever they'll call it. The sequel to the remake. I'm genuinely excited

  • I know, I know, boo hiss. I can't help it. I love Mass Effect. And this game isn't coming out... ever? Maybe ever. Maybe 2025, I don't know, they haven't even put Dragon Age 4 out. Bioware's in a state, but Mass Effect is still Mass Effect no matter how depressingly terrible Andromeda and Anthem were.

  • I wasn't as hot on Dread as I wish I was, but the thing is: even a disappointing Metroid game is one of the best games ever. So, yeah. High hopes.

  • Fucking duh and probably the only AAA game on this list for sure even coming out in 2022.

  • Replaying Death Stranding this year with the DC confirmed something I've known since I was 15: I'm a big 'ol mark for Kojima's bullshit. I also realized something obvious, but still important last year when I finally got around to playing Zone of the Enders: Second Runner: it's not just him.

    Death of the author and all that, the people Kojima surrounds himself with are just as integral–probably more so–than the man himself. ZOE is a Kojima game. It has all the same sensibilities, broadly speaking. If I hadn't known going into ZOE that Kojima had very little to do with that game, I would never have know. Everything about it, all the way down to the jittery way the camera will zoom in in slow motion during a dramatic action scene.

    It's the same shit and they all still got it as far as I'm concerned.

  • The remake, which I guess doesn't have a page? Might have to do a little more digging

  • JRPGs became my Pandemic Quest the last two years since playing FFVII Remake in 2020. I just recently started up DQXI and... holy shit, dude.

    Sure, it's simple. But I don't know. It's got such a specific pace and cadence. It just fucking rules. I think I'm gonna pivot from working through the Final Fantasy games to getting a grasp on the DQ games before this comes out.

    Which leads me to...

  • I feel like it's a given this will come to PSVR 2, right?... Right?!

  • Sequel. Whatever it is.

  • Whatever this remake thing turns out to be.
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